On the Spanish Wikipedia there are articles without an illustration. Usuario:Emijrp did embark on a project to put them on a list. This list called the "Imágenes_requeridas_por_zona" contains the geo codes necessary to find the subjects of these articles.
The list that Emijrp created with a bot represents our current technology. It represent a lot of hard work but sadly there is little chance of Dutch Wikipedians on a holiday in Spain taking the requested pictures. When we have a map of the world with all the articles in need of (more) illustrations, we would leverage existing technology. Existing technology like OpenStreetMap..
We need a project manager for map integration. It is not only about illustrating articles with maps, maps have other uses as well.
Thanks,
GerardM
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It really is not that difficult with the right tools. On the Danish Wikipedia, we are lucky to have the creator of http://findvej.dk/ as a contributor. He created a map of Wikipedia articles (http://findvej.dk/wikipedia), and after that a map of Wikipedia articles missing pictures: http://findvej.dk/wikipedia?nopic=1
It may be not difficult, but we do not have map integration in MediaWiki. The Spanish do not have it, I expect many more do not have it and it would be a boon.
Thanks,
GerardM
Wow Ole, that is amazing. Can that be done for Spanish Wikipedia? Also, using OpenSTreetMaps (that are free) would be better.
And for swedish wp you have http://perf.ect.nu/coordwithoutpic/
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