Commons-l January 2010

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GlobalUsage deployed an up to date
by Bryan Tong Minh 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

Hi all, As you may know I have been working on GlobalUsage, a MediaWiki extension that allows showing on which Wikimedia wikis a Commons image is used. We had some problems before, requiring it to be disabled before deployment complete, but now it has finally be deployed and the data set has been built. You can now view where an image is used on the bottom of the image description page, or via Special:GlobalUsage. [There is still a problem in the special page causing the "prev" link to not work, but the fix for that will be deployed soon hopefully] Best regards, Bryan

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Flag of Neologism
by Gregory Maxwell 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Some time ago a person just made up a flag for Herefordshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herefordshire) and uploaded it. The flag is erroneously represented as the official flag on both the NL and PL wikipedias: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herefordshire http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herefordshire Since no official flag exists (as far as I can tell) this flag shows up right at the top of a google search result: http://www.google.com/search?q=herefordshire+flag Several low-rent vendors have picked up the flag and started selling it, apparently under the belief that it was the official deal. The original author of the flag posted on the internet bragging about it: http://forum.watmm.com/topic/52097-fucking-nice/ The file was placed for deletion on commons, but people are voting to keep it: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Flag_of_he… I've long been an advocate of commons having a wider mandate than the Wikipedias, such as accepting original works where the Wikipedias wouldn't. However, I think that keeping this is an abuse of the expanded mandate and that accepting this kind of misleading work puts commons policy in conflict with the needs of its primary customer. I'm of the view that commons should never be used in a manner which is dishonest or misleading, and that the expanded mandate compared to the Wikipedias should be primarily about the noteworthness of the covered subject matter, not its truthfulness.

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