[Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art winner in London

2009-09-04 Thread Andrew Turvey
One of the winners of the Wikipedia Loves Art project that we ran in February is in London later this month (she lives in France) - would anyone be interested in meeting up? Please let me know. Andrew === Forwarded message: Andrew, I just booked a Eurostar ticket for Sept. 23rd.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art - prizes

2009-08-14 Thread Kwan Ting Chan
Andrew Turvey wrote: Thank you for your patience with us whilst we have processed these photographs, and we hope you enjoyed participating in this event. If you have any comments about this event or how it could be improved in the future, please let us know. *Look at the calendar* Hmm

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art - prizes

2009-08-14 Thread Andrew Turvey
Kwan Ting Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: From: Kwan Ting Chan k...@ktchan.info To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, 15 August, 2009 02:29:51 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art - prizes Andrew Turvey wrote

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art - prizes

2009-08-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all the organisers and competitors! ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art?

2009-03-23 Thread Isabell Long
2009/3/22 Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com: At 15:16 -0700 20/3/09, Cary Bass wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm supposed to be one of the judges. I found out that it's a lot of work assessing 6,300 images and haven't yet found much time for it. Cary This whole project

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art?

2009-03-23 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/22 Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com: This whole project has really been thought through... It got a bucketload of images, so it achieved its aims ;-p - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art?

2009-03-23 Thread Gordon Joly
At 08:45 + 23/3/09, David Gerard wrote: 2009/3/22 Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com: This whole project has really been thought through... It got a bucketload of images, so it achieved its aims ;-p - d. Yup! But then so did the FLICKR bots who trawled FLICKR for images with a suitable

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art?

2009-03-22 Thread Gordon Joly
At 15:16 -0700 20/3/09, Cary Bass wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm supposed to be one of the judges. I found out that it's a lot of work assessing 6,300 images and haven't yet found much time for it. Cary This whole project has really been thought through... Gordo --

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art?

2009-03-20 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm supposed to be one of the judges. I found out that it's a lot of work assessing 6,300 images and haven't yet found much time for it. Cary Gordon Joly wrote: What happened to Wikipedia Loves Art?

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art?

2009-03-20 Thread AndrewRT
Thanks for the nudge! I've been in touch with the organisers at the Brooklyn; they are currently working through each of the 11,528 images to check they are all copyright-compliant and otherwise ok. They haven't been able to tell me when they'll be finished, but I'll keep hassling them! Hope to

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art!

2009-02-08 Thread Gordon Joly
London Wikimeet (18) today is at the V A. Starting at 1pm (Sunday 8th February) http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/London_18 Bring a pack of sandwiches and a bottle of Tizer! Gordo -- Think Feynman/

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art - the Goal List!

2009-01-31 Thread Tom Holden
Of AndrewRT Sent: 31 January 2009 13:29 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art - the Goal List! The Wikipedia Loves Art project will start tomorrow, Sunday 1st February, with a launch event at the Victoria and Albert Museum at 1pm. The goal

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art

2009-01-11 Thread AndrewRT
On Jan 10, 10:56 am, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: How does that sound? Complicated... Can you suggest any ways of making it simpler? ...and the competitor cannot control stage 2. So it is no longer a scavenger hunt at that stage, Yes, I spoke to Pharos about this previously - he

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art

2009-01-10 Thread Gordon Joly
At 14:23 -0800 8/1/09, AndrewRT wrote: On Jan 7, 9:41 pm, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: Now, where are the rules of the game? Gordo The skeleton of the rules of the game are outlined on the wikipedia project page (en:WP:WLART) and the Flickr group (http://www.flickr.com/

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art

2009-01-10 Thread Gordon Joly
At 14:23 -0800 8/1/09, AndrewRT wrote: On Jan 7, 9:41 pm, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: Now, where are the rules of the game? Gordo The skeleton of the rules of the game are outlined on the wikipedia project page (en:WP:WLART) and the Flickr group (http://www.flickr.com/

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art

2009-01-07 Thread Gordon Joly
Now, where are the rules of the game? Gordo Why do I ask? Easy - I have suffered too many deletes from Commons of images that I created of work of arts. I have stopped submitting much at all to Commons, since I cannot be sure that I am submitting permissible work. So, this competition is

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art

2008-12-30 Thread AndrewRT
Hi all, I'm starting to get some more details together about the events at the Victoria Albert Museum that we're running as part of the Wikipedia Loves Art project. The VA are organising their launch event on Sunday 1st February - time to be confirmed. If you can come down that day or otherwise

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art! photo contest at London's VA Museum

2008-11-29 Thread Pharos
Hi folks, Greetings from sister chapter-in-formation Wikimedia New York City. We've been looking to follow up on our Wikipedia Take Manhattan events: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan with a museum photography contest. We've been in touch with the local Brooklyn

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art Wiki UK Ltd

2008-11-29 Thread Michael Peel
From my understanding of the situation, the most basic thing we can do is to act as a link between the Museum(s) and Wikipedia/et al., to make sure that the fledgling alliance between the two does well and continues in the future, and that there are no misunderstandings. We could also get

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art Wiki UK Ltd

2008-11-28 Thread Andrew Turvey
I was having a think about this project and I wondered what the nascent UK chapter could easily do to help out for this. Two ideas sprang to mind: 1) Looking at Wikipedia Loves Art on flikr, it mentions Teams with the most points at the end of the month will get cool prizes

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art Wiki UK Lt

2008-11-28 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/11/28 Andrew Turvey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was having a think about this project and I wondered what the nascent UK chapter could easily do to help out for this. Two ideas sprang to mind: 1) Looking at Wikipedia Loves Art on flikr, it mentions Teams with the most points at the end of the