Here's an example of what we could be showing the professional photographer
community about how they can do well by doing good.
The WP article is getting 30,000 page views per month:
http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Sound%20card
Plus another 12,000 views at two other articles:
http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Sound_Blaster
http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Sound_Blaster_Live!
Which yielded nearly 2000 direct page views for the image at en:wiki:
http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/File%3ASblive!.jpg
And more views from other languages; the image is used in 35 pages on 25
projects:
http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CheckUsage.php?i=Sblive!.jpg&w=…
And the fact is it's an older model of sound card nearly 10 years out of
date. Yet it's being used as the lead image at the high level "Sound card"
article. Obviously Wikipedia would be more informative with a newer
professionally shot sound card photograph at lead position.
-Durova
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Durova <nadezhda.durova(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, I think that's what Videmus Omnia was doing.
He used to have a
subpage in userspace to explain it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Michele_…
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Videmus_Omnia/Free_Images&am…
-Durova
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Magnus Manske <
magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
I could try to automatically generate some lists
with people missing
pictures (actors, politicians etc). People with "bad" images could be
listed manually.
Don't know how to best get agent emails. Maybe use press contact
addresses?
Someone with a wikimedia email could then mail out standard "suggestions".
Magnus
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Durova<nadezhda.durova(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, that's how we got the featured picture
of Michele Merkin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michele_Merkin_1.jpg
Would you like to follow up on that idea?
-Durova
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote:
Has there ever been a concerted effort to contact
some celebrity
agents and suggest picture submissions?
Like:
Your client XYZ has an article on Wikipedia [accessed N times in the
last month, if that data is available], but no/bad photo. We'd be
happy to display a picture of your choice if you can release one under
a free license, e.g., cc-by-sa.
I'm sure many agents would at least try to pry a decent picture from
the hands of a photographer for this.
Magnus
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