Richard, Doug, cc to you?
Stamford sounds good as another location. I'm meeting Andrew Turvey in a pub
south of Derby on Wednesday night at 8 to discuss amongst other things "GLAM
Derby"... send an email to victuallers at gmail if you would like to join us
and I'll send you a post code/address
Roger
On 29 January 2011 03:48, Richard Farmbrough <richard(a)farmbrough.co.uk>wrote;wrote:
Stamford Museum would be a great choice as we are
battling to save it from
closure, scheduled for June 30 2011.
On 28/01/2011 17:17, Roger Bamkin wrote:
A Holding email Doug,
I had seen your previous email and seen it as an opportuntity to put
together a really good description. This reply is not my best effort but it
is quick.
Basically the idea is to choose a museum outside London and see if
wikimedia can focus the same amount of attention that we did on the British
Museum last year. I was very involved with that collaboration which I saw as
inspiring and very successful and it created over 100 new articles from FA
down to Start. However the British Museum was big, famous and impressive
when we arrived and although we created over 100 articles the overall effect
on the museum itself was difficult to measure - ie it was still big, famous
and impressive. Although I do not want to downplay the effect the work had
on opinions and regard for wikimedia within the GLAM sector and the BM
itself. It did convince me that a well organised project can inspire
wikipedians and the people we come in contact with.
I'm not sure of your knowledge of the BM work but there were two events to
start with... ie a backstage pass and a challenge day. We have agreed with
Derby museum that they will support these two events.
This is not intended to be a regional event, but a national event focussed
on one particular museum (per chance Derby). Its my hope that this model can
be rolled forward to other museums with each meeting being a model of
good/bad practise for the next. (At present there are only a couple of other
museums on the "interested" list.... but if we don't build it then they
might not come)
The project exists as a press
release<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/First_GLAMWIKI_outsi…al>,
and as a GLAM project <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Derby>.
I would strongly encourage those who are interested to sign
up<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Derby/Participants>to receive info
and to keep it on your watch list. The challenge day is
intended to particularly appeal to linguists (either by heritage (Polish,
Urdu et al) or talent (Etruscan, latin etc)). Jimmy Wales has welcomed the
proposal as has the board of Wikimedia UK.
Currently I'm trying to get pictures available on commons so that
wikipedians have these available ready for the first event. (A mini Britain
loves Wikipedia pre push would be great as articles to my mind are inspired
by pictures - I'm trying to intrigue Geograph-ers and Flickr-ers to contribute
early to
commons<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Derby_Museum_and_Art_Gallery&g…ry>.)
I see below Steve Virgin's proposal. I will make this into a blog post over
the weekend.
I thought it best to post this holding note so you did not feel the project
was not listening to your enquiries
cheers
Roger
On 28 January 2011 14:52, Doug Weller <dougweller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Still trying to find out what the deal is with
Derby Museum, which
gather is not involved in Britain Loves Wikipedia competition, right?
Doug
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:37 PM, steve virgin <steve(a)mediafocusuk.com>
wrote:
Mike
What about Roger writing a brief blog post & we slip it quickly onto the
facebook site as well?
Steve
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Hi Roger,
I look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
With the Derby museums press release: there was no board decision to not
send this out. I think it just got overlooked in the general madness and
busy-ness surrounding the 10th birthday. I'm following up with Gemma
about
this, and it will hopefully go out in the near
future. Sorry about that.
Thanks,
Mike
On 23 Jan 2011, at 10:45, Roger Bamkin wrote:
Andrew, yes I am interested and intend to be
there.
I must mention the press release about Derby Museum which as you know
consumed a
bit of effort. Derby Museums released it locally but as far
as I
can see it was never released by Wikimedia. Was
this a board decision?
best regards
Roger
01332 702993
On 21 January 2011 00:24, Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
From our blog,
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/:
Could you lead Wikimedia UK to success?
Next year is set to be another big year of growth for Wikimedia UK: we
have just raised over £500,000 in the Wikimedia Annual Fundraiser.
Most of this money will support the technical side of Wikimedia
through donations to the Foundation and the Toolserver. However, we
also plan to use the funds to recruit four more members of staff.
These staff will mean we can scale up our activities, enable more
activity by volunteers and professionalise the chapter. Our own
developer, events organiser, a full time office manager and a chapter
manager pulling everything together will no doubt transform Wikimedia
UK.
However, a key factor in our success will still be the board, which
will continue to lead the chapter and be made up of unpaid volunteers.
It will continue to be elected by our members, ordinary Wikimedians
who support our mission and want to make Wikipedia and free knowledge
even more successful.
Can you help lead the chapter to success in 2011 by standing for
election as a board member? If so, you’re warmly invited to join us on
Saturday 5th February from 5pm where you can find out more about what
is involved in being a board member and have an opportunity to ask any
questions and meet other interested people.
This “board interest day” will take place in central London (venue to
be confirmed). If you are interested please drop me a line to chair @
wikimedia.org.uk to reserve your place. You can also give me a ring on
07403 216 991 if you would like to discuss further.
Look forward to hearing from you!
Andrew Turvey
Chair, Wikimedia UK
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