There has been a 100k image donation by the German federal archive (Bundesarchiv). A brief description of the project is on Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv
Regards, ChrisiPK Patton 123 schrieb: > Recently 100,000 historical photos were released by some German agency > (Can't think of it's name) to the wikimedia commons. > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Bence Damokos <bdamo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear all,I was wondering if any of you know of cases where there has been >> any (official) connection between members of the public sector and projects >> of Wikimedia (or other independent projects under free licences). >> >> I would be interested in cases, when for example >> * the local government has used for example Wikisource to publish its >> statutes or provided other kinds of content for it >> * the legislative has included material from Wikipedia in the explanatory >> section of their bills >> * members of the public sector approached the WMF (or its chapters) for >> advice on free licences and their use in the public sector. >> >> I would be interested in cases outside Wikimedia, where a government has >> chosen open content licences to publish their data. >> >> I have heard of some cases that would fit one of the above categories (e.g. >> the Dutch government releasing some photos) but I have not found a >> comprehensive list to judge the extent of the possible cooperation that >> might be going on. >> >> >> Thank you, >> Bence Damokos >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
