Hello all,
The Children's Museum has been doing a few small Wikimedia donations
lately, but the one I'm most excited about is this (small) batch of
artifacts from our project *100 Toys (& their Stories) that Define Our
Childhood*.[1] We had all the toys professionally photographed for the
project, which ended up blowing us all away by going global and garnering
600 story submissions and 21,000 votes in a month's time. The project is
not Wikipedia-focused, but I'm glad that at least a handful of these
amazing images are able to make their way onto Commons as one small
component of the overall 100 Toys project.
As I often say, a large portion of objects in our 120,000-object collection
are not able to be put on Commons due to copyright and trademark
restrictions. This is illustrated in the fact that only 9 objects of the
100 could be released to Commons, but I'm still glad for that, nonetheless:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:100_Toys_Project_Images_from_Th…
Anybody up for a few minutes of (fun!) image distribution? : )
Or at least will you admire the beauty of these marbles along with me?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Childrens_Museum_of_Indianapoli…
Have a great day and thanks ahead of time if you're able to distribute any
images,
Lori
[1]
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/100toys
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Lori Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 |
http://loribyrdphillips.com/
