Browse Wikimedia Commons for photos to insert into new posts

[brainwane]

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

[montuos]

This.

I too would be unlikely to use such a service, but, that being said, my opinion is that if you set up a framework to pull freely licensed images from one site, you might as well plan to pull from other such sites as well, as long as you can reasonably discern that the licensing is appropriate.

Edit: I still don't have an opinion for whether or not this idea should be implemented, though.