Sorry, forget to mention, Wilfredor has requested we post a link from the Commons facebook page. Would there be any objections if this were to occur? On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Russavia &lt;russavia.wikipedia(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > (Sorry for crossposting) > > This is indeed a "cause" that the entire community should get behind. > > I know that normally people could apply for grants but is there anyway > that the WMF as an organisation could bypass that often long, drawn > out process and pitch in with this as well? > > I have sent out a few appeals to avgeeks, seeing as he has taken > aviation photos, via twitter and other avenues. Perhaps we can get a > tweet from @wikicommons on this as well. > > It's in all of our best interests to get Poco a Poco taking photos > again as soon as is possible. And I hope that insurance will be taken > out on the equipment when replaced :) > > Cheers > > Russavia > > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Santi Navarro > &lt;santiagonavarro(a)wikimedia.org.es&gt; wrote: >> Sorry for crossposting: >> >> Help one of the best volunteer photographers in Wikimedia Commons restore >> his stolen equipment. >> >> >> Diego Delso is known as Poco a poco in Wikimedia Commons. In case you don't >> know, Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository where anyone can share >> freely-licensed content with everyone. Wikipedia uses Wikimedia Commons as >> it's image repository, so, in fact, most of the times you view an image in >> Wikipedia, you are actually viewing a Wikimedia Commons image. >> >> While Diego is just one of the thousands of Wikimedia Commons volunteers, he >> is a very special one: he's one of the main Commons contributors ever, >> having some amazing records, such as being the user with the highest amount >> of Featured Pictures ever (153 images) and also the one with the highest >> amount of quality images ever, with 5,777 Quality Images. That's an awesome >> amount of very high quality material, that Diego has given to every living >> person for free. >> >> Never heard about Wikimedia Commons? It's the repository that hosts >> allmultimedia files that you can see (and download) in Wikipedia and all >> other Wikimedia projects. Diego's files are used in those projects and are >> also available for everybody else with a free license. >> >> Furthermore, Diego has contributed in Wikimedia Commons in other ways. One >> of them is by supporting (by being an organizer or a jury) two of the most >> importantphotographic contests in the Wikimedia movement (and in the >> world!): Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth. >> >> Sadly, while Diego was in Buenos Aires after participating in a Wikimedia >> Iberoamerican Encounter with other Wikimedia volunteers, he got his >> equipment stolen. In this unfortunate event, he didn't only lost his camera, >> zoom lenses and laptop, but also every single picture he took during his 2 >> weeks trip in South America, which he was going to upload to Wikimedia >> Commons so they could be used by everyone, everywhere. >> >> As Wikimedia volunteers and Diego's friends, we could not stand aside of >> this, so we decided to help him to restore his equipment. You can help, too, >> by contributing to this campaign! >> >> Our goal is simple: to collect enough money to help Diego to buy exactly the >> same equipment he lost. >> >> All the gear he lost in Argentina is described below, with a reference to >> the price from Amazon for the same equipment. >> Tipo Modelo Preço >> Camera body Canon EOS 5D Mark II $ 2,694.00 >> Objective fisheye f/4.0 Canon EF 8-15mm L USM $ 1,349.00 >> Objective wide-angle f/4.0 Canon EF 17-40mm L USM $ 839.00 >> Objective wide-angle to telephoto f/4.0 Canon EF 24-105mm L IS UVM $ >> 1,149.00 >> Laptop Acer Aspire 1810T $ 600.00 >> Total $ 6,631.00 >> >> Converted to Euro (since Diego is based in Europe) that goes to 5,300 Euro + >> 200 euro of Indiegogo fee, which is our target to collect. >> >> This campaign is runned on indiegogo.com and the link is >> https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/funding-a-new-gear-for-wm-photographer-p… >> >> You can use the short link http://igg.me/at/pocoapoco in social networks >> >> Thank you >> >> -- >> Santiago Navarro Sanz >> Wikimedia España >> http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>