Absolutely; I wanted to know if such a tool perhaps already exists. If one
does not, then definitely, if we develop a tool, it should look to the
future and be based on Structured Data on Commons already!
A.
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:54 PM Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think it is pretty similar to what we have built in
Wikidata, Do
Structured Commons folks want to comment?
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi, folks.
It occurs to me there are tens or hundreds of thousands of images donated
en masse (GLAM etc.) that are only categorized as "image from X
collection"
or "Files donated by X", i.e.
essentially uncategorized by content.
This obviously greatly reduces the likelihood of discoverability and
re-use. But it's hard to find such files, and the massive categories
(thousands of files, often) don't make organizing the work easy.
I'm think of a gamified interface -- à la Wikidata Game -- that would
let a
volunteer (after OAuth identification) pick a
category (from a pre-fed
list
of massive categories of donated files) and show
one photo from the
category that has only that category listed (i.e. has no categorization
by
content), and let the volunteer type (with
auto-complete, like HotCat)
some
appropriate categories and hit Save, and the
categories would be added,
and
the next file shown.
(Optionally, a second layer of verification could be added, where
volunteers would [also] be invited to vet or change previous volunteers'
categorization, and actual change to categories on Commons would only
take
place after 2 (or N) users approved the
categories. I'm not at all sure
this is needed, and I think we can start without it and see how it goes.)
So, does something like this exist? If not, who wants to build it? :)
A.
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