Hi Tom,

Thanks so much for this good suggestion!

We agree with you that this notification would make a lot of sense, and hope to make it possible in future releases, by completing these three successive steps:

1. Develop 'cross-wiki notifications' (our highest priority for 2013)
2. Develop and deploy 'file notifications' on Commons 
3. Develop 'your image was added to this article' and deploy on other wikis

Note that although these are all high priority items for us, they depend on our ability to allocate development resources to Echo later this year -- and the last two notifications would be created by the new multimedia team, once it has been hired (note that multimedia will be my next assignment as product manager, so expect to hear more from me on that front in coming weeks). 

So please be patient with us -- as most of our E2 development resources are now being shifted to Flow, to help get it up and running in coming months. :)

You can read more about our plans for Echo, Flow and E2 projects on this planning page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editor_Engagement/2013_strategy_planning_(Features)

Thanks again for this excellent suggestion, which we hope to develop very soon!


Fabrice


On Jun 18, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Steven Walling wrote:


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Tom Morris <tom@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.


On Jun 18, 2013, at 10:50 AM, David Gerard wrote:

On 18 June 2013 18:49, Tom Morris <tom@tommorris.org> wrote:

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.


+1


- d.


On Jun 18, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Tom Morris 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.

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.

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Tom Morris
http://tommorris.org/
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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Editor Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation


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