Amateur photographers who record “scary” images of Wikipedia

Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites in the world, but recognizing some of their own volunteer editors, it suffers from a sustainable problem – terrible images, especially celebrities.

It is so full known the most terrible.

The problem arises because the professional photographers who visit, such as the premieres of the films, usually work in major agencies: their work is protected by copyright, and you usually need to pay to reproduce it.

Wikipedia – which is largely supported by volunteers – there is no budget for this.

Launched some enthusiasts WikiportraitsA project on a group of voluntary photographers around the world and forcing their accreditation to attend film festivals, conferences and other events.

“Wikipedia has long lacked or somehow qualitative photos of people,” said Kevin Pyrovi, one of the founders of the project.

“This question has always been in the back of our mind as editors of Wikipedia.”

He talked to BBC from Austin, Texas, where he and founder Jennifer Lee the SXSW festival, complete with his own photo -shaped portraits.

“Some people are super bothering the horrible photos on Wikipedia, and they want to save the world from them,” Mr. Lee said.

“Bad photos are so funny – there are strange drops of people.”

Wikipedia has strict rules for Photo and copyrightTherefore, downloaded photos should be your own, freely licensed or publicly available.

As a result, it contains many images added to enthusiasts, not made by photographers.

In some cases, it simply means an image that is not republican – but sometimes they are much worse than it.

Beautiful example: Emil’s comedian, with Live Fame Saturday Night.

During the week of November last year, a photo above – apparently taken at the New York exhibition – was his painting by Wikipedia.

When deleted, the editor noted that “having no paintings is better than what is now.”

Photo by English footballer Kyle Bartley, taken in 2011, was also noted by social media users as a testimony to Wikipedia.

Wikiportraits He started his work in early 2024.

Photographers do not pay, and most are in the US, but there are volunteers worldwide.

Jennifer and Kevin say their photographers are usually Wikipedia lovers, photo lovers and professionals seeking to create their portfolios.

So far, 55 of them have done work in Wikiportraits or strive for it.

Brian Berlin is one of the photographers. Photo teacher at high school and comedian from New York, he first participated in Wikiportraits when he performed at the Edinburgh festival fringe.

He visited the New York Film Festival and Sandans and took pictures of Kalkin’s and Madison T -shirts.

He says he is motivated by an improvement in Wikipedia.

“Having the best photo of anyone -does not provide better information for the one who access Wikipedia,” he said to the BBC.

He may not be paid, but Brian feels that he also has something for him, saying that the work on the red track made him the best photographer.

One of his favorite impressions with the celebrity was with the star “Lord of the Rings” Ilya Wood.

“He was just such a good man, and said it was so cool that we do it.”

The Edinburgh Festival, Cannes and Nobel Prizes are some activities that have been covered so far, and the project states that his photos are viewed about 100 million times a month.

Some of the biggest names in entertainment now have the image of Wikiportraits as their Wikipedia picture.

While these pictures attract attention, the project is also proud to be photographed by people such as directors who are not presented enough who did not have Wikipedia’s painting.

Frank Song is a director and cinematography that involves photography as a hobby. His work on Wikiportraits includes photos of Florence Pi and Ben Stilora.

Also in New York, he was photographed on Cannes, Sandans and the Toronto Film Festival.

He loves his experience with the French actress and director Laetitia Dosch.

“She said, ‘My photo is scary, it’s a year ago. I am so pleased to update as any time when people are looking for me, it’s an old photo. “

“I think she was satisfied.”

What does the future look like? Wikiportraits hopes to attract more photographers from all over the world to cover events in their countries.

While the sports photo is presented, no video plans.

The glitter and glamor of the red carpet will always be drawn.

“Our dream is to get powers for Met Gala and Oscars,” Jennifer Lee said.

“That’s when we know we’ve done it.”