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 things like LAD/11/45 would help with the article on
Portsmouth.
To be honest, I'd like it very much if we could have access to the
documents on a certain ship or person (for example).
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On 28/03/2012 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 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,
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