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1. Re: Request for a volunteer to upload Councillor photos to
Commons (Deryck Chan)
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:02:03 +0100
From: Deryck Chan <deryckchan@gmail.com>
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Request for a volunteer to upload
Councillor photos to Commons
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Fair point about not needing batch, I thought the linked page was just a
sample (current councillors) and we're talking about hundreds rather than
dozens of images in total.
And thanks Mike for stepping in!
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, 13:39 Sara Thomas, <sara.thomas@wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:
> 45 could be easily done on the standard upload; it could also be done
> using Pattypan, if there's a good deal of metadata to input.
>
> Sara
>
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 05:16, Richard Symonds <chasemewiki@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Would we even need batch upload? It's only 45 files I think! Could it be
>> done by a regular uploader?
>>
>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 15:55 Deryck Chan, <deryckchan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Lucy and all,
>>>
>>> Ideally we want a Commons volunteer with both OTRS and batch upload
>>> privileges (which I'm neither). But if none of those boffins are available,
>>> I'm happy to volunteer to do the uploading and liaise with OTRS on the
>>> councillors' behalf.
>>>
>>> --Deryck
>>>
>>> On Wed, 9 Sep 2020, 14:15 Lucy Crompton-Reid, <
>>> lucy.crompton-reid@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all
>>>>
>>>> Many of you will know Jon Davies from his time as the CEO of Wikimedia
>>>> UK. Well he still carries the open knowledge torch wherever he goes, and
>>>> has managed to persuade Lambeth Council to release high resolution photos
>>>> of its Councillors (including Jon himself!) under a Creative Commons
>>>> license. They are currently online here
>>>> <https://love.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-councillor-images/> - and Jon
>>>> also has access to a folder with all the high res files - but he is hoping
>>>> that a volunteer will be able to upload these to Wikimedia Commons. Would
>>>> anyone be able to help with this? Please let me know if so and I can put
>>>> you in direct touch with Jon.
>>>>
>>>> Very best wishes
>>>> Lucy
>>>>
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