[Wikipedia-l] Automatic image tagging

[Magnus Manske]

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After just working my way through 150 untagged images on en.wikipedia
(an that is only a small fraction!) I thought about ways to improve the
tagging process.

Many of the images had no image description at all. But making
descriptions mandatory would only lead to things like "asdfghjk" as a
description. Having a mandatory dropdown box with licenses would make
things even worse, as newbies/vandals/people-who-don't-care might choose
one at random, making it much harder to find copyright violations. (They
can already do that by putting a false tag in the description, but that
requires knowledge of the tagging system and something bordering on
criminal energy).

So I thought, why not, upon upload of a new image, *automatically* add
"{{unverified}}" to any image dewscription that does *not* contain the
sequence "{{"? This is dead easy technically, and will bring untagged
images to our attention without wasting time and effort of people who
could do something more constructive.

Image descriptions that contain "{{" but *not* a copyright tag can still
be found through the current scanning process.

The "{{unverified}}" could be stored in [[Mediawiki:AutoImageTag]] or
something, so each wikipedia can use the one appropriate for the
language/tagging system.

Magnus

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