Commons-l October 2007

commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org

46 participants
33 discussions

International Cleanup Weekend (October 13th and 14th)
by Eugene Zelenko 09 Oct '07

09 Oct '07

Hi! This is complete off topic, but... We all take great care about our small but constantly growing online world Commons. However, physical world still need care too. I invite you to join a Google cause: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/cleanup/. Not because of Google PR, but because of great idea. I think to clean up a place where I took all my dragonflies images - there are many broken glass battles around. With best regards, Eugene.

4 4

InGimp - instrumented Gimp for user interface research
by David Gerard 09 Oct '07

09 Oct '07

http://www.ingimp.org/ InGimp is an initiative at the Human-Computer Interaction department of the University of Waterloo. It's the Gimp, but it gathers anonymised data on how you use the application. If you use the Gimp, you may wish to start using InGimp so as to influence future Gimp versions to your way of working! Present version is 2.2.17. I've emailed asking about plans for a version of 2.4 (presumably when 2.4.0 final is released). I installed InGimp on Windows and it picked up my Gimp preferences just fine. Everything works the same. - d.

1 0

Automatic messages to users: guessing user preferred language
by Alexandre NOUVEL 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

Hi list, I've seen that some users run bots that add some message templates to user talk pages, generally in order to warn them about missing tags and other similar problems. The problem is that bots are not able to guess the preferred user language :) As for now, here are some clues about the user preferred language: * he has a Babel box on his user page or on his talk page => the highest skill could do it * he has a Welcome template or another message template that is not in English => get the lang code from the template translation subpage, but actually this is quite difficult because templates are generally subst'd and no link remains to the translation page... Then, which tools could we set up to know in an easier way the user preferred language? I'd say: * other users check the user contributions and guess his preferred language, then add some {{guessed language|<language code>}} template to the user talk page. This very template would provide information about how to add a Babel box. This is not much better than adding a Welcome template, so I don't think it to be a good solution. * some toolserver asking the database and returning as raw text the preferred language code that the user has set up in his preferences. This seems to me the best way to handle automatically this information, but shall assume that the user has set up this information. I think it's okay because when we need to contact this user, that's because he interacted on the project and has a high probability of having set up his preferences... Any thoughts? Any volunteers to code such a simple tool? :) Best regards from France, -- Alexandre.NOUVEL(a)alnoprods.net |-> http://alnoprods.net |-> L'encyclopédie libre et gratuite : http://fr.wikipedia.org \ I hate spam. I kill spammers. Non mais.

13 35

File types brainstorm
by Brianna Laugher 07 Oct '07

07 Oct '07

Hello all, It seems to me we haven't added any new file formats/types for a while now. Are there any we should work on adding? Are there any reasons we shouldn't add them? - something for Blender? (sth. like game environments if my impression is correct) - SMIL? (open standard alternative to Powerpoint, I think) - Open Office 2 formats? - what would be best for animations? I would find it hard to believe that GIF is optimal... TIFF was mentioned on wikitech-l recently. The comment was made that anything TIFF should really be a better format: jpg for photographs and djvu for scans, and maybe png for anything else. TIFF tiles are typically huge and all those options are much smaller. Someone else commented on the VP that we have no documentation on DjVu which I found to be true, from how to create DJvu files, to how to use them in MediaWiki. I had a look on mediawiki.org and couldn't find anything too useful either. So any hints here would be appreciated. cheers, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

7 12

WhatIsThat.php
by Florian Straub 07 Oct '07

07 Oct '07

Hi, I just wanted to thank Magnus again for reinventing the wheel (and such a nice one): http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/whatisthat.php Is there any chance to produce raw output and to include it via AJAX to the edit page? This would be really great, because you'd be able to see, if there are any translations available. Thanks in advance, Flo PS: Was this the right way or should I've used your Issue Tracker on TS?

4 5

(no subject)
by Vezér János 07 Oct '07

07 Oct '07

       confirme2998628d827a503d5f44c424875ce267ca909c5 _________________________________________ Éhes vagy? Internetes ételrendelés, egyszerűen, házhozszállítással! Pizzák, hamburgerek, saláták, stb.... Minden egy helyen! KLIKK IDE!

