A few weeks ago, visiting a friend in London, I did the usual quick round of museums; when at the Imperial War Museum, I took a pile of photographs of various exhibits. I put them on flickr, and made a mental note to put them on Commons at some point. Of course, what with one thing and another, I never got round to it.
Since then, someone's transferred several over to be used as illustrations for a handful of enwp articles, used one as the basis for writing another article entirely, and left me a very nice note to explain this...
I can't help but shake the feeling that our system *works* :-)
I recently got a similar minor thrill out of seeing that one of my Flickr photos was transferred to Commons. I usually transfer them only after having the species pictured identified, but apparently someone was looking for CC-licensed pictures of wasps on Flickr and uploaded mine to Commons despite it lacking the exact species name: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arriabelli/2272832982/ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Arria_Belli_-_Wasps_%28by-sa%29.jpg I agree with you; the system works. ^^ --Maria
On 5/16/08, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
A few weeks ago, visiting a friend in London, I did the usual quick round of museums; when at the Imperial War Museum, I took a pile of photographs of various exhibits. I put them on flickr, and made a mental note to put them on Commons at some point. Of course, what with one thing and another, I never got round to it.
Since then, someone's transferred several over to be used as illustrations for a handful of enwp articles, used one as the basis for writing another article entirely, and left me a very nice note to explain this...
I can't help but shake the feeling that our system *works* :-)
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- Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
A few weeks ago, visiting a friend in London, I did the usual quick round of museums; when at the Imperial War Museum, I took a pile of photographs of various exhibits. I put them on flickr, and made a mental note to put them on Commons at some point. Of course, what with one thing and another, I never got round to it.
Since then, someone's transferred several over to be used as illustrations for a handful of enwp articles, used one as the basis for writing another article entirely, and left me a very nice note to explain this...
I can't help but shake the feeling that our system *works* :-)
I had this happen also, I have google alerts for my name, and found someone on Wikipedia using an image and even attributing it to me with my actual name, rather than my flickr account. (not that it's hidden in flickr or anything, and I really don't care either way) I was quite impressed also!
2008/5/16 Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com:
I can't help but shake the feeling that our system *works* :-)
Closest I get is finding images I uploaded used in articles other than the ones I put them in which is nice.
Funny, I nearly always have the opposite experience.
Specifically, people on Flickr taking images I created and reporting them as their own with totally wrong licensing and attribution. It's happened often enough that I've gotten pretty distrustful of Flickr. -Robert Rohde
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
A few weeks ago, visiting a friend in London, I did the usual quick round of museums; when at the Imperial War Museum, I took a pile of photographs of various exhibits. I put them on flickr, and made a mental note to put them on Commons at some point. Of course, what with one thing and another, I never got round to it.
Since then, someone's transferred several over to be used as illustrations for a handful of enwp articles, used one as the basis for writing another article entirely, and left me a very nice note to explain this...
I can't help but shake the feeling that our system *works* :-)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
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