On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Durova <nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Click-throughs are much lower, often on the level of 15,000-30,000 during > main page time. Yet remember these are also generating a steady stream of > attention on the articles themselves. The one amateur photo of a sound card > is receiving 2,000 direct page views at en:wiki plus an unknown number at > two dozen other language editions of Wikipedia. Multiply that kind of > attention across a few hundred articles and one year: this has the potential > to become a major source of web traffic to the donating institution. > > Bundesarchiv has retained full copyright over high resolution copies of the > images they uploaded (the copyright in these instances is uncontroversial). > Without any actual advertising, readers have been using the source link from > the image hosting page to go to the Bundesarchiv site and purchase high > resolution files. Their sales of high resolution images have increased > significantly since the donation. > > Whether and how to give additional credit is a question I'd rather not > address personally. Whatever the community decides I'll honor; the salient > point is that even with what we do right now it's a net benefit to > institutions that are smart about it. We need to communicate to them where > the advantages are, since this is new territory and a radical departure from > how they're used to operating. > > Indirectly this helps our position with regard to NPG, because a > significant part of NPG's argument is that WMF is impossible to work with. > Each time we develop a cooperative relationship with another cultural > institution we prove that part of NPG's argument empirically wrong. The > more this happens, the more likely NPG is to look silly; the net effect > could soften their approach. Now is an excellent time to build those > relationships because the current situation is drawing attention to the > media side of Wikipedia. > > Rather than assault the brick wall we walk around it: work with the > institutions whose copyrights are either uncontroversial, or who don't try > to assert claims over public domain material. As they benefit, Wikipedia > benefits, and ultimately the others may abandon their claims and get in line > to cooperate with us. > > -Durova -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
