On 06/09/2011 11:10, Laura Hale wrote:
From a women's sport perspective, we could really, really use some
images featuring women's sport and encouraging people to post images
of their friends and family to demonstrate certain things feels wholly
appropriate.
Ah yes, when there is a lack of images, certainly.
I was rather thinking of already very documented topics, and a certain
type of illiterate population equipped with silly smartphones, like :
Article Baby : Picture of MY baby smiling, straight from my smartphone.
He is so cute you're a Nazi if you refuse publication.
Or if there was an abundance of photographs in the sports you mention,
that would be :
Gymnastics : MY daughter shining at the local championship. Not YOURS.
You can see that on Panoramio already, like :
Eiffel Tower : Picture of my girl-friend and her brother in front of the
Eiffel Tower.
Such pictures require a lot of editing from Panoramio volunteers, which
is done for important places, but the more you chose unknown places the
more you find silly pictures. It was so endemic that they decided there
should be a review step before allowing pictures to appear from
Panoramio to Google Earth. There are thousands of irrelevant or to poor
quality photos uploaded everyday.
In the case of Wikipedia, I think such "authors" would not even care to
read the article. Maybe they will even have an iphone or android app to
directly upload a smartphone picture to WP, without caring about what is
written in the article.
That's my Prophecy of the Smartphones of Doom.
Can anybody confirm that there have already been invasions of "authors"
contributing uniquely to post photos of their personal lives ?
Arnaud