There are several causes why people do not upload their photos to Commons. - Wikimedia Commons is less known like the other Wikimedia sisters. We had to increase the awareness of these projects including the Foundation itself. But all people speak only about Wikipedia, and nobody starts an ad campaign for the sisters to overcome this. Not only the scope of Commons is broader, that of the movement is broader, too. Maybe the Foundation can improve its support for the sisters to attract new users for the movement.
see: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/02/07/how-does-the-world-see-wikimedia-brands/ - Many photographers (and Wikipedians) will be become famous. There is the question why to publish at Wikimedia Commons instead of Instagram, Flickr, or Pinterest? - There is almost no support for the sister projects by Wikipedians. Some Wikipedians are living in their own world, and sometimes they argue against their sisters. - For many users it is difficult to use Commons or other Wikimedia projects. They have to fight against an ancient and not user-friendly user interface (for instance manual edits of things stored in EXIF data or in the user account, adding categories without any automatic support, etc.). I am not really sure if an investigation should be done because most problems are known already now. I think we should keep the opportunity of commercial use, because all Wikimedia products should be used freely. For instance, what shall an officer at a travel agency do if she/he cannot use Wikimedia products freely because of commercial-usage restrictions? Roland >>> Benjamin Ikuta <benjaminik...@gmail.com> 05/17/20 5:07 AM >>> Anecdotally, it seems people sometimes don't upload their photos to Commons because they don't realize that the scope of Commons is much broader than that of Wikipedia. Has there been, or should there be, any research into this, or why people don't contribute more broadly? ~Benjamin _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
