Commons-l April 2006

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8 discussions

Public domain worldwide?
by Fredrik Josefsson 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Hi. Are images on Wikimedia Commons have to be public domain worldwide or should we take some prejudice of the servers location in the U.S.? As is well known, images published before 1923 in the U.S. are public domain in the U.S and probably worldwide (unless the opposite can be suspected). Images published anywhere in the world before 1923 is also public domain in the United States , but many other countries apply the 70 years pma -- "after death of author". How zealous should we be? Is the 70 pma always to be applied? What if it is uncertain who the creator is, and whether he did more than 70 years ago -- would it then be possible to keep the images for the time being if the image was created before 1923 (such as images from World War I)? / Fred (a.k.a. [[User:Fred-Chess]])

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GIF antialiasing
by Felipe Micaroni Lalli 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

What happens with the GIF antialiasing? It don't work a lot of time. Why? It never come back? Anyboby know about it? thanks, hugs, Felipe.

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an idea for a commons help tool
by Brianna Laugher 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Since there are some really good tools being written lately, I thought I'd throw up a request for one. :) This one would be quite easy to make, I think. Just saves some typing. (I would like it for en.wp but I think it would be pretty easy to make for any language.wp.) Articles on Commons frequently have no contextual information - just a heading and images. Sometimes this is OK but usually short description blurbs and interwiki links would be better. The easiest way to make these is to find the en.wp article, copy the list of interwiki links, add the English interwiki link, then convert these to description tags and either leave just the article name as the description, or add the first sentence from the article. e.g. today I fixed up this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%27s_Seat&oldid=1728248 The description tags look like this: {{en|This is where the first line of the article would go.}} not a far leap from [[en:article name]] at all, really. You can also link to the WP article in the description tag, or bold the subject, or do neither. Typically I only put the full description for English because I'm usually fixing up other people's articles, then I just put the article name for the other interwiki links _if it differs to the English name_. For example with species, quite a few wikis put them at the Latin binomial name (as does Commons), so I don't think it's necessary to list 50 "translations" of a word that already appears on the page. as an example see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Malamute , where I have only translated the labels that are not 'Alaskan Malamute' (in this case they are different scripts). Anyway does what I've described make sense? Basically I'd like to put in the name of the relevant en.wp article, and get out the description tags and interwiki links that I can paste right into my Commons article. Not at all urgent, of course... cheers, Brianna -- "Mathematicians do it with Nobel's wife."

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Missing images and commonshelper updates
by Magnus Manske 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

FYI I have added lots of nice functions to my "missing images" and "commonshelper" tools [1]. Missing images * This can now be invoked with a category name, and the script will iterate through all articles in this category * You can get the script source fro the page itself (so you can run it without the 30-second-limit) * Images ("good" and "unknown") on wikipedias now have a button leading to a prefilled commonshelper page Commonshelper * Now generated a description based on the {{Information}} template * Improved upload history parsing function thanks to a function provided by Marco Schuster * Now provides a direct link to save an image locally * Now provides a button to call up the commons upload page with the description prefilled Magnus [1] http://magnusmanske.de/wikipedia/

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[Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Commons moving helper]
by Magnus Manske 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

--------------040306030208030008050104 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I recently noticed what a pain it can be to move image to commons, especially with the image description. To help this issue, I now offer this service: http://magnusmanske.de/wikipedia/commonshelper.php where you can enter the wikipedia language code and image name, and it will generate a commons description consisting of link to original image page, original contents, and wikified upload history. It can also be called with the language/image as part of the URL: http://magnusmanske.de/wikipedia/commonshelper.php?lang=3Dde&doit=3D1&ima= ge=3DStruktur_Luftwaffenamt.PNG For German language, it will also translate several copyright template names (e.g., "{{Bild-GFDL}}") into the the English (commons) version. This can be expanded for other languages as well. Magnus --------------040306030208030008050104 Content-Type: text/plain; x-mac-type="0"; x-mac-creator="0"; name="signature.asc" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEOiQRCZKBJbEFcz0RAomwAJ9DhYsY1kiFL9A0TFUrDZaX+6WabACfSPXe IIJp8taWI60sXbMJNp0b9PQ=3D =3DrlCu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------040306030208030008050104 Content-Type: text/plain; x-mac-type="0"; x-mac-creator="0"; name="file:///tmp/nsmail-1.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline; filename="file:///tmp/nsmail-1.txt" _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l --------------040306030208030008050104--

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A crise nas universidades federais
by Antonio Kildare M. Cruz 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

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Commons moving helper
by helix84 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

nice work, it'll save me a lot of time. but can you please make it UTF-8-safe?

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justifying the "no NC/ND" requirement
by Brianna Laugher 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Does anyone have a really succint, persuasive argument for this? I understand it and accept it, but I find it hard to respond to users who say, "Silly me, I thought we were building an encyclopedia here" and think that "educational/non-commercial purposes only" should be OK. Saying "Well, we might want to sell a DVD one day" sounds a bit weak. As does "We also building a totally free stock photography database". It's not hard to feel gypped when we should be serving WM projects first and foremost (and at the moment I doubt there's much outside use, but it's hard to tell). So... anyone have a killer response that will instantly make a user see why this requirement is necessary? cheers, Brianna ([[commons:User:pfctdayelise]]) -- "Mathematicians do it with Nobel's wife."

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