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Luca Motoc

11 Aug 11 Aug

1:04 p.m.

You could contact an admin for a corect answer. On Aug 11, 2014 2:02 PM, "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

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Would anyone subscribed to this mailing list have time to help finding suitably licensed photos on Flickr (or elsewhere) for an article I worked on recently? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenary_of_the_outbreak_of_World_War_I Currently there are four commemoration events listed on that page at which photos were taken, but I'm struggling to find photos from those events on Commons or Flickr under a free license. On Commons I found this image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liege-Cointe-Tour_Memorial_Interalli… Which is the venue for one of the events, but ideally any images used would be taken at the events themselves. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Brian J Mingus

4:12 p.m.

You can use Google image search to search for openly licensed content. This includes images from Flickr. On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

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Of course Carcharoth. Cany promise anything but happy to try! On 11 Aug 2014 13:02, "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

Would anyone subscribed to this mailing list have time to help finding suitably licensed photos on Flickr (or elsewhere) for an article I worked on recently? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenary_of_the_outbreak_of_World_War_I Currently there are four commemoration events listed on that page at which photos were taken, but I'm struggling to find photos from those events on Commons or Flickr under a free license. On Commons I found this image:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liege-Cointe-Tour_Memorial_Interalli…

Which is the venue for one of the events, but ideally any images used would be taken at the events themselves. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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Brian J Mingus

5:33 p.m.

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Can you set the parameters of a search to only

return openly licensed content? Yes you can.. https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920… On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

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Thanks for the tips. Can you set the parameters of a search to only return openly licensed content? The viewing stats are interesting: http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Centenary_of_the_outbreak_of_World_War_I A peak of 11,000 views yesterday. But the main WWI article (not surprisingly) got large numbers of views: http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/World%20War%20I 376,450 views on 28 July and another peak at 112,239 on 4 August. Reached number three in the most-viewed list for the week of July 27 to August 2, 2014 (and was still at number 15 the following week): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Top_25_Report/July_27_to_August_2,_2… On 8/11/14, Brian J Mingus <brian.mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:

You can use Google image search to search for openly licensed content.

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includes images from Flickr. On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Of course Carcharoth. Cany promise anything but happy to try! > On 11 Aug 2014 13:02, "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Would anyone subscribed to this mailing list have time to help finding > > suitably licensed photos on Flickr (or elsewhere) for an article I > > worked on recently? > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenary_of_the_outbreak_of_World_War_I > > > > Currently there are four commemoration events listed on that page at > > which photos were taken, but I'm struggling to find photos from those > > events on Commons or Flickr under a free license. > > > > On Commons I found this image: > > > > > > >

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liege-Cointe-Tour_Memorial_Interalli…

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James Alexander

7:15 p.m.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

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Thanks for the tips. Can you set the parameters of a search to only return openly licensed content?

Aye, if you search for images on google and click 'search tools' then 'usage rights' you can select what kind of usage you want. It doesn't catch everything (it needs to be able to parse the licenses so commons is usually not always available from what I can tell) but can be very useful. (3 day visual aide http://awesomescreenshot.com/03f3aw6826 click to zoom )

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