From: dgerard at
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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