For some time, I'd been toying with the idea of organising an exhibition of Featured Pictures from Commons, possibly restricting the selection to images by Swiss contribuors and Swiss-related topics. This could provide strong visual components to the exhibition you are envisionning.
Cheers! -- Rama On 9 May 2013 20:49, Charles Andres <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Iolanda , > > The call for project 2014 for Wikimedia CH should be launch later this > month, I definitively think that building such an exposition could be one > project. > > > Cheers > > Charles > > > > Le 9 mai 2013 à 20:11, Iolanda Pensa <[email protected]> a écrit : > > dear all > during the last general assembly we visited the Ethnographical museum in > Neuchâtel http://www.men.ch (below some more info about the museum [1]). > > How about an exhibition about Wikipedia there? > > The idea of an exhibition about Wikipedia actually comes from the museum > director Marc-Olivier Gonseth, who launched the idea the first time we met > last year. > > In those last weeks I have contacted > 1) Andrew Lih. during Wikimania 2012 he mentioned an exhibition is was > working on. the exhibition is planned for end 2013-beginning of 2014 at the > Computer history museum [2]. we are currently in contact to see if maybe we > can bridge the two projects or learn from each over. > 2) WMF to ask about other exhibition projects. for the moment no news. > 3) the research group Open Online Communities which involves several > researchers in different European countries and universities working on the > topic of OOC and wikipedia (i am one of the research members). the group > seems interested in contributing to provide content and research. > > personally i think it can be a relevant project and it could be also > designed as an itinerant show. > of course the Ethnographical museum in Neuchâtel needs to be recontacted, > but i think it would be nice to make a "wikipedia/wikimedia projects" (i > like for example the approach of Andrew Lih of organising a meetup there. > > what do you think? anyone interested in the idea? do you think WIkimedia > CH could be involved? > all the best > iolanda/iopensa > > > [1] The Ethnographical museum in Neuchâtel is a small museum but it is > considered in the anthropological field as one of the best museums. It has > a very peculiar approach. All its exhibitions try to unpack culture and > knowledge. They focus on the meta-discourse, and they use an > historiographical approach, they detect critical issues, and they show how > categories shape our perception of culture and the world. There is also a > strong research work behind the exhibitions. I think it can be a very > interesting place to develop an exhibition related to Wikipedia. Maybe we > could envision an exhibition for 2015. > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Computer_History_Museum > > _______________________________________________ > http://wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH website > Wikimediach-l mailing list > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l > > > _______________________________________________ > http://wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH website > Wikimediach-l mailing list > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l > >
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