Wikidata:WikiProject Collectors affiliated with the MfN Berlin/Events

Wikidata edit-a-thon focussing on collections from colonial contexts

What?

• Wikidata edit-a-thon focussing on collection items from colonial contexts and collection agents active in the former German colony Kamerun (today Cameroon)

When?

• November 17 & 18, 2022, 1 - 4 p.m. CET, respectively

Where?

• virtually (ZOOM link will be shared with the participants)

More information on the workshop schedule, our working documents and the ZOOM link will be shared with all registered participants.

Project page for 2nd edit-a-thon

Registration

Please register via this registration form!

Important properties

• Work location: Kamerun (West African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1916)

• see also this list of used properties

Important resources

General references

• Leitfaden zum Umgang mit Sammlungsgut aus kolonialen Kontexten (Guidelines for the Care of Collections from Colonial Contexts) of the German Museums Association (Deutscher Museumsbund)

Related WikiProject

• WikiProject European Colonialism
  • List German colonial empire - Kamerun
  • People linked to former colony Kamerun, identical list (based on the same query) but different format and additional links

Libraries and literature

• Digitized books in the Kolonialbibliothek at University Library Frankfurt/Main (more background: About Colonial Collections)

• Mitteilungen von Forschungsreisenden und Gelehrten aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten (1888-1906, bei BHL)

• Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)

Archives

• Archival material in Archivführer Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte Behörden des Schutzgebietes Kamerun

• Kamerunisch-deutsche Geschichte, Goethe-Institut
• Findmittel Fonds Allemand (FA):
  • Findbuch R175, finding aid for easier access to German administrative deeds (Verwaltungsakten) in the Cameroon National Archives

Collection portals and databases

• Portal Collections from Colonial Contexts (Sammlungsgut aus kolonialen Kontexten) of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB – German Digital Library)
  • collection items from the MfN

• Collections Online Ethnological Museum Berlin

• Collections Online Linden-Museum Stuttgart

Resources on people

• This book has information on many of the people in the working spreadsheet used during the edit-a-thon and on a number of expeditions they took part in:
  • Deutsche Männer in Afrika: Lexicon der Hervorragendsten Deutschen Afrika-Forscher Missionare

Wikidata

Wikidata introductions

There are many very useful video tutorials online, here are two short examples:

• Video: How to edit Wikidata
• Video: How to add a new item to Wikidata

• Wikitext cheatsheet

Gadgets in Wikidata

There are many useful gadgets that can be enabled in the Preferences settings of your Wikidata account. Click on Preferences in the top right (close to the log in/log out button) of Wikidata and then go to the Gadget tab. There is a long list of gadgets. Tick the box(es) in front of the gadget(s) you want to enable and don't forget to save the changes.

We recommend to activate the following gadgets, there are many others you might want to explore:

• currentDate: Automatically adds the date of today while using the property retrieved (P813).
• DuplicateReferences: Adds a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item.
• Merge: This script adds a tool for merging items. -- IMPORTANT: Only use the 'merge' function if you are really sure that the items you plan to merge are duplicates! Check identifiers, DOB/DOD and other statements to verify.