Wikipedia + Flickr = Fotopedia

Josef Davies-Coates

Sep 14, 2009 • 1 min read

I am a huge fan of Wikipedia, one of the greatest achievements of sharing; I also enjoy wandering around Flickr, although its lack of over-arching organisation makes that hard to do. Maybe this is perfect solution: Fotopedia, “the first collaborative photo encyclopedia”, which uses text from Wikipedia, but only to provide what amount to extended captions for the pix, which are generally very attractive.

It’s not the first to do this – VisWiki has been around for some time – but Fotopedia seems to take a much more visual approach, which I find very pleasing, because it creates more than just a highly-illustrated version of Wikipedia. Articles and their pix are a little thin on the ground at the moment, but with any luck, that won’t be the case for long once word gets out – and pictures start pouring in.

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