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Originally Posted by Pudding4brains  Okay, took too much time editting the previous post ... so here is a bit more in a seperate one:
There seems to be a campaign going on to get people to upload the images for their forum posts on WAB. There are a few points to consider if you really want that to happen:
* Make it easy!
* Make it damn easy and fast!
* Make it even easier and faster! |
* Make it easy! - that'll be about £5,000
* Make it
damn easy and fast! - add a zero
* Make it even easier and faster! - add another zero
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Originally Posted by Pudding4brains Meaning: If people complain about not wanting to "prepare" (resize, recompress etc) their images so they will finally "fit" the requirements, then do it for them: accept any image and have a script resize/recompress it - that sort of thing. If you want people to contribute within pixel/kb limits don't ask them to do spend their time on manually doing that, but let your machine do it for them and make the whole process so that it takes hardly any clicks/time (multiple image upload windows instead of one by one etc). |
We do resize images to a point, but then when you get some new members posting 10x13mb images (yes this really does happen) they wonder why it takes until a week on tuesday to upload.
If we allow 5mb images, we invariably get lots of 5mb images and that takes a lot of space, processing and downloading, when in fact a 1mb image would look just as good and save a lot of hassle for us.
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Originally Posted by Pudding4brains Then, after a long void, comes the next option: Make it so that people feel it's worth their while by contributing to a very damn useful resource. The image galleries now are a fair resourse but it's usefulness is degrading every day equally to the increase in size. You have the option here of gathering good images from many, many enthousiastic nature buffs, but the images would become much more useful in an (taxonomically) organized manner. Thumbnail pages of families or genera - that sort of thing - preferably with checked/confirmed dets. |
It's a gallery, not just a reference section. It's also worth adding that the site in general is for people who know very little about wildlife. We think they're probably more interested in seeing great pictures than knowing order, sub-order, family etc.
that said, we are also building a
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Originally Posted by Pudding4brains This would also give (even) more purpose to uploading here as opposed to Flickr or whatever - people would clearly see "Hey look, that species is still missing - I have images of that!". Stuff like that. Should make people want to contribute as much as possible ... oh yeah, and make it easy - or did I already mention that?  |
http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/list/british_fungi http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/list/british_birds