[Foundation-l] Message to community about community decline

[Fred Bauder]

>
>> * Except media (i.e. Wikimedia Commons), we lack of any systemic work
>> on improving content. (I don't count particular initiatives, like
>> cooperation between Wikipedia in X language and University in X
>> country.)
>
> Actually, I believe we lack of any systemic work on improving content on
> Commons as well. For instance, I travel a lot and I have (and I could
> have
> done) pictures of obscure places (including some in Serbia) which are
> completely underrepresented on Commons. I have never been approached by
> anyone, nor suggested to report on some pages, in order to make some
> pictures of some specific environments I would likely visit soon. I
> suggested it myself a couple of times and the general reaction was that I
> should not bother.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav

Well, I'm no better than you, I nearly always forget my camera, but if
you have time images nearly any village or major feature of the landscape
is always welcome, even such places as Hooper... or things such as bear
turds.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Category:Hooper,_Colorado

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:BearApplePoop.JPG

Fred