On 28 September 2015 at 13:21, Daria Cybulska < [email protected]> wrote:
> > <[email protected]>Dear GLAM UK, > > I am a member of staff in the Library at the University of Sheffield. The > National Fairground Archive is based within the Library and we are > interested in using our subject knowledge and collections to contribute to > Wikipedia articles relating to this area. We understand the policy about > not contributing original research and would not be doing this. > > I have looked at your pages on Wikipedia and have seen the information > about Wikipedia projects and Wikimedians in residence and I want to ask: is > it a requirement that we be part of a project with a pre-existing > Wikimedian or is it ok for members of staff here to become editors and make > contributions independently? Would this be seen as a conflict of interest? > > We would, of course, be using individual accounts and obeying the > guidelines for editors. Our aim in contributing would be to make > information about this area more available to the public by adding to > articles and to provide links (in citations) to our collections so that the > general public can further benefit from them. > > I am interested to hear whether this kind of activity would be acceptable > to the Wikipedia community and as such I look forward to your response. > > Best wishes, > Rosa > ​ Sadler​ > Really depends on exactly what is planned. While their objectives closely enough align with ours that there shouldn't be a conflict linkspaming by GLAMS has been a problem in the past. -- geni
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