Bala, that is great news indeed. 8K utilisations! Magnificient. Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Bala Jeyaraman <sodabot...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ashwin, > Thanks for the suggestions. But the contest deliberately kept the entry > barriers low - the contest was for the uploads alone. So we are not > considering any additional behaviour (categorising, clear descriptions, > usage suggestions) for the prizes. > > Too add to Srikanth L's points on the tamil wiki media contest, these are > some of the preliminary lessons learnt (the official report will carry the > complete list): > > 1) The commons admins/maintenance activity oriented users are even more > overworked than en wiki. If we are bringing files there through our > activities, we carry the responsibility to not to overburden them. We > realised this and have formed a team from ta wiki, which is doing the > categorising and adding descriptions. (This team just coalesced on its own, > without any conscious effort on the organisers part and is doing well aided > by commons regulars).[1] Two of us have applied for and got file mover > rights and two more have obtained AWB rights for doing cleanup. > Categorisation is about 90 percent complete now. > > We plan to finish the clean up (copyvio tagging / rotating/ cropping / > description / categorising/ watermark removal) for all the files that were > uploaded as part of the after contest efforts. > > The priority for us is 1)eliminating copyvio 2)clear > filenames/descriptions 3)rotations 4)categorisaton > > And do the categorisation using people who are familiar with it in your > own wikis (to avoid redundancy and errors like Beria points out). Dont do > categorisation drives by people who aren't familiar with how and why > categorising should be done. > > 2) Let contestants know where the images go and what they are used for. > This will earn our wikis more active users. We managed to do this for part > of the contestants - couldnt reach them all. But to my knowledge, ta wiki > has gained atleast half a dozen new users who are using their files and > some are even writing new articles for using their entries. Once they > became involved, they are involving themselves in further activities in > commons too. > > 3) Of the 15k odd files uploaded as part of the contest 8k are being used > in various wiki projects and counting multiple usage, across all wikis > there are a total of 11k file usage instances. > > 4) Taking cue from WLM Europe, we are planning a followup message on all > uploaders talk pages (and email if their email facility is enabled) > thanking them and telling them of furthur activities they can take part of. > > > ==Links== > 1) > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked&limit=250&target=Category%3ATamilWiki_Media_Contest > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Noopur <noopur.ra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just to add to what Konarak and Ashwin said, I am guilty as charged. We >> kept the Category:Ahmedabad_1 to avoid flooding the popular category. It >> was decided to serve as the ''maintenance category'' but none of us really >> got around to transferring images to the Ahmedabad category or cleaning up. >> There are several reasons for this: >> >> 1) People started using images from Ahmedabad_1 soon after the event to >> make Ahmedabad articles. So, the attention was diverted there. >> >> 2) Personally, I was unclear as to whether all these images had to be >> migrated because of course some are repetitive and redundant. But, I/We are >> no one to judge whose image stays or goes. >> >> 3) Since then and since the Tamil Wikimedia contest I have been >> contemplating on things: >> How can we minimize and optimize image uploads? Can we set parameters in >> the contest format so that everyone can contribute but its more diverse in >> terms of results? Maybe we should generate a more exhaustive list of items? >> Also, are there guidelines for maintenance that we can make (5-7 points) so >> that the organizers can follow that up too (just in case they aren't aware >> or don't know how to)? >> >> Do let me know what you guys think! >> Regards >> Noopur >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Konarak Ratnakar <konarak...@live.com>wrote: >> >>> Agreed, I wasn't involved in editing until the Ahmedabad photowalk >>> happened, else I'd have helped. >>> I suggest we should segregate the photos in sub categories, while >>> keeping track of those identical images that should be deleted. >>> >>> Konarak Ratnakar | kondi >>> ------------------------------ >>> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:09:10 +0530 >>> From: ashwin.bain...@gmail.com >>> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and >>> other events >>> >>> >>> Yes, Konark. But I do not want to point figures to one event. In my view >>> all events are culprits. >>> >>> Imagine the problem of processing 15K images of the Tamil contest - I >>> shudder to think! >>> >>> Suggestion : No image should be considered eligible for competition till >>> it is uploaded with : >>> * proper description. >>> * suggested/recommended article for image use or for creation. >>> * proper categorisation in Commons. >>> >>> Have volunteers available to help photographers. The photothon should >>> end in an uploading function where volunteers help in these aspects. >>> >>> Warm regards, >>> >>> Ashwin Baindur >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Konarak Ratnakar >>> <konarak...@live.com>wrote: >>> >>> The question just got asked when I was about to ask it. >>> >>> The problem is that the organisers end their activities with the upload >>> of hundreds of images. The cleanup is expected to be done by un-named, >>> unknown others. The encyclopedic value of the images that the people took >>> in the photothon never get realised. >>> >>> >>> The organisers of any photothon must realise that the photothon should >>> end only after the Juice is squeezed out of each image. Better to have 50 >>> good images, catalogued and embellishing articles than thousands "[[waiting >>> for Godot]]". >>> >>> >>> Take a look at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_1 >>> you're >>> talking about something like this, right Ashwin? >>> >>> Konarak Ratnakar | kondi >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing >>> list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list >>> / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Noopur Raval >> Student >> Arts and Aesthetics >> Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi >> Ph: 9650567690 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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