Commons-l September 2007

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Wikimedia Commons at Open Expo Zürich 19. Sept. 2007
by Robin Schwab 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

Hi folks I just got the large format prints we will show at Open Expo Zürich (Switzerland) on Wednesdy. I will there hold a lightning talk on the social event at 19:00 with the exclusive content Wikimedia Commons. You're invited to be there! http://www.openexpo.ch/openexpo-2007-zuerich/ See the pictures that got selected for printing: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Napa/Wikipediatag#Gew.C3.A4hlte_Bild… Thanks Wladyslaw, Nando and Dani for their job. Short question for preparing my speech: Have we done similar events before? Where? There are also some lessons learned for me: -It's really a stupid thing to require super sharp downsampled pictures at 100% on screen if the original image was larger. We including myself tend to do this on QI and FP today. When it comes to printing posters you'll need to upsample them and some information got lost. -Sharpening looks really different when seen on a print than on screen. For very large (<5MP) images we shall request optimization for printing and not for screen. Anyway. I'll really be glad to see some of you guys at Open Expo or on Wikipedia Day Berne Sept 29th where we'll show the prints again. Regards Robin Schwab Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the Advancement of Free Knowledge

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Looking for PowerPoint slides to encourage media contributions
by John Tex 20 Sep '07

20 Sep '07

Hello, I am currently in communication with the director of the media collection for a large university system. This person is intrigued by the idea of making some (possibly a lot) of their collection available under a free license. This is speculative, but I MAY get the opportunity to make a pitch in person to the decision makers. I am wondering if anyone has been in this position before and if you have any tips. I would especially like it if anyone has made some PowerPoint slides they could share with me, so I don't have to start from scratch. Thanks in advance, John

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quality.wikimedia.org and wikiquality-l launched
by Erik Moeller 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

[Please translate this announcement into other languages.] Wikipedia's roots in the more conservative Nupedia project are reflected by many in-depth discussions we've had over the years about quality assurance, filtering, and labeling. In her "4 wishes for the year 2007" [1], Wikimedia Foundation Chair Florence Devouard also identified "reliability" as a key goal for the Wikimedia Foundation. Today we're taking two small steps towards that goal: * the launch of http://quality.wikimedia.org/ as a portal targeting readers and volunteers to summarize key information about current quality initiatives, combined with http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiquality as a more in-depth description of our plans, * the opening of wikiquality-l as a mailing list for related discussions: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiquality-l Notably, these pages describe our current plans with regard to the "FlaggedRevs" extension, a MediaWiki extension developed by Aaron Schulz and Jörg Baach (with financial support from Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.) which makes it possible to identify revisions of articles that are known to be of a certain quality, and to change the default view based on that information. The public beta of this feature (initially on dummy websites, i.e. not production environments) will begin as soon as a security review of the current code has been completed (expected later this month). In the meantime, please give your feedback on the quality.wikimedia.org portal, add translations, and subscribe to wikiquality-l to join future discussions about the specifics of any particular initiative. [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/4_wishes_for_year_2007 Sincerely, Erik Möller Board member, Wikimedia Foundation

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Wall of shame. was: Admins, please check your email is enabled
by Gregory Maxwell 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

On 9/12/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I just tried three admins and they all didn't have email enabled. I'm > sure this is a bug rather than the idea that they never enabled email. The following sysop flagged accounts don't appear to currently have email enabled or an email address set and confirmed: ABach Aliman5040 Anathema Anthere Arniep Bouncey2k Brion VIBBER ColdShine CommonsDelinkerHelper Computer Crux DaB. Danny David Levy David.Monniaux Electionworld Eloquence Fanghong Fb78 Fir0002 Golbez Jkelly Kordas Lumijaguaari Micheletb Morven Neutrality Notschrei Odder OldakQuill Omegatron Oxam Hartog Petrusbarbygere Plugwash Quadell Rama Ran Raul654 Rdsmith4 Samulili Sanbec Shaqspeare Väsk W.wolny 竹麦魚(Searobin)

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PanImages: cross-lingual image search created using 'Wiktionaries'
by Brianna Laugher 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

PanImages Image Search Tool Speaks Hundreds Of Languages http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/news/2007/09/12/panimages-image-search-too… quote: PanImages' powerful brains were created by scanning more than 350 machine-readable online dictionaries. Some of these were "wiktionaries," online multilingual dictionaries written by volunteers. The PanImages software scans these dictionaries and uses an algorithm to check the accuracy of the results. It then assembles the results in a matrix that allows translation in combinations that may never have been attempted — for instance, from Gujarati to Lithuanian. The actual search engine is here: http://www.panimages.org/index.jsp?displang=eng And the research paper detailing the algorithm and method is here: http://turing.cs.washington.edu/papers/EtzioniMTSummit07.pdf An idea to use Wiktionary or interwiki links to improve image search for Commons has long been kicked around. Maybe we could collaborate with them to improve the Mayflower search engine for Commons? (Or else ask them to index upload.wikimedia.org and pay attention to license metadata :)) After all, we supplied them with all this useful data for free. cheers, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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WikiLove campaign - pictures
by Sabine Cretella 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Hi, again a crosspost :-) Today I am here to ask you for your help with photos. We prepared two example messages you can forward to friends and family below. Of course we would like to see photos from all of you and you can see examples here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikilove What I myself experienced is that it is much easier to take the camera, take some white paper and something to write when you meet people and ask them if they love Wikipedia, Wikinews or whichever project - then ask them to write it down and take a picture. When it comes to uploading them to flickr and you don't want to do it yourself, I suppose we will be able to organise it asking the community for help. Please use the various wiki-meetings around to take pictures and to ask others to do the same. If you are at university or school things should be quite easy, if you have a mobile phone that can take pictures or you simply take your camera with you for one day and "do". I hope we will be able to see your photo online soon then :-) Cheers, Sabine p.s. don't forget to ask others to do the same. ***** Proposed texts (please adapt them according to your community and the country where you live - we know that things can differ a lot from one place to the other): *Version 1* Are you a Wikipedian fanatic? Do you ever wonder how you operated without Wikipedia. Then show your wiki love! Post your picture depicting why you love Wikipedia to the Wikilove Flickr group. Pictures can be funny, creative, emotional, deep, or anything you want them to be! Additionally, forward this email to your family and friends, and ask them to do the same :) http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikilove/ *Version 2* Are you a Wikipedian fanatic? Do you ever wonder how you operated without Wikipedia? Then show your love by posting your pictures to the official Wikipedia Flickr group! Pics can be funny, creative, or anything you want them to be. If you are camera shy, then simply check out the cool pics that have already been posted. http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikilove/

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by Llewellyn Pruis 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

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POTD on Facebook
by Cary Bass 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

The Commons POTD application doesn't seem to be working properly on facebook. It's all right when you click into the image, but on the profile page it's just a big, blank spacer.gif. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 727.231.0101 Fax: 727.258.0207 E-Mail: cbass(a)wikimedia.org

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Admins, please check your email is enabled
by Brianna Laugher 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

I just tried three admins and they all didn't have email enabled. I'm sure this is a bug rather than the idea that they never enabled email. Do we in fact have an open bugzilla request about this issue? If so, could someone link me? thanks, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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Nice one from Durova
by David Gerard 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

http://searchengineland.com/070911-083723.php - d.

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