Absolutely; I wanted to know if such a tool perhaps already exists. If one does not, then definitely, if we develop a tool, it should look to the future and be based on Structured Data on Commons already!
A. On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:54 PM Yaroslav Blanter <ymb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it is pretty similar to what we have built in Wikidata, Do > Structured Commons folks want to comment? > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Hi, folks. > > > > It occurs to me there are tens or hundreds of thousands of images donated > > en masse (GLAM etc.) that are only categorized as "image from X > collection" > > or "Files donated by X", i.e. essentially uncategorized by content. > > > > This obviously greatly reduces the likelihood of discoverability and > > re-use. But it's hard to find such files, and the massive categories > > (thousands of files, often) don't make organizing the work easy. > > > > I'm think of a gamified interface -- à la Wikidata Game -- that would > let a > > volunteer (after OAuth identification) pick a category (from a pre-fed > list > > of massive categories of donated files) and show one photo from the > > category that has only that category listed (i.e. has no categorization > by > > content), and let the volunteer type (with auto-complete, like HotCat) > some > > appropriate categories and hit Save, and the categories would be added, > and > > the next file shown. > > > > (Optionally, a second layer of verification could be added, where > > volunteers would [also] be invited to vet or change previous volunteers' > > categorization, and actual change to categories on Commons would only > take > > place after 2 (or N) users approved the categories. I'm not at all sure > > this is needed, and I think we can start without it and see how it goes.) > > > > So, does something like this exist? If not, who wants to build it? :) > > > > A. > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>