User:Durova/2009 MILHIST project work

A summary of contributions to the Military History project: in 2009 I contributed 35 featured pictures and one good article, with three more featured picture candidates scheduled to close before Dec. 31. Am currently in second place at the Henry Allingham World War I International Contest and was the winner of the 2009 WikiCup.

Cumulative total MILHIST featured credits since joining the in 2006: 66 pictures (38% of MILHIST total FPs), 5 sounds (56% of MILHIST total FS's), and 1 article (Joan of Arc); for a total of 72 featured contributions and 10.7% of the total 676 featured MILHIST project featured credits.

This year my restoration on the Wounded Knee Massacre aftermath discovered four human remains that had previously gone unrecognized. The Library of Congress had misidentified them as "scattered debris of camp"; their research librarians changed the LoC records when the find came to light. The discovery became a minor news story off-wiki and was subsequently incorporated into the official program for an exhibit at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

Currently my off-project digital restoration work is on exhibit at the Tropenmuseum of Amsterdam in a show which received national press coverage in The Netherlands and a visit from the president of Suriname. Am pursuing proposals to set up a MILHIST-related show at another institution next year. For more information about the Amsterdam exhibit see Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-08-10/Tropenmuseum_partnership and Wikipedia Signpost/2009-11-23/News and notes.

Also contributed the good article Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning about a hit song written by Irving Berlin while he served as a sergeant in the US Army during World War I, used for fundraising in WWI and WWII. The article contains a featured sound restored from a period recording.