Re: [Commons-l] Personality rights

> > I don't think that more policies and guidelines are the answer; we already have official policies like this one that are routinely ignored because people concentrate on licencing at deletion discussions to the exclusion of all other issues. The correct answer is more effective use of existing

Re: [Commons-l] [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

There's a lot of images on Commons that make me scratch my head and say "what the hell?". I've just found another two :-). On 18 October 2011 04:10, Alex Brollo wrote: > The most curious and unexpected sex content I ever found is into > [[Category:HTML]]. An unusual way to learn html syntax..

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

I'm going to add my voice to the "yeah, that wasn't cool". To give a bit of an anecdote, John Vandenberg and I were doing a demonstration of Commons to some librarians and cultural curators yesterday, and it was a bit of a rude shock seeing that particular image on the frontpage. One of the more

Re: [Commons-l] Geograph images

Maybe I'm just dense, but I've had a look at the category and while a lot of them are probably of limited use for an encyclopaedia article, we must remember that Commons is more than an image hosting solution for Wikipedia. Then again, I'm one of those "if you don't think it's worth it, then don't

Re: [Commons-l] Talking about Bert Roberts, Commons, and Wikipedia on ABC Radio in Queensland

Craig Franklin Hi all, Just a heads-up that yesterday I recorded an interview with Scott Mayman of ABC Radio, where we talked about the Bert Roberts photo collection, free licensing, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia. The interview will be broadcast on Scott’s “Afternoon Chillout” programme

[Commons-l] Talking about Bert Roberts, Commons, and Wikipedia on ABC Radio in Queensland

Hi all, Just a heads-up that yesterday I recorded an interview with Scott Mayman of ABC Radio, where we talked about the Bert Roberts photo collection, free licensing, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia. The interview will be broadcast on Scott's "Afternoon Chillout" programme next week, most pr

Re: [Commons-l] Update from Paris

Hi All, Will there be an official communiqué concerning the things that were discussed at this conference? Some of the GLAM institutes that I am working with would doubtlessly be interested in what’s planned for the future where Commons is concerned. Cheers, Craig F. From: commons-

[Commons-l] FYI: The A E "Bert" Roberts photograph collection

Hi Liam and list, Thanks again. As I said in the original post, if there is anyone who is interested in photography, located in or willing to travel to Brisbane, and is happy to spend some time learning how to digitize plate glass negatives (which I believe is a rather specialised skill), let