On 7 January 2012 21:13, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not sure. If the WMF goals are to
collect/preserve/disseminate
educational content, they can start with the holdings in endangered
cultural institutions. It is not my work, but some suggestions, from low to
high involvement:
* blog post exposing the events
* a call to the museums, showing that we are concerned
* offering wikimedia projects to host any materials they want to give
* marathon to create related articles
* organize a "Wiki Invades..." to take photos and notes of the collections
* wikipedian in residence and put some money to fund some activities
* any other high profile partnership
You realise that having raised it, you're the volunteer who gets to do
the coordination and heavy lifting ;-)
Are there any nearby local Wikimedia chapters/groups or similar groups
(CC, librarians, etc) reading this who can help?
And read international news related to our long-term
goals.
This was the very first I'd heard of it, I glance at the news ... so
thanks for alerting us :-) I see it's hit the news big time now, e.g.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Bosnian-closure-threatened-museum-get…
and 185 similar articles on Google News ...
- d.