Stamford Museum would be a great choice as we are battling to save it
from closure, scheduled for June 30 2011.
On 28/01/2011 17:17, Roger Bamkin wrote:
A Holding email Doug,
I had seen your previous email and seen it as an opportuntity to put
together a really good description. This reply is not my best effort
but it is quick.
Basically the idea is to choose a museum outside London and see if
wikimedia can focus the same amount of attention that we did on the
British Museum last year. I was very involved with that collaboration
which I saw as inspiring and very successful and it created over 100
new articles from FA down to Start. However the British Museum was
big, famous and impressive when we arrived and although we created
over 100 articles the overall effect on the museum itself was
difficult to measure - ie it was still big, famous and impressive.
Although I do not want to downplay the effect the work had on opinions
and regard for wikimedia within the GLAM sector and the BM itself. It
did convince me that a well organised project can inspire wikipedians
and the people we come in contact with.
I'm not sure of your knowledge of the BM work but there were two
events to start with... ie a backstage pass and a challenge day. We
have agreed with Derby museum that they will support these two events.
This is not intended to be a regional event, but a national event
focussed on one particular museum (per chance Derby). Its my hope that
this model can be rolled forward to other museums with each meeting
being a model of good/bad practise for the next. (At present there are
only a couple of other museums on the "interested" list.... but if we
don't build it then they might not come)
The project exists as a press release
<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/First_GLAMWIKI_outside_Capital>,
and as a GLAM project
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Derby>. I would strongly
encourage those who are interested to sign up
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Derby/Participants> to
receive info and to keep it on your watch list. The challenge day is
intended to particularly appeal to linguists (either by heritage
(Polish, Urdu et al) or talent (Etruscan, latin etc)). Jimmy Wales has
welcomed the proposal as has the board of Wikimedia UK.
Currently I'm trying to get pictures available on commons so that
wikipedians have these available ready for the first event. (A mini
Britain loves Wikipedia pre push would be great as articles to my mind
are inspired by pictures - I'm trying to intrigue Geograph-ers and
Flickr-ers to contribute early to commons
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Derby_Museum_and_Art_Gallery>.)
I see below Steve Virgin's proposal. I will make this into a blog post
over the weekend.
I thought it best to post this holding note so you did not feel the
project was not listening to your enquiries
cheers
Roger
On 28 January 2011 14:52, Doug Weller <dougwel...@gmail.com
<mailto:dougwel...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Still trying to find out what the deal is with Derby Museum, which
gather is not involved in Britain Loves Wikipedia competition, right?
Doug
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:37 PM, steve virgin
<st...@mediafocusuk.com <mailto:st...@mediafocusuk.com>> wrote:
> Mike
>
> What about Roger writing a brief blog post & we slip it quickly
onto the
> facebook site as well?
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Could you lead Wikimedia UK to success?
>
> Hi Roger,
>
> I look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
>
> With the Derby museums press release: there was no board
decision to not
> send this out. I think it just got overlooked in the general
madness and
> busy-ness surrounding the 10th birthday. I'm following up with
Gemma about
> this, and it will hopefully go out in the near future. Sorry
about that.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On 23 Jan 2011, at 10:45, Roger Bamkin wrote:
>
>> Andrew, yes I am interested and intend to be there.
>>
>> I must mention the press release about Derby Museum which as
you know
> consumed a bit of effort. Derby Museums released it locally but
as far as I
> can see it was never released by Wikimedia. Was this a board
decision?
>>
>> best regards
>> Roger
>> 01332 702993
>>
>> On 21 January 2011 00:24, Andrew Turvey
<andrewrtur...@googlemail.com <mailto:andrewrtur...@googlemail.com>>
> wrote:
>> From our blog, http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/:
>>
>> Could you lead Wikimedia UK to success?
>>
>> Next year is set to be another big year of growth for Wikimedia
UK: we
>> have just raised over £500,000 in the Wikimedia Annual Fundraiser.
>> Most of this money will support the technical side of Wikimedia
>> through donations to the Foundation and the Toolserver. However, we
>> also plan to use the funds to recruit four more members of staff.
>> These staff will mean we can scale up our activities, enable more
>> activity by volunteers and professionalise the chapter. Our own
>> developer, events organiser, a full time office manager and a
chapter
>> manager pulling everything together will no doubt transform
Wikimedia
>> UK.
>>
>> However, a key factor in our success will still be the board, which
>> will continue to lead the chapter and be made up of unpaid
volunteers.
>> It will continue to be elected by our members, ordinary Wikimedians
>> who support our mission and want to make Wikipedia and free
knowledge
>> even more successful.
>>
>> Can you help lead the chapter to success in 2011 by standing for
>> election as a board member? If so, you’re warmly invited to
join us on
>> Saturday 5th February from 5pm where you can find out more
about what
>> is involved in being a board member and have an opportunity to
ask any
>> questions and meet other interested people.
>>
>> This “board interest day” will take place in central London
(venue to
>> be confirmed). If you are interested please drop me a line to
chair @
>> wikimedia.org.uk <http://wikimedia.org.uk> to reserve your
place. You can also give me a ring on
>> 07403 216 991 if you would like to discuss further.
>>
>> Look forward to hearing from you!
>>
>> Andrew Turvey
>> Chair, Wikimedia UK
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