Multimedia
A picture can say more than, say, several Wikipedia articles.
It is rather trivial.
I think that Wikipedia without pictures, video, and audio is not a
real encyclopedia.
I wonder if you think my propositions worthwhile :
AudioWikipedia, PhotoWikipedia, VideoWikipedia - pages that can be
linked from the real Wikipedias but having only a title and Talk
pages.
Agreed, agreed, agreed. What we need, essentially, is an upload tool
that lets us post images onto the wikipedia site. This opens many
benefits but also some cans of worms, so this is not a trivial request.
I've written file upload systems several times over the years, and I'm
about to need to do yet another one at work. I will *tentatively* offer
to volunteer to provide something that can be plugged into wikipedia to
do file uploads, if Larry and Jason give the go ahead for it. It may be
a few months, if at all, before I can have it ready, though.
Until then, is there any reason why we couldn't use FTP to upload images?
An anonymous FTP account allowing us to upload to, say,