Hoi,
I am pretty sure that when we announce that the easy upload facility becomes
available in Indian languages once the software is localised there will be a
friendly competition what language gets the new functionality first.
<grin> when you add a competition that showers recognition on the first
Indian photographer who uploads a new picture and gets it featured on
Commons from the date of the availability in his or her language, we will
not only gain many localisations but also potentially many photos. Many
great photos even :) </grin>
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3 March 2011 23:29, Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 3/3/11 2:12 PM, Siebrand Mazeland wrote:
Op 03-03-11 22:25 schreef Neil
Kandalgaonkar<neilk(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
- How best to roll this out ?
Can the
roll-out be geo based? This will allow you to slowly grow usage
across different countries, and make it possible to most likely get
feedback from for example "language X" speakers. It would get you across
project communities, too.
I'm not sure I understand. What's the advantage of this? Will Germans
use it very differently from Americans? Does a publicized "now available
in your country" help create the nucleus of a community?
Another option would be a language/project based
incremental deployment.
Well, this is not slated for any Wikipedia (yet). We're focusing on
Commons, which is in theory multilingual.
- How to
monitor how this changes what gets uploaded, does it increase
copyvio, etc. Obviously if this starts to increase we want to pull back
and reassess.
You have to take a "0 measurement" now to be able to compare. Define
critical success factors, measure, deploy, measure again. Copyvio may be
hard to measure (additional tools/dev/work required). Survival rate of
one
month would for example be an easier indicator.
Our real critical success factor is increasing participation, the most
obvious would be a simple increase in volume of work submitted that
survives after a month.
One worry that people have voiced is that this will increased
*undetected* copyvio. The theory is that people who copyvio are apt to
be dissuaded by Commons' "traps" for the unwary. I am personally really
skeptical of that theory, but I recognize that we may be making it
easier to get through the process for copyvio people too.
Perhaps we need to take a sampling of photos and ... try harder to
determine copyright? Maybe contact the uploaders in question, if
possible, and just ask them what they thought they were doing? (I'm
assuming most copyvio is done in good faith).
--
Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk(a)wikimedia.org>
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