I just love the sound of this project. I wish I could help with translating interfaces into he: or ar:, but unfortunately I cannot speak those languages. I wish them the best of luck. This is exactly the kind of project that could get people curious about free licenses; the urge to share family history (old documents, letters, photos, and in the case of Israel precious war and pre-war photos) can be quite strong.
<br>--Maria<br>User:Arria Belli<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brianna Laugher</b> <<a href="mailto:brianna.laugher@gmail.com">brianna.laugher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>==Project with Wikimedia Israel==<br>I spent some time talking to a lovely chap named Dror (User:Drork) who
<br>describes himself as the "foreign minister" of the Wikimedia Israel<br>chapter. Their chapter is planning to start a big project with another<br>company in Israel to ask people to look for historically significant
<br>images in their private collections and donate them to the public<br>domain. (Israel is having some anniversaries so it is timely for<br>them.) He basically wanted to know that such images would be welcome<br>in Commons. I said of course! Then we discussed about how the images
<br>should be collected. We decided it would be better if the images were<br>submitted to a gateway before being added to Commons. The organisation<br>that he is working with is willing to write the open source SW to<br>collect all the structured data that they want to collect (and also
<br>deal with hebrew, arabic etc interface stuff which we do poorly at<br>best). So the idea at the moment is that their partner org will write<br>this interface, we will install it on the toolserver, and from there<br>it can be appropriately formatted etc and go into Commons.
<br>So we have quite a few toolserver users working for Commons, that<br>won't be a problem I think, just thought that was a pretty cool<br>project. They plan to run a pilot project and if it's successful (they<br>
don't know what kind of stuff people will even submit), then a full-on<br>project may run for like a year.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>