Wow, what a great partnership, congratulations! That's wonderful. Good timing, too ;)
I look forward to hearing more about the collection. Brianna On 17 December 2010 15:18, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am pleased to announce that the State Library of Queensland has > donated 50,000 public domain jpeg images to Wikimedia Australia, and > we are currently in the process of uploading them. > > We are still in the process of launching everything. The central page > for documenting and discussing it is here: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland > > To get a feel for the people at the library behind this effort, and > the library sector here in Australia, I recommend reading this paper > written by Margaret Warren, who is one of the key people we have been > working with at the library. > > http://www.nsla.org.au/publications/papers/2010/pdf/NSLA.Discussion-Paper-20100809-Public.domain.material.in.Collections.pdf > > We will be running new banners every day, and Wikimedians are welcome > to create their own banners and we'll run the best ones. The banners > need to use the SLQ images, and be 3000px by 150-180px. > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
