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=== How the cultural, governmental, educational, and museum sectors could contribute in unison to Wikimedia projects ===

[[File:Fotografía grupal del Editatón Pueblos Mágicos de México 01.jpg|thumb|Group photo]]

Since 2011, WMMX has been building a strong relationship with leader sectors in the country, due to that the reputation of the chapter is known around the cultural and governmental sector. Although working with federal and regional agencies is important, the development of local and hyperlocal strategies is crucial in a large, populous country like ours.

[[File:Huertos de guayaba en Calvillo 11.jpg|thumb|Guava fields at Calvillo]]

For that reason this year for our participation at the contest Wiki Loves Folklore 2026, we organized an Editathon co-hosted by the National Museum of Magical Towns (MUNPUMA), the government of the municipality of Calvillo, the Secretariat of Tourism, the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes and the Technological University of Calvillo, the main universities in Aguascalientes State. 'Magical Towns' (in Spanish: Pueblos Magicos) is a programme run by the Mexican government dedicated to promoting the country's most historically and aesthetically significant towns.

This co-work not only lasted for the editathon, is a long term work that includes:

- The government authorities' commitment to be jury for the national contest and also to be sponsors of the prizes for both categories: photograph and video.

-  The temporary exhibition of twenty national winner photographs of the contest at the lobby of the National Museum of Magical Towns.

- Local tours offered to wikimedians by the Tourism Secretariat for visit the local fields and manufactures of guava-based products like jams, juices, and sweets at Calvillo, known as the Guava Capital of the World due to its climate and fertile soil that produce some of the sweetest and most famous guavas globally. 

Also, around $1500 USD were sponsored by the government of Calvillo in order to offer catering for 60 people at the Editathon, the prizes for the contest and the hotel rooms for Wikimedia México. 

[[File:Deshilado de Calvillo.jpg|thumb|Traditional embroidery from Calvillo]]

This is an achievement to share because it was an activity where more than one institution contributed in unison for the planning and development of the collaboration activities.

As part of the results and the investigation about references with the Secretariat of Tourism to write Wikipedia articles we found enough information to improve after Wikivoyage about 177 magical towns in Mexico, it means 31 States and the capital city.

Through this co-working hundreds of images were donated to Wikimedia Commons in order to show how a lot of these Magical Towns were established or how the heritage looks there.

=== Welcome to Wikimedia Commons another twenty old and rare books for public domain from the Library of Franz Mayer Museum ===

[[File:LAR00132 00013.tif|thumb|Palestra Farmaceutica chimico-galenica]]

In order to celebrate the International Book’s Day in collaboration with the Franz Mayer Museum for second year, close to 5000 high resolution images of twenty old and rare books from France, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Italy, England and Mexico were released on Wikimedia Commons, that includes L'asino d'oro by Nicolo Machiavelli, a book from 1550; the Atlas Minor of Gerard Mercator; Histoire des croisades pour la delivrance de la terre sainte from 1675; Pharmacopedia matritensis regii, ac supremi hispaniarum protomedicatus autoritate juffu atque auspiciis elaborata; Histoire de la conquête du Mexique, ou de la nouvelle espagne; Thesaurus, hispano-latinus, vtrivsqve lingvae dives opvm, olim a P. Bartholomaeo; Die Ehr vnnd mänliche Thaten, Geschichten vnnd Gefährlichkeiten des streitbaren Ritters vnnd edlen Helden Tewerdanck to named some of them.

[[File:Foto grupal Editatón Fondo Antiguo 02.jpg|thumb|Group photo]]

This donation is part of our GLAM activities with the Franz Mayer Museum. In a show of their commitment to this work, the museum has made these gems from Mayer's personal library available to the whole world. Mayer was a German-Mexican financier, photographer and collector that decided to donate his collection to Mexican people and which is preserved in the museum that bears his name.

What will happen with this donation? We at WMMX will support the process of improving, creating, and illustrating articles based on the donated materials. We will create and extend elements in Wikidata, and we plan to continue digitizing and releasing their collections for integration into Wikimedia projects.

