At this stage what we're most trying to do is sell this to our potential
members and sponsors - look at this great thing were doing! That's the audience
at the moment, although of course our partner organisations will be a key
audience in the future and we should bear that in mind at the same time.
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From: "Brian McNeil" <brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org>
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I can certainly see “content liberation” being something that some potential
partners might find offputting. It is technically liberation, as you take
something out an archive that might only be available by visiting a specific
museum. “Content showcasing”? maybe – if you’re dealing with a large gallery
the letter of copyright might preclude adding everything they have (eg more
modern stuff) to Commons. It also offers an option to build an ongoing
relationship with a museum or gallery. They don’t need to share everything, and
it could come out in bits and pieces – like giving a sample from the new
exhibition they’re going to put on.
Gut feeling is, I don’t like "content access partnerships" as a name. Not
particularly struck with the “showcasing” option above, but it is closer to
something I think can be sold to the people you want to get images off.
Brian McNeil
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[mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Turvey
Sent: 09 April 2009 22:28
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Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership drive template
Hi Mike,
I got "content liberation" from the Berlin chapters' meeting
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_meeting_2009/Schedule#Content_liberation).
Thinking about it now, I can see why the partner organisations wouldn't be too
keen to hear it described as "liberation"! It would be good to have something
brief and snappy, though - how about "content access partnerships"? That
describes what were doing - partnering with other organisations to increase
access to their existing content. Thanks for your re-write.
I certainly agree Main Page needs some work - I've made a start and I'll put my
thoughts on the talk page.
Andrew
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From: "Michael Peel" <em...@mikepeel.net>
To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Thursday, 9 April, 2009 00:03:02 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland,
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Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership drive template
Andrew,
"Content liberation" is a really bad phrase to use -- we're not
liberating it, we're working with institutions to make the content
more widely available. I've rewritten the project outline to try to
make this clearer... (will do more work on this when I'm more awake!)
Unless someone beats me too it, I'll rework the main page at some
point - it really needs to look a lot better than it does now! As a
result, it might be best to have a separate page for "keep in touch".
I'd also comment that anyone can come along to the AGM - they don't
have to be a member - although if they want to participate properly
then they obviously do need to be a member.
Mike
On 8 Apr 2009, at 23:48, AndrewRT wrote:
> I've put together a proposed tempate for sending round everyone who's
> previously expressed an interest in the chapter but hasn't joined up
> yet.
>
> It's at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AndrewRT/
> WMUK#Join_up_template
>
> Please let me know if yu have any suggestions for improvements.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrew
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