Add content about contributing media to Openverse

WordPress / openverse

Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media. This monorepo includes all application code.

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Add content about contributing media to Openverse #611

Open zackkrida opened 2 years ago

zackkrida commented 2 years ago

Problem

We don't currently explain to users how to contribute to Openverse or to get their own content searchable in Openverse. We should do that to increase contributions and ease confusion for potential contributors.

Description

We could add a new page or update an existing page. We should add:

Link to the make site
Link to GitHub
Link to the WP Photo Directory (as an example place to upload content)

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Additional context

Implementation

[ ] 🙋 I would be interested in implementing this feature.

dhruvkb commented 2 years ago

This seems to be two separate types of contributions.

Contributing content to Openverse: for someone interested in getting more works indexed in Openverse either via submitting their own work to the WP Photo Directory or by adding providers for existing CC work. Having this on a page in the website sounds fair.
Contributing development to Openverse: for someone interested in moving Openverse forward, the Make site and the GitHub repos would be relevant. Having this on a page in the Openverse frontend does not seem right to me. I suppose the 'Get Involved' link in the footer covers this use case.

zackkrida commented 2 years ago

This seems to be two separate types of contributions.

I personally like the idea of treating code and non-code contributions as being equally important.

Having this on a page in the Openverse frontend does not seem right to me.

I'm curious why that is? My feeling is that this project is used by lots of folks conscious of FOSS who see the value of giving back (the WP and CC communities support this) and might not know where to find that info outside of Openverse's UI.

I suppose the 'Get Involved' link in the footer [sic, header] covers this use case.

It's possible that when Openverse moves out of an iframe, it won't have the WP.org header and could instead have a different 'back to wp.org' type of button in the header.

fcoveram commented 2 years ago

I would a third one.

Contributing design to Openverse: for someone interested in solving design needs by creating mockups and/or improving the Design Library. I recently posted a proposal to sync the existing contribution procedures and ease the onboarding of new contributors. It has been working well the needs design label to list them and call for help.