As many will be aware, the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) donated 50,000 images to Wikimedia Commons, with Wikimedia Australia responsible for task of uploading the images.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland As part of this collaboration, we promised to provide a regular progress report, providing a lot of raw data that Wikimedia and the library can use in presentations. We provided the first report on February 3: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland/Reports/1 The second report is now compiled: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland/Reports/2 There are many contributors to thank for making this partnership a success so far. Here is a list of the contributors who are self-identified as Australian: 99of9 Bidgee Billinghurst Cgoodwin Crusoe8181 Gareth/Gareth_Aus Gnangarra Grahamec Jeff79 John Vandenberg WestyQld2/JRA_WestyQld2 Kerry Raymond Lankiveil Mattinbgn Melburnian Nick-D Rcbutcher Saberwyn SatuSuro Shiftchange Tony1 And self-identified Kiwis, or people residing there: Ingolfson Jeff79 Tony_Wills Do you recognise any additional Australians or Kiwis in the report? Are there any other stats that you think would be useful? If anyone wants to help, and doesn't know where to start, the non-existent categories already containing images is an area that needs humans. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland/Reports/2/Red_categories The 'problem' is that those category names were automatically generated based on the subject headings provided by the library, so they might be named incorrectly according to the Commons naming conventions. A mailing list has been created for the SLQ project. The bot account watches every uploaded image, and the Commons server emails the mailing list whenever a watched page is updated. As a result it can be high-volume at times. If you would like to be added to that mailing list, email 'subscribe' to slq-requ...@wikimedia.org.au. The bot will be starting again tonight, and will be focusing on uploading images of ships. You can request a batch of images at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:State_Library_of_Queensland Cheers, John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l