If you want to learn more about this Wikimedia Mexico initiative, we invite you to double check the donation category:

Category:Fondo Antiguo Biblioteca Museo Franz Mayer


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=== How the cultural, governmental, educational, and museum sectors could contribute in unison to Wikimedia projects ===

[[File:Fotografía grupal del Editatón Pueblos Mágicos de México 01.jpg|thumb|Group photo]]

Since 2011, WMMX has been building a strong relationship with leader sectors in the country, due to that the reputation of the chapter is known around the cultural and governmental sector. Although working with federal and regional agencies is important, the development of local and hyperlocal strategies is crucial in a large, populous country like ours.

[[File:Huertos de guayaba en Calvillo 11.jpg|thumb|Guava fields at Calvillo]]

For that reason this year for our participation at the contest Wiki Loves Folklore 2026, we organized an Editathon co-hosted by the National Museum of Magical Towns (MUNPUMA), the government of the municipality of Calvillo, the Secretariat of Tourism, the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes and the Technological University of Calvillo, the main universities in Aguascalientes State. 'Magical Towns' (in Spanish: Pueblos Magicos) is a programme run by the Mexican government dedicated to promoting the country's most historically and aesthetically significant towns.

This co-work not only lasted for the editathon, is a long term work that includes:

- The government authorities' commitment to be jury for the national contest and also to be sponsors of the prizes for both categories: photograph and video.

-  The temporary exhibition of twenty national winner photographs of the contest at the lobby of the National Museum of Magical Towns.

- Local tours offered to wikimedians by the Tourism Secretariat for visit the local fields and manufactures of guava-based products like jams, juices, and sweets at Calvillo, known as the Guava Capital of the World due to its climate and fertile soil that produce some of the sweetest and most famous guavas globally. 

Also, around $1500 USD were sponsored by the government of Calvillo in order to offer catering for 60 people at the Editathon, the prizes for the contest and the hotel rooms for Wikimedia México. 

[[File:Deshilado de Calvillo.jpg|thumb|Traditional embroidery from Calvillo]]

This is an achievement to share because it was an activity where more than one institution contributed in unison for the planning and development of the collaboration activities.

As part of the results and the investigation about references with the Secretariat of Tourism to write Wikipedia articles we found enough information to improve after Wikivoyage about 177 magical towns in Mexico, it means 31 States and the capital city.

Through this co-working hundreds of images were donated to Wikimedia Commons in order to show how a lot of these Magical Towns were established or how the heritage looks there.

=== Welcome to Wikimedia Commons another twenty old and rare books for public domain from the Library of Franz Mayer Museum ===

[[File:LAR00132 00013.tif|thumb|Palestra Farmaceutica chimico-galenica]]

In order to celebrate the International Book’s Day in collaboration with the Franz Mayer Museum for second year, close to 5000 high resolution images of twenty old and rare books from France, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Italy, England and Mexico were released on Wikimedia Commons, that includes L'asino d'oro by Nicolo Machiavelli, a book from 1550; the Atlas Minor of Gerard Mercator; Histoire des croisades pour la delivrance de la terre sainte from 1675; Pharmacopedia matritensis regii, ac supremi hispaniarum protomedicatus autoritate juffu atque auspiciis elaborata; Histoire de la conquête du Mexique, ou de la nouvelle espagne; Thesaurus, hispano-latinus, vtrivsqve lingvae dives opvm, olim a P. Bartholomaeo; Die Ehr vnnd mänliche Thaten, Geschichten vnnd Gefährlichkeiten des streitbaren Ritters vnnd edlen Helden Tewerdanck to named some of them.

[[File:Foto grupal Editatón Fondo Antiguo 02.jpg|thumb|Group photo]]

This donation is part of our GLAM activities with the Franz Mayer Museum. In a show of their commitment to this work, the museum has made these gems from Mayer's personal library available to the whole world. Mayer was a German-Mexican financier, photographer and collector that decided to donate his collection to Mexican people and which is preserved in the museum that bears his name.

What will happen with this donation? We at WMMX will support the process of improving, creating, and illustrating articles based on the donated materials. We will create and extend elements in Wikidata, and we plan to continue digitizing and releasing their collections for integration into Wikimedia projects.

