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*Piling on here. Thank you for writing this; I've already emailed it to my own father. [[User:The ed17|Ed]] <sup>[[User talk:The ed17|[talk]]] [[WP:OMT|[majestic titan]]]</sup> 05:07, 27 March 2015 (UTC) |
*Piling on here. Thank you for writing this; I've already emailed it to my own father. [[User:The ed17|Ed]] <sup>[[User talk:The ed17|[talk]]] [[WP:OMT|[majestic titan]]]</sup> 05:07, 27 March 2015 (UTC) |
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*And another piler on! It's great to see that some very able photographers such as your grandfather and father have given us the privilege of seeing their collections. The period is, in terms of free media, sadly underdocumented. — [[User:Crisco 1492|Crisco 1492]] ([[User talk:Crisco 1492|talk]]) 08:15, 27 March 2015 (UTC) |
*And another piler on! It's great to see that some very able photographers such as your grandfather and father have given us the privilege of seeing their collections. The period is, in terms of free media, sadly underdocumented. — [[User:Crisco 1492|Crisco 1492]] ([[User talk:Crisco 1492|talk]]) 08:15, 27 March 2015 (UTC) |
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*Makes me want to go and get my parents to pull out the tins of family photos to see if we've got any gems in there too! Great op-ed. [[User:Miyagawa|Miyagawa]] ([[User talk:Miyagawa|talk]]) 11:46, 27 March 2015 (UTC) |
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- Thank you for your story. It's a testament to how people can contribute to Wikipedia and open culture in ways other than editing articles. Encouraging more people to do this is especially valuable because of the large gap between the end public domain and today. Sure, we can create content now, and we can use content older than 1923, but this is the only way we can use content created in the decades in between. Gamaliel (talk) 23:25, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for a great write-up. Ijon (talk) 04:27, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks to all the Bareras for making these photos available. Gamaliel is right that we need more photos taken from 1923-2000. There are likely 1000s of photo collections from this period taken by very able photographers, and we'd love to upload their photos. Just a few could do wonders for many of our articles. Perhaps we could organize a WikiProject to identify and help them.
- I have to mention a particular photographer who this story reminds me of. I ran into User:ROY KLOTZ during the 2012 Wikipedia Loves Monuments contest. His photos go back to the 1970s, perhaps earlier. He continues to photograph and upload new pix mostly of historic sites, about 3000 so far in total. He does have a few quirks, such as typing in all caps, and needing help in categorizing and placing his photos. If anybody wants to help, please see his uploads at Commons - he's wearing me out! As I said, just a few photographers like this can work wonders. Smallbones(smalltalk) 04:30, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
- Piling on here. Thank you for writing this; I've already emailed it to my own father. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:07, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
- And another piler on! It's great to see that some very able photographers such as your grandfather and father have given us the privilege of seeing their collections. The period is, in terms of free media, sadly underdocumented. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:15, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
- Makes me want to go and get my parents to pull out the tins of family photos to see if we've got any gems in there too! Great op-ed. Miyagawa (talk) 11:46, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
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