[Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force

Samuel Klein meta.sj at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 16:35:58 UTC 2009


I met a few people helping out with Wikimania, including the lead
photographer on site, who got involved with the local Wikimedia
community after their photostream was found on Flickr and incorporated
into Wikipedia (es:wp)...  Discovering your work has been used by
someone else is always a nice icebreaker.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Bod Notbod<bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Jovan Cormac<limulus at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> That's a great idea. They might even do it...
>
> Thanks! :o)
>
> I can't think of any huge reasons for them not to. I don't think it
> would reduce their traffic. I suppose there's "why should they?"

I expect Flickr is friendly towards WP; they've always been a pretty
open culture.  That may be reason enough.

Sj




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