Thanks Womble, this sounds interesting. Hopefully you wouldn't have to export - if a commons image is tagged via MG it could automatically trigger an edit on commons (w an approved bot).
This also reminds me a bit of some of the media metadata hacks wikihow worked on at one point. SJ On Aug 21, 2012 2:07 PM, "Robinson Tryon" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Wikimedia Commons folks! > > Metadata Games (MG) is a FOSS project that we've been working on at > Tiltfactor Lab at Dartmouth College. It's a bit of an experimental > project using online games to help with the collection of metadata for > images in various collections (libraries, archives, etc...). > > There's a bit of basic information up on the Tiltfactor website about > the background and main goals of the project: > http://www.tiltfactor.org/metadata-games > > And (because talk is cheap :-), source code is up on Gitorious here: > http://gitorious.org/metadatagames > > If you promise not to explode our server too much, you can point your > browser over to http://metadatagames.com and see a version of the > software in action. Right now that's pointing to a test install with > some pictures from Dartmouth's archives. We have some great > black-and-white images from old Winter Carnivals, as well as some more > modern color photographs from around the campus. We're mostly done > collecting data with that particular test, so feel free to play around > with the images and games we have up there. > > The MG system currently has a couple of different games for single and > multi-player tagging of images. In the next couple of months we're > hoping to add support for more media types (including audio and video) > as well as making some big improvements to the backend of the system > so that we can scale-up for big installs. > > We're currently collaborating with a couple of different groups > including the Rauner Library here at Dartmouth, and we're eager to see > more groups benefit from tagging media with MG. Sam Klein pinged me > about working with Wikimedia, and we'd definitely be excited to > collaborate on improvements or expansions to the current system. The > simplest way to use MG would just be to funnel images from Commons > through the system, and then export and use the highest-ranked tags. I > haven't been very active in the Wikimedia community for the last few > years, so I'm not quite up to date on all of the projects percolating > out there, but there might also be some more creative ways in which > the MG system could be employed :-) > > > Cheers, > Robinson Tryon > > (User:Womble on various wikimedia sites) > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >
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