Once thought of as the scourge of curatorial authority, Wikipedia has been embraced by galleries such as MoMA as a tool to open up its knowledge for the public.
“Stay cool when the editing gets hot” was the catchphrase in the Museum of Modern Art’s library one Saturday earlier this month, where volunteers from New York City’s Wikimedia chapter were training a diverse group on the culture and mechanics of crowd-sourced Web content.
The seven-hour event, devoted to updating Wikipedia entries on topics of Latin American art and culture, included lunch and free child care. Attracting contributors ranging from educators and scholars to an engineer, a banker and a marketer, the gathering would have been unthinkable at a gatekeeper of authority, such as MoMA’s library, just a few years ago, several staff members agreed... Keep reading on The Wall Street Journal
“Stay cool when the editing gets hot” was the catchphrase in the Museum of Modern Art’s library one Saturday earlier this month, where volunteers from New York City’s Wikimedia chapter were training a diverse group on the culture and mechanics of crowd-sourced Web content.
The seven-hour event, devoted to updating Wikipedia entries on topics of Latin American art and culture, included lunch and free child care. Attracting contributors ranging from educators and scholars to an engineer, a banker and a marketer, the gathering would have been unthinkable at a gatekeeper of authority, such as MoMA’s library, just a few years ago, several staff members agreed... Keep reading on The Wall Street Journal