If you want to learn more about this Wikimedia Mexico initiative, we invite you to double check the donation category:

Category:Fondo Antiguo Biblioteca Museo Franz Mayer


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=== How the cultural, governmental, educational, and museum sectors could contribute in unison to Wikimedia projects ===

[[File:Fotografía grupal del Editatón Pueblos Mágicos de México 01.jpg|thumb|Group photo]]

Since 2011, WMMX has been building a strong relationship with leader sectors in the country, due to that the reputation of the chapter is known around the cultural and governmental sector. Although working with federal and regional agencies is important, the development of local and hyperlocal strategies is crucial in a large, populous country like ours.

[[File:Huertos de guayaba en Calvillo 11.jpg|thumb|Guava fields at Calvillo]]

For that reason this year for our participation at the contest Wiki Loves Folklore 2026, we organized an Editathon co-hosted by the National Museum of Magical Towns (MUNPUMA), the government of the municipality of Calvillo, the Secretariat of Tourism, the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes and the Technological University of Calvillo, the main universities in Aguascalientes State. 'Magical Towns' (in Spanish: Pueblos Magicos) is a programme run by the Mexican government dedicated to promoting the country's most historically and aesthetically significant towns.

This co-work not only lasted for the editathon, is a long term work that includes:

- The government authorities' commitment to be jury for the national contest and also to be sponsors of the prizes for both categories: photograph and video.

-  The temporary exhibition of twenty national winner photographs of the contest at the lobby of the National Museum of Magical Towns.

- Local tours offered to wikimedians by the Tourism Secretariat for visit the local fields and manufactures of guava-based products like jams, juices, and sweets at Calvillo, known as the Guava Capital of the World due to its climate and fertile soil that produce some of the sweetest and most famous guavas globally. 

Also, around $1500 USD were sponsored by the government of Calvillo in order to offer catering for 60 people at the Editathon, the prizes for the contest and the hotel rooms for Wikimedia México. 

[[File:Deshilado de Calvillo.jpg|thumb|Traditional embroidery from Calvillo]]

This is an achievement to share because it was an activity where more than one institution contributed in unison for the planning and development of the collaboration activities.

As part of the results and the investigation about references with the Secretariat of Tourism to write Wikipedia articles we found enough information to improve after Wikivoyage about 177 magical towns in Mexico, it means 31 States and the capital city.

Through this co-working hundreds of images were donated to Wikimedia Commons in order to show how a lot of these Magical Towns were established or how the heritage looks there.

=== Welcome to Wikimedia Commons another twenty old and rare books for public domain from the Library of Franz Mayer Museum ===

[[File:LAR00132 00013.tif|thumb|Palestra Farmaceutica chimico-galenica]]

In order to celebrate the International Book’s Day in collaboration with the Franz Mayer Museum for second year, close to 5000 high resolution images of twenty old and rare books from France, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Italy, England and Mexico were released on Wikimedia Commons, that includes L'asino d'oro by Nicolo Machiavelli, a book from 1550; the Atlas Minor of Gerard Mercator; Histoire des croisades pour la delivrance de la terre sainte from 1675; Pharmacopedia matritensis regii, ac supremi hispaniarum protomedicatus autoritate juffu atque auspiciis elaborata; Histoire de la conquête du Mexique, ou de la nouvelle espagne; Thesaurus, hispano-latinus, vtrivsqve lingvae dives opvm, olim a P. Bartholomaeo; Die Ehr vnnd mänliche Thaten, Geschichten vnnd Gefährlichkeiten des streitbaren Ritters vnnd edlen Helden Tewerdanck to named some of them.

[[File:Foto grupal Editatón Fondo Antiguo 02.jpg|thumb|Group photo]]

This donation is part of our GLAM activities with the Franz Mayer Museum. In a show of their commitment to this work, the museum has made these gems from Mayer's personal library available to the whole world. Mayer was a German-Mexican financier, photographer and collector that decided to donate his collection to Mexican people and which is preserved in the museum that bears his name.

What will happen with this donation? We at WMMX will support the process of improving, creating, and illustrating articles based on the donated materials. We will create and extend elements in Wikidata, and we plan to continue digitizing and releasing their collections for integration into Wikimedia projects.

