[Commons-l] Fwd: Wikipedia Loves Art

[Andrew Turvey]

Reply from Pharos. 

Anything else that needs arranging at the Commons end? 

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From: "Pharos" <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com> 
To: "Andrew Turvey" <andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> 
Cc: "." <commons-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
Sent: Sunday, 7 June, 2009 00:48:01 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
Subject: Re: Wikipedia Loves Art 

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Andrew 
Turvey<andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote: 
> On the subject of chapter-led projects that import large amounts of content 
> into commons: 
> 
> The Wikipedia Loves Art ran through the month of February 2009 (more details 
> are at [1][2][3]) and has generated about 5,000 images. At some stage the 
> plan is to upload these to Commons and thence link to Wikipedia articles. 
> 
> I've included Pharos in this email who was one of the main organisers. 
> 
> Is there anything that needs to be considered or put in place before the 
> mass uploading starts? 

Yes, unfortunately we don't yet have all the museum captioning completed yet. 

When it is complete, we will get word on that from the museums, and we 
will then have at it with a semi-automated centralized uploading 
process that I have been discussing with Ryan Kaldari, and also Husky 
of WLA/NL. 

We do have a template for this purpose that I have also been working 
on in the meantime here: 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:WLA 

Thanks, 
Pharos 

> Thanks 
> 
> Andrew 
> 
> [1] http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikipedia_loves_art 
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WLART 
> [3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedia_Loves_Art 
> 
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