Re: Suggestions for Improved Content on Wikimedia
I was wondering if it would be a good idea to maybe approach some of the folks who have "fashion blogs", to see if they'd be willing to donate older photos. Even photos that are more than a couple of years old would be very useful for illustrating different fashion-related articles. There might be personality-right problems, though, I don't know what the legalities would be. A solution to that might be having the images pixelated or adding the bar-across-the-eyes (like in the Glamour magazine dos-and-donts feature).
Audrey
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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:05:37 +0100 From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Please delete gendergaps Googleable links about me -- To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <4EB4EE51.1000200@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Migdia Chinea, 05/11/2011 06:01: > I'm very disturbed that my comments are now googleable. And I guess so > is this one I'm writing right now. There's no context and it's just ery > disturbing. My short has been seen in 25 film festivals around the > world and now it appears that any comment I make is googleable, which > will have a deleterious effect on me in terms of getting a job. Please > remove all my comments. I'm really upset -- I'm afraid of what I say.
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Message: 2 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 19:18:45 +1100 From: Laura Hale <laura@fanhistory.com> Subject: [Gendergap] Mind the Gap(s)! Writing Styles of Female Editors on Wikipedia To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <CAGaPgkSdiijhZpvXrnNCT6+BTDzYo1cJgeFo9sj48iatGWmurA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
"...This analysis will focus on characteristics of female participants on English Wikipedia. The analysis will look to see if these participants are representative of the female English speaking population. The analysis will also explore, through some existing literature and in the conclusion, the question of whether these potential differences could matter when planning strategy to target the gender gap. ?"
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mind_the_Gap
Sincerely, Laura Hale
Hi Audrey,
Great idea. I am hoping in the near future to work on developing a model release form, and that might be an opportunity to explore its uses. I have noticed that there is quite a healthy amount of Wikipedia articles (and if it's a large list in English, it's probably the same if not longer in other languages) related to fashion (for men and women) that lack photographs.[1]
There is also the opportunity to crop and anonyomize images, if need be, like you suggested (or just blurring a face).
Feel free to send me any links off list of Fashion blogs that you think might be "outreachable." I'm hoping to gather a list of materials like this for some research I'm developing.
Thank you!
-Sarah
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Audrey Cormier cormier.home@yahoo.cawrote:
Re: Suggestions for Improved Content on Wikimedia
I was wondering if it would be a good idea to maybe approach some of the folks who have "fashion blogs", to see if they'd be willing to donate older photos. Even photos that are more than a couple of years old would be very useful for illustrating different fashion-related articles. There might be personality-right problems, though, I don't know what the legalities would be. A solution to that might be having the images pixelated or adding the bar-across-the-eyes (like in the Glamour magazine dos-and-donts feature).
Audrey