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Some thoughts (– SJ + 17:50, 18 March 2010 (UTC)):
Liam is jointly organizing a workshop for museum directors and wikipedians in early April. I spoke recently with one of the attendees from the museum sector about how to make the day productive and come out of it with specific suggestions for working together. I've included some of his thoughts below.
– SJ + 18:02, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
The closest existing style guide:
Examples to include/follow:
General background & style:
Other: (surf by category: it's the most effective way to find related material)
There is already a WikiProject for Museums. And, like many such projects (we have roughly a thousand), it does have a draft style guide for how to write a Museum article; though it isn't yet categorized isn't part of the overall Style Guide. If you wanted to take a stab at a proper guideline, I would begin by editing this existing page.
The WikiProject hasn't been active enough to try implementing this guideline on the roughly 2000 museum articles (most in the US).
I still don't know what the tenor of expectation will be in advance. I'd be interesting in a quick survey of a dozen museum directors, from event attendees to those who 'would never' come to such an event, to find out
We have some museum volunteers (diverscout, mracer), curators and staff (wiltshireHeritage, danny), and administrators (fact-of-the-matter) in that group... I can see about polling the wikipedian museum-folk.
Their anon contributed section on the African Art exhibit is wordy and positive; it needs editing, but other than that I wonder what the concern was.
This is an example of details about a collection that someone at the museum would be welcome to improve.
Main page | Assessment | Guideline | Members | Popular Pages | Progress | Requested Articles | Requests for Expansion | Templates | Working with Museums |
See Wikipedia:Advice for the cultural sector for the main effort here.
How can museums work better with Wikipedia? This is a subproject dedicated to answering that question, and to engaging museums and inviting them to become productive editors and contributors to the project.
Some thoughts (– SJ + 17:50, 18 March 2010 (UTC)):
Liam is jointly organizing a workshop for museum directors and wikipedians in early April. I spoke recently with one of the attendees from the museum sector about how to make the day productive and come out of it with specific suggestions for working together. I've included some of his thoughts below.
– SJ + 18:02, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
The closest existing style guide:
Examples to include/follow:
General background & style:
Other: (surf by category: it's the most effective way to find related material)
There is already a WikiProject for Museums. And, like many such projects (we have roughly a thousand), it does have a draft style guide for how to write a Museum article; though it isn't yet categorized isn't part of the overall Style Guide. If you wanted to take a stab at a proper guideline, I would begin by editing this existing page.
The WikiProject hasn't been active enough to try implementing this guideline on the roughly 2000 museum articles (most in the US).
I still don't know what the tenor of expectation will be in advance. I'd be interesting in a quick survey of a dozen museum directors, from event attendees to those who 'would never' come to such an event, to find out
We have some museum volunteers (diverscout, mracer), curators and staff (wiltshireHeritage, danny), and administrators (fact-of-the-matter) in that group... I can see about polling the wikipedian museum-folk.
Their anon contributed section on the African Art exhibit is wordy and positive; it needs editing, but other than that I wonder what the concern was.
This is an example of details about a collection that someone at the museum would be welcome to improve.