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

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.
  23. LordAmeth (talk · contribs) - Focusing on museums, historical sites, etc in Japan.
  24. Thomas Paine1776 (talk · contribs)
  25. Woland37 (talk · contribs) interested in museum stuff including organizations and whatnot
  26. Ridenm (talk · contribs) working on National Atomic Museum page
  27. MRacer (talk · contribs) - former museum volunteer and fine artist with an interest in art, world history and local history subjects as they relate here.
  28. nrswanson (talk · contribs) - Frequent world traveler, classical musician, and museum lover.
  29. nicg1883 (talk · contribs) – interested in museum and have created an article on the Holy Jesus Hospital Museum. English.

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To Do

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

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Deletion Discussions

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Museums and libraries AfDs

Museums and libraries Proposed Deletions

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.


Current status

Museums
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 5 7
A 1 1
Good article GA 1 3 13 17
B 3 1 21 27 16 68
C 1 1 2
Start 5 11 83 510 132 741
Stub 3 71 1612 1563 3249
List 8 12 25 17 62
Assessed 9 25 191 2193 1729 4147
Unassessed 264 264
Total 9 25 191 2193 1993 4411

Recognized Content

Featured content

Candidates


Good Content

Candidates

DYK

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

Categories

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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

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