On 17-07-2002, Stephen Gilbert wrote thusly :
I proposed something like that a few months ago but the idea wasn't taken up by the community. Specificaly I was referring to Antonio Gaudi's works and Wikipedians from Catalonia. This idea should be publicized on Intl-Wikipedia mailing list.
Of course I second that proposal. Grab your digital cameras and set out for your hometown. Wikipedia needs your digital pictures !
Regards, kpj.
That's a great idea. We don't need anything special, just a regular page in the Wikipedia: namespace. If no one has started it yet (and if I can contact the server), I'll set one up.
Maybe wikipedia should have a "request a photo/picture" page, where people can put requests for photos to accompany articles. Especially when dealing with monuments/buildings/objects in museum. Considering that Wikipedians are fairly widely spread around the world, it should be fairly easy to get photographs from a wide range of places. With historical artifacts often the only photographs that are publically available are copyright to the museums (for instance I was trying to find a photo of the ancient board game "Royal Game of Ur" to use in an article, but the only ones I could trace were all copyright to the British Museum who own several of the few boards to have survived).