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WikiPortraits mode for Wikinewsie
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Description

Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):

Enhanced functionality for news items featuring WikiPortraits images. Could also be applied to other image campaigns.

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):

Many of the top articles on Wikinewsie are pop culture figures or the works (films, shows, albums, matches) they appear in. And so many of them are illustrated with WikiPortraits photos that are especially relevant, particularly photos from recent premieres at film festivals.

When a Wikinewsie item is using a WikiPortraits image (either because it's in the article intro, or if it's added by a user), there should be an option to mark it as such, and link to the relevant Wikimedia Commons category for more WikiPortraits coverage of the event. This might also include a narrative report of the film festival or other event, included on the Commons category or elsewhere.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):

Greater visibility between projects, more context for pop culture items, and a capacity for some complementary original reporting from WikiPortraits contributors, in addition to their prodigious photographic output.

Event Timeline

there should be an option to mark it as such, and link to the relevant Wikimedia Commons category for more WikiPortraits coverage of the event

On top of our Commons categories, I'll share that we (WikiPortraits) have also built a separate platform to navigate WikiPortraits photos in a more dedicated media-first interface, more closely resembling what you might see on stock photo sites: https://photos.wikiportraits.org/

Example of URL for 2026 Sundance images: https://photos.wikiportraits.org/event/1102/2026-sundance-film-festival

Perhaps similar to the Wikinewsie prototype, our goal here was to break free from the confines of MediaWiki and make something that better serves our particular use cases (media-centric, filtering, bookmarking, etc.). There's of course good reason to link to the Commons categories (keeps users on the Wikimedia platforms, wiki-interface allows for expanding the category descriptions, etc.), but just throwing this out there in case it's helpful.

Yeah, more outlets is great! I guess I was thinking less of the Wikimedia Commons category per se, and more of whatever platform could host a narrative story connected to a set of photographs, which was one of the more interesting subgenres to emerge on the old Wikinews, e.g.: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Players_line_up_for_the_launch_of_the_Nintendo_Switch_2_in_New_York_City

The photo essay could be hosted on Commons, or on a secondary MediaWiki-ish site, but whatever it is, would be nice to be able to link to that from Wikinewsie.

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