If you want to learn more about this Wikimedia Mexico initiative, we invite you to double check the donation category:

Category:Fondo Antiguo Biblioteca Museo Franz Mayer


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=== How the cultural, governmental, educational, and museum sectors could contribute in unison to Wikimedia projects ===

[[File:Fotografía grupal del Editatón Pueblos Mágicos de México 01.jpg|thumb|Group photo]]

Since 2011, WMMX has been building a strong relationship with leader sectors in the country, due to that the reputation of the chapter is known around the cultural and governmental sector. Although working with federal and regional agencies is important, the development of local and hyperlocal strategies is crucial in a large, populous country like ours.

[[File:Huertos de guayaba en Calvillo 11.jpg|thumb|Guava fields at Calvillo]]

For that reason this year for our participation at the contest Wiki Loves Folklore 2026, we organized an Editathon co-hosted by the National Museum of Magical Towns (MUNPUMA), the government of the municipality of Calvillo, the Secretariat of Tourism, the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes and the Technological University of Calvillo, the main universities in Aguascalientes State. 'Magical Towns' (in Spanish: Pueblos Magicos) is a programme run by the Mexican government dedicated to promoting the country's most historically and aesthetically significant towns.

This co-work not only lasted for the editathon, is a long term work that includes:

- The government authorities' commitment to be jury for the national contest and also to be sponsors of the prizes for both categories: photograph and video.

-  The temporary exhibition of twenty national winner photographs of the contest at the lobby of the National Museum of Magical Towns.

- Local tours offered to wikimedians by the Tourism Secretariat for visit the local fields and manufactures of guava-based products like jams, juices, and sweets at Calvillo, known as the Guava Capital of the World due to its climate and fertile soil that produce some of the sweetest and most famous guavas globally. 

Also, around $1500 USD were sponsored by the government of Calvillo in order to offer catering for 60 people at the Editathon, the prizes for the contest and the hotel rooms for Wikimedia México. 

[[File:Deshilado de Calvillo.jpg|thumb|Traditional embroidery from Calvillo]]

This is an achievement to share because it was an activity where more than one institution contributed in unison for the planning and development of the collaboration activities.

As part of the results and the investigation about references with the Secretariat of Tourism to write Wikipedia articles we found enough information to improve after Wikivoyage about 177 magical towns in Mexico, it means 31 States and the capital city.

Through this co-working hundreds of images were donated to Wikimedia Commons in order to show how a lot of these Magical Towns were established or how the heritage looks there.

=== Welcome to Wikimedia Commons another twenty old and rare books for public domain from the Library of Franz Mayer Museum ===

[[File:LAR00132 00013.tif|thumb|Palestra Farmaceutica chimico-galenica]]

In order to celebrate the International Book’s Day in collaboration with the Franz Mayer Museum for second year, close to 5000 high resolution images of twenty old and rare books from France, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Italy, England and Mexico were released on Wikimedia Commons, that includes L'asino d'oro by Nicolo Machiavelli, a book from 1550; the Atlas Minor of Gerard Mercator; Histoire des croisades pour la delivrance de la terre sainte from 1675; Pharmacopedia matritensis regii, ac supremi hispaniarum protomedicatus autoritate juffu atque auspiciis elaborata; Histoire de la conquête du Mexique, ou de la nouvelle espagne; Thesaurus, hispano-latinus, vtrivsqve lingvae dives opvm, olim a P. Bartholomaeo; Die Ehr vnnd mänliche Thaten, Geschichten vnnd Gefährlichkeiten des streitbaren Ritters vnnd edlen Helden Tewerdanck to named some of them.

[[File:Foto grupal Editatón Fondo Antiguo 02.jpg|thumb|Group photo]]

This donation is part of our GLAM activities with the Franz Mayer Museum. In a show of their commitment to this work, the museum has made these gems from Mayer's personal library available to the whole world. Mayer was a German-Mexican financier, photographer and collector that decided to donate his collection to Mexican people and which is preserved in the museum that bears his name.

