Hello everyone,
I would like to share the following email (below) from the new Wikipedian
in Residance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Richard
(user:Pharos) is calling for Wikipedia editors who might be interested to
participate in sorting and/or using content from the museum on Wikipedia
and WikiData. If you feel there might be art works that will likely be
digitise that could be useful for your favorate Wikipedia topics or just
like doing WikiData stuff then dont hesitate to sign up.
See below for details,
Douglas.
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From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
Date: 30 March 2017 at 23:28
Subject: [WMCON17] Metropolitan Museum of Art collaborations
To: wmcon17(a)listen.wikimedia.de
Hi fellow attendees,
I recently started a project as Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York City:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art
As the Met is a major "encyclopedic" museum with an international
collection, we'd like to start collaborations soon with Wikimedia chapters
and related groups around the world.
Please join the WikiProject if you are interested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan_
Museum_of_Art/Members
Besides uploading ~375k images eventually, we also want to help facilitate
articles on these artworks on multiple language Wikipedias, and are
developing some special tools to create drafts from Wikidata,
You can search the Met collection to see examples of artworks from your own
country/region:
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/
I'd also be very glad to get in touch with folks in-person at the
conference, or by personal email. If folks are interested, we could do an
informal meetup as well.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
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Douglas Ian Scott
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Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727