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Wikipedia:WikiProject Victorian Museums

Welcome to the Victorian Museums WikiProject!

This project had its origins in a Twitter conversation between @sayraphim and @mikejonesmelb in March 2018 about the number of Victorian museums with no Wikipedia page on the 'List of museums in Victoria (Australia)'. With International Museums Day a couple of months away, they decided to do something about it. As a result, they organised the first International Museums Day Edit-a-thon focused on Victorian Museums, with support from ACMI and ACMI-X, who provided the venue.

While the inaugural edit-a-thon was organised with the intention of kick-starting work, the project to improve coverage of Victorian museums on Wikipedia is ongoing. If you want to participate, you can include your name in the 'Members' section below.


Goals edit

  • Improve Wikipedia's coverage of Victorian museums and galleries.
  • Improve quality of existing articles on Victorian museums and galleries, including more detail and/or photos where necessary.

Scope edit

The project covers all articles about museums in a wide range of disciplines and locations throughout Victoria, Australia. We are working mainly with these two lists: List of museums in Melbourne and List of museums in Victoria (Australia)

For those within the museum sector, and collaborations between Wikipedia and institutions, see Wikipedia:Advice for the cultural sector and Wikipedia:WikiProject Museums.

Members edit

 This user is a participant in WikiProject Victorian Museums.

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  1. SirSez (talk · contribs) History nerd, knowledge enthusiast, academic, artist.
  2. Mikejonesmelb (talk · contribs) Archivist, GLAM researcher, historian, art historian.
  3. Stevage (talk · contribs) Long time Wikipedia contributor, software developer.
  4. Canley (talk · contribs) Wikipedia admin, Wikidata nut
  5. Clareifications (talk · contribs) Academic librarian by day, activist archivist by night.
  6. Kassigrace (talk · contribs) Library technician.
  7. ThylacineHunter (talk · contribs) Railway, tram, traction engine and paddle boat historian

Wikidata map edit

Here is a Wikidata query which displays a map of museums and subclasses of museum in Victoria, Australia (where there are coordinates available). If there is an image and/or a Wikipedia article it will show that too. Canley (talk · contribs) will update this over the course of the edit-a-thon.

2018 International Museums Day Edit-a-thon edit

 
Participants at the International Museum Day edit-a-thon held at ACMI X Melbourne, Australia on 18 May 2018

Sayraphim Lothian and Mike Jones organised an Edit-a-thon for International Museums Day on 18 May 2018, at ACMI-X in Melbourne, Victoria. The purpose of the edit-a-thon was to create and improve pages for Victorian museums and galleries.

VIDEO: Why should museums be on Wikipedia?

To Do edit

Please feel free to tackle any of the items below! If you do start working on something, we recommend adding an 'in progress' note beside the institution on this project page. Then, when you have finished something, move it to the 'Work Completed' section at the bottom, including your username and the date/time.

Article requests edit

Needs a photo edit

Needs more photos edit

Photos on Commons to add to new or existing articles edit

Commons categories edit

Needs more detail edit

Needs more citations edit

Needs GPS co ords edit

Needs an infobox edit

Template:Infobox museum is the template for museum infoboxes

Lists to check edit

We need to check through these lists to see if there are organisations we are missing.

Work completed edit

Articles created edit

Articles expanded edit

GPS co ords added edit

Photos added edit

Infobox added edit

Meta things edit

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