This sounds to me like a well organised [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art]] event.
The disadvantage of taking a camera round the London Aquarium last week was that I didn't take my netbook and check which species we already had good photos of. And one of the few where I do have a good photo I didn't catch the name. WereSpielChequers 2009/10/12 Chris McKenna <[email protected]>: > This sounds like something I'd be interested in, although not being based > in London it would need arranging a while in advance for me to be able to > make it. > > Chris > > On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Michael Peel wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Would anyone be interested in trying a different type of wikimeet? >> >> The idea would be to meet at a museum (presuming that I can get one >> interested in hosting this), and have a meet-up with both wikimedians >> and also museum people present. People would bring along laptops (or >> use provided computers) to collaboratively work on articles related >> to the museum or its collections, potentially with the aim of getting >> at least one of them to GA quality (possibly FA quality?) by the end >> of the day. It's a way of bringing experts on the objects, and >> experts on Wikipedia (who also have an interest in the objects), >> together and doing something very constructive. >> >> It wouldn't be necessary to be a member - it would be open to all - >> although people would probably need to sign up beforehand, and it >> would likely be restricted to a certain number of people depending on >> the capacity of the location (hence members would have priority). >> >> This would be similar to the Backstage Pass that WMAU have done with >> the PowerHouse Museum. I guess that the most appropriate place to try >> this would be a museum in London on a different weekend from the >> regular Wikimeets. I mooted the idea with a couple of people >> yesterday at the London wikimeet, and the response seemed positive. >> >> Obviously, before I start asking museums if they're interested, I >> need to know whether sufficient numbers of people would be >> interested. So please, reply to this email if you're interested >> (either on the mailing list, or just to me if you want). >> >> Thanks, >> Mike >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >> > > ---- > Chris McKenna > > [email protected] > www.sucs.org/~cmckenna > > > The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, > but with the heart > > Antoine de Saint Exupery > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > -- WereSpielChequers _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
