I know some of the relevant folks through one of my day jobs, and I've encouraged them to think about Wikipedia/Wikimedia through mailing lists/ talks and so on. This included corresponding with the WW1 Centenary project's developer, Pat Lockley, about the MediaWiki API. Since then, Pat has created http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/space-into-place/all-quiet-on-the-wikipedia-front/ . So my and others' behind-the-scenes discussions may have helped get people thinking about our approach.
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Michael Peel <michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Nice. :-) Was this spontaneous on their part, or was there behind-the-scenes > discussions here? > > Thanks, > Mike > > On 29 Mar 2012, at 18:33, Chris Keating wrote: > >> Oh, don't worry, we do! And we're not alone - many of the digital staff >> working in various institutions are very open to this, as are some funders >> of them (e.g. Europeana) >> >> >> Of course the best possible sell is showing what could be done with material >> once it was released... :) >> >> On Thursday, March 29, 2012, HJ Mitchell <hjmitch...@ymail.com> wrote: >> > I think we should make a real effort to explain the pros and cons of the >> > various CC licenses and what they actually mean for copyright holders and >> > re-users. I think many choices of licenses like NC are born out of a lack >> > of understanding, and people might be more receptive to CC-By-SA if they >> > understood it better. >> > I could be wrong, but that's my general impression. >> > Harry >> > ________________________________ >> > From: Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com> >> > To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2012, 17:49 >> > Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Livetweeting the Battle of Arras (1917) >> > >> > Just a note for the World War I buffs amongst you - there's quite an >> > interesting plan by Oxford University to crowdsource a livetweet of the >> > Battle of Arras. More info here: http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/?p=253 >> > I'm planning to take part and other Wikimedians would be very welcome. >> > You might notice that the organisers have taken a licensing approach of >> > putting the eventual resource they are creating from this initiative under >> > CC-BY-NC, but nevertheless encouraging participants to digitise their own >> > materials and put them on Commons. So that's 50% right ;-) >> > Chris >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia UK mailing list >> > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >> > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Dr Martin L Poulter Board member/ Trustee, Wikimedia UK http://uk.wikimedia.org/ Wikipedia contributor http://enwp.org/User:MartinPoulter Musician http://myspace.com/comapilot Person http://infobomb.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
