Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art/US-UK/Hunter Museum of American Art rules

These are the rules and guidelines for the Wikipedia Loves Art project at the Hunter Museum of American Art.

Hunter Museum of American Art Information

• Hunter Museum of American Art website
• Hunter Museum of American Art hours
• Hunter Museum of American Art 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 Hunter Museum

Get This Number, Label Accession Number: "Every object in our galleries has a label where you'll find that object's accession number. Please make sure the number is clearly printed on the index card."

First Shot, Shot With Index: "First time photograph 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. Please make sure the information on the card is clearly written. Please use a Sharpie marker or similar so we can read the card. 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."

Second Shot, Clean Shot: "Second time shoot the object again, but this time without the card."

Participants in the contest do not need to sign in with museum staff or make any special arrangements. Simply visit the museum during regular operating hours and pay the normal admission fee if you are not a member. You may photograph artwork in the Museum’s permanent collection galleries in accordance with existing policy. Art objects in special exhibitions are on loan to the museum and may not be photographed.

No flash photography, lighting equipment, tripods, monopods, or video cameras are permitted because of potential damage to the artwork.

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. HMAA 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 HMAA and your.team.name and category.name so we can easily sort them. HMAA 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 Noseworthy, enoseworthy@huntermuseum.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 works of art in the public domain, so as a general rule, only works of art created prior to 1923 will be able to qualify. However, copyright law will differ from country to country and there is no hard and fast rule. We recommend you contact the Hunter Museum of American Art if you have questions. Please note, if you happen to capture something that is not in the public domain you may be asked to remove it.

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.

Prize

The winning team will receive 1 household membership, 4 museum passes and a $15 gift certificate to the museum store.

Hunter Museum Scavenger Hunt List

List of participating Wikipedians

Wikipedia editors who will participate in this event can additionally sign below:

1. Kaldari (talk)