[WikiEN-l] NYT: Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts, but It’s a Desert for Photos

[Magnus Manske]

I could try to automatically generate some lists with people missing
pictures (actors, politicians etc). People with "bad" images could be
listed manually.

Don't know how to best get agent emails. Maybe use press contact addresses?

Someone with a wikimedia email could then mail out standard "suggestions".

Magnus



On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Durova<nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, that's how we got the featured picture of Michele Merkin.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michele_Merkin_1.jpg
>
> Would you like to follow up on that idea?
>
> -Durova
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Magnus Manske
> <magnusmanske at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Has there ever been a concerted effort to contact some celebrity
>> agents and suggest picture submissions?
>>
>> Like:
>> Your client XYZ has an article on Wikipedia [accessed N times in the
>> last month, if that data is available], but no/bad photo. We'd be
>> happy to display a picture of your choice if you can release one under
>> a free license, e.g., cc-by-sa.
>>
>> I'm sure many agents would at least try to pry a decent picture from
>> the hands of a photographer for this.
>>
>> Magnus
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