Daniel Schwen wrote:
>> than having the users publish their location so they can be bugged about it.
> The idea was to have users "subscribe" to a feed (possibly posted by a
> bot onto a subpage in their user space). Articles are geocoded in any
> case so it makes perfect sense to have users post their location and
> have a bot match articles with missing images to users in the area. It
> also would make "requests for better images" feasible if they would
> get pushed to the user, instead of them having to check for potential
> work.
> Why would you even call this "bugging" the users? People sign up for a
> reason, and that is to contribute, not to be left alone.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geocode_Users?withJS=MediaWiki:Geocode_Users.js
seem to be just a way to geotag users. I don't see such feed. Perhaps
I'm missing something.

I think that a toolserver page for 'How can I help in this area?' would
be preferable.


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