---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: [cultural-partners] [Chapters] Featured article prize from the
British Museum in any language
To: chapters(a)wikimedia.ch
Cc: chapters-cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch, mcock(a)thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Glad to see WM-SV is interested in getting involved :-)
The deadline is the 5 prizes. After the 5 prizes have been awarded then the
BM will assess whether it was a valuable exercise from their perspective and
we will go from there. So, the start of the contest is "now" and the
deadline is "as soon as the 5 prizes are claimed". Yes you can announce it
publicly and I encourage you to place this on your respective Village Pumps.
There is no documentation page on-wiki because it's quite simple: be in the
first 5 to write a featured article about a BM object = claim a prize. (only
1 prize per person and only 1 prize per article.)
Determining the "winner" can sometimes be difficult if there are multiple
people collaborating on an article but generally speaking it is clear who is
the driving-force behind the creation of a Featured Article nomination. Two
or more people can claim a prize together but they will have to share. It is
here that having a Chapter to monitor the progress of a Featured Article
will be helpful as the chapter can give some kind of letter of support to a
person claiming the prize if they want to. To claim a prize, simply write to
me and I'll work it out the logistics with the winner privately.
There are deliberately few rules or qualification criteria - this is
supposed to be fun and open not a lengthy or bureaucratic process. If the
subject of the article is an object in the British Museum collection then
the article will definitely qualify for the prize, as will things that are
"highly related" like former heads of departments. If in doubt, ask me. The
qualification for the prize is whatever the local language considers to be
featured article quality - i.e. worthy of display on the main page. Smaller
language editions may have lower quality requirements but equally they have
fewer editors, so it's fair in the end.
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
Sziasztok!
Érdekes lehetőség a British Museumtól azoknak akik a múzeumhoz kapcsolódó
kiemelt cikket írnak.
Ha valakit érdekel a huwikin a lehetőség, arra kérném a kiemelés guruit,
hogy nyújtsanak elsőbbséget az ilyen témájú cikkeknek (tekintve, hogy a
játék bizonyára véget érne mire a jelölt cikk egyáltalán elérné a várólista
elejét és erre jön még rá a kiemelési eljárás).
Üdv,
Bence
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:27 PM
Subject: [cultural-partners] Featured article prize from the British Museum
in any language
To: chapters-cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch, chapters(a)wikimedia.ch
Cc: Matthew Cock <MCOCK(a)thebritishmuseum.ac.uk>
Dear Chapters and Cultural-partnerships lists,
As some of you are probably aware, I'm currently away from my Home-Chapter
(Wikimedia Australia) working in Wikimedia UK's territory :-)
I'm over here in London volunteering with the British Museum as their
"Wikipedian in Residence". Two days ago we had a highly successful event - a
"backstage pass tour" where curators showed local Wikipedians around the
building and some of their collection behind the scenes. This was a good way
of breaking down some of the barriers between our two communities and we
learned a lot from each other. You can read more about the outcomes of the
day here: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Backstage_Pass#Results_of_the_day
However - I'm writing specifically to inform you of an announcement made by
my supervisor Matthew Cock - the head of the Web department - during the
day:
*The British Museum is offering 5 prizes of £100 (approx. $140USD/120Euro)
at their shop/bookshop <http://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/> for featured
articles <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FA> on British Museum
related topics - in any language edition.* Ideally the subjects will be
articles about collection items. (maximum 1 prize per person, 1 prize per
article - people can chose to share a prize if they collaborated on it).
As far as I know, this is the first time an organisation has actually put
out a prize for Wikipedia work to recognise that it is valuable in its own
right. This is a recognition that Wikipedia-work is not only good quality
but meets the outreach aspect of the Museum's mission to engage the public.
It also has a positive effect for the institution in terms of usage of the
deeper resources and links back to their research material. A win-win for
free-culture and for the cultural sector. (And yes - before you ask - the
British Museum knows it does not have any editorial control over Wikipedia
and will not be trying to "own" articles).
I would especially like to reach out to those chapters who have a language
edition of Wikipedia that is closely tied to their chapter and those
smaller/newer chapters that don't have much money to offer in the way of
project-funding. I would be thrilled if a smaller/newer chapter would take
this offer from the British Museum and make it into a project of your own in
your language edition of Wikipedia.
Please, do get in contact with me if you would like to do something. You
might want to start by having a look at the British Museum's "highlights"
page and sort "by culture" or "by place" relevant to your own country's
culture/history/language -
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights.aspx Equally, you could look
at the current major project at the museum "A history of the world in 100
objects"<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_the_World_in_100_Objects>or
the existing
English Wikipedia articles about collection
objects<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collection_of_the_British_Museum>and
see if there's something that is relevant to your culture there.
Most Wikipedians probably don't know that the museum has curators dedicated
to answering phone/email questions about their specialist areas and they
recognise that editing Wikipedia articles, especially about items in the
BM's collections, counts for those purposes. Part of my role at the British
Museum is to put Wikipedians in touch with the relevant curator so they can
help each other so please do contact me if you would like to get assistance
from the experts.
The English-Wikipedia page:
WP:GLAM/BM<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM>is the
clearing house for the BM's involvement with Wikipedia and you can
get further information about the project there or by simply emailing me.
Please forward this to anyone who you think would be interested and contact
me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
-Liam [[witty lama]]
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
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Üdv,
Bence
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From: miya <narniancat.miya(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:24 PM
Subject: [Commons-l] [POTY2009] Voting for the Final open
To: commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear Wikimedians,
The final round for the 2009 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest
is now open!
The top images were chosen from the first round, thanks to voters like you.
In order to determine the very best picture of the remaining candidates,
you have exactly one vote left.
The finalists are listed here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2009/Finalists
.
If you are eligible, you can vote in the final even if you didn't vote in
the first round.
Please visit here to see if you are eligible:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2009/Voting.
Final voting is open till 2010-06-11 23:59 (UTC).
Wikimedia Commons would be happy to see you vote for whatever image
you believe deserves to be called the Picture of the Year 2009.
Thanks, Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee
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