2009/6/10 Hk kng <hk.kng(a)web.de>de>:
Wouldn't it be the most obvious way to get
additional input to include
the various graphic labs directly in the process? For example, the
German Grafikwerkstatt (by far not as good as our french colleagues!)
has a dedicated page "Grafikwünsche" at
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Grafikwerkstatt/Grafikw%C3%BCnsche
We're about twenty persons with differing skill levels who look after
that page.
If a request comes in at such a place and it is appropriate for the
Greenspun project, wouldn't it be nice to feed it directly into the
flow, thus giving the local graphicists and the person who asked for the
illustration a chance to help, to evaluate, to look for other pictorial
sources etc. If the request concerns one of the more established fields
of knowledge, where big project groups (on de called "Redaktion") are
available, you could even ask them for evaluations.
Closer involvement with the graphics groups is definitely a good idea,
but a big concern I have is about "competing" with volunteer
motivation. If you start involving money in things that previously
volunteers had some other motivation to do, it can screw things up and
actually reduce the volunteer motivation, make people feel
disillusioned. How do you think we could avoid that?
Brianna
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