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