On 2 February 2011 10:57, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > But, for fine arts galleries or major museums the process and policies of > label writing is a very complex thing. Lots of people/departments involved, > lots of policies and style guides (which wikipedians can relate to!) and > lots of discussions about how to fit accurate content into small spaces > without either dumbing down nor filling up the wall with text. I once did a > multi-week internship at the [[powerhouse museum]] in order to research and > write *two* labels for a temporary display! > Suffice it to say that no museum is going to, at this stage, outsource their > label writing to Wikipedians - it would be too much of a political decision > within the organisation as you can imagine. [perhaps a small/volunteer > organization might though...]
Portsmouth natural history museum is on the opposite end of the scale compared to the likes of the powerhouse museum. I'll dig out contact details and a suggested draft email this weekend. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
