Commons-l March 2009

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Considerations for museums and archives to gain their cooperation
by Gerard Meijssen 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hoi. I am talking to a few museums and archives and several of them are interested in considering Commons for their collection. At the same time they are also considering Flickr. The issue they have with Commons is its restrictions. One of the museums said it like this: "We have done our best to ascertain the copyright status of much of our material. We have not been able to find the original copyright holder or someone who inherited these rights. When we post our material to Flickr, we just remove the material when a copyright holder turns up and asks us to. Doing it in any other way requires much more effort. Effort that we rather spend in more productive endeavours like digitising and annotating." My question is, will it be acceptable when a museum or archive provides us with their material and when we learn about a request to take down material, we do this when requested by the copyright holder. This is not considered an issue with Flickr !! Thanks, GerardM

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Ogg Theora "Thusnelda" codec alpha out
by David Gerard 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2009-March/002080.html Promises much higher quality per bitrate, using exactly the same file format. This is alpha, but if you're prepared to experiment we could get much nicer video for the same file size. - d.

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Re: [Commons-l] Commons-l Digest, Vol 46, Issue 16
by wayne 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

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hello
by ramosrios＠pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

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de antonio
by ramosrios＠pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

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de antonio
by ramosrios＠pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

hi, my name is anthony. i am 20 years old and studing general medicine in Cuba, please i like known news friends around the world. mail me to following address: ramosrios(a)pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu please in spanish or english languaje thank you hola, mi nombre es antonio, tengo 20 años y estudio medicina general en Cuba, me gustaria conocer nuevos amigos alrededor del mundo, si lo deseas escribeme, prometo responder, mi direccionn es: ramosrios(a)pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu por favor preferiblemente en idioma español o si no en ingles gracias --------------------------------------- Red Telematica de Salud - Cuba CNICM - Infomed

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de antonio
by ramosrios＠pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

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Tech updates: code updates going live to Wikimedia sites
by Brion Vibber 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

After a few weeks of bug fixes, we've caught up with MediaWiki development code review and I'm pushing out an update to the live sites. This fixes a lot of little bugs, and hopefully doesn't cause introduce too many new ones. :) * Change logs: http://ur1.ca/2rah (r47458 to r48811) As usual in addition to lots of offline and individual testing among our staff and volunteer developers, we've done a shakedown on http://test.wikipedia.org/ -- and as usual we can fully expect a few more issues to have cropped up that weren't already found. Don't be alarmed if you do find a problem; just let us know at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or on the tech IRC channels (#wikimedia-tech on Freenode). We should be resuming our weekly update schedule soon -- I won't be doing a mega-crosspost like this every week! -- and will continue to improve our pre-update staging and shakedown testing to keep disruption to a minimum and awesome improvements to a maximum. I'd also like to announce that we've started a blog for Wikimedia tech activity & MediaWiki development, in part because I want to make sure community members can easily follow what we're working on and give feedback before we push things out: * http://techblog.wikimedia.org/ I'd very much like to make sure that we've got regular contacts among the various project communities who can help coordinate with us on features, bugs, and general thoughts which might affect some projects distinctly from others. -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO, Wikimedia Foundation San Francisco

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Re: [Commons-l] Commons-l Digest, Vol 46, Issue 13
by JIM Click 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Remove from my email ----- Original Message ----- From: <commons-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 6:00 AM Subject: Commons-l Digest, Vol 46, Issue 13 > Send Commons-l mailing list submissions to > commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > commons-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > commons-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Commons-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: National Gallery of Australia - 2 issues (Andrew Gray) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:38:24 +0000 > From: Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> > Subject: Re: [Commons-l] National Gallery of Australia - 2 issues > To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <f3fedb0d0903230438m28cc450euc7a9d238db31b3e8(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 2009/3/22 Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com>: > >> The original painting is certainly NOT public domain - but what about the >> copyright status of a photograph that you or I might take of that >> painting? >> That is the question. > > You can't turn a copyrighted work into a free one by... *making a copy of > it*. > > Once you put it like that, it seems quite simple :-) Unfortunately, > explaining that has historically been an uphill struggle! > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > > End of Commons-l Digest, Vol 46, Issue 13 > ***************************************** >

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Upload-by-URL for test.wikipedia.org
by Brion Vibber 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

I've enabled a test configuration of MediaWiki's upload-by-URL ability on http://test.wikipedia.org/ The default configuration limits URL uploads to sysops, so for now you’ll need to be a sysop on Test Wikipedia to try it out. If everything seems fairly problem-free we’ll start rolling this out a bit more widely for Commons and other sites. In addition to being able to handle large files without an ugly manual download+reupload, the upload-by-URL functionality is also needed for future-facing work Michael Dale is working on to allow an on-wiki media picker to fetch freely-licensed files from Flickr, Archive.org, and other places. We may want to consider improvements to UI and workflow, but it seems to at least work. :) More at the Wikimedia technical blog: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/03/upload-by-url-for-testwikipediaorg/ -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)

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