On 5/16/2011 1:42 PM, Jeremy Baron wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> How was that implemented?
>
> How, if at all, do new contribs on the upstream commons propagate to
> your fork?
>
> Does your site allow participation or it's read-only? If read-write
> how, if at all, do contribs flow back to commons?
>
> How much manual work is required for all of that? Is this available
> for the general public to use?
>
The site is http://ookaboo.com/
Metadata frequently is available in RDFa form and will be available
in a data dump format when I get around to it.
Images are indexed by "topics" which come from Dbpedia and Freebase
and are almost isomorphic to Wikipedia pages. The concept is that
primarily topics are censored, not images. The system will reject an
image that's related to a topic like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_piercing
This works because people by-and-large don't put offensive images
on non-offensive topics in Wikipedia and because I don't mind if I lose
a few non-offensive images.
I had a panic a few months ago about offensive images and I spent
about four hours getting the bulk of them out. At this point they're
suppressed enough that I don't mind whacking an occasional mole.
Ookaboo is about to add public participation features that will let
people add images from a range of CC-BY, CC-BY-SA and PD repositories
around the web. The focus is on "producing better metadata for images
that people find in open repositories" rather than "providing another
place for people to upload files" so we can rely on the community
standards that are enforced by most repositories. People who break the
rules will be dealt with harshly and we've got a method of selecting
users that will bias away from griefers and wreckers.
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