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We want to make it easier for people to access information in museums in their own language

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

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Take photographs in the museum

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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:

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  • 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

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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.

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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>

This code creates

The guides

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Natural History Museum Guide

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Natural History Museum guide

Central Hall
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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Science Museum guide

5th Floor
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