Activities/Britain Loves Wikipedia
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Britain Loves Wikipedia, the name being a play off Valentine's Day, is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest that will be held in museums and cultural institutions across the UK, with the aim of increasing the number of pictures available to illustrate Wikipedia articles and to inspire new articles. The event will 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 the Victoria and Albert Museum on Sunday, 31 January 2010, 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 Loves Art and Wiki Loves Art NL.
These pages are currently being developed. This is a wiki, so feel free to help out! If you work at a museum and are interested in participating in this event, please see Museum participation. Please contact Mike Peel at michael.peel
wikimedia.org.uk or on +44 (0)7988 013 646 if you have any questions.'
How to participate
- Read these suggestions on taking photograph in museums
- Come along to an event at a participating museum, or just come along to a participating museum at any time during February 2010
- Bring your camera, and take photos of public domain items on the targets list
- Upload your images (website to come)
Collections Trust
The UK Collections Trust has offered to work with museums wishing to support or take part in Britain Loves Wikipedia. We are looking for at least 10–20 museums to get involved and to think of imaginative and creative ways of welcoming Wikimedians to their collections and stores!
If you are a UK museum and would like to find out more, please contact Nick Poole at nickcollectionstrust.org.uk or on +44 (0)7764 677 459.
Event coverage
- 2009-11-26 "Seeking museums to love Wikipedia" OpenCulture blog, CollectionsTrust
- 2009-11-27 "Britain Loves Wikipedia: Wikimedia seeks underexposed UK Museum", Heritage Key
- 2009-12-03 "Museums and galleries encouraged to embrace Britain Loves Wikipedia campaign" Culture24
- 2009-12-07 "Photo contest with Wikimedia and Museums", IanVisits
- 2009-12-10 "Britain Loves Wikipedia - opportunity for museums to participate", Museums Galleries Scotland
- 2010-01-06 "Wikipedia Comes to East Lothian (or is that the other way around?)", Behind the Scenes, East Lothian Museums Blog