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
Please, can all these images be categorized in a common category? Thanks
2009/4/25 Patricio Lorente patricio.lorente@gmail.com
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
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2009/4/28 emijrp emijrp@gmail.com:
Please, can all these images be categorized in a common category? Thanks
Existig photographs are in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Museo_de_La_Plata
I think we should use that category.
Patricio
Perhaps a subcategory "Wikipedia Invades La Plata Natural History Museum" ? It would be easier to follow activities like this. I think this is related with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_loves_art . It is only a suggestion :).
2009/4/28 Patricio Lorente patricio.lorente@gmail.com
2009/4/28 emijrp emijrp@gmail.com:
Please, can all these images be categorized in a common category? Thanks
Existig photographs are in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Museo_de_La_Plata
I think we should use that category.
Patricio--
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Category can be introduced with a beautiful template about the event.
2009/4/28 emijrp emijrp@gmail.com
Perhaps a subcategory "Wikipedia Invades La Plata Natural History Museum" ? It would be easier to follow activities like this. I think this is related with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_loves_art . It is only a suggestion :).
2009/4/28 Patricio Lorente patricio.lorente@gmail.com
2009/4/28 emijrp emijrp@gmail.com:
Please, can all these images be categorized in a common category? Thanks
Existig photographs are in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Museo_de_La_Plata
I think we should use that category.
Patricio--
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I think this is a good idea too.
You can make a pretty template for the images produced that both briefly explains the project and that also includes the Category:Wikipedia_Invades_La Plata_Natural_History_Museum. I can help you with this if you'd like.
This event documentation category would be added -in addition- to the encyclopedically-oriented Category:Museo_de_La_Plata. Possibly in the future, with a growing archive of items in the museum's collection, you will even find the need for more specific topical categories, like Category:Dinosaurs_at_Museo_de_La_Plata.
Thanks, Pharos
On 4/28/09, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
Category can be introduced with a beautiful template about the event.
2009/4/28 emijrp emijrp@gmail.com
Perhaps a subcategory "Wikipedia Invades La Plata Natural History Museum" ? It would be easier to follow activities like this. I think this is related with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_loves_art . It is only a suggestion :).
2009/4/28 Patricio Lorente patricio.lorente@gmail.com
2009/4/28 emijrp emijrp@gmail.com:
Please, can all these images be categorized in a common category? Thanks
Existig photographs are in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Museo_de_La_Plata
I think we should use that category.
Patricio--
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2009/5/1 Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com:
I think this is a good idea too.
You can make a pretty template for the images produced that both briefly explains the project and that also includes the Category:Wikipedia_Invades_La Plata_Natural_History_Museum. I can help you with this if you'd like.
This event documentation category would be added -in addition- to the encyclopedically-oriented Category:Museo_de_La_Plata. Possibly in the future, with a growing archive of items in the museum's collection, you will even find the need for more specific topical categories, like Category:Dinosaurs_at_Museo_de_La_Plata.
Sorry I didn't write any update since the "invasion". It was a great experience, with many new volunteers, some of them professional photographers. Many pictures have been already uploaded to Commons, under the category "Wikipedia invade el Museo de La Plata", but there are more to come. As you may see, there are photos of different quality, but many of them are really great. See for example, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diplodocus_Carnegii.jpg
After this activity, we received many invitations from other museums, and people from the provinces are organizing their own hunts.
Patricio
Really nice Patricio. Keep up the good work and tell us about those future events!
2009/5/13 Patricio Lorente patricio.lorente@gmail.com
2009/5/1 Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com:
I think this is a good idea too.
You can make a pretty template for the images produced that both briefly explains the project and that also includes the Category:Wikipedia_Invades_La Plata_Natural_History_Museum. I can help you with this if you'd like.
This event documentation category would be added -in addition- to the encyclopedically-oriented Category:Museo_de_La_Plata. Possibly in the future, with a growing archive of items in the museum's collection, you will even find the need for more specific topical categories, like Category:Dinosaurs_at_Museo_de_La_Plata.
Sorry I didn't write any update since the "invasion". It was a great experience, with many new volunteers, some of them professional photographers. Many pictures have been already uploaded to Commons, under the category "Wikipedia invade el Museo de La Plata", but there are more to come. As you may see, there are photos of different quality, but many of them are really great. See for example, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diplodocus_Carnegii.jpg
After this activity, we received many invitations from other museums, and people from the provinces are organizing their own hunts.
Patricio--
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It's nice to see initatives like this spring up all over the world!
Next month Wikimedia Nederland (together with Creative Commons NL) will organize a month-long 'wiki loves art' project in which 15 museums participate.
-- Hay
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:51 PM, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
Really nice Patricio. Keep up the good work and tell us about those future events!
2009/5/13 Patricio Lorente patricio.lorente@gmail.com
2009/5/1 Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com:
I think this is a good idea too.
You can make a pretty template for the images produced that both briefly explains the project and that also includes the Category:Wikipedia_Invades_La Plata_Natural_History_Museum. I can help you with this if you'd like.
This event documentation category would be added -in addition- to the encyclopedically-oriented Category:Museo_de_La_Plata. Possibly in the future, with a growing archive of items in the museum's collection, you will even find the need for more specific topical categories, like Category:Dinosaurs_at_Museo_de_La_Plata.
Sorry I didn't write any update since the "invasion". It was a great experience, with many new volunteers, some of them professional photographers. Many pictures have been already uploaded to Commons, under the category "Wikipedia invade el Museo de La Plata", but there are more to come. As you may see, there are photos of different quality, but many of them are really great. See for example, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diplodocus_Carnegii.jpg
After this activity, we received many invitations from other museums, and people from the provinces are organizing their own hunts.
Patricio
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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Hay (Husky) huskyr@gmail.com wrote:
It's nice to see initatives like this spring up all over the world!
Next month Wikimedia Nederland (together with Creative Commons NL) will organize a month-long 'wiki loves art' project in which 15 museums participate.
-- Hay
Hooray for Patricio and Wikimedia AR!
Looks like everything went brilliantly, and that you had a very productive 'invasion'. Like Hay, I am very happy to see this cross-fertilization of ideas, and I very much look forward to future updates from everyone.
Thanks, Pharos
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:51 PM, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
Really nice Patricio. Keep up the good work and tell us about those future events!
2009/5/13 Patricio Lorente patricio.lorente@gmail.com
2009/5/1 Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com:
I think this is a good idea too.
You can make a pretty template for the images produced that both briefly explains the project and that also includes the Category:Wikipedia_Invades_La Plata_Natural_History_Museum. I can help you with this if you'd like.
This event documentation category would be added -in addition- to the encyclopedically-oriented Category:Museo_de_La_Plata. Possibly in the future, with a growing archive of items in the museum's collection, you will even find the need for more specific topical categories, like Category:Dinosaurs_at_Museo_de_La_Plata.
Sorry I didn't write any update since the "invasion". It was a great experience, with many new volunteers, some of them professional photographers. Many pictures have been already uploaded to Commons, under the category "Wikipedia invade el Museo de La Plata", but there are more to come. As you may see, there are photos of different quality, but many of them are really great. See for example, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diplodocus_Carnegii.jpg
After this activity, we received many invitations from other museums, and people from the provinces are organizing their own hunts.
Patricio
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