[Wikimediaau-l] Powerhouse Museum (offlist)

[Brianna Laugher]

Hey Peter,

I think all the stuff you are doing is really awesome, and I'm very
appreciative of your enthusiasm, but it might be worth giving others a
'heads-up' if you are meeting with groups/institutions and doing any
kind of "speaking on WMAU's behalf" thing. Only so that we don't step
on each other's toes. If we accidentally end up giving the same people
mixed messages, that's kind of uncool.

But don't hold back, by any means. Speaking of events, do you know if
there will be any video for the Sydney Wiki Wed??

cheers
Brianna


2008/11/6 private musings <thepmaccount at gmail.com>:
> 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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