Wikipedia talk:WikiProject MIT/Media Lab

Chat w/ Media Labbers

The Lab itself has been shifting entirely towards open source tools and a freely-licensed site and media archive. I'm hoping that the full image and video archive from the lab, which is pretty spectacular, can be released under a free license & imported to Commons.

I asked some Lab members today what they thought about formatting their project blurbs and descriptions to have inline sources, ideally from neutral third parties, so that they were close to what an article lede would look like. It seems they have almost all of the relevant data [timelines, milestones, media coverage, papers, outside impact assessments] in a structured format.

Some thoughts for people who want to join this wikiproject to help archive their own projects and material:

1. It is strongly encouraged to add freely licensed media to Commons! Most of the media on the site now is CC-BY; but if you could figure out how to import them and their captions to Commons in bulk that would be even more useful.
   • It is welcome to incorporate those into articles where appropriate.
2. It's ok to edit articles directly in a few cases:
   • Correcting a date, updating a field in a table/template, updating some other single fact.
   • Adding or updating notable third-party sources
   • Adding relevant media files from Commons
3. It can also be ok to remove rambling, unsourced paragraphs from stream-of-thought articles or ones that have grown weeds.
4. A common problem: Be careful about adding excessive links back to your own site. That's a good source to cite for "existence proofs": a professor's site is the canonical place to look for their own list of projects or publications. But try to limit this to a few links per article; most cites should be from other sources.