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Profile images for Authors

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#3,667 opened on Aug 12, 2025

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When searching for authors or on an author page, there is no image to show their face.

Describe the solution you'd like There is an image for them. I would imagine the linked image from Wikimedia Commons/wikidata/wikipedia could be downloaded. It would be displayed with the caption, license and link to source.

Describe alternatives you've considered I don't think users should be able to add these images, or maybe only if an author doesn't have one from wikimedia.

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Research direction
Investigate how to fetch author images from Wikidata API, handle licenses, and integrate into existing author models and templates.
Tech stack
python
Domain
backendfrontend
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Feature
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3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Clear
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PythonDjangoAPI Integration
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50