On 3/3/11 2:12 PM, Siebrand Mazeland wrote:
> Op 03-03-11 22:25 schreef Neil Kandalgaonkar<
neilk@wikimedia.org>:
>
> Can the roll-out be geo based? This will allow you to slowly grow usage
> across different countries, and make it possible to most likely get
> feedback from for example "language X" speakers. It would get you across
> project communities, too.
I'm not sure I understand. What's the advantage of this? Will Germans
use it very differently from Americans? Does a publicized "now available
in your country" help create the nucleus of a community?
> Another option would be a language/project based incremental deployment.
Well, this is not slated for any Wikipedia (yet). We're focusing on
Commons, which is in theory multilingual.
>> - How to monitor how this changes what gets uploaded, does it increase
>> copyvio, etc. Obviously if this starts to increase we want to pull back
>> and reassess.
>
> You have to take a "0 measurement" now to be able to compare. Define
> critical success factors, measure, deploy, measure again. Copyvio may be
> hard to measure (additional tools/dev/work required). Survival rate of one
> month would for example be an easier indicator.
Our real critical success factor is increasing participation, the most
obvious would be a simple increase in volume of work submitted that
survives after a month.
One worry that people have voiced is that this will increased
*undetected* copyvio. The theory is that people who copyvio are apt to
be dissuaded by Commons' "traps" for the unwary. I am personally really
skeptical of that theory, but I recognize that we may be making it
easier to get through the process for copyvio people too.
Perhaps we need to take a sampling of photos and ... try harder to
determine copyright? Maybe contact the uploaders in question, if
possible, and just ask them what they thought they were doing? (I'm
assuming most copyvio is done in good faith).
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