Hi!
I want to shamelessly announce :-) that my photo is used on
http://www.schmap.com/sanfrancisco/sights_richmond/#mapview=Map&tab=Places&….
But this image was taken from flickr, not Commons.
Indeed, I advertised Commons in "thank you" letter, but this is
information for critical analysis...
We still have problems with Commons visibility :-(. Google still can't
find images on Commons. GeoCommons is not included by default in
Google Earth. And so on and so on... :-(
Just some thoughts...
Eugene.
Hi all,
I was recently playing around with GNU LilyPond, trying to export some music
clips as SVG for use on the Commons. I had a bunch of rendering issues, and
after posting to the LilyPond list I was told that there weren't enough
developers familiar with SVG to really fix all of the outstanding problems.
LilyPond, as you can see from [1], produces beautiful output; it is
certainly the most prominent free-software music engraving package. I am
writing to this list as an open request to all of the developers out there:
please help to improve LilyPond's support for SVG! I have found many
unattractive images from Sibelius that could be replaced with Lily images,
but I prefer not to use raster images when everything is originally vectors
anyway (LilyPond's native output format is PDF).
Surely there are a number of competent programmers here who are familiar
with the SVG format; if you are one of them, please consider visiting [2]
and seeing what needs to be done to make LilyPond's SVG output as beautiful
to XML parsers as it is to humans.
(Related to this is WikiTeX [3]; I haven't heard much about that project's
integration with Wikipedia recently, but LilyPond's support for SVG will be
very important once that project gets off the ground.)
Thanks a ton for any help and code you can contribute!
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LilyPond
[2] http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/call-for-help
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Music_markup
Cheers,
--
Benjamin D. Esham
bdesham(a)gmail.com | AIM: bdesham128 | Jabber: same as e-mail
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot
of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams, /The Hitchhiker's Guide/
During an IRC discussion earlier today, Rama suggested we use Flickr to help
increase our exposure - per the recent conversation in the "My photo was
reused" thread. We discussed the fact that we could upload our Featured
Pictures using a Wikimedia Commons account; hopefully people would see these
images and ask to use them, thereby increasing the visibility and knowledge
of the Commons. Cbrown1023 created the account to ensure nobody else could
steal the name, and now we're bringing this idea here to see what the
community has to say :) May also be brought up on the village pump if it
seems wise.
The e-mail address has been temporarily set to info-en(a)wikimedia.org so
requests, etc. can be handled there in private; we also thought of
requesting an info-commons(a)wikimedia.org address (if one doesn't currently
exist?) for such purposes. The fact that requests may be in many different
languages as Commons is multilingual (Flickr too) would also be a good
reason for not having things sent to info-en but to info-commons directly.
Thoughts? Comments? Ideas?
--
Casey Brown ( Cbrown1023 )
Ayelie ( Editor at Large )
Yet another script announcement...
If you have a high screen resolution (1280x? and above), you might
have noticed that galleries and categories waste a lot of screen
space, as they only show four thumbnails in a row. The user option to
resize the thumbnails is currently deactivated for caching doomsday
predictions, AFAIK.
But fear not, have a tiny JavaScript to rearrange thumbnails in
gallery tables, so your screen width will be optimally filled:
[[MediaWiki:ResizeGalleries.js]]
I keep having the vague notion of someone else who wrote a script like
that before, but I didn't see it on [[Category:User scripts]]. Maybe
it's just because its sooo obvious...
Cheers,
Magnus
With the increasing amount of Javascript code included in the default
configuration of Commons I feel the need for a convenient configuration
mechanism to enable and disable specific extensions and to set customizable
parameters.
I created such a framework here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:JSconfig.js
It allows the creation of parameters (with descriptions and default values).
These parameters are used to dynamically generate a new Tab in on the
MediaWiki Preferences page. The preferences on this page are saved as cookies
(and automatically restored from the cookies).
Extensions can conveniently define a parameter set and query it without having
to worry about a user interface to change them and a logic to store them.
It needs some further polishing to make the preferences page more structured,
but I allready have some ideas. If this gets adopted I'll certainly put some
more work into it.
