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The post about Wikimedia UK's GLAM projects appears to take credit that the upload of 100,000 images from Wellcome Images was a Chapter project. As per the Wikimedia blog post I wrote about the project in 2015, this was managed by myself as an "independent Wikimedia Commons volunteer". There was no support given to me by the UK Chapter, had there been I would have taken care to provide Wikimedia UK full credit. Could statements about who did what be kept clear, and preferably stick to the courtesy to credit the right person when appropriate, even when an unpaid volunteer?

Most of my more interesting GLAM related projects are listed at c:User:Fæ/Project_list if you ever need to check. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 16:14, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Did you have any involvement with Wikimedia UK at the time? MPS1992 (talk) 19:32, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No. --Fæ (talk) 20:00, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. Apologies for the slightly loaded question then. I don't think the article directly implies that the 100,000 images were uploaded thanks to Wikimedia UK. Presumably there was some work on the part of Wellcome Trust themselves too. It would be nice if the article (this page) could be updated to mention your involvement. MPS1992 (talk) 18:45, 24 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am happy to clarify that it was Fae who helped with the upload. I was not at Wikimedia UK at the time and was unaware of which person was responsible for doing so. I think the article makes clear that we could not have the impact we do as a charity without our community and we welcome the positive contributions of anybody who wants to participate in helping with our projects. Institutional partnerships take time and energy from a lot of people, and when they are successful we all win together as a community, which is what I was trying to emphasise. Jwslubbock (talk) 16:19, 26 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the slight rewording, however the use of "and now", makes it appear that the nearly 100,000 files uploaded to Commons must be at least in part after the funded residency started and is counted as part of the successful deliverables from that project. However based on checking upload reports via the wiki database, there have been no new uploads to c:Category:Files_from_Wellcome_Images as part of the residency project, in effect uploading came to a halt. Just to reiterate, the uploads were not part of the impact of the charity, neither were they part of any unpaid volunteer "helping with [Wikimedia UK] projects", they were a result of me, as an individual, asking for access to high resolution originals, which the Wellcome Library were kind enough to provide to me on a disk. If there have been significant uploads from the Wellcome's collections as part of the residency project, please do provide a link to where they are. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 10:10, 27 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]