[WikiEN-l] There are no pictures in Wikipedia any more

[Armed Blowfish]

The easiest way to find a free image is probably to take
it yourself, and release it under a free licence of your
choice.  Okay, so you might not be able to find
*that thing in particular you are looking for*, but consider
what you do have to take pictures of, and let others worry
about the rest.

Then again, maybe you don't have a camera.  Maybe
banning the people who do have cameras, and use them,
isn't always a good idea.

On 24/09/2007, Nick <heligolandwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Just thinking about it, how long does it take to track down a photo of a
> celebrity on Flickr and ask the photographer for him to relicence one or two
> images under CC-BY or CC-BY-SA licences on Flickr ? I'd imagine, about the
> same amount of time it takes to upload a non free image, write a fair use
> rationale and add all the necessary information. There's no benefit in
> taking a short cut and sticking up a random photo from Google Image search
> when the same amount of time and effort could see a good quality free image
> nobody will annoy you about ever again. Ditto for sending an e-mail to a
> publicist or publishing house.
>
> I've also found lots of free images on other Wikipedias, if something
> doesn't have an image, check the interwiki links and see if the image you
> want is on Commons or is free on another project. That's how we got our
> Pavarotti image.