In the past week, I’ve seen two examples of the wikiPhoto bot making mistakes such as uploading incorrect photos or overwriting step by step images that should not have been deleted. We are trying to fine tune this bot, but I know that in the sort term there will almost certainly be more errors like this. So if you have started an article that wikiPhoto adds photos to, and you think the photos actually made the article worse or the photos were just wrong, please: 1. Revert the wikiPhoto edits and possibly any edits that the wonderfully human @Thomscher
who assists wikiPhoto in the process. (FYI when Thom edits articles selected by wikiPhoto he is working quickly and may not see the “before” version of the article. His edits are narrowly focused on helping wikiPhoto, so he will make understandable mistakes but is more than happy to fix problems!) 2. Let @Krystle
, @Thomscher
, wikiPhoto or me know about the issue so we can look at it and fix it for the future. In 99% of the cases wikiPhoto is contributing to our mission by adding or improving the photos on articles. Hopefully in a few weeks or months we can get these bugs in the system worked out so the damage caused by the occasional mistakes are reduced. Till then, please let us know when you see the bot making mistakes. Thanks!
Pj_min
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Oh! I understood. There is no answer from him for that reason. I’m OK. I hope that the bug is resolved soon. Thank you to your measure!
Thanks for letting us know. I’ll be on the lookout for incorrect photos from him. However, I’ve never had any big messups from that bot at all.
Pj_min
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This photo is not wrong. @JackHerrick
@Byankno1
@Krystle
、 @Thomscher
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Bird-out-of-a-Plastic-Straw
However, Bot used the straw of a special long bellows. I think, I’ll better use the material is easy obtain. Because lot of people make it. I received e-mail from a Ukraine. He is father, and he has little girl. He said “My daughter want special straws”. I felt sorry for him. What do you think this?
I can think of two solutions here. 1. Either we delete the wikiPhoto articles entirely and revert to the original photos. 2. Or we revert to the original photos but also keep the wikiPhoto articles as an alternate method with “special long” straws. Which solution do you think is the best?
Two, for highest quality.
system
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For the straws article, I can see number 2 being an option. Overall, it really depends on the article itself when Wikiphoto edits it. I felt the need to revert images on an article & redo them on my own with the collaboration of the article’s creator for “quality” purposes - then another episode, I integrated both mine and Wikiphotos images for an article that I started.
Pj_min
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Thank you for your feedback.> everyone! I think the better part of Wikiphoto and should be adopted, too. Also we can display special Swan of straw as Tips. By this, we may make further spread. to match the policy of wikiHow. Since my English is not good, please support editing.
Pj_min
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I find it a bit amusing that wikiphoto was implemented to increase article quality. Something I usually do when I’m adding images, is edit the steps to make them flow better. I’ll add some tips, throw in a reference or two, and clean up the article overall. Wikiphoto doesn’t, and wikiphoto adds images to every step
, stretching out articles that shouldn’t be stretched out. Overall article quality isn’t a factor with wikiphoto, either. Anyways, one that caught my eye while recategorizing a few moments ago, was http://www.wikihow.com/Scrunch-Hair
First of all, the article quality isn’t particularly great and could use a clean up overall. What is really bothering Monica, though? The person in the photos isn’t actually scrunching hair
. It’s not showing a reader what you’re supposed to be doing to make your hair scrunched, nor is it showing what your hair should resemble as you go along. The “end result” in the introduction image doesn’t look like what scrunched hair is supposed to look like. Scrunched hair is supposed to look damp and unevenly waved all over, like this: 
By the way, the introduction image, depicts a braid coming undone. _ Hint: nowhere in the article does it tell you to braid or unbraid hair._I intend to redo these pictures myself tomorrow.
Thanks for offering to redo the photos Monica. There is no doubt that wikiphoto is making some mistakes here and there. Would be great if we could watch for it and replace these photos when they happen.
le before: http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Scrunch-Hair&oldid=7515730
-suspenseful music- le after: http://www.wikihow.com/Scrunch-Hair
big thanks to my mother for helping take pictures, thanks Mama!
system
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^ The pictures look good, thanks to you and your mother! =)
Pj_min
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I think the ingenuity of wikiHow is not end, long time. Of course to correct the wrong article. Even there is room to be improved more good article. Trying and fail is essential for wikiHow. Visitors should be aware it is.
I just had one yesterday(I’m not at a right device to grab the URL, but if you type “Time Magazine person of the year” you’ll find the article in question which I later edited myself. About a week ago, I added some screenshots that showed people exactly where to find buttons that were described. However, when wikiphotos came in, the only thing in the picture was just a bunch of words that wouldn’t have shown the user what to do in the step. I fixed that step, resized and centered the image, (look at step 6).
Ttrimm
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Monica ( @Bokehmon
), you did a fantastic job and I love how you managed to do it without showing facial features!
I’ve now found two articles that I added photos to, way back when. I thought they were pretty decent photos, but there are new Wikiphoto images there: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Braid-Using-More-Than-Three-Strands
http://www.wikihow.com/Sew-a-Button
The former, in particular, would have entailed a rewrite of the article (something I haven’t yet checked for), because the article said things like “take the yellow strand over the red strand,” which corresponded to colors in the original photos.
