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Subject:    [WikiEN-l] Re: Wikimania
From:       Anthere <anthere9 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2005-08-10 13:37:46
Message-ID: 42FA032A.7030206 () yahoo ! com
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Cormac Lawler a écrit:
> On 8/10/05, Delphine Ménard <notafishz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am sorry to say that as much as I would love to have a full report
>>with pictures on one of the projects, I am not sure that pictures of
>>people at Wikimania are actually "relevant" to the projects, which is
>>one of the first requirements of uploading to commons. That a few
>>pictures from "well known" speakers appearing at Wikimania would make
>>it to Commons is good, but I don't see how a picture of us drinking
>>coffee in the courtyard is relevant to any of the Wikimedia projects.
>>Thinking that we can upload anything we want just because it's *us* is
>>in my opinion a mistake. Next you know, Commons will be the repository
>>for everybody's holiday pictures. As much as I am in favour of opening
>>commons to the greater crowd, and lettting people upload pictures that
>>are of educational value, even if they are not used in any of the
>>wikimedia projects, I believe not all of Wikimania pictures should
>>make it there.
> 
> 
> This creates a difficult precedent though, because there are
> repositories (on Wikipedia) of most if not all other Meetups from the
> past. I was going to add a photo of me from Wikimania, with permission
> from the owner, to my Wikipedia user page, because I realise there's
> nothing on Wikipedia for people to recognise me, which I now more than
> ever realise to be very important. I expect a lot of other people will
> want to do the same, ie show that 'you were there'. So, I suppose my
> question is: should we limit ourselves to just one image which could
> be analogous to the idea of the facebook -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Facebook - or would it be
> profitable to include a fair percentage of images (though "not all")
> as a record of the event and the participants' part in it? I'm also
> aware that wikien-l doesn't seem like the best place to be discussing
> this..
> 
> 
>>This said, Flickr did operate as a good "side-repository" and I
>>suppose we could try and get some pictures from various licences to
>>make a full report on the Wikimania Website, or meta, which should
>>allow such things, as a "window" to all the projects. I have started
>>gathering pics here and there, and hope to put together a full report
>>in the next few days, any help/ideas welcome.
> 
> 
> So, again, how do we decide which ones are necessary? Commons sense?
> Key speakers granted, but there's the whole flavour of the event as
> well isn't there? Which was very tasty indeed, by the way ;)
> 
> 
>>Best,
>>
>>Delphine
>>--
>>~notafish
> 
> 
> Cormac / Cormaggio



For those who did not participate, I think it is important they get some 
pictures with legend from the first Wikimania report. We can not edit 
the legends on Flickr... So I just hope some people will upload some of 
the best shots to meta :-)

ant


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