Wikipedia talk:Help Project/June 2012 survey

Images

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Aside: One interesting suggestion from this section was "I wish Wikipedia had a review section for pictures BEFORE they are uploaded, just like we have for new articles. Sometimes I upload pictures thinking I have the proper copyright permissions, but I don't. I wish someone could review our pictures if we decided to put them for review before they actually uploaded." This is obviously outside the scope of the help fellowship, but is an interesting idea all the same (although the Articles for Creation queue regularly suffers huge backlogs, would an image equivalent face the same issues?)

There is WP:Files for upload which attempts to do just that.--ukexpat (talk) 15:15, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

"complicated by the existence of Wikimedia Commons"

Almost nothing of what is mentioned here is actually about adding images to pages; if we're talking about uploading new images, none of those seems a problem on Commons, which is probably the solution rather than the problem as stated here. Local uploads are useful only in some small edge cases and are for copyright junkies, sure; the solution is to make Commons more prominent as a source and upload target for images. --Nemo 07:18, 1 September 2012 (UTC)