What will happen with this donation? We at WMMX will support the process of improving, creating, and illustrating articles based on the donated materials. We will create and extend elements in Wikidata, and we plan to continue digitizing and releasing their collections for integration into Wikimedia projects.

If you want to learn more about this Wikimedia Mexico initiative, we invite you to double check the donation category:

Category:Fondo Antiguo Biblioteca Museo Franz Mayer


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=== Part 1: determining what you want + first steps ===
Since April 2025 I am a Wikimedian in Residence at Maastricht University in the Netherlands ([[GLAM/Newsletter/March_2025/Contents/Netherlands_report#New_Wikimedian_in_Residence_at_Maastricht_University|announcement]]). Very soon I learned that within the university there is a long standing wish (10+ years) to have a timeline website that describes the history of the university that makes it insightful how the university developed since it was founded (this year 50 years ago). Within the university there are limited resources available and they did not have the time or knowledge how to set up such kind of a website. However, they were inspired by two Dutch language timeline websites, one created by [[w:en:Ghent University|Ghent University]] called [https://www.ugentmemorie.be/ UGentMemorie], the other created by [[w:en:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam|Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]] called [https://www.geheugenvandevu.nl/ Geheugen van de VU] (Memory of the VU).

So when I proposed the idea that I would create a timeline website for Maastricht University, this was received with great enthusiasm and got all the approvals needed to start the project.

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''This report documents the steps that have been taken to set up our own wiki, including our motivation and reasoning, and what preceded it. It has been described from my perspective as Wikimedian in Residence, and is written on request, as well as there is a need to share experiences how things have been done.''

Since April 2025 I am a Wikimedian in Residence (WiR) at Maastricht University (UM) in the Netherlands ([[GLAM/Newsletter/March_2025/Contents/Netherlands_report#New_Wikimedian_in_Residence_at_Maastricht_University|announcement]]). Very soon I learned that within the university there is a long standing wish (10+ years) to have a timeline website that describes the history of the university that makes it insightful how the university developed since it was founded (this year 50 years ago). Until now, sources about the university are often only offline, sparse and diffusive available, and I experience the university as a large chaotic organisation where a publication that would document and describe the past could offer significant benefits. Within the university there are limited resources available and they did not have the time or knowledge how to set up such kind of a website. However, they were inspired by two Dutch language timeline websites, one created by [[w:en:Ghent University|Ghent University]] called [https://www.ugentmemorie.be/ UGentMemorie], the other created by [[w:en:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam|Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]] called [https://www.geheugenvandevu.nl/ Geheugen van de VU] (Memory of the VU).

So when I proposed the idea that I would create a timeline website for Maastricht University, this was received with great enthusiasm and got all the approvals needed to start the project.

=== Phase 1: disappointment ===
''Spoiler: This phase has ended in a failure. If you want to stay positive, read only the 1st paragraph, skip the rest of this phase and continue reading at phase 2.''

This phase is characterised by two main activities: the search for information to be used in the website and finding the right software/platform to build the website in. Finding information went very prosperous. Within two months I had collected a huge amount of information from books, articles, archive documents, and more, in such a way that I could draw the outline of the website and would have been able to start to work on the content. I also invented a name for the website: UMemory. Within the university it is a bit of a habit to use the abbreviation (UM) in various places. Also, within two months, I had created a poster with many events/changes that had taken place in the past 50 years to give an impression about what the website would contain, and this poster was spread to various people within the university as some pre-promotion of the website to come. The poster, as well as the idea of the website, was very well received everywhere I came.

For finding the software/platform to be used, a meeting was organised with multiple people from the Maastricht University Library to talk about what possibilities there are to set up the website. I described there a little bit my first ideas. I thought it would be the best to do something similar as UGentMemorie, with a main body of text and on the right side some metadata. It would be nice if such metadata could come from a underlying database. As the university is bilingual and internationally orientated, we would have a page in English and a page in Dutch for each subject, as such is common for various parts of the university website. What options/routes were suggested?
* We could [[w:en:Omeka|Omeka S]]; software is a content management system for online digital collections. The University Library uses this software for the website [https://digitalcollections.library.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ digitalcollections.library.maastrichtuniversity.nl], where it hosts the Special Collections and some other materials that have been made publicly available.
* We could use [[w:en:WordPress|WordPress]], which is used for hosting the website of the University Library, and they have a lot of experience with.
* I suggested we could also a wiki environment, as that is what I am used to and have a lot of experience with.

