Hello Alessandro,
Thank you for your post and its insight. I recognized the same with me: I
only make use of Wikimedia Commons in lessons if I have enough time. Also I
would introduce it only to students with a solid knowledge of English.
Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
schrieb am Mo. 18. Mai 2020 um 13:08:
In the end, it's more like inducing order from
other projects than caring
about the order on Commons because there clearly can't be with people
acting the way they do.
This is a great observation! And this phenomenon contributes to the
on-going chaos, to the work-around-culture you need to adapt to if you want
to make use of Wikimedia Commons. :-(
Kind regards
Ziko
They are also not caring for it: if you spend your time starting
unnecessary deletion procedures instead of cleaning up
categories or
description, you obviously have your priority, so we also have ours.
About the main page, we need to focus more on media
files IMHO, and of
course search is complicated but I am sure metadata can improve it.
A.
Il lunedì 18 maggio 2020, 11:33:46 CEST, Robert Myers <
robert.myers(a)wikimedia.org.au> ha scritto:
Well some people do, but it is when they get trolled by other contributors
and/or overzealous Admin comes along and deletes the file. They quickly
lose interest, in turn telling other people not to bother.
I just had another lot of photographs tagged by a troll, in which an Admin
deletes (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=File:R…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=File:A…
).
These have been on Commons for two + years, using the same camera gear I
have used over the years. If it is enough for me to give up on the project,
it would be the same for any other user but for a newbie it is something
that would make me run for the hills (depart quickly as possible)!
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 1:07 PM Benjamin Ikuta <benjaminikuta(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Anecdotally, it seems people sometimes don't upload their photos to
Commons because they don't realize that the scope of Commons is much
broader than that of Wikipedia.
Has there been, or should there be, any research into this, or why people
don't contribute more broadly?
~Benjamin
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