New subject: Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] Photo submission queue needs more people

11 Feb 2008

Forwarded here at Mark's request (there's something odd in Mailman
that ate the last copy).

Any OTRS volunteers on this list? Please lend your Commons experience :-)

- d.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark Pellegrini &lt;mapellegrini(a)comcast.net&gt;
Date: 11 Feb 2008 06:29
Subject: [Wmfcc-l] Photo submission queue needs more people
To: Communications Committee &lt;wmfcc-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, English
OTRS discussion list &lt;otrs-en-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;

I'd like to start this email off by saying that I think the photo
submission OTRS queue is working very well. Too well, in fact - it's
becoming clear that I cannot do it all by myself anymore. Yesterday, for
example, there were a series of anti-scientology protests across the
world. The wikinews article specifically encouraged people to submit
photos to the photo submission queue. When I went to tend the queue, it
had half-a-dozen emails containing in excess of 50 pictures.

I'd like a few (2-4) more people to have access to the photo submission
queue. But, I'd like those people to understand that unlike the rest of
OTRS (which is dominated by a desire to reply to emails as rapidly as
possible, using impersonal form replies that tell people how they can do
it themselves) the photo submission queue is designed explicitly to make
it easy for 3rd parties to submit photos to us. If you have a picture
you think we will want, email it to us and we'll do the rest of the
work.* (Note: to avoid the system becoming too popular, for the time
being I have explicitely limited it to people; however, this has not
stopped others from emailing in all sorts of things, from the
anti-scientology protests to someone's picture of his pet catfish) To
that end, the photo submissions queue typically requires substantially
more work for me (us) on a case-by-case basis. However, this system has
definite, tangible benefits over a do-it-yourself system (ticket
#2008012210019431, for example -- a guy emailed info-en with a photo and
received a two-page long list of steps to create an account and upload
it. Off-put, he emailed the photo submission queue and had a much nicer
experience) If anyone is interested in working on the photo submissions
queue, please reply to this and let me know. (Note: A working knowledge
of copyright issues is absolutely essential)

* - Provided your email includes a statement that you own the copyright
and agree to license it under a free license, preferably CC-BY-SA-3.0

-Mark

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