Nytasi

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User box for National Register Photos

	This user has photographed
	0 0 0 3
	sites on the National Register of Historic Places

Merely change the last number, currently 002 to however many NR properties you have photo'd. Usually this goes out on your talk page, if you even desire to use it! Ellin Beltz (talk) 04:01, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

User:Elkman's not-so-secret weapon for NR properties

http://www2.elkman.net/nrhp/whohas.php Type the name of the property you seek in the box and select from the options. Provides categories & infoboxes. Ellin Beltz (talk) 04:01, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Actually, it is User:Elkman's not-so-secret weapon, so I'll take the liberty of changing the heading. If you need any help, just leave a note on my talk page. Also try WT:NRHP if you are interested in NRHP articles. Smallbones (talk) 12:03, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Back on Monday

Just a quick stop home before taking off again. Read your message and every thing looks doable. I get back to you on Monday. Smallbones (talk) 01:21, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay

It looks like you are doing a great job on getting things from the museum up into Commons and making the museum accessible on Wikipedia. The following is a preliminary checklist of things you might do in line with what other GLAMs have done. It might be easier for you since much of the GLAM material so far has come through very big institutions (e.g. the British Museum, the Palace of Versailles), and, where they have had to be a bit formal at times, you can probably be a bit more informal.

1. Check to see what articles you and the museum staff think should be included on Wikipedia. Elin seems to be doing a good job of this so far, but are there other articles needed?
2. Upload the photos you've made and include the CC-BY-3.0 license, making sure in the descriptive text that people know that the attribution should be to the museum, not you. Is a photo of the seismograph included? You might also say in the text that you give up all your rights as the photographer to the museum.
3. A bit more difficult - see what old photos (either public domain or ones that the museum has copyright on) that the museum might want to upload. Three big points here. A) make sure you have proper permission from the museum to upload; B) If you are scanning the photo, make sure you get the best scan possible - once digitalized they'll be on the internet forever; C) Some folks here might have concerns about notability, so at this point, don't take up your time with topics that may not be notable; e.g. a photo of Aunt Daisy's outhouse in the 1920s might not be considered notable. Things that very definitely would be notable would be pictures of notable people, places, objects (if there could be an article on it in Wikipedia - it's notable). I'm not sure that public domain photos could be technically labelled CC-BY-3.0, but if you are not absolutely sure that it's PD (but it's controlled by the museum), I'd put the CC-BY-3.0 on it which does no harm to anybody, and most people will respect the attribution request. Take some time considering this and I'll get back to you on it.
4. Something that is fairly new and might not be applicable. QR codes can be put as labels in the exhibits. Derby Museum in the U.K. has done this and a museum in Spain is about to. Using codes from QRpedia a visitor can take a scan of the code with his smart phone and up pops a Wikipedia article in the default language of the phone. e.g. in the Seth Kinman exhibit, an American scans the code and up pops the English language Kinman article, but if a German tourist scans it, he gets the German language version, if an Italian tourist scans it, he'd likely get the English version, because there is no Italian version yet. Same thing could happen with the seismograph article. You might even put hese codes outside, e.g. in front of the museum or the library or other NRHP sites. You'd have to be careful on where you place the codes and probably get permissions from the property owners if you wanted to use these outdoors.
5. Organize a "Behind the scenes" tour - actually this type of thing might make more sense in a very big museum where there is lots of stuff going on behind the scenes.
6. Organize an e-volunteer program, e.g. giving lectures to volunteers on how to contribute to Wikipedia. This is probably the type of thing that you and Elin are doing now, but do you have ideas on how to expand it somehow? Instead of a Behind the Scenes tour, you might organize an e-volunteer event. Bring in college and high school students (and even older folks), show them what you can do on Wikipedia, do a quick tour of the museum, ask them what new articles are needed. Write the articles, find or take the photos and post the new articles that day. And don't forget to put the QR code on the exhibit.

I'll check around to see if other folks have ideas on how a local museum might best participate with Wikipedia and the GLAM project.

Smallbones (talk) 15:41, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

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FYI

The folks with an agenda are editing Kinetic Sculpture Race again. Here's the latest diff: [1] Plus they're making very nasty comments on Facebook, claiming that you, me and User:CHZZ are the same person. I still don't see that her boyfriend's name has any relevance to wikipedia and I'm really sorry they feel a need to take this personal. However, I don't feel I'm the one to make this change due to their comments. Ellin Beltz (talk) 19:49, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Help??

I'm not getting any comments on my dky Template:Did you know nominations/Humboldt Bay Life-Saving Station. Any chance you could take a poke at it?? Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:00, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Ciao for now

FYI I am not going to work on Wiki for a while, maybe never again. I was insulted by an admin yesterday for absolutely no logical or rational reason. He is justifying his behavior now, but it is obviously how he behaves and if one doesn't like it, one must lump it. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. After the death threat that required the police to solve and now this, I am tired of contributing to this project to receive only hatred back. If you want to reach me for anything, just google my name. Ciao! Ellin Beltz (talk) 14:34, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

And oh hey, I got over my bad self there and decided to try again. Just cuz some admin decided to kick out the guy who was deaththreating me, not for the threats, but because he blanked Barney the Purple Dinosaur's page shows what's really important to Wiki ! Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:14, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

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Recent edits which may interest you

Check out Ferndale Unified School District for some recent additions to the Literatura Ferndaliana. Hope you are well! Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:12, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

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Hello! Nytasi, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Ellin Beltz (talk) 00:21, 5 February 2014 (UTC)