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Comment on Conference-a-thon! by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:07:07 +0000

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Comment on Conference-a-thon! by Kippelboy

Kippelboy — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:35:36 +0000

Congrats! Sure you share and learn loads of things in such a big conference-a-thon.

Kippelboy (from catalan viquipedia )

Comment on End of my residency by CCCB LAB » Arxiu del Bloc » Es porta el GLAM: Sobre com Wikipedia i les institucions culturals poden entendre’s i col·laborar

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:16:55 +0000

[...] històriques) amb què especialistes del sector cultural poden contribuir-hi. Al blog de Wyatt podeu trobar exemples de col·laboració, fruit de la seva estada al museu britànic. Conxa Rodà també proposa al blog del Picasso [...]

Comment on Wikipedian in Residence & Notability by CCCB LAB » Arxiu del Bloc » Es porta el GLAM: Sobre com Wikipedia i les institucions culturals poden entendre’s i col·laborar

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:13:14 +0000

[...] cada comunitat”. Així ho va explicar Liam Wyatt, vicepresdient de Wikimedia Austràlia i primer Wikipedian-in-Residence en un museu – el prestigiós British Museum – en una trobada aquest mes de juliol al Museu [...]

Comment on Hoxne Challenge by AndreasP

AndreasP — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:00:46 +0000

What a great idea. Britain can be glad to have museums like that (while others like the National Portrait Gallery and its copyfraud policies are, of course, much less desirable examples).

In Germany, you usually get no support at all in public museums. The only contact are legal threads from the directors who consider themselves “owners” or “copyright owners” of such objects of our global cultural heritage.

Comment on Hoxne Challenge by Archives Outside » Crowdsourcing for Archives and Libraries

Archives Outside » Crowdsourcing for Archives and Libraries — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:13:35 +0000

[...] Liam Wyatt: Hoxne Challenge Yesterday was the “Hoxne Challenge” – an attempt to see what can be achieved if a Museum and Wikipedians work together on a specific topic in a focused effort. This culminated on Friday with an on-site tour and intensive collaboration session between Wikipedians and the relevant experts at the British Museum. [...]

Comment on End of my residency by llywrch

llywrch — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:59:28 +0000

Perhaps the most important item in this post is the strategy Liam provides for pitching this important concept elsewhere. When I first thought of this idea years ago, my chief barrier to putting it into action was that I could not figure out what to say that would plausibly convince a target organization — a museum, a library, a university or any educational foundation — to go for it. None of the “Writer in Residence” or “Artist in Residence” programs I looked at provided any useful hints that could be used. (IIRC, the descriptions limited themselves to explaining the benefits & application guidelines, which led me to conclude that the motivation for most of these programs were selfish ones, such as to help meet their requirements to be a non-profit, or to associate themselves with a known or an up-&-coming talent. I don’t like being so cynical about these sorts of things, but that was my unavoidable impression.)

Geoff

Comment on End of my residency by Alex Stinson

Alex Stinson — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:26:54 +0000

Another cheer from our end at Wikipedia, we hope for similar things to happen in the future. We would really like your support with the Smithsonian outreach and hope that you will help us with ideas and creating that sustainable relationship that everyone wants.

Comment on End of my residency by Liam Wyatt

Liam Wyatt — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:11:07 +0000

I go back home to Australia and take up my former profession of bartending. That’s pretty much that.

Comment on End of my residency by Conxa Rodà

Conxa Rodà — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:08:41 +0000

Congrats, Liam! You’ve taken the most out of just one month!!!
I’m sure this experience will open the way for more Wikipedians-in-Residence programmes, be it in museums or other institutions.

Have a fruitful meeting in Poland!
by the way, on Tuesday, I’ll meet at my museum with the local Wikipedian I mentioned had asked for an encounter for a future possible collaboration. He’ll attend in poland, too)
More details soon;)

Conxa
@innova2