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
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
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/
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!
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/