--- On Mon, 16/5/11, Chris McKenna <cmckenna(a)sucs.org> wrote:
From: Chris McKenna <cmckenna(a)sucs.org>
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons
To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Monday, 16 May, 2011, 15:29
On Mon, 16 May 2011, Andreas Kolbe
wrote:
There seems to be a worrying tendency to treat
Commons
as a gallery for non-notable art.
It's an educational project, not a vehicle
for
self-promotion.
A.
This image can be used in educational encyclopaedia
articles about
anime/manga, (female) toplessness, contemporary art,
fictional landscapes,
depictions of humans in art, art produced on computers,
debates
surrounding any of these topics, and almost certainly many
other uses too.
It therefore seems to me to be a very good example of
educational material
that Commons should be hosting.
Okay, my wife and I will then encourage all the unsigned garage bands we
know to upload their original songs to Commons. We know a good dozen,
altogether about 50 people. We will nominate our songs for featured status.
We will vote for each others' songs (purely on artistic merit); so with 50
people, achieving featured status shouldn't be too difficult.
We will then nominate our sound or video files to appear as featured media
of the day on the Commons main page.
I promise you all of this will be valuable content; any of these songs could
serve to illustrate Foundation-hosted educational content on -
* home recording
* music software
* drums
* guitar
* electric guitar
* bass guitar
* electric violin
* electric viola
* glockenspiel
* stage lighting
* garages
* voice
* vocal technique
* mouth
* hand (close-up fretwork)
* finger (again, close-up fretwork)
* obscene lyrics
* musical genres such as punk, hip-hop, art punk, post-punk, pop, etc.
* neighbourhood disputes
* musical activism
* self-promotion
If anyone objects, we will accuse them of censorship, and of cultural
fascism directed against punk and hip-hop, both of which are widely
recognised art forms that Commons should cover.
Andreas