FYI, you might be interested in a similar new Open Source Media
project started by Marc Canter and J.D. Lasica, which can be found
here:
Their emphasis is primarily video, but pictures and audio are also a
large part. We might want to open up channels to them just to stay in
touch with their ideas. They have a wiki on SocialText they are
using for planning/coordination. It would be good to have some
Wikimedia/pedia folks in touch with it.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 02:12:10 +0200, Ewen Caroline <caroline(a)www.web.lu> wrote:
And it will save time looking for pictures where you
can never be sure about
the license etc. I'm sure, lots of us (myself included) have holiday pics
from various places on their computer, so let's share them.
Caroline, LB.
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:27:58 -0400, James R. Johnson wrote
A wikicommons would be very nice to have, a place
to store all the pictures
and sound files we find, and then link to them in the
wikipedia/wiktionary, etc. - that'd save space in the wikis for more
articles, etc.
James
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[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gerard Meijssen
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:25 PM
To: wikitech-l(a)Wikipedia.org; wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Wikicommons
Hoi,
There has been much talk about starting a repository for all kinds
of media. Pictures etc that have a license compatible with the
ideas of wikimedia. The idea lives to have one repository for all
pictures so that we need to store it only once. The idea lives to
make Wikicommons ?? the location where the userid's for the
wikimedia projects may live.
Anyway, Wikicommons does not exist and we have all these harddrives
full of our digital snapshots.that may eventually end up on
wikisomewhere. Wouldn't it be nice to start Wikicommons and have a
place to dump these pictures now for people to find?
Yes, we cannot use Wikicommons pictures in the diverse projects yet,
but now we do not have the pictures either. What is stopping us from
creating this space and get something going ??
Personally I have nice pictures from within the Vatican, a scull of
a Homo erectus etc etc. I have been to many musea and I have
pictures a plenty from Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Brussels,
Oostvaardersplassen. I am sure that I am not the only one with
interesting pictures that are usefull to others.
Please let us start the Wikicommons and add functionality when we
think of some, when we program some.
Thanks,
GerardM
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