Volunteer photographers are fixing Wikipedia’s terrible celebrity headshots

Go to a profile of any celebrity on Wikipedia and it’s quite possible that you’ll be met with a terrible photo of them. Such images are often old or out of focus, perhaps captured candidly on a smartphone at a public event. A group of volunteer photographers has set out to fix that, as 404 Media reports.

Any media uploaded to Wikipedia has to be made freely available for anyone to use. Given that professional photographers want to make money from their work, they don’t tend to share their photos there.

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