Don't focus exclusively on MPs - don't forget Lords, MSPs, AMs, MLAs and GLAMs who outnumber MPs a fair bit and also all have articles. Parliament is worth a go, though they aren't exactly a hotbed of technological progress. Political parties might be a better bet. Chris From: liamwyatt(a)gmail.com Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:02:48 +0000 To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Pictures of politicians I don't know about the UK, but I know that the Dutch chapter secured a content donation from their parliament of the official portraits of the whole government as a job lot. That might be easier than trying to get them one by one. I also heard that the German chapter was going to try and get photos of all candidates in the lead up to their next elections. Amusingly, I tried to get the Federal Parliament of Australia (via the Australian parliamentary library) to donate their official portraits of the government along the lines of the dutch model. The request went up the food chain to some anonymous bureaucrat in the parliamet from whence the response came back down that, No, we could not release the official portraits under a cc-by-sa license as that would encourage the usage of those photos to satirize the politicians. A more ludicrous reason why a free-license can't be used I have yet to hear! -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 4 February 2011 11:45, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: Do we have a programme to get photos of every MP? Standard templates, etc? I need to ask mine, [[Stella Creasy]], for one ... - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Hmmm, on further investigation, parliament.uk's images are not its own - their copyright page states "All photographs of individual MPs and Peers on the biographical pages and Committee pages are the exclusive property of Dods and are protected under international copyright laws. The photographs may not be reproduced, copied, stored or manipulated in any form without the written permission of Dods unless for non-commercial purposes, provided permission is sought beforehand and the photo is credited. For more information on these photos, please email editor(a)dods.co.uk " Obviously this isn't the case, but does indicate a barrier to Parliament releasing the images. Chris