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

[Magnus Manske]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:49 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/21 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>:
>> 2009/7/21 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
>
>>> Yes, you are right. So how did we get to OTRS instead of directing
>>> people to the Upload button? I'm confused now. I'm sure there was a
>>> reason for using OTRS instead of telling people to Upload. I think the
>
>> I believe one of the main issues is that a lot of people are more
>> comfortable with emailing in a photograph, and us doing the
>> administrative tasks, than with the whole hassle of creating an
>> account, uploading it, figuring out the commons/wikipedia divide,
>> learning the syntax to put it in an article...
>
>
> Yeah. Some people are happy to contribute things but aren't terribly
> interested in getting involved in the community, etc.
>
> e.g. a friend got a picture of a [[hoopoe]] in the middle of its
> sunbasking behaviour. I asked for the pic for Wikimedia, worked out
> the license and the credit line, uploaded them and added the pic to
> the article:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoopoe#Behaviour
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sbuchner_20090712_hoopoe4.jpg
>
> (There's a suggested credit line for the CC by-sa, though I did point
> out that sites reusing the image would often just print her name and
> technically be in compliance - but asking nicely for the links doesn't
> hurt and will often get them.)


I've created a mockup "mail in your pictures" text here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Image_submission

Would that be sufficient for OTRS? (It should be IMHO; it's what we
get when people upload directly, plus email address!)

Magnus