(Note about another option: More than 6 months later I learned that the university also has a self hosting team that can easily create basic websites for projects and teams, but nobody had told me about it. Diving into what is possible with it, it appeared that this option only creates very simple websites, with very limited possibilities to change something, which made it unhandy to use.)

Besides me, nobody in the library had wiki experience and they wanted to go for Omeka S, as that is the software they have experience with. I have also some experience with Omeka S, and knowing this software, I saw there were possibilities to use it for the website. Omeka S is itself only not that suitable to build a website, so the technical person in our team indicated that he needed to go look for a way to present the data from the Omeka S database to a web format. I suggested that perhaps other organisations have done something similar, and the technical person would go look for a way to do it. Despite various attempts to get clarity on the status, I haven't heard anything regarding if a way to do this was found, until months later I got the reaction that the technical person did not have much time to work on the project, and was asking me (via another person) if I still wanted to continue this route. This tasted to me as a lack of interest to work on the project, so I indicated that seeing the situation, that it would be better to go for another route.

Another route (Wordpress) also meant that the technical people from the team were replaced by other technical people from another department of the library. Various weird things happened. For example, I had to hear from a colleague, that he had heard from another colleague, that she had heard from another colleague that a meeting had taken place about my project, while I wasn't even informed that a meetings was organised. When I asked for the outcomes, no answer. At some point an inventory was made to get an idea what was needed for the website (without telling me this happened, without asking me any questions), something I also had to hear from another colleague. I asked the colleague who had made the inventory what the outcome was, and he indicated that I should ask a particular colleague, but asking that particular colleague it appeared that she wasn't even involved at all and had no idea about the project. Not being informed, no clear progress, no project path, etc., around the end of October 2025 I realised that this is not going well, and I started to ask the supervisors for help. First I asked my mentor who supervises my WiR position, then no action was taken. I also asked the team leader, but she was ill that period and no action was taken. And third I asked the manager for help, but no action was taken. Much waiting, not being able to continue, and the weird things that happened. I tried to stay positive, but in December I got depressed and got ill because of the situation. I then decided that very soon something needs to happen, or I would cancel the project. And something happened, a fantastic colleague stood up and started to help me (and said some angry words to colleagues who had failed to do their work), which brought the project back to life. Suddenly, in a very short period of time things were possible, a Wordpress installation created, logging in made possible, first setup, etc. At first it seemed a lot of progress was made, but three months later was the page structure still not ready, still unhandy to use, and still missing basic functionality, and with bugs. (And then a simple OpenStreetMap map with the buildings of the university had still to be figured out.) In March I concluded that this is not going to work, but how can I end this?

First back to January again, while I had found a solution and a fantastic colleague started to help me, the manager that about 3 months earlier refused to help, now suddenly woke up. It became very clear to me that the manager disliked me, and I basically got the blame for that the project wasn't going well. But when I asked what I should have done better or different, the manager could not indicate anything. And when I indicated that I had asked the manager for help months ago, the manager claimed to have no memory of it that I had spoken with her about the project. In the weeks and months following, the behaviour of the manager went worse and worse, and I felt very unsafe at the workplace. Independent staff who deal with harassment and problems on the workplace have looked into the situation and have concluded that the manager had broken 17 rules and guidelines. With my one-year contract nearing its end, early March it became clear that I wanted to switch departments to get away from this bad situation. Later in March, despite I got zero complaints, all my direct colleagues were very positive about me, and my direct supervisors wanted me to continue, the manager made clear that she refused to extend my contract, and that the timeline project should end (read: ''at the former department''). For me this was disappointing, but also the perfect solution to get rid of the 2nd route that also clearly didn't work.

The sad part: 10 months of time and energy have been lost and wasted...

