*The Indian Express : "2,155 images uploaded in record 23 days"* http://expressbuzz.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/2155-images-uploaded-in-rec...
*The Malayalam Wiki Community is in high spirits.* *The programme, ‘Malayalam Loves Wikimedia’ event organised as part of **improving the database as well as to attract more Malayalam speaking users to the Wikimedia movement is a big hit.* *As many as 2,155 copyright-free licensed images have been contributed to Wikimedia Commons within a short period of 23 days. Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files. Inspired by the success of Wikimedia events such as ‘London loves Wikimedia’, the programme ‘Malayalam Loves Wikimedia’ was organised to create awareness about copyright-free images, Wikimedia Commons and to attract more Malayalam speaking users to the Wikimedia movement.* * * *As many as 75 Malayalis, majority of them non-wikimedians, participated in the event which was organised between April 2 and April 25.* *The wikimedians selected April considering the Assembly election at that time.* *According to them, the election was the perfect time to capture the images of the notable politicians and important personalities of Kerala. * *The speciality of the event was that many non-wikimedians, who were eager to contribute to the Wikimedia, got an opportunity to be part of it.* * * *The 2,155 copyright-free images uploaded are on diverse topics. This includes images of famous personalities, buildings, places, equipment and even popular snacks.* *Second standard student Sai K Shanmugam was the youngest contributor.* *He provided 14 images to the Wikimedia Commons.* *The highest number of uploads was on April 25, the last day of the event. As many as 343 images were uploaded on that day.* * * *“This is not the first time Malayalam wikimedians are contributing to the Wikimedia Commons. During the past few years we have contributed more to 6,000 free-licensed images to Wikimedia Commons. Through this event we have added another 2,000. We are planning for more topic-based events in the near future,” the organisers said.*
Regards Tinu Cherian http://wikimedia.in/wiki/In_the_news#May_2011
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:50 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.com wrote:
The 2,155 copyright-free images uploaded are on diverse topics.
As i mentioned earlier this copyright-free tag coming up with most of the reports on wikipedia is frustrating. We need to have a proper strategy to address it. Most of the images uploaded in Malayalam Loves wikipedia event are not copyright free
Anivar
The newspaper had not contacted me or possibly any ml Wikipedians directly for this article.
There is a general misconception, among general public or media folks, that the images that are free to use are not copyrighted.
Aniwar, How do you think we can create a general awareness to all ?
-Tinu Cherian
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Anivar Aravind anivar.aravind@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:50 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.com wrote:
The 2,155 copyright-free images uploaded are on diverse topics.
As i mentioned earlier this copyright-free tag coming up with most of the reports on wikipedia is frustrating. We need to have a proper strategy to address it. Most of the images uploaded in Malayalam Loves wikipedia event are not copyright free
Anivar
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According to me these type of issues arise due to the lack of awareness about copyright related topics among press reporters. I assume the reporter made this story based on my blog post published at, http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/malayalam-loves-wikimedia-event-20...
In the first paragraph of the blog post I mentioned:
....Malayalam wikimedians have organised a photo event from *2011 April 02 –
25* *to create more awareness about copyleft-licensed images*, wikimedia commons, and to attract more Malayalam speaking people to the wikimedia movement.
But when the reporter made the story it became:
*the programme ‘Malayalam Loves Wikimedia’ was organised to create awareness
about copyright-free images, Wikimedia Commons and to attract more Malayalam speaking users to the Wikimedia movement.*
We couldn't do much here. And for this story, reporters didn't contacted any of us. So it is not wikimedian's fault.
Some awareness programs can be planned for press reporters to address this issue.
Shiju
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:09 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.comwrote:
The newspaper had not contacted me or possibly any ml Wikipedians directly for this article.
There is a general misconception, among general public or media folks, that the images that are free to use are not copyrighted.
Aniwar, How do you think we can create a general awareness to all ?
-Tinu Cherian
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Anivar Aravind anivar.aravind@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:50 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.com wrote:
The 2,155 copyright-free images uploaded are on diverse topics.
