User:WereSpielChequers/Adding piccies

This is a spec for a possible new feature for wikipedia, don't be fazed by it starting in userspace, collaboration is welcome. Discussion as to whether it is a good idea is probably best confined to the talkpage.

Opportunity
We have over 10 million images on commons and over 3.6 million articles on the pedia. The two have drifted somewhat apart as we have had batch uploads of images that no-one has yet gone through and added to relevant Wikipedia articles.

Vision
An "add images to Wikipedia articles" tool that we can promote to readers, newbies and especially the hundreds of thousand of new editors who create an account and get as far as the edit screen, but never saved their first edit.

If the BBC can get hundreds of people at the Ideal home show to spend hours making plasticine flowers, then I'm hoping that with this tool we can get thousands of people to add images to most of the articles we have that don't currently have images.

The entire process to be done without the editor seeing a single squirlly bracket, pipe symbol or in any way being exposed to HTML code.

What is says
Hello and thanks for agreeing to help Wikipedia!

We have recently been given lots of pictures to use, but we need volunteers like you to choose the right images for our articles.

Would you like to improve Wikipedai by choosing pictures for us?

Before we begin, can I just ask you which language you want to use today? [dropdown box]

And which other languages are you comfortable with? [dropdown box]

What it does
Records the language that it is working in today and then uses that for all dialogue

Records your alternative languages and uses them in its search routines. Wikipedia exists in lots of languages, please tell us the one you want to help us with:

Screen 2
Would you like to find images for:
 * a random article
 * a random article where we have images in our "insert other language user is comfortable with" version of Wikipedia
 * an article about [drop down box with 12 high level categories where we have potential images to check]

Screen 3
Thanks, for this article we have [insert number of potential matches] possible pictures, if you think one of these picture is useful for this article please click on it

Display article and a succession of possible picture in split screen

Screen 4
If editor has not chosen a picture, offer another article and associated possible matches

Else if editor has chosen a picture,

Thanks, now what caption do you think would be relevant for this image in this article? [caption box] For example "Flock of Flamingoes in Lake Turkana"

Thanks now how would you describe this to a blind person? [alt txt box] For example "lots of long legged pink birds standing on one leg in a lake".

Preview change:

Ok that's how this will look, click save if you are happy with that.

--Screen 5== Modification of screen 3 with a fresh article- Thanks for improving that Wikipedia article, now do you think one of these pictures would work for this article?