[WikiEN-l] Feature Article Prizes - British Museum

[Liam Wyatt]

On 17 June 2010 03:28, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear en.wiki-l,
> >
> > As some of you may have seen in this week's Wikipedia Signpost[1] or on
> the
> > Wikimedia UK Blog[2] the British Museum is offering five prizes of £100
> > (≈$140USD/€120) at their shop/bookshop[3]  for new Featured Articles on
> > topics related to the British Museum *in any Wikipedia language edition*.
> > Ideally, the topics will be articles about collection items. Your choice.
> A
> > good place to start looking is Category: Collection of the British Museum
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collection_of_the_British_Museum
>
> The rules say:
> * In the event that multiple users claim a prize for the same article,
> they will need to agree among themselves how to allocate the prize.
>
> Given that an FA involves many contributors, we can expect that each
> successful FA will have many people who "deserve" a cut.  This should
> be interesting to watch. ;-)
>

Feature Articles are always interesting to watch and I'm looking forward to
watching these ones :-)
One of these days I'd like to see some software that lets us create
timelapse videos of articles to watch how a FA was built up. But I
digress...

No FA is ever written alone, this is true, at the very least there are the
peer reviewers at the FAC. But in the vast majority of times an article is
built up by the efforts of a single person or couple of people working
together closely. Whilst no revision is more individually valuable than the
other the combined effort of that single/couple of people's efforts are
generally recognised by the community as being the primary contributions.
The person(s) who put in the lion's share of the work for any one article
knows who they are and many FA writers already claim this by putting little
FA stars on their userpage. If it turns out that a bunch of people are
racing each other to try and bring the same article to FA in order to claim
the same prize without telling each other and without the others noticing -
a highly unlikely circumstance - then we can deal with that as it comes and
potentially provide some other kind of thanks from the museum :-)

>
> Any chance the British Museum will donate a high-resolution image when
> the article becomes a GA?
>

I'm working on it, I really am. But the whole image donation thing is a much
longer process than it might seem at first. The thing with multimedia
donations is that any GLAM has to at first come to terms with the
implications of free-licensing of their own photographs irrespective of
whether we're talking about 1 or 100,000 images. So, simply asking for 1 of
a museum's images doesn't actually make the approval process any quicker
because the mere concept of CC-by-SA has to be approved by a museum's
top-brass first. On the other hand, the British Museum does allow
photography inside the museum which is better than many.

-Liam [[witty lama]]


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