Message: 7 Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:25:33 +0400 From: "Yaroslav M. Blanter" putevod@mccme.ru Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: fd4d5a6d2d4cf1db823bfb1df349c5ce@mccme.ru Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 22:13:58 +0100, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
2012/1/7 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
On 7 January 2012 20:12, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
The Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina holds 400,000 artifacts. Any National Cultural Institution closing is a disaster.
Yes, it is. So what's the game plan?
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
And read international news related to our long-term goals.
Regards, emijrp
May be checking with WM Serbia (I am not sure they can do anything, but it would be good to know) and leaving a message on Serbian Wikipedia asking for advise/clarification/actions. Everybody can leave this message, but probably the most efficient would be to find someone who speaks Serbian.
Cheers Yaroslav
I might just be a crypto-American chauvinist (and really, that sort of inflammatory message is completely unnecessary on this list), so I apologise for any ignorance on the situation, but would Wikimedia Serbia really be the best organisation to help out here. My understanding is that Bosnia-Serbia relations are still very... delicate... and a Serbian organisation coming in to help out with Bosnian cultural artefacts, no matter how well meaning, might not get the most enthusiastic of receptions.
Cheers, Craig