Hello Alessandro, Thank you for your post and its insight. I recognized the same with me: I only make use of Wikimedia Commons in lessons if I have enough time. Also I would introduce it only to students with a solid knowledge of English.
Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> schrieb am Mo. 18. Mai 2020 um 13:08: > In the end, it's more like inducing order from other projects than caring > about the order on Commons because there clearly can't be with people > acting the way they do. This is a great observation! And this phenomenon contributes to the on-going chaos, to the work-around-culture you need to adapt to if you want to make use of Wikimedia Commons. :-( Kind regards Ziko They are also not caring for it: if you spend your time starting > unnecessary deletion procedures instead of cleaning up categories or > description, you obviously have your priority, so we also have ours. > > About the main page, we need to focus more on media files IMHO, and of > course search is complicated but I am sure metadata can improve it. > > A. > Il lunedì 18 maggio 2020, 11:33:46 CEST, Robert Myers < > robert.my...@wikimedia.org.au> ha scritto: > > Well some people do, but it is when they get trolled by other contributors > and/or overzealous Admin comes along and deletes the file. They quickly > lose interest, in turn telling other people not to bother. > > I just had another lot of photographs tagged by a troll, in which an Admin > deletes ( > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=File:Rachel_Priest_after_the_Sydney_Thunder_vs_Adelaide_Strikers_WBBL_game_at_Robertson_Oval.jpg > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=File:Abandoned_farm_house_in_Hillgrove_01.jpg > ). > These have been on Commons for two + years, using the same camera gear I > have used over the years. If it is enough for me to give up on the project, > it would be the same for any other user but for a newbie it is something > that would make me run for the hills (depart quickly as possible)! > > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 1:07 PM Benjamin Ikuta <benjaminik...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > Anecdotally, it seems people sometimes don't upload their photos to > > Commons because they don't realize that the scope of Commons is much > > broader than that of Wikipedia. > > > > Has there been, or should there be, any research into this, or why people > > don't contribute more broadly? > > > > ~Benjamin > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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> > > > > -- > > Robert Myers > Secretary - Wikimedia Australia > M: +61 400 670 288 > robert.my...@wikimedia.org.au > http://www.wikimedia.org.au > > Wikimedia Australia Inc. is an independent charitable organisation which > supports the efforts of the Wikimedia Foundation in Australia. We welcome > your support by membership or donations to keep the Wikimedia mission > alive. > _______________________________________________ > 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>