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==History== | ==History== | ||
The museum's wiki site was started as an experimental project in 2011, and got a boost in 2013 from the museum's Heritage Lottery Fund -supported project to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frank Hornby, which resulted in over five hundred pages of material being added that were relevant to Hornby's company, Meccano Ltd., along with over a thousand images. | The museum's wiki site was started as an experimental project in 2011, and got a boost in 2013 from the museum's Heritage Lottery Fund -supported project to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frank Hornby, which resulted in over five hundred pages of material being added that were relevant to Hornby's company, Meccano Ltd., along with over a thousand images. | ||
The "Hornby" project has helped to create a "critical mass" of material on the wiki that makes it easier to expand the wiki's coverage of other subjects. The wiki's main project focus for the first half of 2014 is the expansion of its material on Bassett-Lowke Ltd. and closely-affiliated toymaking companies. | |||
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