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Wikipedia Loves Art 2009Britain Loves Wikipedia 2010
Nad ia Arbach
D igital Program m e s Manage r
Victoria and Albe rt Muse um
Wikipedia Loves Art 2009
Lead partner: Brooklyn Museum
12 participating museums – V&A the only one from the UK
Purpose: to update Wikipedia articles with new images
User-generated, collaborative, open
Britain Loves Wikipedia 2010
V&A lead partner with 18 museums from around the UK
Shorter list of themes
Quality rather than quantity
Participating museums
Marriage chest (cassone) by Valerie McGlinchey
18 museums and archives signed up to participate
Only 8 museums had any photos submitted
Participant numbers
Reliquary by Jenny O’Donnell
The V&A had 50 participants on the day and a few more during February 2010
14 participants submitted V&A photos
40 participants in total contributed to the competition, but some were staff
Eligible photographs
530 eligible photographs
347 from the V&A and 183 from 7 other museums combined
Unbalanced participation
Need to limit number of photos from each participant
Labours of the Months (July) by David Jackson
Uploading system
Wikipedia Loves Art 2009: Flickr
Britain Loves Wikipedia 2010: bespoke uploader
Flickr allowed communication between participants; bespoke uploader made museums’ jobs easier
Cupid and Psyche by Barry Green
Timing and deadlines
No set deadlines for museums to finish checking photographs or for judges to pick winners
Public communication fizzled out soon after the final submission date
Judging took 7 months
Spice Box by Pawel Ficinski
Image rights issues
High-resolution, high-quality images of V&A objects being posted under CC share-alike licence
Truth and Falsehood by Iza Bella
Use of images to illustrate Wikipedia articles
April 2010: 12 uses of V&A photos
October 2010: 61 uses of V&A photos across Wikipedia sites in 12 different languages
80 uses of photos taken at all participating museums
Bone china chocolate cup by David Jackson
‘Apart from adding a lot of photos for use on Wikipedia and by the Museums, I found there were a lot of areas in the Museums (and a lot of objects too) which I had either forgotten or maybe never previously discovered.’
St Stephen Preaching by David Jackson
Nadia ArbachDigital Programmes ManagerLearning & Interpretation DivisionVictoria and Albert Museum020 7942 2194
n.arbach@vam.ac.uk
Medicine Bottles by Jenny O’Donnell
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