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

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Hay (Husky)" huskyr@gmail.com To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" internal-l@lists.wikimedia.org, chapters@wikimedia.ch Sent: Sunday, 24 May, 2009 22:59:27 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 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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