On 3 Jan 2010, at 00:35, Brian McNeil wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 23:24 +0000, Michael Peel wrote: > >> The next press release, due to go out tomorrow evening, will be about >> a donation of images from the Mary Rose Trust: >> >> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Mary_Rose_Trust_donation >> >> Please help! If this goes down well in the media, then it will be a >> great precedent for getting more organizations to make their content >> available by Wikimedia websites. > > You mention the Tropenmuseum; there's more than just the image > donation > there. They're providing high-resolution images and Wikimedia > volunteers > are carrying out the costly, time-intensive process of digitally > restoring them. > > The Mary Rose pics won't need restored, but Commons offers some > interesting "services" to museums.
Durova's already done what she can with the image in the release at the moment. If you can figure out how to best add a mention of digital restorations, please do... Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
