On 6/20/06, Brianna Laugher
<brianna.laugher(a)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:
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