[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia photo squad?

[Stephen Gilbert]

Sounds good. I'm leaving South Korea, but I have an
ameteur photographer friend staying behind, and she
just bought a scanner. She's agreed to release many of
her pictures under the GFDL.

Stephen

--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> The image copyright discussion reminds me of an idea
> that has been going
> through my head for a while. How about an organized
> effort to create (shoot)
> public domain photos of important
> people/places/events? I am not a photographer
> so I would be a bad person to lead this WikiProject,
> but maybe there are
> people on this list who would be interested in it.
> 
> Basically, the effort would have to be organized in
> such a way that 
> - interested photographers put their names and
> locations on the page and put
> the page in their watchlist
> - interested users add people, places, things,
> events etc. to a To Do list.
> Photographers add their names to the list if they
> want to finish a task. The
> task is moved into a "Finished tasks" list later and
> the photos are uploaded.
> 
> 
> Additionally, people who are willing to scan photos
> sent to them (for people
> without scanners or digicams) might enter themselves
> into a third list --
> don't know if that would be necessary.
> 
> What do you think? Given the international nature of
> Wikipedia, I really see
> the potential for a large and impressive effort to
> get relevant photos from
> all around the world.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Erik Moeller
> 
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