This does for a much more difficult community to get into or to interact with, I think. And it’s a shame, really, because I think both “contextualisations” are equally important. Images should be studied, appreciated, looked at both for themselves and for their historical, encyclopedic and educational value.

Unfortunately, Wikimedia Commons still has not found its exact scope. It’s still hesitating between being exclusively there for Wikimedia Projects and becoming the biggest multimedia repository on the net. I think that the success of GLAM-Wikimedia relationships in terms of images goes through a clear streategical positionning of Wikimedia Commons in that regard.