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
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.
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
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>
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> 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
I bet this was news to you.
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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>
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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)
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