Request for a volunteer to upload Councillor photos to Commons - Wikimediauk-l

Deryck Chan

10 Sep 10 Sep

4:50 p.m.

Hello Lucy and all, Ideally we want a Commons volunteer with both OTRS and batch upload privileges (which I'm neither). But if none of those boffins are available, I'm happy to volunteer to do the uploading and liaise with OTRS on the councillors' behalf. --Deryck On Wed, 9 Sep 2020, 14:15 Lucy Crompton-Reid, < lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

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Dear all Many of you will know Jon Davies from his time as the CEO of Wikimedia UK. Well he still carries the open knowledge torch wherever he goes, and has managed to persuade Lambeth Council to release high resolution photos of its Councillors (including Jon himself!) under a Creative Commons license. They are currently online here <https://love.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-councillor-images/> - and Jon also has access to a folder with all the high res files - but he is hoping that a volunteer will be able to upload these to Wikimedia Commons. Would anyone be able to help with this? Please let me know if so and I can put you in direct touch with Jon. Very best wishes Lucy -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 203 372 0762 *Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement, and a registered charity. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827 Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

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Sara Thomas

14 Sep 14 Sep

2:38 p.m.

45 could be easily done on the standard upload; it could also be done using Pattypan, if there's a good deal of metadata to input. Sara On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 05:16, Richard Symonds <chasemewiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Would we even need batch upload? It's only 45 files I think! Could it be done by a regular uploader? On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 15:55 Deryck Chan, <deryckchan(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Lucy and all, Ideally we want a Commons volunteer with both OTRS and batch upload privileges (which I'm neither). But if none of those boffins are available, I'm happy to volunteer to do the uploading and liaise with OTRS on the councillors' behalf. --Deryck On Wed, 9 Sep 2020, 14:15 Lucy Crompton-Reid, < lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

Dear all Many of you will know Jon Davies from his time as the CEO of Wikimedia UK. Well he still carries the open knowledge torch wherever he goes, and has managed to persuade Lambeth Council to release high resolution photos of its Councillors (including Jon himself!) under a Creative Commons license. They are currently online here <https://love.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-councillor-images/> - and Jon also has access to a folder with all the high res files - but he is hoping that a volunteer will be able to upload these to Wikimedia Commons. Would anyone be able to help with this? Please let me know if so and I can put you in direct touch with Jon. Very best wishes Lucy -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 203 372 0762 *Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement, and a registered charity. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827 Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

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Michael Peel

17 Sep 17 Sep

6:26 p.m.

Hi all, The files are now at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Politics_of_the_London_Borough_… <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Politics_of_the_London_Borough_of_Lambeth> Anyone interested in improving their categorisation and adding them to articles/Wikidata items? Thanks, Mike

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On 15 Sep 2020, at 14:02, Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)gmail.com> wrote: Fair point about not needing batch, I thought the linked page was just a sample (current councillors) and we're talking about hundreds rather than dozens of images in total. And thanks Mike for stepping in! On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, 13:39 Sara Thomas, <sara.thomas(a)wikimedia.org.uk <mailto:sara.thomas@wikimedia.org.uk>> wrote: 45 could be easily done on the standard upload; it could also be done using Pattypan, if there's a good deal of metadata to input. Sara On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 05:16, Richard Symonds <chasemewiki(a)gmail.com <mailto:chasemewiki@gmail.com>> wrote: Would we even need batch upload? It's only 45 files I think! Could it be done by a regular uploader? On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 15:55 Deryck Chan, <deryckchan(a)gmail.com <mailto:deryckchan@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello Lucy and all, Ideally we want a Commons volunteer with both OTRS and batch upload privileges (which I'm neither). But if none of those boffins are available, I'm happy to volunteer to do the uploading and liaise with OTRS on the councillors' behalf. --Deryck On Wed, 9 Sep 2020, 14:15 Lucy Crompton-Reid, <lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk <mailto:lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk>> wrote: Dear all Many of you will know Jon Davies from his time as the CEO of Wikimedia UK. Well he still carries the open knowledge torch wherever he goes, and has managed to persuade Lambeth Council to release high resolution photos of its Councillors (including Jon himself!) under a Creative Commons license. They are currently online here <https://love.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-councillor-images/> - and Jon also has access to a folder with all the high res files - but he is hoping that a volunteer will be able to upload these to Wikimedia Commons. Would anyone be able to help with this? Please let me know if so and I can put you in direct touch with Jon. Very best wishes Lucy -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 203 372 0762 Wikimedia UK is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement, and a registered charity. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/>Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827 Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). 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Anthony

3:59 p.m.

Actually, let us just see whether anybody steps forward and offers to do this. Jon has done his part. Anthony/AGK On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 14:47, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

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On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 14:15, Lucy Crompton-Reid <lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

Many of you will know Jon Davies from his time as the CEO of Wikimedia UK. managed to persuade Lambeth Council to release high resolution photos of its Councillors (including Jon himself!) under a Creative Commons license. They are currently online here - and Jon also has access to a folder with all the high res files - but he is hoping that a volunteer will be able to upload these to Wikimedia Commons. Would anyone be able to help with this? Please let me know if so and I can put you in direct touch with Jon.

You don't seem to be getting many takers - perhaps it would be more effective for a volunteer to show (or remind) Jon how to do this himself? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

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Lucy Crompton-Reid

1:58 p.m.

Thanks Mike, that's very kind of you. I'll email you and Jon :) best Lucy On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 12:54, Mike Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:

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It is fairly straightforward to upload to Commons, particularly using something like Commonist (or Pattypan). Particularly given that the CC release is on the website. Probably takes less time than this conversation. ;-) I'm happy to do the upload if you want, just send me the files. Thanks, Mike On 14/09/2020 14:59:13, Anthony wrote:

Actually, let us just see whether anybody steps forward and offers to do this. Jon has done his part. Anthony/AGK On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 14:47, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>

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> > On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 14:15, Lucy Crompton-Reid > <lucy.crompton-reid(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > >> Many of you will know Jon Davies from his time as the CEO of Wikimedia

UK.

>> managed to persuade Lambeth Council to release high resolution photos

of its

>> Councillors (including Jon himself!) under a Creative Commons license. >> They are currently online here - and Jon also has access to a folder

with all the

>> high res files - but he is hoping that a volunteer will be able to

upload these to

>> Wikimedia Commons. Would anyone be able to help with this? Please let

me

know if so and I can put you in direct touch with Jon.

You don't seem to be getting many takers - perhaps it would be more effective for a volunteer to show (or remind) Jon how to do this himself? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

_______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

-- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 203 372 0762 *Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement, and a registered charity. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827 Registered Charity No.1144513 Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.

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