Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos/Lists of articles with missing photos
This page contains categories of pages identified as needing photographs. For the English Wikipedia, a list of these pages ordered by importance/popularity can be obtained using WMFLabs' MassViews tool here: MassViews Analysis. (Allow a few minutes to load, due to the size of the list.)
Identifying Wikipedia articles needing images
You can provide a link to articles or category of articles needing images in your home Wikipedia
Using request categories
- en:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs
- en:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs by location
- For links to this category in other Wikipedia languages, click here for the options in Wikidata
- en:Category:Wikipedia requested images
- For links to this category in other Wikipedia languages, click here for the options in Wikidata
- en:Category:No_local_image_but_image_on_Wikidata
- For links to this category in other Wikipedia languages: click here
Combining categories with other sources of data to find articles that need images
You can combine other characteristics about articles into search results to get more interesting and limited.
Searching for articles with .jpg, .tiff, or .gif in the text
You can search through your Wikipedia for articles
- This is the search that removes this media files from the results for English Wikipedia
You can modify this search for specific categories using the search interface
- This search retrieves articles in the category about Irish women writers
- This search retrieves articles in the category tree about Ugandan Activists
Machine learning topics
For example, you can combine the category "Category:No local image but image on Wikidata" with topics defined by the ORES Machine learning model of topics. For example:
- Articles about topics related to Women in the Category with Images on Wikidata
- Articles about topics related to Biographies in the Category with Images on Wikidata
- Articles about topics related to Biographies and Africa with images on Wikidata
The topics for the machine learning model can be found here. Note that these articletopic models are only available on a limited number of wikis.
Combining search with Petscan
Or if you are interested in other kinds of intersections, you can produce similar data from combining categories, Wikidata or search results on Petscanː http://petscan.wmflabs.org/
Tools
FIST
The [tool] allows you to search for Free Images based on the topic. Note that queries that include a large number of images can be very slow.
Wikipedia To Do has an index of articles with missing images in certain languages
WDFIST
The WDFIST tool allows to assign images to Wikidata items. Any Wikidata item that is used in an Infobox can possibly automatically show the image, depending on the language infobox logic.