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/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/4/opp/482-Wikipedian-in-Residence/en-GB
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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hoi,
>> Would it not make more sense to talk to the Welcome Trust ?
>> Thanks,
>> Gerard
>>
>>
>> On 21 January 2014 12:25, Edward Summers <[email protected]> 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-made-free-through-wellcome-images/
>> [2]
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Can_I_upload_CC-BY_images.3F
>>
>>
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