Now on the front page of Slashdot. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/0044240/Why-the-Photos-On-Wikipedia-Are-So-Bad
It's important to learn from this episode: Wikipedians nearly burned through this opportunity. See the Jerry Avenaim/Mark Harmon FPC debate (especially the collapsed part). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Mark_Harmon Although the nomination was nearly speedily closed, I noticed the photographer was an active Wikipedian and wrote to him for a higher resolution version. After he supplied it some reviewers wanted to move the goalposts beyond the official stated criteria. It didn't look like they recognized the significance of having a leading Hollywood portrait photographer among our volunteers. Was talking to Noam Cohen last week in the aftermath of the NPG threat and told him about Jerry. Showed him Jerry's featured picture and Commons gallery, and Noam loved it. Here's hoping that inspires more celebrities to release their portraits under copyleft license, and inspires more professional photographers to donate material to Wikipedia. -Durova On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:24 AM, The Cunctator <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, the article is kind of premised on a lie. But hopefully it will > encourage more people to contribute photos. > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:29 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2009/7/19 David Gerard <[email protected]>: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/arts/20funny.html > > > > > > One error on licensing. Claim that Wikipedia requires you to give up > > > your copyright unchallenged. Otherwise, pretty good! And should have > > > the right effect in terms of promo photo donations. > > > > > > > > > - d. > > > > Except we do have fairly good pics of David Beckham and Allison > > Janney. Our Barry Bonds pics are better than described. > > > > > > -- > > geni > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
