[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 2:26 PM, Andrew Gray<andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> 2009/7/21 Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com>:
>
>> 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!)
>
> It might be helpful if we ask what article(s) they're thinking of!
>
> This is pretty self evident for "this is a picture of me / my
> grandmother / some guy in the pub" when they have an article, but we
> do get some less obvious pictures sometimes - I remember someone who
> sent in pictures of a Russian war memorial and asked if we could put
> them on the page about the battle in question.

Thanks, I've added this. Anyone, feel free to optimize the text by editing :-)

Magnus