Activities/Britain Loves Wikipedia

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Photography contest from Wikimedia UK and museums across the country	Overview Participating museums Museum participation Timeline	Rules Prizes Targets Planning
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Content partnerships — Digital image restorations — Joint events

Britain Loves Wikipedia, the name being a play off Valentine's Day, is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest among museums and cultural institutions across the UK, and aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles. The event is planned to run for the whole month of February 2010. Although there are planned events at each location, you can go to most museums on your own at any time during the month.

The event will kick off with a launch event at a museum to be decided on Sunday 31 January 2009, followed by a series of events each weekend at locations around the UK.

Britain Loves Wikipedia follows on from the successful Wikipedia Takes Manhattan event held in October 2008, which lead to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art and Wiki Loves Art NL.

Why participate?

• It benefits the Wikimedia projects - especially Wikipedia - as it generates photos that can be used in Wikipedia articles.
• You're helping spread free knowledge on the internet
• You get to win cool prizes
• Sign up here!

To do

• Get museums involved
• Get sponsors involved (prizes)
• Develop upload facility/transfer of images to Wikipedia
• Develop advertising materials
• Get endorsement from e.g. the London Mayor's office?

Finances

• Have circa £1000 for advertising (inc. e.g. fliers, banners, etc.)
• Prizes - could be sponsored as per Wikipedia Loves Art

Volunteers

• Project Lead: Mike Peel
• User:AndrewRT
• Cfp
• Zeyi

Potential partners

The V&A and the London Transport Museum have expressed an interest in being involved.

We could try to generalise things a bit more - e.g. go a bit more sciency and get the Science Museum and/or Natural History Museum involved, or have an additional focus on architecture. Mike Peel 22:43, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Tate Gallery might be worth contacting - they donated 400 files free to itunes in April 2009. AndrewRT 21:51, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

What about contacting GLIAS - Greater London Industrial Archaeological Society? http://www.glias.org.uk/ - N.B. the website is offline LoopZilla 08:19, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

There is a whole world (and, more to the point, some decent museums) outside London. --78.150.182.0 23:14, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

If you want science based things, how about around Cambridge, the site of the first mass spectrometer and so on. Best of all, alot of them are within a stone throw of the university.84.64.234.164 20:31, 16 August 2009 (UTC)