[Wikimediaau-l] Powerhouse Museum

private musings thepmaccount at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 04:36:52 UTC 2008


ps. I forgot to mention that I'm going to talk a little bit about this pic.s
and The Powerhouse museum at the upcoming Wiki Wednesday in Sydney (
http://www.customware.net/repository/display/WikiWednesday/Wiki+Wednesday )
- all Sydneysiders most welcome :-)

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:34 PM, private musings <thepmaccount at gmail.com>wrote:

> G'day All,
>
> I think quite a few of you are already familiar with the fact that The
> Powerhouse Museum has been working on releasing some of their materials onto
> Flickr for some time (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/for an absolute goldmine of 'no known copy restictions' material :-)
>
> I recently finally figured out how to upload in batches to Commons, and
> following in the footsteps of folk like User:Riana, who had uploaded quite a
> few already, put a couple of the 'sets' onto Commons;
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Privatemusings/gallery
>
> They're well worth checking out, and it's both great fun, and very easy to
> find suitable articles for this fantastic material :-)
>
> Anywhoo.. this inspired me to get in touch with the folk at the museum, and
> I've just returned from a really nice lunch with Paula and Seb, who are
> museum staff, and broadly responsible for Powerhouse Images. As well as
> letting them know a little bit about how Wikimedia Commons works etc.
> (preaching to the already very well informed choir as it happens!) I wanted
> to give them the latest news on the Chapter etc. and raise the possibility
> of future partnerships. It's all very 'blue sky' at this point, but here are
> a few of the things we covered;
>
>    - Having 'The Powerhouse' join the chapter as a 'corporate' member or
>    somesuch - received very positively with the caution that this requires a
>    bit of time
>    - Involvement in education projects / partnerships with The Powerhouse
>    - again very positive, and possibly ultimately related to Liams ideas about
>    talks for schools etc.
>    - Chapter involvement in helping The Powerhouse track 'their' image
>    usage - this was highlighted as a very important area, and involves things
>    like volunteers preparing reports / writing up specific examples about how
>    images are used. This also may include the development of 'best practice'
>    re: templates which we apply to images on Commons etc. (for example, having
>    'from The Powerhouse Museum' in the image title, with a link from the image
>    page to their website was most definitely a 'good thing' :-)
>
> All in all it was great to sit down and chat with The Powerhouse folk, and
> I'm popping back in a fortnight to just show them briefly where their images
> are currently being used (that I'm aware of), and some basic tracking
> (watchlist / check usage etc.). For the curious, here are some examples of
> articles with Powerhouse Images;
>
>
>    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Andrew%27s_Cathedral,_Sydney
>    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough
>    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel
>    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Street,_Sydney
>
> (see my contributions for quite a few more :-) - and go add a pic from the
> gallery to an article yourself!)
>
> cheers all,
>
> Peter
> PM.
>
>
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