Welcome to the Museums WikiProject! A chunk of this text has been stolen borrowed under GFDL ;) from other Wiki Projects under the idea that they're a lot more familiar with the process than I am, which isn't hard! - Goals
- Improve Wikipedia's coverage of museums.
- Improve quality of existing articles
- Expand smaller museums in non-English dominant countries where articles are little more than a sentence.
- Create guidelines for articles about museums.
- Scope
- The project covers all articles about museums in a wide range of disciplines and locations throughout the world. By member consensus, it does not include aquaria, herbaria, zoos and other non-museum 'collections' because these are well-covered in other projects.
[edit] Members - DiverScout (talk · contribs) (volunteer curator for small museum in UK, will concentrate on East Anglian, rail and WW2 content]])
- Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk)
- John Carter (talk) 21:10, 18 March 2008 (UTC) - This is the first project I was ever told I was myself "within the scope of". I know I'm getting on in years, but still. :)
- LanceBarber (talk) 04:27, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
- MBK004 (talk · contribs) - military/ships
- Gimme danger (talk · contribs) - science museums and Chicago-area museums
- LukeTheSpook (talk) - Going to be working on rating articles...
- Minnaert (talk) 04:24, 21 March 2008 (UTC) - I mess around with museum articles... mainly in california
- Jpbowen (talk · contribs) – interested in museums internationally and especially online
- Bluegoblin7 (talk · contribs) - interested in most British Museums, especially Transport ones!
- Aqwis (talk · contribs) - interested in science museums and Norwegian museums in general
- Lquilter (talk · contribs) - science museums, categorizing
- RogoPD - public art collections in Europe
- Daniel Case (talk · contribs) - I have done many historic house museums here in the Hudson Valley as a by-product of doing articles for the U.S. National Register of Historic Places project, so it's really a formality. Good that we have this project. Daniel Case (talk) 20:09, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
- Dmadeo (talk · contribs) - I've done a lot of work on List of National Historic Landmarks in New York City, many of which are historic house museums, but also are the big boys such as the Met, etc.
- Musebrarian (talk · contribs) - history, industry and technology, Museum Informatics, Museology
- Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk · contribs) -Count me in, I won't be actively concentrating on museums but will be creating some articles on museums in places in the developing world in coordination with my other work, particularly Africa and Asia and countries of Central Europe.
- Appletrees (talk · contribs) - Mostly working on museums in South Korea, but North Korea seems to have interesting museums as well.
- Doncram (talk · contribs) - Ship museums, historic house museums, other historic site museums. Have been participating, may as well join. :) doncram (talk) 17:42, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
- BusterD (talk · contribs) - Another NYC-area museum member with a love for science museums and historical societies. BusterD (talk) 12:25, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
- Basketball110 (talk · contribs) - I can get info and pictures from all the museums in Romania.
- LordAmeth (talk · contribs) - Focusing on museums, historical sites, etc in Japan.
- Thomas Paine1776 (talk · contribs)
- Woland37 (talk · contribs) interested in museum stuff including organizations and whatnot
- Ridenm (talk · contribs) working on National Atomic Museum page
- MRacer (talk · contribs) - former museum volunteer and fine artist with an interest in art, world history and local history subjects as they relate here.
- nrswanson (talk · contribs) - Frequent world traveler, classical musician, and museum lover.
- nicg1883 (talk · contribs) – interested in museum and have created an article on the Holy Jesus Hospital Museum. English.
- Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs) I'll help out. --Jordan Contribs 17:54, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
- WiltshireHeritage (talk · contribs) - museum curator
- Ralphwiggam75 (talk · contribs) - art historian
- Fact-of-the-matter (talk · contribs) - Museum administrator
- jonallen1966 (talk · contribs) - I'm going to have a go at the Tokyo Museums
- Editorofthewiki (talk · contribs) - I'll help out here and there. ~EDDY (talk/contribs/editor review)~ 20:48, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
- Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk · contribs)
- Danwalk (talk · contribs) - Academic in the humanities primarily interested in art museums. Areas of particular interest are Spain and Massachusetts, USA.
- Thaliapap (talk · contribs) - Architect (M. Arch.) with special interest in museums, focusing in Greek Museums.
