Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii/Images

This page contains a list of image resources which may be useful to WikiProject Hawaii, for enhancing articles within its scope. Many excellent images can be found on Wikimedia Commons, especially in the categories listed at right. Note that many images which are available on Commons are not properly categorized yet, so it is helpful to also search directly for images there.

Thousands of other useful free images can be found on the websites listed below. In general, free images from these sites should be uploaded to Commons instead of the English Wikipedia, so that they can easily be used in Wikipedia articles in any language.

Please add any other useful websites to the lists below, along with any search tips.

Search tips

 * A useful trick for finding public domain images via Google is to type "site:gov search terms" into the Google Images search box. This will find images hosted on any U. S. government website, and almost all of those images are in the public domain.  For example, http://images.google.com/images?q=site:gov+shishaldin.
 * Creative Commons has a Search Engine dedicated to images tagged for commercial reuse. The images utility is highly useful for finding images that are usable on Wikipedia.
 * A list of basic search tips is available online.

Public domain image resources
Sites which have photos related to Hawaii:
 * http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/ - U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library
 * http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ - The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
 * http://photo.itc.nps.gov/storage/images/ - National Park Service Digital Image Archives
 * http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ - NOAA Photo Library
 * http://pictures.fws.gov/ - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pictures
 * http://images.fws.gov/ - More U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imagery
 * http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/hazardsimages.html NGDC Images of Geologic Hazards
 * http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt/community/live_maps_and_data/1375/image_galleries - Images of Pacific Basin Organisms and Environments

USGS Hawaii Data Clearinghouse
 * http://hawaii.wr.usgs.gov/hawaii/photo.html - Hawaii Island
 * http://hawaii.wr.usgs.gov/kauai/photo.html - Kauai
 * http://hawaii.wr.usgs.gov/maui/photo.html -Maui
 * http://hawaii.wr.usgs.gov/oahu/photo.html - Oahu

Specific USGS photo CD collections:
 * http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-80/ - Selected Images of the Pu‘u ‘O‘o–Kupaianaha Eruption, 1983–1997
 * http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-24/ - Images of Kilauea East Rift Zone Eruption, 1983-1993

Other free image resources

 * Flickr (link) has many photos related to Hawaii, including many locations for which no other photos appear to be available online. There is a special section (http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/) for pictures tagged with a Creative Commons license. Note that images with NoDerivs or NonCommercial are non-free Creative Commons licenses and cannot be used on Wikipedia.  See Image copyright tags/Deprecated for a list of unacceptable licenses, while acceptable licenses are listed at Image copyright tags/Free licenses.  In some cases, it may be possible to ask a Flickr user by email to change an image license from non-free to one which is acceptable for use here.  All acceptable images from Flickr should be uploaded to Commons.

Submitting photograph requests
If you are unable to find any free images of your desired subject, please submit requests so another Wikipedian can photograph your image.
 * Attach the tag to the talk page(s) of the article(s) where you intend to place the photograph(s)
 * At the article's WikiProject Hawaii template, add the tag "imageneeded=yes"
 * Post your request at Commons:Commons:Picture_requests
 * Because many Japanese are tourists in Hawaii, it may help to duplicate your request on the Japanese Wikipedia. If you know Japanese, state your request at ja:Wikipedia:画像提供依頼. If you do not know Japanese, state your request at ja:Wikipedia:Chatsubo and ask the participants for help on adding it to the Japanese Wikipedia's image request page. Members will help you with your requests. If the Japanese Wikipedia has an article about your request or an article that could use the image you are requesting, post the following at the top of the article page (not the talk page):
 * For requests regarding military bases, see also MHL
 * In addition, look through Category:Wikipedians in Hawaii and perhaps individually contact some editors who live on the island where your request is, and see if they are willing to photograph it