---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lalithamba Avadhanam <alalitha...@gmail.com> Date: 22 September 2016 at 13:17 Subject: Re: [itpmods:10040] Fwd: Sh. Dinesh Valke releases more than 20000 plant photos to Wikimedia Commons To: itpm...@googlegroups.com
Congratulations Dinesh ji for the spectacular achievement A.Lalithamba On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:40 PM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> > Date: 22 September 2016 at 10:28 > Subject: Sh. Dinesh Valke releases more than 20000 plant photos to > Wikimedia Commons > To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> > Cc: Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com> > > > Dear members, > Came across this post by V R Vinayaraj at Facebook. > Sharing with you for your information pl. > "We know Sri. Dinesh Valke is an ardent nature lover. He has been taking > photos of plants for the last 12 years. Once he finds the correct > identification he uploads it to Flickr. He is on a mission to find out the > local name of the species in various languages. A continuous effort > spanning all these years. As we know Flickr is a private company owned by > Yahoo. It can decide the fate of images stored in its servers. Due to > license restrictions nobody would be saving it to other places. Now Sri. > Valke ji has decided that all his life long efforts are not a thing to be > decided by a company's policy in the US. He has changed the licenses and > ALL his plant photos, more than 20000, and ALL of them are now available at > Wikimedia Commons which will eventually be used in Wikipedia articles in > around 300 languages. Since Wikipedia is free anyone can download and store > the images which means scores of Universities and Scholars will be storing > them, in effect they are safe and nothing can destroy them. > V R Vinayaraj " > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). > > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). > > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ITPmods" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to itpmods+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to itpm...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/itpmods. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ITPmods" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to itpmods+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to itpm...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/itpmods. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
