Re: [Commons-l] Al Jazeera in Flickr goes cc-by-sa

2011-11-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar 
Wonderful news!

On 11/23/11 5:23 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
> Dear Cultural-patners-l and Commons-l,
> As some of you know I'm currently in Qatar at the invitation of
> CreativeCommons Qatar talking to various GLAMs. We met with the good
> folks from Al Jazeera English the other day and discussed various ways
> that we could work together in the future - based on the great early
> work of the Al Jazeera CC portal: http://cc.aljazeera.net/ (copied in to
> this email is Bilal from Al Jazeera and Brian from CC.Qatar). One of the
> specific questions that they asked me was about why does Wikipedia use
> screenshots from those videos rather that using their still images from
> flickr directly. The reason is, as we know, was that the Al Jazeera
> photostream on Flickr was licensed as cc-by-ND.
>
> So... It is now my pleasure to pass on a message from Bilal:
>
> Hi Liam - I've updated our Flickr account and all images are now
> available under the CC share-alike option.
>
>
> EXCELLENT! :-) Everyone, have a look at some of the gorgeous photos
> available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/sets/ they
> cover topics from Hajj to the Gaza War, and many different countries
> involved in the "Arab Spring". Not only are these beautiful pictures
> with great provenance they are also extremely encyclopedic and
> impossible to replace. They are all taken by Al Jazeera journalists in
> the field. Furthermore, this is an amazingly fast turnaround time for
> changing a large institution's copyright policy :-)
>
> Let's start getting these across to Wikimedia Commons in the Category
> "files from Al Jazeera"
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Al_Jazeera and
> start integrating them into various WP articles!
>
> Is there someone who can dedicate a bot to sucking these across to
> Flickr straight away?
> Perhaps we can also create a nice "partnership template" too?
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnership_templates
>
> Sincerely,
> -Liam
>
> wittylama.com/blog 
> Peace, love & metadata
>
>
>
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Re: [Commons-l] Al Jazeera in Flickr goes cc-by-sa

2011-11-23 Thread Howard Cheng 
Awesome news! Great job on getting this accomplished!
On Nov 23, 2011 6:12 AM, "Maarten Dammers"  wrote:

> Hi Liam
>
> Op 23-11-2011 14:23, Liam Wyatt schreef:
> > Is there someone who can dedicate a bot to sucking these across to
> > Flickr straight away?
> > Perhaps we can also create a nice "partnership template" too?
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnership_templates
> Great news! Enjoy the show at
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&user=BotMultichillT&title=Special%3AListFiles%2FBotMultichillT
>
> Maarten
>
> Ps. If you find other great free Flickr sets you want to have at
> Commons: You can file a request at
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickr_batch_uploading
>
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Re: [Commons-l] Al Jazeera in Flickr goes cc-by-sa

2011-11-23 Thread Maarten Dammers 
Hi Liam

Op 23-11-2011 14:23, Liam Wyatt schreef:
> Is there someone who can dedicate a bot to sucking these across to 
> Flickr straight away?
> Perhaps we can also create a nice "partnership template" too? 
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnership_templates
Great news! Enjoy the show at 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?limit=50&user=BotMultichillT&title=Special%3AListFiles%2FBotMultichillT

Maarten

Ps. If you find other great free Flickr sets you want to have at 
Commons: You can file a request at 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickr_batch_uploading


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[Commons-l] Al Jazeera in Flickr goes cc-by-sa

2011-11-23 Thread Liam Wyatt 
Dear Cultural-patners-l and Commons-l,
As some of you know I'm currently in Qatar at the invitation of
CreativeCommons Qatar talking to various GLAMs. We met with the good folks
from Al Jazeera English the other day and discussed various ways that we
could work together in the future - based on the great early work of the Al
Jazeera CC portal: http://cc.aljazeera.net/ (copied in to this email is
Bilal from Al Jazeera and Brian from CC.Qatar). One of the specific
questions that they asked me was about why does Wikipedia use screenshots
from those videos rather that using their still images from flickr
directly. The reason is, as we know, was that the Al Jazeera photostream on
Flickr was licensed as cc-by-ND.

So... It is now my pleasure to pass on a message from Bilal:

Hi Liam - I've updated our Flickr account and all images are now available
under the CC share-alike option.


EXCELLENT! :-) Everyone, have a look at some of the gorgeous photos
available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/sets/ they
cover topics from Hajj to the Gaza War, and many different countries
involved in the "Arab Spring". Not only are these beautiful pictures with
great provenance they are also extremely encyclopedic and impossible to
replace. They are all taken by Al Jazeera journalists in the field.
Furthermore, this is an amazingly fast turnaround time for changing a large
institution's copyright policy :-)

Let's start getting these across to Wikimedia Commons in the Category
"files from Al Jazeera"
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Al_Jazeera and start
integrating them into various WP articles!

Is there someone who can dedicate a bot to sucking these across to Flickr
straight away?
Perhaps we can also create a nice "partnership template" too?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnership_templates

Sincerely,
-Liam

wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
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