Ohhhh, my !
I was dreaming of this ...
Good job Tim. Really thank you.
Anthere
--- Tim 'avatar' Bartel <wikipedia(a)computerkultur.org>
wrote:
> Hi wikipedians,
>
> at the moment there is no (easy) possibility to
> check if media on
> commons is used throughout the wikipedia projects
> included into
> mediawiki.
>
> Wikipedia Check-Usage [1] is a web based tool which
> can be used to
> check where commons media is used throughout the
> wikimedia universe.
> Also it is able to find "local" duplicates to
> commons media.
>
> Check-Usage is strongly inspired by Arnomane's
> check-usage.sh [2] - a
> unix shell script doing mostly the same job. Because
> this script has
> several preconditions to run, like shell access to a
> unix/linux system
> and several programs installed on this machine, I
> though of writing a
> small web based interface. After short consideration
> I decided not to
> write only an interface calling Arnomane's script,
> but to re-code it
> completly. Check-Usage is written in PHP using
> libcurl.
>
> So if you are interested where 'your' pictures are
> used - give it a try.
>
> And commons sysops can use it before deleting files
> which are more than
> a few days old. In the past it was often problematic
> deleting/moving a
> file on commons, because doing this the included
> pictures in other
> wikimedia-projects were broken.
>
> Bye, Tim.
>
> PS: Regarding the traffic load: only the text of the
> chosen image-page
> gets transfered.
>
> [1] http://www.juelich.de/avatar/check-usage/
> [2]
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Arnomane/Image_usage
>
> --
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> time, even though she's
> too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry
> about. I worry that
> 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say
> 'Daddy, where were
> you when they took freedom of the press away from
> the Internet?'"
> --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Hi wikipedians,
at the moment there is no (easy) possibility to check if media on
commons is used throughout the wikipedia projects included into
mediawiki.
Wikipedia Check-Usage [1] is a web based tool which can be used to
check where commons media is used throughout the wikimedia universe.
Also it is able to find "local" duplicates to commons media.
Check-Usage is strongly inspired by Arnomane's check-usage.sh [2] - a
unix shell script doing mostly the same job. Because this script has
several preconditions to run, like shell access to a unix/linux system
and several programs installed on this machine, I though of writing a
small web based interface. After short consideration I decided not to
write only an interface calling Arnomane's script, but to re-code it
completly. Check-Usage is written in PHP using libcurl.
So if you are interested where 'your' pictures are used - give it a try.
And commons sysops can use it before deleting files which are more than
a few days old. In the past it was often problematic deleting/moving a
file on commons, because doing this the included pictures in other
wikimedia-projects were broken.
Bye, Tim.
PS: Regarding the traffic load: only the text of the chosen image-page
gets transfered.
[1] http://www.juelich.de/avatar/check-usage/
[2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Arnomane/Image_usage
--
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's
too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that
10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were
you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Besides the 100K milestone, the project also received an honorary
mention at this year's Prix Ars Electronica. Please help with the
distribution and translation of the press release at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/100K
The online copy also includes various media examples.
NB: The Commons now has more than half as many files as the English
Wikipedia and more than any other project. Soon it will be the single
largest repository of files in the Wikimedia world.
See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:First_steps for
information on getting started to use the Commons.
All best,
Erik
100,000th file uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, a free media repository
Free images, sounds, and videos can be used by anyone for any purpose
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
May 24, 2005
The Wikimedia Foundation announced today that the 100,000th file had
been uploaded to its online repository of free images, sounds, and
videos, the Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/). These
files have been chosen or created by 5,259 registered users from more
than 12 different languages gathered in a single lively community. The
young project received additional encouragement and recognition on
Monday in the form of an honorary mention at the 2005 Prix Ars
Electronica awards.
The Wikimedia Commons, launched on September 7 2004, is a unique free
and open media archive (including images, sounds, and video), using the
same "wiki" technology that has made Wikipedia, a community-written
encyclopedia, the second most popular reference website on the web
(Hitwise.com report, April 2005). Wikis are websites that anyone can
edit, allowing for rapid growth and constant peer review of all
contributions. All files uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons are available
royalty-free for any purpose. Most files require attribution of the
creator, and some are under copyleft licenses, meaning that derivative
works also have to be made available for free re-use. Both Wikipedia and
the Wikimedia Commons are operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
The 100,000th file was an illustration drawn by a French Wikipedia user
named Stephane Tsacas. He manages the computer network of the Curie
Institute, a research center on biology and physics in Paris. "I
recently did some searches in the French Wikipedia and discovered some
incomplete information in a few articles in the field I know, computer
science. I then decided to register and do the modifications myself."
