[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia events: staging area?

[Kevin Gorman]

If we don't want to develop an internal solution, it would be pretty
simple to set up a private flickr album and email it out to all
attendees for feedback.

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Kevin Gorman
user:kgorman-ucb

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> However this is done, it could also be a cheap first pass at a
> quarantine for images being worked on with a GLAM institution as well,
> while cleaned up / license-cleared / de-duped.
>
> S.
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> With all the Wikimedia events it is a problem that keeps coming back:
>>> whether participants do or do not want to be photographed. Often we get to
>>> a very crude binary result: either everything is allowed, or nothing at
>>> all. And still most people seem to violate that simply.
>>>
>>> Hence, I was thinking whether a more personal and photo specific option
>>> would be available - allowing people to veto certain pictures before they
>>> get 'really' published. After all, Commons doesn't allow deletion simply
>>> because you dont like the quality or dont want to become public in that
>>> position.
>>>
>>> Would it be an option to create a staging area, where people can upload
>>> their event photos of Wikimedia events, and where people can simply veto
>>> their own pictures? The vetoing doesnt have to be water tight, but rather
>>> easy. A password to enter the staging area for that specific event could be
>>> given to the participants where they can check the photos and veto them.
>>> Then we can proceed with 'no veto = published' and mass upload the
>>> non-vetoed photos after a while to Wikimedia Commons.
>>>
>>> If we can develop this centrally (and make it available to all Wikimedia
>>> events) or install something on Wikimedia servers that already does this,
>>> that would save a lot of event organizers headaches. Any feedback, anyone
>>> who would be willing and able to pick this up?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> This is a really good idea, Lodewijk!
>>
>> Keeping track of who does and doesn't want their photos up on Commons
>> (and which photos they want) can be quite a hassle.
>>
>> -Sage
>>
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