This struck me as relevant to our interests. The extension referred to
is very hacky and not ready for prime time at all. But of course it
would be a Simple Matter Of Programming to make a suitable page on the
toolserver for our own use, multi-image uploads (the way Commonist
does), etc.
- d.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Günter Gratzer <Guenter.Gratzer(a)abf.co.at>
Date: 19 Feb 2008 16:57
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Uploading multiple files via zip file
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
<mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello,
I'm looking for a working extension for media wiki 1.11 to upload
multiple files with a zip-file.
Found only http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialMultiUploadViaZip
which doesn't work with 1.11. Anyone got it work with this version?
Regards
Günter
All -
could you send me some links - offlist is fine - to useful tutorials
that you're aware of on free content licensing? I think there are some
pages on Wikimedia Commons that might be useful, if perhaps a bit
project-centric.
It would just be good to have some URLs to shoot to folks who have
heard once of Creative Commons and open source - but really don't have
a clue what any of it means, get confused about the
commercial/non-commercial distinction, think they can still cut
exclusive deals for some types of usage, etc. :-)
Thanks,
Erik
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<http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/getty-images-to-sell-itself-to…>
"The price, based on a bid of $34 a share, represents a 55 percent
premium over the company's share price on Jan. 18, the day before it
announced it was "exploring strategic options." Hellman & Friedman's
bid is 39 percent higher than Getty's closing stock price of $24.45 on
Friday.
"Through a series of acquisitions, Getty grew to become the world's
largest distributor of high-quality pictures and video. Still, fears
about increased competition from lower-cost Internet-based rivals have
taken their toll on Getty's stock price, prompting the company to seek
a buyout."
Dare I suggest H&F didn't get a very good deal.
But I suppose they were smart to move faster than [[Encyclopædia
Britannica, Inc.]].
cheers
Brianna
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They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
http://modernthings.org/
Most useful response of the thread ;-)
I suppose for this issue (testing various indicators) we'd make mockup
pages that work just like the Wikipedia page, but which have the
various options for magnifier icons - so not just the framed image
with the various possible icons, but a whole page with them.
Then we can try each on a few people and collate our results in this
thread. Then someone can gather those *all* up and add them to the
bug.
Sound like a plan?
- d.
On 24/02/2008, Michel Vuijlsteke <wikipedia(a)zog.org> wrote:
> # sit user in front of wikipedia, ask them to find an image of, say, Ghandi
> #*cringe as they go through
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=image+of+ghandi&go=Go and
> the like
> #* eventually: arrive at, say, [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]]
> # ask user: who do you think made this image? how would you find out?
> #* sit back and try not to get worked up that they don't click the image to
> see a larger size and the author information :)
> #* eventually: arrive, at e.g.
> <nowiki>[[Image:Gandhi_studio_1931.jpg]]</nowiki>
> # ask user: who put this image on this page? how would you find out?
> #* '''note''': you could switch q2 and q3, and you could add things like "do
> you think you are allowed to use this image on your own web site" -- the
> questions are asking for various aspects of the information present on the
> image detail page
>
> Lather, rinse, repeat with different icons and variations of credits
> under/around/near the image. I think this may be one of those rare occasions
> when eye tracking *might* be useful.
>
> Oh, and this may also help improve the design of the image detail page,
> which, frankly, is horrendous.
>
> Michel Vuijlsteke
> Deisgn advisor, www.namahn.com :)
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 1:58 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a professional human factors expert in the house?
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
> > Date: 24 Feb 2008 12:58
> > Subject: Re: [Commons-l] [WikiEN-l] Musing with professional
> > photographers: further lessons learned
> > To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> >
> >
> > On 24/02/2008, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 24/02/2008, Chris McKenna <cmckenna(a)sucs.org> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Florian Straub wrote:
> >
> > > > > I like the idea, but aren't magnifiers reserved for "search"?
> >
> > > > In PDF readers at least, magnifiers are used for zoom, and
> > binoculours
> > > > (sp?) for search.
> >
> > > My unscientific sample of two said "it'd give you a bigger version"
> > > when I asked them what they thought it meant. It looks a lot like the
> > > magnifier on Adobe Acrobat.
> >
> >
> >
> > I stress again that we need a proper professional human factors expert
> > on the case. Is there anyone reading this who counts as such, who
> > could tell us the right questions to ask? Then all interested parties
> > can run this right set of questions past people they know!
> >
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
>
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Hello,
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 4:40 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/01/2008, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 23/01/2008, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > But these concerns are not in conflict with providing *good* credit:
> > > We could provide a credits tab, a more obvious expand icon, or any one
> > > of a dozen other improvements.
> > > We've talked about some of these before. Where are they?
>
> > I believe it got bogged down in indecisive polls on a suitable
> > replacement for the expand-box icon on images. What would it take
> > (technically) to just replace that with a blue circle-i?
>
>
> And I just got yet another phone call from someone who wanted to reuse
> an image from Wikipedia but didn't realise you clicked on the picture
> to get to the image page. Fergoshsake, the two-rectangles "expand"
> icon is meaningless. (I mean this thing that's on every image:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png - I
> suppose changing it would take changing the skin.)
People interested about this simple solution to improve the visibility
of credits are welcome to comment or vote for the following bug on
MediaWiki bugzilla :
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13070
--
Guillaume Paumier
[[m:User:guillom]]
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you
have imagined." Henry David Thoreau
Creative Commons has gone live with a new design for their two free
content licenses:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
This design identifies the licenses as being compliant with the
Definition for Free Cultural Works (and links to it). The DFCW is also
the basis of Wikimedia's licensing policy, and has been linked to from
the Free Software Foundation's definition of free software:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
It has also been endorsed by the Commonwealth of Learning for its
large number of international educational initiatives.
This support by Creative Commons should be welcome news to all
Wikimedians, as it will make it easier for us to argue that all
licenses are not, in fact, equal -- and that releases under licenses
like CC-BY-NC or -ND simply do not work for us.
We're continuing our dialog with CC, and their responsiveness has been
amazing (thanks to any CCers reading this :-). The fact that our
office is just a few blocks away now helps. :-)
Best,
Erik
--
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Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
I just tried Mayflower search using non-latin characters (searching Arabic
words). It comes back with ugly warnings and says non-latin characters are
not supported for searching. Mayflower works nicely for searching in
English, but would be really awesome if it worked for other languages.
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/search.php?q=%D9%85%D9%86%D…
I wonder if there are plans to add support for other languages?
-Aude
Dear all,
I am a member of "then you win" documentary film project about
non-violence movements in India. We aim to release it with the rights to
copy, modify and distribute under Creative Commons licence, we need
everybody’s help to achieve that goal.
We appreciate for your reading this e-mail so far, and invite you to
take a look at the project website:
http://thenyouwin.yooook.org
Thank you very much for your participation.
Best regards,
Pachinee Buathong
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First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi.
