I don't dispute that CategorizationBot is enormously useful and has accomplished great things for Commons. I'm just saying that the user talkpage notices are a nag and are annoying. Combined with all the other bot and userscript notices, it creates an environment that is better described as "aggressive" and "bitey" than "friendly" or "welcoming". And I don't imagine that I'm the only person who has this opinion. Unfortunately, most of these notices are necessary by policy, but categorization notices aren't. So I think it would be better for CategorizationBot's user talkpage notices to be opt-in rather than opt-out. I'm sorry if I came across as being dismissive of your work. That certainly wasn't my intention. Your work is extremely important to Commons. I just didn't say that because I thought it was obvious :)
Ryan Kaldari On 2/28/11 1:53 PM, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > Op 22-2-2011 21:06, Ryan Kaldari schreef: > >> Speaking of friendliness on Commons, does CategorizationBot really need >> to post notices on both the File pages and User Talk pages? Maarten? >> > Yes. People tend not the notice things left on file pages. This way they > do notice. > > >> This seems overly aggressive to me. >> > Aggressive? What's aggressive? The fact that a user is kindly invited to > help out or the message itself? > A user is asked to help out because we're always low on people helping out. > The message is at > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Please_link_images . If you > don't like it, be bold and make it a better message. > > My categorization project started somewhere in 2008. I was tired on > stumbling upon uncategorized files. A lot of great photo's, but > impossible to find. So first I wrote something to find all uncategorized > files and tag them. Next step was to try to find categories for these > images. At some point I started notifying people to try to get them > involved. I don't know if it helped, what I do know is that the number > of uncategorized files is pretty stable around (100K) and that my bot > helped categorize over 200K files (probably even more). The full > statistics are at > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Categorization_stats > > The exact workings of the bot and frequently asked questions about the > bot are at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CategorizationBot . I > try to update this page based on the questions I get. Might be worth > reading. > > I don't consider it very friendly to dismiss my work as aggresive ;-) > > Maarten > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
