I though that this was what user sub-pages were about. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rama/test
-- Rama On 24/02/2011, Stan Shebs <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/23/11 6:20 PM, geni wrote: >> On 23 February 2011 17:40, Paul Houle<[email protected]> wrote: >>> If you wanted to encourage a 'game mechanic' in Commons, I think >>> you'd want to make it first of all a friendly competition to 'catch them >>> all' and secondarily a competition to get better quality photographs. I >>> think the ideal Commons photographer would be a person who's interested >>> in some specific category (say going to concerts and snapping pictures >>> of musicians or taking pictures of birds.) To support this there's a >>> need for tools that make it clear where the holes are, both in the >>> sense of "We don't have any pictures of X" or "We'd like to get better >>> pictures of X". >> Problem is that this is in practice a far better fit for wikipedia >> where such lists are generated in passing than commons. >> >> For example: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_the_World_in_100_Objects#Objects >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Photos_requested#A_History_of_the_World_in_100_Objects > > To take an example from my activity, much of my plant photography is > motivated by checking off a published list of the thousand-odd taxa > recorded in the Spring Mountains west of Las Vegas. I've been doing > penciled annotation of the physical list, partly because I don't want to > have to fight over having a WP or commons version of the list. It would > be very convenient to have it in commons to track what pics we are still > looking for, and be able to point my fellow Vegas plant people at it, > but I just know that there would be a nonstop parade of busybodies > arguing that the list (full of redlinks ZOMG!) is inappropriate for commons. > > There are all kinds of possible experiments, but we need to get back to > a spirit of being willing to try stuff, and not forbidding everything > that doesn't adhere to a narrow view of what commons is good for. > > Stan > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
