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 !
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What is the ISA Tool ? *
ISAis a fun, multilingual, mobile-first/microcontributions/tool, that
makes it easy for (groups of) people to addstructured 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 forall media fileson 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
<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/