Hello all,
http://www.openstockphotography.org/ Anyone seen this? This site seems to do NOTHING but mirror Wikimedia Commons! (plus add fancy gadgets and drop the technical-license speak)
I found it by accident during a vanity search when it claimed these two photos were mine: http://www.openstockphotography.org/user/Pfctdayelise (apparently pictures on your userpage must be BY you...)
anyway click on the coloured graph and try out the 'find similar-coloured pictures' - now that's pretty cool!
the 'popular searches' are quite amusing, because 99% of them must have 0 results.
their search also seems quite shit in general. really weird stuff.
mostly I take this as a sign that Commons is suffering because of the limitations of the current MW implementation, which has no fancy gadgets for images and no easy handling of them. Goddamit, it is frustrating to have all this fantastic content and feel that no one knows about it because it's too hard to access. GRRRRRRRRR. This site should not be able to exist because WE should be able to do the fancy stuff. some of it at least.
as it happens, I found some other photos actually by me being used in various guises: http://www.tibetan-museum-society.org/java/www.php?sub=Architecture&i=6&... attribution: yes link: no mention of license: no restrictive site terms of use: yes
http://www.martialdevelopment.com/blog/3-ways-to-make-tai-chi-form-practice-... attribution: no? (mouseover text??) link: no mention of license: no restrictive site terms of use: yes (well a giant (C))
http://www.weltum.de/weltum/galerien/galerie.php?gall_id=155&gallbild_id... attribution: yes link: no mention of license: YES! linked, even we have a winner.
http://www.tobias-daniel.de/uebersee.html (China) attribution: yes link: yes (to de.wp image page, close enough) mention of license: yes, and linked
http://www.kefk.org/portal/webtravel/china/fenster.yuyuan-gaerten.shanghai (maybe a german speaker can tell me something about this site?) attribution: yes link: yes mention of license: yes
wikipedia content appears in a crazy number of places.
anyone else find their photographs in a home beyond commons?
regards, Brianna user:pfctdayelise