On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am regularly pinged by a Google guy who is desperate to get Commons data into Google Image Search in a more systematic way. If any of you think this project is interesting I can totally get you off the ground. It will not be hard.
(I only hacked a few lines of MediaWiki, so I don't think I am the right person...)
What exactly needs to be done?? Can't Google just parse the licensing section to decide if the image is under CC or not??
If Google can find more of my 400+ images, then they can be used by others more often... that would certainly make me work harder to take more photos & upload more to Commons!
Rayson
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On 10/13/11 12:24 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Magnus Manske, 13/10/2011 14:18:
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/how-to-find-free-pictures-for-your-blog/
So basically, it lists 3 search engines and two obscure websites whose images you have to pay (one of them with only 400k images)? Perhaps it's only an advertisement for those websites.
Guess which site with lots of free images is not mentioned...?
We /seriously/ need to do more PR (viral or otherwise) for Commons!
Sure. But it would be enough if people used Google with a license filter. Problem is, many seem to prefer all rights reserved images (including this blog post), or they don't care.
Nemo
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