Trying this again...
From: dgerard at gmail.com (David Gerard) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:19:02 +0000 Subject: [Wikimedia IE] Hello (with ideas)
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2009/11/22 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
There's an idea I'd like to put forward to the Irish community, to see if
it
would help to grow the Irish Wikipedia.? People have been looking for
ideas
about how to help the smaller Wikipedias grow.? I'd like to try a pilot
project with the Irish community, if you're amenable.? The basic idea is
to
build interest in the project with quality media. Two things happen when people see featured pictures about their culture:
they're delighted and they want to share information.
+1
This will also have other useful effects.
Talking to London museum people, the main thing they want is for their collections to be *used* - essentially, we pay them in credit. So a
programme to get stuff up will make life easier for Irish editors to deal with Irish museums.
- d.
For some reason this list isn't getting delivered to my mailbox yet, so pulled the above response off the recent archive.
There have been two different directions that museum partnerships with WMF groups have taken: quantity and quality. The optimal solution is to seek a combination of the two. A selection of highlights from the museum's collection that are
potentially feature-worthy certainly helps. Neither the curators nor the average WMF volunteer, though, is familiar with the
From dgerard at gmail.com Sun Nov 22 15:19:02 2009
Now it isn't bouncing back anymore, but my statement got truncated. Resending.
For some reason this list isn't getting delivered to my mailbox yet, so pulled the above response off the recent archive.
There have been two different directions that museum partnerships with WMF groups have taken: quantity and quality. The optimal solution is to seek a combination of the two. A selection of highlights from the museum's collection that are
potentially feature-worthy certainly helps. Neither the curators nor the average WMF volunteer, though, is familiar with the parameters of feature-quality digital restoration.
The baseline is to get a good quality scan of at least 10 MB in uncompressed TIFF format. I don't call a file large if it's under
100 MB. The largest image in my system right now is a 992.4 MB digitization of a historic Indonesian tapestry, courtesy of the Tropenmuseum.
My long term goal is to partner with art schools and incorporate historic digital restorations into the curricula, and to scale up
our restoration output that way.
Something to keep in mind while you talk with them. Would be delighted if you keep me in the loop about how the London museum community is responding, David.
Cheers, Lise
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Durova nadezhda.durova@gmail.com wrote:
Trying this again...
From: dgerard at gmail.com (David Gerard) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:19:02 +0000 Subject: [Wikimedia IE] Hello (with ideas)
In-Reply-To: a01006d90911212030i3d6ebe05t335ea9f74823e406@mail.gmail.com References: a01006d90911212030i3d6ebe05t335ea9f74823e406@mail.gmail.com
Message-ID: fbad4e140911220719g3dad812i3fdd43e197a7d3d1@mail.gmail.com
2009/11/22 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
There's an idea I'd like to put forward to the Irish community, to see if
it
would help to grow the Irish Wikipedia.? People have been looking for
ideas
about how to help the smaller Wikipedias grow.? I'd like to try a pilot
project with the Irish community, if you're amenable.? The basic idea is
to
build interest in the project with quality media. Two things happen when people see featured pictures about their culture:
they're delighted and they want to share information.
+1
This will also have other useful effects.
Talking to London museum people, the main thing they want is for their collections to be *used* - essentially, we pay them in credit. So a
programme to get stuff up will make life easier for Irish editors to deal with Irish museums.
- d.
For some reason this list isn't getting delivered to my mailbox yet, so pulled the above response off the recent archive.
There have been two different directions that museum partnerships with WMF groups have taken: quantity and quality. The optimal solution is to seek a combination of the two. A selection of highlights from the museum's collection that are
potentially feature-worthy certainly helps. Neither the curators nor the average WMF volunteer, though, is familiar with the From dgerard at gmail.com Sun Nov 22 15:19:02 2009
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