Re: [Commons-l] [Wikimedia-l] Classification/Categorization games for Commons? - Commons-l

6 Jun 2018

Hey Yaroslav and Asaf,

...
 From the SDC team perspective, I think it would
definitely be preferable for such a tool to include/anticipate the need for
structured data on
Commons, or default to filling in Depicts and/or other structure data
fields. Building more tools which generate categories by default would
definitely be a bit counter-productive (and hard on multilingual
contributors). One option, might be designing such a tool to work with
Artworks and other unique objects (like photographs) already on Wikidata,
and then have it prepared to hook up with the  Wikibase/Structured data
features that will go live on Commons in the fall.

Cheers,

Alex

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Asaf Bartov &lt;abartov(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote:

...
  Absolutely; I wanted to know if such a tool perhaps
already exists.  If one
 does not, then definitely, if we develop a tool, it should look to the
 future and be based on Structured Data on Commons already!

    A.

 On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:54 PM Yaroslav Blanter &lt;ymbalt(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

  I think it is pretty similar to what we have
built in Wikidata, Do
 Structured Commons folks want to comment?

 Cheers
 Yaroslav

 On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Asaf Bartov &lt;abartov(a)wikimedia.org&gt;  wrote:

 > Hi, folks.
 >
 > It occurs to me there are tens or hundreds of thousands of images  donated
   en masse
(GLAM etc.) that are only categorized as "image from X  collection"
  or "Files donated by X", i.e.
essentially uncategorized by content.

 This obviously greatly reduces the likelihood of discoverability and
 re-use.  But it's hard to find such files, and the massive categories
 (thousands of files, often) don't make organizing the work easy.

 I'm think of a gamified interface -- à la Wikidata Game -- that would  let a
  volunteer (after OAuth identification) pick a
category (from a pre-fed  list
  of massive categories of donated files) and show
one photo from the
 category that has only that category listed (i.e. has no categorization  by
  content), and let the volunteer type (with
auto-complete, like HotCat)  some
  appropriate categories and hit Save, and the
categories would be added,  and
 > the next file shown.
 >
 > (Optionally, a second layer of verification could be added, where
 > volunteers would [also] be invited to vet or change previous  volunteers'

categorization, and actual change to categories on Commons would only  take
 > place after 2 (or N) users approved the categories.  I'm not at all  sure
  > this is needed, and I think we can start
without it and see how it  goes.)

 So, does something like this exist?  If not, who wants to build it? :)

    A.
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