If anyone happens to be in the Netherlands in June, you might be interested in this...
Given our proposed "London Loves Wikipedia" event [1] it might be a good idea to
get one of us along to the September event.
Regards,
[1]
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Proposals#London_Loves_Wikipedia
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Subject: [Internal-l] Announcing Wiki loves art Netherlands
Hello everyone,
here's an update on the Dutch Wiki loves art (WLA) project. This event
was inspired by previous comparable projects (Wikipedia loves art) in
the US and Australia (from which we also had some handy tips, thanks
Liam!)
The Dutch version of WL A will be organized by Wikimedia Nederland and
Creative Commons Nederland, with support from the Museumnight
Foundation, Digital Heritage Netherlands and ISP XS4ALL.
We had a kickoff event at the end of April, and tomorrow the first
press release will go to the press in which we can happily announce
that we have 31 museums participating all over the country, including
some high profile names such as Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam),
Gemeentemuseum (Den Haag) and the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam).
The event will take place during the whole month of June. People do
not need to subscribe themselves before going to the museum, except
for special events like guided tours. Subscription to these events
will be handled by the museums themselves.
After people have taken pictures at the museums, they can upload them
to a WLA group created on Flickr. Photographs have to comply to a few
rules to get their pictures in the Flickr group. These rules will
include a few things about the quality of the pictures. Photographs
should be licensed CC-BY or CC-BY-SA, where the latter is preferred.
Attached to the events in June is a competition where a professional
jury will select ten winning photographs. The winner of the
competition will get a nice price, including 500 euros to spend on
photographic equipment.
People who want to participate in the competition need to submit their
photographs to the WLA group on Flickr. Winners will be announced at
an event in the beginning of september, so the jury has July and
August to select a winner. In those two months all the pictures will
also be transferred to Wikimedia Commons. Museums will get the chance
to add extra metadata to the pictures before they are uploaded on
Commons.
On the 21st of June a large event will take place at the Boijmans van
Beuningen museum in Rotterdam. This event will be sponsored by XS4ALL
and we have room for around 350 people. We hope this event will get
people talking to each other about other new projects.
I hope this answers a few questions some of you might have. Of course,
comments and critique are still welcome, but because the event will
start in one week we might not be able to change a lot. Of course, if
you happen to be in the Netherlands in June, please visit a few
museums and take some pictures! Or if you're not in Holland then you
can still help by including the photographs from Commons in your
favorite articles.
Regards,
– Hay
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