User talk:LoriLee
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TCMI project
[edit]Hi Lori,
Congratulations for the TCMI project! I noticed your intend to make things happen on Commons as well, so if you need any help for that part, feel free to ask and I would be glad to help!
Cheers, Jean-Fred (talk) 21:45, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks so much Jean-Fred. I appreciate it, and likely will be in touch before too long. It's been a fun and productive week here with Liam and I'm looking forward to how everything will pan out. HstryQT (talk) 01:09, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
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Kungfuman (talk) 17:22, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Lori
[edit]Just seen this.... cool Victuallers (talk) 11:05, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
File:State of GLAM in the US.pdf - The photos on page 3
[edit]Hi Lori Phillips, thank your for uploading files to Wikimedia Commons. On page 3 I discovered a screenshot of a website that seems to use unfree files. Please add the according authors of the files and the licenses to the file description page, if they are compatible, remove this page or nominate the file for deletion. Thank you. -- Rillke(q?) 16:58, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
- You can go ahead and nominate for deletion. Will upload a new version in a bit. HstryQT (talk) 17:02, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Nice job, but I think it needs an update, see http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence for a list of newer projects. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 16:33, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Lori,
do you have some more information about this specimen? Do you have other sciency exhibits in the museum? Could perhaps fit into an upcoming talk, or into Science GLAM activities more generally. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 20:39, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Daniel! The Children's Museum has a significant collection of geologic artifacts, fossils, taxidermy, and other objects in its Natural Science Collection. The Paleontologists have been away at a dig all summer and have just returned, so I'm not sure that I could get much out of them before your talk, but if you wanted to brainstorm a future partnership that'd be great. The paleo guys (or our natural science curators more generally) are all about helping with Wikipedia.
- If there is a specific question you have about the belemnites I can definitely get an answer out of them soon though. I'm not sure that there's much of a contextual story behind it other than what's in the metadata.
- You can see all of our natural science objects contributed to Commons here. Thanks! HstryQT (talk) 01:18, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks - that's a good basis for some brainstorming. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 01:33, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
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