On 9/26/07, David Gerard dgerard@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