[Commons-l] Photo Information

[Richard Palmer]

Hi, 

 I posted a message about this to the Village Pump but got no replies,
so either I'm making no sense or everybody agrees with me (perhaps
not!).

My proposal was to prompt for specific information on the file upload
form for photos, such as Location, Country, Date and some technical
information. All of this information could then be embedded into the
file page, and displayed with the photo. I think this would help in
categorising the photos, gives some information to users in all
languages, and at some future point could allow for searching by
country/date/photographer etc. Given the amount of meta-data digital
cameras now save automatically with each photograph it seems daft not
to use it.

I did a quick mock-up of what I mean at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wombat/Upload
although the forms are not interpreted.

please respond!,

Richard.