[OpenGLAM] New images on Wikimedia Commons: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland

Thu Oct 3 15:18:28 UTC 2013

Thanks Tove. Now, if you images can get distributed, often GLAMs get more
views of their photographs on Wikimedia projects than they do on Flickr.

So if people can distribute the images into articles, then who knows what
can happen! ;)

Sarah

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Tove Örsted <tove.orsted at sls.fi> wrote:

>  Thank you so much Sarah!!
>
>  We are very exited to now be part of the Commons in both Flickr and
> Wikimedia!!  Its awesome! We had had 2 million views in only one year on
> Flickr.
>
>  Shearing is grate!!
>
>  Best regards
>  Tove Ørsted
> Digitization services
>  The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
> www.sls.fi
>
>
>   Från: Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch at gmail.com>
> Datum: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 17:29:11 -0700
> Till: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination <
> cultural-partners at wikimedia.ch>
> Kopia: Sophie Österberg <sosterberg at wikimedia.org>, "
> open-glam at lists.okfn.org" <open-glam at lists.okfn.org>
> Ämne: [OpenGLAM] New images on Wikimedia Commons: Svenska
> litteratursällskapet i Finland
>
>  I met a few of these folks when I was in Helsinki last year and they
> pinged me to let me know they were hoping their images would be uploaded to
> Commons. I just uploaded their content via the awesome Flickr upload:
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Svenska_litteraturs%C3%A4llskapet_i_Finland
>
>  all the content in categories is new on Commons.
>
>  There is some content related to Swedish culture in Finland, and also
> some stereoscopes that were in their collection of US places (Boston,
> Cinci, Nashville). There are some cool photos of historic places in Finland
> that don't have images...
>
>  ...enjoy, use, share, etc!
>
>
>  Sarah
>
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