Trying this again...
From: dgerard at
gmail.com (David Gerard)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:19:02 +0000
Subject: [Wikimedia IE] Hello (with ideas)
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2009/11/22 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
There's an idea I'd like to put forward to the
Irish community, to see if
it
would help to grow the Irish Wikipedia.? People have
been looking for
ideas
about how to help the smaller Wikipedias grow.?
I'd like to try a pilot
project with the Irish community, if you're
amenable.? The basic idea is
to
build interest in the project with quality media.
Two things happen when people see featured pictures about their culture:
they're delighted and they want to share
information.
+1
This will also have other useful effects.
Talking to London museum people, the main thing they want is for their
collections to be *used* - essentially, we pay them in credit. So a
programme to get stuff up will make life easier for Irish editors to
deal with Irish museums.
- d.
For some reason this list isn't getting delivered to my mailbox yet,
so pulled the above response off the recent archive.
There have been two different directions that museum partnerships with
WMF groups have taken: quantity and quality.
The optimal solution is to seek a combination of the two. A selection
of highlights from the museum's collection that are
potentially feature-worthy certainly helps. Neither the curators nor
the average WMF volunteer, though, is familiar with the
From dgerard at
gmail.com Sun Nov 22 15:19:02 2009
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