To "seed" this, I suggest importing all images and their description from en.wikipedia which link to either [[public domain]] or [[GFDL]]. This should take only a SQL dump and a brief script. It would be pure horror to re-upload all of these manually!
Magnus
Andre Engels wrote:
It has been discussed before, I think I want to go beyond discussion, and get this thing rolling. I would like to start setting up a database of public domain and copyleft images, using the Wikipedia technology.
Goal: Provide a source for public domain and copyleft images, in the first place intended for Wikipedia, but of course also for use by any other projects (in particular copyleft projects), whether connected to Wikipedia or not.
For this, I would like to get Wikimedia set up at some url like image.wikipedia.org for the time being; standard setup should be changed in that the image-namespace would be in the standard search options. Once this is done, it can be announced at Wikipedia etcetera, and I hope I will get some others who would like to help getting this to work.
Andre Engels
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