Commons-l January 2008

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Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2007 about to open
by Bryan Tong Minh 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Dear Wikimedians, Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2007 Picture of the Year competition will be held soon. Any user who is registered at any Wikimedia wiki and has more than 200 edits is invited to vote. The competition is among the 514 images that became Featured Pictures at Wikimedia Commons between 2007-01-01 and 2007-12-31. There are literally hundreds of beautiful high quality pictures... please help us choose the best one! Voting will be conducted through a tool on the toolserver (to make it easier to count compared to editing on a wiki). Users can request a voting token on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007/Voting . You will need to have email enabled for the user account you intend to vote from. You can only vote once, even if you have multiple accounts that meet the edit requirement. The voter log will be public although the actual votes themselves will be private. There are two rounds of voting. In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like, regardless of category. In the final (28), you can only vote for one image. Voting will open on 10 January. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007 for more information. Thanks, Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2007

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Zotero / Archive Cooperation
by Erik Moeller 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

FYI http://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-and-the-internet-archive-join-forces/ Recently the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the Center for History and New Media and the Internet Archive $1.2 million dollars to develop new services that will aid scholarly sharing, collaboration, citation, and annotation. In 2008, users will be able to drag and drop items into the "Zotero Commons"—a dedicated part of the Internet Archive's servers—through icon in the left column. Zotero Commons Items donated to the Commons will be stored in subdirectories of the Commons named for the donors. In addition to encouraging donations to the commons (since those donating will receive credit for their contributions), this feature will also enable users to identify others who are working with and/or annotating the same content, fostering new collaboration opportunities. The benefits to the scholarly community of the Common are thus threefold: 1) The availability of permanent, persistent archival, off-site storage for long-term management and use of digital content. 2) The ability to share resources publicly for easy access by other scholars. 3) The simplified discovery of new, related resources and potential collaboration opportunities. As an added incentive to donate to the Commons, the Internet Archive will provide free OCR for your contributions and send you the transcribed text to help you search your personal library. In addition, modifications will be made to Zotero to make it easier for researchers to select already archived files and web pages from the Internet Archive's existing collections rather than saving local copies. This will enable better referencing of "born digital" items and allow for the collaborative annotation of web documents. Zotero Commons and Zotero 2.0 Zotero 2.0 will allow you to sync your library's metadata to the Zotero Server. You will sync your metadata with the Zotero server With Zotero Commons you will be able to contribute public domain images, texts, audio and other files. You can also contribute files to the Zotero Commons In turn, the Internet Archive will send you any text extracted from donated documents. -- Erik Möller

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507 FPs in 2007
by Brianna Laugher 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Hello Commoners, Happy New Year! Guess what? Over 500 images became Featured Pictures in 2007! In 2006 there were only about 330 IIRC so that is really impressive growth. I put them all on one page here: <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pfctdayelise/POTY07_categories/2007_…> Could someone who is more SQL-savvy than me possibly run a query to get this same list, so I have something to double-check against? (I'm pretty sure this one was hand-compiled.) These images will make up the entries to the Picture of the Year competition which starts soon, so it would be awful if any slipped through the cracks. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:POTY/2007> Congratulations and thanks to all the people who take part in FP, photographers, illustrators, commenters and constructive-criticisers. :) cheers Brianna user:pfctdayelise -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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o rly?
by David Gerard 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7160057.stm - d.

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Jókívánság
by Vezér János 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Nagyon boldog Új Esztendőt kívánok minden "wikiz ő" barátunknak, akiknek a vitáját, elmélkedését nagy figyelem mel kísérem. Igaz, hogy sok mindent nem értek belőle,de ezért bo csássatok meg, hiszen egy nyugdíjas "öreg szivar" vagyok, aki szeret a hálón szörfölni. Érdekelnek az újdonságok és a tudomány os kérdések, a művészet és műszaki beállítottságú rév én a technikai újdonságok, az utazások. Tehát adjatok feladatot a rra, hogy kihámozzam a sok vitaanyagból a szándékot. Jó és ered ményes évet kívánok! öregJani _________________________________________ Éhes vagy? Internetes ételrendelés, egyszerűen, házhozszállít ással! Pizzák, hamburgerek, saláták, stb.... Minden egy helyen! KLI KK IDE!

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Should we use CC-Plus? (CC+)
by Brianna Laugher 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

CC+ is basically a Creative Commons way of saying "if you want extra permission beyond those granted in this license, contact me [or some third party] to arrange that". It is mostly talked about in the context of using a NC license and then using CC+ for anyone who wants to get permission for commercial use. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus However it also seems to make sense even for Commons which only allows CC-BY and CC-BY-SA. A lot of people have personal "contact me for X" statements where X could be a freer license, higher-res image, whatever else. We could start using CC+ as the framework for that today, as seen by the simplest example <http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus#Easy_CC.2B_Markups> (the main gist of it seems to be special attributes in the <a> html tag) So the question is not should we allow it (we have no reason not to), but - should we actively encourage people to use it, instead of personal "contact me for X" statements? Basically the only point of using CC+ instead of personal statements is because CC+ is intended to be a standard. This is not an issue where the benefits of standardisation are hugely obvious to me, so I am not too fussed about this, but maybe some people have strong feelings about it. If you use a personal contact statement, is there any reason you wouldn't switch to a standardised CC+ statement with an equivalent statement? cheers, Brianna user:pfctdayelise -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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