Now on the front page of Slashdot.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/0044240/Why-the-Photos-On-Wikipedia…
It's important to learn from this episode: Wikipedians nearly burned through
this opportunity. See the Jerry Avenaim/Mark Harmon FPC debate (especially
the collapsed part).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Mark_Har…
Although the nomination was nearly speedily closed, I noticed the
photographer was an active Wikipedian and wrote to him for a higher
resolution version. After he supplied it some reviewers wanted to move the
goalposts beyond the official stated criteria. It didn't look like they
recognized the significance of having a leading Hollywood portrait
photographer among our volunteers.
Was talking to Noam Cohen last week in the aftermath of the NPG threat and
told him about Jerry. Showed him Jerry's featured picture and Commons
gallery, and Noam loved it. Here's hoping that inspires more celebrities to
release their portraits under copyleft license, and inspires more
professional photographers to donate material to Wikipedia.
-Durova
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:24 AM, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, the article is kind of premised on a lie. But
hopefully it will
encourage more people to contribute photos.
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:29 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/7/19 David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/arts/20funny.html
One error on licensing. Claim that Wikipedia requires you to give up
your copyright unchallenged. Otherwise, pretty good! And should have
the right effect in terms of promo photo donations.
- d.
Except we do have fairly good pics of David Beckham and Allison
Janney. Our Barry Bonds pics are better than described.
--
geni
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