Commons-l June 2007

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Google's experimantal image recognition search
by Sherool 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

This might slightly off topic, though if someone uses Google image search to track down free licensed images or something it might be usefull. Seems Google is experimenting with image recognition in theyr image search, so now you can for example limit searches to human faces only. There is no GUI option for it yet, but just add &imgtype=face at the end of the search URL to see the results. Try this search sting for example: <http://images.google.com/images?rls=en&q=site%3Awikimedia.org&sourceid=oper…> When will get get this kind of technology in the MediaWiki search? :P Found the full storry here: <http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-05-28-n84.html> -- [[:en:User:Sherool]]

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Fwd: [Foundation-l] Decision on Creative Commons 3.0
by Guillaume Paumier 03 Jun '07

03 Jun '07

Forwarding this to commons-l as Commons is the mainly concerned project. There have been answers on foundation-l you might want to look at too. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Halasz <email(a)pengo.org> Date: Jun 3, 2007 1:32 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] Decision on Creative Commons 3.0 To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons staff) and Jimbo Wales have left comments in favour of accepting Creative Commons 3.0 into our own commons, but ultimately the decision seems to be up to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, as no one else is willing (or able) to make a final decision. The issues have been discussed ad nauseam, and it's decision time. Please make one soon. Peter Halasz [[user:Pengo]] Discussion below copied from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing#Creative_Commons_3… I invited Creative Commons staff member Mike Linksvayer to weigh in on the discussion of CC-3.0, and he's left comments. The conversation has again gone stale since then: [[Commons talk:Licensing/Creative Commons 3.0]]. When are we going to move towards allowing CC-3.0 licenses, and who makes the decision? Are we just going to ignore it while there are lingering doubts? For people who want to allow Wikipedia to use their material, it's enough trouble to explain that they have to use BY or BY-SA licenses, and not the others listed on creativecommons.org. But it's just going too far having to say "you need to hunt down an outdated creative commons license... one which isn't even listed at creativecommons.org". The 3.0 licenses create no new conditions which don't already exist in law. Let's take them on already. [those are my thoughts, not CC's] Pengo 05:39, 31 May 2007 (UTC) I think the real important question is "who makes the decision?" But yes, it seems to me that the don't accept them camp can always win by stalling. Meanwhile, more and more free content appears on the web under CC-3.0 that we can't use. --Selket 06:17, 31 May 2007 (UTC) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- 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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Gallerypreview
by Magnus Manske 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

FYI: Thanks to Yuri, who implemented a new api function, [[MediaWiki:Gallerypreview.js]] can now preview galleries as well as categories. Guess it can keep the name then... [Note to self: Get own mailing list to not spam commons-l with toy updates] Magnus

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