Wikipedia:GLAM/NHMandSM/Virtual Museum
We want to create the world’s first truly multilingual virtual museum to allow anyone with access to Wikipedia (including those people using Wikipedia Zero) to 'visit' the museum online and provide information for the 50% of Natural History Museum visitors speak languages other than English in their own language. It will be created on Wikipedia and use a special sort of link called a QRpedia link that takes you to a Wikipedia article in your own language automatically. We want to create this guide so that it is useable with little or no understanding English. People will be able to use it in the museum to explore objects and ideas in their own language using their smartphones, tablets or online.
How to contribute
[edit]Take photographs in the museum
[edit]If you're visiting the museum photograph objects on display in the museum and the rooms and cases they are in and upload them to Wikimedia Commons so they can be used in the virtual museum.
Uploading images to Wikipedia is done through a central site called Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org). Wikimedia is a global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world, it has many projects including Wikipedia.
Set appropriate file names describing the photos and add a description and add to any categories you think would be useful.
Make collapsible list of galleries
A first steps guide to getting started on Wikimedia commons and uploading images
Tips:
[edit]- Make sure you will know what something is when you come to upload it, get the label in the image or a separate image or make notes.
- Don’t take photos of people in the museum, just the exhibits (we realise this is hard sometimes in a busy museum).
- Cover one area at a time, it will be hard to see what’s missing and we don’t want to replicate effort.
- Your photos don’t have to be perfect!
- If you'd like to upload your photos while you're in the museum there's wifi around the Treasures gallery in the Central Hall.
Help construct the guide
[edit]We want to create this guide so that it useable with little or no understanding English. An example of what has been done so far can be see in the Treasures Gallery, in small rooms each objects can be shown together, galleries with many objects could be split up into display cases or another way you think would be useful. Multiple links could be created from each objects or an article could be written about the specific object if it is individually notable.
How to create the QRpedia links
[edit]name of image| [http://en.qrwp.org/Name_of_Wikipedia_article Name of link that appears]
How this would look in a gallery of images:
<gallery>
File:Archaeopteryx lithographica (Berlin specimen).jpg| [http://en.qrwp.org/Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx]
File:Palais de la Decouverte Tyrannosaurus rex p1050042.jpg| [http://en.qrwp.org/Fossil Fossil]
</gallery>
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The guides
[edit]Natural History Museum Guide
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Welcome, Croeso, Bienvenue, آداب عرض, स्वागत, Καλώς Ορίσατε, Добро пожаловать, ยินดีต้อนรับ, Dobrodošli, أهلاً وسهلاً, Witamy, Добро пожаловать, Willkommen About the museum[edit]Central Hall[edit]Blue Zone[edit]Green Zone[edit]Orange Zone[edit]Red Zone[edit] |
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| Central Hall | ||
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| Central Hall | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Blue Zone | ||
| Dinosaurs | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Images of Nature | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Marine Invertebrates | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Jerwood Gallery | ||
| Mammals | Done | |
| Mammals (Whale Hall) | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Green Zone | ||
| Giant Sequoia | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Treasures | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Birds | Some photographs taken, added list of objects (may not be complete) | Take images of all specimens, create links to Wikipedia articles |
| Creepy Crawlies | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Ecology | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Fossil Marine Reptiles | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Investigate Centre | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Minerals | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Our Place in Evolution | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| The Vault | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Waterhouse Gallery | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Orange Zone | ||
| Cocoon | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Attenborough Studio | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Cocoon | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Wildlife Garden | Some photographs taken, tree guide started | Lots of images needed including images of leaves for the tree guide |
| Zoology Spirit Building | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Butterfly House | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Red Zone | ||
| Earth Lab | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Earth Today and Tomorrow | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Earth's Treasury | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| From the Beginning | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Lasting Impressions | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| The Power Within | Some photographs taken | Lots |
| Restless Surface | Some photographs taken | Lots |
Science Museum Guide
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5th Floor[edit]4th Floor[edit]3rd Floor[edit]2nd Floor[edit]1st Floor[edit]Ground Floor[edit]Basement[edit]On multiple floors[edit]
About the Museum[edit] |
| 5th Floor | ||
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| Science and the Art of Medicine | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Veterinary History | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| 4th Floor | ||
| Glimpses of Medical History | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| 3th Floor | ||
| Science in the 18th Century | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Launchpad | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Health Matters | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Flight | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Wellcome Wing | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| In Future | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| 2th Floor | ||
| Public History: Oramics to Electronica | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Energy – fuelling the future | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Computing | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Mathematics | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Atmosphere | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| 1st Floor | ||
| Challenge of Materials | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Contemporary Arts: Listening Post by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Telecommunications | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Agriculture | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Cosmos & Culture | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Measuring Time | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Who am I? | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Ground Floor | ||
| Energy Hall | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| James Watt and Our World | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Foucault’s Pendulum | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Exploring Space | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Making the Modern World | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Wellcome Wing | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Pattern Pod | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Antenna – science news | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Pattern Pod | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| The Theatre | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Codebreaker: Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Basement | ||
| The Secret Life of the Home | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Wellcome Wing | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Things | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Web Lab | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Uncategorised | ||
| Climate Changing Stories | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Painless | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Signs, Symbols and Secrets | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Talking Point | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Topic Zone | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |
| Voice of the BBC | List of objects added from Science Museum database | Lots |