To be honest, Tom, that was the original idea - even if it's 1000 images and only two are Commons-able, it's still a net benefit if staff are doing the work.

If you have thousands (I had about 400 and it took me a few hours), then it might be worth looking into something else.

Drop me an email!

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On 19 February 2014 13:16, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

Hi Tom,

In answer to your question, I'm certain that would be no problem at all. And those images sound really interesting.

Thanks,

Stevie

On 19 February 2014 13:08, Tom Morris <tom@tommorris.org> wrote:

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Michael Peel wrote:
> Really, the important questions here are: who has collections that
> would benefit Wikimedia and need scanning, and who has the time to
> scan and upload them? It shouldn’t really be a question about
> equipment cost beyond the cost-effectiveness of scanning and sharing
> them.
>

I have access (both physical and legal) to a large collection of both
colour and B&W slides of various parts of Britain taken by my
grandfather, Josiah Sturgeon. He was a civil service architect who
designed quite a number of prisons and lifeboat stations and advised the
government on other big construction projects. He also was a maritime
painter and a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists, and one of
his paintings is in the Guildhall Art Gallery collection.

The photographs he took over the years are mostly of Scotland,
especially the Hebrides, but also cover coastal and rivers in England
and Wales. There's also quite a lot of (what was then) Yugoslavia. They
are taken with the eye of an artist and often show places that have now
disappeared. I think there's definitely some educational and
illustrative value in the images.

Scanning them and putting them on Commons might be a more fitting and
useful thing to do with them than keep them in an attic for a few more
decades. So I might take up the offer of using the slide scanner at some
point.

One question: if one scanned a whole set of images using WMUK
resources—say, a few hundred slides—and one or two of them were personal
(in the case of my grandfather's photos, there might be a few showing my
grandmother and/or my mother), can those be exempted from being uploaded
or licensed for Commons?

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