Browse Wikimedia Commons for photos to insert into new posts

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Title:
Browse Wikimedia Commons for photos to insert into new posts

Area:
entries

Summary:
On the New Post and Edit pages, give the user the ability to browse freely licensed photos from Wikimedia Commons to insert into their posts. Use the MediaWiki API https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:FAQ and the example of http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PhotoCommons as a prototype (it's a WordPress extension).

Description:
It would be nice to give users the ability to dress up their more text-heavy posts with graphics. Wikimedia Commons is a useful source of freely licensed graphics.

I don't know how this should be implemented in the UI. I imagine there would be some kind of search functionality, to search Commons for photos matching a keyword and then to display thumbnails and then choose them for insertion. Inserting the photo should probably also automatically add a caption with attribution.

Poll #8850 Browse Wikimedia Commons for photos to insert into new posts

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Should be implemented as-is.
5 (7.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (6.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
26 (40.6%)

(I have no opinion)
27 (42.2%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (3.1%)

Comments

[matgb]

Ooh, I like this. I had to use placeholders when I was on dial up, but really hated it (and there's someone on my reading page now that's posting full screen size pics and force reducign them, thinking that it's a good thing, need to mention how bad it is at some point).

Auto thumbnail use could be really cool if it's workable, and it ought to be.