Hi, From my point of view: certainly. Commons already has loads of images sourced from e.g. Flickr (and many GLAMs don't run their own servers but put media in commercial providers servers).
As long as the media objects have the correct file formats and licenses/rights status I don't see why it would matter that they're fetched from a server run by a commercial company. Cheers, David ________________________________________ From: Glamtools [glamtools-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Hans Muller [j.m.mul...@hccnet.nl] Sent: 11 January 2016 17:45 To: Conversations revolving around the development of GLAM Digital Tools Subject: [Glamtools] Can commercial GLAM companiy domains be whitelisted for GWT? Dear all, In the Netherlands and elsewhere GLAMs pay companies like picturae.com to produce images of their collections, resulting in thousands of .tifs etcetera. Up to now, as far as i know these company websites have not been whitelisted for uploads to Commons. It could be practical if GLAMs which want to donate images, can do so directly from such a company's domain. (A GLAM asked me whether to ask a scanning company to allow this from their company side.) As i don't (yet) have a specific URL as a test, i can't at this point ask whitelisting on Phabricator. So i would like to test the waters here. If whitelisting of a company is a "no-no", it makes no sense aa company to allow this anyway. GLAMs (and I) must use other more indirect upload inroads. * What's your view? Thanks, hans muller _______________________________________________ Glamtools mailing list Glamtools@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools _______________________________________________ Glamtools mailing list Glamtools@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glamtools
