<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Reply from Pharos.<br><br>Anything else that needs arranging at the Commons end?<br><br>----- Forwarded Message -----<br>From: "Pharos" <pharosofalexandria@gmail.com><br>To: "Andrew Turvey" <andrewrturvey@googlemail.com><br>Cc: "." <commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br>Sent: Sunday, 7 June, 2009 00:48:01 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal<br>Subject: Re: Wikipedia Loves Art<br><br>On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Andrew<br>Turvey<andrewrturvey@googlemail.com> wrote:<br>> On the subject of chapter-led projects that import large amounts of content<br>> into commons:<br>><br>> The Wikipedia Loves Art ran through the month of February 2009 (more details<br>> are at [1][2][3]) and has generated about 5,000 images. At some stage the<br>> plan is to upload these to Commons and thence link to Wikipedia articles.<br>><br>> I've included Pharos in this email who was one of the main organisers.<br>><br>> Is there anything that needs to be considered or put in place before the<br>> mass uploading starts?<br><br>Yes, unfortunately we don't yet have all the museum captioning completed yet.<br><br>When it is complete, we will get word on that from the museums, and we<br>will then have at it with a semi-automated centralized uploading<br>process that I have been discussing with Ryan Kaldari, and also Husky<br>of WLA/NL.<br><br>We do have a template for this purpose that I have also been working<br>on in the meantime here:<br><br>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLA<br><br>Thanks,<br>Pharos<br><br>> Thanks<br>><br>> Andrew<br>><br>> [1] http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art<br>> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WLART<br>> [3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedia_Loves_Art<br>><br></div></body></html>