“Wikipedia Loves Art” is a really cool campaign marrying Wikipedia with Art Museums. In short, this month-long event is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest among museums and cultural institutions worldwide, and aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles.
You can add your photographs, to the online Flickr group. Goal lists for LACMA and other museums across the country are listed on the Flickr group page (as well as on Wikipedia, but the Flickr page is easier to read). And each participating museum or cultural institution is giving away cool prizes too!
Wikipedia has become such a trusted resource over the past few years, and the opportunities to contribute to it are endless. Why not do it through something fun like a photographic scavenger hunt?
Here’s one of my photos that I took at the 2007 Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade that made it into Sarah Brightman’s Wikipedia entry (just simply by posting it on Flickr):
I REALLY wish I had the time to do the scavenger hunt! What a great way to promote art while harnessing the power of crowd-sourcing and providing a cultured venue for a very personal, real-life collaboration.
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