GLAM July 2012

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by Thehelpfulone 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

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We need you!
by David Parreño Mont 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Hello! Today the Department of Culture of Palafrugell (Catalonia) opens an exhibition of painter *Josep Costa Sobrepera*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Costa_Sobrepera>. This is the first time there is a code QRpedia in this town. It would be great to have this article in many languages. Thus, tourists from around the world can have the information in their mother tongue. I'll send you a photo of the QR code!! *David Parreño Mont (User:Davidpar)* http://davidparreno.tumblr.com/

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Re: [glam] [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA) needs your help
by John Andersson 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hi Lodewijk, I like your ideas, especially the one about Wiki Loves Food which I think could be a really good mini-contest. However, this year I hope that you will share your expertise with WLPA! :-) You have a really good point about the exams in May and I have been thinking hard about your suggestions. At least in Sweden June would not work very well as a lot of people take their Summer vacation already by then and all the GLAMs that we might cooperate with would most likely be running at half speed that month (at least for the second half of June). Also I believe that we should not put WLPA too close to WLM as some of the organizers might work with both. The problem with March is that it is too early for us to be able to organize everything in time and also in the Nordic countries March is not a very suitable month for outdoor photographing because of the bad weather. That leaves April, but when looking at how Europe's weather was this year during Spring I am hesitant to put it entirely in April as well, also we would loose an entire month of time to organize it by moving it there. To give us a bit more time to get everything in place, avoid the worst weather and make it possible for students to participate I therefor have three suggestion: 1. We could start the contest on the 15th of April and end it on the 15th of May; or 2. Extend the contest backward and have it from the 15th of April until the end of May, i.e. having it for 1.5 months instead of 1 month; or 3. Extend the contest forward from the 1st of May to the 15th of June, i.e. having it for 1.5 months instead of 1 month. What do you all think about these suggestions? Which one would you think makes most sense? All the best, John - - - - John Andersson Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE) Event Manager, Europeana Awareness Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 Email: JohnAndersson86(a)hotmail.com Skype: johnandersson86 Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/English for more information about our project! From: lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 17:25:49 +0200 To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org CC: glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org; wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA) needs your help Hi, interesting announcement :) I myself have been thinking of organizing a new 'Wiki Loves' in June 2013 (I don't think May is a good month due to the exams everywhere - and students will make up a significant part of the organizers), probably first in the Netherlands. I am still doubting between some 20 different ideas which were shared by several people; ranging from a relaunch of the good old 'Wiki Loves Art' (it would be preferable if WLPA could get a name that is not as easily confused with WLA) all the way to a Wiki Loves Food (photograph food items, dishes etc in your country/region) or Wiki Loves Concepts (photograph concepts like 'love', 'community', 'neighborhood', 'philosophy' etc as explanatory and useful as possible). Wiki Loves Public Art is amongst those ideas too (as are non-photo contests), although I should admit personally it is not my favorite :) So... would it perhaps make sense to do WLPA one or even two months earlier? (March/April) That way it would leave three months per year to do a contest (but imho running two in a country is already quite a challange! Best,Lodewijk 2012/7/2 Lori Phillips <lori.byrd.phillips(a)gmail.com> Thanks John, It's exciting to see this getting off the ground. I want to remind that WikiProject Public Art was established two years ago as a model for photographing, researching, and creating articles about Public Artworks. It was established under the leadership of Richard McCoy, conservator of objects at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Jennifer Mikulay, a public arts scholar and professor, both of which are Wikipedians in their own right. While the Wikipedia Loves Public Art project may be photo-based, the resources developed within WikiProject Public Art could prove useful - and I hope that the wikiproject can plan a role. I admit that the image guide and some of the process can be US-centric, if only to keep us sane in developing this model to start. But it can be a good jumping off point. With Jane's suggestion of article-creation, I wanted to specifically point out that WikiProject:Public Art has as its core goal the creation of articles about Public Art, rather than image gathering. So if you're interested in that being a component of Wikipedia Loves Public Art, there are step by step guides that could be useful resources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_art This would also be useful to share on the public GLAM list as well! cc'ing now : ). Let me know if you have any questions, Lori On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:23 AM, John Andersson <johnandersson86(a)hotmail.com>wrote: > > Hi Jane, > > I am happy that you think that it sounds interesting! > > The idea is to have similar rules and structure as WLM, e.g. that the > artworks should have a unique ID to be part of the contest. I think that we > should not limit ourselves more right now until we know > what type of data we can get our hands on in the different countries. > I personally feel rather hesitant to create a specific definition for > the contest that would differ from the official ones, that feel a lot > like original research to me and also it could make it harder to use > the data later on, as we then might have to sort out certain categories > of artworks. That however mean that what exactly are considered public art > then most likely will differ a bit between different countries, and perhaps > between different regions. To get in contact with relevant parties that > have the needed data is therefor a first step and if you are interested in > contacting people/institutions in your country that would be very helpful! > > Also, I think that events focusing on connecting the pictures to Wikipedia > would be fantastic and perhaps one could organize them to take place either > at the same time or during the summer. If you have any cool ideas that you > would like to work on please let me know! > > All the best, > > John > - - - - > John Andersson > Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE) > Event Manager, Europeana Awareness > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > > > > Email: JohnAndersson86(a)hotmail.com > > Skype: johnandersson86 > > Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana > Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Englishfor more information about our project! > > Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:01:26 +0200 > From: jane023(a)gmail.com > To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > CC: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA) needs > your help > > JohnGreat initiative! Thanks for the tip, and good point about May vs. > September regarding WLM, but these can easily be linked together, meaning > Wiki(p/m)edians can take pictures of statues and other public art whilst > working from a list of monument numbers... > > To be clear, are you going to keep your Public art idea like WLM's, in the > sense that "only photos with a unique id taken during the competition month > will be eligible for a prize"? WLM is basically just a Wikimedia Commons > project, and the fruits of that project can be used by Wikipedia, but there > is no Wikipedia part of the competition as it is today. > > Right off the top of my head I can think of lots of other ways to track > public art, such as historical artworks commissioned by a governing body > that once were on Square X and were replaced by artwork Y for reason Z, > etc. This kind of tracking would require various references and would need > to be integrated somehow with Wikipedia, I think, as pictures alone don't > tell the whole story, the way pictures of physical monuments taken for WLM > do. > > In other words, what is your precise, identifiable and verifiable > definition of "public art", rather than "sculptures, mosaics, mural > paintings, memorials and place specific installments in the public space"? > Jane > > 2012/7/2 John Andersson <johnandersson86(a)hotmail.com> > > > > > > Hallo everybody, > > > > We have just started working with the Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA)[1] > contest that will focus on getting pictures on sculptures, mosaics, > mural paintings, memorials and place > specific installments in the public space. If > you are interested in public art, enjoy organizing events, think that it > is cool and interesting to work with projects that increase cooperation > between the Chapters, or would like to work towards GLAM in your > country, well then this would be something for you! We are looking for > all kinds of volunteers and especially for national coordinators that > can help us get things going in the countries and coordinate the > volunteer efforts! > > > As > we don't want to intrude upon the fantastic Wiki Loves Monument contest we > are thinking about holding WLPA during the > month of May in 2013. However, May will hopefully give us enough time to > work on this and provide good enough weather > so that the pictures look nice and people think that it is fun to go out > and find the art works. > > > We are of course aware of the tricky copyright legislations in > different countries but thanks to the fact that this is organized > together with Europeana (www.europeana.eu) we have the > possibility to use Europeana's team of judicial experts in finding out > answers on some of the questions. So if you have a question that is not > answered on Commons:Freedom of Panorama[2] please write up your > questions on relevant judicial matters on our list and we will forward > it to Europeana.[3] > > > Both me and the project leader, Lennart Guldbrandsson, will be at > Wikimania and we would love to met and talk to you about this in person! > > > I hope to hear from you soon! > > All the best, > > John > > - - - - > John Andersson > Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE) > Event Manager, Europeana Awareness > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > > > > Email: JohnAndersson86(a)hotmail.com > > Skype: johnandersson86 > > Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana > Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Englishfor more information about our project! > > > [1] > http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Wiki_Loves_Public_… > > [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama > > [3] > http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Wiki_Loves_Public_… > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation 703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu

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QRpedia quick-start user guide
by Andy Mabbett 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

By popular request, I've written a short guide to getting started with QRpedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_QRpedia/user_guide suitable for showing to staff at GLAMs, and the custodians of historic buildings, etc.. Thanks to John Cummings for his contributions. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Re: [glam] glam Digest, Vol 12, Issue 3
by Peter Ekman 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Dear all, There will be a discussion of the proposed Funds Dissemination Committee at Wikimania at 8 am - 8:45 am Friday, July 13, in room 308. The FDC proposal is a new format for allocating funds to non-core activities and Wikimedia-related organizations and will be voted on by the WMF Board during Wikimania. There will be a very brief introduction to the process that led to the FDC proposal and to the proposal itself. The main part of the meeting will be a Question and Answer session, so that you and your organization can learn how the FDC will work. Sue Gardner, Jan-Bart de Vreede, Sydney Poore and others will be there to answer your questions. Hope to see you all there. Pete Ekman User:Smallbones

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QRpedia workshop, Sat 14 Jully
by Andy Mabbett 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

QRpedia is a Wikimedia UK project, using QR codes to link to Wikipedia articles in GLAMs and other historic locations, then serving them to the user in accessible, mobile-friendly format in their preferred language. It's free to use, anywhere. On Saturday afternoon, 14 July, several Wikipedians with experience of implementing QRpedia around the word, will be presenting a workshop 'QRpedia and you'. Whether you're new to QRpedia or have read about it and want to get started using it, you'll be most welcome. We'll be in Workshop V, room 309, at 2.30pm. Please sign up at: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/QRpedia_and_you so we know how many to expect. We look forward to meeting you! -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing User:Pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Congressional Cemetery QR codes
by Peter Ekman 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

The Congressional Cemetery QR code project is now open. 60 QR codes have been posted at Washington's most historic cemetery which link to Wikipedia articles thorough QRpedia. See http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/QR_codes/Congressional_Cemetery for details. You can help by translating some of the articles listed at the above link. There will be a tour of the cemetery at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 10 in conjunction with Wikimania. See http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tours for details Rockdrum: I've put a summary at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/June_2012/Contents/USA_r… Pete Ekman User:Smallbones