1 0

Re: [Commons-l] WhatIsThat.php
by Florian Straub 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

On Saturday, October 06, 2007 9:54 AM I wrote: > I tried but I stumbled over the same origin policy (SOP) :( Meanwhile I got some pretty ugly iframe implementation at my monobook: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Flominator/monobook.js Regards, Flo

1 0

Obtaining copies of old photos from the Library of Congress?
by David Gerard 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

I'm looking for replacements for [[:en:Image:Gifford-pinchot.jpg]], which happens to be the same image as [[:commons:Image:Gifford Pinchot.jpg]] - it's US State, not US Federal, so may not be PD. The LOC has some lovely pics, all pre-1923: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,go… So, it says "we have the neg." How does one get access to a scannable copy of the full-sized thing? Would they have a large scan available, not just the thumbnail? Etc., etc. - d.

3 2

Re: [Commons-l] user language pref
by bawolff 06 Oct '07

06 Oct '07

On 10/4/07, Alexandre NOUVEL <alexandre.nouvel(a)alnoprods.net> wrote: > > Hi list, > > I've seen that some users run bots that add some message templates to > user talk pages, generally in order to warn them about missing tags and > other similar problems. > > The problem is that bots are not able to guess the preferred user > language :) > > As for now, here are some clues about the user preferred language: > * he has a Babel box on his user page or on his talk page => the highest > skill could do it > * he has a Welcome template or another message template that is not in > English => get the lang code from the template translation subpage, but > actually this is quite difficult because templates are generally subst'd > and no link remains to the translation page... > > Then, which tools could we set up to know in an easier way the user > preferred language? > > I'd say: > * other users check the user contributions and guess his preferred > language, then add some {{guessed language|<language code>}} template to > the user talk page. This very template would provide information about > how to add a Babel box. This is not much better than adding a Welcome > template, so I don't think it to be a good solution. > * some toolserver asking the database and returning as raw text the > preferred language code that the user has set up in his preferences. > This seems to me the best way to handle automatically this information, > but shall assume that the user has set up this information. I think it's > okay because when we need to contact this user, that's because he > interacted on the project and has a high probability of having set up > his preferences... > > Any thoughts? Any volunteers to code such a simple tool? :) > > Best regards from France, > -- > Alexandre.NOUVEL(a)alnoprods.net > |-> http://alnoprods.net > |-> L'encyclop?die libre et gratuite : http://fr.wikipedia.org > \ I hate spam. I kill spammers. Non mais. > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l Don't forget {{notify me}}. You can get lang info from that too. -bawolff

1 0

personality rights/copyright
by Brianna Laugher 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Hi all, This "personality rights DB" looks interesting. And happily it is licensed CC-BY. cheers, Brianna ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jordan S Hatcher <jordan(a)opencontentlawyer.com> Date: 5 Oct 2007 17:25 Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Distribution of picture on the internet in US-law? To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses(a)lists.ibiblio.org> On 4 Oct 2007, at 21:37, Dana Powers wrote: > In the U.S., this question is governed by state privacy law. The most > active cases deal with what is known as the "Right of Publicity," > dealing with commercial exploitation of a person's likeness. The > Wikipedia article is pretty informative: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_publicity > I can't resist giving a plug to an earlier project I was working on about this area. It is a wiki of personality rights (rights of publicity plus others). It is a project of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in IP and Technology law at the University of Edinburgh. Personality Rights Database http://personalityrightsdatabase.com/ It has links to many US cases, as well as the opportunity to build out the law state-by-state. Thanks! ~Jordan ____ Mr. Jordan S Hatcher, JD, LLM jordan at opencontentlawyer dot com OC Blog: http://opencontentlawyer.com IP/IT Blog: http://twitchgamer.net Open Data Commons http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/ Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007 _______________________________________________ cc-licenses mailing list cc-licenses(a)lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

1 0

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Commons-l October 2007