Wikipedia:WikiProject Museums

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Welcome to the Museums WikiProject! A chunk of this text has been stolen borrowed under GFDL ;) from other Wiki Projects under the idea that they're a lot more familiar with the process than I am, which isn't hard!

Goals
  • Improve Wikipedia's coverage of museums.
  • Improve quality of existing articles
  • Expand smaller museums in non-English dominant countries where articles are little more than a sentence.
  • Create guidelines for articles about museums.
Scope
  • The project covers all articles about museums in a wide range of disciplines and locations throughout the world. By member consensus, it does not include aquaria, herbaria, zoos and other non-museum 'collections' because these are well-covered in other projects.

Contents

[edit] Members

  1. Travellingcari (talk · contribs) (interested in everything about museums, currently focusing on the New York City area. See my to-do list)
  2. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk)
  3. John Carter (talk) 21:10, 18 March 2008 (UTC) - This is the first project I was ever told I was myself "within the scope of". I know I'm getting on in years, but still. :)
  4. LanceBarber (talk) 04:27, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
  5. MBK004 (talk · contribs) - military/ships
  6. Gimme danger (talk · contribs) - science museums and Chicago-area museums
  7. LukeTheSpook (talk) - Going to be working on rating articles...
  8. Minnaert (talk) 04:24, 21 March 2008 (UTC) - I mess around with museum articles... mainly in california
  9. Jpbowen (talk · contribs) – interested in museums internationally and especially online
  10. Bluegoblin7 (talk · contribs) - interested in most British Museums, especially Transport ones!
  11. Aqwis (talk · contribs) - interested in science museums and Norwegian museums in general
  12. Lquilter (talk · contribs) - science museums, categorizing
  13. RogoPD - public art collections in Europe
  14. Daniel Case (talk · contribs) - I have done many historic house museums here in the Hudson Valley as a by-product of doing articles for the U.S. National Register of Historic Places project, so it's really a formality. Good that we have this project. Daniel Case (talk) 20:09, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
  15. Dmadeo (talk · contribs) - I've done a lot of work on List of National Historic Landmarks in New York City, many of which are historic house museums, but also are the big boys such as the Met, etc.
  16. Musebrarian (talk · contribs) - history, industry and technology, Museum Informatics, Museology
  17. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk · contribs) -Count me in, I won't be actively concentrating on museums but will be creating some articles on museums in places in the developing world in coordination with my other work, particularly Africa and Asia and countries of Central Europe.
  18. Appletrees (talk · contribs) - Mostly working on museums in South Korea, but North Korea seems to have interesting museums as well.
  19. Doncram (talk · contribs) - Ship museums, historic house museums, other historic site museums. Have been participating, may as well join. :) doncram (talk) 17:42, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
  20. Noroton (talk) 11:51, 9 May 2008 (UTC) - I'm interested in lists and categories of museums, and in occasionally creating articles on small museums
  21. BusterD (talk · contribs) - Another NYC-area museum member with a love for science museums and historical societies. BusterD (talk) 12:25, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
  22. Basketball110 (talk · contribs) - I can get info and pictures from all the museums in Romania.

[edit] Languages Spoken

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[edit] To Do

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Museums: edit · history · watch · refresh

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[edit] Deletion Discussions

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[edit] Museums and libraries AfDs

[edit] Museums and libraries Proposed Deletions

[edit] Assessment

Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process and current status of WikiProject Museums supported articles. The stats are generated automatically every 2-3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering Museums (and replacing Foobar) into the Category box here.


[edit] Current status

Museums
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 4 6
A 1 1
Good article GA 3 13 16
B 4 20 28 17 69
Start 1 6 79 494 103 683
Stub 1 71 1602 1555 3229
List 8 12 25 17 62
Assessed 1 21 186 2166 1692 4066
Unassessed 202 202
Total 1 21 186 2166 1894 4268

