G'day All,<br><br>I think quite a few of you are already familiar with the fact that The Powerhouse Museum has been working on releasing some of their materials onto Flickr for some time (see <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/</a> for an absolute goldmine of 'no known copy restictions' material :-)<br>
<br>I recently finally figured out how to upload in batches to Commons, and following in the footsteps of folk like User:Riana, who had uploaded quite a few already, put a couple of the 'sets' onto Commons; <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Privatemusings/gallery">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Privatemusings/gallery</a><br>
<br>They're well worth checking out, and it's both great fun, and very easy to find suitable articles for this fantastic material :-)<br><br>Anywhoo.. this inspired me to get in touch with the folk at the museum, and I've just returned from a really nice lunch with Paula and Seb, who are museum staff, and broadly responsible for Powerhouse Images. As well as letting them know a little bit about how Wikimedia Commons works etc. (preaching to the already very well informed choir as it happens!) I wanted to give them the latest news on the Chapter etc. and raise the possibility of future partnerships. It's all very 'blue sky' at this point, but here are a few of the things we covered;<br>
<ul><li>Having 'The Powerhouse' join the chapter as a 'corporate' member or somesuch - received very positively with the caution that this requires a bit of time</li><li>Involvement in education projects / partnerships with The Powerhouse - again very positive, and possibly ultimately related to Liams ideas about talks for schools etc.</li>
<li>Chapter involvement in helping The Powerhouse track 'their' image usage - this was highlighted as a very important area, and involves things like volunteers preparing reports / writing up specific examples about how images are used. This also may include the development of 'best practice' re: templates which we apply to images on Commons etc. (for example, having 'from The Powerhouse Museum' in the image title, with a link from the image page to their website was most definitely a 'good thing' :-)<br>
</li></ul>All in all it was great to sit down and chat with The Powerhouse folk, and I'm popping back in a fortnight to just show them briefly where their images are currently being used (that I'm aware of), and some basic tracking (watchlist / check usage etc.). For the curious, here are some examples of articles with Powerhouse Images;<br>
<br><ul><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Andrew%27s_Cathedral,_Sydney">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Andrew%27s_Cathedral,_Sydney</a></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel</a></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Street,_Sydney">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Street,_Sydney</a></li></ul>
(see my contributions for quite a few more :-) - and go add a pic from the gallery to an article yourself!)<br><br>cheers all,<br><br>Peter<br>PM.<br><br>