[Commons-l] The great {{Information}} campaign

[Siebrand Mazeland]

We have a nice message in a template for this:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Please_tag_images

Cheers!

Siebrand 

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: commons-l-bounces op lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:commons-l-bounces op lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Gregory Maxwell
Verzonden: donderdag 6 september 2007 19:19
Aan: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
Onderwerp: Re: [Commons-l] The great {{Information}} campaign

On 9/6/07, Ayelie <ayelie.at.large op gmail.com> wrote:
> Definitely a good idea. There should be an announcement on the village 
> pump and maybe a sitenotice with a link to the thread, even. Remind 
> people that all their uploads should use the template, that they 
> should go through old uploads and add it, etc...

I think we're doing okay on new uploads.. it's mostly old things (especially
things transferred from other projects) which are problematic.

Before we begin the great campaign we should produce a list of best
practices.

Does anyone disagree with these:

*Copy descriptive text into the description field.
**Wrap it with a language template like {{en|this is a description}}.
This encourages translation.
**Be sure to wikilink useful words in the description back to the Wikipedia
articles for that languages.

*Make sure the author field indicates the actual author and not just the
uploader. Try to provide a link to the author if possible. For authors who
are Wikimedians you should always be able to link to their userpage.
**If you can't determine who the author is the image should probably be
tagged for deletion.

*Never leave an image without one or more appropriate categories. An image
without categorization is lost.

*If there is detailed enough location data consider
[[Commons:Geocoding|geocoding]] the image.

*If the image has EXIF it may contain useful information, such as a creation
date.

*May bad images and copyright violations are lurking in our old images.
Apply good judgement: If something looks bad do something about it, don't
just mindlessly update the page and move on. You are not a bot.