{"id":1831,"date":"2009-02-17T05:10:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T03:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2009-02-17T05:10:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T03:10:17","slug":"durova-wikipedia-art-and-media-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/durova-wikipedia-art-and-media-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Durova: Wikipedia Art and media restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Durova: Wikipedia Art and media restoration<\/a><\/p>\n

A worthy re-post, not really related to the Wikipedia Art project. I don’t think my own work is exactly suitable, but hopefully some of my readers might be able to get involved.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia had one of its more interesting deletion discussions overnight. \u00c2\u00a0A page called Wikipedia Art<\/a> lasted about a day. By site standards the deletion was mundane, but the editors who created it were not. There’s an untapped opportunity here and I’m reaching out to them. The artists Scott Kildall<\/a>, Nathaniel Stern<\/a>, and Brian Sherwin<\/a> were active in it, apparently with a measure of support from the academic art world.<\/p>\n

There are untapped synergies between Wikipedia and professional artists. One of them is illustrated here: a portrait of actor Mark Harmon<\/a> by professional photographer Jerry Avenaim<\/a>. This photo is scheduled to run on Wikipedia’s main page tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Mr. Avenaim himself didn’t nominate the portrait for featured picture. Another volunteer noticed its high quality and put it up as a candidate<\/a> where it nearly failed the minimum resolution requirements until I noticed the photographer was already an active Wikipedian and contacted him. He was surprised and delighted to learn his work was under consideration, and supplied a larger version.<\/p>\n

Now here’s good news for Jerry Avenaim: as Picture of the Day for February 17, 2009 the portrait will receive an estimated 6 to 7 million page views as a main feature, plus about 30,000 direct views to the image hosting page. That’s more attention than his work would get from a day on the front page of The New York Times<\/span>. Thank you, Jerry Avenaim, for doing well by doing good. Here’s a link to his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I would love to establish contact with the Wikipedia Art participants and help them direct their considerable talents into productive endeavors. Posted to the Village Pump discussion<\/a> about this. Let’s hope it yields fruitful results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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