[Commons-l] Geograph images

[Caroline Ford]

I spent an afternoon uploading geograph images last week. Loads we  
didn't have and were better than our coverage.

Caroline

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On 30 Jan 2010, at 22:01, Daniel Schwen <lists at schwen.de> wrote:

> Why suddenly? This had been discussed before and found to be a bad
> idea. First of all we already have tons of geograph images where they
> are needed, and secondly there is tons of trash on geograph. The
> project aims are not the same. The image quality is low.
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Andrew Turvey
> <andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Could anyone help us draft a blog post about this?
>>
>> I've started a page at
>> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Geograph_images
>>
>> ----- Forwarded Message -----
>> From: "Michael Peel" <email at mikepeel.net>
>> To: "board at wikimedia.org.uk WMUK Board" <board at wikimedia.org.uk>
>> Sent: Saturday, 30 January, 2010 11:58:22 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain,  
>> Ireland,
>> Portugal
>> Subject: [WMUK Board] Geograph images
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just been given a heads-up that 250,000 images of the UK that
>> people have released on Geograph.org.uk are currently being mass-
>> uploaded onto Wikimedia Commons:
>>
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
>> Category:Images_from_the_Geograph_British_Isles_project
>>
>> We should probably do a blog post about this sometime soon; next week
>> perhaps?
>>
>> Mike
>>
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