Since the launch of TinEye, we have had a great response from the Wikimedia Commons image community. Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free-content files, including images, that are either in the public domain or released under free licenses. These images are used in many of the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects, including Wikipedia.
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Anyone can contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and the project is driven by volunteers; while they are careful to respect image copyright, researching the license for each image that is submitted can be a challenge. To aid in this effort, members of Wikimedia Commons have created automated plugins and image checkers driven by the TinEye search engine, to help research photos and locate the source of images.
For an interesting browse, check out Wikimedia Commons member Shizhao’s TinEye bot, which allows you to see all of the interesting images that have been uploaded to the Commons and been detected elsewhere on the web by TinEye.
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Andy Aug 21 09 at 5:13 pmI am just wondering why TinEye does not in return index all those images at Wikimedia Commons. I earlier tried one of my photos I uploaded there years ago, and found another website using it without giving credit, but not the actual source they grabbed it, i.e. Commons.
Toto Dec 02 11 at 10:00 amI was just thinking about the same thing. Is there a particular reason that this has not been done?
Toto Dec 27 11 at 4:48 amI would really like to know… :-)
Toto Jan 24 12 at 1:46 pm… so an answer would be good. :-)
Toto Apr 17 12 at 11:03 amNo?
Leila Boujnane Apr 20 12 at 3:05 pmToto: we have been busy indexing other type of content. We will look into this and check out their sitemaps. If the sitemaps look good for our indexing needs, we will add them to the indexing schedule. What’s your interest in this?
Toto Apr 22 12 at 9:25 amLeila Boujnane: That is excellent news! I understand you have much content to index.
My interest in this is that I want to make it harder to use other people’s content for profit without giving proper credit or paying for it.
Flickr and Wikimedia Commons are two repositories for user generated content. Indexing these will help internet users to localize original work, identify where abuse of user content is taking place and notify the original creator.
We’ve had some problems in Sweden with Sveriges Radio, Sweden’s largest broadcaster of radio and owned by the state, abusing user generated content. If Flickr and Commons images were indexed it would be a lot easier to identify the origin of some of the images.
Toto Aug 20 12 at 8:14 amIs there a status update for indexing images on Wikimedia Commons?
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