I believe the Geograph images (the UK landscape pictures of which you speak) may be slightly more than 80,000 images...
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru>wrote: > Consider, for example, that Zynga and Facebook have successfully managed to >> get millions of people to log in at all hours of the night to milk >> virtualcows and harvest virtual beans (or whatever it is that people >> actually do in Farmville). Could we do something similar to drive >> particpation, particularly in editing areas that don't require >> long-duration sessions (e.g. adding or verifying citations, categorizing >> articles, etc.)? Even a few percent of Farmville's user base would be an >> order-of-magnitude increase of our own editor base; and if the price for >> that is letting these editors display Citationville badges on their user >> pages and send each other silly messages, is it not worth it? >> >> > This is actually a very good example. Imagine this happened, and we got > for several hours a million of users who do not know anything about BLP, > verifiability, POV, notability, and other issues. Would we be able to clean > up their edits? I doubt it. If I remember well, when 80K landscape pictures > of British Isles were donated to Commons more than a year ago (which is > certainly a good thing), they were not categorized, and many of them > (several dozen of thousands) remained uncategorized last time I checked. We > will not just be able to digest this. > > The way out obviously that we do not have a million random editors. We > want a million of editors who understand basic principles and know what > they want to do. I just do not see how it could happen. When I personally > ask my friends to upload photos which are clearly needed (for instance, to > illustrate an already existing article), my best success is to ask them to > send a mail to OTRS, and then I upload photos myself. And uploading a photo > is generally easier than to find a category for an article or to source a > statement. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org <Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
