Hello, It is good to have proper description of images or media how ever I want to ask if there is any prevellage given to the person who posted thY particular image or video to late rename it if it was wrongly labelled?
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Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56 > (Isla Haddow Flood) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:47:35 +0200 > From: Ingo Koll <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, > Issue 56 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > Hi, I logged in twice to ISA yesterday and today and tried to change the > language preference. Was told every time "Something Went Wrong! Isa > might be undergoing maintenance". > > Is that functional? > > Besides: I commend the attempt to clean up but in future we should not > have to clean up. I had proposed earlier that there is no point inviting > and accepting images which are not properly described and categorized. > > Cheers Ingo - Kipala > > > Am 13.11.2019 um 04:49 schrieb > [email protected]: > > t Play on ISA > > (Adjoa Linda Fletcher) > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/african-wikimedians/attachments/20191113/461d30b9/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:14:10 +0100 > From: WikiIndaba 2019 Nigeria <[email protected]> > To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, > Issue 56 > Message-ID: > <CAA_pNOng0iw7yC+= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello Ingo, > > It would be counterproductive to not accept images that are not properly > described or categorized. Most participants of WLX (WLA, WLE, WLM) are new > people who probably does not understand the importance of proper > description and categorizations. Thus, if the organizers of WLA has come up > with ISA to solve some of these problems, I honestly think we can support > them as a community. > > Regards > > Isaac > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 6:43 AM Ingo Koll <[email protected] wrote: > > > Hi, I logged in twice to ISA yesterday and today and tried to change the > > language preference. Was told every time "Something Went Wrong! Isa > might > > be undergoing maintenance". > > > > Is that functional? > > > > Besides: I commend the attempt to clean up but in future we should not > > have to clean up. I had proposed earlier that there is no point inviting > > and accepting images which are not properly described and categorized. > > > > Cheers Ingo - Kipala > > > > > > Am 13.11.2019 um 04:49 schrieb > > [email protected]: > > > > t Play on ISA > > (Adjoa Linda Fletcher) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > African-Wikimedians mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/african-wikimedians/attachments/20191113/d82a29ab/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:15:36 +0100 > From: Isaac Olatunde <[email protected]> > To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians > <[email protected]> > Cc: Ingo Kipala <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, > Issue 56 > Message-ID: > <CAEKHrP5zEZDAVmW6Rwz+w9spqtiixAmi6oj46a-P_Fm= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello Ingo, > > It would be counterproductive to not accept images that are not properly > described or categorized. Most participants of WLX (WLA, WLE, WLM) are new > people who probably does not understand the importance of proper > description and categorizations. Thus, if the organizers of WLA has come up > with ISA to solve some of these problems, I honestly think we can support > them as a community. > > Regards > > Isaac > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 6:43 AM Ingo Koll <[email protected] wrote: > > > Hi, I logged in twice to ISA yesterday and today and tried to change the > > language preference. Was told every time "Something Went Wrong! Isa > might > > be undergoing maintenance". > > > > Is that functional? > > > > Besides: I commend the attempt to clean up but in future we should not > > have to clean up. I had proposed earlier that there is no point inviting > > and accepting images which are not properly described and categorized. > > > > Cheers Ingo - Kipala > > > > > > Am 13.11.2019 um 04:49 schrieb > > [email protected]: > > > > t Play on ISA > > (Adjoa Linda Fletcher) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > African-Wikimedians mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/african-wikimedians/attachments/20191113/af185fba/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:07:28 +0200 > From: Isla Haddow Flood <[email protected]> > To: Wikicology <[email protected]>, Mailing list for African > Wikimedians <[email protected]> > Cc: Ingo Kipala <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, > Issue 56 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear Ingo > > Thank you for raising the issue about access - which language did you have > a problem with? German, Swahili, other? I have raised the issue with the > developer team but need a little bit more detail of what is wrong. > > Further to your other comment. I get what you are saying (although ISA is > not about 'cleaning up’ read more below). Isaac is right too … competitions > like Wiki Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Earth are specifically designed to > attract people into contributing to Wikipedia in an easy and fun way. The > more barriers, the less fun, the fewer people, the fewer interesting and > diverse pictures. > > However, ‘cleaning up' was not the main reason for creating ISA. ISA was > created to provide a fun way for participants to add information/ tags / > descriptors that identifies the elements that makes up each image by > linking it to existing WikiData statements (it was named the coolest > multimedia tool at the recent WikiData Conference). No images on Commons > could be ‘described’ in this way until the Structured Data on Commons (SDC) > project started. ISA is one of the pilot projects for SDC that help to make > images more useful as illustrations of articles, but also more easy to > search for - and multilingual too. Although a lack of description or a > correctly assigned category is a problem with Wiki Loves Africa, it is a > problem across most competitions and even most uploads. It is not a problem > that is confined to our project alone. Neither does ISA pretend to solve > the issues around descriptions or categories (or the lack thereof). > > Instead, humans can add a caption that reflects the cultural specifics in > an image, or link elements within the image to wikidata statements. > Different intent. Different result. > > You can read more about Structured Data on Commons here: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data < > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data> > And about ISA here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:ISA_Tool < > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:ISA_Tool> > > I hope this explains things a bit clearer. And I am sure that once you can > get into ISA to play, you will also see the difference. > > > > > On 13 Nov 2019, at 09:15, Isaac Olatunde <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hello Ingo, > > > > It would be counterproductive to not accept images that are not properly > described or categorized. Most participants of WLX (WLA, WLE, WLM) are new > people who probably does not understand the importance of proper > description and categorizations. Thus, if the organizers of WLA has come up > with ISA to solve some of these problems, I honestly think we can support > them as a community. > > > > Regards > > > > Isaac > > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 6:43 AM Ingo Koll <[email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, I logged in twice to ISA yesterday and today and tried to change the > language preference. Was told every time "Something Went Wrong! Isa might > be undergoing maintenance". > > > > Is that functional? > > > > Besides: I commend the attempt to clean up but in future we should not > have to clean up. I had proposed earlier that there is no point inviting > and accepting images which are not properly described and categorized. > > > > Cheers Ingo - Kipala > > > > > > > > Am 13.11.2019 um 04:49 schrieb > [email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]>: > >> t Play on ISA > >> (Adjoa Linda Fletcher) > > _______________________________________________ > > African-Wikimedians mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians < > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians> > > _______________________________________________ > > African-Wikimedians mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/african-wikimedians/attachments/20191113/ba18887c/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > > ------------------------------ > > End of African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 57 > *************************************************** >
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