Wikipedia talk:Requesting free content


 * 1) (diff) 18:17, April 30, 2008 . . JLaTondre (talk | contribs | block) (67,695 bytes) (remove non-valid shortcut)
 * 2) (diff) 08:11, February 29, 2008 . . Echuck215 (talk | contribs | block) (67,714 bytes) (Typo fixing, cleanup, and such, typos fixed: accomodate → accommodate, aformentioned → aforementioned using AWB)
 * 3) (diff) 12:11, December 20, 2007 . . Anetode (talk | contribs | block) (67,712 bytes)
 * 4) (diff) 00:32, December 11, 2007 . . EBot III (talk | contribs | block) (67,693 bytes) (Moving article into Category:User essays (essays in namespace) using AWB)
 * 5) (diff) 02:17, December 2, 2007 . . Videmus Omnia (talk | contribs | block) (67,698 bytes) (superflous word)
 * 6) (diff) 17:46, October 7, 2007 . . Taric25 (talk | contribs | block) (67,702 bytes) (Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly split infinitives where no man has split infinitives before.)
 * 7) (diff) 17:08, October 7, 2007 . . Taric25 (talk | contribs | block) (67,702 bytes) (MPL: Punctuation)
 * 8) (diff) 05:44, October 7, 2007 . . Taric25 (talk | contribs | block) (67,703 bytes) (Licenses other than GFDL)
 * 9) (diff) 05:36, October 7, 2007 . . Taric25 (talk | contribs | block) (67,650 bytes) (Upload your photo: Licenses other than GFDL)
 * 10) (diff) 05:33, October 7, 2007 . . Taric25 (talk | contribs | block) (67,358 bytes) (Article is too short: Licenses other than GFDL)
 * 11) (diff) 05:30, October 7, 2007 . . Taric25 (talk | contribs | block) (67,345 bytes) (Get the license statement!: Licenses other than GFDL)
 * 12) (diff) 05:29, October 7, 2007 . . Taric25 (talk | contribs | block) (67,335 bytes) (Flickr Mail method: Licenses other than GFDL.)
 * 13) (diff) 05:23, October 7, 2007 . . Taric25 (talk | contribs | block) (67,258 bytes) (Making requests from article subjects: Licences other than GFDL)
 * 14) (diff) 23:31, August 28, 2007 . . Videmus Omnia (talk | contribs | block) (47,338 bytes) (Example information - image sent as e-mail attachment: fix some links)
 * 15) (diff) 10:25, August 28, 2007 . . Kbdank71 (talk | contribs | block) (47,577 bytes) (per CFD 2007 Aug 22)
 * 16) (diff) 22:05, July 27, 2007 . . Videmus Omnia (talk | contribs | block) (47,585 bytes) (Upload your photo)
 * 17) (diff) 21:56, July 27, 2007 . . Videmus Omnia (talk | contribs | block) (47,516 bytes) (Uploading: expand)
 * 18) (diff) 21:55, July 27, 2007 . . Videmus Omnia (talk | contribs | block) (47,486 bytes) (Uploading to English Wikipedia: trim)
 * 19) (diff) 21:54, July 27, 2007 . . Videmus Omnia (talk | contribs | block) (47,507 bytes) (Upload your photo: Commons)
 * 20) (diff) 21:39, July 27, 2007 . . Videmus Omnia (talk | contribs | block) (46,925 bytes) (Upload your photo: colons)
 * 21) (diff) 17:32, July 26, 2007 . . AnonEMouse (talk | contribs | block) (46,919 bytes) (Flickr Mail method: sp)
 * 22) (diff) 09:25, July 23, 2007 . . AnonEMouse (talk | contribs | block) (46,919 bytes) (Send your request: too->to)
 * 23) (diff) 18:03, July 22, 2007 . . Videmus Omnia (talk | contribs | block) (46,920 bytes) (creating page)

