User talk:Bastedo

How about a science illustration competition? In the effort to develop OER materials to promote education there is an enormous deficit in quality scientific illustration. Most biological sciences are very visually oriented. Most high quality illustrations are produced by for profit publishers. It would be so fantastic to have a site where professors and instructors could upload rough sketches or copyrighted illustrations that could be produced by an illustrator who would put their images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons license. Perhaps there could be a section of wikipedia that would organize topics and subtopics within various disciplines so that instructors who want to utilize illustrations for OER materials could easily look at a variety of images all on one page, rather than searching name by name. I have been gathering illustration on a website called Pinterest. I have categorized them by topic within human anatomy. Here is a group of skeletal images.

https://www.pinterest.com/bastedo7839/skeletal-anatomy/

Many of them are copyrighted I assume. They rights are very hard to track down given this type of site. There is an enormous need to further open educational resources in visually dependent sciences like human anatomy. I am sure Wikipedia and wikipedia commons could further this effort with a special page for contributions and perhaps a contest. Perhaps some budding illustrators would contribute for attribution credit to further their future careers.