On 23 February 2011 17:40, Paul Houle paul@ontology2.com wrote:
If you wanted to encourage a 'game mechanic' in Commons, I think you'd want to make it first of all a friendly competition to 'catch them all' and secondarily a competition to get better quality photographs. I think the ideal Commons photographer would be a person who's interested in some specific category (say going to concerts and snapping pictures of musicians or taking pictures of birds.) To support this there's a need for tools that make it clear where the holes are, both in the sense of "We don't have any pictures of X" or "We'd like to get better pictures of X".
Problem is that this is in practice a far better fit for wikipedia where such lists are generated in passing than commons.
For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_the_World_in_100_Objects#Objects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Photos_requested#A_History_of...