Please, can all these images be categorized in a common category? Thanks 2009/4/25 Patricio Lorente <patricio.lore...@gmail.com>
> Wikipedia Invades La Plata Natural History Museum > > Saturday, May 2nd, from 10 am, a group of wikipedians - members of > Wikimedia Argentina - will visit the La Plata Natural History Museum > to gather information to flush out and complete articles in the > renowned online encyclopedia Wikipedia. > > The group will be composed of editors and photographers and will be > led through the museum by tour guides during their visit. The > wikipedians hope to broaden articles which cover the themes that the > museum includes and take photographs of the exhibitions to help > illustrate the text of the encyclopedia. The photographs will not only > be used in the Spanish articles, but also in articles in over 250 > languages that are available in Wikipedia. The photographs will be > published with a free license in Wikimedia Commons > (http://commons.wikimedia.org). > > The La Plata Natural History Museum is a natural science museum which > houses a vast collection of archeological, anthropological and > ethnographic information. Founded by Francisco Pascisio Moreno in > 1884, the museum is unique in its scope in South America with over > 3,000,000 objects in its collection and over 130 years of history. > > The museum is renowned for its collection of large fossilized mammals > of the pampas from the Cenozoic and Quaternary eras as well as > collections of trilobite fossils of the Cambrian period and graptolite > fossils from the Silurian period in Argentina. Also, Argentina and > Peru archeological and ethnographic collections are on exhibition, as > well as showing the broader landscape of the Americas. There is also > an Egyptian room where an original temple (the temple of Aksha, from > Nubia) is on display. The archeological collection shows cultural > development of Latin America from 12,800 BC through to the Inca empire > and the arrival of the Europeans. More information can be found > online: http://www.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/museo/ > > Wikimedia Argentina is a non-profit membership group which has been > recognized by the Wikimedia Foundation as a local chapter of our > country. The Wikimedia Foundation maintains a global projects such as > Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiversidad, Wikiquotes, etc. > > Currently, Wikimedia Argentina is organizing Wikimania 2009, the > international conference of Wikimedia projects to be held in late > August. The city of Buenos Aires was selected for this annual meeting, > which in years prior has taken place in the United States of America, > Germany, Taiwan and Egypt. More information can be found online: > http://www.wikimedia.org.ar > > -- > > Patricio Lorente > MensajerÃa Instantánea: patricio_lore...@jabber.org > Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
