[Wikimediauk-l] Re: Image donation from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Richard,

Just had a look and quite a few of the buildings/sites illustrated do not have articles & the main Exeter articles already has loads of images.

Added one or two to relevant categories on commons.

Rod

From: Richard Nevell [mailto:richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk] Sent: 18 January 2023 14:53 To: UK Wikimedia mailing list Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Re: Image donation from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Thanks Farah - we're talking to RAMM about how to go about adding images to articles. We've not decided just yet, but one possibility is having a public editathon. I'll email this list if we go down that route.

On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 12:01, Farah Jack Mustaklem fjmustak@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks for the amazing work!

If I can be of any help on the ground in Exeter please let me know.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 16:48 Richard Nevell richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:

Hello all,

Last month the Royal Albert Memorial Museum https://rammuseum.org.uk/ approached Wikimedia UK for help sharing images. As part of our Connected Heritage https://wikimedia.org.uk/connected-heritage/ project we're helping cultural heritage professionals improve their digital skills and share content on Wikimedia sites and helping some of their staff learn how to use Pattypan fits pretty nicely with that.

Yesterday, RAMM and WMUK worked together to share a few dozen public domain images from their collection: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Royal_Albert_Memoria...

My personal favourite is the painting of the monumental East Gate https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_View_of_the_East_Gate.jpg in the city wall. It might be controversial, but its eye catching colour just edges ahead of the line drawing of the castle for me.

If anyone feels like adding them to articles, you're welcome to get stuck in and every edit will help. We've set up tracking on BaGLAMa and are hoping to use the tool to show to other museums in the region the benefits of sharing stuff on Commons.

Kind regards,

Richard Nevell