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Wikipedia Loves Art at the V&A – Photos on Commons

Mike Peel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:55:03 +0000

: Image via Wikipedia (PD)

Earlier this year, a Wikipedia Loves Art event – a free content photography contest – was held at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Over 30 people attended the event at the Victoria and Albert, which generated 326 photographs.

These photographs are now available on Wikimedia Commons, ready for use in Wikipedia articles. Please help categorize them on Commons so that they can easily be found, and also add them to appropriate Wikipedia articles!

We’re currently organizing next February’s event. Britain Loves Wikipedia will be a nation-wide event held in a number of museums, again in the popular photography contest style. Please help develop the event online, and spread the word!

Open Knowledge Conference & WMUK AGM

Seddon — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:43:23 +0000

Wikimedia UK and the Open Knowledge Foundation are partnering to run the 2010 Open Knowledge Conference, planned to be held next April. The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a not-for-profit organization aiming to promote open content and open data, founded in 2004. In conjunction with this event, Wikimedia UK will also be holding our AGM.

As part of this partnership, we are looking for volunteers who would be interested in the organisation of the conference. The two committees that have been formed to organise the conference so far are as follows:

Organising commitee – This committee will be responsible for organising the venue, materials, call for participation, seeking sponsors etc. No prior experience is need in conference organising, just the ability to have some good ideas and to work in a team.

Research track committee – This committee will be responsible for selecting research papers about “open knowledge” for the conference research track. Reasearch experience is recommended, although not required and it does not have to be in open knowledge.

You can be a member of more than one committee so if you are interested in helping out, please email conferences@wikimedia.org.uk. If your not a member of Wikimedia UK but would like to help out, please read http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Membership with regards to joining the chapter.

Joseph Seddon

Conference Director

Wikipedia Loves Art – Prizes

AndrewRT — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:35:40 +0000

Earlier this year, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Wikimedia UK took part in “Wikipedia Loves Art”, a free content photography contest.

: V&A Museum – Image via Wikipedia (PD)

We had over 30 people attend the Victoria and Albert event, and over 460 photographs submitted to Flickr. Globally, more than 50 teams from fourteen museums submitted over 5,000 photographs, with London submitting the second highest number of photographs from any location.

All of these photographs have now been assessed and processed and are now being prepared for upload to Wikimedia Commons and use on Wikipedia. We can now announce the winners from the V&A, as follows:

First place: vavaval (Val_McG and dj_photo0 with 142 points

Second place: opalartseekers4 (Forever Wiser) with 88 points

Third place: ukfgr (the wee pixie and mrsraggle) with 82 points

Forth place: veronikab with 75 points

Image source: Val_McG

image from the winning team (CC-BY-SA)

Vavaval win a large print of one of their photos on soft textured fine art paper, courtesy of Robbies Photographics, plus two tickets to a V&A exhibition of their choice.

The four winners also win a pack from moo.com comprising 50 Business Cards and 20 Postcards featuring photographs of their choice.

We are contacting the winners individually with details of how to claim their prizes.

The Digital Team at the V&A and Wikimedia UK really appreciate the effort that all the teams made to photograph so many objects as well as the time they spent uploading their work.

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.

Our thanks to the Brooklyn Museum, the Digital Team at the V&A, Wikimedia New York, our sponsors, moo.com and Robbies Photographics and all the people who participated in the event.