As i mentioned earlier this copyright-free tag coming up with most of the reports on wikipedia is frustrating. We need to have a proper strategy to address it. Most of the images uploaded in Malayalam Loves wikipedia event are not copyright free
Anivar
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I know there was interest in writing a blog post about the Malayalam maps project, so maybe combine both projects into a post specifically addressing this issue? Then you can send that post to the media outlets who are getting it wrong, as well as proactively reach out to other media as well?
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonline@gmail.comwrote:
According to me these type of issues arise due to the lack of awareness about copyright related topics among press reporters. I assume the reporter made this story based on my blog post published at, http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/malayalam-loves-wikimedia-event-20...
In the first paragraph of the blog post I mentioned:
....Malayalam wikimedians have organised a photo event from *2011 April 02
– 25* *to create more awareness about copyleft-licensed images*, wikimedia commons, and to attract more Malayalam speaking people to the wikimedia movement.
But when the reporter made the story it became:
*the programme ‘Malayalam Loves Wikimedia’ was organised to create
awareness about copyright-free images, Wikimedia Commons and to attract more Malayalam speaking users to the Wikimedia movement.*
We couldn't do much here. And for this story, reporters didn't contacted any of us. So it is not wikimedian's fault.
Some awareness programs can be planned for press reporters to address this issue.
Shiju
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:09 AM, CherianTinu Abraham < tinucherian@gmail.com> wrote:
The newspaper had not contacted me or possibly any ml Wikipedians directly for this article.
There is a general misconception, among general public or media folks, that the images that are free to use are not copyrighted.
Aniwar, How do you think we can create a general awareness to all ?
-Tinu Cherian
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:50 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.com wrote:
The 2,155 copyright-free images uploaded are on diverse topics.
As i mentioned earlier this copyright-free tag coming up with most of the reports on wikipedia is frustrating. We need to have a proper strategy to address it. Most of the images uploaded in Malayalam Loves wikipedia event are not copyright free
Anivar
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On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:39 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.com wrote:
The newspaper had not contacted me or possibly any ml Wikipedians directly for this article. There is a general misconception, among general public or media folks, that the images that are free to use are not copyrighted. Aniwar, How do you think we can create a general awareness to all ?
I think it is better to create a FAQ entry in the current FAQ, that addresses permissible copyright/ copyleft wikipedia uses with answers to common misconceptions . We need to link that question with the term copyleft in Press-releases , while using the term copyleft
And FAQ entry will help to get it circulated among wikipedians, when they are using it on meetups & workshops
Anivar
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Anivar Aravind anivar.aravind@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:39 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.com wrote:
The newspaper had not contacted me or possibly any ml Wikipedians
directly
for this article. There is a general misconception, among general public or media folks,
that
the images that are free to use are not copyrighted. Aniwar, How do you think we can create a general awareness to all ?
I think it is better to create a FAQ entry in the current FAQ, that addresses permissible copyright/ copyleft wikipedia uses with answers to common misconceptions . We need to link that question with the term copyleft in Press-releases , while using the term copyleft
And FAQ entry will help to get it circulated among wikipedians, when they are using it on meetups & workshops
Excellent idea.
Anivar
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I believe a banner campaing on the Commons or atleast for now on Wikimedia.in would suffice. Regards,
On 11 May 2011 22:16, Moka Pantages mpantages@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:39 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.com wrote:
The newspaper had not contacted me or possibly any ml Wikipedians
directly
for this article. There is a general misconception, among general public or media folks,
that
the images that are free to use are not copyrighted. Aniwar, How do you think we can create a general awareness to all ?
I think it is better to create a FAQ entry in the current FAQ, that addresses permissible copyright/ copyleft wikipedia uses with answers to common misconceptions . We need to link that question with the term copyleft in Press-releases , while using the term copyleft
And FAQ entry will help to get it circulated among wikipedians, when they are using it on meetups & workshops
Excellent idea.
Anivar
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