---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gnangarra gnangarra@wikimedia.org.au To: Wikimedia Movement Affiliates discussion list < affiliates@lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination < cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch> Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 20:13:07 +0800 Subject: Re: [Affiliates] Size of images donated along with size I'd consider how accessible the artworks are, as you point out volunteers can produce higher resolution but can they access the artworks tot take the images. Its small they wouldnt be usable for any other purpose, personally I'd be looking for a minimum resolution of 1200 on the longest edge which then enables people to look at the image in a size that they can see details, ideally being above 2400 then give people the opportunity to look at the smaller details of brush work and techniques which is critical encyclopedic aspect for artworks
what you may get is compromise of small but significant portion of the image enlarged to show those details, as a complimentary image to full artwork
On 5 May 2016 at 19:51, Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
A professional photo agency offers us (Wikimedia Belgium) a donation of images of art works. They now offer as a start these images with 595 x 842 pixels at 72 dpi. This size is almost double of that from a thumbnail size on Wikipedia. My own (not the most modern) smartphone makes images at 5.312 × 2.988 pixels at 72 dpi. Seeing the size of these images I think they are to low.
My question is: what is the minimum of quality we should ask?
Thanks!
Romaine
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