That's wonderful news. For those of us who don't speak Hebrew, can you say a bit more about how this project came about? -Pete
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 10:16 PM <[email protected] wrote: > Hello, > > It is a great pleasure for me to let you all know that wikimedia Israel > had developed a web scraper that crawled in various archives in Israel and > uploaded more than 28K free images to commons. > > The tool (https://github.com/wmil-1946/wikiscraper) was developed to > crawl the web site (list below) and clean them, remove water marks, etc. > > Only images taken before 1946 were uploaded, as per the law in Israel and > United states. > > Many volunteers had joined the effort by categorizing, linking and using > the images once uploaded. > > It even got coverage on Israeli media (here ( > https://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3749654,00.html)) > > Commons categories containing the files: > [1 ( > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_JNF_uploaded_by_Wikimedia_Israel) > 2 ( > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_ISA_uploaded_by_Wikimedia_Israel) > 3 ( > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Moshe_Sharett_Archive_uploaded_by_Wikimedia_Israel) > 4 ( > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Palmah_Archive_uploaded_by_Wikimedia_Israel) > 5 ( > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_GPO_uploaded_by_Wikimedia_Israel > )] > > Thanks to all the people involved in this gigantic effort and enjoy using > historical images from the holy land! :) > > Matanya > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
