Commons has just reached 6 million files! At 10:17, January 31, 2010, Sailing_on_Ullswater_-_geograph.org.uk_-_173422.jpg became our 6 millionth file on Commons!
Could anyone help us draft a blog post about this?
I've started a page at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Geograph_images
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From: "Michael Peel" <email(a)mikepeel.net>
To: "board(a)wikimedia.org.uk WMUK Board" <board(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, 30 January, 2010 11:58:22 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: [WMUK Board] Geograph images
Hi all,
I've just been given a heads-up that 250,000 images of the UK that
people have released on Geograph.org.uk are currently being mass-
uploaded onto Wikimedia Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Category:Images_from_the_Geograph_British_Isles_project
We should probably do a blog post about this sometime soon; next week
perhaps?
Mike
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Hi all,
In case you haven't heard already, "Britain Loves Wikipedia", a free
photography scavenger hunt following on from Wiki Loves Art et al.,
will be taking place in 21 museums and archives across the UK
throughout February, and is launching on Sunday at the Victoria and
Albert Museum! Full details are now up on the WMUK blog, at:
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2010/01/britain-loves-wikipedia/
and also the Britain Loves Wikipedia website at:
http://www.britainloveswikipedia.org/
Thanks,
Mike Peel
Wikimedia UK
PS: Apologies if you're not in the UK...
Forward from wikitech-l, no uploading from 9 pm UTC.
(timezone corrected with Ariel's second post)
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From: Ariel T. Glenn <ariel(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:54 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] image service switchover
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
We are going to move image serving from ms1 (plus a few other
miscellaneous things that also live on that host) to the new much bigger
ms7 starting at 1 pm PST, 9 pm UTC.
We expect 30 to 60 minutes of down time (= no uploads of media files).
Depending on how things go, reads of pages may be spotty as well during
this time.
Any questions or comments, I'm in the #wikimedia-tech irc channel.
Ariel Glenn
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Hi all,
In accordance with the Meta Checkuser policy, and in spite of the fact
that I am more a reader than a contributor on this mailing list, I would
like to inform you that I have been nominated for the checkuser rights
on Commons.
You are invited to express your opinion there:
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Checkusers/Requests/Eusebius>
Regards,
Eusebius
*Apologies for the cross posting.*
Wikimedia UK, the UK chapter, is organising an event called Britan Loves
Wikipedia Britain Loves Wikipedia is a cultural event bring organised in
partnership between Wikimedia UK, the Collections Trust and the MLA
(Museums, Libraries, Archives Partnership) starting on January 31 which will
encourage members of the public to visit certain participating museums
around the UK and photograph certain exhibits and make those photos
available for use on Wikipedia, and other projects, through Wikimedia
Commons. There will then be various prizes given out based on the pictures
people produce. For this event, we need a logo. While we are getting quotes
to have a professionally produced logo made, we would much prefer one
produced by a member of the community. The community has produced excellent
logos in the past and we are sure it will be able to provide us with one
that is just as professional looking as what we could get by paying an
enormous amount for it. If you would like to have a go, the brief is as
follows:
* The logo must include the words ‘Britain Loves Wikipedia’
* The logo does not necessarily need to feature the Wikipedia globe
* The logo must work in black and white and colour
* The logo must not be year-specific
Unfortunately we have very limited time so deadlines for this project are as
follows:
* Expression of Interest (and, ideally, a first draft of your idea or ideas)
-- 12:00 midday UTC Thursday, January 21 2010
* Final Logo -- 23:59 UTC Sunday, January 24 2010
We understand that that doesn't give you much time, and we're sorry we
didn't organise this sooner. Hopefully a few people can knock something up
in that time! If you want to have a go, please let us know by following the
link.
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia/Logo_submissions
Thanks!
Joseph Seddon
Wikimedia UK
I AM SO SORRY
I have small knowlege of that lenguage
I hope receive thus information in my idioms
I don´t undertood any
If you can´t ,then I´ll lost your meeting.
PLEASE HELP ME
All my best for all you.
Jorge
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This is not news for people who've been watching closely, but I
thought it deserved a "re-post" to give it some additional visibility.
In the last year, the Wikimedia movement has developed some very
important content partnerships with cultural institutions such as
museums and archives to bring valuable pictures, videos, and other
media online. Some but not all of them are categorized here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Commons_partnerships
What's the impact of these partnerships? How are these media used? We
didn't have good answers to these questions until very recently.
Thanks to the work of Bryan Tong Minh, Magnus Manske, and other
engineers, we now have some first good data:
1) The GlobalUsage extension is now re-deployed on Wikimedia Commons,
which makes it easy to see where any individual file is used in the
Wikimedia universe;
2) The Glamorous script by Magnus Manske gives you that overview for
an entire category on Commons.
For example, you can go to http://toolserver.org/~magnus/glamorous.php
and select the "Images from the German Federal Archive" category. This
will show you that out of the 82,457 images uploaded so far, more than
15,000 are currently used in articles. 34 languages use at least 100
images, 11 use at least 1,000. This demonstrates the powerful dynamic
of global re-use that uploading media to Wikimedia Commons can result
in.
We'll be able to show even more compelling data if we now add the
(known) pageview data for the relevant articles. Hopefully this
emerging data will contribute to a virtuous circle of new content
partnerships. I'll pull together some facts for a blog update on
what's happening in the space, but wanted to give a general quick
update first. :-)
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Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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