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Wikimedia Commons has more than 100 million freely licensed media files, but many photos still lack structured metadata saying who is in the image. On Commons, that information is usually added through Structured Data on Commons , using the P180 depicts property. When those statements are missing, images are harder to find, reuse, and connect to the rest of the Wikimedia ecosystem. That problem is especially visible for photos of people, where contributors still have to identify the subject and add the metadata by hand. I built WikiVisage to make that process easier. It is an open source Toolforge tool that helps contributors review faces in Commons images, suggest matches for a specific Wikidata item, and then write approved depicts statements back to Commons. The tool is available at https://wikivisage.toolforge.org/ . The basic workflow is simple. A contributor starts a project with a Wikidata item and a Commons category.…

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