Commons:Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya/Participate

If you are interested in contributing to Wikimedia, in particular related to the projects spearheaded by the Bejoy Narayan Mahavidyalaya's GLAM programme, there are a number of different ways to do so. Those with a general interest in contributing may wish to contribute to Wikimedia Projects, and new users may find general information regarding editing and contributing to Wikimedia articles to be helpful (see below). Those who are specifically interested in working with the BNM by participating in a public outreach event, are encouraged to leave their user details below or to contact the present team member, Santanu Chandra or Sujay Chandra

Wikimedia Projects edit

GLAMWiki How: Learn more about releasing and contributing GLAM content to Wikimedia projects

Contribute to a Wikipedia article edit

Here are some ideas specifically on how to contribute to Wikimedia if you are Library staff or a participant in an edit-a-thon hosted by a library. These may also give you some ideas on how to incorporate Wikimedia into your work at the BNM or any other GLAM organisation.

Please feel free to expand, correct, translate or any other improvement you can make to any Wikipedia articles. If you are new to Wikimedia projects, then welcome! New users may want to start with the New Contributors' Help Page or take the Official Tutorial. See also:

If you are not new, but you still feel that you might want to brush up on your technique or if you have any questions, you may find the following pages useful:

Upload images and videos to Wikimedia Commons edit

Releasing Content edit

If you are concerned about releasing content from a gallery, library, archive, or museum collection, consider some of the possible benefits listed below, or read on for more information about Creative Commons licensing and GLAM content, and successful case studies.

Why release images under an open license?

Uploading your images to Commons connects them with other information giving them context and extra information including translations of that information onto other languages.
It's interesting to share your knowledge with other people, and it's a remarkable opportunity to be part of educating people all over the world.
A much wider audience for the images, there are over 280 different language Wikipedias and the images can be used on all of them, you can even track where they're being used.
If you are worried about losing commercial opportunities to license the images it is possible to release images under a lower resolution to Wikimedia Commons and keep the higher resolution for this purpose. The low resolution images may even increase the interest in higher quality images via the wider audience.

How can you contribute in BNM GLAM project edit

There is a significant collection of zoological specimen in the institute. You can take photographs and upload them to Commons.
There is a significant collection of public domain magazines, periodicals and manuscripts in the Central Library of the Institute. You can digitize and upload them to Commons.
Digitized magazines, periodicals and manuscripts will be transcribed to Wikisource, where you can convert them to Unicode versions and proofread them.
You can also create articles on the little magazines, periodicals, manuscripts or zoological specimen in different language version of Wikipedia.

Participants edit

Please add your details here, or contact us on the discussion page. When adding your details, please include any specific projects you might be interested in contributing to (i.e. transcribing digitised texts to Wikisource), any topics you are interested in, or have significant previous knowledge of: