Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum archive

>From an astronomy point of view, I'm very interested in this collaboration. I'm not sure about latitude, but there's a very interesting topic on longitude that could be worked on, namely John Harrison's clocks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison Decent pictures/illustrations of all of h

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum archive

On 28 March 2012 21:55, Chris Keating wrote: > I was talking earlier to the National Maritime Museum about organising an > editathon. They wanted to see what use we thought we could make of the > material in the archive collection, and whether Wikipedians would be up for > coming and making use of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum archive

Chris, Getting access to things like record FLI/11 would help immensily with articles like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_(cat) Record 'CUR' would help fill in huge blanks at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishery_Protection_Squadron Even thin

[Wikimediauk-l] National Maritime Museum archive

I was talking earlier to the National Maritime Museum about organising an editathon. They wanted to see what use we thought we could make of the material in the archive collection, and whether Wikipedians would be up for coming and making use of it. I am anticipating that this could prove very popu