Commons-l May 2007

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Requests for permission
by Stan Shebs 09 May '07

09 May '07

I've just gotten another email request for permission to use one of my photos. Of course they have permission, but I'm struck by how much trouble people always seem to go to find an address to send to. I'm thinking that we should suggest to commoners that they post direct contact info if they're comfortable with that, at least on user page if not on every image - I think there's only been one time that a reuser found mediawiki's secret email-to-user option and contacted me that way. Stan

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Changing link to commons in sidebar (wikinews en)
by bawolff 09 May '07

09 May '07

I changed the link in [[mediawiki:sidebar]] for upload free media from [[commons:special:upload]] to [[commons:commons:upload]]. This seems to be better from an ease of understanding perspective, and the preferred thing to do since all links on commons goes there. I hope thats okay with everyone. -bawolff p.s. I cc'd this to commons-l so they can yell it me if I'm not supposed to link there.

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Accredited photographer status?
by Guillaume Paumier 06 May '07

06 May '07

Hello, Last week-end there was the first round of the French presidential election. People from Wikimedia France have been working hard to attend meetings of the candidates to take plenty of photos of them and other politicians or artists supporting them. Wikimedia France has even issued a press release : <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CP_Couverture_%C3%A9lection> and < http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:French_presidential_election_%28…> (browse the subcategories). To get an official press card in France, more than 50% of your total income must come from your activities as a journalist or photographer < http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_de_presse_en_France>. Photographers and reporters from Wikimedia projects can obviously not get this precious pass. Though, an accreditation letter from an institution (along with a professional camera and a big amount of self-confidency) can be enough. I know the English-language Wikinews provides such accreditations for reporters. The French-language one doesn't. We have been forced to contact each party and request temporary press passes for each meeting. Although we are very proud of what we have accomplished, it would be great if we had some accreditation letters as photographers. Should they come from Wikinews? Commons? Dunno. Browsing through the archives of Wikinews Water cooler, I have found this discussion : http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/policy/Archive/15#Accredi… Has there been any follow-up about this issue? If not, could we work on it? -- Guillaume Paumier [[m:User:guillom]] "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." Henry David Thoreau

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Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Commons deletion issue
by bawolff 02 May '07

02 May '07

Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:40:46 -0400 From: "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Commons deletion issue To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <e692861c0704300940v1c9e182atf33ec24d717332f7(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > On 4/30/07, Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de> wrote: > > Note that commons admins often rely on my CheckUsage tool to check where an > > image is used. Due to the way to database is fed from the parser, this might > > miss some uses, though. Specifically, it may miss any ''conditional'' use of an > > image, i.e. used directly or indirectly inside a {{#if}} or {{#switch}} clause. > > I don't think this is accurate. If an image is actually *displayed* on > a page it should show up, although only on the page which the image is > being displayed on. If some use of parserfunctions is causing an image > to not currently be displayed it will not show up. > > What doesn't show up are images pulled in via javascript or css. There > is no way we can expect the mediawiki software or commons admins to be > aware of these cases automatically. Even local images used from CSS do > not show up in file links. > > For this latter case the only thing we can do is advise people who > include images via css to note this fact on the image page, and ask > >that the image page be protected. I do this for enwiki every once in a > >while. > We at wikinews use http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Important_images_not_directly_linked_t… for js/css included images (as suggested by pfctdayelise ) p.s. I'm very certain we all get mad at commons for deleting stuff some of the time. Just look at wikinews <->commons relations from about two years ago. However they are getting significantly better. -bawolff

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Commons deletion issue
by David Gerard 01 May '07

01 May '07

I bet this was news to you. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 01-May-2007 16:03 Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Commons deletion issue To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Raimond Spekking wrote: > Mark Clements schrieb: >> If there is a policy on Commons as described above, then it clearly isn't >> being followed. If this is normal behaviour then the case is very strong >> for making local copies of any images you want to use prominently... > > > Duplicates are marked with > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Duplicate (Note that duplication isn't a good reason to delete something from Commons, since by definition Commons is a repository.) - -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGN1bRwRnhpk1wk44RAoG6AKDbR53puGr9kDHvoO4wMSvPenRRpwCfYGJ4 GvQOSNGuDSLiBg/4LeocA3o= =uBeM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Mayflower^2
by Artur Fijałkowski 01 May '07

01 May '07

Some time ago someone introduced Mayflower on this list :) My first opinion about this tool was: great, but ugly logo will make it useless ;) Now with some help of Masur we have something a bit nicer and good starting point for evolving something even better ;) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Community_Logo-Mayflower.… AJF/WarX

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