[WikiEN-l] Re: Free photos (was: A Friendly Challenge to Sheldon Rampton)

[Daniel Mayer]

On Friday 21 March 2003 10:51 am, wikien-l-request at wikipedia.org wrote:
> That is a noble project, and if you stick to public domain or GFDL
> pictures, it will be much nobler still. Please familiarize yourself
> with the wealth of image resources listed under
>      
>    http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources
>
> I think Jimbo's suggestion of a free photo resource site is great. It
> could work pretty much like the GIMP photo archive
>
>    http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
>
> with a wiki-edited set of keywords for each photo, except it should
> allow uploading of course, and needs to keep track of the license (or
> lack thereof) and origin of each photo. Initially, we could seed the
> database with all the photos from the public domain sources. Could be a
> bit resource hungry though.
>
> Axel

Great idea but this is something of Wikipedia-wide importance, no?

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Yours in WikiLove, mav

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