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General Zukov

I think someone may have copied and pasted your userpage info onto their own, see User: General Zukov. Kinda weird. I don't know if this should be reported to admins but I thought you should know. Bluebonnet460 (talk) 15:55, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks.. I'm kind of curious how you figured that out, and really appreciate you letting me know! --CutOffTies (talk) 15:59, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
He participated in a discussion that I've also participated in so I looked at his UserPage and his contribs - they don't match. So I clicked on the photos he said he created and they lead me here. Voila! Bluebonnet460 (talk) 16:03, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
I had also mentioned this topic at WP:AN#Attribution when I came across it. I was about to notify you, but you've already obviously seen it. Jezebel'sPonyo 17:48, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Ponyo! Belated congrats on your successful RFA! --CutOffTies (talk) 18:07, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

The WikiProject National Archives Newsletter

The first ever WikiProject National Archives newsletter has been published. Please read on to find out what we're up to and how to help out! There are many opportunities for getting more involved. Dominic·t 21:19, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

The WikiProject National Archives Newsletter
July 2011
News
Featured article contest
This week, our first multilingual featured article contest was announced. We are aiming to improve the articles on the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, or Bill of Rights to featured or good status in English and other languages. Prizes for winners will be a gift package from the National Archives including a book of your choice or a tote bag, and other swag, plus, of course, a special barnstar.
August 6 backstage pass
Plans are in the works for a meetup and backstage pass event at the National Archives II facility in College Park, MD. There will be a regular social meetup, a discussion with Dominic about WP:NARA, a tour of the building by NARA staff, and then time for a scanathon and editathon in the research rooms and library until the building closes at 5 pm. Keep your schedules open!

From our recent uploads:

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Special requests:

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Archival Recovery Team
The National Archives' Archival Recovery Team (ART) is a team of law enforcement agents and archivists who investigate NARA's lost and stolen documents. They have received media attention (, , , , , , , ) and would like to request an article be written for the team, if Wikipedians deem it notable. It is hoped that making more information about the group available on Misplaced Pages will increase public awareness of the documents they are seeking to recover.
Ongoing
Today's Document challenge
The Today's Document challenge is an opportunity for Wikipedians to get their work related to National Archives holdings spotlighted on Archives.gov and the National Archives' tumblr. Each day the National Archives selects a document related to the day's date to showcase. The goal is to get articles related to the selected documents on the main page in ""Did You Know...?" the same day that the National Archives features the document. Alternatively, other appropriate articles related to National Archives holdings not already selected will be used for new documents of the day by NARA staff and posted to their tumblr.
Wikisource
WP:NARA has a sister WikiProject on Wikisource, WS:NARA. On Wikisource, editors transcribe, proofread, and arrange documents. This helps to make little-known documents more discoverable, or well-known documents more searchable, and improves accessibility. See the files being worked on. If you are new to Wikisource and would like to participate, there are experienced Wikisourcerors willing to be mentors.
New contributions

A list of some recent contributions to the project:

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Credit goes to Prosody, Theornamentalist, Inductiveload, Digipoke, George Orwell III, Kathleen.wright5, BirgitteSB, and Zhaladshar

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Future plans
Major image contribution
The National Archives has hundreds of thousands of digitized documents in its holdings. We are working on a bulk upload to Commons of one particular cache of about 123,000 TIFF master files in the next few days! Once uploaded, these will require a massive community effort to help categorize the files on Commons and add them to articles on Misplaced Pages or transcribe them on Wikisource.
Inclusion in the online catalog
We are currently working on a system for including links to pages on Wikimedia projects in the National Archives online catalog. The Wikimedia projects are hosting an increasing number of transcriptions of National Archives documents and high-quality image and video files that are not available through NARA's own site. Links to these Wikimedia pages in the documents' actual catalog records will benefit the end user by providing them access to further resources about the documents, and they will also demonstrate the National Archives commitment to supporting Wikimedians' efforts.
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Hello, CutOffTies. You have new messages at Dave1185's talk page.
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Boyd Coddington

DC Meetup, July 29

DC Meetup 21 - Who should come? You should. Really.
DC MEETUP 21 is July 29! This meet up will involve Wikipedians from the area as well as Wiki-loving GLAM professionals. See you Friday! SarahStierch (talk) 16:32, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

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