[Commons-l] All about Wikimania, future projects, licenses, etc etc

[Maria Fanucchi]

I just love the sound of this project. I wish I could help with translating
interfaces into he: or ar:, but unfortunately I cannot speak those
languages. I wish them the best of luck. This is exactly the kind of project
that could get people curious about free licenses; the urge to share family
history (old documents, letters, photos, and in the case of Israel precious
war and pre-war photos) can be quite strong.
--Maria
User:Arria Belli

On 8/7/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> ==Project with Wikimedia Israel==
> I spent some time talking to a lovely chap named Dror (User:Drork) who
> describes himself as the "foreign minister" of the Wikimedia Israel
> chapter. Their chapter is planning to start a big project with another
> company in Israel to ask people to look for historically significant
> images in their private collections and donate them to the public
> domain. (Israel is having some anniversaries so it is timely for
> them.) He basically wanted to know that such images would be welcome
> in Commons. I said of course! Then we discussed about how the images
> should be collected. We decided it would be better if the images were
> submitted to a gateway before being added to Commons. The organisation
> that he is working with is willing to write the open source SW to
> collect all the structured data that they want to collect (and also
> deal with hebrew, arabic etc interface stuff which we do poorly at
> best). So the idea at the moment is that their partner org will write
> this interface, we will install it on the toolserver, and from there
> it can be appropriately formatted etc and go into Commons.
> So we have quite a few toolserver users working for Commons, that
> won't be a problem I think, just thought that was a pretty cool
> project. They plan to run a pilot project and if it's successful (they
> don't know what kind of stuff people will even submit), then a full-on
> project may run for like a year.
>
>
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