On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Brill Lyle <wp.brilllyle@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Lydia Pintscher
> <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
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>> Thanks. Stuff like that is useful to have as examples.
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> If it's possible to engage some of the GLAM institutions here in NYC and
> around the world in doing donations like this, I know I for one would like
> to strongly promote and support this type of Wikidata+Commons-focused
> initiative. I think other chapters might be able to integrate this into
> ongoing initiatives and annual editathons that are in the GLAM-o-sphere....
> We have some coming up this Fall but that is probably too soon? Is there a
> tentative timeframe for this project? I see a lot of work was done in 2014.

We definitely need to talk more to institutions as we make progress,
yeah. I'll ping when we've reached a good development state for that.
As for timeline: I am hesitant to make any predictions because there
are a lot of unknowns - technical and social. For one the Commons
community has to not think this is a terrible idea ;-)