Thanks for this Andy - what a shame! I hope you manage to speak to them and see if there is any scope for coordination. Cheers, Lucy On 7 Jun 2016 14:30, "Andy Mabbett" <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> As you may have seen in the media, or on social media, today, Heritage > England, who maintain the country's list of, er, listed buildings, > have launched a crowd-souring initiative, asking people to provide > information and images about listed buildings. > > It's a horribly missed opportunity - it seems no thought has been > given to collaborating with the Wikimedia movement, who have been > colleclting such pictures on Commons (not least as "Wiki Loves > Monuments") and writing about the buildings for over a decade, on > Wikipedia. > > Nor are people submitting images asked to put them under open licence. > They claim their terms, at: > > > http://historicengland.org.uk/terms/website-terms-conditions/enriching-the-list-contribution-terms/ > > allow the images to be used on Wikipedia, but that's not so. > > I'm in contact with them, and am hoping to have a phone chat with the > project manager later today. I'll keep you informed. > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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