I believe the Geograph images (the UK landscape pictures of which you
speak) may be slightly more than 80,000 images...
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod(a)mccme.ru>wrote;wrote:
Consider, for example, that Zynga and Facebook have
successfully managed to
get millions of people to log in at all hours of
the night to milk
virtualcows and harvest virtual beans (or whatever it is that people
actually do in Farmville). Could we do something similar to drive
particpation, particularly in editing areas that don't require
long-duration sessions (e.g. adding or verifying citations, categorizing
articles, etc.)? Even a few percent of Farmville's user base would be an
order-of-magnitude increase of our own editor base; and if the price for
that is letting these editors display Citationville badges on their user
pages and send each other silly messages, is it not worth it?
This is actually a very good example. Imagine this happened, and we got
for several hours a million of users who do not know anything about BLP,
verifiability, POV, notability, and other issues. Would we be able to clean
up their edits? I doubt it. If I remember well, when 80K landscape pictures
of British Isles were donated to Commons more than a year ago (which is
certainly a good thing), they were not categorized, and many of them
(several dozen of thousands) remained uncategorized last time I checked. We
will not just be able to digest this.
The way out obviously that we do not have a million random editors. We
want a million of editors who understand basic principles and know what
they want to do. I just do not see how it could happen. When I personally
ask my friends to upload photos which are clearly needed (for instance, to
illustrate an already existing article), my best success is to ask them to
send a mail to OTRS, and then I upload photos myself. And uploading a photo
is generally easier than to find a category for an article or to source a
statement.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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