Um, we’re not looking for pornography for this project :)

But we’d love your ideas for inspiring images, sounds or videos we could share with the world on Valentine’s Day.

We’re starting to get some nice image suggestions on this staging page:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis

(many thanks to Page for some wonderful selections :)

But we still don’t have a lot of sounds or videos.

Can you suggest some that might appeal to a broad audience?

A good starting point might be the ‘Love’ category on Commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Love

Thanks !

Fabrice

On Feb 7, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Ricordisamoa ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org wrote:

Not sure whether it's what you meant, but you can find lots of pornographic images just by clicking "Random file" in the sidebar. And don't even try to get them deleted, Commons admins will never delete them.

Il 07/02/2015 01:19, Fabrice Florin ha scritto:

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Hello everyone,

What is your favorite image or media file about love?

As millions prepare to celebrate Valentine’s Day around the world, we’d like to know how the topic of love is covered on Wikipedia and its sister projects, for a special blog post at the end of next week.

We’re looking for great wiki articles, images, sounds or videos on this topic -- from platonic to fraternal or romantic love.

Please add your suggestions on this email thread -- or on one of these pages:

On Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis

On the Blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/06/wiki-articles-about-love/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/06/wiki-articles-about-love/

Be sure to include a link, with a sentence or two about why you picked it!

We welcome your suggestions until Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 at midnight PST.

We'll post some of your top picks next Friday on the Wikimedia Blog and social media -- just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Thanks for sharing the love :)

Fabrice on behalf of the WMF Comms team

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Dear Jee, Fae and Geni,

Thank you all for your gracious contributions!

I have added most of them to our staging page on Meta:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis

(special thanks to Fae for adding his own)

This community-created love collection is coming along very nicely, thanks to all your diverse contributions.

We invite you to add your +1’s for suggestions you think are the most insightful, for sharing with a wide audience.

And we could still use a few more sounds and videos, if you know of any good ones.

We welcome your suggestions until Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 at midnight PST. On Thursday, we will prepare a post with our top picks — and publish it on the Wikimedia Blog and on social media, next Friday, Feb. 13 -- just in time for Valentine’s day.

Thanks to all of you who are participating in this little experiment. Together, we may find new ways to curate and share information on specific themes, combining the wikis, our blog and social media.

Onward!

Fabrice

On Feb 8, 2015, at 4:57 AM, Jeevan Jose jkadavoor@gmail.com wrote:

My favorite: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheetah_Brothers_AdF.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheetah_Brothers_AdF.jpg

Regards, Jee

On Feb 8, 2015, at 3:07 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:

There are an interesting selection about love in the LGBT categories on Commons. Not surprising as most LGBT campaigning is about "love rights". :-)

Here are a handful that I would like to see used more widely:

1. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fucking_IKEA.jpeg - This photo of two men kissing has an interesting background, as it was created during a protest against Russian censorship of an IKEA catalog that included a lesbian couple. Apparently the Russian authorities feel that even acknowledging lesbians live together might be promoting homosexuality, which is of course, sadly against the law in that country. 2. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wasteland_company.jpg - The photographer (Kargaltsev) is well known for his photographs of gay life and love in New York, this tense shot is one in a series with the same couple. 3. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Um_beijo_gay_no_parque.jpg ~ "A gay kiss in the park" - This is a classic kiss during a gay pride event in Brazil, and is in use in several language Wikipedias to illustrate kissing and homosexuality. 4.File:Kimbo Kissing Carolyn rszd.jpg - Another image used to illustrate homosexuality on different Wikipedias, a lesbian couple in the USA.

Cheers, Fae

On Feb 7, 2015, at 8:09 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:

On 8 February 2015 at 02:36, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org mailto:fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:

But we’d love your ideas for inspiring images, sounds or videos we could share with the world on Valentine’s Day.

Eh there are a few silent films. For a romantic comedy we have

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laborer%27s_Love_(1922).webm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laborer's_Love_(1922).webm

For details see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laborer%27s_Love https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laborer's_Love

Also we have https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operating_on_Cupid_-_Horace_Davey_-_... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operating_on_Cupid_-_Horace_Davey_-_1915,_Universal_Nestor_-_EYE_FLM49565_-_OB_685643.webm

or for those who require some level of volcanos in their love stories

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Last_Days_of_Pompei_(1913).webm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Last_Days_of_Pompei_(1913).webm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Days_of_Pompeii_(1913_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Days_of_Pompeii_(1913_film)

For a more adult option from a respected director we have Cecil B. DeMille's:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Why_Change_Your_Wife_%3F_(1920).webm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Why_Change_Your_Wife_?_(1920).webm

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On 7 February 2015 at 00:19, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org mailto:fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hello everyone,

What is your favorite image or media file about love?

As millions prepare to celebrate Valentine’s Day around the world, we’d like to know how the topic of love is covered on Wikipedia and its sister projects, for a special blog post at the end of next week.

We’re looking for great wiki articles, images, sounds or videos on this topic -- from platonic to fraternal or romantic love.

Please add your suggestions on this email thread -- or on one of these pages:

On Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis

On the Blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/06/wiki-articles-about-love/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/06/wiki-articles-about-love/

Be sure to include a link, with a sentence or two about why you picked it!

We welcome your suggestions until Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 at midnight PST.

We'll post some of your top picks next Friday on the Wikimedia Blog and social media -- just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Thanks for sharing the love :)

Fabrice on behalf of the WMF Comms team

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)

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