On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 04:05, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I have often thought that a fun website would be for
amateur
photographers who are willing to release images under the GNU FDL or
similar. To be really good, it would be great if such a site had
forms for people to print and sign and paper-mail in, formally
attesting to their taking the picture and releasing it under GNU FDL.
Sounds like a job for
wikimedia.org!
In the meantime, of course, we have the underutilized
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_pictures
I highly encourage people to replace disputed images with ones of known
compatible license, which is most easily ensured by taking them
yourself.
Of course things like album covers and historical events might be
tricky. ;)
There are a great many images that would be nice to
have in an
encyclopedia -- photos of famous buildings, landmarks, celebrities,
news events, etc.
I keep meaning to wander around LA with a camera and snap some pictures.
Hopefully I won't get picked up on suspicion of planning terrorist acts!
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)