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Monday, October 6, 2008

Wikis Take Manhattan

by Robin Urban Smith on October 6, 2008

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Wikis Take Manhattan is a photo scavenger hunt aimed at gathering photos for over 500 Wikipedia and Streetswiki articles that lack them. On Saturday teams spread all over the city in search of target items to photograph. All of the photos are released under a Creative Commons' Attribution-ShareAlike license, which allows for free and easy reuse. The event was organized by The Open Planning Project, Free Culture @ Columbia, Free Culture @ NYU, NYC Wikimedia Meetup, and Creative Commons.

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Last comment by João Lacerda
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    Michelle

    Hey great video and even greater event! I'd like to attribute the video properly, but I'm confused as to the license it's under. The icon at the end of the video indicates "BY" but the text reads "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 US", aka "BY-NC-ND".

    If it's the latter, why such a restrictive license for such an open project?

    October 8, 2008 at 12:40 pm Link # 1
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    João Lacerda

    Very cool initiative!

    I wanted to see the wining picture, or pictures!

    October 19, 2008 at 10:19 am Link # 2