Wikipedia: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 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. To learn more about the Field Museum's collections and research, see 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 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

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

Past and Current Participants

• TeriEmbrey, colleague at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library