[Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

[emijrp]

2012/1/7 emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com>

> 2012/1/7 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
>
>> On 7 January 2012 20:12, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > The Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina holds 400,000 artifacts.
>> > Any National Cultural Institution closing is a disaster.
>>
>> Yes, it is. So what's the game plan?
>>
>>
> I'm not sure. If the WMF goals are to collect/preserve/disseminate
> educational content, they can start with the holdings in endangered
> cultural institutions. It is not my work, but some suggestions, from low to
> high involvement:
>
> * blog post exposing the events
> * a call to the museums, showing that we are concerned
> * offering wikimedia projects to host any materials they want to give
> * marathon to create related articles
> * organize a "Wiki Invades..." to take photos and notes of the collections
> * wikipedian in residence and put some money to fund some activities
> * any other high profile partnership
>
> And read international news related to our long-term goals.
>
>
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> Regards,
> emijrp
>