On 5/20/05, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
This suggests an interesting contest for wikipedian photographers; who can illustrate the most previously-unillustrated articles, using only new photographs taken on a designated day? The articles should already exist at the time of the contest's announcement - no fair creating road intersection articles for the purpose! :-) Optionally, there should be no existing useful pictures on commons or in any language's article (though that's hard to check).
Lets include replacing fair-use, status unknown, NC, and other various non-free images with images that are substantially similar but free. :)
The problem is that participants would cheat by saving up photos. :) and even if they didn't we'd end up with lots of duplicate photographs of the same easy-subjects. :)
I could go to a mall and get photographs of dozens of makes of cars I bet most cars are covered but lots of easy targets remain. :)
You also run into questions of quality, some snapshot of the thing in question is better than nothing, but it's better if the picture also teaches you something (i.e. not just some random product photo), and even better if it is ascetically pleasing at the same time. :)