You know, it's been in my mind for some time that sports reporters could be a good source of photos. Since they get access to sports personalities, we could make personal appeals to them to take pictures (with their own cameras) when they do interviews for Wikipedia purposes. Maybe we can organize an email WikiProject for Wikipedians and Commoners to solicit reporters at their local/regional newspapers?
Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote :
I would also like to thank Jkelly's excellent customer service in dealing with this gentleman fairly and politely when he had second thoughts initially about contributing (working with him to delete the unintended contribution until Greg could take the time to fully and fairly explain to him what he was being asked to agree to) and Cary Bass (Bastique) for some behind-the-scenes OTRS work to make sure everyone was on the same page.
Good work, everyone!
Kelly
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Howard Cheng wrote:
You know, it's been in my mind for some time that sports reporters could be a good source of photos. Since they get access to sports personalities, we could make personal appeals to them to take pictures (with their own cameras) when they do interviews for Wikipedia purposes. Maybe we can organize an email WikiProject for Wikipedians and Commoners to solicit reporters at their local/regional newspapers?
That would be a good idea - and not just the reporters, but the photographers, whose shoeboxes have thousands of photos that never made the cut for the front page, but which we would be ecstatic to have. There are *far* more photographs in the world than are published online; even after uploading to WP for some time, I'm still remembering "oh yeah, I actually have photos of that I took years ago" - and I'm not even a big photography-type.
As visible as WP is, most people still don't know we want image donations. Get the word out! I just pitched it today to a retired professor working on a book, who found some of my plant images through a Google search and was asking about them. Will he upload his own photos? Dunno, but the concept is passed on to one more person.
Stan