Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner

2014-02-19 Thread Richard Symonds
NYB, Thanks for reminding me - this slipped my mind in amongst my other work. The brief outline I did is at https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Digitisation. The problem is that digitisation - proper digitisation - is not something that can really be done without employing staff to do it. First

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner

2014-02-19 Thread geni
On 19 February 2014 00:34, Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm surprised not to see any replies to this particular thread. It seems to me to be a no-brainer (to use a nonce-word that I hate) that imaging equipment for local wiki organizations in a position to make good use of it to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner

2014-02-18 Thread Newyorkbrad
I'm surprised not to see any replies to this particular thread. It seems to me to be a no-brainer (to use a nonce-word that I hate) that imaging equipment for local wiki organizations in a position to make good use of it to upload free content for the projects should be a high priority for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner

2014-02-18 Thread David Gerard
On 19 February 2014 00:34, Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm surprised not to see any replies to this particular thread. It seems to me to be a no-brainer (to use a nonce-word that I hate) that imaging equipment for local wiki organizations in a position to make good use of it to

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK slide scanner

2014-02-15 Thread David Gerard
A message I just sent in a wikimediauk-l thread about photographic negative scanners, which I thought might be of general interest to Wikimedia organisations. tl;dr: an archival-quality negative scanner has potential to be a white elephant* (a donation that is actually a liability), but could be