A team with German university HTW Berlin has published a new project called Wikiview, a website that makes it easy to search for images in the Wikimedia Commons. With Wikiview, anyone can search for images related to a subject, then narrow down the results by adding other search terms, such as looking specifically for photos of old cars that are located outdoors.
Wikiview enables users to zoom in and out of the 2D image map used to present grid-based image results. When the user selects a particular image, it appears in a viewer sidebar alongside its title, the date it was taken, the license under which it was published, its author, and links to both its Wikimedia page and to similar image results. Users are able to directly download the image from Wikiview.
Wikiview is one of multiple sites that enables users to more easily find images shared under various licenses. Earlier this year, for example, Creative Commons launched an overhauled CC Search tool that serves as a portal to more than 300 million photos.
Needs links to actual wiki pages that uses the media. Of course this should be NECESSARY. What a ridiculous thing to just search for a picture & no reference to the core-related or intentional-source material.
This search will only be useful if it generates a list of Wikipedia or scholarly links that use the links. Otherwise, Google is far better for just random crap images. Doing a simple search on this site felt incredibly useless compared to google.
The only thing that would make it a nice tool is if it generated links for material associated with use, as limited to scholarly or high-standards specialized wiki use. In other words, filtering out the garbage that's included with Google.
As I mentioned below: Clicking on the WIKIMEDIA button on the left will take you to the Wikimedia page where the "Commons file usage" section is displayed. However, many of these images are not used on any Wiki page. The big difference to a Google search is that all these images can be freely used. You can even filter them by license type. It could be any idea for a filter to show only those images that are actually used by wiki.
I take it back... search function doens't work good enough (yet). Tried "Zuccari" -"Lucca" - "Painting" and all sorts of weird unrelated stuff turned out... Google Images is still best for this.
Currently, wikiview uses only a subset of 12 million of the 57 million Wikimedia images. This means many images are missing. Only tags derived from file names and additional predicted keywords are used to find matching images. A future version will use additional descriptions for the keyword search and an image graph that also takes the similarity based on metadata into account.
Of course this should be NECESSARY. What a ridiculous thing to just search for a picture & no reference to the core-related or intentional-source material.
This search will only be useful if it generates a list of Wikipedia or scholarly links that use the links. Otherwise, Google is far better for just random crap images.
Just tried it using Mountain and Wales. Two very funny things. A load of the images it turned up were mine; I might expect they'd find a few of mine, but to go directly to a load of mine was a bit strange. The other thing was that all the mountains were in Scotland not Wales!
For the moment wikiview uses keywords to find suiting images. However, many Wikimedia images are poorly tagged therefore additional keywords are predicted. The image in the center is a search result, surrounding images are determined purely by their visual similarity. This must mean that mountains from Wales and Scotland look very similar ;) A future version of wikiview will use an image graph which also considers similarity based on metadata.
One thing I noticed is that for example, if searching for Nikon D5000 you get pictures SHOT WITH a Nikon D500. You then have to specify Camera to narrow it to Cameras ...
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