I’ve contributed many of my photos to the Wikimedia Commons, and I’m pleased to see that some of them have spread beyond the Wikimedia world.
But the fact that someone turned something mundane like this:
into something like this:
blows me away. It reminds me why I contribute: to add to the global commons, the global cultural melting pot where others can express themselves, by using and re-using, free from concerns about intellectual property rights.
Original work | Derivative work (search for Enoch Lau about halfway down)
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That’s fantastic — congratulations for inspiring someone else’s art with your own!
Wall
: I actually love you so much, you are amazing thank you sooooo much for these notes
: I actually can not thank you enough for this omg!... I never post of resource websites but this is just too good to use without [...]
: Yeah, I only did it in Year 11.
: did you only do eco in year 11? do you have hsc notes for eco too?
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