Correction: "even if it's 1000 images and only two are Commons-able, it's still a net benefit."
Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 19 February 2014 14:49, Richard Symonds <[email protected] > wrote: > To be honest, Tom, that was the original idea - even if it's 1000 images > and only two are Commons-able, it's still a net benefit if staff are doing > the work. > > If you have thousands (I had about 400 and it took me a few hours), then > it might be worth looking into something else. > > Drop me an email! > > Richard Symonds > Wikimedia UK > 0207 065 0992 > > Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered > Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. > United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia > movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who > operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). > > *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control > over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* > > > On 19 February 2014 13:16, Stevie Benton > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Tom, >> >> In answer to your question, I'm certain that would be no problem at all. >> And those images sound really interesting. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Stevie >> >> >> On 19 February 2014 13:08, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Michael Peel wrote: >>> > Really, the important questions here are: who has collections that >>> > would benefit Wikimedia and need scanning, and who has the time to >>> > scan and upload them? It shouldn't really be a question about >>> > equipment cost beyond the cost-effectiveness of scanning and sharing >>> > them. >>> > >>> >>> I have access (both physical and legal) to a large collection of both >>> colour and B&W slides of various parts of Britain taken by my >>> grandfather, Josiah Sturgeon. He was a civil service architect who >>> designed quite a number of prisons and lifeboat stations and advised the >>> government on other big construction projects. He also was a maritime >>> painter and a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists, and one of >>> his paintings is in the Guildhall Art Gallery collection. >>> >>> The photographs he took over the years are mostly of Scotland, >>> especially the Hebrides, but also cover coastal and rivers in England >>> and Wales. There's also quite a lot of (what was then) Yugoslavia. They >>> are taken with the eye of an artist and often show places that have now >>> disappeared. I think there's definitely some educational and >>> illustrative value in the images. >>> >>> Scanning them and putting them on Commons might be a more fitting and >>> useful thing to do with them than keep them in an attic for a few more >>> decades. So I might take up the offer of using the slide scanner at some >>> point. >>> >>> One question: if one scanned a whole set of images using WMUK >>> resources--say, a few hundred slides--and one or two of them were personal >>> (in the case of my grandfather's photos, there might be a few showing my >>> grandmother and/or my mother), can those be exempted from being uploaded >>> or licensed for Commons? >>> >>> - -- >>> Tom Morris >>> <http://tommorris.org/> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (Darwin) >>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ >>> >>> iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTBKzoAAoJEJwR297kLQ2wvcEP/2UM31jnp32BRSBgD0m5UXTF >>> 5vOEdhBiDnimAx7psK9paPp/Yvv1+r5hnbvlMCVm8RouexRZVpNXNWEqcHEbIwJq >>> JDVCppMqNeTMZoJU9UCSh25TigfZHZ2egeKhxVnLM4jVcVZeyowTpt38WwXzijxJ >>> U+aqXxMIpsd1zFtq2UbkHat6pTkJ2glKnaL2Lnl8evsD4gSp4j2+XH8Qqo/3dgXj >>> nltZW6UGlqZDZz+OgJlvopCGE8WcMTZzSNvkxtSHAOiRzzQjuaNelwMTLctwyKbR >>> KHbZXp2mVfUgAmDyl31KhdYSgSkO1tizUy3kijMkrFEf/n5yUUhEb9TUJ5bXlIWp >>> 3JV/J2p4z3me2NF/2wNXVFdNJNqes1QuqQYBsBu+hiBcMl6VXbqRS4LcznJSJkuB >>> xaGpzpHc3kcQ124Ef1bd4x0tXlC2CErONpjVhemdyZ+Fg9WusacUwB4UnwLYxIHB >>> TWQz2rstUDMU5eA6Yc+McswGvo/pkl6dp7I/6V5H5F9tyT9Ui+izJ2drrYuDvENc >>> G3ohpdVt/J7x07AWdSUlC2Pwls54lInjUWfxR9YreSn9CpgImXO765l5nmFmd07O >>> o/ToP5f77ObH04QcJuTzSc9LP+giujy7lLdZdv5jEecjK2a5dmM1eQ8G8S5kpnXC >>> VX4AKct9CVIzL/SqPGcO >>> =ED64 >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia UK mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >>> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Stevie Benton >> Head of External Relations >> Wikimedia UK+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 >> @StevieBenton >> >> >> >> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and >> Wales, Registered No. 6741827. 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