gxseries Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 I've posted this in the other post but thought this should be made as a seperate thread. Here it is again: --- Since I started with the idea of making a wiki of Russian numismatics, I thought I might as well add in what my vision is. If you have checked out wikipedia.org and have used it, it's an extraordinary powerful resource collaborated by various people who contribute and edit other people's works. These people may not be professionals but the information they provide can be said to be very useful. More information about how wikipedia works can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki I personally find numismatic books to be nearly outdated because you can have books that have mintage, varities and other information but often you need to cross reference between so many books. Furthermore, information can be scarce. With wiki, this solves a lot of these problems. So what can wiki do when it comes to numismatics? You can: Add detailed information about coins, varities, mintage, mints, cross referencing and such Tracking what mint struck what coins - can be interesting if it was struck abroad or struck for overseas Historic pricing of certain coins, referencing to auction houses Detailed articles of political nature of some coins Times when coins were not issed but some other currency was used in place of coins A section on counterfeit coins There are other possibilties of using wiki but I'll put it to there. So how can one contribute? The beauty of this is that one do not have to be good in English to contribute. One do not have to be an expert in using wiki or even a veteran in collecting Russian coins. One can do the following: 1) Upload images of their collection 2) Identify different varities and make comments 3) Editing other people's work 4) Write up articles 5) Keeping track of sales of certain coins 6) Referencing from other sites 7) Translate articles into English for people that have difficulties with English Of course, there may be many other possibilties that I have not thought of yet. What should one NOT do? Bearing in mind, this is a teamwork of a long term project and it is essential to understand that everyone comes from a different background. This is a collaboration of volunteers who wish to share their knowledge, effort and time. 1) This database is not to be used for advertising for personal interest, i.e. sales of personal collection 2) This is not a race of who owns the most amazing coin 3) Copy and paste articles that are copyrighted and you do not own the rights or have not asked permission to do so 4) Vandalize or attack other forum members for whatever reason Overall goal Bear in mind, this is a really long term project that one shouldn't expect to see it florishing overnight. This forum, coinpeople.com took probably about 5 years to get around to this stage so I am not suprised if it takes that long or even longer to make it a reasonably sized database. 1) Must be fun 2) Respect other individuals. This includes respecting other people's culture as well as other people's work. 3) Able to handle criticism when other people edit your work Guess this is my idea of what a wiki about numismatics should be like but feel free to comment or disagree with my points. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BKB Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 I think we can start collecting images for the project. When the catalog is ready, moderator will move them into the catalog. It would be a good starting point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BKB Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 whatever happened to this idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted March 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 I still have it up in my head. Sent a message to akdrv a while ago otherwise I'll start it on my own if needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 Could this tie in with the online museum that is here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEVE MOULDING Posted March 13, 2011 Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 I still have it up in my head. Sent a message to akdrv a while ago otherwise I'll start it on my own if needed. If you go it alone... So far I've been very happy with the new wiki I'm using for the translation project: http://russian-numismatic-translation-project.wikidot.com/ I'm not image intensive (as your wiki will be) so don't know how wikidot would fare. A very useful site to compare the many wiki platforms out there is http://www.wikimatrix.org/ Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheche Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 http://translate.google.ru/translate?hl=ru&sl=ru&tl=en&u=gdenashel.ru russian catalog with photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chippolino Posted November 5, 2011 Report Share Posted November 5, 2011 This is (mentioned in previous post) a good web site, that is containing info regarding standard series of Soviet Union coins till its crash and coins from times before USSR. Also during times of USSR there were special series of coins related to special events or special series for collecting. Since 1992 in Russia there were also diferent immissions of coins and banknotes, as standard series and also as special series, related and dedicated to celebrations of different anniversaries, events, different territories in Russia and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chippolino Posted November 5, 2011 Report Share Posted November 5, 2011 This web site contains more pictures of special series of USSR's coins, including special series: http://mint.hobby.ru/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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