Hello,
You’re invited to make our images more accessible and discoverable:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Image_Description_Week
Images on Wikipedia are used for more than just illustration, but less than
half of them are contextualized by a caption that relates the image to the
article, and only 10% have some form of alternative text (‘alt text’) that
describes the visual content of the image for people with low or no
vision. Our lack of image description not only limits the accessibility of
content on Wikipedia, it also reduces the ease with which our open access
images can be discovered through search.
*Tuesday*
- Miriam Redi will share her first impressions of the Wikipedia
Image/Caption Matching Challenge [1]
- Sandra Fauconnier will demo five easy tools to improve descriptions of
images on Commons
*Wednesday*
Michael Raish will share an evaluation of captions written as a newcomer
task [2]
*Thursday*
- Sudhanshu Gautam will introduce the Wikistories pilot [3] and invite you
to create your own image-led stories on the Beta Cluster
- Florence Devouard will describe the life of an image after it's uploaded
to Commons
- Sandra Fauconnier will show beginners how to use OpenRefine [4] to
describe batches of images on Commons
We hope you'll be inspired to include more image description in your own
contributions and campaigns.
Fiona
1.
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/09/09/the-wikipedia-image-caption-match…
2.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Structured_tas…
3.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistories
4.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine
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*Fiona Romeo* (she/her)
Senior Manager, GLAM & Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>