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[edit] Candidates


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[edit] DYK

Updated DYK queryDid you know? was updated with a fact from the article, which you created or substantially expanded.
  1. On 2008-05-30 Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
  2. On 2008-05-29 Museum at Bethel Woods
  3. On 2008-05-22 Champlain Valley Transportation Museum
  4. On 2008-05-26 Bluff Point Light
  5. On 2008-05-22 Seaway Trail Discovery Center
  6. On 2008-05-06 Bevier House Museum
  7. On 2008-05-05 Ilmin Museum of Art
  8. On 2008-05-04 Kingsland Homestead
  9. On 2008-04-25 Davison's Mill, Stelling Minnis
  10. On 2008-04-23 National Museum of Beirut
  11. On 2008-04-21 Chillenden Windmill
  12. On 2008-04-14 Bailey House Museum
  13. On 2008-03-28 Catalyst (museum)
  14. On 2008-03-23 Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
  15. On 2008-03-20 Grosvenor Museum
  16. On 2008-03-11 Yokohama Museum of Art
  17. On 2008-03-10 U.S. Army Transportation Museum
  18. On 2008-03-07 Museum Wharf
  19. On 2008-03-07 Kapodistrias Museum
  20. On 2008-02-28 Indiana Medical History Museum
  21. On 2008-02-22 Tramcars of the National Tramway Museum
  22. On 2008-02-06 Riley Birthplace and Museum
  23. On 2008-02-05 James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home
  24. On 2008-01-28 Polish Museum, Rapperswil
  25. On 2008-01-16 Matisse Museum (Le Cateau)
  26. On 2008-01-11 The Bakken
  27. On 2007-11-22 SantralIstanbul
  28. On 2007-10-20 Madame Tussauds Hong Kong
  29. On 2007-10-19 Yorkshire Museum
  30. On 2007-10-16 Sapporo Beer Museum
  31. On 2007-10-08 Building of Bath Museum
  32. On 2007-09-29 Museum of Early Trades and Crafts
  33. On 2007-09-11 American Advertising Museum
  34. On 2007-09-04 National Art Gallery of Singapore
  35. On 2007-09-02 Peshtigo Fire Museum
  36. On 2007-08-08 Hull Maritime Museum
  37. On 2007-08-08 Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
  38. On 2007-07-31 National Coach Museum
  39. On 2007-07-30 Bertramka
  40. On 2007-07-17 Ellwood House
  41. On 2007-07-12 Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse
  42. On 2007-06-28 City and Town Hall
  43. On 2007-05-03 EAA AirVenture Museum
  44. On 2007-04-24 Oscar Niemeyer Museum
  45. On 2007-04-02 Rancho Camulos
  46. On 2007-03-26 Hallie Ford Museum of Art
  47. On 2007-03-23 Palanga Amber Museum
  48. On 2007-03-10 Barnum Museum
  49. On 2007-03-07 New Orleans Mint
  50. On 2007-03-04 National Art Museum of Ukraine
  51. On 2007-01-09 Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
  52. On 2006-12-27 Living Museum of the Horse
  53. On 2006-11-07 West Wycombe Park
  54. On 2006-10-31 Pontus Hultén
  55. On 2006-10-12 Holophusikon
  56. On 2006-10-09 Vitra Design Museum
  57. On 2006-09-13 Cabinet des Médailles
  58. On 2006-09-06 Belton House
  59. On 2006-07-18 Philippe de Montebello
  60. On 2006-06-14 Perth Gaol
  61. On 2006-05-26 Neues Museum
  62. On 2006-05-03 Tennessee State Museum'
  63. On 2006-04-30 Reaper (sailing vessel)
  64. On 2006-04-30 V. I. Lenin Museum
  65. On 2006-04-17 Atchison County Historical Museum
  66. On 2006-04-13 Fersman Mineralogical Museum
  67. On 2006-04-10 Scottish Fisheries Museum
  68. On 2006-03-15 ASTRA National Museum Complex'
  69. On 2006-03-15 Palazzo Pitti'
  70. On 2006-03-06 Sanssouci Picture Gallery
  71. On 2006-01-25 Heide Museum of Modern Art
  72. On 2005-09-02 USS Missouri (BB-63)
  73. Museum of Sex
  74. National Museum of Mali
  75. Capitoline Museums
  76. Skyscraper Museum
  77. Museum für Naturkunde
  78. Smithsonian American Art Museum
  79. State Historical Museum
  80. Pergamon Museum
  81. Oxford University Museum of Natural History
  82. Burlesque Hall of Fame

[edit] Categories

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Museums/Categories

BCBot is in the process of tagging all the articles in the master category list with the project template. If you're aware of newly added categories, or a category that you feel was missed, please add it here rather than to that master list so we can organize a mass-tagging if needed. I have not yet asked a bot to 'watch' any categories and add newly created articles to the project, but I know there are some that do that.

[edit] Articles to Create

Depending on how you look at it, we're (un)lucky to have a significant body of articles that need creating. Looking at the predominantly redlinks here:

  • List of museums International with multiple red links, good place to start
  • Include the Museum infobox when creating or editing a museum articles

[edit] Templates and Userbox

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[edit] Resources

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