Wikipedia Invades La Plata Natural History Museum Saturday, May 2nd, from 10 am, a group of wikipedians - members of Wikimedia Argentina - will visit the La Plata Natural History Museum to gather information to flush out and complete articles in the renowned online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The group will be composed of editors and photographers and will be led through the museum by tour guides during their visit. The wikipedians hope to broaden articles which cover the themes that the museum includes and take photographs of the exhibitions to help illustrate the text of the encyclopedia. The photographs will not only be used in the Spanish articles, but also in articles in over 250 languages that are available in Wikipedia. The photographs will be published with a free license in Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org). The La Plata Natural History Museum is a natural science museum which houses a vast collection of archeological, anthropological and ethnographic information. Founded by Francisco Pascisio Moreno in 1884, the museum is unique in its scope in South America with over 3,000,000 objects in its collection and over 130 years of history. The museum is renowned for its collection of large fossilized mammals of the pampas from the Cenozoic and Quaternary eras as well as collections of trilobite fossils of the Cambrian period and graptolite fossils from the Silurian period in Argentina. Also, Argentina and Peru archeological and ethnographic collections are on exhibition, as well as showing the broader landscape of the Americas. There is also an Egyptian room where an original temple (the temple of Aksha, from Nubia) is on display. The archeological collection shows cultural development of Latin America from 12,800 BC through to the Inca empire and the arrival of the Europeans. More information can be found online: http://www.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/museo/ Wikimedia Argentina is a non-profit membership group which has been recognized by the Wikimedia Foundation as a local chapter of our country. The Wikimedia Foundation maintains a global projects such as Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiversidad, Wikiquotes, etc. Currently, Wikimedia Argentina is organizing Wikimania 2009, the international conference of Wikimedia projects to be held in late August. The city of Buenos Aires was selected for this annual meeting, which in years prior has taken place in the United States of America, Germany, Taiwan and Egypt. More information can be found online: http://www.wikimedia.org.ar -- Patricio Lorente Mensajería Instantánea: patricio_lorente(a)jabber.org Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l