On 15 February 2014 20:56, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 Feb 2014, at 20:43, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hmm. Do we have any vague ideas on numbers? >> * How often do we get a reasonable chance at a cache of unscanned negatives? >> * How many smaller museums or archives would have unscanned film to >> offer in such a case? >> * How many people with private collections of negatives that they've >> never gotten around to scanning (e.g., me) would suddenly have a huge >> pile of stuff to donate to Commons just given the opportunity? > Really, the important questions here are: who has collections that would > benefit Wikimedia and need scanning, and who has the time to scan and upload > them? It shouldn’t really be a question about equipment cost beyond the > cost-effectiveness of scanning and sharing them. Yes. I suppose I'm asking, "is it just a nice idea or will it actually get used a lot?" (I'd have nothing against people scanning personal photos that might not be appropriate for Commons as well as material to be donated to the commons. Anyone with a good stash would quite appreciate the chance to digitise their precious moments.) - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
