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Including Images in this Wiki

We need to have a clear statement about what licenses we require and how you're supposed to tag/include images in this wiki. Right now we're primarily hotlinking camera images from Flickr (which is fine to do), but I think we also need to give credit to the photographer in the case of Creative Commons licenses. We might want to see how the big Wikipedia handles all this. --Lbstone 15:02, 31 January 2006 (EST)

Templates or Categories

This has been something that I've wondered about for a while... On pages like the Fuji FinePix V10 page we have a {{Fuji}} template at the bottom of the page. This is an idea that I started a while ago, but I wonder if it's a better idea to use categories rather than this kind of template. Any thoughts? --Lbstone 01:57, 21 January 2006 (EST)

I think both are good: categories are useful for some types of listings, and it would probably be good to have a Category for Fuji cameras, Canon cameras, and so on. On the other hand, templates allow you to have links to the most prominent articles on the same theme, for example the {{Olympus classic}} template (see Template:Olympus classic) acts like a menubar. --Rebollo fr 08:06, 21 January 2006 (EST)

Yeah, both seems fine. --Lbstone 13:28, 29 January 2006 (EST)

camera reviews

What about a list with sources of camera reviews?

I can't think of a good reason not to do this. I say give it a try and we'll see if it works. --Lbstone 13:27, 29 January 2006 (EST)

Pages to be deleted

I have created a list of Pages to be deleted, so anybody can put them there, with the reason why it should be deleted. --Rebollo fr 15:41, 30 January 2006 (EST)

Great idea! --Lbstone 15:07, 31 January 2006 (EST)

Standards

Started a page for Standards information/basic guides for article writing.

Skip 02:45, 1 February 2006 (EST)

Good idea. I've also thought about having a standard template for basic camera specs. For example, go to the University of Oxford page in the big Wikipedia... hit the edit tab... then notice the Infobox_University template. This template allows you to just populate certain variables and it will automatically create a formatted "information box" for you. This method could be very helpful for displaying basic camera specs like the ones in your Standards page. --Lbstone 11:07, 1 February 2006 (EST)

Photography History and Photographers?

Should this wiki incorporate information on Photography History (Wet Collodion Process, rise of portraiture, birth of colour technology), and famous Photographers like Alfred Eisenstaedt, Elliot Erwitt, Robert Capa and so forth, or stick to it's namesake as mainly a camera repository rather than Photography in general? While the site is still reasonably small at this stage, I don't think it'd hurt to encourage adding information like this.

Skip 02:50, 1 February 2006 (EST)

I can't think of a good reason for not having this information. In fact, it may come in very handy later on if we ever need to reference this information from other articles. I believe that historical context is important. So, yeah... go for it! --Lbstone 10:59, 1 February 2006 (EST)