[Commons-l] Commons-l Digest, Vol 49, Issue 34

[JIM Click]

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>   1. Re: Berkman audio and video now in Ogg (and CC-BY) (Michael Peel)
>   2. Fwd: [WikiEN-l] The edit heard round the world (David Gerard)
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> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:32:11 +0100
> From: Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net>
> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Berkman audio and video now in Ogg (and
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> Is there any sort of plan to import these in bulk to Commons? Seems
> like the ideal thing for a bot to do...
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> Mike
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> On 20 Jun 2009, at 16:22, Erik Moeller wrote:
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>> See: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5444
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> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:33:06 +0100
> From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Commons-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] The edit heard round the world
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> Anyone able to help with this?
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> (Durova's been doing a lot of restoration work on Commons. There has
> also been discussion on wikien-l about crediting restorers - there's
> frequently no copyright obligation to credit restorers, but doing so
> is (a) polite (b) more accurate sourcing (c) encourages more good
> restorations on Commons. Ideas for workable restorer crediting
> welcomed.)
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> - d.
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> From: Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>
> Date: 2009/6/27
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] The edit heard round the world
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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> Hi all,
>
> Have been working on coaxing the return of a talented editor by the name 
> of
> Shoemaker's Holiday--who is by far WMF's most skilled volunteer at 
> restoring
> historic etchings. ?Turns out he's been working on an important project:
> perhaps someone can help obtain source material.
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> The subject is Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre:
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> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19159
> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.01657
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> As you can see, both of the Library of Congress copies are missing 
> sections
> of data due to damage. ?If we can obtain a high resolution scan from a 
> third
> copy of this etching, it will become possible to assemble a composite of 
> the
> complete engraving.
>
> (For Wikimedians who aren't US-Based, the Boston Massacre was a key event
> that preceded the American Revolution. ?Paul Revere's famous depiction
> helped spread dissatisfaction with colonial rule).
>
> What we're looking for are editors who to interface with historic 
> societies
> or libraries that own an original copy of the engraving. ?Particularly
> within Boston or Massachusetts, although copies probably exist across
> various locations in the eastern United States. ?We're looking to obtain 
> an
> uncompressed scan of the document on the order of 25MB-100MB. ?Source 
> credit
> will be provided to the institution, of course, and the final work might 
> be
> selected to run on Wikipedia's main page.
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> Please contact me if you can assist or provide contacts.
>
> -Durova
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