No Idea why Flickr is hiding Unique Knowledge about Medicinal Rice from world community?
Excerpts
from my Field Diary (July 2014 Onwards) Part-1
No
Idea why Flickr is hiding Unique Knowledge about Medicinal Rice from world
community?
Pankaj
Oudhia
Young researcher from Europe is complaining about my
contributions at Flickr.
“You have uploaded thousands of useful pictures and
videos at Flickr but we are unable to reach to the contributions through Google
as well as Flickr search. Why you are hiding it from the researchers like me?”
I received his message yesterday. He is right and also his anger is but it is
not my fault.
Although I am old user of Flickr but I am still
confused about its intentions. Flickr allows 75 tags per picture and encourage
its users to add tags so that pictures can be searched through search engines. I
started adding 60 Tags per pictures and uploaded hundreds of pictures.
Suddenly one day I got warning notice to remove the “Irrelevant
Tags” from all pictures. When I asked about the “Irrelevant” Tags they failed
to give the clear answer. I refused to remove the Tags and asked them to remove
it from their end as I am ready to pay the charges. They applied NIPSA in my
contributions. NIPSA stands for Not in Public Search Area. I started deleting
the images It took many weeks. After it I requested the Flickr to put it back
on their search engines but got no response.
Ignoring the complaints of my Followers I continued
to upload pictures without Tags. Due to NIPSA the daily visits to the page
reduced to 3000-4000 visitors per day. Sudden I found increased Traffic i.e.
18000 to 27000 visitors per day. I checked the account and found that NIPSA has
been removed. I got message to add Tags for the sake of search engines. I
followed their instructions and my uploads crossed the mark of 200,000
pictures. These pictures are related to Research on Medicinal Rice. As expected
very soon I got the similar notice from Flickr to remove irrelevant Tags. They
kept the contribution in NIPSA category again. This time I showed no interest
in interaction. I am continuously uploading pictures.
Today there are over 240,000 pictures and videos
(Plus 128,000 Tagged and 112,000 Not Tagged contributions) but visitors are
unable to locate the exact picture. They are writing to me but due to the
Flickr policy it is difficult even for me to find the exact picture. Last month
I received over 7000 such requests mostly from researchers. Many of them
offered money in order to locate the exact picture/video.
It is not wrong to say that due to my contributions
Flickr has established as Knowledge Bank on Medicinal Rice. It seems that
someone from International Rice Lobby or similar group enough powerful to force
Flickr to stop showing my contributions through search engines is playing game
behind the walls. India’s Traditional Knowledge about Medicinal Rice can
establish it as Global Superpower and therefore all efforts are in progress to
keep the information about Medicinal Rice away from Global Community.
May be due to well known rivalry between Flickr and
Google Flickr results earlier available through Google search are now not available.
My academic contributions are blocked.
“It is not my fault dear. Please write to Flickr
instead with this request.” I replied to the researcher.
This act of Flickr reminded me the act of
Ecoport.org many years back. Motivated by the great thoughts of Prof. E.O.Wilson
and Dr. Nelson Mandela at Ecoport.org I started contributing at Ecoport. I
uploaded over 86,000 Interactive Tables (worth plus 650,000 pages) related to
my report on Tribal Medicines of Diabetes in codes. The Ecoport Owner forced me
to write the codes. After adding codes suddenly he restricted search engines to
access my contributions. Later he restricted me to make modification in my own
documents. This portal (Ecoport.org) was sponsored by Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) of United Nations. I protested against this ill motive but failed to do
anything. My contributions and codes are still with Ecoport and they are using
it as private property.
It seems that Flickr is in same trend.
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(Pankaj
Oudhia is Biodiversity Expert and can be reached through
pankajoudhia@gmail.com)
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