<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>I'd also be interested in contributing-- the BLP experience of last week was incredibly enlightening, and got me thinking about access... having the right key unlocked a wealth of knowledge and aid. How to make that key more widely available, or second nature/common knowledge? I'm hoping to blog about it soon. In any case, I'd like to come at some of the HOW-TO issues in general from that noob perspective.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div>dz<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; 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<br><div><div>On May 16, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Sarah Stierch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sarah@sarahstierch.com">sarah@sarahstierch.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 5/16/2011 11:49 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote:<br>
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I'm working on diving into the HOW-TO this summer for Wiki. I do
want to see all of these topics covered - and I'll contribute in
anyway I can. Where do we start? ;-) </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Sarah,</div><div><br></div><div>I'd be really happy to work on this with you! (And anyone else).</div><div><br></div><div>My sense is that there's a lot of work to do in identifying the problem -- or rather, evaluating the collection of interrelated issues, and determining where it's best to focus. The things that seem significant to me are:</div>
<div><br></div><div>(1) Picture of the Day on Commons often seems to be the source of unnecessary strife (moreso than, say, PotD on English Wikipedia);</div><div>(2) It appears that there is not a clearly identified set of editorial values around what DOES constitute a worthwhile PotD on Commons;</div>
<div>(3) The technical and social processes for setting a PotD are difficult to understand and poorly documented.</div><div><br></div><div>How about if we collaborate a bit on documenting how things currently work? I think that process will point the way toward recommending a solution.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've set up a page for this project, if you're game! <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Peteforsyth/PotD">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Peteforsyth/PotD</a></div><div><br>
</div><div>-Pete</div></div>
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