Talk:Dublin Zoo

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I just sent the following email to Dublin Zoo:

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to you on behalf of the Wikipedia project , a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate open content encyclopedia. You can see the English language version of the project at http://www.wikipedia.org/. As an open content project, all of our material is made available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation Licence http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html (the GFDL), which allows other people and organisations to use, modify, and redistribute the material under the same licence.

A number of participants are working together to improve the quality and quantity of articles on Irish topics. Specifically, I am keen to improve the article on Dublin Zoo (you can see the current, rather short, version of this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Zoo ). I feel that one or more relevant pictures would make a useful addition to the article. I wonder would Dublin Zoo be so kind as to allow us to use a selection of pictures from the Dublin Zoo website? Ideally I would like to use a version of the graphical map of the zoo (like that visible on http://www.dublinzoo.ie/zoomap/index.htm - though not the fully interactive version, of course) and one of the animal pictures. I personally find the elephant image at http://www.dublinzoo.ie/imx/gallery/plains/l/elphant02.jpg very characterful. Of course if you feel that these particular images are too valuable to release under such a free licence, we would still gratefully accept anything you can offer.

Please bear in mind that in order for us to use the images we would require that they be released under the terms of the GFDL. In short, this would mean that copyright would remain yours, but we would have the right to use, modify, and redistribute the images. In addition, any person or organisation that received the images under the licence would be given the same rights, under the condition that any redistribution is covered by the same licence. Consequently, you may wish to consider carefully whether you are prepared to compromise some of your rights granted to you by copyright law by licensing your work as suggested. That said, allow me to reiterate that, given your consent, your material will be used to the noble end of providing a free collection of knowledge for everyone.

If you do consent to licence one or more images in this way, please contact me by email at [email deleted], by telephone at [telephone deleted], by post at:

Rory Parle
[address deleted]

Thank you for your time and consideration.

I look forward to your reply.

Yours faithfully,

Rory Parle

Hopefully we'll have some decent pictures and a map soon (maybe even a new contributer, depending on who reads the email). If they turn us down someone'll have to go there and take some pictures for himself. —Rory ☺ 00:27, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)

Good luck with the pictures. By the way, nice work with the outline, this looks like it could become a really good article. Filiocht 07:55, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. I have a really good sense of what kind of information should be here, and how to sort it into a readable article, but I'm having trouble finding good sources. It's a little frustrating. I know there's all sorts of useful detail about their conservation and study projects, for example — how couldn't there be? — but I can't find it.(forgot to sign this —Rory ☺ 11:16, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC))

Wonder if this in in a library near you? This may also be of interest. Filiocht 11:05, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll work on getting that into the article. I think my main problem is that the local library is much further away than Google. ;) —Rory ☺ 11:16, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)

I know that feeling. By the way, if you have a few moments to spare, could you run a critical ey over my (as yet unfinished) draft rewrite of the Abbey Theatre article here. I suspect it will need a good copyedit, at the very least. Filiocht 11:24, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hey I just got a Dublin zoo logo to put on this page but I cant paste it is it illegal or something ?-Galgeyl2

See that article's talk page. —Rory ☺ 12:43, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Elephant Picture

I've a fairly decent photo of the elephants in Dublin Zoo that I can upload if wanted.

I also have a photo of one of the goats in the petting zoo looking directly at the camera, and some ring-tailed lemurs sitting around.

AndrewH 15:31, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

I have pictures of the new elephants. But they r from the dublin zoo magazine : Zoo Matters. Would it be illegal to put them up cos they're really good. -Galgeyl2

[edit] Taking Picture Requests

Let me know if anyone has any picture requests for Dublin Zoo, I live next door. If there is a particular picture on the Dublin Zoo website, would it be copyright infringement to go to the Zoo, and attempt to take 'exactly' the same picture? If yall could put requests on my talk page, that would be grand. Smitz 20:43, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

No, your pic would not be a copyright infringement, no matter how similar your pic was to theirs - Adrian Pingstone 17:01, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
I can do that to if anyone neends a picture , I like the tiger picture by the way - Galgeyl2
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