Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Multimedia and Commons/Enable a search by image in Commons

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Enable a search by image in Commons

Problem: Sometimes, e.g. when you have a file in your computer but you don't know its original name, or even if it's a file from Commons, the search for it can be fatiguing, by trying to guess its title.
Proposed solution: Enable a basic search engine by image just as Google Lens, showing the thumbnails of the wanted image along with the bests matches, if it doesn't exist yet.
Who would benefit: Users who need to find the origin of their images, or have forgotten it.
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Proposer: De un millón (talk) 21:49, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Images on Commons are usually well crawled by image search engines (to the point that it can hinder your effort to find if an upload is copyvio), so I doubt there's much demand for this, which I imagine wouldn't be a small undertaking. Nardog (talk) 13:30, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have a suggestion to this proposal. What about searching for metadata. Example: A photo has a bowling ball or it's related to bowling and it was taken in 2010. I search for: Bowling 2010. Goliv04053 (talk) 06:45, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The Wikimedia API already can check for file presence by checksum. The Commons Android app uses that to show you what files you have uploaded already. Syced (talk) 08:38, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support --NGC 54 (talk｜contribs) 01:45, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support * Pppery * _{it has begun} 03:54, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Goliv04053 (talk) 06:44, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support St. Andrews Drive (talk) 07:27, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Clic (talk) 09:21, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Radlna15 (talk) 10:09, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lvova (talk) 13:46, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tucvbif (talk) 14:38, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mike bzh (talk) 15:30, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tabrus (talk) 17:27, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support We should be able to search by images (like Google). Thingofme (talk) 03:45, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Locke Cole • t • c 04:24, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mauricio V. Genta (talk) 07:58, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Handelsgeselschaft (talk) 08:54, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fvtvr3r (talk) 14:28, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support EiersalatmitGurken (talk) 14:40, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support A11w1ss3nd (talk) 21:24, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Meganinja202 (talk) 15:30, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Laurent Meesseman (talk) 14:59, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Doktor Züm (talk) 06:41, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support אסתר66 (talk) 14:01, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support JFremd (talk) 16:07, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support cyrfaw (talk) 13:58, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kurmanbek ^💬 17:07, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support —‍CX Zoom (A/अ/অ) (let's talk|contribs) 21:23, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Herbert Ortner (talk) 12:36, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 15:48, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Scewing (talk) 21:03, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Not needed so much. — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 11:29, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Higa4 (talk) 09:35, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~ Seb35 [^_^] 00:22, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mehdi^Talk 05:53, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Althair (talk) 04:16, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support I do support all types of search options possible. It's weird, but you cannot find the photographs you contributed to Commons years ago. Juandev (talk) 11:04, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sumwiki (talk) 21:26, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 03:29, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]