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-windo...
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.
I wanted to suggest the same, you read my mind...
Il Domenica 20 Agosto 2017 1:10, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk ha scritto:
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-windo...
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.
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.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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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.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Perhaps a randomly chosen image every time the user logs in?
Rudigerd
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl wrote:
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.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Rogol
Why the randomly-chosen names beginning with R?
Michael
Rogol Domedonfors wrote:
Perhaps a randomly chosen image every time the user logs in?
Rudigerd
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Dariusz Jemielniakdarekj@alk.edu.pl wrote:
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 Ganiczpolimerek@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 Mabbettandy@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.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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I have looked at the Wikipedia traffic for the places associated with some of these images, and it is clear that they drive in the order of thousands of hits per day.
I haven't been able to find a definitive list, from which more comprehensive stats could be generated.
I think that using Commons images might provide an attribution problem. It might also take bread from the mouth of babes (or at least photographers). I think Microsoft can afford to pay for these images and fund creation of more, even if that is mainly going to be commercial, it is not inimical to free images.
On 21 Aug 2017 18:20, "Michael Maggs" Michael@maggs.name wrote:
Rogol
Why the randomly-chosen names beginning with R?
Michael
Rogol Domedonfors wrote:
Perhaps a randomly chosen image every time the user logs in?
Rudigerd
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Dariusz Jemielniakdarekj@alk.edu.pl wrote:
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 Ganiczpolimerek@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 Mabbettandy@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.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Following this up, from last August. Did anyone at WMF see it? I don't think we had a response from anyone there.
On 20 August 2017 at 00:08, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
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.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Anyone within the community can reach out to them and ask. Agree this is a good idea.
J
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:09 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
Following this up, from last August. Did anyone at WMF see it? I don't think we had a response from anyone there.
On 20 August 2017 at 00:08, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
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.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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