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