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On May 26, the U.S. National Archives decided to make the high-resolution images of Ansel Adams' public-domain National Park Service photos public. Previously, it had only displayed scaled-down versions on its catalog pages and Flickr. These have all been added to the National Archives Flickr set, and can be seen at Category:2011 Ansel Adams donation from U.S. National Archives. Additionally, the original TIFF files will soon be made available on Commons.

This page organizes efforts related to accomplishing the bulk upload and putting the new images into use on Wikimedia projects. In particular, we would like to develop new Wikipedia content around the images as a way of thanking the National Archives for their contribution.

Metrics

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  • Total image views on the Flickr set as of May 27 (pre-high resolution): 13,423.
  • Medium-resolution NARA Ansel Adams photos used in Wikipedia articles: # times.
  • % of collection used in Wikipedia articles pre-donation ; % used after additions.
  • New article content created as a result of Ansel Adams project:

Projects

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Donation completion

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These files were all identified and uploaded by a human. Please double-check that they are correct. Any errors listed here now can be easily fixed. This is a list of the checking that is required; please strike through these when completed.

  1. Ensure that all NARA Ansel Adams photos are associated with an ARC identifier (e.g. 519836).
  2. Manually verify that all images match the images in their ARC record (see "Digital Copies" tab) to confirm that the metadata is associated with the correct photo.
  3. Ensure that all Ansel Adams photos listed at [1] have been uploaded to Commons.
  4. Make sure that all of the images are actually high-resolution.

On Commons

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  1. Create an institutional template for the National Archives (if needed)—or possibly one specific to Ansel Adams National Park Service photos—that can associate JPEGs with their duplicate TIFFs.
  2. Identify the medium-resolution duplicates, and replace them on Wikimedia projects with their high-resolution versions (then delete?).
    Somehow do the same for duplicates uploaded locally to projects?
  3. Categorize photos according to their subjects to make them more discoverable/useful.
  4. Perform digital restorations.
  5. Nominate any qualifying photos for featured status.

On Wikipedia

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  1. Add Ansel Adams photography from commons:Category:2011 Ansel Adams donation from U.S. National Archives to articles where appropriate. These are often good lead images, or else good in "History" sections. They can illustrate not only articles related to their subjects, but also general articles on the pictured geological and environmental phenomena, regions, plant species, peoples, architecture, and so on.
  2. Nominate any qualifying photos for featured status.
  3. Create or expand closely related articles, especially by utilizing WP:DYK or achieving upgrades in quality assessments. The following is a quick list (expand or prune as desired) of possible targets for creation or expansion:

When you have added the images to one of the articles, or expanded one of the associated articles, please note completion of the work next to the article name.

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