Hi everyone!

George Oates, the designer behind Flickr, Flickr Commons and Open Library (among others) has looked at Wikimedia Commons and gives tips from her perspective how it can be improved.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/10/29/george-oates-conversation/

The interview is also cross-posted to Medium, where you can leave comments:

https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/how-could-wikimedia-commons-be-improved-a-conversation-with-designer-george-oates-f67debbafe44

There's also discussion about this post going on at the Wikimedia Commons village pump, and in the Wikipedia Weekly Facebook group.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Blog_post:_interview_with_George_Oates_about_Wikimedia_Commons

https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/1879946208719868/

Cheers! Sandra

Sandra Fauconnier

Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation

Twitter: @glamwiki

How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM