Where can I publish photos on the web under an open licence?

In the UK we have a useful website, geograph.org.uk, that allows you to put photos up under CCBY. But it takes a long time to tag, geolocate, title, and caption a photo.

Are there any similar sites where I can just post the photo with a quick caption, and make it available under a Creative Commons licence?

Thanks.

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You could try Wikimedia Commons, you have to add some metadata but the app makes it relatively painless.

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The Upload Wizard is terribly slow, it took me more than 10 minutes to upload a photo.

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Have a look at Panoramax

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In terms of filling descriptions or specifically transmitting file?

Most transmitting the file (step 1) and the publication (last step).

wikimedia_commons was the target for me, because I wanted to add a link to wikimedia_commons of an artwork :slight_smile:

Edit:

It was probably a temporary issue. Another picture of another artwork was uploaded without such delays.

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Would Flickr work? It allows for captions and specifying a CC license. Not quite as free/libre as Wikimedia Commons, but could work if Wikimedia Commons’ criteria doesn’t fit your use case.

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Flickr has a limit of 1000 photos in their free plan: https://www.flickrhelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/13690320471060-Free-account-limit-changes-and-enforcement

(I’m a paying customer at Flickr since about 15 years :wink: )

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It may not fit your case but note that you can publish photos even on own site/repository and just mention that you are author and preferred license.

Though it may be for someone trivial or not easy at all.

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These are mostly pictures of mosques I’ve added to the map. Suitable for a subpage of my OSM wiki user page? Or not what it’s intended for?

The answer will probably depend on where you, or the photo is.

You mentioned geograph.org.uk, which has always covered the UK and Ireland but if you go up a level to https://www.geograph.org/ you will see that it now covers Germany.

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When it’s available again, you can also publish your photos under a Creative Commons licence on the Internet Archive (archive.org). There is no need to tag each individual photo in a single upload you can for example include several photos taken on a particular day or of a particular place. Like I’ve done here Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine. I’ve got over 20,000 photos on there now! The images are a bit more fiddly to browse than if they were uploaded and tagged individually, but I wouldn’t have had time to upload many images otherwise.

Note that at present it’s not possible to upload to the Internet Archive after the site was attacked recently, but it should hopefully be available again soon.

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Just want to add that if you do end up publishing on the Internet Archive, donate some money to them. They provide a really important service - an increasingly important service - for all of us.

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I would also that IA is at serious risk of disappearing due to that COVID Library when they decided to just ignore copyright - related legislation.

That case has come to an agreement, with the removal of 500,000 books.

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