Where can I read more about Picture Patrol? I have been away for ages (years) and am trying to get up to speed on everything. I am wondering where the pics come from. How do they get into Picture Patrol in the first place? I also want to see the rules about what to choose. I have been voting no on some images which might be perfectly good in terms of subject matter, but if the quality is poor, or too dark, it seems like a bad idea to approve that pic. Plus, some pictures are rotated so that they won’t show properly. Should I approve those, and assume they are going to get fixed somehow and eventually show in the upright position? Or should I reject all of those incorrectly rotated photos, out of hand? And also, some of the articles for which I am shown a picture, are already fully illustrated, often with a series of coordinated step by step pics. Where, in this case, is the new pic going to go? Should I even be worrying about that?
Just as a quick note, I’d recommend moving this thread to the Help Using wikiHow category. wikiHow has introduced a new feature called “Community Images”, where people can upload images to add them to articles. The ones that get approved go into the “Community Images” section at the bottom of the article. I think an image gets approved if there are three “Yes” votes and gets deleted if there are two “No” votes (admin votes count as two).
Anna
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See the second part of this thread, too: http://forums.wikihow.com/discussion/10256/introducing-echo-notifications-and-a-fun-new-tool-for-testing-picture-patrol/p1
The pics come from mobile readers and are generally supposed to represent some kind of “end result” or “mission accomplished” type picture, different from the step-by-step images. When they’re voted in, they go to the very bottom of the article, like WE said - in a gallery of small community images, like what you can see at the bottom of http://www.wikihow.com/Acrylic-Paint
and http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Melted-Crayon-Art
It’s pretty neat to see the different things people have made using the articles - shows how helpful many of the how-tos are! In the long run, we think it’d be cool to display the images more clearly and prominently, but for now it’s still pretty experimental and itty-bitty. As for votes, basically, if you think they might be helpful, I’d say yes! A totally dark pic probably won’t be super helpful to a reader, but they need not be perfect, and can always be removed later if someone else disagrees (each image has an option to flag it from the page itself). What have other folks been using as their yes/no criteria - any tips to share now that the tool has been live a while?
I am SO glad I asked. This makes me vote entirely differently! I will be much more forgiving knowing that these images are for a gallery of user-generated creations. Cool, good to know. I really could not tell that from the tool itself. Right now the question presented by the tool is “Would seeing this image help the reader of this article?” But I think I will instead vote on a question more like “Does this image seem to show the results of following the instructions?” Thanks @Anna
and @WritingEnthusiast14
I usually base my votes on whether the image very clearly relates to the article topic, but I’d love to “listen” to others’ perspectives on this as well
Excellent! Thanks so much @Byankno1
. I edited the article a little. I still need to know what happens when someone submits an image in the wrong orientation. If the image is upside down, or rotated left or right, will that image be fixed by the tool? The article needs to tell us if we can accept a poorly oriented photo or not.
