[Wikipedia-l] FlickR

[Ilya Haykinson]

At Wikinews we use Flickr fairly often, copying properly-licensed
photos to the Commons. Several times now I've even approached authors
of images there and asked them to relicense some good-looking photo to
cc-by or cc-by-sa.

Flickr used to have a web-based search for creative-commons-licensed
images. That search is now for some reason disabled, but I've written
an app for Windows that uses their API and lets you do a (rudimentary)
search for Flickr images matching a particular license (Attribution
and Attribution-ShareAlike obviously are the only ones that work for
the Commons).  The tool's homepage is
http://tiredbrain.com/wikinews/flickr/ if anyone else is interested.

-ilya 

> From: Sj <2.718281828 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] FlickR
> 
> Hey, excellent.  Sadly, flickr doesn't want you to be able to
> transclude high-res images from their server... so there's still a
> reason to duplicate images there and on commons.
> 
> SJ
> 
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:39:46 +0100, Kurt Jansson <jansson at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Andrew Lih schrieb:
> > > There is also a Wikipedia gallery in Flickr:
> > > http://www.flickr.com/groups/48889047191@N01/pool/
> >
> > It says "no permission" if you are not member of the group. So after creating an
> > account, use the following link to join:
> > http://www.flickr.com/groups/48889047191@N01/
> >
> > There is also a Wikipedia-tag:
> > http://flickr.com/photos/tags/wikipedia
> >
> > Kurt