[Clipart] Librarian jobs

[chovynz]

Hi all

Here's an update on the list of easy job's I've identified that can be 
done as a Librarian, or as an editor of your own clipart. This list 
comes from various discussions on the mailling list and things I 
personally have noticed and want done to improve the site. It may be 
possible to do this in the database itself, but we can help out by doing 
it manually too. You can copy and paste these search queries into the 
address bar to get a good indication of the clipart that needs doing. 
It's not exact, but it's good enough.

Be smart, use a Find and Replace function in a word processor for many 
jobs. I.e. instead of editing the longer tag lists by hand, copy the tag 
list into a word processor, find and replace all commas with a 
commaspace, remove unecessary tags, then paste back into the cliparts' 
tag list.

1. *Replace underscore character "_" with a space character " " in any 
clipart titles.*
Change the Upload Name entry.
This will enable long titles to be able to break when there is too much 
words for the CSS to be able to handle effectively.
http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=_

2. *Remove tags such as media, public_domain, svg, image, png*
This will clean up the tag list for better categorisations, clearer 
searches, less tag weight on things that aren't relevant to the clipart 
in question. These tags are leftovers from the old OCAL cchost system 
and are not necessary in this new OCAL system. You will be able to 
remove these often at the same time as replacing the commas.

http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=media
http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=public_domain
http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=svg
http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=image
http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=png

3. *Add a space after each comma to all tag lists that have this format 
"tag,tag,tag,tag"*. We want this "tag, tag, tag, tag"
This will stop the tag lists of each clipart breaking the page. This 
format is leftover from the old OCAL cchost system and doesn't look very 
good on our new system.
Compare : First Example <http://www.openclipart.org/detail/67> and 
Second Example <http://www.openclipart.org/detail/64153>

4. *Add descriptions to cliparts that are missing it.*
The search searches descriptions as well as other fields. To have a 
description will help people find the clipart.

5. *Request that people upload clipart separately*.
Or do it yourself.

6. *Tag copyright infringeing clipart*. Then Notify the mailing list.
More eyes = faster finding and dealing with infringement. All cliparts 
should be public domain.

7. *Let the mailing list know what you've hidden.*
This is for better accountability and finding. We are doing the best we 
can but sometimes we make mistakes and others can pick up on that, so 
that we can get accurate info.

8. *Notify Mailing list of any cliparts that have a remix on them that 
need sorting out, or unlinking. Same with any cliparts that need linking 
up.*

Sweet! I know it looks like alot, but it's not really, when you do it a 
little a day.

Cheers
Chovynz
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