More evidence of museums getting on board with Wikipedia!<br><br>The 
Cooper Hewitt Design Museum has released a new online collections 
database that includes auto-generated Wikipedia links for every object!<br><br>The site itself is very cool:<br><br><a href="http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/" target="_blank">http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/</a><br>

<br>Here&#39;s an example of the generated link:<br>
<br><div style="margin-left:40px">If you would like to cite this object in a Wikipedia article please use the following template:<br></div><br><div style="margin-left:40px">&lt;ref
 name=CH&gt;{{cite web 
|url=<a href="http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18328843/" target="_blank">http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18328843/</a> 
|title=Printing Block, 1931-71-23, 18th century |author=Smithsonian 
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum |accessdate=19 December 2012 
|publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br></div><br><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18328843/" target="_blank">http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18328843/</a><br>

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<br>Also, their code is available on Github and the developers have a blog: <a href="http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/" target="_blank">http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/</a><br><br>Nice to see the Smithsonian leading the way!<br>

<br><br><br><div>Chris Leeder</div><div></div><div>School of Information<br>University of Michigan<br></div><br>