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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=077352513-27022004>I like this idea,
but it doesnt exist yet elsewhere ? It's true that a wiki system would be
nice.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=077352513-27022004>But if a picture has
nothing to do, how will you choose to keep or delete it ? Will we use the same
system as wikipedia for pages deletion ?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=077352513-27022004>Shaihulud</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Message d'origine-----<BR><B>De :</B> engelsAG@t-online.de
[mailto:engelsAG@t-online.de]<BR><B>Envoyé :</B> vendredi 27 février 2004
13:47<BR><B>À :</B> wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org<BR><B>Objet :</B>
[Wikipedia-l] Wiki-images?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2>On [[en:</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Wikipedia:Public
domain image resources]], there is a nice list of sources, but it is
not</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>easily searchable. It is not
clear which if any of these sources could provide me with an image
of</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>(fill in something). Because
of this, we will find people either search long for images, not do it
at</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>all, or fail to find them.
It's made even worse by sources such as
http://www.radiobras.gov.br/</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>that someone added recently - the site has some very useful content,
but searching the site is a</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>nightmare.</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I would
propose to start a place where we can keep descriptions of images and image
searches,</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>a search on which
could then be used to get free or copyleft images for a certain subject. A
nice</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>start in this direction is
made by the GIMP image archive, but:</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>* It only contains a few sources, and does not have the possibility to
add others</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>* The original image
descriptions are not included or linked to, so people when giving
descriptions</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> cannot
use these, which means that for example portraits are worth much less because
one does</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> not know
who is being portrayed.</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Could it be made a wikiproject to make such information available? My
idea would be a wiki</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>(we're
wikipedia aren't we?) where one could either upload the photographs and add
its</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>description and copyright
status, or use a 'normal page' to link to the place where the
image</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>are, and again add a
description. Adding keywords would also be a good idea. If a number
of</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>people would work on this for
some time, we would thus get a nice, searchable collection of</FONT><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>public domain and copyleft
images.</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Andre
Engels</FONT><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>