Wikipedia:GLAM/Crafts Museum

WikiProject GLAM Crafts Museum will serve as the hub for all Wikipedia community events, content work, and community collaboration on articles related to the National Crafts Museum in New Delhi, India and related topics. If you are interested in helping please leave your username in the participants section. If you have any questions feel free to post them on the talk page.

Scope
The project aims to coordinate and document the sharing of resources and article building between Crafts Museum, New Delhi and the Wikimedia community. The Crafts museum has an exhaustive collection of handicrafts and woven materials. Through this project it hopes to highlight its collection and contribute to free sharing of knowledge.

Plans

 * to upload images of much of the material in the public domain in the museum's collections
 * to train staff and others how they can add material to Wikipedia according to our rules and without violating Conflict of Interest guidelines
 * to write articles on Crafts Museum related topics
 * to illustrate articles with images donated by the Crafts Museum and to properly categorize these images at Wikimedia Commons
 * to create a proper gallery of Crafts museum images at Commons
 * to create all the proper user boxes, project tags, etc. in order to keep track of project statistics.

Meetups/Backstage tours

 * 1) Meetup/Delhi/Crafts Museum Meet

Articles to start

 * 1) Virbhadra - Villages in TN have statues of these male guardians placed to ward off evil spirits. They are sometimes accompanied by and/or mounted on horses called kudre.
 * 2) Pichvai - Wiktionary entry
 * 3) Vyali - Composite animals depicted in art from Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Contemporary depiction of Vyali

Articles to improve

 * 1) Lota (needs clarification)
 * 2) National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi
 * 3) Ministry of Culture (India)
 * 4) Madhubani painting
 * 5) Village deities of Tamil Nadu - See Virbhadra in the above section. Picture: commons:File:Aiyanar Shrine Figure.jpg
 * 6) Bhuta Kola
 * 7) Gramadevata - Related article by mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik: The Village God. Picture: commons:File:GramaDevata1.JPG
 * 8) Prajnaparamita

Invitation
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It's outcome will be:

Barnstar
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Participants

 * 1) Noopur28 (coordinating)
 * 2)  ChetanTT (contributing)
 * 3) AshLin
 * 4) Ahmad Faiz Mustafa
 * 5) AnshumanF
 * 6) Nitika.t
 * 7)  Around The Globe  सत्यमेव जयते
 * 8) Karthik Nadar
 * 9) Rangilo Gujarati
 * 10) outofindia (photographs and contacts to craftspersons)
 * 11) Ambujojha
 * 12) Piyush.Aggarwal
 * 13) Hisham
 * 14) Rsrikanth05 (helping in maintaining whatever is online)
 * 15)  Ma yur  (talk•Email) 10:25, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 16) AruniBasu (talk) 13:20, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 17) --Shiju Alex (WMF) (talk) 08:46, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 18) erbdex
 * 19) rajivksharda
 * 20) SubhaUtter2me! 07:45, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 21)   Yash  t  101  
 * 22) Arunbandana
 * 23) Anshuman (Have just been introduced to this, fairly clueless but excited to work and contribute)

Article assessment
Category: Indian Art, Indian Handicraft and Indian Decorative Items