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_Parliame...
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.
On 21 July 2017 at 19:36, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
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.
Most (probably all?) of the pics are now in:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Official_United_Kingdom_Parliame...
(Thanks, Fae!)
Please help to add these to the relevant Wikidata items, along with the categories that are currently being created, and to Wikipedias in your various languages
There are four images for each MP. I suggest that the "crop 2" format is most suitable; and please use those with names beginning "Official portrait of " as other, duplicate, versions are liable to be deleted.
Yes, the whole collection of current MPs has been uploaded as of this afternoon. I noticed that some current MPs have no photograph released so far, such as Dame Rosie Winterton. If someone pings me, I can run an update very easily, so long as the site does not change its layout.
A few were loaded locally to the English Wikipedia by other people. Where local versions are being used in articles, I recommend these are swapped to Commons, to encourage articles in other languages to use them. At some point I guess the portrait photos will be sucked into Wikidata, which may enable auto-illustrated infoboxes... ;-)
Thanks, Fae
Made a list of MPs on Wikidata without images, and (possible) image matches:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/MP_image_candidates
Requires some manual weeding though. Mix'n'match not really good for the job.
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 4:01 PM Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, the whole collection of current MPs has been uploaded as of this afternoon. I noticed that some current MPs have no photograph released so far, such as Dame Rosie Winterton. If someone pings me, I can run an update very easily, so long as the site does not change its layout.
A few were loaded locally to the English Wikipedia by other people. Where local versions are being used in articles, I recommend these are swapped to Commons, to encourage articles in other languages to use them. At some point I guess the portrait photos will be sucked into Wikidata, which may enable auto-illustrated infoboxes... ;-)
Thanks, Fae -- faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
On 27 July 2017 at 15:50, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 21 July 2017 at 19:36, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
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.
Most (probably all?) of the pics are now in:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Official_United_Kingdom_Parliame...
(Thanks, Fae!)
Please help to add these to the relevant Wikidata items, along with the categories that are currently being created, and to Wikipedias in your various languages
There are four images for each MP. I suggest that the "crop 2" format is most suitable; and please use those with names beginning "Official portrait of " as other, duplicate, versions are liable to be deleted.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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On 27 July 2017 at 16:10, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Made a list of MPs on Wikidata without images, and (possible) image matches:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/MP_image_candidates
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
That's proving incredibly helpful - thank you.
Here's a list of MPs with the images that are set on Wikidata, and also their commons categories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/MPs
(Using Listeria - so also thanks to Magnus.)
Thanks, Mike
On 27 Jul 2017, at 17:01, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 27 July 2017 at 16:10, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Made a list of MPs on Wikidata without images, and (possible) image matches:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/MP_image_candidates
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
That's proving incredibly helpful - thank you.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
On 27 July 2017 at 22:09, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
Here's a list of MPs with the images that are set on Wikidata, and also their commons categories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/MPs
Thanks, Mike. There are some really flattering pics there, which it is only fair to our subjects (not to mention our readers) to replace with better images.
I'm also finding a number of non-English articles with no images, or where the image has not been updated, when en.Wikipedia had a new one in the past.
The "Twitter storm" about this was reported on BBC Today (Radio 4) at "eighteen minutes to eight".
https://twitter.com/DigiBungalow
https://beta.parliament.uk/houses/KL2k1BGP/members/current/a-z/a
Let us hope that everybody respects the CC licence.
Gordo
On 28/07/17 08:12, Gordon Joly wrote:
Let us hope that everybody respects the CC licence.
Gordo
This licence....
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
Gordo
On 28 July 2017 at 08:12, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
The "Twitter storm" about this was reported on BBC Today (Radio 4) at "eighteen minutes to eight".
I shouldn't be surprised if we see the mages used by the press without attribution; for all we know, parliament are supplying them to journalists as they would any other image.
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