Thomas Dalton just volunteered for something. Anyone got favoured V&A exhibits we don't have a pic of? Get back to him with room, collection, cabinet, etc :-)
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com Date: 2009/12/5 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Anyone visiting V&A with a camera soon? To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
I have an afternoon to kill in London this Thursday and I own a digital camera. I'm not sure I've ever been to the V&A, so I wouldn't mind a visit. Give me a list of things to photograph!
2009/12/4 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
I just wrote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphonicon . I notice there's one in the V&A, and the V&A is quite happy to have people taking photos to put in Wikipedia ... anyone stopping by any time soon?
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On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:26 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton just volunteered for something. Anyone got favoured V&A exhibits we don't have a pic of? Get back to him with room, collection, cabinet, etc :-)
V&A = Victoria and Albert, a London museum, to save you all the trouble.
I still wish we had better processes for matching photo requests with potential contributors. These situations are relatively common: a photographer, at fairly short notice, has a short period of time to take lots of photos in one area. There's no effective way to communicate with a large group of people to find individual items that need photographing - it's much better if the requests exist beforehand and can be gathered in some effective fashion.
Theoretically, if there are pages with geo coords on the main page, and photo requests on the talk page, it would be possible to produce a map (google maps or open street map) plotting all these requests within some area, along with a list of what they are. I don't know how easy this sort of mashup is to make, yet.
It also would fall down where there are multiple photos required for one article, as in this case.
Steve
Steve Bennett wrote:
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:26 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton just volunteered for something. Anyone got favoured V&A exhibits we don't have a pic of? Get back to him with room, collection, cabinet, etc :-)
V&A = Victoria and Albert, a London museum, to save you all the trouble.
I still wish we had better processes for matching photo requests with potential contributors.
Something for Commons, though?
Charles
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Something for Commons, though?
That's tricky, since Commons by definition only stores media, it doesn't have a framework of concepts to hang media off by default. That's why it would be very natural to use the Wikipedias as that framework, but to somehow channel the requests to a central place on Commons.
Steve
The Signpost article about the new tool for scavenger hunts ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-11-23/Uploadi...) as part of the Wikipedia Takes The City ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_The_City) caught my eye.
So much so, in fact, enough to spur me into looking into all of my photos of Morocco, Bali and Thailand and setting up a trial run to complete the Moroccan collection.
That's a drop in the water, naturally, but if we could combine various initiatives such as this and those mentioned in previous posts, it would be a great start.
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On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Something for Commons, though?
That's tricky, since Commons by definition only stores media, it doesn't have a framework of concepts to hang media off by default. That's why it would be very natural to use the Wikipedias as that framework, but to somehow channel the requests to a central place on Commons.
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2009/12/6 Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com:
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Something for Commons, though?
That's tricky, since Commons by definition only stores media, it doesn't have a framework of concepts to hang media off by default. That's why it would be very natural to use the Wikipedias as that framework, but to somehow channel the requests to a central place on Commons.
Building a place and linking it from Commons would work for everyone, I think.
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On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 2:28 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/12/6 Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com:
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Something for Commons, though?
That's tricky, since Commons by definition only stores media, it doesn't have a framework of concepts to hang media off by default. That's why it would be very natural to use the Wikipedias as that framework, but to somehow channel the requests to a central place on Commons.
Building a place and linking it from Commons would work for everyone, I think.
There *are* photo request places on en-Wikipedia, last time I looked. Let me look again...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_pictures
That is a mixed system of topic pages of requests, and categories of articles where photos have been requested.
Carcharoth
2009/12/6 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
There *are* photo request places on en-Wikipedia, last time I looked. Let me look again... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_pictures That is a mixed system of topic pages of requests, and categories of articles where photos have been requested.
Yeah, that'd be the place to start some "by location" or "by institution" missing photo lists.
(Project: go through the whole V&A catalogue, see what items' articles don't have a photo, make list with location in museum.)
(In the case that brought this up, there are euphonicons in several museums - apparently they were really pretty darn mediocre pianos, and there's good reason they're all but forgotten - but the V&A sprang to mind as one that we know is Wikipedia-friendly. All the more reason for museums to work with us for the publicity ;-) )
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