The file Stephane Tsacas uploaded is a diagram of the experimental
dataflow computer architecture. It is used in the detailed French
article http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_Dataflow. As soon as a
file is uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons, it is instantly available for
use on all Wikimedia projects without needing to be uploaded to the
local project. This feature is encouraging the Wikimedia projects to
move towards a multimedia approach rather than the simple text-based
approach they relied on in the past.
"Wikimedia Commons is of critical importance for all the Wikimedia
projects, and beyond that, it is critically important for the entire
free culture movement," said Jimmy Wales, president of the Wikimedia
Foundation. Since the inception of the project in September 2004,
thousands of Wikimedia contributors have joined to make their multimedia
available to the larger community. As such, the Commons is one of the
most diverse collections of files imaginable. It includes many
independent collections of free content:
* 7,733 pronunciation files in various languages, notably Dutch
(5,926), German (499), Farsi (464), and Italian (249). These voice
recordings made by editors of the project are mostly used in Wiktionary,
a wiki-based dictionary and thesaurus.
* Reproductions of 10,000 public domain paintings from ancient to
modern times, donated by Directmedia Publishing, a German publishing
company. This includes the works of artists like Leonardo da Vinci,
Vincent van Gogh, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Hieronymus Bosch, and many
others. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Yorck_Project.
* Hundreds of public domain recordings of classical music by
composers like Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky. See
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Classical_music.
* A growing collection of videos of historical speeches, excerpts
from public domain films such as Charlie Chaplin's "The Bond", and
scientific videos such as bacterial broths being deposited into a Petri
dish or the Space Shuttle Columbia going through the sound barrier. See
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video.
Besides these collections, it is the work of individuals which defines
the Wikimedia Commons -- like Wikinews user "Belizian", who took photos
during civil unrest in the small Central American nation of Belize in
January 2005 for the Wikinews article on the subject
(http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Unrest_in_Belize), or Wikibooks author
Robert Engelhardt, who has added photos of various beekeeping tools to
his growing reference work on the topic
(http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Beekeeping). From lovingly drawn subway
maps to print quality photos of insects, from physics diagrams to photos
of exotic locations, the members of the Wikimedia Commons cover
virtually all areas of human interest with great attention to detail.
Like Wikimedia's other projects, the Wikimedia Commons is open for
everyone to edit, to enrich it with new content, to help in the
categorization of existing media, and to remove problematic materials.
Given the proven successes of the wiki model, it may soon become the
largest repository of free media on the web.
Additional information
For questions and interviews, please contact:
In English only:
Jimmy Wales, Chair, Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation
Phone: (+1)-727-644-3565
Email: jwales(a)wikimedia.org (mailto:jwales@wikimedia.org)
Angela Beesley, Executive Secretary, Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation
Phone: (+44)-208-816-7308
Email: angela(a)wikimedia.org (mailto:angela@wikimedia.org)
In English or French:
Florence Devouard, Vice President, Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation:
Email: anthere(a)wikimedia.org (mailto:anthere@wikimedia.org)
Prix Ars Electronica
The Prix Ars Electronica is a yearly prize in the field of electronic
and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music. It
has been awarded since 1987 by Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), one of
the world's major centers for art and technology.
The 2005 honorary mentions can be viewed at:
http://www.aec.at/en/prix/honorary2005.asp
I'm pleased to announce that I have finished uploading 10,424 public
domain paintings to the Wikimedia Commons. They are from the DVD "10,000
Meisterwerke der Malerei" (10,000 masterpieces of painting) by "The
Yorck Project" and were donated to the public by Directmedia Publishing
GmbH (of German Wikipedia DVD fame). Directmedia put the collection
itself under the GFDL so there are no lingering copyright concerns.
See the translated original announcement at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:10%2C000_paintings_from_Directmed…
Besides the paintings themselves, as permitted and encouraged by
Directmedia, I have added the metadata from the DVD, which includes
basic data about the individual artists as well as the paintings (much
of it is in German, I've made an attempt to automatically translate
date-related abbreviations). I have also tried to translate the German
style data into English categories.
Credit goes to Tim 'Avatar' Bartel for providing the metadata as a MySQL
dump, as well as the Commons community that was always there to help
when I needed them. Special thanks to Arnomane for creating
[[Template:Information]] and suggesting its usage here. Thanks also to
everyone who provided constructive feedback during and after the process.