--
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dschwenhttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dschwenhttp://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dschwenhttp://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dschwen
I activated the new config framework and tests confirm it works in Konqueror,
Firefox 2.0.0.4 Linux, IE7 Windows, and Safari Windows.
If you refresh your browser cache you'll see a new config item in the ''misc''
tab of [[Special:Preferences]], you can toggle and save, and see how you can
make the "Subpages" link in the toolbox vanish.
If this is confirmed to be working (really make sure your caches are cleared
and wait about half an hour before reporting a bug, I had similar problems as
some people on the list today) we can add more config options and make more
tools configurable.
Right now the options are stored in cookies, but you can also set options in
your monobook.js if you want them more permanent.
--
[[:en:User:Dschwen]]
[[:de:User:Dschwen]]
[[:fr:User:Dschwen]]
[[:commons:User:Dschwen]]
Hi all,
Erik (user:Eloquence) conducted a smallish survey on Meta about
Wikimedia brand identities. (See the relevant parts of his email
below.) Some people identified "Wikimedia Commons" as a confusing
name, in that it doesn't clearly identify what the project actually is
or does. Do Commoners think the project should be renamed, and if so,
to what?
IMO Commons had rather no choice but to choose a confusing name,
because the obvious name - Wikimedia! - already stands for some other
idea that doesn't actually have a lot to do with media but only wikis.
Perhaps Wikimedia (& Wikimedia Foundation) should become Wikimmunity
(wiki-community - but it kind of sounds like wiki-immunity :)) and
then Commons can take over the Wikimedia label. Otherwise we're
looking at "Wikimedia Media"... er... then should MediaWiki be
"Wikimedia Wiki"? :)
If I search in google for "Commons", Wikimedia Commons is 7th, behind
Jakarta Commons (something to do with Java), Creative Commons,
"Commons" (NIH grants?), two Wikipedia articles, and the UK govt
"House of Commons" website. Clearly using the word Commons is going to
be an uphill battle in terms of creating an identity. (Doesn't mean
it's impossible, though.)
Is there any other word like "media" in English that covers the
meaning of images/graphics + audio + video (+ documents) ?
Wikimedia Formats? (urgh)
Wikimedia Multimedia?
Mediagenic? (I just learnt of this word via Wiktionary. It's formed
from media + photogenic, I quite like it. but there's some companies
that have taken it already I think.)
Does Commons need a "Wikimedia" identifier in the name? (None of the
other projects have one.)
Does Commons need a "wiki" identifier in the name? (All of the other
projects have it, but I think it's not as essential to Commons as to
other projects.)
Ideas welcome,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 01-Jul-2007 22:16
Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Brand Survey Analysis
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
== Current names ==
Of all the names, "Wikimedia Commons" is widely identified (by 12
people, according to my count) as a confusing name which does not
really identify what the project stands for, is not easily
translatable, too long, and too close to "Creaitve Commons."
[...]
== Follow-up ==
I'd like to recommend several follow-up steps. Some of these can be
only taken by the Board/Staff, while others can be initiated by any
community member:
[...]
* There should be a dedicated brainstorming about the Wikimedia
Commons name and possible alternatives.
[...]
--
They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
http://modernthings.org/
(starting new thread, as the exhibitionist one doesn't entirely
encompass this topic;-)
I went ahead and hacked a little javascript to draw clickable image
boxes. To see it (it is completely invisible to everyone by default,
except for a template that adds a new category to the image
description page), look at [[Template:Imagebox]] and follow the
instructions.
To view the only example of this (my own picture, as I didn't want to
vandalize someone else's;-) look at [1]. It marks the bee in a
semi-transparent box with a red border, with the name of the category
it links to ("Bee") written on it. If you click on the box, you go to
that category.
Notes:
* This is just a demo. If you want it for real, gimme feedback!
* This is the very first halfway working version. There's no show/hide
toggle, no "box drawing" function, nothing.
* Almost everything about this can be changed.
* No, I won't do circles or ellipses ;-)
* For me, it didn't work so well together with my other commons
javascripts ;-) If you have problems and use other javascript,
surround the other JS /* like this */ for testing purposes.
Cheers,
Magnus
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Valeriana_officinalis_2007-06-02_%2…
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