2009/7/18 John at Darkstar <vacuum(a)jeb.no>no>:
Imagine this, if a gallery or museum has a painting of
some "Leonard van
der Olsen-Mozart" (he don't exist, hopefully..) then this museum should
make sure there is a bio for the person and of his painting of "The
fallen Madonna with the big bottom", and those should link back to the
galleries own pages. At those pages the gallery should make available
any high res copies, uv-scans, scientific works, etc, about the painting
and the painter. We should be "the yellow pages for the
GLAM-institutions". It should be so important for them to have a
presence on Wikipedia that it should raise questions from the government
if they don't have a sufficient presence.
Giving galleries lots of links to their pages is something we should
be happy to do, as it's informative, educational and helps the reader.
One of the many Freedom Of Information requests people have filed with
the NPG in the past week (since this storm broke) is: what proportion
of their web hits are from Wikipedia/Wikimedia?
- d.