Commons:Structured data/Archive/2014/Design/Scenarios

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Scenarios defined for different user types. Some scenarios are things that users can currently do (and we need to support them when media information is based on structured data), and other scenarios represent new possibilities.

Wikipedia reader

1. View media information. Views information about the starry night painting. Meaningful information about the painting is presented regardless of it being structured or not.
2. View information in my language. The user views the description of "the starry night" painting in German, the user native language.
3. View more details. The user views information about “the starry night” painting and finds out more details about Van Gogh, its author.
4. Related content. The user views information about “the starry night” painting and looks for other paintings by Van Gogh.

Wikipedia editor

1. Explore media. The user looks for a more recent and high-quality images of the Eiffel tower than the current one in the Paris article, in order to replace it.
2. Content updates. The user finds out that there is no picture about an article that he started about Bratislava, and is interested on knowing when new pictures are added, in order to consider adding them to the article.
3. Alternate formats. The user finds a PNG file of a diagram and notices there is a more appropriate SVG version of it.
4. Contribute media and details. The user uploads a picture, describes it, and uses it on an article.
5. Edit one piece of information. The user finds a typo on the information about an image and fixes it.
6. Add multilingual info. The user adds the Russian description to the “starry night” painting which was missing.

Commons curator

See also the Structured Data design page.

1. Classification. the user goes through a list of recent uploads and classifies them by adding and correcting their topics/categories.
2. Review copyright status. the user checks that licenses and copyright is correct for a file. If needed, the user indicates that the license for a file is not correct, add additional information, or mark the file as a copyright violation.
3. Add multilingual information. The user goes through a list of recent uploads and adds file descriptions in different languages when some of the user native languages are missing.
4. Add location information. The user provides missing geographic coordinates for pictures of monuments that lack such information from a list of recent uploads.
5. Complement information of a collection. After a museum uploaded many paintings by Van Gogh from the same museum, the user wants to add specific information to each of them: a more detailed description, topics, and license information.
6. Look for missing information. Search a museum collection of cubist paintings that have the author information missing, and adds their author.
7. Topic creation. The user creates a new topic about a conference for which images are expected and shares it with the conference organisers so that participants can upload pictures to it.

Commons contributor

1. Contributes one image. The user uploads an image and indicates the license and information on what the image is about to make it easy to be used.
2. Contributes a set of images. The user uploads a sequence of images and indicates the license and all the corresponding topics to make it easy to be used.
3. Describe a file. The user provides details about a file that lacked most of the data when he uploaded it in a rush.
4. Organise uploads. Indicates that most of his recent uploads are part of the “Wikimania 2015” conference.
5. Contribute for a topic. Uploads pictures for “Wiki loves monuments” and provides only the information that is specific for the pictures (not the contest).
6. Verify information. The user checked the EXIF to identify pictures where flash was used, and check the information is correct.

Extract image (cropping).

Site editor

1. Filter by license. Looks for images about a the Eiffel tower that can be reused commercially (e.g., public domain) to use on his work (use implications).
2. Share images. When adds an image to his website, he wants users to be able to explore other related images he contributed.

Partner in a museum

1. Contribute many images. The user uploads a big set of photographs of paintings from a museum and provides information about the different authors.
2. Fix information across many images. After a massive upload, the license information needs to be fixed for pictures whose authors are still alive.

Bot creator

1. Structure data automatically. The bot goes through files that lack structured data and creates it by processing the current unstructured data available in templates.
2. Request supervision. When processing some files, the bot finds information that cannot be structured. The bot creator wants those files to be tagged in some way in order to be processed later by the community.