On 7 January 2012 21:13, emijrp <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure. If the WMF goals are to collect/preserve/disseminate > educational content, they can start with the holdings in endangered > cultural institutions. It is not my work, but some suggestions, from low to > high involvement: > * blog post exposing the events > * a call to the museums, showing that we are concerned > * offering wikimedia projects to host any materials they want to give > * marathon to create related articles > * organize a "Wiki Invades..." to take photos and notes of the collections > * wikipedian in residence and put some money to fund some activities > * any other high profile partnership
You realise that having raised it, you're the volunteer who gets to do the coordination and heavy lifting ;-) Are there any nearby local Wikimedia chapters/groups or similar groups (CC, librarians, etc) reading this who can help? > And read international news related to our long-term goals. This was the very first I'd heard of it, I glance at the news ... so thanks for alerting us :-) I see it's hit the news big time now, e.g. http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Bosnian-closure-threatened-museum-gets-reprieve-2443605.php and 185 similar articles on Google News ... - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
