FYI,

Best,

Isaac ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Douglas Scott douglas.i.scott@gmail.com Date: Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:36 PM Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Fwd: [WMCON17] Metropolitan Museum of Art collaborations To: wikimediaza wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org

Hello everyone,

I would like to share the following email (below) from the new Wikipedian in Residance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Richard (user:Pharos) is calling for Wikipedia editors who might be interested to participate in sorting and/or using content from the museum on Wikipedia and WikiData. If you feel there might be art works that will likely be digitise that could be useful for your favorate Wikipedia topics or just like doing WikiData stuff then dont hesitate to sign up.

See below for details,

Douglas.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com Date: 30 March 2017 at 23:28 Subject: [WMCON17] Metropolitan Museum of Art collaborations To: wmcon17@listen.wikimedia.de

Hi fellow attendees,

I recently started a project as Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art

As the Met is a major "encyclopedic" museum with an international collection, we'd like to start collaborations soon with Wikimedia chapters and related groups around the world.

Please join the WikiProject if you are interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan_ Museum_of_Art/Members

Besides uploading ~375k images eventually, we also want to help facilitate articles on these artworks on multiple language Wikipedias, and are developing some special tools to create drafts from Wikidata,

You can search the Met collection to see examples of artworks from your own country/region:

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/

I'd also be very glad to get in touch with folks in-person at the conference, or by personal email. If folks are interested, we could do an informal meetup as well.

Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)

-- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to WikimediaZA-unsubscribe@lists.wikimedia.org