Cool, nice work Edward! If somebody is asked to do a mass upload to Wikicommons it might make sense to use the GLAMwiki toolset:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMwiki_Toolset_Project -- Hay On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Edward Summers <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn’t say there was a problem, and am not an Intellectual Property expert > so I thought I would ask :-) I will follow up with Wellcome asking if they > can help, and will cc the list. > > //Ed > > On Jan 21, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Hay (Husky) <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What would be the problem with uploading CC-BY images to Commons? It's >> compatible with CC-BY-SA, so i see no problems there... >> >> -- Hay >> >> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Edward Summers <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Commons-l mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Commons-l mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Commons-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Commons-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Commons-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
