Frederico just pointed me (in IRC) to a vacancy announcement for a Wikipedian in Residence at the Wellcome Trust:
https://cancer-research-uk-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre-External/brand-2/candid...
So I guess if you are in the UK, looking for 6 months work, and interested in coordinating the upload a hundred thousand images to the commons that might be of interest. It’s certainly a strong indicator that they would be open to the idea.
//Ed
On Jan 21, 2014, at 6:38 AM, Edward Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:
if it came to downloading them yes. But I was asking the more basic question of whether CC-BY images are OK to upload to the Wikimedia Commons, which isn’t really a question for Wellcome, right? I’ve since been pointed at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags/Free_licenses
which seems to indicate they are OK. If you like I could try to get in touch with someone at Wellcome to see if they could make them easier to upload.
//Ed
On Jan 21, 2014, at 6:29 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Would it not make more sense to talk to the Welcome Trust ? Thanks, Gerard
On 21 January 2014 12:25, Edward Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote: I imagine some of you may have seen that the Wellcome Library announced yesterday [1] that they have made over 100,000 high resolution images of manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography, and advertisements available using a CC-BY license. I was wondering [2] if it is ok to upload CC-BY images to the Commons.
This is mostly in theory since the downloads are sitting behind reCAPTCHAs and several levels of click throughs — but you never know :-)
//Ed
[1] http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/01/thousands-of-years-of-visual-culture... [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Can_I_uplo...
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