Micro-contributions: translate images captions on Commons
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	Feb 10 2017, 2:16 PM

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It is possible to imagine a game or an app which display an image and its description in several languages and ask to have it translated or reviewed in a language defined by the user.

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Trizek-WMF created this task.Feb 10 2017, 2:16 PM

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I did something like this back in 2007. My bot copied thumb descriptions from different Wikipedias into Commons.[1] That way you have a lot of work done, though having a review method is better.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&dir=prev&offset=20070205160728&limit=500&contribs=user&target=Emijrpbot&namespace=6&tagfilter=

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Aklapper removed a parent task: T157801: [DO NOT USE] [tracking] Ideas concerning micro-contributions [superseded by #microcontribution].Mar 24 2017, 10:06 AM

Lydia_Pintscher moved this task from incoming to monitoring on the Wikidata board.May 5 2017, 3:30 PM

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This is now a feature of the Wikimedia Android App as part of the Suggested Edits feature set.

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