Help us improve the relevance and quality of the encyclopedia

The quality chart sets rules for the overall quality of the encyclopedia. This quality and the relevance of the photos make Fotopedia a great website. We achieved this together: the community and the Fotopedia team.

Many of you have asked for improved moderation tools to respect the quality chart or remove irrelevant photos. The first of a series we are working on is now available with the ability to remove photos from articles.

To remove a photo from an encyclopedia article use the "x" button in red below.

This will remove the photo from the article. The photo will still be in Fotopedia and in other articles. If the photo is not yours this button will be replaced by a "report as inappropriate" button. Use it to report any photo that should be removed. The author of the photo or admins will take care of it.

We will soon allow you to delete completely any photo you add to the encyclopedia. We are also working on a better way to report photos that are irrelevant or don't respect the quality chart and to remove these photos. All these changes will make the encyclopedia more beautiful than ever.

Check out this first improvement by removing any photo of yours that might me misplaced or doesn't respect the chart. Thanks for your collaboration!

A new interace to add photos: the media selector

To add photos to the encyclopedia we have created a new interface: the media selector.

The media selector opens when you click on the "add photos" button on any article. As previously, you can select the photos you want to add from various sources and filter them through a search. The interface makes it easier to find the exact photo you want to add. Click add photos to check it out.

New featured photographers and projects

Noppanan Arunvongse Na Ayudhaya is now among the featured photographers on the homepage. Noppanan actually lives in China. He is the top contributor of the Beijing and Sichuan projects.


Also new on the homepage are two featured projects: Iceland and Artisans. You might want to check them out if you haven't already done so. They replace the February Festivities and 2010 Winter Olympics projects as these major events have ended. Now that the Vancouver Olympics are over you can add and vote for the photos that best represent these games in the 2010 Winter Olympics article.

One month of Fotopedia projects

Projects are almost a month old. The beta has been very interesting so far with nearly 30 projects created and many posts. Take a look at the latest, Rome and check out the work that has been done in Burma, Iceland and Photography techniques, just to mention a few.

The project's forum have been very enriching for us. You have used them to start different types of exchanges about the project's topic, the way to organize the project, a photo you liked and what you have been doing. From your feedback, it seems the projects enable you to contribute to the encyclopedia in an true interactive way with the rest of the community.

All your remarks and comments have been read attentively and are being taken into account to in the next version of Fotopedia projects. The launch of this new version, in mid-March, will mark the end of the beta.

If you haven't yet, join one of the existing projects, or suggest a project that you would like to work on at project@fotopedia.com.