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/Connect GLAM Connect is a space where cultural professionals can find Wikimedians who can assist with GLAM-WIKI partnerships. Cultural professionals: Browse the below sections to see who might be the best fit for your project. Wikimedians: Sign up in the sections that relate to your interests or help by creating an information page for your country. Additional ways to connect Join the GLAM mailing list for the United States, GLAM-US. Contact glamwikimedia.org to start planning your organization's Wikipedia engagement. Follow us on Read the online newsletter, This Month in GLAM. Monthly GLAMout Join the monthly video-chat: the GLAMout, May 3, 2013. Before you start Looking for basic information? See GLAM:About. Don't have a project in mind yet? See GLAM:Contribute. Information by country We encourage cultural professionals to see what resources are available in your country. This list will connect you with: WikiProjects (and Wikipedia volunteers) associated with your country Local organizations who have carried out partnerships Local Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors (student volunteers) Australia Canada Croatia India Italy Macedonia Mexico Spain Switzerland (Italian) United States Serbia Pakistan Museum of Natural History Online Volunteers The following Wikimedians are willing to assist with coordinating cooperative projects online, either leading in a project or offering various support (basic questions, template creation, upload and category management, WikiProject maintenance.) For general questions, you can join new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. Teahouse is a forum to ask questions about editing Wikipedia and a space to get support from peers and experienced editors. Username Skills Interests Preston Stone (Email) Technical/web development, project planning, copy editing American literature, poetry, science history, American history, classical languages PKM (talk) (Email) WikiProject setup, project and Commons templates, light image manipulation, categorization, research, citations. Textiles, costume, Elizabethan England, Pre-Raphaelites, illustration, typography, Arthuriana Nyttend (talk) (Email) See the outreach volunteers section above. See the outreach volunteers section above. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] (email) Just about anything on-wiki. Naval history, especially in the early 20th century; the Second World War; the Roman Empire; other miscellaneous things. Werdna (email) Apparently I know things about putting the word out to specific regions with geo-targetted watchlist notices. I work with the Wikimedia Foundation doing techy things. Sadads(email) I have done a lot of stuff, but taking a break from off-wiki stuff, but more than willing to respond to emails and content requests :) Historian and Literary critic by training, Wikipedia contributions have been in almost every field but computer science and hard sciences, particularly enjoy working with literary criticism, literature and odd historical phenomena on wiki. I have helped with several GLAMs in the past on getting their content up :) Another Believer (email!) Categorization, citations, Commons, content creation (articles, DYK, lists, portals, templates), research, WikiProject construction and maintenance, etc. Architecture, current events, local history, monuments, music, National Register of Historic Places, parks, performing arts, politics, public art, science, etc. Note: This list is US-focused. For information on global volunteers and projects see... Wikimedia volunteers global list GLAM Contact Page, global list of Wikipedians, by continent Institutional contacts The following is a list of institutional contacts willing to answer questions about their work with Wikipedia. If you are a GLAM professional that has worked closely with Wikipedia and would be willing to be contacted by prospective GLAM partners, please add yourself to the list below! Organization Name Title Contact information United States National Archives and Records Administration Pamela Wright Chief Digital Access Strategist and interim Social Media Manager socialmedianara.gov The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Angie McNew Director of Web & Emerging Media angelamchildrensmuseum.org (Email) Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Sara Snyder Webmaster snyderssi.edu The Walters Art Museum Dylan Kinnett Manager of Web and Social Media dkinnettthewalters.org OCLC Research Merrilee Proffitt Senior Program Officer proffitmoclc.org Israel Museum, Jerusalem Allison Kupietzky Collections Database Manager allisonimj.org.il Ladd Observatory, Brown University Department of Physics Michael Umbricht Observatory Curator michael_umbrichtbrown.edu Professional organizations The US Professional Organizations Contacts page lists national, regional, and state-based organizations within the USA that already have a contact with the GLAM-Wiki community. If your professional organization has a listed contact, we encourage you to reach out to that individual. If you are interested in being a contact, please add yourself to the list. Professional Organizations Contacts For GLAM projects worldwide, many of which are based around partnerships with GLAM professional organisations, see Wikipedia:GLAM/Projects. Further Resources