Name that face—Wikimedia images
Proposal Type
Workshop
Location
Narratives & Worlds
Start Date
July 2026
End Date
July 2026
Abstract
Name that face—Wikimedia images
Wikipedia feeds AI, AI feeds the world’s knowledge. If electronic literature is not in Wikipedia, it will not be known. The first item in a Google search is usually the first two sentences of a Wikipedia article and an image.
As Rama et al, 2002 explained, “images help support reader information need when navigating through the site.” Moreover, images help Wikipedia’s navigation, as Rama et al. continues: “one in 29 pageviews results in a click on at least one image, one order of magnitude higher than interactions with other types of article content.
However, adding images to Wikimedia and then to Wikipedia is fraught with rules and protections against using copyrighted images. Photos of people will be denied if there are any recognizable copyrighted materials in the background, and photos of electronic literature works are problematic as they may be copyrighted. (Photos of book covers are ok while screenshots of electronic works are not.)
To get around this, we have been concentrating on images of elit writers and critics as a first step. In the 2025 in-person workshop, we took photos of many participants, with their permission, and added these images to Wikimedia. Now we need to identify these images, provide categories, and add them to Wikipedia pages as part of our Wikipedia project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Electronic_literature.
This workshop will:
- Explore what images can and cannot be added to Wikimedia
- Help us identify and categorize those photos we have taken and add them to infoboxes in the published articles
- Add more photos from the 2026 online conference, taken with permission and without copyright material in the background. Rama, D., Piccardi, T., Redi, M. et al. A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia. EPJ Data Sci. 11, 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-00312-8
Name that face—Wikimedia images
Narratives & Worlds
Name that face—Wikimedia images
Wikipedia feeds AI, AI feeds the world’s knowledge. If electronic literature is not in Wikipedia, it will not be known. The first item in a Google search is usually the first two sentences of a Wikipedia article and an image.
As Rama et al, 2002 explained, “images help support reader information need when navigating through the site.” Moreover, images help Wikipedia’s navigation, as Rama et al. continues: “one in 29 pageviews results in a click on at least one image, one order of magnitude higher than interactions with other types of article content.
However, adding images to Wikimedia and then to Wikipedia is fraught with rules and protections against using copyrighted images. Photos of people will be denied if there are any recognizable copyrighted materials in the background, and photos of electronic literature works are problematic as they may be copyrighted. (Photos of book covers are ok while screenshots of electronic works are not.)
To get around this, we have been concentrating on images of elit writers and critics as a first step. In the 2025 in-person workshop, we took photos of many participants, with their permission, and added these images to Wikimedia. Now we need to identify these images, provide categories, and add them to Wikipedia pages as part of our Wikipedia project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Electronic_literature.
This workshop will:
- Explore what images can and cannot be added to Wikimedia
- Help us identify and categorize those photos we have taken and add them to infoboxes in the published articles
- Add more photos from the 2026 online conference, taken with permission and without copyright material in the background. Rama, D., Piccardi, T., Redi, M. et al. A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia. EPJ Data Sci. 11, 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-00312-8
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/narrativesandworlds/schedule/1
Bio
Deena Larsen and Lyle Skains first started this project with the Women Electronic Literature Writers in Wikipedia Taskforce to help address the glaring issue of women's bios in Wikipedia (only 13% of editors are women, only 19% of articles are about women). We continue to meet every Third Thursday at 3 pm UTC and have made progress. Please help with this ongoing effort by adding your information to https://tinyurl.com/elitinfo.