Talk:List of crowdsourcing projects

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How are the projects on this page ordered? They should perhaps be ordered by date of inception or significance, though the later maybe difficult to measure. JameyBM (talk) 04:38, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

--As it was difficult to determine the dates of all the projects, I alphabetized them. Echalhou (talk) 22:43, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure that everything on here really qualifies as 'crowdsourcing'. Just because a competition is online and has multiple entrants this doesn't mean that it's 'crowdsourced'. I removed one egregious example (the guy who answers questions asked via the web), but this list could do with some editing down to more focussed examples. 60.242.240.196 (talk) 12:39, 20 May 2010 (UTC)Mike.

I agree with Mike. This page needs a curator. I would argue for a distinction between Crowd-Source Projects (projects that crowd-source data) and Crowd-Source-Funded Projects (self-explanatory). I can find the latter quite easily using any search engine. Ongoing projects looking for participants wanting to donate time are more useful as an ordered catalog, e.g., to teachers looking for projects their students can participate in and to people with time on their hands, looking for a way to contribute. These could then be sorted by genre and listed alphabetically.

There's a third category of items here, which is famous or historically significant crowd-sourcing projects. These could be moved under a genre heading of "Famous" or "History." EduMedia 20:28, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

I don't think this list is sustainable.
Kickstarter alone has had 74,342 successfully funded projects. They have the lion's share of the market - but there must be of the order of a quarter million crowdsourced projects. We can't seriously list all of them...and notability is exceedingly tricky because these projects are (by definition) new. So it's tough for any but the most popular to be sufficiently notable to mention.

SteveBaker (talk) 20:23, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree that it will not be possible to cover relevant crowdsourced projects comprehensively. I however have the impression that you mix up crowdfunded projects (financed by many) with crowdsourced ones (to which the crowd contributes with its work). Obviously kickstarter funds many projects that are not noteworthy here. Already in this list for a lot of projects reliable sources independent of the subject that have significant coverage of the project are missing and relevance has thus not yet been demonstrated. There also should not be direct external links in the text. Carabatx (talk) 18:42, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

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Add info about Library of Congress crowdsourcing project and I work at the Library of Congress
Hello - I would like to add By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov/), a Library of Congress crowdsourcing project, to this list. I work in the Office of Communications at the Library of Congress. Before I attempt to make this edit I wanted to provide an opportunity for any objections to be raised given that I work at the Library of Congress. Thank you for any advice!

Mprlib (talk) 22:16, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Generally it is advised due to obvious potential Conflict of interest not to edit articles that deal with oneself or one's work. You can make suggestions on the talk pages and let others decide. Thanks for revealing your conflict of interest. Carabatx (talk) 18:36, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Cleanup
For many projects reliable sources independent of the subject that have significant coverage of the topic were missing and relevance had thus not yet been demonstrated. This is necessary, see WP:Verifiability. There also should not be direct external links in the text. They are ok for projects that have an own article with an "external links" section. Of course it is welcome to re-add projects if the information is based on reliable sources independent of the subject. Carabatx (talk) 22:05, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Edit Request (COI)
One of the entries removed by User:MrOllie in this edit was a seminal site in cultural heritage crowdsourcing and continues to operate: the Trove OCR correction project for historic newspapers (listed under the heading "Australian Historic Newspapers" in the deleted text. I'd be happy to provide recent references to it in RS to encourage its restoration, or to edit boldly myself.

Another entry deleted in the same edit, for the FromThePage manuscript transcription platform, was added back again by User:Rgauf, but with less accurate text:
 * FromThePage is free software that allows volunteers to transcribe handwritten documents online. It is used by the San Diego Natural History Museum to transcribe the Laurence M. Klauber Field Notes, by Southwestern University to transcribe the Mexican War diary of Zenas Matthews, and others.  The platform integrates with the Archive.org CMS, and the transcriptions can include semantic mark-up for indexing and annotation.  Users can either host the platform on their own servers by getting the source code from GitHub, or have hosting provided by the FromThePage organization.

was deleted, then replaced with
 * FromThePage.com provides software to over a hundred (as currently listed) document transcription projects for researchers, organizations, and institutions. These projects use crowdsourced volunteers to correct and enhance the OCR derived base document transcription to produce an accurate final result.

Since I created the FromThePage software and run FromThePage.com, I cannot edit this due to a conflict of interest. The sources in the original and the replacement remain accurate, but are rather old, and I'd be happy to list more recent ones from reliable sources here. My biggest request is that the last sentence be modified to something like "These projects use volunteers to transcribe handwritten text from scanned documents", which represents 90% of the projects -- OCR correction is a feature of the software which is only used by a minority of projects. -Ben (talk) 10:03, 25 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Two hours after making this request, User:MrOllie removed more entries, including the newer one on FromThePage. Oh well.  -Ben (talk) 20:16, 25 April 2021 (UTC)


 * FromThePage entry has been re-added, incorporating improvements as suggested. Rgauf (talk) 03:41, 19 September 2021 (UTC)


 * I removed it again. This is a list of notable stuff - it should have its own Wikipedia page or equivalent sources first. See WP:WTAF - MrOllie (talk) 03:49, 19 September 2021 (UTC)