On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 5:33 AM, svetlana svetlana@fastmail.com.au wrote:
MZMcBride wrote:
As much as the term is an awful buzzword, Commons could also do with additional gamification, from what I've seen. If we can set up an easy keyword/tagging system, having users help us sort and tag media would be amazing.
We already have such system. It's called categories. If we would like to build a prettier interface for it, I'm all ears (although I wouldn't call it a game).
Gamification here relates to one type of interface, where a user gets supplied a random example of an issue, and then tries to resolve that, with a single resolution being just a small task. For an example of what that looks like in a Wikimedia- context, see the Wikidata game at https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/. A game could for example be used to re-categorize files in categories that are too general (like [[Category:People]]), to categorize uncategorized images or to add a certain type of category to files where for some reason it seems likely to apply (for example, images that in some way are described as paintings which have no author-category).