Daniel Mayer wrote:
On Friday 21 March 2003 10:51 am Axel wrote:
That is a noble project, and if you stick to public domain or GFDL pictures, it will be much nobler still. Please familiarize yourself with the wealth of image resources listed under
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources
I think Jimbo's suggestion of a free photo resource site is great. It could work pretty much like the GIMP photo archive
http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
with a wiki-edited set of keywords for each photo, except it should allow uploading of course, and needs to keep track of the license (or lack thereof) and origin of each photo. Initially, we could seed the database with all the photos from the public domain sources. Could be a bit resource hungry though.
Axel
This is a most excellent idea. In addition to being a home to the Foundation, Wikimedia.org could also be the central repository of all types of resource media files (images, sounds, videos, GIS-based maps, maybe even indexed read-only source text documents ...) that could be used by all Wikipedia languages, Wiktionary, "WikiTextbooks", "WikiFiction" and whatever else we think-up. This project could be covered by the GNU-FDL by default, but IMO the GNU-FDL is poorly suited for media files...
I think images, sounds and videos will do just fine. :-)
I especially like the words "central repository". As far as I'm concerned, we'll have a wikipedia-wide user management sooner or later. I'd imagine a "central" site for managing data that is used by all the different wikipedias (including wiktionary, meta, and so on). It could be * The central user management. * A place to manage language links * A place to manage the different translations of the user interface * The central media storage, where we'd store the *images*, with a description, that can be linked from every wikipedia (which can in turn have a description in its own language). This would greatly reduce the need for uploading every image in every language. * Maybe the seat of the "Wikipedia foundation" as well.
Magnus