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On 26 Sep 2013, at 15:02, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 13:13 +0000, Jared Meidal wrote:
I see this dynamic user gallery, which is not strictly curated
It actually is curated. It's just not authored by us. Instead we look after which gallery streams to include and which artworks to enable/disable in our super-fantastic 'beat-that-tate-modern' online syndication page.
We /can/ pick and choose which items dis/enabled, we can choose to make new entrants disabled by default. The feed on staging /is/ curated by the person (whoever they are) that looks after the inkscape user on deviantArt.
I trust them. Not because I know them, but because they've made good calls in the past and their favorites gallery is filled with good decisions. If /they/ add some new works, our website will update with their decisions automatically enabled for our visitors to enjoy.
You actually do know them, administrating the Inkscape group on da is another one of the ways that Josh is awesome for our community. Cheers Josh!
Other sources, like open-clipart /are/ more arbitrary since any artist can self-select to tag their works inkscape. But that's a source you would set to disable new entrants and you can then have a system of enabling them (which I haven't built, but wouldn't be too hard, a few template tags and a simple curator permission)
This is a distributed control with delegated trust. We can choose to trust certain sources if we want. While still giving us access to self-selected sources too.
Thus to conclude: These galleries are not arbitrary. ;-)
Martin Owens
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