At Wikinews we use Flickr fairly often, copying properly-licensed
photos to the Commons. Several times now I've even approached authors
of images there and asked them to relicense some good-looking photo to
cc-by or cc-by-sa.
Flickr used to have a web-based search for creative-commons-licensed
images. That search is now for some reason disabled, but I've written
an app for Windows that uses their API and lets you do a (rudimentary)
search for Flickr images matching a particular license (Attribution
and Attribution-ShareAlike obviously are the only ones that work for
the Commons). The tool's homepage is
http://tiredbrain.com/wikinews/flickr/ if anyone else is interested.
-ilya
From: Sj <2.718281828(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] FlickR
Hey, excellent. Sadly, flickr doesn't want you to be able to
transclude high-res images from their server... so there's still a
reason to duplicate images there and on commons.
SJ
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:39:46 +0100, Kurt Jansson <jansson(a)gmx.net> wrote:
> Andrew Lih schrieb:
> > There is also a Wikipedia gallery in Flickr:
> >
http://www.flickr.com/groups/48889047191@N01/pool/
>
> It says "no permission" if you are not member of the group. So after
creating an
> account, use the following link to join:
>
http://www.flickr.com/groups/48889047191@N01/
>
> There is also a Wikipedia-tag:
>
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/wikipedia
>
> Kurt