crowd sourcing
at Derby Museum
Background
This project built on the success of the GLAM project at the British Museum. This project was a collaboration between Wikimedia UK and Derby Museums. "If we build it, they will come "
Activities
Current matrix
Matrix on 8 April 2011
... and over 1,250 articles in languages other than English Victuallers (talk ) 11:07, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[ reply ]
Working with Wikipedia - a Museum's Perspective
A quick hit of demoing QR codes at the museum in February
Next generation multilingual QR codes developed as a result of work in Derby by @Edent and @Victuallers
The King of Rome - first new article after at the backstage pass
GA & Featured Articles
New shorter articles
New stubs needing improvement
Significantly improved articles
Articles currently being drafted/improved
Articles wanted
See : Orphans (aah Articles that could be written)
Articles in other languages
Existing short articles
Existing stubs
New longer articles
New stubs
... that ? (9 December 2010 930 hits)
... that and a needle on the nearby swingbridge? (20 January 2011 1,600 hits to Silk Mill)
Cross-section through Ecton Hill made with marble
William Martin's illustration of a horn coral
... that in the first scientific study of fossils in English, William Martin speculated that horn coral (pictured) was a kind of bamboo and said another fossil was not a small crocodile tail? (6 March 2011 3,000 hits)
... that Richard Knill Freeman , who designed British municipal buildings, schools and museums, also designed a church in Moscow in the 1880s? (9 March 2011 1,600 hits)
... that Wright of Derby 's painting of Romeo and Juliet: the Tomb Scene depicts Juliet (pictured) saying her final line "... Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! " in Shakespeare 's play? (20 March 2011 6,000 hits)
... that Royal Academy
when he was only 15? (2? March 2011 2,000 hits)
... that one-person-show
in England? (25 March 2011 9,300 hits)
... that The King of Rome ' s skin is preserved in Derby Museum because he survived where other pigeons died? (21 April 2011 9,500 views)
... that the plant Fumaria painteri has only been found twice in Britain, and both times by the Rev. W. H. Painter ? (27 April 2011 1,500 hits)
... that Alfred E. Goodey collected and commissioned paintings to record the history of Derby ? (May 2011 500 hits)
... that Joseph Wright of Derby 's painting, The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus (detail pictured) , was only sold after his death, when all of his possessions were auctioned at Christie's ? (10 May 2011 6,200 hits)
... tha English sculptor Ronald Pope learnt how to work with metals at Rolls-Royce during World War II? (? May 2011 2,900 hits)
... that the 's observations? (May 2011 1,200 hits)
... that Prime Meridian
, also designed clocks with porcelain cases? (30 May 2011 1,400 hits)
... that Miravan
's revulsion as he breaks open a tomb
(detail pictured) is based on a story retold by
John Gilbert Cooper ? (June 2011 2,100 hits)
... that the bankrupt dandy "Champagne Charlie " sold his inheritance including the painting Earthstopper on the banks of the Derwent (detail pictured) ? (June 2011 4,300 hits)
... that the 96,000 people who visited the The Derby Exhibition of 1839 (pictured) were able to view a coconut? (June 2011 4,500 hits)
c. 80,000 hits
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