From my understanding of the situation, the most basic thing we can
do is to act as a link between the Museum(s) and Wikipedia/et al., to
make sure that the fledgling alliance between the two does well and
continues in the future, and that there are no misunderstandings. We
could also get more museums or other collections involved (e.g.
perhaps historical houses?), and do our best to raise the profile of
the event, to maximise the number of people who get involved, and
also those that hear about it (e.g. put it in the newsletter, mention
it around the wikis where UK-based people hang out, possibly even get
it mentioned in the press, magazines, etc.) There is a lot that can
be done just with the expenditure of time, without requiring finances.
That said, I like your ideas, but with some modifications. It would
be better if we could find someone to provide a prize, rather than
purchase and provide one ourselves - for example, is there an art
print shop that would consider providing some prints? It might be
good to focus things on a single day (whilst stressing that the event
is continuing over a month); for example, have a launch day for the
event.
First and foremost, though, we should get in contact with the
Victoria and Albert museum, and ask if there's anything we can do to
help, ask if they have any questions about how the project will run,
find out what resources they will be committing to the project, find
out whether they'll allow tripods, etc. The most important thing is
to start talking with them.
Mike
On 28 Nov 2008, at 23:26, Andrew Turvey wrote:
I was having a think about this project and I wondered
what the
nascent UK chapter could easily do to help out for this. Two ideas
sprang to mind:
1) Looking at Wikipedia Loves Art on flikr, it mentions "Teams with
the most points at the end of the month will get cool
prizes" (
http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art/). Could/
should Wiki UK maybe put up a prize for the best team at the
Victoria & Albert? Say budget £50 and get a gift (somthing like
this maybe:
http://www.vandashop.com/product.php?xProd=142&s=1 with
a message from the chapter?)
2) Alternatively, if we arranged a particular day where a group of
wikipedians went down to capture images from the V&A, could we
maybe do something where we had a reception and served coffee and
sandwiches to people who had come down for it?
Has anyone done anythign like this before? Do you know what kind of
thing would work?
Andrew
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