Welcome to the Victorian Museums WikiProject!

This project had its origins in a Twitter conversation between @sayraphim and @mikejonesmelb in March 2018 about the number of Victorian museums with no Wikipedia page on the 'List of museums in Victoria (Australia)'. With International Museums Day a couple of months away, they decided to do something about it. As a result, they organised the first International Museums Day Edit-a-thon focused on Victorian Museums, with support from ACMI and ACMI-X, who provided the venue.

While the inaugural edit-a-thon was organised with the intention of kick-starting work, the project to improve coverage of Victorian museums on Wikipedia is ongoing. If you want to participate, you can include your name in the 'Members' section below.


Goals[edit]

Scope[edit]

The project covers all articles about museums in a wide range of disciplines and locations throughout Victoria, Australia. We are working mainly with these two lists: List of museums in Melbourne and List of museums in Victoria (Australia)

For those within the museum sector, and collaborations between Wikipedia and institutions, see Wikipedia:Advice for the cultural sector and Wikipedia:WikiProject Museums.

Members[edit]

This user is a participant in WikiProject Victorian Museums.

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  1. SirSez (talk · contribs) History nerd, knowledge enthusiast, academic, artist.
  2. Mikejonesmelb (talk · contribs) Archivist, GLAM researcher, historian, art historian.
  3. Stevage (talk · contribs) Long time Wikipedia contributor, software developer.
  4. Canley (talk · contribs) Wikipedia admin, Wikidata nut
  5. Clareifications (talk · contribs) Academic librarian by day, activist archivist by night.
  6. Kassigrace (talk · contribs) Library technician.
  7. ThylacineHunter (talk · contribs) Railway, tram, traction engine and paddle boat historian

Wikidata map[edit]

Here is a Wikidata query which displays a map of museums and subclasses of museum in Victoria, Australia (where there are coordinates available). If there is an image and/or a Wikipedia article it will show that too. Canley (talk · contribs) will update this over the course of the edit-a-thon.

2018 International Museums Day Edit-a-thon[edit]

Female editors working on laptops for edit-a-thon
Participants at the International Museum Day edit-a-thon held at ACMI X Melbourne, Australia on 18 May 2018

Sayraphim Lothian and Mike Jones organised an Edit-a-thon for International Museums Day on 18 May 2018, at ACMI-X in Melbourne, Victoria. The purpose of the edit-a-thon was to create and improve pages for Victorian museums and galleries.

VIDEO: Why should museums be on Wikipedia?

To Do[edit]

Please feel free to tackle any of the items below! If you do start working on something, we recommend adding an 'in progress' note beside the institution on this project page. Then, when you have finished something, move it to the 'Work Completed' section at the bottom, including your username and the date/time.

Article requests

Needs a photo

Needs more photos

Photos on Commons to add to new or existing articles

Commons categories

Needs more detail

Needs more citations

Needs GPS co ords

Needs an infobox

Template:Infobox museum is the template for museum infoboxes

Lists to check

We need to check through these lists to see if there are organisations we are missing.

Work completed[edit]

Articles created

Articles expanded

GPS co ords added

Photos added

Infobox added

Meta things

Category