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

[Pharos]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Hay (Husky) <huskyr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Hooray for Patricio and Wikimedia AR!

Looks like everything went brilliantly, and that you had a very
productive 'invasion'.  Like Hay, I am very happy to see this
cross-fertilization of ideas, and I very much look forward to future
updates from everyone.

Thanks,
Pharos

> 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
>>> Mensajería Instantánea: patricio_lorente at jabber.org
>>> Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar
>>>
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