Activities/Britain Loves Wikipedia

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London Loves Wikipedia

See London Loves Wikipedia

Outline

Two proposals have been received both focusing on the events on St Valentine's Day 2009.

a) Restricting the event to a centralised programme around working with museums along the lines of Wikipedia Loves Art, thereby achieving an extensive relation to art
b) Making the event extra lovely by including Wiki Art, a project set up on the same day which exhibits an intensive relation to art.

Benefits

It benefits the projects - especially Wikipedia - as it generates photos that can be used.

Financial requirements

Not much - prizes Could be sponsored as per Wikipedia Loves Art

Volunteering

Organisers (two? - one Board, one non-Board? User:AndrewRT was original proposer, Editor Potter also available.) Participants to take photos, process, upload, use (as many as possible)

Discussion

We could try to generalise things a bit more - e.g. go a bit more sciency and get the Science Museum and/or Natural History Museum involved, or have an additional focus on architecture. Mike Peel 22:43, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Tate Gallery might be worth contacting - they donated 400 files free to itunes in April 2009. AndrewRT 21:51, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Funding was requested for this as part of the "Kick Start" grant application to the WMF here. Mike Peel 11:54, 27 June 2009 (UTC)