"Karl Eichwalder" <ke(a)gnu.franken.de> schrieb:
Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> writes:
I think it would be very nice to be able to have
portfolios of images
of specific topics, even when we only use 1 or 2 of the images in a
particular article on a particular wikipedia.
I'd like to support your proposal.
For example, we might quickly end up with 50
different pictures of the
Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Yes, those series are very useful. Don't hesitate to upload detailed
pictures (with descriptions, of course) and link them together on a main
page.
In my opinion, it kind of depends on what the pictures show, and on what
descriptions are given. I don't want 50 similar pictures of the tower of
Pisa. I do want 50 pictures if this one is taking at sunset, that one shows
the surroundings as well and the third one is from an unusual direction.
I have said something against this kind of thing on the Wikicommons discussion
page, but please understand that I am not against having many pictures on
one subject. I am against having many very similar pictures and against
pictures with insufficient description.
I don't want 100 pictures of "a yellow flower". I do want 10 pictures each
of a 1000 different yellow flowers. I don't want 50 portraits of George W.
Bush. I do want 200 pictures of George W. Bush if some are portraits,
others show him sign a law as governor of Texas, others show him speaking
to the congress, others show him among soldiers in Iraq, etcetera.
In short, what I want is to request that pictures are either
* because of what they show (the 50th tower of Pisa, but only the second
one from this angle)
* because of the additional information (the 30th George W. Bush signing
a law, but we are being told _which_ law is being signed)
duplicates of not more than a few pictures in the collection.
Andre Engels