[Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art - prizes

[Andrew Turvey]

Earlier this year, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Wikimedia UK took part in “Wikipedia Loves Art”, a free content photography contest.

We had over 30 people attend the Victoria and Albert event, and over 460 photographs submitted to Flickr. Globally, more than 50 teams from fourteen museums submitted over 5,000 photographs, with London submitting the second highest number of photographs from any location.

All of these photographs have now been assessed and processed and are now being prepared for upload to Wikimedia Commons and use on Wikipedia. We can now announce the winners from the V&A, as follows:

Team (members) – Points

1^st place: vavaval - Val_McG and dj_photo – 142 points
2^nd place: opalartseekers4 - Forever Wiser – 88 points
3^rd place: ukfgr - the wee pixie and mrsraggle – 82 points
4^th place: veronikab – 75 points

Vavaval win a large print of one of their photos on soft textured fine art paper, courtesy of Robbies Photographers, plus two tickets to a V&A exhibition of their choice.

The four winners also win a pack from moo.com comprising 50 Business Cards and 20 Postcards featuring photographs of their choice.

We are contacting the winners individually with details of how to claim their prizes.

The Digital Team at the V&A and Wikimedia UK really appreciate the effort that all the teams made to photograph so many objects as well as the time they spent uploading their work.

Thank you for your patience with us whilst we have processed these photographs, and we hope you enjoyed participating in this event. If you have any comments about this event or how it could be improved in the future, please let us know.

Regards,

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Andrew Turvey
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[Kwan Ting Chan]

Andrew Turvey wrote:
>
> Thank you for your patience with us whilst we have processed these
> photographs, and we hope you enjoyed participating in this event. If you
> have any comments about this event or how it could be improved in the
> future, please let us know.

*Look at the calendar*

Hmm....

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Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine

[Andrew Turvey]

---- "Kwan Ting Chan" <k...@ktchan.info> wrote:
> From: "Kwan Ting Chan" <k...@ktchan.info>
> To: wikime...@lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Saturday, 15 August, 2009 02:29:51 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikipedia Loves Art - prizes

>
> Andrew Turvey wrote: > > Thank you for your patience with us whilst we have processed these > photographs, and we hope you enjoyed participating in this event. If you > have any comments about this event or how it could be improved in the > future, please let us know.

*Look at the calendar* Hmm....

Indeed. Uploading of photographs finished at the end of February. It was decided by the organizers that awarding of prizes would wait until after all the photographs had been individually assessed by museum staff for copyright validity etc. Given the quantity of photos this has taken quite a very long time to finish.

The recent Dutch "Wiki Loves Art" contest had a prize awarding event in the calendar from the start, which I think is a good idea.

I think next time we should talk to the museums about awarding prizes before all the images are assessed.

Andrew

[Thomas Dalton]

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all the organisers and
competitors!

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