Hi. :D
Bouncy mood. :D Very happy. I wanted to work on some articles about a women's sport team in Australia and I chose the Australian women's national water polo team as they occasionally train at the Australian Institute of Sport. As luck would have it, they were running a training camp there this week and playing a series of test matches against Great Britain. I got in touch with the media manager for the team. I got permission from the media manager to get profile pictures of every member of the team and the coach of the team specifically for articles about the individual players. The request was basically treated like any other request from a media organisation, which was fantastic. :D The media manager told the players why we wanted the pictures, and about 80 minutes before their match, we (my Commons photographer Bidgee and I) had an opportunity to take the pictures. These were then put into the articles about every player, articles we either newly created or expanded. The whole lot was then nominated for DYK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alicia_McCormack_(1).jpg
Alicia McCormack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_McCormackAustralian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ashleigh_Southern.jpg
Ashleigh Southern http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashleigh_SouthernAustralian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bronwen_Knox.jpg
Bronwen Knox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronwen_Knox Australian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dalibor_Maslan.jpg
Dalibor Maslanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalibor_Maslan&action=edit&redlink=1 assistant coach of the Australian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gemma_Beadsworth_(1).jpg
Gemma Beadsworth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemma_BeadsworthAustralian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Glencora_Ralph.jpg
Glencora Ralph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencora_Ralph Australian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gregory_McFadden.jpg
Gregory McFadden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_McFadden coach of the Australian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hannah_Buckling.jpg
Hannah Buckling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_BucklingAustralian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holly_Lincoln-Smith.jpg
Holly Lincoln-Smith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Lincoln-SmithAustralian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isobel_Bishop.jpg
Isobel Bishop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobel_Bishop Australian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jane_Moran.jpg
Jane Morgan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Morgan Australian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kate_Gynther_(1).jpg
Kate Gynther http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Gynther Australian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kelsey_Wakefield.jpg
Kelsey Wakefield http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsey_Wakefield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Melissa_Rippon.jpg
Melissa Rippon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Rippon Australian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nicola_Zagame.jpg
Nicola Zagame http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Zagame Australian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rowena_Webster.jpg
Rowena Webster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowena_WebsterAustralian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ryan_Moar.jpg
Ryan Moarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ryan_Moar&action=edit&redlink=1 assistant coach of the Australian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sophie_Smith.jpg
Sophie Smith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Smith Australian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Victoria_Brown.jpg
Victoria Brown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Brown Australian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zoe_Arancini.jpg
Zoe Arancini http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Arancini Australian women's national water polohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_polo_team player.
We're almost certain this is the first time ever on English Wikipedia that a national team of ANY gender has given a Wikipedia photographer official permission to take profile pictures specifically for use on Wikipedia. :D That it is a team full of women makes me extra happy. The women were incredibly nice about it. No complaints. All smiles. Some of them were aware of existing articles about them on Wikipedia. (A few had won bronze medals at the 2008 Games.)
On a related and yet unrelated note, there currently is NO article about Great Britain's women national water polo team, who will be competing in their first Olympics. (The women's event was only added to the Games in 2000, after extensive lobbying by Australian women. this despite the fact that water polo for men was one of the foundation sports for the Games.) There are a few pictures and videos I took at the first game in the test series at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Water_polo_in_the_United_Kingdom. The quality isn't as great as what bidgee took game wise for the second test series. Those pictures should be uploaded in a few days or so at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Bidgee . It would be awesome to see an article about the Great Britain team and some of their players. :) (Or the Australian articles brought up to GA. ;o) )
Sincerely, Laura Hale