[Commons-l] Friendliness & Lack of User Recognition

[Rama Neko]

I though that this was what user sub-pages were about.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rama/test

  -- Rama



On 24/02/2011, Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2/23/11 6:20 PM, geni wrote:
>> 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
>
> To take an example from my activity, much of my plant photography is
> motivated by checking off a published list of the thousand-odd taxa
> recorded in the Spring Mountains west of Las Vegas.  I've been doing
> penciled annotation of the physical list, partly because I don't want to
> have to fight over having a WP or commons version of the list.  It would
> be very convenient to have it in commons to track what pics we are still
> looking for, and be able to point my fellow Vegas plant people at it,
> but I just know that there would be a nonstop parade of busybodies
> arguing that the list (full of redlinks ZOMG!) is inappropriate for commons.
>
> There are all kinds of possible experiments, but we need to get back to
> a spirit of being willing to try stuff, and not forbidding everything
> that doesn't adhere to a narrow view of what commons is good for.
>
> Stan
>
>
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