Wikipedia Loves Art February 4, 2009

Carnegie Museum of Art is looking for a few good shutterbugs for Wikipedia Loves Art, a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest.

This contest is aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles using copyright free images found in some of the world’s top museums. This contest will run for the whole month of February 2009.

Contestants can shoot on their own or create a small team (10 people, tops) and sign-up online. Use the scavenger hunt list provided by Carnegie Museum of Art to take shots and cross off as many subjects on the list as possible. Upload shots to the Flickr group Wikipedia Loves Art, with the correct Creative Commons license required by Wikipedia and administrators will tally the scores.

The images will be used to illustrate Wikipedia articles and each team will get full credit when an image is used. Teams with the most points at the end of the month will get cool prizes.

This event is coordinated by the Brooklyn Museum and participating museums include the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum (New York), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Historical Society, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Taft Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, as well Carnegie Museum of Art.

Got questions about this contest, please email jamese@carnegiemuseum.org

Official Website: http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art/Carnegie_Museum_of_Art_rules