As you may recall, a bunch of Wikimedians visited the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney a few months back for a "Backstage Pass" tour of their collection. With that tour as a significant impetus, the museums instituted (mixed) Creative Commons licensing on their entire collection database<http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/>! So, now that we have Creative-Commons licensing on Wikipedia - we can go ahead and copy/paste the applicable sections of text into Wikipedia as long as we link back to their collection noting that the text is not just referenced from there but actually copied from there (this is the difference between citation and attribution).
Specifically, can I point you to the Powerhouse's blog for today which is all about their keynote object - the Boulton & Watt steam engine. Note, that the first two links in their blogpost are to Wikipedia and the second of these is to the Wikipedia article that we wrote<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton_and_Watt_steam_engine_%28Powerhouse_Museum%29>on the day of the Backstage Pass (and has since been a DYK on the frontpage). Everyone likes a bit of link-love! http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/blog/?p=613 Can I also point you to the list of "Things to do" that came out of that day's tour. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/Powerhouse_Museum_2009-03-13 Have a trawl through there and see if you can find some good content that can be brought across to Wikipedia into relevant articles (or create new articles) with attribution. Note, the PHM is currently reviewing their copyright/access policy for their collections' images so these currently remain out-of-bounds. As do the sections of their collection record text labeled with the creative commons non-commercial license (the "statement of significance", "production notes" and "history notes" sections). These are the real jewel in the crown of the PHM's collection records and for that reason they're listed as NC licensed - fair enough. So, it's up to us to demonstrate what a good job we have made of using the sections of text they have allowed out under CC-By-SA, to provide the argument to justify any further release. Finally, if you're the kind of person who is interested in this kind of thing then you're the kind of person who'd be interested in attending GLAM-WIKI. http://glam.wikimedia.org.au/ We'd love to see you there! The Powerhouse will be there talking about their experiences with us and with Flickr Commons and you should too :-) Best, -Liam [[witty lama]] wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata
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