Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Powerhouse Museum

G'day All, I think quite a few of you are already familiar with the fact that The Powerhouse Museum has been working on releasing some of their materials onto Flickr for some time (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/for an absolute goldmine of 'no known copy restictions' material :-) I recently finally figured out how to upload in batches to Commons, and following in the footsteps of folk like User:Riana, who had uploaded quite a few already, put a couple of the 'sets' onto Commons; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Privatemusings/gallery They're well worth checking out, and it's both great fun, and very easy to find suitable articles for this fantastic material :-) Anywhoo.. this inspired me to get in touch with the folk at the museum, and I've just returned from a really nice lunch with Paula and Seb, who are museum staff, and broadly responsible for Powerhouse Images. As well as letting them know a little bit about how Wikimedia Commons works etc. (preaching to the already very well informed choir as it happens!) I wanted to give them the latest news on the Chapter etc. and raise the possibility of future partnerships. It's all very 'blue sky' at this point, but here are a few of the things we covered; - Having 'The Powerhouse' join the chapter as a 'corporate' member or somesuch - received very positively with the caution that this requires a bit of time - Involvement in education projects / partnerships with The Powerhouse - again very positive, and possibly ultimately related to Liams ideas about talks for schools etc. - Chapter involvement in helping The Powerhouse track 'their' image usage - this was highlighted as a very important area, and involves things like volunteers preparing reports / writing up specific examples about how images are used. This also may include the development of 'best practice' re: templates which we apply to images on Commons etc. (for example, having 'from The Powerhouse Museum' in the image title, with a link from the image page to their website was most definitely a 'good thing' :-) All in all it was great to sit down and chat with The Powerhouse folk, and I'm popping back in a fortnight to just show them briefly where their images are currently being used (that I'm aware of), and some basic tracking (watchlist / check usage etc.). For the curious, here are some examples of articles with Powerhouse Images; - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Andrew%27s_Cathedral,_Sydney - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Street,_Sydney (see my contributions for quite a few more :-) - and go add a pic from the gallery to an article yourself!) cheers all, Peter PM.