WP:GLAM/Field Museum
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WikiProject GLAM/Field Museum will serve as the hub for all Wikipedia community events, content work, and community collaboration on articles related to the [https://www.fieldmuseum.org/ Field Museum] in Chicago, Illinois and its collections. The Museum's collections focus on the real, concrete evidence of the wonder of life on Earth: animals, plants and fungi, culture, and fossils and meteorites.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/research|title=Research & Collections|last=swigodner|date=2018-04-17|website=Field Museum|language=en|access-date=2019-11-14}} To learn more about the Field Museum's collections and research, see [https://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/research Collection & Research FAQs]. If you have any questions, feel free to post them on the talk page.
Scope
This project aims to coordinate the sharing of resources between the [https://fieldmuseum.org Field Museum] and the Wikimedia community. As an educational and research institution, the Museum's mission aligns closely with Wikipedia's goal to provide "free access to the sum of all human knowledge."
Plans
- to train staff and others how they can add material to Wikipedia according to Wikipedia rules and without violating Conflict of Interest guidelines
- to write articles on topics and individuals represented in the collections of the Marie Louise Rosenthal Library of the Field Museum
- to illustrate articles with images donated by the Marie Louise Rosenthal Library and to properly categorize these images at Wikimedia Commons
- to create all the proper user boxes, project tags, etc. in order to keep track of project statistics
Articles created
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Images
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Articles to start
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- Stanley Field, Museum president for 56 years
- Marie Louise Rosenthal, Chicago area philanthropist
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