I think there ate two issues here, not one, even though all the replies concentrate on just one issue: 1) why (good quality) pictues do not make it to Commons, or make it insufficiently; 2) why they do not make it ot the articles. I tried to make the point in the recent thread on the purpose of Commons, but somehow it did not draw enough attention. Realistically, if somebody uploaded a good picture (not necessarily of a person, it could also be a landscape, a PD piece of art or smth else), and if this somebody is an active editor of only one Wikipedia, this picture has very little chance to make it to other Wikipedia articles, except may be for the ones which are created after the file has been uploaded.
I believe that this problem is a meta issue and can be solved (i) either by the Commons itself actively promoting newly uploaded files or (ii) by writing a bot updating all Wikipedias on newly uploaded files (for instance, if the article exists and does not contain any illustrations). Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
