Yes I agree with what Stas says, which is why I posted my invitation. Also, we have many more items without images on Wikidata than Wikipedia articles with images, so we also need illustrations for things that don't have a page on Wikipedia yet such as everyday items (cookie types), minor paintings, minor monuments, or minor politicians, etc. As far as fair-use images go you can't link to them with the P18 (image) property because that only points to Commons. I have in the past linked to a Matisse painting on the English Wikipedia with P973 (described at url) link. For people who are interested in linking WLM or other monument images, they may want to start with the handy nearby feature in Wikidata (left side of the screen).
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi!
For example, this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Frost_House has a nice public domain photo that someone contributed back in 2010, but it's not referenced from Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7964895
Why couldn't these all be referenced automatically?
Many articles contain multiple images, which may or may not be the one we want to see as "main image" for the item. E.g. this article: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Schellino has a number of images, but none of them are suitable to be "image" for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3766751. So some human involvement is necessary.
And, of course, there are copyright questions. Wikidata technically does not contain the images, only links to them, so it may or may not be important, but those links should be to Commons, and not every image in Wikipedia articles are from commons, some are local on wikis and can not be imported to Commons for various reasons.
-- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org
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