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

[Durova]

Here's an example of what we could be showing the professional photographer
community about how they can do well by doing good.

The WP article is getting 30,000 page views per month:
http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Sound%20card

Plus another 12,000 views at two other articles:
http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Sound_Blaster
http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Sound_Blaster_Live!

Which yielded nearly 2000 direct page views for the image at en:wiki:
http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/File%3ASblive!.jpg

And more views from other languages; the image is used in 35 pages on 25
projects:
http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CheckUsage.php?i=Sblive!.jpg&w=_100000#end

And the fact is it's an older model of sound card nearly 10 years out of
date.  Yet it's being used as the lead image at the high level "Sound card"
article.  Obviously Wikipedia would be more informative with a newer
professionally shot sound card photograph at lead position.

-Durova

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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