Activities/Britain Loves Wikipedia/Museum participation

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This page describes how museums can participate in Britain loves Wikipedia, and various other frequently asked questions. Information for individuals will be coming soon.

Britain Loves Wikipedia is a photography contest to take photographs of objects in museum collections across the UK. The contest will run throughout February 2010, when members of the public - primarily those with an interest in Wikimedia and/or photography - will visit participating museums to take photographs.

The competition will have pre-specified targets, to be decided on jointly by the museums and Wikimedia UK. These will likely not be specific objects, rather they will be "themes" under which a number of items in the museums will fall.

Benefits

The benefits of the event are:

  • For museums:
  • For Wikimedia: Making more freely licensed images available of important objects in museums, which can be used to illustrate Wikipedia articles and inspire the creation of new articles
  • For the public:

Past events

Two photography competitions like Britain Loves Wikipedia have been run in the past.

In February 2009, the Wikipedia Loves Art event ran in museums in the US and the UK, including the Victoria and Albert Museum. The photographs taken at the V&A during this event are available on Wikimedia Commons.

Wiki Loves Art NL ran in the Netherlands in June 2009; this involved 46 museums, including the Van Gogh Museum and the Tropenmuseum.

How to participate

To participate in this event, you must allow members of the public into your museum to take photographs. The resulting photographs must not have any restrictions on their use - they have to be released under a Creative Commons license, or into the public domain (see Copyright, below).

We will jointly develop a list of targets with you that will both suit your museum and cover topics that Wikipedia does not have many images of.

We will provide leaflets describing the event, how people can participate and enter the competition, and what the targets are. These will be available both online and in paper form.

Copyright

A clear statement of Wikipedia’s copyright policy and what this means for museums (i.e. how they can monitor pictures before they go live and what restrictions they might want to put in place in the gallery to prevent the wrong photos being taken)

Marketing and promoting

Advice for marketing the event – the kinds of networks they may want to contact, how they can maximise traffic.

Advice for promoting participation – free entry days, allowing tripods and flash on certain days

Collections care

Advice about collections care when participating in the event (Nick Poole to expand?)