Thanks Nemo,
Why not? Because I didn't know it existed, thanks for telling me about it.
Back to my original question, now updated,
I've just been introduced to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby which lists articles near your current location and https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ which can show you articles near places your are planning to visit. From the thumbnails it is fairly obvious whether it has an image or not.
Has anyone tried using these in outreach to photographers?
Regards
WereSpielChequers
Message: 2 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:10:42 +0100 From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" nemowiki@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Finding articles without photographs near your current location. Message-ID: 56C2F5A2.9010900@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
WereSpielChequers, 16/02/2016 10:26:
I've just been introduced to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby which lists articles near your current location and from the thumbnail it is fairly obvious whether it has an image or not.
Why not use https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ ? Nemo
Hoi, the two are not the same. Wikipedia will only show what Wikipedia knows. Wikidata is more extended.
Bots have imported the majority if not all GPS locations.. certainly from en.wp. Thanks, GerardM
On 16 February 2016 at 15:16, Jonathan Cardy werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Nemo,
Why not? Because I didn't know it existed, thanks for telling me about it.
Back to my original question, now updated,
I've just been introduced to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby which lists articles near your current location and https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ which can show you articles near places your are planning to visit. From the thumbnails it is fairly obvious whether it has an image or not.
Has anyone tried using these in outreach to photographers?
Regards
WereSpielChequers
Message: 2 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:10:42 +0100 From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" nemowiki@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Finding articles without photographs near your current location. Message-ID: 56C2F5A2.9010900@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
WereSpielChequers, 16/02/2016 10:26:
I've just been introduced to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby which lists articles near your current location and from the thumbnail it is fairly obvious whether it has an image or not.
Why not use https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ ? Nemo
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Jonathan Cardy, 16/02/2016 15:16:
Has anyone tried using these in outreach to photographers?
The professional photographers that WMIT is in contact with have little interest for such activities, presumably because they don't see a benefit for their career.
As for the Wikimedia Commons photographers, wiki[pm]edians usually respond well to such calls to action, although I don't usually see floods of photos coming. On the Italian Wikipedia, maps like https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiki-needs-pictures/ recently raised some attention from the community.
Nemo