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Re: [glam] [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA) needs your help
by Lori Phillips 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Thanks John, It's exciting to see this getting off the ground. I want to remind that WikiProject Public Art was established two years ago as a model for photographing, researching, and creating articles about Public Artworks. It was established under the leadership of Richard McCoy, conservator of objects at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Jennifer Mikulay, a public arts scholar and professor, both of which are Wikipedians in their own right. While the Wikipedia Loves Public Art project may be photo-based, the resources developed within WikiProject Public Art could prove useful - and I hope that the wikiproject can plan a role. I admit that the image guide and some of the process can be US-centric, if only to keep us sane in developing this model to start. But it can be a good jumping off point. With Jane's suggestion of article-creation, I wanted to specifically point out that WikiProject:Public Art has as its core goal the creation of articles about Public Art, rather than image gathering. So if you're interested in that being a component of Wikipedia Loves Public Art, there are step by step guides that could be useful resources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_art This would also be useful to share on the public GLAM list as well! cc'ing now : ). Let me know if you have any questions, Lori On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:23 AM, John Andersson <johnandersson86(a)hotmail.com>wrote: > > Hi Jane, > > I am happy that you think that it sounds interesting! > > The idea is to have similar rules and structure as WLM, e.g. that the > artworks should have a unique ID to be part of the contest. I think that we > should not limit ourselves more right now until we know > what type of data we can get our hands on in the different countries. > I personally feel rather hesitant to create a specific definition for > the contest that would differ from the official ones, that feel a lot > like original research to me and also it could make it harder to use > the data later on, as we then might have to sort out certain categories > of artworks. That however mean that what exactly are considered public art > then most likely will differ a bit between different countries, and perhaps > between different regions. To get in contact with relevant parties that > have the needed data is therefor a first step and if you are interested in > contacting people/institutions in your country that would be very helpful! > > Also, I think that events focusing on connecting the pictures to Wikipedia > would be fantastic and perhaps one could organize them to take place either > at the same time or during the summer. If you have any cool ideas that you > would like to work on please let me know! > > All the best, > > John > - - - - > John Andersson > Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE) > Event Manager, Europeana Awareness > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > > > > Email: JohnAndersson86(a)hotmail.com > > Skype: johnandersson86 > > Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana > Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Englishfor more information about our project! > > Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:01:26 +0200 > From: jane023(a)gmail.com > To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > CC: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA) needs > your help > > JohnGreat initiative! Thanks for the tip, and good point about May vs. > September regarding WLM, but these can easily be linked together, meaning > Wiki(p/m)edians can take pictures of statues and other public art whilst > working from a list of monument numbers... > > To be clear, are you going to keep your Public art idea like WLM's, in the > sense that "only photos with a unique id taken during the competition month > will be eligible for a prize"? WLM is basically just a Wikimedia Commons > project, and the fruits of that project can be used by Wikipedia, but there > is no Wikipedia part of the competition as it is today. > > Right off the top of my head I can think of lots of other ways to track > public art, such as historical artworks commissioned by a governing body > that once were on Square X and were replaced by artwork Y for reason Z, > etc. This kind of tracking would require various references and would need > to be integrated somehow with Wikipedia, I think, as pictures alone don't > tell the whole story, the way pictures of physical monuments taken for WLM > do. > > In other words, what is your precise, identifiable and verifiable > definition of "public art", rather than "sculptures, mosaics, mural > paintings, memorials and place specific installments in the public space"? > Jane > > 2012/7/2 John Andersson <johnandersson86(a)hotmail.com> > > > > > > Hallo everybody, > > > > We have just started working with the Wiki Loves Public Art (WLPA)[1] > contest that will focus on getting pictures on sculptures, mosaics, > mural paintings, memorials and place > specific installments in the public space. If > you are interested in public art, enjoy organizing events, think that it > is cool and interesting to work with projects that increase cooperation > between the Chapters, or would like to work towards GLAM in your > country, well then this would be something for you! We are looking for > all kinds of volunteers and especially for national coordinators that > can help us get things going in the countries and coordinate the > volunteer efforts! > > > As > we don't want to intrude upon the fantastic Wiki Loves Monument contest we > are thinking about holding WLPA during the > month of May in 2013. However, May will hopefully give us enough time to > work on this and provide good enough weather > so that the pictures look nice and people think that it is fun to go out > and find the art works. > > > We are of course aware of the tricky copyright legislations in > different countries but thanks to the fact that this is organized > together with Europeana (www.europeana.eu) we have the > possibility to use Europeana's team of judicial experts in finding out > answers on some of the questions. So if you have a question that is not > answered on Commons:Freedom of Panorama[2] please write up your > questions on relevant judicial matters on our list and we will forward > it to Europeana.[3] > > > Both me and the project leader, Lennart Guldbrandsson, will be at > Wikimania and we would love to met and talk to you about this in person! > > > I hope to hear from you soon! > > All the best, > > John > > - - - - > John Andersson > Wikimedia Sweden (WMSE) > Event Manager, Europeana Awareness > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > > > > Email: JohnAndersson86(a)hotmail.com > > Skype: johnandersson86 > > Be sure to follow us on Twitter at @wikieuropeana > Visit http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Englishfor more information about our project! > > > [1] > http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Wiki_Loves_Public_… > > [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama > > [3] > http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Europeana_Awareness/Wiki_Loves_Public_… > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Lori Phillips Digital Marketing Content Coordinator The Children's Museum of Indianapolis US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation 703.489.6036 | http://loribyrdphillips.com/

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Zedler Prize to the Community Project Wiki Loves Monument Austria
by Barbara Fischer 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Hi all, yesterday the Zedlerprize was awarded at the WikiAcademy in Berlin. We are happy that the community project Wiki loves monument was elected as winner by the jury. Especially helpfull to the sucess of the project was the throgoughly change of attitude of the Federal Office of Heritage Austria (BDA). As Dr. Holzschuh-Hofer of the BDA expressed it: Thanks to Wiki loves Monument and the collaboration with the volunteers of Wikipedia, we have experienced that open acess gives the better result. Please read our blogpost <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/>for further details. thanks Barbara -- Barbara Fischer Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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