Multimedia:Ethnographic interviews/Jastrow

Goals

Goals when contributing museum pictures:

to give a good view of museum collections
to provide freely reusable pictures
the intended audience is mostly academic => to increase awareness about free licenses

Goals when contributing pictures of political rallies:

shoots photographs in RAW
develops them (exposure, noise, saturation, author metadata) using a dedicated software
does minor retouching using the GIMP
saves as JPG using a descriptive title
uploads pictures one by one; doesn't use batch upload tools; has never tried Commonist
customizes the "upload file" link in the sidebar using her personal JS, so that the link directs to the basic upload form
often copy/pastes from a similar picture
processes a picture, uploads it, processes the next one during the upload and so on
often uploads series of pictures, so descriptions are similar to each other
copy/pastes the license, uploads, and adds categories later
category work using HotCats; tries, then clicks and browses to see if a more precise subcategory applies. Also takes this opportunity to check if there are similar pictures

regularly browses categories she's interested in to improve categorization, detect copyright violations
uses the HotCats gadget
when assembling several pictures, metadata are lost
gets many e-mails asking for confirmation that people can reuse her pictures
communication is complicated in a multilingual environment; people have to talk through templates

if the subject or the artist is not well known, adds some pictures to the Wikipedia article
most of reuse confirmation requests are about pictures displayed Wikipedia, which are a lot more visible than those on Commons only
spends more time working on Commons than on Wikipedia

takes pictures of the labels, buys official catalogues
makes it a point to add the ID number / inventory number
the wiki platform is very useful for people working on museum pictures: they can easily add/improve descriptions

statistics of freely-licensed pictures hosted somewhere else than Commons
interproject watchlist (especially for Commons)
toolserver tool that browses a family of interwiki-linked articles to see if one of them contains a picture