Gregory Maxwell wrote:
We have people that work on submitting photos of cars? Where? I didn't even think we were doing so well as to have dedicated subject area photographers, with only a few exceptions.
There's been a whole slew on commons recently, I'm sure some haven't made it to en: articles yet. It's still pretty easy to go through a random commons gallery or category and find dozens of en: articles not using the pictures already there.
An unfriendly culture? Hadn't noticed that myself.
There can be no doubt after you've submitted a free photo only to have it replaced with an unfree photo that someone likes better... and being left to battle it out. :)
I don't recall that ever happening to me - it would be infuriating. "Oops sorry, just a coincidence that I permablocked you and reverted all your edits right after you replaced my image..." :-)
I don't disagree about the resource challenges... But the fact remains that there are many thousands of people submitting photos to flikr or contest sites like dpchallenge (http://www.dpchallenge.com/challenge_archive.php). Obviously there are folks out there who *are* taking pictures, we need to pull them into the fold and get them taking pictures we need licensed in a way that we can use. :)
Good point! Have we ever actually asked? Perhaps we could start by making a public statement - it's only very recently that Google has even indexed any of our images, so I imagine that few people even know we have a free image repository, let alone that they can contribute to it.
Stan