On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Tom Morris <tom(a)tommorris.org> wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the best place to suggest
this, but one thing it'd
be great if Echo did: notify you when someone adds a photo you've created
to a page on a wiki.
Yep, this is a great place to suggest ideas like this. :)
Echo currently notifies you when someone adds a link
to a page you've
created, so why not an image too? There's obviously a potential issue here
with cross-wiki implementation. That is, I create an image and put it on
Commons, and someone adds it to English Wikipedia - do I get the
notification on Commons or English Wikipedia? As someone active on both,
I'd be okay with either, really. But if someone adds it to, say, Farsi
Wikinews, do I have to be active on there too in order to see the
notification, or would having it so that gets passed to Commons be more
useful?
That's an implementation detail. If I were notified every time images I'd
created were used on one of the projects, I'm pretty sure that would
motivate me to upload more images and make me feel happier about the work
put into taking the photos and uploading them. I may also be able to help
improve the article in which they are used or correct issues in said
article, or thank the person using the image. Building up those
relationships between image creators and article editors may lead to a bit
less of a 'culture clash' and distrust between them.
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/