I sent the following email to info(a)nli.ie to say 'thank you': Hi, I would just like to drop you a word on behalf of the Wikimedia community in Ireland. As you may know, Wikimedia is an international foundation that aims to produce high-quality, free educational content through the collaboration of tens of thousands of volunteers worldwide. The most famous example of a Wikimedia project is Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A contributor to our mailing list has pointed out the National Library of Ireland initiative to make copyright-free images from your collection easily available online through Flickr. Thank you for doing this! These kinds of initiatives are a treasure trove for those working on Wikimedia projects. It is genuinely wonderful that the NLI is leading the way in Ireland with an initiative such as this. I can promise you that "Wikimedians" the length and breadth of Ireland and worldwide will be applying these images to good use on Wikimedia projects for years to come. Yours, Oliver Moran I hope this is OK with everyone here and sums up the feelings of the community. Best, Oliver ------------------------------ *From:* David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> *To:* Wikimedia IE <wikimediaie(a)lists.wikimedia.org> *Sent:* Thursday, 2 June 2011, 12:22:06 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia IE] National Library of Ireland makes photographs available On 2 June 2011 11:25, Gabriel Beecham <gabriel_beecham(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2011/06/01/welcome-the-national-library-of-irelan… Do we have anyone in .ie liaising with the NLI on behalf of (whatever portion of) Wikimedia? Even to say "wonderful, please keep it up" :-) - d. _______________________________________________ WikimediaIE mailing list WikimediaIE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie _______________________________________________ WikimediaIE mailing list WikimediaIE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaie