Count me in, for a start! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 11 February 2013 17:19, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by > WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian > photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata > is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs > are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more > are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking > forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons. > > Unfortunately, they all look like this: > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.tif > > and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could > offer this: > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Montreal_%28HS85-10-13348%29.jpg > > Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working > on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently > seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set > up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot > at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people > look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for > interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-) > > We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid > March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know, > and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans... > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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