it does not hurt to ask - Microsoft does some CSR, after all, and using beautiful images under an open license is in their interest, too anyway. I would not be overly optimistic though.
dj
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
In some geographies this feature is used as an advertising tool - I guess promoting of Commons via this feature could be quite costly.
2017-08-20 1:08 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk:
Those of you running Windows 10 will be familiar with the regularly-changing "lockscreen" images showing things like beautiful scenery and scenes from nature:
https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/find-windows-spotlight-lock-screen-images-windows-10/
The last one I just saw was labelled "copyright [photographer name] and Shutterstock"
Is there someone at WMF, with contacts at Microsoft, who could persuade them to use some featured images from Commons, with a small piece of text explaining that people may upload their own images?
That would seem to be a simple way to do a massive piece of outreach, to a new audience.
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