Arrey no. Chill ya. You are our biggest success story of the photothon :P This comment was generally regarding how too many images can make us all lazy.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Konarak Ratnakar <konarak...@live.com>wrote: > Hey Noopur, > If I sounded accusing, I apologize for that. I was going to do this > categorization work and saw this mail here. > And Anirudh, I'm on it, I'll add/create proper categories to the images. > > > From: anirudh...@gmail.com > > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:19:38 +0530 > > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and > other events > > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Noopur <noopur.ra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Just to add to what Konarak and Ashwin said, I am guilty as charged. > We kept > > > the Category:Ahmedabad_1 to avoid flooding the popular category. It was > > > decided to serve as the ''maintenance category'' but none of us really > got > > > around to transferring images to the Ahmedabad category or cleaning up. > > > There are several reasons for this: > > > > It was clearly not your fault. You are a new user and I should have > > migrated these files to the regular categories. I am now removing > > [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] and replacing with it [[Category:Ahmedabad]] > > and [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]]. All help is welcome, > > these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if > > they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new > > one you can create those and add the cat to these files. I'm no > > expert on Commons categorization, but there are a bunch of helpful > > power users available on #wikipedia-en and #wikimedia-commons who can > > help you out with that. > > > > We decided to go with [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] instead of > > [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]] because we assumed that would > > make it easier for the users to add these categories easily. > > > > > > > > 1) People started using images from Ahmedabad_1 soon after the event > to make > > > Ahmedabad articles. So, the attention was diverted there. > > > > Indeed. A few good images made it to the articles, while a couple of > > images inspired creation of articles around important monuments. See > > [[Hutheesing Jain Temple]] (and thanks Srikeit for that). > > > > > > > > 2) Personally, I was unclear as to whether all these images had to be > > > migrated because of course some are repetitive and redundant. But, > I/We are > > > no one to judge whose image stays or goes. > > > > Yes, indeed. > > > > Thanks, > > anirudh > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690
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