[Commons-l] My Photo Was Reused (God or Bad News?)

[Brianna Laugher]

On 07/07/07, Eugene Zelenko <eugene.zelenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I want to shamelessly announce :-) that my photo is used on
> http://www.schmap.com/sanfrancisco/sights_richmond/#mapview=Map&tab=Places&p=21888&topleft=37.85263,-122.53326&bottomright=37.71099,-122.43679&i=21888.jpg.
> But this image was taken from flickr, not Commons.
>
> Indeed, I advertised Commons in "thank you" letter, but this is
> information for critical analysis...
>
> We still have problems with Commons visibility :-(. Google still can't
> find images on Commons.

Actually this problem has been solved. But you have to search
upload.wikimedia.org instead of commons.wikimedia.org (which still
returns very few image results). Searching upload.wikimedia.org will
also return images that have been uploaded to other Wikimedia
projects.

 GeoCommons is not included by default in
> Google Earth.

Actually there was some talk recently on wikitech-l with a chap from
Google I believe, about using our standard template {{coord}} if we
make it a standard. So there might be progress on that front.

But aside from these two small victories I agree, we are still woefully unknown.

That should be our slogan - 'Wikimedia Commons - the web's best-kept secret'.

BTW - nice photo! cool to see it being used :)

cheers
Brianna


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