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

[Durova]

Yes, I think that's what Videmus Omnia was doing.  He used to have a subpage
in userspace to explain it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Michele_Merkin_1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Videmus_Omnia/Free_Images&action=edit&redlink=1

-Durova

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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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