What’s of interest? WikiPortraits Studio
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A project to get more quality Creative Commons-licensed portrait photos taken for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons!
Led by Wikimedia photographers with support from the Wikimedia Foundation and individual donors.
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects prioritize and require using freely-licensed images. As most published photos of notable people are press images with full copyright and non-permissive licenses, this results in a significant number of biographies with poor quality or no photos.
WikiPortraits was created in order to accomplish this, by hosting events at conferences, festivals, and more to fill this gap. At these events, we sometimes set up a photo booth where anyone with a Wikipedia page—speaker or not—may drop by and have their photo taken. We also send roaming photographers to capture press lines, panels and keynotes.
Where is it?: https://www.wikiportraits.org/
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