[Wikipedia-l] Automatic image tagging

[David Gerard]

Magnus Manske (magnus.manske at web.de) [050606 03:59]:

> So I thought, why not, upon upload of a new image, *automatically* add
> "{{unverified}}" to any image dewscription that does *not* contain the
> sequence "{{"? This is dead easy technically, and will bring untagged
> images to our attention without wasting time and effort of people who
> could do something more constructive.
> Image descriptions that contain "{{" but *not* a copyright tag can still
> be found through the current scanning process.
> The "{{unverified}}" could be stored in [[Mediawiki:AutoImageTag]] or
> something, so each wikipedia can use the one appropriate for the
> language/tagging system.


Sounds very good to me!


- d.