Wikipedia Loves Art / Discuss

Brooklyn Museum says:

Hello everyone,

This is a learning process for all of us and we've had some issues come up that require clarification. Many of these are running around in different threads, so although this is a long post, it is much needed and will open up the floor for further questions and clarifications. Here goes - please feel free to ask more questions if you need more clarification:

#1 Point Scoring

1 artwork scores 1 point, no matter how many categories you submit to. You can tag as many categories as you want (which will help out the wiki peeps who are going to be parsing the group) but you can't elevate your score by adding the categories.

However, multiple photographs can be submitted to a category as long as they represent different works of art (each photograph will earn you 1 point). So you can elevate your score this way.

So, 5 different artworks depicting "mother" would get you 5 points, but 1 artwork submitted to multiple categories would only get you 1 point.

This clarification got started in this thread so you can read through if you'd like.

#2 Changing Lists

There were 4 lists that were changed on February 1 and this was not properly documented, so we are taking time to do that now. HMNS and IMA had major revisions until Feb 1 at 8PM EST; Monets were added to the MoMA list on Feb 1; Portraits were added to N-YHSJewish Museum list on Feb 1. All of these were last minute changes due to some co-ordination snafus and we apologize. We are doing three things to notify you to ensure you are shooting from the proper list: 1) notification via this thread 2) notes are being added to the lists on Wikipedia 3) we are emailing all registered participants who have selected any of these museums. My apologies. If we do this next year, we are going to build in extra time so these last-minute changes won't occur.

#3 Possible issues at MoMA

We were just informed last night that some of the artworks on MoMA's list may have been moved due to gallery rotation and are no longer on view. Victor will be investigating on Monday and we will be posting details about how this may change things here. Also, when we know more, we will be emailing all registered participants if you checked off MoMA. Give us a few days on this.

#4 Photos must be public to be qualify

This is a last minute addition to the general qualification guidelines - your photos must be public. The reason for this is we are programming a scoring solution and our scripting can only read photos in the group that are public. We've seen a few instances where participants are keeping the photos private, but adding them to the WLA group. This means members of the group can see them, but our scripting cannot, so in order to qualify and have your images scored, we need you to make them public. I realize that many of you curate your feeds and lots of WLA photos in your feed is less than ideal. I wish I had a way around this, but we don't. However, only the clean shot has to be public! The shot with the index card can remain private since we only use those for internal documentation. If you make only the clean shots public, that will work for us just fine.

#5 Pool closing procedures

Submissions must be sent to the Flickr WLA pool by midnight on the last day of February in whichever timezone the respective museum is in. We will be inserting markers at midnight of each timezone declaring closure at XYZ locations. Anything submitted after that cutoff will be deleted from the pool and not scored.

#6 Index Cards Argh!

At the Brooklyn Museum meetup last night, some of you were expressing frustration with the index card method and had a better solution that we are passing along now: You might want to get a small spiral notebook instead of cards and just flip the pages to create a new "card". Cool.

#7 Group Sorting Argh!

When you submit to the WLA group, documentation shots and clean shots get out of order. This is not ideal, but there's nothing we can do about it because it's just the way Flickr works :) If you are up for it, it might help us if you create a set on your profile using the "Organize" feature of Flickr. The museums may go and refer to it if there's a question. This is by no means a requirement - just some housekeeping that may help us. You can read more about this here and here.

#8 Help, I've hit my upload limit on a free account

We've noticed that many of you are using Flickr's free accounts which have upload limits and are starting to hit those limits quickly. When you upload, use Flickr's batch uploadr and resize everything to 1200 or 1600 wide. That will give you enough space in your account for the purposes of the contest and allow us to score the images properly. If you want to submit higher resolution images (note there are no resolution requirements for the project), flickrmail Pharos1 and he can send you instructions for that.

#9 (edit, added on 2/11/09) Changes at N-YHS

Photography of objects in the public domain is allowed in the 4th Floor Luce Center only. Shots must be taken in existing light only and no tripods can be used.

Many thanks for your patience and your support of Wikipedia Loves Art. It's pretty great to see everyone shooting in the galleries and your enthusiasm for the project has been wonderful. If you have not seen this yet, check out what Jimmy Wales has to say in this short video about the project.

Shelley
Brooklyn Museum
Originally posted at 10:26AM, 8 February 2009 PDT (permalink)
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