More evidence of museums getting on board with Wikipedia!
The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum has released a new online collections database that includes auto-generated Wikipedia links for every object!
The site itself is very cool:
http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/
Here's an example of the generated link:
If you would like to cite this object in a Wikipedia article please use the following template:
<ref name=CH>{{cite web |url= http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18328843/ |title=Printing Block, 1931-71-23, 18th century |author=Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum |accessdate=19 December 2012 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>
http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18328843/
Also, their code is available on Github and the developers have a blog: http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/
Nice to see the Smithsonian leading the way!
Chris Leeder School of Information University of Michigan