[Commons-l] Getting our content out there (openstockphotography.org)

[Brianna Laugher]

Hello all,

http://www.openstockphotography.org/
Anyone seen this? This site seems to do NOTHING but mirror Wikimedia
Commons! (plus add fancy gadgets and drop the technical-license speak)

I found it by accident during a vanity search when it claimed these
two photos were mine:
http://www.openstockphotography.org/user/Pfctdayelise (apparently
pictures on your userpage  must be BY you...)

anyway click on the coloured graph and try out the 'find
similar-coloured pictures' - now that's pretty cool!

the 'popular searches' are quite amusing, because 99% of them must
have 0 results.

their search also seems quite shit in general.
really weird stuff.

mostly I take this as a sign that Commons is suffering because of the
limitations of the current MW implementation, which has no fancy
gadgets for images and no easy handling of them. Goddamit, it is
frustrating to have all this fantastic content and feel that no one
knows about it because it's too hard to access. GRRRRRRRRR. This site
should not be able to exist because WE should be able to do the fancy
stuff.
some of it at least.

as it happens, I found some other photos actually by me being used in
various guises:
http://www.tibetan-museum-society.org/java/www.php?sub=Architecture&i=6&main=China
attribution: yes
link: no
mention of license: no
restrictive site terms of use: yes

http://www.martialdevelopment.com/blog/3-ways-to-make-tai-chi-form-practice-more-interesting/
attribution: no? (mouseover text??)
link: no
mention of license: no
restrictive site terms of use: yes (well a giant (C))

http://www.weltum.de/weltum/galerien/galerie.php?gall_id=155&gallbild_id=0
attribution: yes
link: no
mention of license: YES! linked, even
we have a winner.

http://www.tobias-daniel.de/uebersee.html (China)
attribution: yes
link: yes (to de.wp image page, close enough)
mention of license: yes, and linked

http://www.kefk.org/portal/webtravel/china/fenster.yuyuan-gaerten.shanghai
(maybe a german speaker can tell me something about this site?)
attribution: yes
link: yes
mention of license: yes

wikipedia content appears in a crazy number of places.

anyone else find their photographs in a home beyond commons?

regards,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise