Seems like a good idea to me. I'm not sure the shutter speed / camera model are really relevant, but location/country/date absolutely are (imho).
Fruggo
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:48:51 +1100, Richard Palmer richard.palmer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I posted a message about this to the Village Pump but got no replies, so either I'm making no sense or everybody agrees with me (perhaps not!).
My proposal was to prompt for specific information on the file upload form for photos, such as Location, Country, Date and some technical information. All of this information could then be embedded into the file page, and displayed with the photo. I think this would help in categorising the photos, gives some information to users in all languages, and at some future point could allow for searching by country/date/photographer etc. Given the amount of meta-data digital cameras now save automatically with each photograph it seems daft not to use it.
I did a quick mock-up of what I mean at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wombat/Upload although the forms are not interpreted.
please respond!,
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