All Wikipedians are invited to get involved in a collaboration with the National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, London, to help improve our histories of Royal Navy (RN) warships. This project has been set up by Wikimedia UK but it is now an entirely on-wiki project and everyone is welcome to join in!
The NMM have released under an open licence a large quantity of data they have gathered through their internal research.[1] They would like us to use this data to update Wikipedia articles on the relevant ships, cross-referencing and combining it with other data where appropriate - that is to say, doing everything we would normally do with a Wikipedia article. Once that's done they will use the information in Wikipedia as the outcome of their "Warship Histories" project.
This collaboration has the potential to help us start or improve several thousand articles and is the first project of its scale and scope. Please do get involved!
- ^ Originally, the page on their website stated that the material was released under CC-BY-NC - this is an error, they actually released it under CC-BY-SA - it's now up to date.