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.
The photographs entered into the competition will be made available on Wikimedia Commons, which is an image library used by a number of websites including Wikipedia.
Benefits
The benefits of the event are:
- For museums: Increased the visibility of your collections, reaching new audiences and increased visitor numbers, ...
- 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: Winning prizes; having their images used on Wikipedia, ...
Past events
Two successful photography competitions like Britain Loves Wikipedia have been run in the past, as well as a number of similar other events.
In February 2009, the Wikipedia Loves Art event ran in museums in the US and the UK, including the Victoria and Albert Museum. Over 300 photographs were taken at the V&A during this event, which are now available on Wikimedia Commons and are currently being integrated into Wikipedia articles.
Wiki Loves Art NL ran in the Netherlands in June 2009; this involved 46 museums, including the Van Gogh Museum and the Tropenmuseum. Over 4,000 photographs were entered into the event, which are now on Wikimedia Commons.
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, and will build upon the leaflet from the event at the V&A, which is available here.
We are currently in the process of creating a website which participants will use to upload their photographs,
If you want to participate in the event, or have any questions, please contact Mike Peel at michael.peel
wikimedia.org.uk or on +44 (0)7988 013 646.
Copyright
All content on Wikimedia projects needs to have a free license associated with it, and needs to have clear copyright status. Copyright infringing material that is uploaded to Wikimedia projects will be deleted by the volunteer editors there. This includes any images that are taken of objects that are currently in copyright - for example recent paintings.
Wikimedia projects do not currently consider anything beyond copyright, however. The standard refrain here is "Wikipedia is not censored". We realise that this could present problems for you, so images taken during this competition will be put into a "staging area" where you can approve the images to be transferred to Wikimedia Commons.
The photographs taken during this competition must be released under one of three licenses, depending on the choice of the photographer:
- Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales (The photographer must be attributed, and any derivative images must be released under the same license)
- Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales (The photographer must be attributed)
- Public domain (the images can be used for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law)
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?)