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Welcome to the United States National Archives WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! This is a project focused on sharing the National Archives' resources with the public and improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the National Archives. Our goal is to foster collaboration between Wikimedia projects and the National Archives in order to make cultural works more discoverable to the public. We intend to do this through the creation of related Wikipedia content and digitization of materials on Commons and Wikisource. Please make suggestions for accomplishing this goal on the talk page.

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Metrics

  • Total image views on the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/sets/72157623296214442/ Flickr set] as of May 27 (pre-high resolution): 13,423.
  • Medium-resolution NARA Ansel Adams photos used in Wikipedia articles: # times.
  • % of collection used in Wikipedia articles pre-donation ; % used after additions.
  • New article content created as a result of Ansel Adams project:

Projects

=Donation completion=

These files were all identified and uploaded by a human. Please double-check that they are correct. Any errors listed here now can be easily fixed. This is a list of the checking that is required; please strike through these when completed.

  1. Ensure that all NARA Ansel Adams photos are associated with an ARC identifier (e.g. [http://research.archives.gov/description/519836 519836]).
  2. Manually verify that all images match the images in their ARC record (see "Digital Copies" tab) to confirm that the metadata is associated with the correct photo.
  3. Ensure that all Ansel Adams photos listed at [http://www.archives.gov/research/ansel-adams/] have been uploaded to Commons.
  4. Make sure that all of the images are actually high-resolution.

= On Commons =

  1. Create an institutional template for the National Archives (if needed)—or possibly one specific to Ansel Adams National Park Service photos—that can associate JPEGs with their duplicate TIFFs.
  2. Identify the medium-resolution duplicates, and replace them on Wikimedia projects with their high-resolution versions (then delete?).
  3. : Somehow do the same for duplicates uploaded locally to projects?
  4. Categorize photos according to their subjects to make them more discoverable/useful.
  5. Perform digital restorations.
  6. Nominate any qualifying photos for featured status.

= On Wikipedia =

  1. Add Ansel Adams photography from commons:Category:2011 Ansel Adams donation from U.S. National Archives to articles where appropriate. These are often good lead images, or else good in "History" sections. They can illustrate not only articles related to their subjects, but also general articles on the pictured geological and environmental phenomena, regions, plant species, peoples, architecture, and so on.
  2. Nominate any qualifying photos for featured status.
  3. Create or expand closely related articles, especially by utilizing WP:DYK or achieving upgrades in quality assessments. The following is a quick list (expand or prune as desired) of possible targets for creation or expansion:

When you have added the images to one of the articles, or expanded one of the associated articles, please note completion of the work next to the article name.

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Events

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Tasks

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= Requested articles/expansions =

  • Archival Recovery Team — these are the people, including federal agents, whose job it is to seek out lost and stolen National Archives documents. They have received media attention, but have no article, or even a mention in a more general article. If someone would like to write about it, I can put even put you in contact with one of the members of the team for reference (though this should be at all times the independent work of a Wikipedian to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest). Some news sources include: [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_745064.html], [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022206661.html], [http://live.washingtonpost.com/archives-civil-war-treasures.html], [http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/08/nation/la-na-treasure-hunters-nu-20100809], [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/making-a-difference/to-catch-a-thief.html], [http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/302982], [http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1572378,00.html], [http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/295654-1]. Dominic·t 19:36, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
  • Frank Nicholas Meyer — expansion (see [http://blogs.archives.gov/prologue/?p=5479])
  • Social Security Act — this is currently a redirect, and there is no article specifically on the 1935 law and the legislative process
  • War Department General Order Number 143 — Creation of the United States Colored Troops (see [http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=35])
  • Executive Order 10730 — Desegregation of Central High School (Little Rock Nine)
  • Executive Order 10924 — Establishment of the Peace Corps

Article assessments

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= Importance guidelines=

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! Importance !! Meaning !! Examples

TopThese are the most significant documents in the National Archives' holdings.United States Bill of Rights, Emancipation Proclamation, Voting Rights Act
HighThese are other documents of some significance, as well as other important articles where a document is critical context for the article.Tennessee Valley Authority, Lend-Lease
MidThese are any remaining documents with their own articles, articles for which a document is a major component or source, and articles about important NARA facilities, agencies, or people.Webster–Ashburton Treaty, Wayne C. Grover, Hoover Dam, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
LowThese are articles that are more tangentially related to the National Archives in some way.Charles O'Rear, U.S. reclassification program
ProjectThese are the non-article pages related to this project, including templates and categories.This page!

Press reporting

  • National Archives Blog, [http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/?p=5054 Meet Our Wikipedian in Residence: Dominic McDevitt-Parks] and [http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2011/nr11-130.html Press Release], June 1, 2011.
  • Zongter B., [http://www.nbcwashington.com/the-scene/events/National-Archives-Hires-Wikipedian-in-Residence-122991343.html National Archives Hires “Wikipedian in Residence"], NBC Washington, June 1, 2011. (reposted by Boston Globe[http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/06/01/national_archives_hires_wikipedian_in_residence/])
  • Stone A., [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/01/wikipedia-archives_n_869806.html National Archives names first Wikipedian in Residence], Huffpost Tech, June 1, 2011. (reposted by BusinessInsider[http://www.businessinsider.com/welcome-to-the-21st-century-national-archives-hires-first-wikipedian-in-residence-2011-6] and The Daily Reporter, Indiana[http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/4481ed8a9f1d482db3a9434c88290b99/DC--National-Archives-Wikipedia/])
  • Marks J., [http://techinsider.nextgov.com/2011/06/primary_sourcing_meets_crowd_sourcing.php?oref=latest_posts Primary sourcing meets crowdsourcing], Nextgov.com, June 1, 2011.
  • Rein L., [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/national-archives-hires-first-wikipedian/2011/03/23/AG63MCHH_blog.html National Archives hires first ‘Wikipedian’], Washington Post's Federal Eye, June 2, 2011.
  • Connelly, P., [http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110602/us_yblog_thelookout/the-national-archives-hires-its-first-wikipedian-to-push-its-digital-reach The National Archives hires its first Wikipedian to push its digital reach], Yahoo! News, June 2, 2011.
  • Keller, J., [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/how-wikipedians-in-residence-are-opening-up-cultural-institutions/240204/ How Wikipedians-in-Residence Are Opening Up Cultural Institutions], The Atlantic, June 16, 2011.
  • Baughman, J., [http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-wikipedia-archives-20110621,0,5344157.story National Archives hires 'Wikipedian in residence], Baltimore Sun, July 13, 2011.
  • Cohen, Noam, [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/arts/artsspecial/warming-up-to-the-culture-of-wikipedia.html Warming Up to the Culture of Wikipedia], The New York Times, March 19, 2014.
  • Chokkattu, Julian, [http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/30/us-national-archives-to-upload-all-holdings-to-wikimedia-commons/ US National Archives To Upload All Holdings To Wikimedia Commons], Tech Crunch, June 30, 2014.

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