Hi, for those who don't know, the Geograph is a photography contest and site that operates across the UK and Ireland and has a compatible license to ours. So close to 1.8 million of their images have been imported into Commons and are a major part of the reason why Commons has such good coverage of English churches, fields and minor roads. But we stopped mass importing their images some time ago due to the difficulty of categorising them, and there are now a million un copied images including all or almost all their hi-definition ones.
The Geograph has just become a registered charity much like us. So I thought I'd check out what their attitude was to our copying and using their images. It turns out that they aren't aware that the migration has stalled, as their site still claims that all their images get migrated to Commons http://www.geograph.org.uk/faq3.php?q=wikipedia I think there is a big opportunity for the chapter here, perhaps we could approach them and suggest changing their upload software to dual use? So Geograph users have the option of posting their images directly on Commons provided they add categories. I suspect there would be some software implications, but if so it might be a useful use of a UK grant. WereSpielChequers
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