Hey guys,
I was just struck by an idea here, and thought it would be just the
kind of thing the people involved in the wikicommons could make a
reality.
I am frequently involved in working on various web projects,
specifically human and civil rights sites, and am always struck by
how hard it can be to find like-minded people who can hep you with
specific tasks.
So, how about a site that allows members to sign up and create a
profile containing their interests and their skills in relation to
web design or expertise etc., and then post project proposals to the
community. Then, members whose profiles suggest they may be
interested whose skills are required would receive a little
notification in their members area so that if they wish, they can
join the project and get involved. Each project could be assigned a
page by the site with a simple chat room and bulletin board so that
the members can communicate and there could be a "rate this member"
system to reward those who contribute the most.
It seems like a brilliant way to proliferate the philosophy of
cooperation and open source throughout the net, and be a launch pad
for thousands or new creative websites.
What do you think?
Regards,
-Kieran
Flickr has finally updated their API, so the FlickrLickr project is back
in operation. We now have metadata for more than 50,000 new images, so
that should keep us busy for a while. All existing FlickrLickr users
have new slices.
If you don't know FlickrLickr yet - it's a project to select, describe
and categorize images on Flickr that are licensed under CC-BY[*] and
upload them to the Wikimedia Commons. FlickrLickr users have a
convenient interface to select photos and edit metadata.
See
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FlickrLickr
for a screenshot and details about the project.
This is far from a dumping process. Good FlickrLickr users spend many
hours to produce accurate metadata and select only the best photos. So
far, we have uploaded more than 4000 images, and reviewed 55000.
In spite of the effort involved, many users find the project addictive,
since it provides a never-ending flow of photos while also being useful
to Wikimedia. You can also get your name into the statistics:
http://epov.org/cgi-bin/flickrlickr.pl?stats=1
(Every slice has 1,000 photos.)
If you would like to become a FlickrLickr, drop me a private message.
Best,
Erik
[*] There are over 700,000 photos under that license, so I haven't
bothered with crawling CC-BY-SA metadata yet. There's more than 550,000
photos under CC-BY-SA. Even if we finished reviewing all of those, the
daily stream of photos is big enough to keep quite a few users busy. See
http://flickr.com/creativecommons for details.
Bonsoir,
Merci Delphine, merci Guillaume pour vos promptes réponses! J'ai réessayé :
finalement, le problème vient du navigateur. Ma version d'IE n'est pas toute récente. Avec Firefox, aucun problème.
A bientôt
Jacques
Bonjour,
J'ai modifié ces jours derniers l'article anglais sur Luigi Boccherini :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Boccherini
Je voulais faire la même chose pour l'article français :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Boccherini
mais je n'obtiens pas la fenêtre de modification. (Je me suis d'abord connecté puis ai cliqué sur "modifier")
Que faire?
Cordialement
Jacques
Bonjour,
Je suis nouveau sur Wikimedia Commons. Pour la question concernant les licences, je suis allé un peu vite. Avant d'importer 2 fichiers audio, je suis allé sur le site de Creative Commons où j'ai choisi des licences trop restrictives ( Pas d'utilisation commerciale, pas de modifications). Sur le site Wikimedia Commons, j'ai compris que ça n'allait pas et j'ai changé les licences des 2 fichiers en CC-BY-SA 2.5.
Je viens de répondre aux 2 mails de Creative Commons en leur demandant d'annuler ces licences qui étaient trop restrictives.
Si j'ai bien compris, à l'avenir, si j'importe un fichier audio, je n'ai qu'à choisir une des licences proposées par la page Upload de Wikimedia Commons et n'ai donc même pas besoin d'aller sur le site de Creative Commons.
Qu'en pensez-vous?
Merci par avance d'éclairer ma lanterne!
Jacques
maurice7(a)cegetel.net
05/12/2005