Have you ever viewed Wikipedia’s featured photos? These are the “images that the community has chosen to be highlighted as some of the finest on Commons.” This is a terrific collection of many hundreds images, all of them under the Creative Commons license.
Featured Wikipedia photos
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:March 2, 2011
- Post category:photography
- Post comments:2 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
I'm proud to say that one of my photos (of Gyeongju, Korea) won 'photo of the day' on wikipedia back in 2004. Unfortunately, I cannot locate the photo anywhere on wiki commons, so I guess it was eliminated in the greater machinations.
As a policy, I've always opened all my photos under the CC license. As a result, I've "found" many of my photos on wikipedia– including photos that I didn't upload myself.
Dave: If you'd like, send me a copy of the photo of the day and I'll post it in the comments. Congratulations.
I do love Creative Commons, but not everyone is so open-minded. http://dangerousintersection.org/2010/08/24/ascap…