The primary interface for moderating photos is the familiar post edit admin page, but with enhancements.
Metaboxes Overview
Title:
- This is auto-generated and should not need editing.
Post content:
- Treated as the photo caption.
- This is required. If one was not provided, create one based on image content.
- Should be descriptive of the photo content.
- Use sentence case.
- Text should be in English
- Feel empowered to improve/fix the user-submitted caption; don’t feel as though the contributor’s text needs to be maintained.
Photo:
- Review the photo for content and quality.
- The photo must comply with stated guidelines.
- Photos should be well composed, well lit, have a subject that is interesting, not be blurry, etc, etc.
- If in doubt about the quality of an image, consult with other moderators in the #photomods Slack channel.
Custom Fields:
- Any existing custom fields should be left as-is. Do not update any (such as ‘post_content’) to reflect any changes you may have made elsewhere.
Photo Contributor:
- Summarizes pertinent information regarding the contributor such as:
- Avatar
- Display name (linked to their URL if they have one)
- @-mention name (linked to their wordpress.org profile)
- The number of photos they’ve had published to the site (linked to their photo contributor archive)
- The number of photos they’ve had rejected (linked to the admin listing of those rejections)
- The number of photos they have waiting in the moderation queue
- The date when the user account was created/registered
- The IP address at the time of the photo submission
- Rejection and error statistics
Categories:
- At least one category should be assigned.
- Two categories are reasonable, but three is stretching things unless they all significantly apply.
- Review auto-assigned categories for relevance, removing any as necessary.
- New categories should not be created without consensus from moderators and maintainers.
Colors:
- Valid colors: white, silver, gray, black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, violet.
- New colors should not be created without consensus from moderators and maintainers.
- Colors should be notable colors within the image (in terms of sizable presence, prominence, vibrancy). Not every color present needs to be tagged.
- At least one color should be assigned. Ideally not more than three unless each is strongly represented.
- Some colors may be auto-assigned, but they may not be accurate. Review auto-assigned colors for relevance, removing any as necessary.
- Assign from existing color(s) as needed.
Tags:
- Singular, not plural (e.g. “tree” instead of “trees”).
- Review auto-assigned tags for relevance, removing any that are incorrect or are too specific (Google Vision can generate some uncommon terms for tags).
- Add/create tags as needed.
- At least one tag should be assigned.
- No need to tag every possible thing in the photo. Should mostly be things that are prominent in the photo.
- No upper limit on the number of tags, within reason. Ideally not more than 6 unless strongly warranted.
- Use fairly broad tags consisting of common terms.
- Avoid colors, scientific terms, and other uncommon terms.
- Make note of any undesirable tags that get repeatedly auto-assigned so they can be added to a list to be ignored in the future.
Photo Info:
- Not much to evaluate here, just information about the image file itself such as dimensions, file size, file type, file name, original file name, and submission date.
- The original file name is presented here since it is recorded as a potential reference value when communicating with the contributor, but it is not actually shown or used meaningfully anywhere.
EXIF:
- If copyright is stated, ensure it is CC0.
- Check values for any text fields for questionable content (generally in caption, description, copyright, tags)