Wikipedia:WikiProject Image Monitoring Group

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Welcome to the Image Monitoring Group WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Image Monitoring and other image related problems.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

Provide solutions to problems covering images.
Eliminate the large orphaned image problem on Wikipedia (over 100,000 images as of 2/1/2007, and growing at >200/day!).
- See User:Mecu/OrphanImages for tracking of this problem.
Create, maintain, and monitor templates that are useful for processing images by folks.
Develop bots to process to the work that becomes redundant and more efficiently.
- User:BJBot is an example, that marks orphaned fair use images. (It did 10,000 images in 4 days, which would take a human much longer (months) since it was able to target suspected known orphaned fair use images.)
  - BJBot is likely to also check for images marked with the IFD tag ({{ifd}}) but never listed at IFD, and images that went through IFD but didn't have the tag removed from the image by admins processing the images.
- Another bot to move images to commons that have been approved.
- Another bot to remove fair use images used outside article namespace.
  - High priority!
- Another bot to look at newly uploaded images.
- Orphan bot is another example. (it creates orphans by removing images that are poorly/not sourced or licensed from articles)
Update and create image policies on Wikipedia.
- Current proposal to clarify that fair use images should be 300px wide max and 72x72 px/inch as a standard.
Create/support scripts to ease image work (such as QuickImgDelete)
- A script add-on for IFD admins to allow them to click "keep" on an image when processing images which would open a browser tab and remove the IFD tag from the image description page.