FW: [Clipart] Clipart cleaning (was: Artists Signing Clipart)

ryan ryan at lennox.com.au
Thu Nov 30 13:54:11 PST 2006


 I think I may create a system tag - cleanup_needed, and apply it to images
 that I think may need a touch up, but don't have time to do yet.
 
 Just in case you don't know, there is a Admin link on the rhs of an
 images' page that allows you to edit a system tag. (that's if you are an
 admin in cchost :) )
 
 So when we get around to cleaning up an image with this tag, it can be
 removed.
 
 thanks,
 
 Ryan Lerch

 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:clipart-
> > bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Martin Owens
> > Sent: Thursday, 30 November 2006 10:20 PM
> > To: momo
> > Cc: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Subject: Re: [Clipart] Clipart cleaning (was: Artists Signing Clipart)
> >
> > Hi Molumen,
> >
> > This sounds like you've done some great work. When I was in the
> > Community Artists for the BBC we had a set of peer review which was
> > far too restrictive and it wasn't very productive. I'm happy to say
> > that open clipart fosters better colaberation on images.
> >
> > Perhaps we could have a special honour for people who love to clean up?
> >
> > Best Regards, Martin Owens
> >
> > On 11/30/06, momo <momo at lumenstudio.net> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Yesterday I had some time to work on the clipart maintenance, so:
> > >
> > > - I cleaned several cliparts with embedded or linked bitmaps (not
> > deleted
> > > them, but rebuilt without the bitmap inside). An example is
> > > http://openclipart.org/cchost/media/files/mip/1251 a clipart created
> in
> > > illustrator that icluded a bitmap shadow that I recreated in Inkscpae
> > with
> > > blur. After the transormation the file size dropped from around 300Kb
> to
> > > 24Kb.
> > >
> > > - I deleted 2 cliparts (one containing a bitmap without vectors at
> all,
> > omne
> > > containing a Renault logo) and wrote a mail to the uploaders politly
> > > informing them about the cause of the deletion.
> > >
> > > - I added tags to cliparts with poor or no tags at all (about 25
> pieces
> > of
> > > clipart).
> > >
> > > - http://openclipart.org/cchost/media/files/vlodco_zotov/1524 is now
> > without
> > > signature, I reuploaded the svg after adding proper metadata (author,
> > date,
> > > tags, description and licence) to the file and deleting the signature.
> > >
> > > - several (about a dozen) cliparts had too big bounding boxes, so I
> also
> > > reuploaded them after changing that parameter to a more convienient
> > size.
> > >
> > > I think that these kind of "clipart cleaning" operations should be
> > practiced
> > > once a week or so, to ensure the clipart's quality will not fall to a
> > point
> > > where it will be poorly usable.
> > >
> > > Molumen
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jon Phillips" <jon at rejon.org>
> > > To: "ryan" <ryan at lennox.com.au>
> > > Cc: <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 5:58 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Clipart] Artists Signing Clipart
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 09:44 +1000, ryan wrote:
> > > >> Do we have a stance on an artist signing/ putting a visible label
> on
> > the
> > > >> bottom of their clipart. I don't have a huge issue with it, except
> > for it
> > > >> detracts from the usability of the clipart a lot, if someone has to
> > > >> remove
> > > >> an annoying message like that before putting it into a document...
> > > >>
> > > >> Any thoughts?
> > > >>
> > > >> And here is an example that triggered this email :)
> > > >>
> > > >>
> >
> http://openclipart.org/cchost/people/vlodco_zotov/vlodco_zotov_cell_phone.
> > sv
> > > >> g
> > > >>
> > > >> cheers
> > > >>
> > > >> ryanlerch
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, i think we should advise against this so that people aren't
> > > > compelled to make a "remix" ;) without that person's name...better
> to
> > > > allow our system identify an author.
> > > >
> > > > However, this should be a social policy IMO rather than bannable or
> > > > grounds for deletion. What do you all think?
> > > >
> > > > Jon
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Jon Phillips
> > > >
> > > > San Francisco, CA
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