I have come across two cases in recent weeks, where Flickr users have hundreds of potentially useful images that they are willing to change to an open licence, so that we can use them on Commons, and in Wikipedia and sibling projects. In each case, those users are not Flickr "Pro" (paid account) subscribers, and the feature to bulk change image licences is only available to Pro subscribers. Changing on an image-by-image basis is clearly untenable. While it is possible for a Wikimedia volunteer to buy as a gift a week-long pro subscription for a few US$, we should not have to, and I wonder if it would benefit the movement for the Foundation to ask Flickr to make the feature available for non-Pro users, who wish to make their images freely reusable? Do WMF have a suitable contact at Flickr? Who at WMF should I talk with about this? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

I have come across two cases in recent weeks, where Flickr users have hundreds of potentially useful images that they are willing to change to an open licence, so that we can use them on Commons, and in Wikipedia and sibling projects. In each case, those users are not Flickr "Pro" (paid account) subscribers, and the feature to bulk change image licences is only available to Pro subscribers. Changing on an image-by-image basis is clearly untenable. While it is possible for a Wikimedia volunteer to buy as a gift a week-long pro subscription for a few US$, we should not have to, and I wonder if it would benefit the movement for the Foundation to ask Flickr to make the feature available for non-Pro users, who wish to make their images freely reusable? Do WMF have a suitable contact at Flickr? Who at WMF should I talk with about this? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org