[Commons-l] 100k image donation to Wikimedia Commons

Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 21:08:35 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Artur Fijałkowski <wiki.warx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why 800px?

Because it is the maximum we were to negotiate after 12 month.

>They do not have larger ones?

In most cases, they do.

>Or they choosen it because
> it's useless outside internet

This thought has certainly crossed their mind.

>(being honest it's useless even in
> Wikipedia for me) and they would have good PR after giving us such
> crap?
>

Please go to nytimes.com or cnn.com or any other web site and see what
the average image size there is

> Sorry for strong words, but I'm very against such donations.

What do you prefer, deleting every image that cannot be printed in
2x2m poster size with 75dpi? Okay, propose it.

Mathias


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