Wikipedia:GLAM/The Children's Museum of Indianapolis/Volunteer

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 * Add images to articles using the Images from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis category.
 * Please help disperse these valuable images that have been donated by the museum. They should be added to articles in any language that are related to the image. A particular need is to distribute the latest batch of images, which are located here.
 * See the Wikipedia Image of the Week page for featured images needing dispersal.


 * Categorize images in the Images from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis category on Commons.
 * Images are in need of being more accurately categorized in order to make them more searchable within Commons.


 * Translate into Spanish all articles in Category:The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Completed: Fireworks of Glass, Carousel, Children's Museum, Bucky, Cannon, Reuben Wells, Water clock, Caplan Collection
 * Symbol possible vote.svg Still needed: Frank Caplan, Theresa Caplan.


 * Translate into any language all articles in Category:The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Russian translations complete.


 * Copy edit the museum's article.
 * Symbol confirmed.svg ''Completed: Updated information in The Children's Museum of Indianapolis with new sources.


 * Add sources to the Electrolytic cell article and remove the citations needed tag.
 * The museum would like to direct exhibit visitors to information on electrolytic reduction, using this page, but it requires someone knowledgeable on the subject to add sources.


 * Improve the Caplan Collection article with this list of digitized sources.
 * Improve the Creative Playthings article.
 * Create a Power of Children Awards article. (museum site, & more press available.)

Emblem-important-yellow.svg Moderate need

 * Check curator requests for articles to create or improve.
 * These are topics that have been noted of especial interest to our curators. If you are interested in helping with something specific, post a note on the talk page and additional resources can be found.


 * Categorize images in the  Children's Museum of Indianapolis category on Commons.
 * This category is more general than the "Images from..." category listed above, and includes an assortment of images that are not part of the official museum donation, making it a lesser need.


 * Translate descriptions of images in the  Images from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis category on Commons.
 * Add the translation template   (for Spanish),    (for German), etc., into the Description field of the template, and translate the description from English in order to make it easier to categorize and use for non-English speakers.


 * Tag articles related to Children's Museum topics with the   tag. :Browse the museum's website and collections database to check out the many topics represented in the museum's exhibits and collections.
 * Update the Japanese friendship dolls article with information from a recent museum blog.

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 * Add the project user box  to your userpage to show that you're helping the project.
 * Share what you're working on via Wikipedia, Twitter, or Facebook.

Image tools

 * TCMI images in Commons: Commons:Category:The Children's Museum of Indianapolis includes subcategories of TCMI Collections images, visitor images, and building images.
 * GLAMorous tool (by Magnus): GLAMorous shows usage of Children's Museum category images in Wikipedia articles.
 * BaGLAMa tool (by Magnus): BaGLAMa shows total pageviews by month of articles containing Children's Museum category images.
 * List of museums using tool

Link trackers

 * TCMI Wikipedia articles: Category:The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
 * What Links Here for TCMI Wikipedia Article: What Links Here
 * External links tracker for TCMI website: External links

External image sources

 * TCMI artifacts database (includes 1,000 of 110,000): Artifacts of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis
 * TCMI on Flickr (note: all images are copyright protected at this point): TCMI Photostream
 * TCMI visitor photoset (note: author, Valerie Everett, cc-by-sa): TCMI photoset