On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Brill Lyle <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Lydia Pintscher > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Thanks. Stuff like that is useful to have as examples. > > > If it's possible to engage some of the GLAM institutions here in NYC and > around the world in doing donations like this, I know I for one would like > to strongly promote and support this type of Wikidata+Commons-focused > initiative. I think other chapters might be able to integrate this into > ongoing initiatives and annual editathons that are in the GLAM-o-sphere.... > We have some coming up this Fall but that is probably too soon? Is there a > tentative timeframe for this project? I see a lot of work was done in 2014.
We definitely need to talk more to institutions as we make progress, yeah. I'll ping when we've reached a good development state for that. As for timeline: I am hesitant to make any predictions because there are a lot of unknowns - technical and social. For one the Commons community has to not think this is a terrible idea ;-) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
