Commons-l August 2009

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RfC: Multimedia workshop
by Erik Moeller 14 Aug '09

14 Aug '09

Wikimedia France and the Wikimedia Foundation are currently considering the idea of a multimedia-focused workshop and planning event to take place in October 2009. Rather than an open community conference like Wikimania, this would be a workshop targeting skilled practitioners who want to help transform our approach to rich media throughout the Wikimedia universe. This event will most likely happen in France, as Wikimedia France will be providing logistical support and most of the funding, with a goal to ensure that the most relevant people can be present at the event. One of the key objective of this meeting would be to help inform the recently funded Multimedia Usability Project to improve the usability of Wikimedia Commons. This meeting should help to immerse the project team in the complex world of multimedia in Wikimedia projects today. It should also help to start building a core group of volunteers as well as chapter support for the project. Beyond the Multimedia Usability Project, we're hoping that useful practical discussions will lead to outcomes positively driving approaches to sharing and collaborating multimedia in the Wikimedia universe forward. We're thinking of a three-day event with a group of 30 people total, who could receive travel scholarships if they don't have any other organizational funding support. The meeting could potentially be divided into three tracks: technology, content partnerships, and community practices. Participants would be a combination of people directly invited because of their known high value contributions, and people applying or being nominated. We're currently envisioning that the tracks could be structured as follows: * Technology track: This would include hammering out specs and code for key technological improvements deemed necessary for rich media in WMF projects in areas such as upload usability and workflow, search and tagging (including multilingual search), permissions workflow, deletion workflow, and so forth. It could also address next-generation technologies such as video editing tools, as well as operational issues associated with large scale content delivery. * Content partnerships track: This would look at best practices, and could perhaps be used to hammer out a "content partnerships manual" for working with institutions as in the case of the German archive partnerships. It could also be used to prioritize partnership opportunities. * Community practices track: Here we would discuss constructive ways for the Commons and local project communities to interact, existing deletion and arbitration practices, legal issues with different types of media, and other day-to-day issues that Commons community members deal with. Ideally the outputs of the process would also feed into the Wikimedia Foundation strategy planning process. This workshop is not designed to address "content creation" questions, i.e., how to shoot a good photo, how to restore an image, etc. It's intended to identify practical solutions and approaches for challenges in the above three areas. Please give us your feedback * Does this basic division make sense? Might another track setup be more helpful? * In the above tracks, which other issues should be addressed? Which issues should be avoided? * Any other comments and suggestions welcome. Also, if you'd like to participate in such an event, or if you want to nominate someone else to do so, feel free to send us an initial note. We may decide to not hold the event, or to alter its shape, but a provisional expression of interest will help us plan. Currently we're holding October 9-11 as the dates. Please leave comments on the talk page here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Usability_Project_Meeting_October… Or if you want to express interest privately, please e-mail both me and Delphine Ménard: erik(a)wikimedia.org delphine.menard(a)wikimedia.fr Thanks! Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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awards ceremonies for free culture / free educational media?
by Samuel Klein 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

>From a post this morning to the freeculture-discuss list: > Is there a database or search engine for Free culture in the US? Are > there some kinds of awards like grammys or emmys or oscars for > creative commons stuff? Where do artists go in the US to promote their > CC art if they are interested in sharing it? Commons is not there for people to 'promote their CC art', but is there interest in making the results of the commons media contests more public and formal? Is it worth putting more pomp and energy into media contests at annual events like Wikimania, to help spread the word? SJ

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Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England
by Andrew Turvey 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

I've recently come across the following website that publishes a large number of old photographs held in local council archives in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire: http://tinyurl.com/nydpcj Many of the pictures are still in-copyright and have been released for private use only. However, many are pre-1923 and hence copyright expired, such as: http://tinyurl.com/npay5t Would it be copyright-compliant for someone, particularly someone based in the US, to upload these photos to Commons based on the principles of PD-ART? Andrew

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erick broder
by george davison 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

