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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
[edit]- Total image views on the 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
[edit]Donation completion
[edit]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.
- Ensure that all NARA Ansel Adams photos are associated with an ARC identifier (e.g. 519836).
- 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.
- Ensure that all Ansel Adams photos listed at [1] have been uploaded to Commons.
- Make sure that all of the images are actually high-resolution.
On Commons
[edit]- 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.
- Identify the medium-resolution duplicates, and replace them on Wikimedia projects with their high-resolution versions (then delete?).
- Somehow do the same for duplicates uploaded locally to projects?
- Categorize photos according to their subjects to make them more discoverable/useful.
- Perform digital restorations.
- Nominate any qualifying photos for featured status.
On Wikipedia
[edit]- 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.
- Nominate any qualifying photos for featured status.
- 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.
Events
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- Gender Equality on October 12-22, 2016 in Washington, D.C., New York City, and online!
- Proposed Amendments on July 29, 2016
- GLAM Boot Camp 2016 on June 14–16, 2016
- LGBTQ Editathon on June 16, 2016
- Wikipedia Editathon on Women in the Civil War on March 11, 2016
- Supreme Court editathon on December 11, 2015
- WikiXDC - Wikipedia 10th anniversary celebration and one-day symposium
- On May 24, 2011, Liam Wyatt spoke at the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives building in D.C. This event was followed by a meetup of local Wikimedians with NARA staff attending.
- NARA 2 Backstage Pass event on August 6, 2011
Tasks
[edit]Wikipedia:GLAM/National Archives and Records Administration/Archive/Task list
Requested articles/expansions
[edit]- 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: [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]. Dominic·t 19:36, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
- Frank Nicholas Meyer — expansion (see [10])
- 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 [11])
- Executive Order 10730 — Desegregation of Central High School (Little Rock Nine)
- Executive Order 10924 — Establishment of the Peace Corps
Article assessments
[edit]| National Archives and Records Administration-related pages by quality | |
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Importance guidelines
[edit]| Importance | Meaning | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Top | These are the most significant documents in the National Archives' holdings. | United States Bill of Rights, Emancipation Proclamation, Voting Rights Act |
| High | These 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 |
| Mid | These 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 |
| Low | These are articles that are more tangentially related to the National Archives in some way. | Charles O'Rear, U.S. reclassification program |
| Project | These are the non-article pages related to this project, including templates and categories. | This page! |
Press reporting
[edit]- National Archives Blog, Meet Our Wikipedian in Residence: Dominic McDevitt-Parks and Press Release, June 1, 2011.
- Zongter B., National Archives Hires “Wikipedian in Residence", NBC Washington, June 1, 2011. (reposted by Boston Globe[12])
- Stone A., National Archives names first Wikipedian in Residence, Huffpost Tech, June 1, 2011. (reposted by BusinessInsider[13] and The Daily Reporter, Indiana[14])
- Marks J., Primary sourcing meets crowdsourcing, Nextgov.com, June 1, 2011.
- Rein L., National Archives hires first ‘Wikipedian’, Washington Post's Federal Eye, June 2, 2011.
- Connelly, P., The National Archives hires its first Wikipedian to push its digital reach, Yahoo! News, June 2, 2011.
- Keller, J., How Wikipedians-in-Residence Are Opening Up Cultural Institutions, The Atlantic, June 16, 2011.
- Baughman, J., National Archives hires 'Wikipedian in residence, Baltimore Sun, July 13, 2011.
- Cohen, Noam, Warming Up to the Culture of Wikipedia, The New York Times, March 19, 2014.
- Chokkattu, Julian, US National Archives To Upload All Holdings To Wikimedia Commons, Tech Crunch, June 30, 2014.
Related WikiProjects
[edit]- Wikipedia:WikiProject FedFlix - Digitizing and using video from NARA and other U.S. Federal government sources