I think it is pretty similar to what we have built in Wikidata, Do Structured Commons folks want to comment?
Cheers Yaroslav On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi, folks. > > It occurs to me there are tens or hundreds of thousands of images donated > en masse (GLAM etc.) that are only categorized as "image from X collection" > or "Files donated by X", i.e. essentially uncategorized by content. > > This obviously greatly reduces the likelihood of discoverability and > re-use. But it's hard to find such files, and the massive categories > (thousands of files, often) don't make organizing the work easy. > > I'm think of a gamified interface -- à la Wikidata Game -- that would let a > volunteer (after OAuth identification) pick a category (from a pre-fed list > of massive categories of donated files) and show one photo from the > category that has only that category listed (i.e. has no categorization by > content), and let the volunteer type (with auto-complete, like HotCat) some > appropriate categories and hit Save, and the categories would be added, and > the next file shown. > > (Optionally, a second layer of verification could be added, where > volunteers would [also] be invited to vet or change previous volunteers' > categorization, and actual change to categories on Commons would only take > place after 2 (or N) users approved the categories. I'm not at all sure > this is needed, and I think we can start without it and see how it goes.) > > So, does something like this exist? If not, who wants to build it? :) > > A. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
