There's always http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:QI 5,900+ Self made ie Commons Users only photographs not NASA,Congress or Flickr photos etc
2009/7/20 Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]> > Check out this article: > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/arts/20funny.html?_r=1 > > In it that author complaints about the low quality photographs of well > known personalities in popular culture on English Wikipedia. > > This short coming is attributed in part to > : > "Recent photographs on Wikipedia almost exclusively are the work of > amateurs who don’t mind giving away their work. Amateur may be too > kind a word; their photos tend to be the work of fans who happen to > have a camera." > > But the author is apparently missing the detail that the problem he's > complaining about is largely limited to people, where there tend to be > special access challenges and where their exists a very high quality > bar because of the ubiquity of staged publicity shots. > > Wikimedia has an enormous collection of contributor created > photographs of exceptional quality— but they tend to be in the areas > of architecture, landscapes, man made objects, plants, etc. Not so > much famous people. > > I'd love to be able to give the author some counter examples, but all > of commons collections of featured grade images are intermixed with > the best freely licensed images we could find elsewhere. > > In the past I'd hoped that providing many accolades to > non-contributors would encourage them to come contribute directly, but > I'm not aware of any cases of this happening. Anyone have any > examples? > > > Can the next POTY contest please only consider images created by > Wikimedians? The bar for qualifying could be pretty minimal, "All > relevant copyright holders for the image have commons accounts", or > the like ... would still serve the purpose of highlighting commons' > value as a source for unique works and not just as a partial mirror of > flickr and US government websites. > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > -- GN. http://gnangarra.redbubble.com/
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