On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Lydia Pintscher < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 ;-) > > Ha! As long as it doesn't depreciate and force folks onto Wikidata (like Authority Control) -- if it's so pretty like this one Pharos did, maybe they could be convinced! :-) Thanks again, Lydia! *Erika Herzog* Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*
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