[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Invades La Plata Natural History Museum

Hay (Husky) huskyr at gmail.com
Wed May 13 11:31:43 UTC 2009


It's nice to see initatives like this spring up all over the world!

Next month Wikimedia Nederland (together with Creative Commons NL)
will organize a month-long 'wiki loves art' project in which 15
museums participate.

-- Hay

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:51 PM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Really nice Patricio. Keep up the good work and tell us about those future
> events!
>
> 2009/5/13 Patricio Lorente <patricio.lorente at gmail.com>
>
>> 2009/5/1 Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com>:
>> > I think this is a good idea too.
>> >
>> > You can make a pretty template for the images produced that both
>> > briefly explains the project and that also includes the
>> > Category:Wikipedia_Invades_La Plata_Natural_History_Museum.  I can
>> > help you with this if you'd like.
>> >
>> > This event documentation category would be added -in addition- to the
>> > encyclopedically-oriented Category:Museo_de_La_Plata.  Possibly in the
>> > future, with a growing archive of items in the museum's collection,
>> > you will even find the need for more specific topical categories, like
>> > Category:Dinosaurs_at_Museo_de_La_Plata.
>>
>> Sorry I didn't write any update since the "invasion". It was a great
>> experience, with many new volunteers, some of them professional
>> photographers. Many pictures have been already uploaded to Commons,
>> under the category "Wikipedia invade el Museo de La Plata", but there
>> are more to come. As you may see, there are photos of different
>> quality, but many of them are really great. See for example,
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diplodocus_Carnegii.jpg
>>
>> After this activity, we received many invitations from other museums,
>> and people from the provinces are organizing their own hunts.
>>
>>                                              Patricio
>>
>> --
>>
>> Patricio Lorente
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>> Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar
>>
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