Made a list of MPs on Wikidata without images, and (possible) image matches:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/MP_image_candidates Requires some manual weeding though. Mix'n'match not really good for the job. On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 4:01 PM Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, the whole collection of current MPs has been uploaded as of this > afternoon. I noticed that some current MPs have no photograph released > so far, such as Dame Rosie Winterton. If someone pings me, I can run > an update very easily, so long as the site does not change its layout. > > A few were loaded locally to the English Wikipedia by other people. > Where local versions are being used in articles, I recommend these are > swapped to Commons, to encourage articles in other languages to use > them. At some point I guess the portrait photos will be sucked into > Wikidata, which may enable auto-illustrated infoboxes... ;-) > > Thanks, > Fae > -- > fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > On 27 July 2017 at 15:50, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > > On 21 July 2017 at 19:36, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> > wrote: > > > >> the Parliamentary Digital Service announce and preview their > >> forthcoming release of a set of portrait photographs of 620 of the 650 > >> UK MPs. Pictures of Peers and Parliamentary staff (and hopefully the > >> missing MPs) are also planned. > > > > Most (probably all?) of the pics are now in: > > > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Official_United_Kingdom_Parliamentary_photographs_2017 > > > > (Thanks, Fae!) > > > > Please help to add these to the relevant Wikidata items, along with > > the categories that are currently being created, and to Wikipedias in > > your various languages > > > > There are four images for each MP. I suggest that the "crop 2" format > > is most suitable; and please use those with names beginning "Official > > portrait of " as other, duplicate, versions are liable to be deleted. > > > > -- > > Andy Mabbett > > @pigsonthewing > > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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