Wikimedia Commons, Update 1

Curious to revisit Wikimedia and see what photos of mine have been used or remixed under the CC-NC-SA license.  There are a few new ones since last year, and others that aren’t listed on Wikimedia, but linked through Flickr’s own analytics tools:

I got an e-mail a short while back to use one of the black lab photo below for a travel magazine highlighting pet-friendly destinations in Orange County too.

The top Google Images Searches that yield traffic to my photos might be telling me that I missed some calling around red and white weddings (???):

• red and white wedding pictures
• wedding bouquet
• bride
• red and white wedding dress
• red and white bridal dresses
• photos of rome
• picture of japan on flickr
• moscow state
• old town prague
• getty exhibit
• free download vector graphics (this ones makes no sense to me!)

The all-time best, but completely wrong use of one of my photos still goes to “Bride dies of heart disease on her wedding day“, which uses a photo of a good friend on her wedding day in Laguna Beach, CA.

Here the catalogue of remixed photos, as referenced in Wikimedia Commons to date:

Wikipedia Loves Art

“Wikipedia Loves Art” is a really cool campaign marrying Wikipedia with Art Museums.  In short, this month-long event is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest among museums and cultural institutions worldwide, and aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles.

You can add your photographs, to the online Flickr group. Goal lists for LACMA and other museums across the country are listed on the Flickr group page (as well as on Wikipedia, but the Flickr page is easier to read). And each participating museum or cultural institution is giving away cool prizes too!

Wikipedia has become such a trusted resource over the past few years, and the opportunities to contribute to it are endless.  Why not do it through something fun like a photographic scavenger hunt?

Here’s one of my photos that I took at the 2007 Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade that made it into Sarah Brightman’s Wikipedia entry (just simply by posting it on Flickr):

I REALLY wish I had the time to do the scavenger hunt!  What a great way to promote art while harnessing the power of crowd-sourcing and providing a cultured venue for a very personal, real-life collaboration.

Expand this post for more on rules and participating museums.