Yes I agree with what Stas says, which is why I posted my invitation. Also,
we have many more items without images on Wikidata than Wikipedia articles
with images, so we also need illustrations for things that don't have a
page on Wikipedia yet such as everyday items (cookie types), minor
paintings, minor monuments, or minor politicians, etc. As far as fair-use
images go you can't link to them with the P18 (image) property because that
only points to Commons. I have in the past linked to a Matisse painting on
the English Wikipedia with P973 (described at url) link. For people who are
interested in linking WLM or other monument images, they may want to start
with the handy nearby feature in Wikidata (left side of the screen).
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi!
For example, this
article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Frost_House has a nice
public domain photo that someone contributed back in 2010, but it's not
referenced from Wikidata
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7964895
Why couldn't these all be referenced automatically?
Many articles contain multiple images, which may or may not be the one
we want to see as "main image" for the item. E.g. this article:
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Schellino has a number
of images, but none of them are suitable to be "image" for
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3766751. So some human involvement is
necessary.
And, of course, there are copyright questions. Wikidata technically does
not contain the images, only links to them, so it may or may not be
important, but those links should be to Commons, and not every image in
Wikipedia articles are from commons, some are local on wikis and can not
be imported to Commons for various reasons.
--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org
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