Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art/US-UK/Houston Museum of Natural Science rules

These are the rules and guidelines for the Wikipedia Loves Art project at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Houston Museum of Natural Science Information

 * Houston Museum of Natural Science website
 * Houston Museum of Natural Science hours
 * Houston Museum of Natural Science directions

General Guidelines
Shoot on your own or create a small team (10 people, tops) and sign-up online. Use the scavenger hunt list posted here to take shots and cross off as many subjects on the list as possible. Upload shots to the Wikipedia Loves Art group on Flickr with the correct Creative Commons license required by Wikipedia (either Attribution Creative Commons or Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons, see here for details) and we will tally the scores. Images uploaded to the Wikipedia Loves Art Flickr group be used to illustrate Wikipedia articles and you'll get full credit when an image is used. Teams with the most points at the end of the month will get a prize. Shots must be taken and uploaded during February 2009.

Specific Guidelines for Shooting at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
Photography is permitted in most permanent exhibitions at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, specifically excluding the John P McGovern Hall of the Americas. Please observe posted signage regarding photography in all of the Museum's exhibitions, venues and satellite facilities.

We ask that you shoot each work twice. First time shoot the object with an index card in the frame that displays the object's accession number, your team name, and category name so we can assign points. Second time shoot the object again, but this time without the card. Submit both shots to this group. Houston Museum of Natural Science staff may use the information on the index card to properly caption the image with the correct object information and credit line and the second, clean shot will then be used for Wikipedia. Please note that when shooting with the index card, the card must be held and not set or attached to the wall or work of art's case or stand.

Shots must be tagged hmns and your.team.name and category.name so we can easily sort them. Houston Museum of Natural Science staff may add other tags as needed to help keep track during the hunt.

See the Wikipedia Loves Art Flickr group for posted meetups. Questions? Contact Erin Blatzer, eblatzer@hmns.org

Qualification Notes
1) Shots submitted must be licensed with the correct creative commons license required by Wikipedia. That's got to be either "Attribution Creative Commons" or "Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons". There is no resolution requirement.

2) You can only shoot natural works which are in the public domain.

3) Images must be your own work, submitted by you.

4) You must register by signing up online.

5) In order to properly score everyone's entries administrators will be adding machine tags [they:look="like this"] to your photographs. So, please don't delete these tags, even if they look a little weird. Also, this means you need to have tagging turned ON in your Flickr account in order to qualify. To do this, go to your account settings, the privacy & permissions tab, and make sure "Add notes and tags:" is set to "Any Flickr user".

6) In order to properly score entries, the clean shot must be "public" on Flickr and in the Wikipedia Loves Art group. See this thread for more info.

Point Scoring
Score 1 point for each photograph submitted to a category. Multiple photographs can be submitted to a category as long as they represent different works of art (each photograph will earn you 1 point). At the close of the competition, User:Cary_Bass, from the Wikipedia Foundation, will assign bonus points for each photograph that he thinks is awesome. Remember, Wikipedia is looking for quantity and quality. See this thread for clarification.

Houston Museum of Natural Science's Prize
A family membership and 4 tickets to Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor, opening May 22.

List of participating Wikipedians
Wikipedia editors who will participate in this event can additionally sign below:


 * Stephen J. Alexander--Sjalex76 (talk) 03:39, 12 February 2009 (UTC)