Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-04-26/Museums conference
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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
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- --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. — Trilobite 17:41, 28 April 2010 (UTC)