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Maintainers of collection of flickr tools
by Bryan Tong Minh 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Hi all, In the past few years I have been creating some Flickr related tools. These are: * FlickreviewR: A bot that reviews the licenses from images uploaded from Flickr * FlickreviewR human reviewer: A bot that re-reviews reviews by humans * Flickr upload bot: A web interface that allows easy access FlickreviewR has over 110k edits and with Flickr upload bot over 12k uploads have been performed. Unfortunately I have not always been able to care of those bots decently. Therefore I would like to propose to add maintainers to those bots; preferably as a stable toolserver project on stable.toolserver.org. Who would be interested in maintaining these bots? The bots are written in Python and use the mwclient library to edit and upload, which I also wrote. I will also give commit access to mwclient on SourceForge to maintainers. The FlickreviewR bots' code are in relatively good shape, reasonably ok documented and can be easily understood I believe. The Flickr upload bot however has horrible code. It was basically my first large webapp and I had some strange design ideas by then. I have attempted rewriting it, but have not had the time yet. Feel free to forward this mail to other people who might be interested in co-maintaining. Regards, Bryan

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(pt-br) File:Hatobus_661_Pops-II_60th-anniversary.jpg
by Adrianno Sakamoto 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Boa noite, as imagens dos usuarios Comyu e Mutimaro foram retirados do site http://galerias.portalinterbuss.net, exceto uma que continua no ar que não foi verificado e ainda consta o nome do Mauricio Yllana. - New Gala Hatobus: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hatobus_661_Pops-II_60th-anniversary… http://galeria.portalinterbuss.net/displayimage.php?album=42&pos=359 Obrigado por manterem o compromisso de manter o crédito do verdadeiros autores.

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Come join me on Health Informatics Forum
by SIDNEY COAD WILLIAMS 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

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CommonsHelper 2
by Magnus Manske 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Hi all, this is a tool announcement for my second version of CommonsHelper. You can find it at http://toolserver.org/~magnus/commonshelper2.php My original CommonsHelper has been a true workhorse, shoveling over a quarter of a million files to Commons from other Wikimedia projects. But, it had some troubles that I could not seem to fix, caused by its inability to always parse wikitext correctly. So, I rewrote the entire thing from scratch. Some items on the new version: * Only English interface so far. I'll add support in the next few days. * WikiSense/CheckUsage auto-categorization is offline due to toolserver database troubles * All categories, templates, and their "translations" to their Commons counterparts, as well as "good" and "bad" lists, are now user configurable through meta.wikipedia. * The engine now uses my wiki2xml tool to parse the original wikitext, then alters the XML tree, and finally collapsed the tree back into wikitext. * Code is much cleaner now, and uses classes, so it (or some of its components) might be used in other tools or even in MediaWiki at some point in the future * When not using TUSC direct upload, one can now edit the new wikitext before uploading If you transfer files from other wikimedia projects, please give the new version a try, and report bugs to me. As this is a complete rewrite, it might lack lots of nice details that you were used to from the old version, and I'll try to add them again where needed. Cheers, Magnus

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(Pt-BR) Fotos do Commons utilizados em um site de fotos
by Adrianno Sakamoto 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Oi a todos da Wikipedia. Tenho uma dúvida relacionado as fotos de ônibus japoneses que foram postados em um site de fotos de ônibus. Foi constatado em um site de imagens que fotos foram retiradas do Commons de dois usuários: Comyu e Mutimaro. No site http://galerias.portalinterbuss.net foram postadas as seguintes fotos em nome de Maurício Yllana: Fotos do usuário Comyu: - Mitsubishi Aero ACE: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Limousinebus_505-80242M… http://galeria.portalinterbuss.net/displayimage.php?album=14&pos=93 - Mitsubishi Aerostar....: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Kanachu_HI802_aerobus-b… http://galeria.portalinterbuss.net/displayimage.php?album=14&pos=87 - Mitsubishi Aeroqueen ShachiBus: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tokyu-shachi-bus_A-390_nobunaga.jpg http://galeria.portalinterbuss.net/displayimage.php?album=14&pos=81 - New Gala Hatobus: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hatobus_661_Pops-II_60th-anniversary… http://galeria.portalinterbuss.net/displayimage.php?album=60&pos=19 - Mitsubishi Fuso Aero Star HEV: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entetsubus_aerostar-HEV.jpg http://galeria.portalinterbuss.net/displayimage.php?album=9&pos=13 - Hino FCHV: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chitabus_FCHV-BUS.jpg http://galeria.portalinterbuss.net/displayimage.php?album=9&pos=36 Mutimaro: - Mitsubishi Aeroking: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JR-Tokai-bus-744-04992.JPG http://galeria.portalinterbuss.net/displayimage.php?album=14&pos=39 Queria saber se as fotos são MESMO do Maurício Yllana. Obrigado. Adrianno

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