HI!
Are you interested in common project?
I know, you are very busy, but there are very interesting contacts and
ideas, which should be not let unused.
Regards
Alex
Am 22.01.2015 um 19:01 schrieb Romaine Wiki:
Hello all,
Hereby I like to announce the project Wiki Loves Art in Belgium.
In November we had a meeting with a museum and we noticed that they
were very enthusiastic about Wikipedia/Wikimedia, but they experienced
it as difficult and maybe dangerous to open up their collection. This
relatively closed attitude appears to be not unique, but often
occurring among Belgian cultural institutions, compared with other
countries, as we understood from various organisations in the open
knowledge sector.
Therefore we have thought about how to work together with cultural
institutions and we came up with Wiki Loves Art. This project has been
organised earlier in various countries, and in 2009 also in the
Netherlands. A Dutch team is currently working on organising Wiki
Loves Art in 2016 again, and that gave us the inspiration to start
with the organisation in Belgium as well.
Wiki Loves Art is a photo contest in what participants visit the
museums, galleries, archives and libraries which have determined a
part of their collection to be photographed and published under a free
license. Wiki Loves Art gives participating photographers often a
unique possibility to take photos in a cultural institution and/or to
visit an organisation behind the scenes. This has resulted in other
Wiki Loves Art projects in many photos that are widely used on various
Wikipedias. For cultural institutions this project gives the
opportunity to collaborate with Wikipedia/Wikimedia in a save way,
without having opening the doors of their entire collections, and show
a part of their collection with relatively little costs.
In an organisational point of view the project is intended to make the
Belgiumgap less wide and the availability will increase the coverage
of Belgian art on Wikipedia. In comparison with other countries,
relatively less articles have been written about subjects in Belgium
in the various language versions of Wikipedia. This project tries to
stimulate to fill this gap and that Belgian art and more is better
visible and described on Wikipedia.
Wiki Loves Art is a project under the flag of Wikimedia Belgium, but
is a joint project in what we work together with several organisations
with a long-term expertise in working with cultural institutions
and/or open knowledge projects. Together with them we had last week a
meeting and agreed on how we want to organise Wiki Loves Art in Belgium.
We need to start in time as the project is very labour intensive with
much time spend on communication with the various cultural
institutions. The Dutch team has therefore highly recommended to hire
someone for one or two days a week during the project to be able to
manage all the communication and organisational needs. We are also
going to set up a website, print flyers and leaflets, and after the
contest we organise a jury to judge the photos and organise a prize
giving ceremony.
Therefore we created a grant request at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_BE/Wiki_Loves_Art_2016
If there are any suggestions or feedback, please let us know.
The project will be brought in at the General Assembly coming Saturday.
If you are interested in volunteering as part of the organisational
team, let us know!
The project page can be found at
https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Art_2016
Kind regards,
Romaine
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