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user-inactivated  ·  2374 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 4Chan Creates Fake NFL Boycott Site With Hopes Of Secretly “RedPilling Normies”

I pay a bit more than passing attention when you and her talk. This is still one of my favorite conversations of ours . . .

Going through Wikimedia, especially on more esoteric items, I'm surprised that a lot of photos can be kind of crummy. They're blurry, poorly lit, don't show off defining details, etc. When I thought to myself that I could actually probably do better with my ancient, near busted, point and shoot, I started entertaining the idea of taking pictures for Wikipedia. Thought while I haven't looked into it just yet, I'm fairly certain it's a bit more difficult than Take Picture -> Upload -> Categorize.





kleinbl00  ·  2374 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The principle problems Wikimedia faces are:

1) Rights issues. Nobody wants to license them images of things they can sell later, and photographers cannot legally give them rights to photos of rights-controlled objects.

2) Volunteer issues. Wiki has been suffering a die-off of volunteers for a while now and what volunteers it has aren't really "go out and capture the real world' people, they're keyboard commandos.

thus, they go with the images they can get.

user-inactivated  ·  2373 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Rights issues. Nobody wants to license them images of things they can sell later, and photographers cannot legally give them rights to photos of rights-controlled objects.

Which is weird you say that, cause more than a few times have I stumbled upon stuff that's clearly still copywritten on their site, mostly fictional characters.

    Volunteer issues. Wiki has been suffering a die-off of volunteers for a while now and what volunteers it has aren't really "go out and capture the real world' people, they're keyboard commandos.

Is there a reason for this? Site politics? Problems with the underlying program?

kleinbl00  ·  2373 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Google "wikipedia is losing contributors." There are a million available opinions and I've seen no press that they've turned it around since 2011. Principally, they have a moderator culture that quashes dissent and innovation.

user-inactivated  ·  2373 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think I'll just stick to sharing with Hubski. Though I think, maybe, I should learn to photograph better, and maybe write better, and find better things to share.

elizabeth  ·  2374 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That’s a noble calling! Go for it - it’ certainly seems like a good way to practice and get better too.