[Wikimediaindia-l] Harvesting Indian Butterfly Images for Wikimedia Commmons

[Ashwin Baindur]

Wikimedia Commons is a repository of images under free licenses to be used
under two conditions :
Attribution (give credit to author/photographer/creator), Share-alike (Works
using these images must allow the same freedoms given to you i.e. commercial
use permitted, distribution permitted, derivatives permitted).

*Frederic Moore*
FZS<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoological_Society_of_London>(May 13,
1830–May 10, 1907) was a
British <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom>
entomologist<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomologist>and assistant
curator in the East India
Company<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_Company>Museum,
London <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London>. He continued until the museum
was disbanded in 1879. He began compiling *Lepidoptera indica* (1890–1913),
a major work on the butterflies of the South
Asia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia>in 12 volumes, which was
completed after his death by Charles
Swinhoe <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Swinhoe>. The plates were
produced by his son, while some others were produced by John Nugent
Fitch<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nugent_Fitch>
. The links for scanned volumes for Lepidoptera Indica can be found on this
page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Moore

Shyamal has completed the image
harvesting<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lepidoptera_Indica>of
Lepidoptera
Indica<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lepidoptera_Indica&action=edit&redlink=1>volumes
1 to 10 for Wikimedia Commons (over 2000 images). Find the images
here:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lepidoptera_Indica

A truly humungous task which has great relevance to Indian butterfly
articles.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
------------------------------------------------------<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin>

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 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Templeton_watercolour_ulster.jpg>
 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Templeton_watercolour_ulster.jpg>
A watercolour plate by Robert
Templeton<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Templeton>with notes by
Frederic Moore on the left margin



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