I can not help share this with you.
I was looking for the name "devouard" in a little tool I just discovered today (TouchGraph).
And I was surprised to discover that the word "devouard" was highly linked to the Hoggar plateau (Ahaggar) in Algeria. I consequently clicked on the central point apparently refering to "devouard".
I found this page: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/9966/Ahaggar/9966rellinks/Related-...
Yeah, that's on britannica. There is a little picture on the top left hand side. Click on the picture.
Now, check out http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoggar3.jpg
The resolution is rather low because these were picts taken by my husband and he did not give me permission to upload the high res ones he took.
But frankly, I am super pleased to find out that one of the pict I uploaded 4 years ago are now featured in Britannica :-)
Ant
Дана Wednesday 10 June 2009 16:36:38 Florence Devouard написа:
But frankly, I am super pleased to find out that one of the pict I uploaded 4 years ago are now featured in Britannica :-)
And they made a honest effort to be GFDL-compliant. I wonder how many more such images are there.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Nikola Smolenskismolensk@eunet.yu wrote:
Дана Wednesday 10 June 2009 16:36:38 Florence Devouard написа:
But frankly, I am super pleased to find out that one of the pict I uploaded 4 years ago are now featured in Britannica :-)
And they made a honest effort to be GFDL-compliant. I wonder how many more such images are there.
They've been doing this since sometime last year. I first noticed it in September: http://ragesossscholar.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-are-your-wikimedia-commons-p... (at the bottom of the post is where Britannica comes up)
I think I did a rough estimate a few months ago that Britannica had added somewhere in the thousands to ten-thousands range of images taken from Wikipedia or Commons (including both GFDL and CC). But they don't provide a link back to the sources and/or userpages, so I feel like they could do a better job of respecting the license terms. When an image is a attributed to a hyperlinked name (as most Commons images are), that would imply that the hyperlink ought to be part of the attribution when it's used on the web. Maybe the Foundation should contact them about this.
-Sage (User:Ragesoss)
2009/6/10 Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com:
I can not help share this with you.
I was looking for the name "devouard" in a little tool I just discovered today (TouchGraph).
And I was surprised to discover that the word "devouard" was highly linked to the Hoggar plateau (Ahaggar) in Algeria. I consequently clicked on the central point apparently refering to "devouard".
I found this page: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/9966/Ahaggar/9966rellinks/Related-...
Yeah, that's on britannica. There is a little picture on the top left hand side. Click on the picture.
Now, check out http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoggar3.jpg
The resolution is rather low because these were picts taken by my husband and he did not give me permission to upload the high res ones he took.
But frankly, I am super pleased to find out that one of the pict I uploaded 4 years ago are now featured in Britannica :-)
Ant
The resolution isn't something they seem too worried about. If you click the see full size on
http://cache.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/582651/116920/Pewter-tankard
It's well below the 2,349 × 2,728 image on commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pewter_Tankard.jpg
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