Re: [WikiEN-l] Feature Article Prizes - British Museum
On 17 June 2010 03:28, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Dear en.wiki-l, As some of you may have seen in this week's Wikipedia Signpost[1] or on the Wikimedia UK Blog[2] the British Museum is offering five prizes of £100 (≈$140USD/€120) at their shop/bookshop[3] for new Featured Articles on topics related to the British Museum *in any Wikipedia language edition*. Ideally, the topics will be articles about collection items. Your choice. A good place to start looking is Category: Collection of the British Museum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collection_of_the_British_Museum The rules say: * In the event that multiple users claim a prize for the same article, they will need to agree among themselves how to allocate the prize. Given that an FA involves many contributors, we can expect that each successful FA will have many people who deserve a cut. This should be interesting to watch. ;-) Feature Articles are always interesting to watch and I'm looking forward to watching these ones :-) One of these days I'd like to see some software that lets us create timelapse videos of articles to watch how a FA was built up. But I digress... No FA is ever written alone, this is true, at the very least there are the peer reviewers at the FAC. But in the vast majority of times an article is built up by the efforts of a single person or couple of people working together closely. Whilst no revision is more individually valuable than the other the combined effort of that single/couple of people's efforts are generally recognised by the community as being the primary contributions. The person(s) who put in the lion's share of the work for any one article knows who they are and many FA writers already claim this by putting little FA stars on their userpage. If it turns out that a bunch of people are racing each other to try and bring the same article to FA in order to claim the same prize without telling each other and without the others noticing - a highly unlikely circumstance - then we can deal with that as it comes and potentially provide some other kind of thanks from the museum :-) Any chance the British Museum will donate a high-resolution image when the article becomes a GA? I'm working on it, I really am. But the whole image donation thing is a much longer process than it might seem at first. The thing with multimedia donations is that any GLAM has to at first come to terms with the implications of free-licensing of their own photographs irrespective of whether we're talking about 1 or 100,000 images. So, simply asking for 1 of a museum's images doesn't actually make the approval process any quicker because the mere concept of CC-by-SA has to be approved by a museum's top-brass first. On the other hand, the British Museum does allow photography inside the museum which is better than many. -Liam [[witty lama]] -- John Vandenberg ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] Feature Article Prizes - British Museum
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Dear en.wiki-l, As some of you may have seen in this week's Wikipedia Signpost[1] or on the Wikimedia UK Blog[2] the British Museum is offering five prizes of £100 (≈$140USD/€120) at their shop/bookshop[3] for new Featured Articles on topics related to the British Museum *in any Wikipedia language edition*. Ideally, the topics will be articles about collection items. Your choice. A good place to start looking is Category: Collection of the British Museum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collection_of_the_British_Museum The rules say: * In the event that multiple users claim a prize for the same article, they will need to agree among themselves how to allocate the prize. Given that an FA involves many contributors, we can expect that each successful FA will have many people who deserve a cut. This should be interesting to watch. ;-) Any chance the British Museum will donate a high-resolution image when the article becomes a GA? -- John Vandenberg ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
[WikiEN-l] Feature Article Prizes - British Museum
Dear en.wiki-l, As some of you may have seen in this week's Wikipedia Signpost[1] or on the Wikimedia UK Blog[2] the British Museum is offering five prizes of £100 (≈$140USD/€120) at their shop/bookshop[3] for new Featured Articles on topics related to the British Museum *in any Wikipedia language edition*. Ideally, the topics will be articles about collection items. Your choice. A good place to start looking is Category: Collection of the British Museum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collection_of_the_British_Museum The full information about this Features Article Prize is at the documentation page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Featured_Article_prize That is [[WP:GLAM/BM/Featured Article prize]] This is the first time an organisation in the UK has put out a prize that recognises the value of good quality articles on Wikipedia in their own right. This is a recognition that Wikipedia work is not only good quality but is consistent with the outreach aspect of the Museum’s mission to engage the public. You don’t have to sign-up and the competition runs as long as there are prizes to hand out. The museum has curators dedicated to answering phone and email questions about their specialist areas and they recognise that editing Wikipedia articles, especially about items in the BM’s collections, counts for those purposes. Equally, the museum will not attempt exert any editorial control over the articles and accepts the community’s own judgement on what constitutes a Featured Article. If you require assistance in approaching the British Museum curators, please contact me directly or place your request at the British Museum: One on One collaborations page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/One_on_one_collaborations Again, the full and place to ask questions is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Featured_Article_prize Good luck! Liam Wyatt [[Witty Lama]] Volunteer Wikipedian in Residence, British Museum wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Tools/Single#News_and_notes [2] http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2010/06/featured-article-prizes-from-the-british-museum/ [3] http://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/ wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
