On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 07:20, Roland Unger <roland.un...@soziologie.uni-halle.de> wrote: > > 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
A "share" link on image pages would go a long way to fixing this. If folks on instagram, flickr etc. got used to seeing nice images with links back to Commons, we might expect 1% to 4% of those readers to follow the link back to the source, so if a few go viral, that might actually attract a few high quality photographers. A "mirror" tool would also be a great addition. If a photographer could easily share some of their photos by picking from their gallery and pushing to their flickr/instagram and a Commons account at the same time, all on a cc-by-sa license, they would come to see Commons as part of increasing their own internet footprint. Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ 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>
