Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-04-26/Museums conference

Hats off to everyone who attended; what a great idea. —Kevin Myers 14:06, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

The day focused on Wikipedia was energetic and thrilling; thanks to Liam and everyone who made it happen. I'm sorry I couldn't stay past the day of my talk. The attendees that day were self-selected to be interested in Wikipedia and making a collaboration possible, but the feedback I've heard from the rest of the event has been similarly interesting. We've certainly crossed a hump in public perception within the cultural and education sectors, now we need to find ways to turn that into broader participation. –SJ + 17:56, 27 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Nice to read that. -- Saki talk 08:08, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * There's an ongoing discussion about The Wikipedia Lists of 100 Project related to museums. The project started as a result of the Wikimedia@MW2010 workshop, see
 * Wikimedia@MW2010
 * Wikimedia@MW2010 (Model projects)
 * --ThT (talk) 06:30, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

"Wyatt discovered that the prohibition against adding "external links" was being interpreted by museums as a prohibition against adding references in addition to promotional links." Interesting. This could probably be used to make a good case for amending guidelines on external linking and self-promotion (probably the wording rather than the guidelines themselves) if it means this misunderstanding can be cleared up. I hope someone more familiar with policy can have a look and see what might be behind this. &mdash; Trilobite 17:41, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
 * This is already well covered at WP:GLAM (and exhaustively so in the talk archive), which ought to be the first port of call for museum people interested in editing, but seems to get very little traffic at present. Johnbod (talk) 16:46, 2 May 2010 (UTC)