Category Archives: Graphics

More Wikimedia documents!

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Guillaume Paumier

During the meet-up of Wikimedians from the San Francisco Bay Area last week-end, people were talking about the need for various kind of documents and goodies to hand out at the Maker Faire. I realized that we could actually organize some sort of Marketing Marathon during the next meet-up. Continue reading →

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digiKam, the perfect tool for Wikimedia Commons photographers?

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Guillaume Paumier

For several years now, I have been a photographer for Wikimedia Commons. Commons is actually the reason why I became interested in photography, and why I bought a DSLR camera and various lenses. And I have ended up taking a lot of pictures.

The problem when you take a lot of pictures is that the time you need then to process and upload them grows exponentially. Besides, if you want to upload your pictures to several platforms (say, Commons, flickr and your blog), you have to deal with the specifics of each website. It would be much simpler and faster to describe, tag, classify, geotag the pictures only once (using an appropriate batch-editing tool) and then to have each website extract the metadata, or to use an upload tool that extracts them automatically. Continue reading →

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Introducing the Wikimedia documents initiative

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Guillaume Paumier

I am happy to announce the launch of the Wikimedia documents initiative (WMDOC), which aims at creating and maintaining a centralized set of standardized, up-to-date and localized core reference documents for public relations, marketing and public outreach. Continue reading →

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Wikimedia PR material cleanup; Phase I: Inventory

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Guillaume Paumier

This is a quick note to let you know that Casey Brown and I have decided to revive the PR material cleanup project: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PR_material_cleanup Continue reading →

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Found on flickr, reused from Commons

Posted on September 14, 2007 by Guillaume Paumier

Some months ago, I was asked permission to reuse one of my photos of Nicolas Sarkozy, the new French President, that I had taken during his rallye in Toulouse. The photo was printed on the cover of a newsletter issued by think tank in London called the Stockholm Network. They contacted me via flickr but I told them to credit me via Wikimedia Commons instead, where the photos also were.

I am now being contacted by someone working for Community Connection News Magazine, “a minority print media publication company based out of Milwaukee, WI and serving the tri-state area” who’s interested in a picture of school bus from Québec. Continue reading →

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