Salve!
IMHO does this crossposting make no sence. Am Freitag, 20. Februar 2004 20:01 schrieb Gareth Owen:
Well, if there are any wikipedians who likes a challenge, we need a photo for [[J D Salinger]] :)
This article does not exist in en: & de: so please go ahead and start to write this articel ;)
Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org writes:
If each wikipedian took 10 pictures of the interesting things he visits, I'm sure we would not need nonfree pictures any more.
No matter how many pictures I take of the interesting things I visit, I will never take a picture of Bob Keeshan (1927-2004) -- and you will not find a free picture of him.
As I tried to explain on wikipedia-l it is not the question which pictures you found with google (for copy&past) and not only what pictures your find in your personal photo album - it needs the same skills like you what to write a book - you have to find the right people with pictures and motivate them to contribute one or more picturs under the condition of the GNU-FDL. Be creative, try to please the heirs, friends, colleagues, fans....
We do not have the support of one publishing house - but we are many. Till now I have asked in two cases for data and one aerial photo - in both cases I get friendly support.
But like the [[J D Salinger]] case, you should have good article before you start asking for pictures. When it is an excellent article, it should be a question of honour that someone with an own copy right, to support the wikipedia.
With this way, we spend more time and have less photos - but everybody who has organized a contribution from a third person has the satisfaction that this work secure to support the wikipedia in a professional way with a real free picture that is not in dager to become unfair by one single lawsuit.
BTW I want to remember, that I got more than I expected, I`m shure I will get more aerial photos, because I made a new friend of the wikipedia.
And isn`t this challange, to find new friends of the wikipedia a very nice one? rob