Ø Monmouth Castle - Go for it!
The castle article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_Castle has a bit of an expansion – but could do with more from others.
I did have a problem getting the Monmouthshire map to work in the infobox so it currently has the Wales map instead.
I also came across the article for the Great Castle House (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Castle_House) which hadn’t been tagged for Monmouthpedia so there may be other relevant articles still to be spotted.
Rod
From: Roger Bamkin [mailto:victuallers@gmail.com]
Sent: 31 December 2011 11:33
To: rod@rodspace.co.uk; wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: john cummings
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Monmouthpedia
Great to see this interest! I also have editors ready to translate when we have some improved articles.
We have the Archaeological Society "signed up". They tell me that we can "have the lot" - they are convinced that CC by SA beats (c) 2011..
I've included John on the list to make sure he knows and he can hopefully forward the requests. I know its not very easy but it is possible.
As far as interpretation goes. Derby Museum used the rule that if the article had a link then it was relevant. So a bio of an artist who cad stuff in [[Derby Museum]] was relevant....
So I think the rebellion is named after the Duke of Monmouth - ie tricky to link to [[Monmouth, Wales]]
John is looking for someone who can do some grome-ish stuff. He wants to allow editors to claim points for writing articles. There is a proven system at the GLAM/Derby page. Does someone fancy moving the important bits to the MonmouthpediA page and zeroing everything so we are ready to allow editors to claim points etc.???
Armoured Car, and Ship - Yes we should be able to link the QR codes
Monmouth Castle - Go for it!
There are lots of ideas on MonmouthpediA pages. Some are people who may be local to you in fame but born in Monmouth.
If we can make a new or 5x expanded article then I'll get it on DYK - has to be done in <5 days
MonmouthpediA is to be on Radio 4 on Tuesday - be nice to say we are getting into 2nd gear
Thanks for the interest
Happy New Year!
Roger B
On 31 December 2011 09:25, Rod Ward <rodward@plus.net> wrote:
I would agree about the difficulty of getting access to local sources
(although I might have a go at Monmouth Castle which deserves a better
article than it has got), but I wondered how broadly Monmouthpedia is being
interpreted?
The Monmouth Rebellion is relevant to my neck of the woods - but probably
not that significant for the town - would that be included?
Rod
The problem you hit rather quickly is that while it is fairly easy to
write local history about your local area (your local library will
have sources) writing local history about a more distant place is far
more difficult. Monmouth Archaeological Society also appears to have a
fairly limited set of publications which is a pity since local
Archaeological Societies are usually a fairly good of material for
articles.
--
geni
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