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Interesting. Though a lot of the pages near me only exist on non-English Wikipedia (which is interesting since I'm in the United States). I'm not sure how many
by throwaway2016a 4y ago
Interesting. Though a lot of the pages near me only exist on non-English Wikipedia (which is interesting since I'm in the United States). I'm not sure how many people where English is not the primary language will be searching for a tiny dam or bridge in a mid-sized city in New England. I'd want to make sure my photo has impact before I spend time driving to the location and taking one.
- cptskippy 4y agoI had the same experience. There's an old quarry near my home and there's a Wikipedia article written in Cebuano about it. It seems to have been auto-generated from public data using the DotNetWikiBot.
- bawolff 4y agoIf its a landmark,having a freely licensed photo of it can still be very useful, even if no wikipedia article exists for it.
- raybb 4y agoDo you have any examples of how photos with location are currently being used? I'm all for Wikipedia and sites having this kind of data to build on. But who already built on it?
- bawolff 4y agoI was thinking more small scale. Someone wants to make an educational youtube video about some obscure landmark and needs a picture but doesn't want to get copyright struck.
- esperent 4y agoSame, I'm in Vietnam but most of the pictures seem to link to Spanish Wikipedia which, apparently, has an exhaustive range of articles on beaches around the world. It could be that other languages are restrictive than English Wikipedia which is notoriously strict on what articles they allow.