On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011(a)reagle.org>wrote;wrote:
On 05/23/2013 02:58 PM, Jane Darnell wrote:
How strange that people take the trouble to
upload those!
I've been wondering about this myself. Why do people port collections of
images from Flickr CC to Commons in the first place? If someone really
needed a weird nude picture for an article, they could still find it at
Flickr and import it then. (This might be part of my bias that WC is
supposed to support other projects and not be an inclusive repo of all CC
content in the world.) Indeed, I wonder what percentage of WC resources is
not used by an affiliated project?
Joseph, I'm curious to probe your stated bias a little. What do you think
of a project like the Archives of American Art, which has uploaded a
tremendous number of images to Commons, the vast majority of which are not
used in any Wikimedia project? See:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Archives_of_Ame…
Is
that a worthwhile project, or is it putting Commons to a use that you'd
rather not see?
Pete
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