On 12/11/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Elvis.
The template says "Help! We need a freely
licensed image!"
Clicking takes you to a page with some simple instructions...
1. You must have taken the photo YOURSELF, no uploads of anything else.
2. You agree to release the photo under GFDL and/or CC BY-SA at a minimum.
3. You must have taken the photo YOURSELF. (Yes, we said that already,
but we want you to know how important it is.)
People currently submit images selecting options that are listed as
invalid. I doubt people would follow these instructions either.
I suspect if we did this for tons of famous people,
the photos would
come pouring in... preserving a bit of history that is currently rotting
in people's photo albums... and making Wikipedia not just a place where
people can rehash tired publicity photos under fair use arguments, but a
place where new culture is formed and born and distributed.
3 problems:
First getting outsiders involved in wikipedia is always tricky.
Perhaps this can be delt with through some form of marketing.
Secondly we would be looking towards some of the smaller subsets of
internet users. For a lot of the internet users elvis has been dead
longer than they have been alive. This could to a degree be delt with
by going looking for material rather than expecting it to come to us
Thirdly a lot of people don't have scanners.
--
geni