Daniel Schwen wrote:
than having the users publish their location so they can be bugged about it.
The idea was to have users "subscribe" to a feed (possibly posted by a bot onto a subpage in their user space). Articles are geocoded in any case so it makes perfect sense to have users post their location and have a bot match articles with missing images to users in the area. It also would make "requests for better images" feasible if they would get pushed to the user, instead of them having to check for potential work. Why would you even call this "bugging" the users? People sign up for a reason, and that is to contribute, not to be left alone.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geocode_Users?withJS=MediaWiki:Geo... seem to be just a way to geotag users. I don't see such feed. Perhaps I'm missing something.
I think that a toolserver page for 'How can I help in this area?' would be preferable.