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Dear madam, dear sir, | Dear madam, dear sir, | ||
I am sorry about this unwanted email, however I would like to ask you a favor. My name is Petr Broz and I am one of the thousands of voluntary editors contributing in Wikipedia, the largest on-line encyclopedia freely accessible | I am sorry about this unwanted email, however I would like to ask you a favor. My name is Petr Broz and I am one of the thousands of voluntary editors contributing in Wikipedia, the largest on-line encyclopedia freely accessible to everybody. The Wikipedia is being edited by volunteers in their free time. Editing includes text edits of broad spectrum of articles and also taking photographs of a number of different items. Our goal is to offer all human knowledges easily accessible to all the people around the world. However this is not an easy goal (especially for us as voluntaries) therefore we often need some help. | ||
On English Wikipedia is short article about Camden catacombs, set of underground facilities | On English Wikipedia there is a short article about Camden catacombs, a set of underground facilities situated in London. This article is missing any picture which might illustrate the uniqueness of this Victorian works. As a part of our attempt to cover London, one of the world-leading cities, by images, we would like to provide images of this network of tunnels available under open license (Creative Commons[1]) allowing others to use these images for any purposes. However Camden catacombs are not open for public and no images under open license exist on the Internet. We would like to change this fact. One of the easiest ways how to achieve it, is to ask you whether you would allow a short-time entry of one of our volunteer photographers into this area. Our photographer would take pictures and upload them to the Wikipedia storage of images, Wikimedia Commons. | ||
I am aware that this is unusual plea which will require extra work. But please, help us improve Wikipedia and let us enter into these catacombs. | I am aware that this is unusual plea which will require extra work. But please, help us improve Wikipedia and let us enter into these catacombs. | ||
Revision as of 12:15, 3 April 2013
Dear madam, dear sir,
I am sorry about this unwanted email, however I would like to ask you a favor. My name is Petr Broz and I am one of the thousands of voluntary editors contributing in Wikipedia, the largest on-line encyclopedia freely accessible to everybody. The Wikipedia is being edited by volunteers in their free time. Editing includes text edits of broad spectrum of articles and also taking photographs of a number of different items. Our goal is to offer all human knowledges easily accessible to all the people around the world. However this is not an easy goal (especially for us as voluntaries) therefore we often need some help.
On English Wikipedia there is a short article about Camden catacombs, a set of underground facilities situated in London. This article is missing any picture which might illustrate the uniqueness of this Victorian works. As a part of our attempt to cover London, one of the world-leading cities, by images, we would like to provide images of this network of tunnels available under open license (Creative Commons[1]) allowing others to use these images for any purposes. However Camden catacombs are not open for public and no images under open license exist on the Internet. We would like to change this fact. One of the easiest ways how to achieve it, is to ask you whether you would allow a short-time entry of one of our volunteer photographers into this area. Our photographer would take pictures and upload them to the Wikipedia storage of images, Wikimedia Commons.
I am aware that this is unusual plea which will require extra work. But please, help us improve Wikipedia and let us enter into these catacombs.
Your help would be very appreciated,
Best regards,
Petr Brož Petr.broz@wikimedia.cz (or use email of WMUK will be better) member of Wikimedia UK Charitable Company registered in England and Wales. Registered Company No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT