Hi,
I have mentioned to
Bishaka, Vivek and Pradeep in person and on the Mumbai list. After our first Mumbai
Photowalk, I ran a quick
check on Flickr for Mumbai related content and found a lot of relevant
and professional photographs. I contacted relevant uploaders requesting
them to change licensing to CC-BY or CC-BY-SA so that to allow use on
Wikipedia.
A lot of them agreed - for example, I got pictures of an IPL match at
Brabourne Stadium, several photographs of Ganpati Visarjan at Girgaum
Chowpatty (taken from a boat by a visiting foreigner who kindly agreed
to change licensing) - they include wonderful picutures of the beach
full of people and idols, coast guard choppers patrolling etc., Ballard
Bunder Gatehouse, an ATP tournament that took place in Mumbai at CCI in
2006, Agatti and Delhi airports (aerial view) and Mani Bhavan pictures
so far. During the photowalks we would have taken a lot of time to cover
so much - and may not have been as professional.
Further past sports events is something we could not have got for
obvious reasons and I doubt we could have got as good pictures of Ganesh
Visarjan (even if we waited a few more months ourselves). Out of about
15 people contacted about 7 people have agreed to change the licensing
(only 1 refusal thus far). A lot of the amateur photographers on Flickr
might be willing to let go of the copyright so as to get more exposure
and notice through Wikipedia (they may even pass the word that their
photographs have been requested for use by Wikipedians and are currently
used on Wikipedia!). A couple of them while changing the license
requested me for the link to the article on which their photo is used.
It may be a good idea for us to concentrate on getting pictures from
Flickr rather than conducting more photowalks (by identifying requisite
photographs and requesting them via comments on the said photo and email
to the photographer/flickr user).
Regards,
User:AroundTheGlobe