The https://www.britishmuseum.org domain is where the recently updated collection of CC-licensed images are available for public reuse, refer to https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/british-museum-makes-19-million-images-free-download-180974799
Though these are by default cc-by-nc, many are simple scans and public domain by age. Refining the collection query by age and object type can return only public domain images with a high degree of accuracy.
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| wgCopyUploadDomains: Add *.britishmuseum.org | operations/mediawiki-config | master | +1 -0 |
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| Resolved | None | T60224 Add domains to $wgCopyUploadsDomains (tracking) | ||
| Resolved | Kizule | T251882 Whitelist for upload by url https://www.britishmuseum.org/api/ | ||
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@Fae: Hi, for future reference please follow https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_tools/wgCopyUploadsDomains and use the provided link. Thanks
To clarify the domain, as well as www.britishmuseum.org, media may be coming from media.britishmuseum.org, so it's probably more useful to whitelist:
*.britishmuseum.org
Change 595614 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zoranzoki21; owner: Zoranzoki21):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] wgCopyUploadDomains: Add *.britishmuseum.org
Change 595614 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] wgCopyUploadDomains: Add *.britishmuseum.org
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2020-05-11T19:02:37Z] <catrope@deploy1001> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Add *.bollywoodhungama.in and *.britishmuseum.org to $wgCopyUploadDomains (T235414, T251882) (duration: 00m 57s)