Wikimedia user groups/Applications/American Jewelry Project
Proposed name of Wikimedia user group: (There are some templates at Step-by-step user group creation guide#Naming of user groups.) American Jewelry Project
1. Who are the people behind this application? Historians and Academics in the field of Jewelry
- 1a. How many?
20
- 1b. Active in which Wikimedia projects, if any?
none at present
- 1c. How are they geographically distributed?
USA
- 1d. Do you have any highly active or prominent (on local or international level) Wikimedians / Wikipedians? If so, please name a few. (provide user names and wiki of origin)
not as yet
- 1e. How many people do you expect will eventually want to join?
50
2. For the application and final agreement we will require two contact persons that can sign the Wikimedia User Group Agreement on behalf of the group. Who will those be? (please provide user names and wiki of origin) Please also include email addresses for these users either on this page or in your initial email to the Affiliations Committee (AffCom
lists.wikimedia.org).
Susan Cummins, susancummins@artjewelryforum.org
Damian Skinner, damian.skinner@ahi.co.nz
3. Please give a short summary of your time path from the founding up to now.
Susan and Damian, realizing that art jewelry on Wikipedia is highly underrepresented, started meeting in April 2014 to discuss with respected historians, academics, and writers, the ways in which this could be remedied. Our first meeting and curatorial edit-a-thon was at Houston MFA held by curator Cindi Strauss, and the first academic edit-a-thon is taking place today at Pratt Institute with Pratt jewelry academics and librarians. We plan to collaboratively organize more of these events at schools, libraries and museums, making American jewelry more visible on one of the world's great knowledge platforms.
4. Which geographical area and context do you cover (or plan to cover) with your entity?
USA
5. Have there been any activities/meetings etc. of this group of people? If yes, please briefly describe some examples.
see above
6. Do you keep any monthly/half-yearly/yearly reports of you activities? If yes, please provide links.
7. What kind of activities are planned for the future in the user group? see above 8. Is you entity already legally registered? Do you intend on becoming a legally registered entity in the next thirteen months? no 9. Do you have a bylaws for you entity? If yes, have the bylaws been reviewed by a lawyer/specialist? not yet 10. How can the Affiliations Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation help your group? We would love for a knowledgeable person in the field of art or design to review our submission- possibly even a person with jewelry expertise
- Submitted: Exovonyc (talk) 19:57, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
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