Message: 7
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:25:33 +0400
From: "Yaroslav M. Blanter" <putevod(a)mccme.ru>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions
Shutting Down
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On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 22:13:58 +0100, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2012/1/7 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
On 7 January 2012 20:12, emijrp
<emijrp(a)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