On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 5:33 AM, svetlana <svetlana(a)fastmail.com.au> wrote:
MZMcBride wrote:
As much as the term is an awful buzzword, Commons
could also do with
additional gamification, from what I've seen. If we can set up an easy
keyword/tagging system, having users help us sort and tag media would be
amazing.
We already have such system. It's called categories. If we would like to build a
prettier interface for it, I'm all ears (although I wouldn't call it a game).
Gamification here relates to one type of interface, where a user gets
supplied a random example of an issue, and then tries to resolve that,
with a single resolution being just a small task. For an example of
what that looks like in a Wikimedia- context, see the Wikidata game at
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/. A game could for example be
used to re-categorize files in categories that are too general (like
[[Category:People]]), to categorize uncategorized images or to add a
certain type of category to files where for some reason it seems
likely to apply (for example, images that in some way are described as
paintings which have no author-category).
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