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Altes Museum, one of the Berlin State Museums
  • Wikipedian in Residence for Berlin State Museums: The Berlin State Museums (a group of fifteen collections in several museums, including some of the German capital's most widely known) and Wikimedia Germany invite applications for a six-month Wikipedian in Residence position. Based at the institution's head office, the Wikipedian will collaborate with the museums to create a "sustainable concept" for the use of Wikipedia and its sister projects within the museums, for supporting the generaton of freely licensed content related to their topic areas, for collaboration between Wikipedia volunteers and museum staff in curating Wikipedia content, for the advocacy of free licenses among Berlin museums, and for supporting the museums' PR work. The German Wikimedia chapter and the State Museums will provide a monthly allowance of €1200 for the position.
    1760 map of Bali, Indonesia
  • Image donation from antique maps dealer: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a New York-based specialist dealer in fine and rare antiquarian cartography and historic maps of the 15th though 19th centuries, have donated their collection of digital images of maps via Wikimedia Commons, encompassing more than 2000 old maps.
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  • Regarding "the proposal to have Wikipedia listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site", this is a terrible idea. Being designated as a historical site means that one is subject to oppressive regulation by irresponsible higher "authorities", and would probably make it virtually impossible to make necessary changes. I hope that this is just a April fools joke. JRSpriggs (talk) 04:01, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The blog entry says "the point is not necessarily to be awarded this honour but to engage the world in a conversation about what “cultural heritage” means in the digital era and to contest the idea that it must be something old, that it must belong to one country, and that society cannot be actively involved in it". It's a pity that this tidbit – which really sums up what the whole thing is and isn't about – was left out in the Signpost. :P -- Schneelocke (talk) 21:05, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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