Wikipedia:GLAM/National Archives and Records Administration


 * This project is about the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States. For the project on The National Archives (United Kingdom), see GLAM/TNA.

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.

Events



 * 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

Requested articles/expansions

 * 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:, , , , , , , . Dominic·t 19:36, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Frank Nicholas Meyer — expansion (see )
 * 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 )
 * Executive Order 10730 — Desegregation of Central High School (Little Rock Nine)
 * Executive Order 10924 — Establishment of the Peace Corps

Press reporting

 * 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)
 * Stone A., National Archives names first Wikipedian in Residence, Huffpost Tech, June 1, 2011. (reposted by BusinessInsider and The Daily Reporter, Indiana)
 * 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

 * WikiProject FedFlix - Digitizing and using video from NARA and other U.S. Federal government sources