Agreed -- excellent work, Laura and Bidgee!<div><br></div><div>On case studies -- one person who has self-documented extensively on gaining access to public figures for photos is David Shankbone. But he&#39;s blogged about tons of things, so it will take a little work to dig through and find the best reflective posts on that subject.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here&#39;s a 2009 article about his work: <a href="http://www.cjr.org/on_the_job/the_wikinews_ace.php?page=all">http://www.cjr.org/on_the_job/the_wikinews_ace.php?page=all</a></div><div><br></div><div>
His blog is at <a href="http://shankbone.org">http://shankbone.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>It would be awesome to explore the kinds of techniques various people have used to get this kind of access! A good project for the GLAM portal or other outreach pages.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Pete</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Sarah Stierch <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sarah.stierch@gmail.com">sarah.stierch@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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    Great photos Laura! It&#39;s super cool that Bigbee is volunteeering
    their time and skill to help out with the project. <br>
    <br>
    Even cooler that the water polo folks gave you guys such great
    access. It&#39;d be cool to see some case studies developed on &quot;gaining
    access&quot; to subjects. <br>
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    -Sarah<div><div class="h5"><br>
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    On 2/24/12 3:57 PM, Laura Hale wrote:
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      <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:06 AM, John
        Vandenberg <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jayvdb@gmail.com" target="_blank">jayvdb@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span>
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          Great work Laura and Bidgee!<br>
          <br>
          I noticed a problem with the first image page I clicked on. 
          Maybe<br>
          others have the same problem.<br>
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          <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANicola_Zagame.jpg&amp;diff=67465143&amp;oldid=67443407" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANicola_Zagame.jpg&amp;diff=67465143&amp;oldid=67443407</a><br>

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      Fixed.  I think all of them have been fixed anyway.  Not sure
      about the descriptions and if they really should have more as it
      might be nice to try to take one or two to featured pictured: The
      people: sports category lacks women. :(  I&#39;ve mentioned it in
      signpost suggestions at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions#First_time_for_national_team_pictures" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions#First_time_for_national_team_pictures</a>
      and would be awesome to get a mention. :)
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      <div>Bidgee upload the pictures of the Brits.  These are pretty
        awesome too. :D</div>
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      <div><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Britain_water_polo_coach_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg" target="_blank">File:Great_Britain_water_polo_coach_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg</a></div>
      <div><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Britain_water_polo_player_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre_%281%29.jpg" target="_blank">File:Great_Britain_water_polo_player_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre_(1).jpg</a></div>
      <div><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Britain_water_polo_player_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg" target="_blank">File:Great_Britain_water_polo_player_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg</a></div>
      <div><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Britain_water_polo_players_and_coach_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg" target="_blank">File:Great_Britain_water_polo_players_and_coach_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg</a></div>

      <div><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Britain_water_polo_players_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg" target="_blank">File:Great_Britain_water_polo_players_at_AIS_Aquatic_Centre.jpg</a><br clear="all">
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        <div>I think the pictures do a good job at showing frustration
          at a losing game.  I really need to learn to use Wikinews to
          write more about this stuff.  Would be great to see more
          women&#39;s topics and Australian topics covered on the project,
          and more people to get accredited as reporters. :)</div>
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        -- <br>
        twitter: purplepopple<br>
        blog: <a href="http://ozziesport.com" target="_blank">ozziesport.com</a><br>
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