>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 his clocks (particularly historic images, especially related to the restoration of his clorks) would be fantastic (we currently only have recent, rather low resolution images of H1, H4 and H5). Historical information and imagery that would tell the story behind his clocks would be absolutely amazing. ... and that's just the start. Any and every topic of content related to the Greenwich Observatory would absolutely amazing to be released on Wikipedia. Thanks, Mike On 10 Apr 2012, at 21:52, geni wrote: > On 28 March 2012 21:55, Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com> 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 it. I am anticipating that this could prove very >> popular, but if any of you are naval/maritime/biography/astronomy editors, >> it would be really handy to have some specific examples of things we might >> do to build the case for this event taking place. (And to answer the most >> obvious question, we're currently discussing how much latitude we'd have to >> digitise things there and then.) >> >> Their archive catalogue is available >> here: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/archive.html#!asearch - obviously we >> would have access to the museum and its library as well. >> >> Regards, >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >> > > > I think they have a pretty complete set of William Frederick Mitchell > images which means colour coverage of a lot of british victorian > warships. Beyond that there is the primary source issues and I can't > find much on flat-iron/Rendel gunboats. > > -- > geni > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
