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Amateur photographers hope to fix Wikipedia's 'terrible' pictures


The site is littered with awful photos, particularly of celebrities - but a volunteer project is trying to fix that.

Some enthusiasts launched WikiPortraits, a project to recruit a group of volunteer photographers around the world and get them accreditation to attend film festivals, conferences and other events. He spoke to the BBC from Austin, Texas where he and fellow founder Jennifer Lee were covering the SXSW festival, complete with their own photo booth for set-up portraits. John Jumper, who won the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 2024 along with David Baker and Demis Hassabis, had his Wikipedia image updated by the WikiPotraits project

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