Activities/Britain Loves Wikipedia

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Britain Loves Wikipedia, the name being a play off Valentine's Day, is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest that will be held in museums and cultural institutions across the UK, with the aim of increasing the number of pictures available to illustrate Wikipedia articles and to inspire new articles. The event will run for the whole month of February 2010. Although there are planned events at each location, you can go to most museums on your own at any time during the month.

The event will kick off with a launch event at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Sunday, 31 January 2010, followed by a series of events each weekend at locations around the UK.

Britain Loves Wikipedia follows on from the successful Wikipedia Takes Manhattan event held in October 2008, which lead to Wikipedia Loves Art and Wiki Loves Art NL.

These pages are currently being developed. This is a wiki, so feel free to help out! Please contact Mike Peel if you have any questions, or are interested in being involved in this event.'

Why participate?

Individuals

• It benefits the Wikimedia projects - especially Wikipedia - as it generates photos that can be used in Wikipedia articles.
• You're helping spread free knowledge on the internet
• You get to win cool prizes
• Sign up here!

Museums

• You get to work with Wikipedia - the world's largest reference website - to spread knowledge about items in your collection
• It reaches new audiences and brings them into your museum
• You get to benefit from the publicity surrounding the event
• (more good reasons to come)

How to participate

• Read these suggestions on taking photograph in museums
• Come along to an event at a participating museum, or just come along to a participating museum at any time during February 2010
• Bring your camera, and take photos of public domain items on the targets list
• Upload your images (website to come)