User talk:Ɱ/Sharing your images on Wikipedia

What do you get?

The external party will generally not just hand over their entire collection and say: "Have fun!". They want to know what's in it for them.

Eyeballs: Wikipedia gets enormous amounts of visitors. If your images are used, a lot of people will see them, you will get more traffic to your website, sometimes doubling traffic to pages.

Context: Your images won't just be items in a database; your images will be used to illustrate articles in Wikipedia, adding context to the images. The images will also be grouped with similar images on Wikimedia Commons, making them part of a bigger collection.

Multilingual descriptions: The images may not have any description, but the community will soon add one, and users can add description not just in English, but also in other languages.

Category: The images may have not been categorized, but soon they will be categorized in many ways, starting from the obvious to the not-so-obvious categories. And each of them will add value to your images.

Credit: On each image you will be credited and a nice template will be included.

Linkback: Each image will contain a deeplink to the original location of the object on your website.

Metadata: The metadata on each image page will be nicely formatted with templates like {{Information}}, {{Artwork}}, {{Book}}, {{Creator}}, {{Institution}}

Community: An active community will start adding the images to Wikipedia articles, sorting out the images, improving or translating the descriptions, reporting errors, etc. You can also see what pages use a specific image by looking at the links on the bottom of each image

Restoration: We have a small, but active group of people who do digital restorations of images.

Statistics: We have statistics documenting which Wikipedia articles your images are used in and how often these Wikipedia articles are viewed.

Partnerships: A content partnership is just one of the many ways external parties can work with the Wikimedia community. More possibilities: Events, conferences, photo expeditions, backstage passes, edit-a-thons, exhibitions, residencies.