[Foundation-l] [Slashdot] Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad

[Nikola Smolenski]

Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
> it to Commons, or make it insufficiently; 2) why they do not make it ot
> the articles. I tried to make the point in the recent thread on the
> purpose of Commons, but somehow it did not draw enough attention.
> Realistically, if somebody uploaded a good picture (not necessarily of a
> person, it could also be a landscape, a PD piece of art or smth else), and
> if this somebody is an active editor of only one Wikipedia, this picture
> has very little chance to make it to other Wikipedia articles, except may
> be for the ones which are created after the file has been uploaded.

There are tools such as http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php that 
address this, perhaps they could be more advertised.