Wikipedia:GLAM/The Children's Museum of Indianapolis

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New articles Images Videos Translations Did You Knows QRpedia codes in exhibits Featured article Wikipedia Widget on museum's website
 * The Caplan Collection Edit-a-Thon: Caplan Collection • Creative Playthings • Theresa Caplan • Judith Inglese
 * Museum Apprentice Program: Bucky • Fireworks of Glass • Captain Kidd's Cannon • Reuben Wells • water clock
 * 264 images donated by the museum to Commons.
 * An image of the museum's foot binding shoes, taken by Backstage Pass attendee Daniel Schwen, is now a Featured Picture.
 * The Wikipedia Image of the Week blog series: Introduction (Marx Electric Car), Quail Trap, Alaskan Red King Crab, Baculites.
 * What is a QRpedia code. (Children's Museum Blog)
 * Electrolytic Reduction
 * Spanish: ALL
 * Russian: ALL
 * Broad Ripple Park Carousel and The Children's Museum of Indianapolis 1rightarrow.png French 
 * The Children's Museum of Indianapolis 1rightarrow.png Catalan, Italian, Turkish, Finnish
 * Caplan Collection • Reuben Wells
 * The Carousel • Reuben Wells • The Children's Museum of Indianapolis • Captain Kidd's Cannon
 * The Broad Ripple Park Carousel article
 * Carousel • Reuben Wells

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 * Wikipedia Unveils Probably the Coolest QR Thingy Ever Made: ReadWriteWeb, September 2011.
 * Hosting Wikipedia Royalty: Children's Museum blog, September 2011.
 * To Wiki or Not to Wiki: American Association of Museums, Museum magazine. Sept/Oct 2011.
 * Museum hires first Wikipedian in Residence: Inside Indiana Business, August 2011.
 * Wikipedians in the museum, and beyond: Children's Museum blog, August 2011.
 * Bringing together Wikipedia and teens: MIDEA blog, New Media Consortium. August 2011.
 * QR codes + Wikipedia = QRpedia: Children's Museum blog, July 2011.
 * Museums & Wikipedia: The Future of Collaboration: Center for the Future of Museums, April 2011
 * What's that Wikipedian-in-Residence been up to?: Children's Museum blog, April 2011.
 * MAPs Project Update: Museums & Motherhood, February 2011.
 * What's it like to be a Wikipedian-in-Residence: Children's Museum blog, December 2010.
 * Second Wikipedian in Residence: Wikipedia Signpost, November 2010.
 * Backstage Pass at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Liam Wyatt's blog, November 2010.
 * The Wikipedians are coming!: The Children's Museum blog, November 2010.
 * What is an In-House Wikipedian, anyway?: Museums & Motherhood blog, August 2010.

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 * Case study: QRpedia
 * Case study: Collaborating on a Featured Article
 * Case study: Curator-vetted image donation
 * Case study: Student article creation
 * Case study: Building institutional awareness
 * Success story: Written by Angie McNew, Director of Web & Emerging Media
 * Wikimania Presentation: New Opportunities in GLAM-Wiki
 * MCN Presentation: Practical methods for collaborating with Wikipedia

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This project aims to coordinate the sharing of resources between The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (TCMI) and the Wikimedia community. TCMI’s mission to educate children and families aligns closely with Wikipedia’s goal to provide “free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” TCMI houses a diverse collection encompassing subjects such as art, science, history, and more. The distribution of this broad range of information will impact topics throughout Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and WikiBooks.

New content

 * A research content donation, made available on the TCMI website for free use.
 * An image and multimedia donation from TCMI, to be uploaded to Commons and used throughout Wikimedia.
 * New TCMI images provided by local Wikipedians, to be uploaded to Commons and used throughout Wikimedia.

Improved articles

 * The improvement/creation of Wikipedia articles across a variety of TCMI-related subjects.
 * The improvement/creation of WikiBooks and WikiJunior Books of TCMI-related subjects.

Sustainable collaboration

 * An ongoing relationship with the local Wikipedia community and Campus Ambassador initiative through special museum events.
 * An ongoing relationship with the global Wikimedia community through continued content sharing & article improvements.
 * Improved understanding of TCMI-Wikipedia collaboration through museum staff Wikipedia workshops & lectures.
 * TCMI youth programming that promotes knowledge of Wikipedia and improved article content.

What this project is not

 * There will not be a push to add external links to articles.
 * I will not personally make major edits to articles (I will instead be organizing the newly available content and coordinating the efforts of other Wikipedians.)
 * The Children’s Museum’s Wikipedia article will not be edited by in-house personnel (myself included).

Conflict of interest statement
I am first and foremost a museum studies graduate student interested in helping the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis share their collections information and multimedia resources with a wide audience. I am, secondly, an unaffiliated Wikipedia volunteer who is knowledgeable of the community and culture of Wikimedia. I will serve as Museum-Wikipedia collaborator, completing a paid student internship from September-November 2010 in which I will utilize the resources within TCMI and Wikipedia to share free culture while building a mutually beneficial relationship between the two.
 * This project has been declared on WP:COI/N.