Just to add to what Konarak and Ashwin said, I am guilty as charged. We kept the Category:Ahmedabad_1 to avoid flooding the popular category. It was decided to serve as the ''maintenance category'' but none of us really got around to transferring images to the Ahmedabad category or cleaning up. There are several reasons for this:
1) People started using images from Ahmedabad_1 soon after the event to make Ahmedabad articles. So, the attention was diverted there.
2) Personally, I was unclear as to whether all these images had to be migrated because of course some are repetitive and redundant. But, I/We are no one to judge whose image stays or goes.
3) Since then and since the Tamil Wikimedia contest I have been contemplating on things:
How can we minimize and optimize image uploads? Can we set parameters in the contest format so that everyone can contribute but its more diverse in terms of results? Maybe we should generate a more exhaustive list of items? Also, are there guidelines for maintenance that we can make (5-7 points) so that the organizers can follow that up too (just in case they aren't aware or don't know how to)?
Do let me know what you guys think!
Regards
Noopur
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Konarak Ratnakar
<konarak.11@live.com> wrote:
Agreed, I wasn't involved in editing until the Ahmedabad photowalk happened, else I'd have helped.
I suggest we should segregate the photos in sub categories, while keeping track of those identical images that should be deleted.
Konarak Ratnakar | kondi
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:09:10 +0530
From: ashwin.baindur@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and other events
Yes, Konark. But I do not want to point figures to one event. In my view all events are culprits.
Imagine the problem of processing 15K images of the Tamil contest - I shudder to think!
Suggestion : No image should be considered eligible for competition till it is uploaded with :
* proper description.
* suggested/recommended article for image use or for creation.
* proper categorisation in Commons.
Have volunteers available to help photographers. The photothon should end in an uploading function where volunteers help in these aspects.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Konarak Ratnakar
<konarak.11@live.com> wrote:
The question just got asked when I was about to ask it.
The problem is that the organisers end their activities with the upload of hundreds of images. The cleanup is expected to be done by un-named, unknown others. The encyclopedic value of the images that the people took in the photothon never get realised.
The organisers of any photothon must realise that the photothon should end only after the Juice is squeezed out of each image. Better to have 50 good images, catalogued and embellishing articles than thousands "[[waiting for Godot]]".
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