Idea: 1. We design a wiki page like a call for artists for selected topics that we notice need quality images. 2. People who have connections to professional photographers (like me..I'm a consultant and I one of my services is strategic plans for private sector artists and studios, including half of the photographers in the DC area!) can promote it to those individuals. 3. We work with photographers to create quality photographs in which they donate in kind to Wikimedia (is there the opportunity for photographers to get a tax-write off for in-kind donation? Have it given to the Wikimedia Foundation, and then as a volunteer we upload them to Commons) 4. We get a bunch of high quality photos, whether pregnant women, people kissing, a man wearing shorts, or whatever.
This could be a "different" form of Wiki Takes. Wiki Takes Representational Equality ;-) I think it'd be easily promotable to those of us who have artist friends. If the project can be developed and form into something successful, I think we can get some positive press out of this too. -Sarah On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Pete Forsyth <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:22 PM, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I would like to throw this back in a positive direction. The task of >> deleting poor quality photographs (and metadata/provenance/paperwork >> is part of quality) is made much easier if we have good quality >> photographs of the same topic. Nobody cares about deletions of bad >> photographs when those photographs are no longer used. They do care >> when it is the only photo of its kind, because it is a precious >> resource. >> > > An excellent point, John. > > I wonder if there are organizations that (1) are concerned about gender > issues on Wikipedia, and (2) have the ability to generate a substantial > collection of high quality images to illustrate this sort of thing to the > commons. If so, there might be a great partnership/project opportunity > there. > > -Pete > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for the Wikimedia Foundation<http://www.glamwiki.org> Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch> and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural & artistic research & advising.* ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.sarahstierch.com/
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