[Commons-l] [Fwd: Pikiwiki - Israel free image collection project - Starting engines]

[ChrisiPK]

I am forwarding this with kind permission from Dror.


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From: Dror Kamir <dqamir at bezeqint.net>
Date: 2009/1/13
Subject: Re: Pikiwiki on commons-l
To: ChrisiPK <ChrisiPK at gmail.com>


Hi,

I've just subscribed to commons-l, but it'll take some time until the
subscription is approved. In the meantime, I'm sending you my response
to some of the comments I saw on the thread:


1. The "Pikiwiki" project has been planned for very long time. I
consulted Carry and Brianna before starting the whole thing, and I
posted a detailed explanation about it on the Meta. This project has a
management and legal counseling. There is no need for any member of
the Commons community to verify the legality of the license statement,
as we provide full guarantee that anyone who contributes images to the
project waives his copyrights in the manner required by the Israeli
law. "We" means Wikimedia Israel, The Israeli Internet Association and
The Center for Educational Technology.


2. The rules of the project are in line with the rules and scope of
the Commons. A person who opens an account on "Pikiwiki" can in
principle open an account on the Commons and contribute his images to
the Commons directly. However, we believe more Israelis will
contribute images on a localized Hebrew-speaking site.


3. The images uploaded will be screened for abuses before and after
they are uploaded to the Commons. Of course, once they are uploaded
the Commons admins will check them too. All we ask is that the admins
inform us before deleting or renaming an image uploaded through this
project.


3. We want to show people how they can use the Commons via a localized
interface as a tool to learn about their own local history and
geography. For this purpose we want to upload the images to the
Commons, but at the same time keep our own "catalog", which will have
categories and descriptions relevant to Israeli users. Searching the
images using this "catalog" will be available through the localized
site. The problem is, that we need to locate the image on the commons,
once we find its ID on our "catalog". We though to attach an ID to the
 file's name, but any other idea is welcomed.


4. Naturally, people will describe the images in Hebrew. We can offer
them to supply an English description as well (most Israelis speak
some English), but we cannot present our project as an Israeli one and
force people to use English. Translating the description can be done
gradually.


Dror

ציטוט ChrisiPK:

> Hi Dror,
>
> I wrote a reply to your post on the commons-l mailing list. As I am not sure whether you subscribed the list now, I am giving you the link where you can read what I wrote:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2009-January/004486.html
>
> I'd be glad if you could adress my concerns and post your reply to the commons-l mailing list. Subscribing, at least for a limited period of time, wouldn't hurt, I guess, in case more questions come up.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> ChrisiPK
>
>