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(a)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(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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