On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Mike Dupont
<jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Well the idea is to create a photo contest,
> people should submit them, and they will get voted up. People will review
> them, for license and other issue and import them. The idea would be a
> facebook app. Or a way to submit a whole album. You can make albums public
> in fb. There are many technical measure if there is a will there is a way.
>

Isn't a Facebook pic only available in low resolution?

well they are pretty good and if someones photos gets selected they can upload a higher res.
flickr is also available in highres.

>
> We need to make sure these people are not confronted by the current uploader
> form, that will scare everyone away, it needs to be easy. Easy for people
> who are not native speakers and dont have the best education, people who
> struggle with using a computer and people who think that mobile phones are
> high-tech.
>

The upload form will be replaced this month by a new upload wizard
which should be much easier to use. See
<http://commons.prototype.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard>

nice! good news.
If it could support multiselect ....

What do you think about the pull idea, to be able to pull images from another webpage?

this looks like a major improvement on the old system, congrats!
mike

Bryan

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