Between now and the Summer of 2012 London is supposedly hosting the cultural Olympiad. But one might suspect that the Olympics committee is neglecting that and concentrating on the sporting side of the Olympics.
However it would tick a few boxes if this could be presented as a mass volunteer cultural event, part of the cultural Olympics with a permanent digital legacy.
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--- On Mon, 20/7/09, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] London Loves Wikipedia To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Monday, 20 July, 2009, 5:05 PM 2009/7/20 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
Hi all,
You're probably all aware of the London Loves
WIkipedia initiative,
which has been funded (via the WMF) and will be
running in the next
year (most likely the actual event will run in
february 2010). The
page for this is at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/London_Loves_Wikipedia
Who would be interested in lending a hand organizing
this?
The first task would be figuring out everything that's
necessary -
but a broad-brush overview would be:
- Get museums involved, start discussions with them
as to what can
be photographed, what rules are necessary, when
special events should
happen etc.
Someone should contact the London Mayor's office as well - if we can get their endorsement it would probably help a lot.
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