It has been discussed before, I think I want to go beyond discussion, and get this thing rolling. I would like to start setting up a database of public domain and copyleft images, using the Wikipedia technology.
Goal: Provide a source for public domain and copyleft images, in the first place intended for Wikipedia, but of course also for use by any other projects (in particular copyleft projects), whether connected to Wikipedia or not.
For this, I would like to get Wikimedia set up at some url like image.wikipedia.org for the time being; standard setup should be changed in that the image-namespace would be in the standard search options. Once this is done, it can be announced at Wikipedia etcetera, and I hope I will get some others who would like to help getting this to work.
Andre Engels
To "seed" this, I suggest importing all images and their description from en.wikipedia which link to either [[public domain]] or [[GFDL]]. This should take only a SQL dump and a brief script. It would be pure horror to re-upload all of these manually!
Magnus
Andre Engels wrote:
It has been discussed before, I think I want to go beyond discussion, and get this thing rolling. I would like to start setting up a database of public domain and copyleft images, using the Wikipedia technology.
Goal: Provide a source for public domain and copyleft images, in the first place intended for Wikipedia, but of course also for use by any other projects (in particular copyleft projects), whether connected to Wikipedia or not.
For this, I would like to get Wikimedia set up at some url like image.wikipedia.org for the time being; standard setup should be changed in that the image-namespace would be in the standard search options. Once this is done, it can be announced at Wikipedia etcetera, and I hope I will get some others who would like to help getting this to work.
Andre Engels
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Andre-
It has been discussed before, I think I want to go beyond discussion, and get this thing rolling. I would like to start setting up a database of public domain and copyleft images, using the Wikipedia technology.
As noted earlier, this should be done under the name "Wikimedia Commons", and reside at commons.wikimedia.org, to allow for other content than just images, and to make it clear that that this is not just for Wikipedia, but for all Wikimedia projects.
Regards,
Erik
What about: resource.wikimedia.org ?
Aoineko
----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de To: 520042374336-0001@T-Online.de; wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Cc: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 6:24 AM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] wikimage startup?
Andre-
It has been discussed before, I think I want to go beyond discussion, and get this thing rolling. I would like to start setting up a database of public domain and copyleft images, using the Wikipedia technology.
As noted earlier, this should be done under the name "Wikimedia Commons", and reside at commons.wikimedia.org, to allow for other content than just images, and to make it clear that that this is not just for Wikipedia, but for all Wikimedia projects.
Regards,
Erik _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
On Mar 29, 2004, at 4:24 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
Andre-
It has been discussed before, I think I want to go beyond discussion, and get this thing rolling. I would like to start setting up a database of public domain and copyleft images, using the Wikipedia technology.
As noted earlier, this should be done under the name "Wikimedia Commons", and reside at commons.wikimedia.org, to allow for other content than just images, and to make it clear that that this is not just for Wikipedia, but for all Wikimedia projects.
I'd make a distinction here. Personally, I'd like to see Wikisource become (or continue to be) a collection of nicely presented public domain texts. "Wikimedia Commons" would then be a /repository/ of assorted PD/GFDL text and media. The Commons would be primarily for the use of other Wikimedia projects (though others would undoubtedly find it useful), whereas Wikisource would be intended for the "public".
I think the same distinction can be made here. It would be good to have a wiki of PD/GFDL images worthy *in their own right* of being sought. It would also be good to include diagrams, logos, and other images which don't warrant this distinction at the Commons. And, of course, overlap is no problem.
Peter
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