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German Gov't Donates 100,000 Images To Wikipedia

Posted by Soulskill on from the only-80000-are-of-beer-and-sausages dept.

Raul654 writes "The German Federal Archive has agreed to donate 100,000 images to Wikipedia under the German version of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License. These pictures cover a period from 1860 to present. This is the largest picture donation ever to Wikipedia, and possibly the largest in the history of the free culture movement." Apparently, this is part of a project which will eventually make 11 million photos available for public use.

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  1. Re:Fortunately or unfortunately by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wrong stereotype I'm afraid. I think this action will affect pictures like this

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Einsatzgruppen_Killing.jpg

    So hopefully clusterfucks like this won't happen in future

    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Image:Einsatzgruppen-Killingfull.jpg

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  2. Re:I'm Confused Why We Don't See This En Masse by TorKlingberg · · Score: 5, Informative

    To be fair, the US government rule that works by government employees are not copyrighted has provided for a lot of free images used on Wikipedia. European governments, for example, are much more restrictive about copyrights.

  3. Re:German speakers: help wanted by molo · · Score: 4, Informative

    A link to the actual photos: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_German_Federal_Archive

    -molo

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  4. Re:sometimes translation to German, too! by matt4077 · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a disclaimer to that effect. Add a better (correct) description, but leave the original unchanged for documentary purposes.

    It's quite a task to translate these descriptions. Those that I looked at all contained words or even concepts that people don't even know anymore ("Institute for Race Hygiene and Crime", wtf?)

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  5. Re:I'm Confused Why We Don't See This En Masse by Chandon+Seldon · · Score: 3, Informative

    Obama "can't" send emails due to the presidential records act. More specifically, he can send all the emails he wants, but any email the president sends is a matter of public record.

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  6. Re:sometimes translation to German, too! by ljw1004 · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Institute for Race Hygiene and Crime".

    It was sort of cross between the DHS and the guantanamo "Combatant Status Review Tribunal".

  7. Re:sometimes translation to German, too! by Deadstick · · Score: 4, Informative
    These Polish Kaftan-Jews (?)

    Kaftans were a common item of apparel for Central European Jews in those times, and served as an ethnic stereotype. "Kaftan-Jew" would be a pejorative comparable to, say, "towelhead" for an Arab.

    rj