On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:49 PM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/7/21 Andrew Gray <[email protected]>: >> 2009/7/21 Carcharoth <[email protected]>: > >>> Yes, you are right. So how did we get to OTRS instead of directing >>> people to the Upload button? I'm confused now. I'm sure there was a >>> reason for using OTRS instead of telling people to Upload. I think the > >> I believe one of the main issues is that a lot of people are more >> comfortable with emailing in a photograph, and us doing the >> administrative tasks, than with the whole hassle of creating an >> account, uploading it, figuring out the commons/wikipedia divide, >> learning the syntax to put it in an article... > > > Yeah. Some people are happy to contribute things but aren't terribly > interested in getting involved in the community, etc. > > e.g. a friend got a picture of a [[hoopoe]] in the middle of its > sunbasking behaviour. I asked for the pic for Wikimedia, worked out > the license and the credit line, uploaded them and added the pic to > the article: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoopoe#Behaviour > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sbuchner_20090712_hoopoe4.jpg > > (There's a suggested credit line for the CC by-sa, though I did point > out that sites reusing the image would often just print her name and > technically be in compliance - but asking nicely for the links doesn't > hurt and will often get them.)
I've created a mockup "mail in your pictures" text here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Image_submission Would that be sufficient for OTRS? (It should be IMHO; it's what we get when people upload directly, plus email address!) Magnus _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
