Wikipedia:WikiProject Image Monitoring Group

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Welcome to the Image Monitoring Group WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Image Monitoring and other image related problems.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals
  • Provide solutions to problems covering images.
  • Eliminate the large orphaned image problem on Wikipedia (over 100,000 images as of 2/1/2007, and growing at >200/day!).
  • Create, maintain, and monitor templates that are useful for processing images by folks.
  • Develop bots to process to the work that becomes redundant and more efficiently.
    • User:BJBot is an example, that marks orphaned fair use images. (It did 10,000 images in 4 days, which would take a human much longer (months) since it was able to target suspected known orphaned fair use images.)
      • BJBot is likely to also check for images marked with the IFD tag ({{ifd}}) but never listed at IFD, and images that went through IFD but didn't have the tag removed from the image by admins processing the images.
    • Another bot to move images to commons that have been approved.
    • Another bot to remove fair use images used outside article namespace.
      • High priority!
    • Another bot to look at newly uploaded images.
    • Orphan bot is another example. (it creates orphans by removing images that are poorly/not sourced or licensed from articles)
  • Update and create image policies on Wikipedia.
    • Current proposal to clarify that fair use images should be 300px wide max and 72x72 px/inch as a standard.
  • Create/support scripts to ease image work (such as QuickImgDelete)
    • A script add-on for IFD admins to allow them to click "keep" on an image when processing images which would open a browser tab and remove the IFD tag from the image description page.
Scope
  • All images on Wikipedia.
Current Proposals located elsewhere
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Expand Template:Bots to allow opt out of other notices
Needs work at Template:Bots as well.

Contents

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. Mecu (talk · contribs) (co-founder)
  2. Bjweeks (talk · contribs) aka BJ, bot tasks (co-founder)
  3. BigrTex (talk · contribs) (Special:Unusedimages, I generally hang out around offset 50,000)
  4. PhilKnight (talk · contribs) - mostly fair use image rationales
  5. Carcharoth (talk · contribs) - various images stuff
  6. Rettetast (talk · contribs) - Category:Publicity photographs and WP:PUI

[edit] Templates

  • {{User:Mecu/IMGmember}} - A userbox for your userpage if you join this WikiProject.
This user is a member of the Image Monitoring Group WikiProject.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Resources

[edit] Images on Commons that may be useful

[edit] Related projects