Brianna Laugher wrote:
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.
I go back and forth on that - if we can't even agree on categories vs galleries vs something else, maybe it's just as well that it's not too visible! :-)
anyone else find their photographs in a home beyond commons?
Yup, I've been asked for permission (apparently people don't quite believe the GFDL) for use in various books, although I haven't actually *seen* any of these books yet... My favorite usage is by the WWF, where they used my caribou-and-pipeline photo (snapped out the window of a moving bus!) to illustrate a news article about pipeline leakage, http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/arctic/news/i... .
Stan