Erik Moeller schrieb:
On 6/20/06, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Er...you mean for the general public? I support seeking image donations for historical topics or specific holes in our coverage, but I don't know that we need more general amatuer my-dog-in-my-backyard,sunset-over-my-fence,my-street-my-school-my-car whatever photos. It seems to me the vetting system would have to discard 90% of what they were offered, so I rather question if it would be a worthwhile exercise.
Maybe. I think if we clearly define, in big friendly letters and with pretty icons, what we want and what we don't want, we could get a lot of good stuff. People aren't stupid. I suspect that there are quite a few amateur photos of celebrities, for instance. In any case, the campaign would be two-sided: an interface for instantly sharing media, and a contact form for negotiations. If we advertise this broadly, I think we could get contacts from places we don't expect.
I don't have pretty icons yet, but a working form with "this is missing" feedback and a simplified license selection:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/image_donations.php
I've added my default tools header so those of you interested can view the source.
As some of you know, I can use the Eloquence bot to automatically upload images to the commons. I didn't add that capability to the script yet, as it is merely a demonstration.
When you "upload" an image, the script will generate a demo "Information" template, as well as a (yet to be created) "{{check-automatic-upload}}" template that will ease checking for admins.
Comments, please :-)
Magnus