Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2023

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Petscan

Petscan may be used to find articles that don't have photos in your preferred language. The steps are highlighted below:

Go to http://petscan.wmflabs.org
From Categories tab, you can select your language code (ar, en, sk for example)
Select articles category in this language Wiki. For example the category "Monuments and Memorials in Lagos" on en:wiki
Click on the "Page Property" tab, then select "Lead image=No".
Click on do it.

Once this is done, the list of articles in that category with no photos would be generated. Then go to Wikimedia Commons to search for corresponding images with the article title.

Photography contests

You can find the photos uploaded as part of Wikipedia's major annual photography contests here (with themes for Africa):

Photowalks

You can find the photos uploaded as part of photowalks here

Image donations on Commons

Wikipedia articles needing images

In these categories, see the sidebar under Languages for links to articles needing images in your home Wikipedia

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. (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

Category:Wikipedia requested photographs
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs by location
- See the options in Wikidata for links to this category in other Wikipedia languages.
Category:Wikipedia requested images
- See the options in Wikidata for links to this category in other Wikipedia languages.
Category:No local image but image on Wikidata
- See the options in Wikidata for links to this category in other Wikipedia languages.

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

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 Petscan.

Suggestion of image insertion of an article based on its presence on the equivalent article of another language wikipedia

Aka, redlist for images, using Glamify tool.

Many "red" lists have been created for Wiki Loves Africa.

Tools

WD4WP

WD4WP is a new tool developed for the WPWP has an index of articles with missing images in certain languages.

Rules on usage;

Before inserting a file from wd4wp, check if it is pertinent, appropriate and of sufficient quality for the article.
Check if somebody else has already inserted it.
Check if somebody else has inserted it previously but was reverted.
Check if some other, similar or better image is already in the article.
In particular, do not use the first few pages of the suggestion list. By now, the first 200 or so entries contain virtually nothing but false positives – images that have been inserted in those pages multiple times by multiple participants of the contest, but have all been reverted as inappropriate.
Participants who continue to blindly reinsert these risk being blocked for edit-warring.

WDFIST

The WDFIST tool allows to assign images to Wikdata items.

Any Wikidata item that is used in an Infobox can possibly automatically show the image, depending on the language infobox logic.

File Candidates

FileCandidates has pre-compiled lists of potential images on Commons (as well as free images on Flickr that can be transferred to Commons) for Wikidata items. A Commons image found for a Wikidata item can then be used on the corresponding Wikipedia article.

WikiShootMe

WikiShootMe shows Wikidata items, marked as with and without image, Wikipedia articles, Commons images, and others on a map. Ideal if you are physically in a location and want to see what objects around you need an image on Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Also:

Infoboxes without images on Commons: a category of 800K+ categories on Commons that have a wikidata box but no image.

Other resources

CC Search (free-licensed images search engine from Creative Commons)