Hoi,
I do not know if you were present at the recent chat, I could not be there
but I could read the log ... You may have been at the chat, you may have
read the log [1].
I did read the log and it did not motivate me at all. If anything it made
me sad. From what I read, people were concerned about the things they are
currently working on and it was all about ensuring that nothing would be
lost nothing would change really.
I did not get any feeling for the reasons why the Wikidatification of media
files is worthwhile. I feel really bad about this because the purpose of it
all is so important.
It is all about PEOPLE.
People that will find images with "een hond, een kat, een paard" or "ein
Hund, eine Katze, ein Pferd" ....
When these people are eight years old and "only" 50% of pictures with such
a subject like dog cat or horse can be found in this way, we have
accomplished a lot. It is a 100% improvement.
All the current categories and templates have their place and the
information that is in that data will be converted straight away or
eventually. It does not matter really, What matters is that we focus on the
application of what we do. Who benefits, how do we transition to where we
want to be. How do we make sure that we gain the most of all the work we
do, have done and will do.
It starts with obvious benefits.. Enabling people to use the media files is
what the wikidatification of media files is about. That may already be too
abstract; when it is, it is about finding doggies, kitties and horsies..
When the Wikidatification is about such tangible objectives, who will
object ? With objectives like that, the devil is still in the detail but we
will see the forest from the trees.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2014/wikimedia-office.2014-09-03-18.00.log.html
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