Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day/Archive 5

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Where is the right place to discuss the use of featured pictures as Pictures of the Day? Where is consensus established that a picture is or is not "too graphic", or whether it should best appear on a particular date, or that sort of thing?

Currently I see an issue of another kind: the candidate queued for May 5 does not exist. In June a whole set of 47 different images of map projections was promoted all at once to be featured pictures. Someone chose one of the projections to be POTD for May 5, but there are actually two different images corresponding to that projection and neither one is currently named in the POTD template. So someone has to pick one. Where is the right place to raise this issue?

I think this article (WP:Picture of the Day) needs to answer this question, and I don't think it currently does. --50.100.193.30 (talk) 04:36, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

• If you do not know what is happening, ask. Regarding the candidate queued for May 5, I am not a specialist in map projections. As such, I have asked the creator (Strebe) whether it is better to present the front and rear projections side-by-side, or overlayed, as shown below:

• 
  Overlayed
• 
  Side by side

There's still another two weeks to go before that image runs, plenty of time to choose which one is best. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:40, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

• Thanks. But you say "ask" as if you meant I should ask somewhere else. My first question was where to ask and why this page doesn't seem to say. Thanks. --12:06, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

• No, no need to ask somewhere else. Just ask here, before assuming there's a problem. (People interested in POTD generally have this on their watchlist). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:03, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

As for your first question: the vast majority are chosen by the "picture of the day coordinator" (not an actual position, but since I don't have any better terms for this let's go with that). It is essentially a person who has volunteered to regularly schedule POTD. If I'm not mistaken, this started with

Howcheng, and since January 2013 I've been doing it, to give Howcheng more time with his other activities. This means that the vast majority of POTDs are selected by these individuals, although others are generally allowed to choose POTDs so long as they follow the guidelines (though I may move a suggested POTD if it's too close to something similar or if there is a clear date relevance). Currently, if we were to have POTD scheduled by whomever felt like doing it, it's quite possible that we'd miss several days. — Crisco 1492 (talk

) 04:53, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Ah! So your answer to my earlier complaint was an "official" one, so to speak. Since you didn't identify your position, I did not realize that. --50.100.193.30 (talk) 12:06, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

• Not quite "official" in the strictest sense, but ... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:03, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

As for how "too graphic" is defined... no written guidelines yet. I've been going with sexualized nudity = no; artistic nudity = okay; common gore/violence (i.e. gore/violence one can find in an average day) = probably; extraordinary gore (i.e. gore/violence which is considerably rarer, say dead bodies after the holocaust) = no, except after a discussion. Subjective, yes, but these images come up so rarely there is probably no need to write an actual policy. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:51, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

I didn't ask for a policy; I figured it would be like that. I asked where to raise such issues. --50.100.193.30 (talk) 12:06, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

• Here or my talk page. I'll leave a note to that effect on the main POTD page. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:03, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

• Thanks, that covers it. --50.100.193.30 (talk) 07:43, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

The word "Uranium" in Template:POTD/2014-04-30 should be uncapitalized, but I don't know how practical it is to change a word embedded in a picture. I can't just click "edit".

And since I'm here, you have conflicting instructions about posting errors for pictures that aren't today's or tomorrow's featured picture yet. Here or WP:ERRORS? Art LaPella (talk) 02:43, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

• For that I'd go to the
  image lab, specifically Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop
  . SVGs have always been past me.

As for the template at the top of this page, thanks for the heads up. I'll fix that. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:29, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

• Looks to be fixed. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:20, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

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Once you've tried the tool, please share your feedback in this discussion, to help improve this feature. You're also welcome to take this quick survey -- or join this in-depth discussion on MediaWiki.org, as you prefer. Thanks for sharing your insights! Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 00:32, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi, at mw:Talk:Multimedia/About Media Viewer#Page view statistics the development team have indicated that it will no longer be possible to track image clicks. In that section, they are asking for feedback on that issue. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 08:17, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

• Currently, POTD does not keep an archive of image views. However, I sometimes check it to compare views across different time frames or with another section of the main page. There are other, more pressing, issues, however. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:33, 24 May 2014 (UTC)