This the Wikimedia project page for the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies (the DWC), a national Centre of Research Excellence based at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

• Mike Dickison (User:Giantflightlessbirds) was employed part-time by the Dodd-Walls centre (from June to November 2020) as a Wikipedia consultant to help improve articles and facilitate transfer of photographs into Commons.
• Loo Connor (User:L00connor) was employed by the Dodd-Walls Centre as a science communicator and assisted Mike with writing, research, locating images, and sourcing media coverage.

Images in the Centre's collections can fall under a range of copyright restrictions. If an image is to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons it should be licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0) or be Public Domain/Out of Copyright in the USA (this is where Commons is hosted). If the image does not meet these requirements it should not be uploaded to Commons. According to NZ law, the copyright for photographs taken by employees "in the course of their employment" belong to the Dodd-Walls Centre, as does the copyright for photographs DWC commissions (unless the photographer explicity retains copyright in their contract). It's still important to credit the photographer as well as the DWC when the photo is used, using the Credit Line field in the Commons template if there is one.

To Do

• Create a Flickr account for the insitution for uploading licenced photos
  Flickr account created: Dodd-Walls Centre and photos sorted into categories. Many are video stills but with some adjustment of their saturation, levels, and sharpness work OK as photos for Wikipedia articles.
• Creating appropriate categories in Commons for the DWC and each person depicted. Category:Dodd-Walls Centre
• Add a Depicts statement to each photo referring to their Wikidata item
• Create a Dodd-Walls institutional template
  Creator:Dodd-Walls_Centre
• Add an image to each person's Wikipedia article and Wikidata item
• Source photos of scientists and images of research
• Clarify/ obtain copyright for all images
• Create image spreadsheet for DWC members
• Create bibliography spreadsheet of media coverage
• Source and collate media coverage for Wikipedia articles
• Add media coverage info as references and info to articles
• Make sure there's a Wikidata item for every researcher
• Run Author Disambiguator on each Wikidata person to link to their publications

• Dodd-Walls Centre on 3 June by User:Giantflightlessbirds
  Now with image gallery
• Mikkel Andersen (physicist)
• Miro Erkintalo
• Harald Schwefel
• Jevon Longdell

• Some Dodd-Walls Centre researchers
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  David Hutchinson, Director
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  Harald Schwefel
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  Cather Simpson
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  Howard Carmichael
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  Miro Erkintalo
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  Mikkel Andersen

• Quantum optics: feedback received from two DWC researchers
• David Hutchinson (physicist) Some improvements made 11 Jun
• Cather Simpson
• Howard Carmichael
• Dodd-Walls Centre: logo, more on research
• Miro Erkintalo: more photos needed from Royal Society of PM's Science Prize

• Dodd-Walls Centre website