[Commons-l] Use Flickr? (was: My Photo Was Reused (God or Bad News?))

[Jimmy Wales]

As a part of this brainstorming, please know that we have very good  
friends at Flickr.  I see Stewart and Caterina socially fairly often,  
and of course they are huge fans.  So if there is anything we need  
from Flickr, let's discuss it, write it up, and I can ask them.

On Jul 7, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Casey Brown wrote:

> During an IRC discussion earlier today, Rama suggested we use  
> Flickr to help increase our exposure - per the recent conversation  
> in the "My photo was reused" thread. We discussed the fact that we  
> could upload our Featured Pictures using a Wikimedia Commons  
> account; hopefully people would see these images and ask to use  
> them, thereby increasing the visibility and knowledge of the  
> Commons. Cbrown1023 created the account to ensure nobody else could  
> steal the name, and now we're bringing this idea here to see what  
> the community has to say :) May also be brought up on the village  
> pump if it seems wise.
>
> The e-mail address has been temporarily set to info- 
> en at wikimedia.org so requests, etc. can be handled there in private;  
> we also thought of requesting an info-commons at wikimedia.org address  
> (if one doesn't currently exist?) for such purposes. The fact that  
> requests may be in many different languages as Commons is  
> multilingual (Flickr too) would also be a good reason for not  
> having things sent to info-en but to info-commons directly.
>
> Thoughts? Comments? Ideas?
>
> -- 
> Casey Brown ( Cbrown1023 )
> Ayelie ( Editor at Large )
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