[Commons-l] Friendliness & Lack of User Recognition

[K Rinkle]

And ofcourse don't forget these:

* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan
* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiportrait
* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedia_Loves_Art
* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Art_Netherlands
* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2010
* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_takes_Haarlem
* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011
* etc.


See also the related categories [1] and project pages [2]

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Krinkle

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photo_scavenger_hunts
[2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photo_scavenger_hunts

2011/2/24 geni <geniice at gmail.com>

> On 23 February 2011 17:40, Paul Houle <paul at ontology2.com> wrote:
> >     If you wanted to encourage a 'game mechanic' in Commons,  I think
> > you'd want to make it first of all a friendly competition to 'catch them
> > all' and secondarily a competition to get better quality photographs.  I
> > think the ideal Commons photographer would be a person who's interested
> > in some specific category (say going to concerts and snapping pictures
> > of musicians or taking pictures of birds.)  To support this there's a
> > need for tools that make it clear where the holes are,  both in the
> > sense of "We don't have any pictures of X" or "We'd like to get better
> > pictures of X".
>
> Problem is that this is in practice a far better fit for wikipedia
> where such lists are generated in passing than commons.
>
> For example:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_the_World_in_100_Objects#Objects
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Photos_requested#A_History_of_the_World_in_100_Objects
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> geni
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