I'd be more concern that the game throws up very generic and vague descriptions like, person, ship, cat, dog, tree, flowers, street. Which in itself might seem helpful but may not even highlight the important aspect.
- Would a bot doing an initial keyword search of the description be more effective - descriptions should already have a language code embedded. - I would hope many of the GLAMs have embedded keywords in the meta data/camera info which could be extracted like co-ords are.
On 7 June 2018 at 02:07, Alex Stinson via Commons-l < commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey Yaroslav and Asaf,
From the SDC team perspective, I think it would definitely be preferable for such a tool to include/anticipate the need for structured data on Commons, or default to filling in Depicts and/or other structure data fields. Building more tools which generate categories by default would definitely be a bit counter-productive (and hard on multilingual contributors). One option, might be designing such a tool to work with Artworks and other unique objects (like photographs) already on Wikidata, and then have it prepared to hook up with the Wikibase/Structured data features that will go live on Commons in the fall.
Cheers,
Alex
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
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@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@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? :)
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