Creative Commons link
You should update the links in the essay to point to the most recent version of the Creative Commons license. Tabercil (talk) 02:55, 19 January 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅ Thanks for the tip. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:16, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Ranking
Another bit: according to Alexa (http://www.alexa.com/topsites), Wikipedia is #6 on the scale. Tabercil (talk) 00:06, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Are photographers not allowed to add their photos in Wikipedia articles?
When I tried contributing my photos which I made available under free licenses User:Niemti removed them saying I shouldn't use my own work because it is a conflict of interest. So is the photographer of a photo not allowed to add the photo to a relevant article? But many photos I specifically produced them for adding them on specific Wikipedia articles, or I choose photos from my portfolio. I've produced hundreds of thousands of photos, the recent ones are more than 200,000 photos with full-frame and APS-C DSLR cameras, I wanted to test whether it makes sense to donate photos under free licenses, and apparently I wouldn't donate them or put them under free licenses if I knew beforehand Wikipedia doesn't accept photographers using their own photos on Wikipedia articles, I'd have preferred to keep my copyright as licensing photos for magazines/newspapers etc is what would keep me alive unless of course viewers of photos would want to paypal me or flattr me donations (in which case I'd prefer to fuck copyright anyway and let everyone use everything I create). I tested my idea to donate my photos by identifying some articles to which I wanted to add photos, then choosing relevant photos from my many-years collection or producing new photos specifically for the articles I wanted to add my photos, and I added the photos only to see them removed. Even when I tried to add photos to the articles taken by other photographers, they were removed, indicating some editors apparently had a personal issue with me. This is the reason I left Wikipedia and decided to fork the articles to which I want to add my photos and make them available thru my site. I admire the idea of a free encyclopedia as well as free photography, but I don't think it's good idea to let editors claim a conflict of interest when they see a photographer using his or her own photo in an article, it really destroys all motivation and all willingness to become part of the community, and instead drives people like me to fork the project, copying the Wikipedia articles and including the photos I want to put, and publishing the result independently but excluding the editors or the community and policies or culture which prevented me doing that as part of the Wikipedia community. Cogiati (talk) 22:28, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

I posted over 10,000 of my cosplay photos on Facebook and elsewhere, but never even attempted to push any of them into a Wikipedian article. --Niemti (talk) 22:35, 12 November 2013 (UTC)


 * I've made so many photos specifically for adding them to specific articles. Like, e.g. product photos and cosplay photos. But I see you don't appreciate contributions, so I better do what I want on my own site and not be part of a community which doesn't accept photos simply because the photographer added them. This community is unwelcoming but I wanted to be part of it, and you claiming it's a conflict of interest or saying I shouldn't do that is not what I'd describe as good behavior or a way to retain volunteers. Cogiati (talk) 22:45, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I really don't care. Commons is full of photos, and no one else pushes their own stuff into the articles. I only did it with the Jaworzno concentration camp but it's all-different case, and there were no free photos to use back then (I did it several years ago, precisely in 2006). --Niemti (talk) 23:08, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * That's not true. Plenty of editors upload their own photos/illustrations/graphics and then add them to articles. Heck, look at today's Featured Picture. Created by and added to an article by one editor. -- Neil N  talk to me  23:27, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Is it a case of pushing their (random) pictures into the articles where there are literally hundreds of other (and better) photos available like that? Because I don't see anyone else doing it in this article (which I'm observing for a long time, and thousands of people visit it every day). Btw, I just replaced some camp photos with the better ones uploaded by other people in meantime (since 2006), and note they didn't do it themselves, too. --Niemti (talk) 02:33, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Forwarding Flickr e-mails might not work anymore?
I'm in the process of potentially chasing up a Flickr user to use their bus photograph in an article, and I've stumbled across this page while planning to make my request over FlickrMail:

"Flickr uses an internal messaging system called 'Flickr Mail', this is the primary method you'll probably be using to communicate with other Flickr users. In the default setup, these e-mails cannot be forwarded outside the Flickr system. One thing it's important for you to do—in the 'Your account' configuration page, you will see an 'E-mail' tab, which contains a 'Forwarding Flickr e-mails' section. Enable the account to send you e-mails when someone sends you personal messages. The reason you need to do this is that sometimes you will get permissions via Flickr Mail, and you need to have it in a format that you can forward to OTRS."

Looking on my Flickr account configuration page as of May 2023 under the 'Emails & Notifications' tab, no such option appears to exist. Unless anyone could point me in the right direction, I'm not sure which option I would pick now in this instance - I assume that means requests via Flickr might be dead in the water? Hullian111 (talk) 20:53, 31 May 2023 (UTC)