Hi, I completely agree with Patricia, Openclipart should be a wiki project as open as wikimedia is, so people willing to contribute new cliparts and improve existing ones (metadata, colors, enhancements and corrections of badly formed SVG) have the possibility to "stop by" and help. I contacted Jon Phillips a couple of months ago, and said that I want to help, but at the time the question of migrating to CCHOST was at its beginning and we decided to wait until the new web would be online with SVG support. Only then I could be of help. Unfortunately my PHP skills are almost inexitant so there is not much I can do to help the project right now... But once the website will be ready, I can spend some time (1-2 hours) almost everyday, maintaining and improving its content.
Openclipart is IMHO one of the best projects around, and I personally saw its great impact in the education field in third world countries (Mauritanian and Nigerian teachers using some of the cliparts in self-made brochures to teach children reading and/or drawing, small companies using cliparts of buttons in their websites because they cannot afford commercial cliparts, etc...) I'd hate to see Openclipart die... And I think I'm not the only one...
Mourad
Bryce Harrington write :
(...) I would like to not see openclipart die out as a project. I think it's a good idea and has caught on well with artists. However, there aren't enough people actively working on it - heck, there aren't really even enough people to put in the time to get others working actively on it. I find most of my own ocal time is spent doing infrastructure work that is literally duplicate work for Inkscape (wiki de-spam, account setup, etc.)
Hi,
Sorry to speak about wikipedia or wikicommon again but we should see this point : why wikipedia and wikicommon have a lot of contributors ? I think because they use completely the wiki.
Maybe the main page of openclipart should be a wiki... See http://commons.wikimedia.org In the left menu of OCAL we keep the search bar, upload/download single clipart or package, news, faq in all languages... We give the possibility to users to modify pages in their languages (some won't be open for security), to add beautiful pages, to download and manage clipart (best colors, forms, metadatas) like we do in wikicommon.
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