http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/wellcome-library-donation/
Hi GLAMmers,
The target of uploading 100,000 high resolution historical images from the Wellcome Library to Wikimedia Commons was hit last month and there is a Foundation blog post telling the story of out today. See the above link.
It is a great collection to illustrate not just medical history, but ancient history, British cartoons, Chinese history, religions and many others. In terms of quality and range, it is one of the most prestigious collections of high quality scanned drawings, painting and photographs on Wikimedia Commons. As a case study for other GLAMs, the interesting news is that the project costs were almost *zero* as the upload of 300 GB of images ran from my home laptop from a USB hard disk that the Wellcome Library kindly posted to me. :-)
I have pinned a suggested tweet at http://twitter.com/Faewik, and there are share buttons at the bottom of the blog post too if you wish to help promote the free collection on twitter or Facebook.
Cheers, Fae -- faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
On 21 January 2015 at 09:13, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
The target of uploading 100,000 high resolution historical images from the Wellcome Library to Wikimedia Commons was hit last month and there is a Foundation blog post telling the story of out today.
Great work! I've posted a note to en.WP's Wikiproject medicine
I often think we need a reverse FIST, i.e. a tool to produce suggestions of usage for files in a category. Didn't we have something like that at some point? https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/fist.php
Nemo
Many users and readers might be unaware of the great improvements to the standard Commons search.
As an example, if you type "Dentistry incategory:Files_from_Wellcome_Images" in the search bar, this returns a list of 267 thumbnail images of where "Dentistry" appears in the file name or as text on the image page.[1] If we use insource:/dentist/ this includes dentist, dentistry, dentiste, etc. which then reports back 359 possible images.[2]
There are a number of other possible search options beyond searching within a category, including searching by similar words or fuzzy matches or limiting to words in the title.[3] It is definitely worth spending a couple of minutes reading up on the special CirrusSearch options and having a good play around with it, if you have not tried it before.
Links 1. http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Dentistry+incategory%3AFiles... 2. http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=... 3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch
On 23 January 2015 at 12:17, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
I often think we need a reverse FIST, i.e. a tool to produce suggestions of usage for files in a category. Didn't we have something like that at some point? https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/fist.php
Nemo
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Indeed CirrusSearch is very useful if you have a keyword in mind. What I need is a tool which suggests me a keyword, i.e. an article currently lacking images which matches an image in the category. We can currently do only the opposite, i.e. start from articles without images and look for an image in the entire Commons.
Nemo