Fastfission wrote:
But even without a centralized credit facility we could make it easy
for photographers to quickly set up Flickr-like user pages for
themselves where they would have their contact information, a link to
their web page, and a list of all free photos they've uploaded to
Wikipedia and what articles they are used in. If we set up easy-to-use
templates for this it might make it look even more attractive. We
could remind them how high a pagerank Wikipedia has, and that their
photograph would be used in an article which showed up on the first
Google search page in most cases.
This fits perfectly into commons' architecture, and indeed several
professionals already have their own dedicated galleries and/or
categories there.
What would be a good attention-getting conduit? Used to be, you
could get the attention of lots of nerds by just spa^H^H^Hposting
to Usenet. What do photographers look at?
I wonder if a classified-type ad in a print magazine would be noticed...
Stan