This isnt a commercial application the money goes to enable him acquire the physical consols to photographs from there the consols are being given over to museum afterwards for on going care and public display/access. Where the Wiki-PR was a commercial application specifically to make a profit that offered assurances on establishing notability and article content.
Taking photographs is an expensive hobby but again the person doesnt appear to be asking for money to obtain personal equipment only funds to purchase the units, and is offering the result up for free... An interesting aspect is that those that donate can get the RAW files, maybe Commons could explore allowing raw files to uploaded.... Gnangarra On 2 November 2013 07:03, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > That's the first one I have heard of. Congratulations, Evan! > Kickstarters such as this are fantastic, and I am glad to see it was > successful. > > The debate is (or should be) about paid advocacy, not paid editing. Many > people are paid in part to help add free knowledge, often by popular > demand, to the commons. Wiki-PR evaded the en:wp guidelines about paid > advocacy, published their own third-party articles to fake the appearance > of multiple independent sources, and used socks to hide their connection. > These are not comparable. > > Sam. > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A post is live on Gizmodo today about a Commons contributor (Evan-Amos) >> who >> takes high quality photos of video game systems and hardware.[1] Towards >> the end it mentions that Evan started a Kickstarter to fund his efforts to >> buy and photograph more systems as part of an online museum.[2] >> >> Anyone know if this is the first Wikimedia-related Kickstarter campaign, >> or >> has it happened before? What do people think about someone raising ~$13k >> to >> contribute photos to Commons? How does that fit in the debate about paid >> editing? To me it has a very different feel than, say, Wiki-PR. But... >> >> [1] >> >> http://gizmodo.com/how-i-became-gamings-most-popular-and-anonymous-photog-1456749754 >> [2] >> >> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1699256938/the-vanamo-online-game-museum >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > -- GN. Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gnangarra Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com
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