One thing is we need to assure the subject if they provide a high quality free licensed portrait image, we'll actually use it in the article in preference to an image sourced off the street
2008/11/20 Sarah Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *Cough* This is something that I've been working on quietly and there is a > real possibility that things will improve at a higher level than political > parties. I can't really say very much on here because the important bits > were shared in confidence but I am hopeful about next year and images are > already starting to filter out slowly via this person (I received another > one for a federal MP just today actually). > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Brianna Laugher < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > -- GN. http://gnangarra.redbubble.com/
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