[Commons-l] All about Wikimania, future projects, licenses, etc etc

[Platonides]

Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 12/08/07, geni wrote:
> 
>>> A typical image in getty's web collection will have something between
>>> 20 and 40 'keywords' assigned to them. We have an average of 2.9
>>> (including all the license cats).
>> To an extent you could get around that by looking at the wikipedia
>> articles images appear in.
> 
> Useful for the images which *do* appear in articles, but we have a lot
> of surplus.
> 
> Say I go off one day, with my camera, and I take a set of photos of
> something. I upload a dozen from different angles, close-ups and wide
> shots, a nice variety of photos. All are tagged in the same way with
> much the same description. And then I put one in the Wikipedia article
> - it would be silly to include all these others, they'd just be
> repetitive clutter.
> 
> The search should really return them all, not just the one I happened
> to pick as most suitable for an encyclopedia.

Add to the wikipedia article: "Commons has a gallery/category about X"