=== Phase 2: success ===
To start with the good news: in April my year contract got extended at another department of the university and I can continue my residency (including permission for my work on the timeline website about the university). I am now also in a much better team with various enthusiastic colleagues. I find it important to mention this enthusiasm, because I have learned that enthusiasm drives innovation and makes things possibly and easier to achieve. As most organisations have zero experience in setting up a whole new project, including a timeline website or a wiki, doing such is for them new and unknown (aka innovative). And then enthusiastic people say &quot;yes, let's try it&quot;, while people that are not enthusiastic start by describing all the ifs and buts.

The first question I asked myself is if I wanted to continue working on the timeline website. Thinking about the past year, I realised that working with the content of 50 years university history made me feel happy, as well as that I had put so much time and energy in the project, with a lot of materials collected which I did not want to throw away. With my enthusiasm I certainly go for happiness, but how to proceed?

First I thought about just expanding the content of Wikipedia with history of the university, but soon I realised multiple problems: as WiR I officially work for the university so editing pages about the university would possibly cause a [[w:en:Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|conflict of interest]] which I want to avoid, many images to be used have an unclear copyright status or unknown author so uploading to Commons is problematic, and to be able to have a good coverage also sources not suitable for Wikipedia should be used. So doing this project on Wikipedia quickly disappeared from my mind.

It is understandable that colleagues prefer to use software that they are known to, but as Wikimedian in Residence I wanted to go back to my roots and may natural habitat: the timeline website annex encyclopedia about the university should be a wiki. Thinking it all through, a wiki serves the best the needs and wishes for such a website. Besides the basic Wikipedia extensions, I identified some needed features:
* own domain name setup
* being able to change the default skin/design
* to structure the wiki, pages are grouped being subpages, so the title should be changeable (for non Wikibase pages).
* account creation control, only university staff editing
* images local upload + usage of images from Commons
* to have a Wikibase where knowledge can be hosted as structured data (like Wikidata)

So how can such a wiki be setup? I researched the various ways of setting up a wiki.
* Option 1: Wiki hosting by the university. I found internal documents with specifications for hosting by the IT department. It appeared that the IT department charges prices to departments that want to host a website, prices that my new department didn't want to pay. Also the maximum capacity the offered for a website was lower in comparison to what a wiki with extensions, pages, images and data would need. They also indicated that I have to make sure myself that all the software updates of MediaWiki and the extensions got implemented, something I have no experience in. It also became clear the university has no experience with wikis, and having experienced the past year with all the disappointments and setbacks, hosting within the university is not a serious option.
* Option 2: Wiki hosting by a professional company. At a trustworthy hosting company, I found pricing for a wiki with Wikibase for € 119 per month.&lt;!--https://professional.wiki/en/hosting / https://www.pro.wiki/pricing--&gt; That is something my department does not want to pay. (An overview of hosting companies can be found [[mw:Hosting services|here]].)
* Option 3: Wiki hosting by [https://www.wikibase.cloud/ Wikibase.cloud]. This hosting is organised by Wikimedia Deutschland and the focus is on a Wikibase. The focus of the project I work is both pages with text and a database with data. That is possible. One thing is not possible: the upload of local images, meaning that only images from Wikimedia Commons can be used or that images are hosted elsewhere and are linked to only (and not inserted in pages). As many images of the past 50 years of the university are unsuitable for uploading to Commons or would require a lot of work to determine who the rights holders are (without guarantee of getting permission), this option for our project would result in many pages having no photos looking boring and bare. For our project not the best option.
* Option 4: Wiki hosting by [https://miraheze.org/ Miraheze]. Miraheze is a free wiki farm run by volunteers that hosts more than 22 000 wikis and exists since [https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Miraheze_history 2010]. Many extensions can be installed, and wiki administrators can set many settings according to the project's wishes. Based on the needed features, this option matched the best with our needs.

Within my new department we discussed the creation of a wiki at Miraheze with all the possibilities, limitations and characteristics. Within 10 days I got the approval from my supervisor to setup a wiki at Miraheze with the purpose of building timeline website. Phase 1 took about 10 months with insufficient results, phase 2 took 10 days, and the [https://umemory.miraheze.org/ creation] of the wiki itself took 10 seconds.

=== Phase 3 ===
In a future report (part 2) the next phase of this project will be described: the first settings and infrastructure needed for content creation.

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