Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art/US-UK/Carnegie Museum of Art rules

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

Carnegie Museum of Art Information

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.

Considerations

Taking photos of works behind glass, in frames, inside with variable lighting is difficult even for seasoned photographers. We should encourage use of a tripod, long exposures, and low ISO as hand held photography will likely not yield very good photos.
Tripod use in museums can sometimes be difficult and prohibited, so coordinating with museum staff will be important.
Understanding licensing issues surrounding public domain art will be important, so consider familiarizing yourself with Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.
In order to avoid poor quality images, please consider reading and practicing v:Museum photography beforehand.
If you are new to Flickr and need help uploading images, see the following discussion thread for more detail.

Specific Guidelines for Shooting at the Carnegie Museum of Art

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."

Photographers are welcome in the Scaife Galleries (Galleries One through Eight - map: to the left) and Hall of Architecture (map: to the right). Works on loan to the museum or works of art created after 1923 cannot be photographed. The label identifying the work of art will specify if the object is from Carnegie Museum of Art's collection and when it was created. Art objects in special exhibitions are on loan to the museum and may not be photographed. Security officers can assist visitors in determining if an object is on loan to the museum.

Only handheld cameras with attached standard flash equipment are allowed. No auxiliary flash, lighting equipment, tripods, 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. CMA 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 CMA and your.team.name and category.name so we can easily sort them. CMA staff may add other tags as needed to help keep track during the hunt (see photos tagged cma so far).

See the Wikipedia Loves Art Flickr group for posted meetups. Questions? Contact Ellen James, jamese@carnegiemuseums.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 Carnegie Museum of 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.

Carnegie Museum's Prize

20 free admission passes for Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History
A collection of Carnegie Museum of Art catalogues
Four free passes to the April's Art in Bloom Cocktails Go Green cocktail. Must be 21 years or older to enter.
Free one-year membership to Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

Carnegie Museum of Art Hunt List

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art/Carnegie Museum of Art rules/list

How can I help?

We need your help as follows:

Before the event

If you can come to the museum during February to take photographs, please sign up at the participant list
Please nominate categories for the prizes (see below)
If you can think of any ways of publicizing this event, please let us know or act on them

During February, in person

If you can come down any time during February, please come and take photographs. Have a look at this page to see what other people have done so far to cover the Gallery.
Once you have taken the photographs, please upload them to the Flickr group here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art/ using a license compatible with Wikipedia (preferably CC-BY-SA and please no "No-Derivs" or "Non-Commercial" as these aren't wikipedia compatible)

During February, online

help compile an index of the files uploaded
help identify articles that could use the uploaded files (see photos from CMA uploaded to flickr so far)
once nominated files are agreed and approved by the Museum, transfer nominated files to Commons (Category:Carnegie Museum of Art)
add transferred files into relevant articles
nominate images for the prizes

Upcoming event

Sunday 22, 1 pm at the museum's cafe: details

List of participating Wikipedians

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

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:27, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Grammarnerd (talk) 18:03, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
— brighterorange (talk) 18:53, 21 February 2009 (UTC) Today![reply]
Rauterkus (talk) 00:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC) Keep me posted.[reply]