User:Dominic/SI


 * English Wikipedia articles

Ideally, there should be three types of SI-related categorized content: (1) articles about SI units, offices, staff, and other organizational articles which are not our focus, (2) articles relating to specific unique objects (the Enola Gay, etc.), (3) and articles related to topics where SI collections are strong (e.g., artists whose papers are held at AAA, or panda conservation, and so on). In reality, (2) is likely under-identified and (3) is especially so (no such categories exist for most units). Most of the articles tagged as SI-related are biographies that come from SIA or AAA collaborations and link to finding aids (and not our most high-profile collections typically). Most units do not have unit-specific categories for articles about their collections, which makes tracking difficult.


 * Category:Smithsonian Institution exhibitions:
 * Category:Collection of the Smithsonian Institution:
 * Category:Paintings of the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
 * Category:Artifacts in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution:
 * Category:Individual aircraft in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution:
 * Category:Individual spacecraft in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution:
 * Category:Inventions in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution:
 * Category:Jewellery in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution:
 * Category:Manuscripts in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution:
 * Category:Archives of American Art related: *
 * Category:Smithsonian Institution Archives related‎: *
 * Category:WikiProject Smithsonian Institution-related articles:


 * Images on Wikimedia Commons
 * 7,861 files in commons:Category:Smithsonian Institution and all subcategories.
 * Vast majority are either (1) amateur photos by Wikipedians/Flickr users of buildings or in exhibits; descriptive metadata is hit or miss and links back to si.edu are non-existent, or (2) (mostly low-resolution) images taken from SI's Flickr Commons with acceptable metadata. There are also a number of images contributed by AAA/SIA.
 * Of these, 3,174 distinct files (40.4%) are used across all Wikimedia projects, with 17,342 pages using files, and 21,565 total overall file usages. On English Wikipedia alone, these numbers are 2,273, 6,479, and 8,815
 * Top ten most-used images (excluding the SI logo itself) include a NMAI ceramic, 3 presidential portraits from NPG, 2 photos of SI buildings, 2 NMNH fossil skulls, a SIA historical photo of an extinct species, and a panda from the National Zoo.
 * Of these none were uploaded by SI, only two (two of the NPG paintings) were actually taken from si.edu (rather than being Wikipedian-produced photos in the exhibits), and only two actually contain links back to si.edu.
 * Template:PD-USGov-SI and commons:Template:PD-USGov-SI
 * "This image or file is a work of a Smithsonian Institution employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain."
 * Is this template legally accurate? Do we want to worry about it?