I've "spammed" this on-wiki:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikinews/en/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/technica...
What Al Jazeera is offering is *not* to be sniffed at! Personally, I would love if their "act of good faith" pays off. It's an extremely shrewd move, but with some associated risks.
AP, Reuters, AFP, et-al, now have to deal with an upstart Mid-East-based competitor who is *giving away* all but the cream of their photo/video journalism work. It goes into relevant Wikipedia articles, a million-and-one blogs, and proves that information=>knowledge=power.
Given my upbringing, I'd love to beat the BBC over the head with this and force them to do the same. It, sadly, isn't about to happen.
I'll probably greatly upset some of my Wikinews colleagues on the western side of the Atlantic, but I see a possibility of Wikinews working with Al Jazeera. That provocative statement is based on the fact that Al J. could readily put a few Western journalists in situations where, alone, they'd get shot just for where they came from.
Geopolitical news of global importance comes from places which are no-one's comfort zone. Wikinews should support people taking the risks to go to such places by using their reportage.
Al Jazeera, you've followed the wiki axiom, "Be Bold". I sure as hell hope it works out for you!
On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 19:10 -0400, bawolff wrote:
For reference, Commons already has a bot mass uploading them. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Al_Jazeera , which apparently includes some videos http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mina_fly_over_-_Flickr_-_Al_Jazeera_E... , but mostly still images.
-- -bawolff
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Brian McNeil brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Thanks to the work of a few GLAM people, Al Jazeera are now making their flickr photostream available with a CC share-alike license.
Yes, that means Wikinews will be able to use them.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/sets/
I don't know if this will later extend to video footage, but it'll be worth keeping an eye on their CC page.
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