Hi,
I'd like to start a discussion about the merits and challenges of
> enabling the Translate and UniversalLanguageSelector extensions on
> Commons.
>
> The UniversalLanguageSelector extension (
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector )
> allows users to easily switch the interface language; it also embeds
> an interface to enter text in non-Latin languages even if your
> keyboard doesn't allow it.
>
> My feeling is that both these tools would dramatically improve the
> user experience on Commons for people who don't use English. As a
> multilingual wiki, Commons even seems like the perfect audience for
> these tools.
>
FYI, I quick drafted
<
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/UniversalLa…
>
in order to discuss the possible issues, then gain community consensus and
hopefully get ULS enabled on Wikimedia Commons
(I thought it was better to leave the question of the Translate extension
to another discussion, as there seems to be more hurdles with the
transition).
Thanks,
--
Jean-Frédéric
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From: Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 30 April 2013 20:19
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] CC nears last call for comments on Creative Commons 4.0
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi, all-
As mentioned in a variety of places (mostly, it looks like, on Commons
Village Pump) Creative Commons is revising their licenses to produce a
new 4.0 version. The changes include a variety of things relevant to
Commons and other WM projects, most importantly attribution, but also
improved translations, database rights, and general improvements in
readability.
CC is nearing their final version, and have asked me to ask our
community for one last round of review and comment. Consider this that
request!
A few relevant links:
* The best way to comment is through their mailing list:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses
* The actual drafts, including side-by-side comparisons to 3.0:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/Drafts#Licenses_.28all_six_are_presente…
* Their complete wiki: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0
This is *not* a call for comments on the adoption of CC 4.0 by WM
projects. That discussion, if it happens, would be after 4.0 has been
finalized, so that we're not speculating about the final terms.
FYI-
Luis
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Hi everybody,
This is my first message to this list, trying to find the good channel
for sharing some impressions about a recent experience I made in the
Libre Graphics Meeting.
I'm from Argentina, a member of Wikimedia Argentina and also a teacher
working with Wikipedia from several years ago. Maybe you have read
this article in the WMF blog:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/07/creating-local-content-for-wikipedia/
So, to the point. I proposed there a workshop about Wikimedia Commons,
oriented to spread the work dynamics of Commons among libre graphics
designers, and also to do some concrete collaborations during the
project.
This workshop was inspired in a similar exercise I did last year with
my students of digital photography, since I discovered (being jury of
Wiki Loves Monuments Spain) a lot of photos with exposure problems.
More info is at my userpage of Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lpagola and in a few days it
will be also available the report at metawiki.
Comments and suggestions are very welcome.
Although time was too short (two hours), we could work with some
requests, and doing so, somebody found something I didn't know, and I
want to know if exists a better way to solve it.
Problem appeared around files needing to be converted to a different
file type, for instance a GIF that should be PNG
(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_with_inappropriate_GIF_f…).
When trying to upload the file through "upload new version", it was
not allowed since the file type was different... and when trying
through the general uploader, we need to change the name, so we lost
not only the "history" of the file, but also its identical name.
So, there is better way to do this?
I asked Ezarate (maybe is he in this list?) for advice and he pointed
out a "method" I tested here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:100-Hryvnia-1996-front.png
A participant of the workshop also summarized her way as follows:
1. download the jpg in higher resolution
2. make the png version in your computer
3. create a page with the new title. example: File:title.png
4. upload the new file
5. add the same description, licence, source
6. put the date of your upload
7. update the author, also reffering to the original author. example:
B based on A's work
8. add the original file to the "other versions"
9. add the same categories as the original file
10. add to the original jpg file your png version in "other versions"
11. remove the {{badjpg}} tag from the jpg version
What do you think?
Thanks in advance!
And sorry for the long message...
Best from Argentina,
Hello,
folks. Maybe you know about this "startup" project. It seems to me
photojournalists may nominate their projects and collect money from backers
to performe them. So I am letting you known, in the case, you would need
some funding.
Regards,
Juan (user:Juandev)
Hi list,
We used to have UniversalSubtitles [1] support on Wikimedia Commons (and it
was awesome)
Since the removal/deprecation/painful death of mwEmbed/multimedia beta [2]
this is gone.
Any chance we might have that back? If so, how? Who must be harrassed to
that end?
Thanks for your help,
(Not sure which list to send that - wikitech-l, wikivideo-l ? Feel free to
forward around)
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Universal_Subtitles
[2] The help page about it was even deleted last month...
--
Jean-Frédéric
> BTW, out of curiosity can you send me SQL for the query.
>
> Yes, I’d be interested in it as well
(I tried my hand at Jareky request, but not sure if my query failed “as
expected” or because it was badly constructed :)
--
Jean-Frédéric
Hello everybody,
For last month I am trying to find someone that can run a database query
for me. I asked about it at https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/DBQ-201
and
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Search_for_old_f
iles_with_no_licenses but so far there are no responses.
The purpose of the query would be to find images with no licenses and in
the simplest case the query would be just for images that do not
transclude {{License template tag}}. In practice I would also like to
exclude images already tagged as no license and exclude images that
transclude a Layout template but were not updated correctly by the
database. So a better query would be images without any of the below
templates:
License template tag
PD-Layout
GNU-Layout
CC-Layout
no license
Delete
Speedydelete
You can see images that met this query at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_without_a_license:_need
s_history_check . Can anybody help me out with this?
Jarek T.
User:jarekt
