Click-throughs are much lower, often on the level of 15,000-30,000 during
main page time. Yet remember these are also generating a steady stream of
attention on the articles themselves. The one amateur photo of a sound card
is receiving 2,000 direct page views at en:wiki plus an unknown number
Click-throughs are much lower, often on the level of 15,000-30,000 during
main page time. Yet remember these are also generating a steady stream of
attention on the articles themselves. The one amateur photo of a sound card
is receiving 2,000 direct page views at en:wiki plus an unknown number
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Durovanadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote:
You might be surprised. The biggest obstacle is that most of the people who
own copyrights simply don't understand wikis and free culture. They're used
to thinking in terms of reproduction permission, which presupposes an
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Durovanadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote:
You might be surprised. The biggest obstacle is that most of
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:49 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/21 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk:
2009/7/21 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
Yes, you are right. So how did we get to OTRS instead of directing
people to the Upload button? I'm confused now. I'm sure
Many professional photographers have older work whose commercial value is
almost nil. In fashion photography, for instance, the commercial lifespan
of a photograph is extremely short.
Here's a featured picture of that type:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gotsiy3edit2.jpg
These types of shots
Yes, that's how we got the featured picture of Michele Merkin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michele_Merkin_1.jpg
Would you like to follow up on that idea?
-Durova
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.comwrote:
Has there ever been a concerted effort to
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
Has there ever been a concerted effort to contact some celebrity
agents and suggest picture submissions?
Agents sometimes send photos via OTRS, and are usually ok with
licensing them freely. I don't think we have
Yes, I think that's what Videmus Omnia was doing. He used to have a subpage
in userspace to explain it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Michele_Merkin_1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Videmus_Omnia/Free_Imagesaction=editredlink=1
-Durova
Here's an example of what we could be showing the professional photographer
community about how they can do well by doing good.
The WP article is getting 30,000 page views per month:
http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Sound%20card
Plus another 12,000 views at two other articles:
Geni is right; professional photographers who own an uncontroversial
copyright over an image are completely within their rights to relicense and
upload a low resolution version. That's what the Bundesarchiv did with
100,000 images last December.
It doesn't really facilitate those negotiations,
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote:
Click-throughs are much lower, often on the level of 15,000-30,000 during
main page time. Yet remember these are also generating a steady stream of
attention on the articles themselves. The one amateur photo of a sound
You might be surprised. The biggest obstacle is that most of the people who
own copyrights simply don't understand wikis and free culture. They're used
to thinking in terms of reproduction permission, which presupposes an older
type of static publication. That can change; what we need to do is
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