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<div>Following is more on topic than may be expected -<br></div><div>OSM Wiki is illustrated by images from Wikimedia Commons,<br></div><div>and thanks for all people who uploaded things there.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Jun 5, 2020, 09:14 by janjko@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="auto"><div><div class=""><div class="" dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 4, 2020, 16:48 European Water Project <<a href="mailto:europeanwaterproject@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">europeanwaterproject@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" class=""><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div> Our goal is to move all our images to wikimedia commons. <br></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Aren't water fountains not notable enough for their database?<br></div></div></blockquote><div>That is a common misconception. Note that basically all<br></div><div>images on the OSM Wiki are from Wikimedia Commons.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Wikipedia and Wikidata have notability requirements,<br></div><div>with WIkipedia having much stricter ones (but different across <br></div><div>various language versions)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Wikimedia Commons has no notability requirements, see<br></div><div><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>It is perfectly fine to upload things like that there.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For example, anything that can be ever added as image on any Wikipedia article<br></div><div>(even ones not yet written) is in scope, anything plausibly used for<br></div><div>any educational purpose is in scope.<br></div><div><br></div><div>See<br></div><div><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope#Must_be_realistically_useful_for_an_educational_purpose">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope#Must_be_realistically_useful_for_an_educational_purpose</a><br></div><div>and it is quite broadly defined.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2016/11#%22realistically_useful_for_an_educational_purpose%22_-_how_broadly%2Fnarrowly_it_is_defined%3F">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2016/11#%22realistically_useful_for_an_educational_purpose%22_-_how_broadly%2Fnarrowly_it_is_defined%3F</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I asked whatever uploading images of bicycle parkings <br></div><div>(that are certainly not notable) is OK<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stojaki_na_%C5%81obzowska_x_Biskupia.JPG">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stojaki_na_%C5%81obzowska_x_Biskupia.JPG</a><br></div><div><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stojaki_rowerowe_z_hulajnogami_przy_szkole_-_bis.JPG">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stojaki_rowerowe_z_hulajnogami_przy_szkole_-_bis.JPG</a><br></div><div><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stojaki_rowerowe_z_hulajnogami_przy_szkole.JPG">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stojaki_rowerowe_z_hulajnogami_przy_szkole.JPG</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>"The three images above look good to me. I would suggest short<br></div><div>
descriptions giving the location and maybe detailing closeness to<br></div><div>
important places like universities, courts, theatres, etc, if those
places<br></div><div>aren't in the images or the street location isn't well-known."<br></div><div><br></div><div>"Reasonable quality photographs of identified places are<br></div><div>very unlikely to be considered not in scope"<br></div><div><br></div><div>"I could recommend to add <a title="Template:Location" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Location" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:monospace, monospace">{{Location}}</span></span></a>. In this case photos may be<br></div><div>useful for external map services like OpenStreetMap."<br></div><div><br></div><div>"Mateusz, scope is very broadly defined. Reasonable quality photos of<br></div><div>public places are generally considered to be in scope. So, please go<br></div><div>
ahead and upload those photos. As mentioned above, photos considered<br></div><div>
out-of-scope are generally "personal" photos, bad quality photos, or<br></div><div>
photos of subjects that attract people not really interested in Commons<br></div><div>
as a repository of educational content (i.e. porn)."<br></div><div><br></div><div>(BTW, even to be deleted as last mentioned category it still needs something<br></div><div>completely useless for educational purposes - Wikimedia Commons<br></div><div>hosts many pornographic images, after all there are also Wikipedia articles<br></div><div>on this topic)<br></div> </body>
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