Some of you may recall my February 2012 blog post, "Politician pin ups
– open-licensed pictures, please":
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/politician-open-licensed-pictures-please/
In their blog post today:
https://pds.blog.parliament.uk/2017/07/21/mp-official-portraits-open-source…
the Parliamentary Digital Service announce and preview their
forthcoming release of a set of portrait photographs of 620 of the 650
UK MPs. Pictures of Peers and Parliamentary staff (and hopefully the
missing MPs) are also planned.
I've uploaded the first four pics to Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Official_United_Kingdom_Parliam…
and added them to Wikipedia (English and some others).
I plan to upload the rest once they're available, but will then need
help updating articles and Wikidata.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk