On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2...@reagle.org>wrote:
> On 05/23/2013 02:58 PM, Jane Darnell wrote: > >> How strange that people take the trouble to upload those! >> > > I've been wondering about this myself. Why do people port collections of > images from Flickr CC to Commons in the first place? If someone really > needed a weird nude picture for an article, they could still find it at > Flickr and import it then. (This might be part of my bias that WC is > supposed to support other projects and not be an inclusive repo of all CC > content in the world.) Indeed, I wonder what percentage of WC resources is > not used by an affiliated project? > Joseph, I'm curious to probe your stated bias a little. What do you think of a project like the Archives of American Art, which has uploaded a tremendous number of images to Commons, the vast majority of which are not used in any Wikimedia project? See: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Archives_of_American_Art Is that a worthwhile project, or is it putting Commons to a use that you'd rather not see? Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
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