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

Wikipedia Loves Art at the Taft Museum of Art is a free content photography contest organised by the Taft Museum of Art and Wikipedia. It is due to take place in February 2009 and is part of the wider Wikipedia Loves Art project that month.

The objective for the museum is to compile a public digital collection of the major art pieces held at the museum. For Wikipedians, the objective is to collect images and use them to illustrate articles throughout Wikipedia.

Taft Museum of Art Information

• Taft Museum of Art website
• Taft Museum of Art hours
• Taft Museum of 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 Taft 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 pencil, but make sure the writing is dark enough 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."

You are welcome to shoot works of art in all the galleries, as well as the garden and historic house. Photography is not permitted in the 5/3 Gallery.

Shots must be taken in existing light only (no flash) and tripods cannot be used.

We ask that you shoot each work twice. First, shoot the object with an index card in the frame that displays the object's accession number, the team name, and category name so we can assign points. (Please note, only pencils are allowed in the galleries, so please bring one to use, along with index cards or paper.) Second, shoot the object again, but this time without the card. Submit both shots. Taft staff will 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.

Shots must be tagged TAFT and your.team.name and category.name so we can easily sort them. Taft staff may add other tags as needed to help keep track during the hunt.

Questions? Contact pr@taftmuseum.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 Taft Museum 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.

Taft Museum's Prize

Membership for each member of the winning team!

About the Taft's Collection

The Taft Museum of Art's collections include European old master paintings, with works by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Thomas Gainsborough, Frans Hals, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Adriaen van Ostade, among others, and 19th-century American paintings, including the well known murals by Robert Duncanson. The galleries in the historic house also include Chinese porcelains, European decorative arts, Limoges enamels, watches, sculptures, and furniture. The Baum-Longworth-Sinton-Taft House, an excellent example of American Palladian architecture, features early-19th-century New York furniture.

Collection highlights:

• Frank Duveneck, The Cobbler's Apprentice, 1877.
• Henry Farny, Song of the Talking Wire, 1904.
• Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of a Man Rising from His Chair, 1633.
• J. M. W. Turner, Europa and the Bull, ca. 1840-50.
• James Abbott McNeill Whistler, At the Piano, 1858-59.
• Virgin and Child, Paris, Abbey of Saint-Denis, ca. 1260-80.

For more: http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/collections.php

List of participating Wikipedians

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

1. User:DaveMenninger
2. User:Lithoderm