- Storye_book (talk · contribs) - I have no great expertise, but have been contributing in a small way to Leeds City Museum page, and have created several Yorkshire museum pages. I'm happy to take photographs where permitted.--Storye book (talk) 15:03, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
- Ssbautista (talk · contribs) - PhD student in Communication/Museum Studies studying digital media. Former art curator/critic/nonprofit administrator.
- IxK85 (talk · contribs) - curator at the Imperial War Museum in London.
- The Illusional Ministry (talk · contribs) - Will mostly be doing infoboxes.
- Hoverfish (talk · contribs) - Category work and cleanup in Greek Museums.
[edit] Languages Spoken If you're able to read or write in a language other than English in order to help expand articles in countries where English isn't primary, please leave your name here: edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Museums: | | 
| Here are some tasks you can do: - Requests: Create a section that describes details of Project Class Assessment Scale criteria
History museum
Create articles listed at Requested Articles - Wikify: Poldark Mine
- Verify: American Museum of Natural History, Ascott House, Ecomuseum, Hermitage Museum, HMS Victory, Louvre, National Alpine Museum, Natural History Museum, Unterlinden Museum, World Museum Liverpool
- Cleanup: Art museum, Casa Santa Museum, Field Museum of Natural History, ScienceWorks Museum (Ashland), Virtual museum
- Expand: Museum and sub-classes of museums (Art museum, History museum, etc.), Improve/expand all articles in Category:Museum stubs
- Update: all museums' Talks with {{WikiProject Museum}}.
- NPOV: Belvedere (palace), Miami Children's Museum, Scienceworks Museum (Melbourne)
- Infobox: Argentine National Museum of History, Ascott House, Bletchley Park, Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum, National Museum of Singapore, Romsdal Museum
- Other: add {{WP Museum Invitation}} to talk pages of regular museum article editors
| | [edit] Ongoing cleanup There is an ongoing cleanup/developing in the undeveloped stub articles of Category:Museums in Greece to determine which of them meet with notability standards, develop them to at least basic stubs and nominate for deletion all the rest. You can help here. Participants: User:Thaliapap, User:Hoverfish [edit] Article Alerts
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[edit] Museums and libraries AfDs [edit] Museums and libraries Proposed Deletions [edit] Assessment Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process and current status of WikiProject Museums supported articles. The stats are generated automatically every 2-3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering Museums (and replacing Foobar) into the Category box here.
[edit] Current status Museums
articles | Importance | | Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | | Quality |  FA | | | 1 | 8 | | 9 |  GA | 2 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 30 | | B | 6 | 3 | 24 | 41 | 19 | 93 | | C | 14 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 8 | 56 | | Start | 12 | 25 | 122 | 591 | 233 | 983 | | Stub | 2 | 16 | 114 | 1709 | 1589 | 3430 | | List | | 9 | 13 | 25 | 25 | 72 | | Assessed | 36 | 62 | 292 | 2406 | 1877 | 4673 | | Unassessed | | 3 | | 5 | 468 | 476 | | Total | 36 | 65 | 292 | 2411 | 2345 | 5149 | [edit] Recognized Content [edit] Featured content [edit] Candidates
[edit] Good Content [edit] Candidates  Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article, which members of this project created or substantially expanded. | | | [edit] Categories BCBot is in the process of tagging all the articles in the master category list with the project template. If you're aware of newly added categories, or a category that you feel was missed, please add it here rather than to that master list so we can organize a mass-tagging if needed. I have not yet asked a bot to 'watch' any categories and add newly created articles to the project, but I know there are some that do that. [edit] Articles to Create Depending on how you look at it, we're (un)lucky to have a significant body of articles that need creating. Looking at the predominantly redlinks here: [edit] Templates and Userbox  | This article is within the scope of WikiProject Museums, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of museums on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. | |  ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale. | | ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. | | |  | You have been invited to join the Museums WikiProject, a collaborative effort focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of museums. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the member list. Thanks for reading! | [edit] Stub Templates [edit] Userbox  | User is a member of the Museums WikiProject - You can help! |
[edit] Resources Some resources which may be useful for those writing articles about museums: [edit] Related projects [edit] See also |