You can view all the paintings at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Yorck_Project
Or individual categories, e.g.:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baroque_paintingshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Post-Impressionist_paintingshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cubist_paintingshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Classicist_paintings
Or individual artists, e.g.:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Christian_Gottlieb_Schickhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:El_Grecohttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Peter_Paul_Rubens
Note that the "next 200" link on the main Yorck Project category didn't
work until a few minutes ago. The bug that caused this to happen should
now be fixed. However, some individual artist categories with more than
200 images will still have this problem (caused by a second
category-related bug), and it will probably take a few weeks to sort
this out. Meanwhile, there's a workaround:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:The_Yorck_Project&f…
This will show all the images from the Yorck Project starting with
filenames that begin with "Leonardo" (the filename is always of the form
"Firstname Lastname Number"). This way, you can view all the images by
any particular artist, no matter how many.
While all the images are high resolution, the quality of reproduction is
not always the best. Some images have visible compression artifacts at
full resolution, and others are too dark or too bright, for example. (In
fairness, even in these cases, many of the repros you will find on the
web are of still lower quality.) Bdk has started a list of images that
should be replaced with better reproductions:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:10%2C000_paintings_from_Directmed…
I hope you enjoy these works of art, and will help to add the best ones
to the relevant Wikipedia articles. It may make sense to translate the
gist of this announcement into other languages for this reason.
All best,
Erik
> > More precisely it would be best to wait on the 25th...
> > because there will be an announcement about
> > wikicommons on that date. This announcement is not yet
> > public but will be made public on the 25th.
I've merged Villy's announcement with the press release from the
Commons at http://grants.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Commons_May_2005
for anyone with access to the grants wiki to edit. On Monday, when the
announcement can be made public, this can be moved back to the
Commons. Since the announcement is quite short compared to the press
release, it may still be useful for people to continue translating the
press release and then to merge the announcement with it on Monday.
Angela.
Perfect :-)
Since you are around, I am confident you can see of
all this. Right now, the release is hosted on the
grantwiki but you naturally have it in your own mails
;-)
Ant
--- Jean-Christophe Chazalette
<jean-christophe.chazalette(a)laposte.net> wrote:
> Excellent. May 25th being my birthday, I'll take the
> annoucement as a
> conjunction of stars.
> villy ~~ JC
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthere" <anthere9(a)yahoo.com>
> To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List"
> <commons-l(a)wikimedia.org>;
> <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 9:14 AM
> Subject: [Commons-l] STOP Translations needed:
> Wikimedia Commons reaches
> 100, 000 uploads
>
>
> | It would be best to wait a few days before sending
> | this press release.
> |
> | More precisely it would be best to wait on the
> 25th...
> | because there will be an announcement about
> | wikicommons on that date. This announcement is not
> yet
> | public but will be made public on the 25th.
> |
> | Aurevilly has already written an announcement for
> it,
> | in english.
> |
> | It might be useful to see if both releases could
> not
> | be merged in one... I suggest the parties involved
> in
> | the commons press release discuss this before any
> | publishing of this one.
> |
> | Anthere
> |
> |
> | --- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote:
> | > The press release is almost done at:
> | >
> | >
> |
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/100K
> | >
> | > If someone wants to write a background section
> on
> | > what wikis are etc.,
> | > that might be a useful addition. Beyond that,
> please
> | > make minor fixes,
> | > and help to translate it into as many languages
> as
> | > possible. We can
> | > start sending this out on Monday. It doesn't
> need to
> | > be done in all
> | > languages simultaneously; if some need a few
> more
> | > days, that's fine.
> | >
> | > As noted in the release, the 100,000th file, by
> my
> | > count, is:
> | >
> |
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Dataflowfiringnodes.png
> | >
> | > All best,
> | >
> | > Erik
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It would be best to wait a few days before sending
this press release.
More precisely it would be best to wait on the 25th...
because there will be an announcement about
wikicommons on that date. This announcement is not yet
public but will be made public on the 25th.
Aurevilly has already written an announcement for it,
in english.
It might be useful to see if both releases could not
be merged in one... I suggest the parties involved in
the commons press release discuss this before any
publishing of this one.
Anthere
--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote:
> The press release is almost done at:
>
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/100K
>
> If someone wants to write a background section on
> what wikis are etc.,
> that might be a useful addition. Beyond that, please
> make minor fixes,
> and help to translate it into as many languages as
> possible. We can
> start sending this out on Monday. It doesn't need to
> be done in all
> languages simultaneously; if some need a few more
> days, that's fine.
>
> As noted in the release, the 100,000th file, by my
> count, is:
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Dataflowfiringnodes.png
>
> All best,
>
> Erik
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The press release is almost done at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/100K
If someone wants to write a background section on what wikis are etc.,
that might be a useful addition. Beyond that, please make minor fixes,
and help to translate it into as many languages as possible. We can
start sending this out on Monday. It doesn't need to be done in all
languages simultaneously; if some need a few more days, that's fine.
As noted in the release, the 100,000th file, by my count, is:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Dataflowfiringnodes.png
All best,
Erik
