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: 1. Get museums involved, start discussions with them as to what can be photographed, what rules are necessary, when special events should happen etc. 2. Get sponsors involved, gifting prizes 3. Develop the webpages and other documentation, get participants to go to the museums during the appropriate month and upload their pictures 4. Be at the special events, making sure that they go smoothly etc. 5. After the event, help sort through the images, work out who wins the prizes, and assist in moving the images to Wikimedia Commons (if they're not there already).
Of course, not all of this has to be done by one person (a team of 3-4 would work best, I think), and the workload would be spread out over the course of a year, so there's not that much to be done at any one time.
Volunteers, comments and/or questions?
Thanks, Mike
On 2009-07-20 08:48:20 +0100, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net said:
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. 2. Get sponsors involved, gifting prizes 3. Develop the webpages and other documentation, get participants to go to the museums during the appropriate month and upload their pictures 4. Be at the special events, making sure that they go smoothly etc. 5. After the event, help sort through the images, work out who wins the prizes, and assist in moving the images to Wikimedia Commons (if they're not there already).
Of course, not all of this has to be done by one person (a team of 3-4 would work best, I think), and the workload would be spread out over the course of a year, so there's not that much to be done at any one time.
Volunteers, comments and/or questions?
Thanks, Mike
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Has anyone contacted the NPG? ;)
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Joe Andersoncomputerjoe@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone contacted the NPG? ;)
That might not be a bad idea, actually. I suggest you poke Erik with a link to this and ask him to include it in the good faith discussions, if possible. Who knows what would happen. :-)
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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