Agreed. I think the simplest and strongest argument we can made is basically appealing to ego. That is, if someone does a google search for their name the first result is their website and the second is always WP. -Liam
On 20/11/2008, at 4:12 PM, Brianna Laugher wrote: > Hi, > > I have noticed for a while the difficulty that Wikipedia editors have > had in obtaining freely licensed photographs of Australian politicians > for their biographical articles. > > I think a good project for us might be to do some gentle (private) > lobbying to political parties and/or their branches to encourage them > to release a set of high quality portraits under a free license. > > The best case would be if we could get a party or parties to release a > bunch of photographs rather than individuals (a last approach), mostly > because it is much more efficient. > > I think it is a good project because it will be positive for both them > and us, it's very easy for us to point out the benefits for them, it > will further raise awareness of free licenses to politicians and the > work necessary to achieve it is mostly on-wiki and easily divisible, > making it easy for people to contribute even in small amounts. > Probably starting with current politicians and working backwards is > the easiest way to go. > > It could go something like this: > * Collate stats about articles via different ways of categorisation > (eg state, fed/state/local [in cities?], party) > * Prepare letters and arguments to help persuade parties and > individuals > * Find and collect contacts in all the parties and at all levels of > government > * WMAU sends letters, phones people etc. > > So you can imagine this is one case where having a body behind a > letter might hopefully be more persuasive than an individual. > > We have lots of starting points already -- > * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_politicians > * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australian_politics > > Thoughts? > > cheers, > Brianna > > > -- > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: > http://modernthings.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l