On 9/6/07, Ayelie ayelie.at.large@gmail.com wrote:
Definitely a good idea. There should be an announcement on the village pump and maybe a sitenotice with a link to the thread, even. Remind people that all their uploads should use the template, that they should go through old uploads and add it, etc...
I think we're doing okay on new uploads.. it's mostly old things (especially things transferred from other projects) which are problematic.
Before we begin the great campaign we should produce a list of best practices.
Does anyone disagree with these:
*Copy descriptive text into the description field. **Wrap it with a language template like {{en|this is a description}}. This encourages translation. **Be sure to wikilink useful words in the description back to the Wikipedia articles for that languages.
*Make sure the author field indicates the actual author and not just the uploader. Try to provide a link to the author if possible. For authors who are Wikimedians you should always be able to link to their userpage. **If you can't determine who the author is the image should probably be tagged for deletion.
*Never leave an image without one or more appropriate categories. An image without categorization is lost.
*If there is detailed enough location data consider [[Commons:Geocoding|geocoding]] the image.
*If the image has EXIF it may contain useful information, such as a creation date.
*May bad images and copyright violations are lurking in our old images. Apply good judgement: If something looks bad do something about it, don't just mindlessly update the page and move on. You are not a bot.