Thanks Erik, And Kudos to the Mediawiki development team on all the new feature enhancements on the Wikimedia commons. By far, my favourite repository of free media.
This is an amazing repository of free media and an incredible service - -particularly for Educators who are not well versed in free cultural works licensing. We can point educators to the Wikimedia commons in the knowledge that the resources are free and so easy to integrate across Mediawiki installations. To paraphrase Mediwiki's strap line "OER wants to be free!" Gee you we love the open model --- working together we achieve more than working alone. Cheers W On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/12/8 Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]>: > > I strongly support the hosting of the images on the Wikimedia commons -- > in > > this way they will be accessible to a wider audience including > WikiEducator. > > :-) > > The feature that Wayne describes is called InstantCommons; it's > enabled on WikiEducator and can be used by any MediaWiki installation: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_InstantCommons > > This makes reusing images really easy. If you do know wikis that > should be using it, please let their site maintainers know; it's easy > to set up. > > Declan, I look forward to seeing these images. If you let me know, > I'll make sure to tweet about it as well to get the word out. > > -- > Erik Möller > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > -- Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator<http://www.wikieducator.org%20> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg> | identi.ca<http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
