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Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned Part 4: The Stats

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Erin Sweeney

My role in Wikipedia Loves Art was solely as a processor of data. I was not involved with the creation or any of the planning of the contest. That being said, here are some project statistics as well as my … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned Part 3: Almost done

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

Erin is going to blog tomorrow about her own take on the process and some additional statistics, but here are just a few of the cleanup issues we’ve been dealing with on a pool of 13,000 images. Machine Tagging, Captioning, … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned Part 2: Competition

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

This next part of the story will take you through the actual competition which was held during February 2009. I admit…index cards…say it with me now…FAIL! (now don’t we all feel better?) “We ask that you shoot each work twice. … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned Part 1: Pre-Competition

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

One of the things we hope to do with the technology posts on the blog is to take a look at our projects and carefully assess them—to look at our successes and failures and to examine complexities that can occur … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art … Let’s Meetup!

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

What would Erin and I do for love? Freeze, apparently (it was really, really cold and windy getting this pic)! We hear the weather is going to warm up this weekend, so it should be perfect—the Wikipedia Loves Art Brooklyn … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art, full house!

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

In addition to our original partners (Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, V&A) we’ve now been joined by Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carnegie Museum of Art, … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art…continued…and a deadline coming up!

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

Wow, there was such a great response to my first post about prepping for Wikipedia Loves Art! Since that announcement, we’ve been joined by Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Film Society of Lincoln … Continue reading…

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Prepping for Wikipedia Loves Art!

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

This is just a quick note to any of the peeps at cultural institutions who may read our blog. We are helping organize Wikipedia Loves Art, an event being held in February at museums across the globe. To get an … Continue reading…

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