On 16/08/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_Scott_Foresman
We've had a substantial number of illustrations donated to the Wikimedia Foundation under Public Domain that are presently being uploaded by interns in the office. These illustrations may be found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PD-ScottForesman.
Very cool! :) Thanks to Pearson Scott Foresman for the generous donation.
Might it not be worth having a separate template that said something like 'This image was kindly donated by PSF' and had a link to a short page on Commons just with some details about this? i.e. when they were donated, how many in total, what exactly the collection consists of, and a thankyou. I think pages like this are very useful for reference years in the future. Such a link could be added to existing PD template I guess. cf. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:10%2C000_paintings_from_Directmedi...
Also, if you want to help but you're not so flash on the image editing, please help by improving the image's descriptions/keywords and placing them in appropriate articles or galleries. Also remember Wiktionary when thinking about places to put these images!
Cary, maybe if you can get a list of all the image names (or all the ones so far), we can create a page with a big table to check off as the images get cleaned up, annotated and placed into articles?
Having great pictures is almost pointless if nobody knows about them and nobody uses them. :)
cheers Brianna