Don't focus exclusively on MPs - don't forget Lords, MSPs, AMs, MLAs and GLAMs who
outnumber MPs a fair bit and also all have articles.
Parliament is worth a go, though they aren't exactly a hotbed of technological
progress.
Political parties might be a better bet.
Chris
From: liamwyatt(a)gmail.com
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:02:48 +0000
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pictures of politicians
I don't know about the UK, but I know that the Dutch chapter secured a content
donation from their parliament of the official portraits of the whole government as a job
lot. That might be easier than trying to get them one by one. I also heard that the German
chapter was going to try and get photos of all candidates in the lead up to their next
elections.
Amusingly, I tried to get the Federal Parliament of Australia (via the Australian
parliamentary library) to donate their official portraits of the government along the
lines of the dutch model. The request went up the food chain to some anonymous bureaucrat
in the parliamet from whence the response came back down that, No, we could not release
the official portraits under a cc-by-sa license as that would encourage the usage of those
photos to satirize the politicians.
A more ludicrous reason why a free-license can't be used I have yet to hear!
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
On 4 February 2011 11:45, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Do we have a programme to get photos of every MP? Standard templates,
etc? I need to ask mine, [[Stella Creasy]], for one ...
- d.
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