[Commons-l] Meet our photographers page?

[Magnus Manske]

On 6/10/07, Artur Fijałkowski <wiki.warx at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/6/10, Robin Schwab <contact at robinschwab.ch>:
> > Well that's to sell high res pics. For Wikipedia articles 300x450px do
> > just fine.
>
> No! As far as we want to be repository of images size is very
> important! People want to use Commons as source of images for many
> different applications and in most of them high resolution is better
> then low (or even low is unusable).
>
>         Welcome to the Wikimedia Commons
>         a database of 1,544,303 freely reusable media files
>         to which anyone can contribute
>
> As long as we do not want to change it to:
>
>         Welcome to the Wikipedia Commons
>         a database of 1,544,303 freely reusable media files
>         which are usable only on screen display


But it's not
         Welcome to the Wikimedia Commons
         a database of 1,544,303 freely reusable media files
         which have to be hi-res (>4Megapixel)
either

> we SHOULD demand high-res images.

We should WANT hi-res images. We should PREFER hi-res images.

DEMANDING them in a volunteer project is, well... problematic. Let's
settle for taking web-grade stuff as well, if that's what's offered.

Magnus

Magnus