I know we discussed this issue before, but I want to bring your attention AGAIN to wikiphotos because it actually RUINED my article I worked very hard on. Wikiphotos replaced all my images I created with love and heart for the article. **I am very very frustrated because the images added by wikiphotos do NOT represent the procedure and bring a great level of confusion**. http://www.wikihow.com/Find-out-an-IP-Address-and-Person’s-Geographical-Location-from-Outlook-Express-E‐mail
You may not agree with me, but it’s MY article and I have a right to keep it as I want. The images I added myself originally perfectly presented the step-by-step procedure described in the article. I asked Teresa to return my article to its ORIGINAL … I tried and it didn’t work for me. May be because I am too nervous and upset. I thought to myself: “If my articles will be ruined by wikiphotos like this I 'll stop writing the new ones”. Sorry about the grumpy tone but that is the way I feel. I tremendously greatful to the editors who edited the text and made it look better, but I am grieving over the horrifying new images.
Marina
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I know how frustrating wikiPhoto is, but we don’t have many pictures on a lot of our articles, and it’s a hugeee problem. I agree with you that wikiPhoto didn’t need to go and update these photos and do it *wrong*, but from what I see, wikiPhoto does more to help than harm. If I were you, I would leave them some talkpage feedback and revert their edit. And I can see how you might be compelled to ‘stop writing articles’, but I don’t think it’s too hard to fix the article. As we leave them feedback, I’m hoping they’ll improve. Now, where I get a little confused in what you’re saying is where you say that it is ‘YOUR’ article, and ‘YOU’ have a right to keep it as you want. That isn’t necessarily true, I hate to say. You may have started the article, but as I see it it’s everyone’s article for everyone to edit. Treat wikiPhoto as a human, as well as a ‘bot’ as it calls itself. Leave it feedback, rollback what it does occasionally, and understand that it will take longer to improve than would a regular human. And I can see how you would be discouraged, but I’m not really sure it should point you away from making new articles. It’s a pretty easy fix, and I’m sympathetic for you, I just think that quitting article-making might be a bit much.
Hi, well, yes I was very frustrated … I did leave a message on wikiphoto’s talk page. Guys , what I meant by “my article” and “I have a right” was in this particular case TO KEEP MY ORIGINAL SCREENSHOTS vs. replaced them by terrible wikiphotos’. I do realize that our articles become wH’s property and are to be edited. Let me make a point, and I hope you understand - I almost NEVER have a problems with the edited text but I did with the photos. **None of us want our articles become WORSE after the editing, you’d agree with me on it**. But this is exactly what happened after wikiphoto replaced my original images. They made it impossible to follow. When I do MY OWN screenshots I do them “surgically” precise matching the steps. That is why I got so many "Rising Star"s. Yes, I was very discouraged by this incident, but I should agree with you - to stop writing is ‘a bit too much’. LOL I will not, of course. Thanks God Teresa reverted it to the original version.
I also wanted to make sure you were okay at the time.
I am OK now, Adelaide. I was very frustrated when I discovered. Editing assumes IMPROVING the articles but not reversed. LOL
system
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There’s always the option of going into an article history… opening the last known good edit… and then SAVING that edit as the current version. I’ve done this to a few of “my” articles which wikiphoto inadvertently did more harm to than good.
We have to do our OWN screenshots
system
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Hey Laura, Sorry that Wikiphoto messed up here. Like @confusionist
pointed out, it’s not perfect
Having an article that you started edited in a way that makes it worse is something that’s bound to happen on a wiki, it doesn’t matter whether it’s by an anonymous visitor, a community member, or a bot. It’s all the same: If you think the edit makes the page better and more informative, keep it. If not, revert it. I can assure you that Wikiphoto was not out to wreck your article, and just because it has the word “wiki” in the name doesn’t mean its edit weighs more than anyone else’s, so please don’t take it any more personally than you would any other edit. Thanks for reporting this, though. This is important feedback to help make Wikiphoto better!
