Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [cultural-partners] Request: Volunteers & e-Volunteers for donations from The National Archives

[pkmp...@gmail.com]

This might be a good place to use the "depicted person" field and template (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Depicted_person), which I don't see used very often. (Is there a reason for that?)

Paula

On , Fae <fae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Our friend Jo in the The National Archives has uploaded a test
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> photograph at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lt-General_Sir_Bernard_Montgomery.jpg>.
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> Comments or offers to help with later mass uploads and categorization
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> would be gratefully received. This image is one of an initial test set
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> of 300 original scans of never before published World War II artworks
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> in their collections for which we hope to encourage Wikipedia
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> biography articles to be created about these war time artists (as
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> commissioned by the Ministry of Information). Consequently help on
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> Wikipedia fostering that side of the collaboration is also needed.
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> Over the summer the idea is to publish to Wikimedia Commons something
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> in the order of (a multiple of) 10,000 images from the digital
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> collections, for the first time uploaded to the internet for the
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> public benefit. Experimenting with the initial test set will establish
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> our best practice for metadata requirements and layout.
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> Wikipedia Collaboration page:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/TNA/Participants>
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> Cheers,
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> Fae
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