Are you interested in micro-contributions? I'm forwarding this email on the
ISA campaign about Women in Art:
https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/300
Happy contributions!
Tila Cappelletto (she/ela/ella)
Senior Program Officer, Gender Organizing
Wikimedia Foundation
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From: Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2024, 16:05
Subject: [African Wikimedians] ISA Tool and Women Rights Month : improve
the images description in [[category:Women in Art]]
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <
african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>gt;, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
<Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>, Wikimedia Mailing List <
Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear friends
A few days ago, in a diff article (1), we told you the story on how we
improved the ISA Tool (2) during a co-organized Hackathon (3).
Key outome is... we are happy to announce that a new version of the ISA
Tool is now available on toolforge for you to use. Whilst the tool would
still welcome your technical attention, we were able to fix critical bugs
and to implement some improvements.
After nearly a year dormant, ISA is back !
* What is the ISA Tool ? *
ISA is a fun, multilingual, mobile-first *microcontributions* tool, that
makes it easy for (groups of) people to add structured data
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Structured_data>
to images on Wikimedia Commons.
With ISA, you can choose a pre-defined set of images on Commons and then
ask contributors to 'tag' these with multilingual structured metadata.
Points are counted for each contribution, and therefore it is possible to
organize 'tagging' or microcontributions competitions or challenges with
ISA. Or you can compete against yourself :)
ISA was originally built to provide better multilingual and structured
descriptions of Wiki Loves Africa images (4). But it is also developed to
be useful to all of the Wiki Loves X competitions, and eventually ended up
being meant for all media files on Wikimedia Commons. More info here: (5)
*Campaign #300*
To celebrate both the relaunch AND Women's Rights Month, and to demonstrate
how the ISA tool works, we are launching an ISA campaign about Women in Art.
This is happening here :
https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/300
Your contributions, small or big, are welcome to improve the category:Women
in Art
*Create your own campaigns ?*
You are welcome to create your own campaigns (or join older ones). Just
make sure to log-in and you are good to go.
A piece of advice though... make sure not to create very big campaigns with
thousands and thousands of images. Toolforge does not digest huge sets very
well.
500 is ok. 8000 is ok. 200 000 images... is beyond its capacity. We are
still testing and improving. If you see anything weird or broken, please
report here (7)
Best regards
Anthere
(1) the diff article :
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/03/13/the-triumph-of-wiki-mentor-africas-fi…
(2) the tool :
https://isa.toolforge.org/
(3) the January hackathon :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wiki_Mentor_Africa_Hackathon_2024
(4) the tool page on Commons :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:ISA_Tool
(5) opportunity to remind that Wiki Loves Africa is happening right now :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2024
(6) women in art campaign :
https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/300
(7) phabricator:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/3981/
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