Me too,
I have some photos of mumbai, which I am happy to contribute to Wikipedia
under a preferred license.. let me know which one is of use.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Rohini L <rohini.lakshane(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi AroundTheGlobe,
Do you need photos of Mumbai for a particular page or project? I have
pictures of the Mumbai University campus in Kalina, the organic farmers'
market in Bandra, various temples and tourist spots in Mumbai. Most of them
are uploaded on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohini1729/sets/72157625751133822/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohini1729/sets/72157625952046846/
Regards,
Rohini
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:34 AM, <wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi Anirudh,
I understand that is the case. However, even if its in Viveks personal
name (what I had orignially meant, sorry for not clarifying) it gives a
certain level of comfort to all as then there is lesser chance of
"pilferage" as all transactions will relate to Wikimedia Mumbai expenses.
Just a suggestion for Vivek - finally I guess its his call on how to
handle things as he is in charge of Mumbai funds and will have to give
answers when required.
Lets end this here and get down to the real work. I have mentioned to
Bishaka, Vivek and Pradeep, after our first Photowalk, I ran a quick check
on Flickr for Mumbai related content and found a lot of relevant and
professional photographs. I contacted relevant uploaders requesting them to
change licensing to CC-BY or CC-BY-SA so that to allow use on Wikipedia.
A lot of them agreed - for example, I got pictures of an IPL match at
Brabourne Stadium, several photographs of Ganpati Visarjan at Girgaum
Chowpatty (taken from a boat by a visiting foreigner who kindly agreed to
change licensing) - they include wonderful picutures of the beach full of
people and idols, coast guard choppers patrolling etc., Ballard Bunder
Gatehouse, an ATP tournament that took place in Mumbai at CCI in 2006,
Agatti and Delhi airports (aerial view) and Mani Bhavan pictures so far.
During the photowalks we would have taken a lot of time to cover so much -
and may not have been as professional.
Further past sports events is something we could not have got for obvious
reasons and I doubt we could have got as good pictures of Ganesh Visarjan
(even if we waited a few more months ourselves). Out of about 15 people
contacted about 7 people have agreed to change the licensing (only 1 refusal
thus far). A lot of the amateur photographers on Flickr might be willing to
let go of the copyright so as to get more exposure and notice through
Wikipedia (they may even pass the word that their photographs have been
requested for use by Wikipedians and are currently used on Wikipedia!). A
couple of them while changing the license requested me for the link to the
article on which their photo is used. It may be a good idea for us to
concentrate on getting pictures from Flickr rather than conducting more
photowalks (by identifying requisite photographs and requesting them via
comments on the said photo and email to the photographer/flickr user). I
shall be mentioning this on the India string as well.
Regards,
User:AroundTheGlobe
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