[WikiEN-l] Asking for free images on living bios

[Magnus Manske]

On 9/26/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working at home this week, which means I get the small child on my
> arm. This leaves the other arm free to use AutoWikiBrowser! So I've
> been going through [[Category:Living people]] and adding
> [[Image:Replace this image male.svg|right]] or [[Image:Replace this
> image female.svg|right]] to every article that doesn't have an image
> or at least the word "image" in it.
>
> Anyone else want to help? Our living bios are overwhelmingly male, so
> I glance over the text in the edit box and (as needed) paste
> [[Image:Replace this image male.svg|right]] in, and add "fe" if the
> subject is female.
>
> That thing is durned ugly, but already has people finding suitable
> images on Commons or other Wikipedias, and based on past experience
> will net us more than a few free content photos we didn't have before.
>
> I might replace the current SVGs with some of the less ugly ones
> mooted in the Village Pump thread as well ...

Try
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/missing_images.php
with "Living people" as category, and check "Skip articles that have
an image". Will take a while, but it's rather comprehensive :-)

Cheers,
Magnus