On 7/12/07, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Are there any "new image patrol" tools? [[Wikipedia:Job_Center]] mentions it but I cant find more details.
It depends on which of the many image problems that you would like to work on. If you just want to help new uploaders, [[Category:Images needing editor assistance at upload]] are images from uploaders that have self-identified as needing help. If they don't self-identify AND they are tagged incorrectly it is exceedingly difficult to find problems manually. For those types we mainly rely on various bot checks, some people like to also brute force very problematic categories.
Is there a maintained list of recently uploaded images that need a rationale added? If so, humans could tackle the cause of the problem rather than bots trying to fix it six months later.
Well, we don't really have a way of programatically saying if something needs a rationale, so things needing a rationale are tagged by humans, not in order of upload. I'm sure you know about [[Category:Images with no fair use rationale]], which need rationales.
Is there a way to generate a list of all images that a user has uploaded? I expect that most people are begrudgingly fixing an image as the bot picks them out; it would be more efficient to give users a way to find and fix them all.
There is the upload log? The bots pick out problems at a rate of i dunno, many per minute, it's not a every once in a while type of situation. Do you mean individuals that are problem uploaders fixing their own problems? That happens sometimes I guess. If an uploader becomes an obvious problem people will look at their upload log and see other images that might also be problematic.
Another approach could be to use something like SuggestBot to hand a dozen cases to each human that has chosen to work on the problem.
We don't have a shortage of images to work on [[Category:Images with no copyright tag]] or the two other categories mentioned before could be worked on by anyone admin or not.
Judson [[:en:User:Cohesion]]