Hello all,
Thanks, Remi, for posting this summary of the French discussion.
Regarding the way illustrations would be done :
* The images should have a very high quality: they should be reviewed both
by good graphists and by people who know the topic. Images should be
assessed both regarding their accuracy, their use of colours, their possible
internationalisation, etc. : fr.graphists said that payment should be done
after quality has been acknowledged.
Yes, that will happen by the Review group.
High quality means using good sources: these
sources should be sought
beforehand and approved by people involved (zoologists for animal diagrams,
for instance). This is a key point for making good diagrams. The source(s)
should be quoted/acknowledged on the image description page.
I don't know about pre-approving the sources, but illustrators will be
required to list the sources and references they use so that they can
be verified.
* Some fr.graphists were anxious about a possible
"en.wikipedia-centrism",
meaning that some illustrations would be useful to the en.wikipedia project
but maybe not to others. This can work the other way around too (Wikipedia
vs. Wikibooks, etc.). This also means that they should be easy to translate
(maybe problematic when jargon or technical language is used). Maybe
illustrations for "core topics" should have higher priority as well...
Yes, to avoid any kind of "centrism" I will finalise the request list
myself. It won't just necessarily be whatever anybody suggests.
To have a look at the kind of requests that are being made so far (or
to make a request yourself), please see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Reques…
. I will make comments so people can see what kind of requests are
likely to make the final list and which are not.
Thankyou very much to the French graphists for all their thoughtful
comments and to Remi for summarising them. Many of them I had already
thought to do and the others I will keep in mind as the project goes
on.
cheers,
Brianna
Project coordinator