Someone in the thread on friendliness mentioned that categories are
always in one language (usually english). Well still a long way from
fixing the issue, perhaps if we allowed unrestricted
{{DISPLAYTITLE:...}}, combined with the {{int: hack, that'd allow
better translatable categories. (of course you'd only be able to use
the actual category name in [[category:Foo]] links. I suppose one
could use a bot to automatically change links to redirect categories
to their canonical name, but then we're getting really really hacky).
Anyways, just a thought.
cheers,
bawolff
http://fentonville.co.uk/waverley/
Put up by a J.G.Ballard fan, but those who like old encyclopedias will
enjoy this. The colour plates would definitely be of historical
interest. I've suggested Commons and Wikisource to Mike Bosnall, but
you don't need to wait on that to grab anything good.
- d.
Creative Commons is beginning the process of revising their suite of
licenses, with the goal of having a 4.0 version by the end of 2012:
https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/30676
They have a set of goals, including better internationalization,
better interoperability with other licenses, and addressing the needs
of new communities like governments and other public institutions in
addition to the communities already using the licenses.
But this is the requirements gathering period--there is no draft yet.
If you want your input considered, this is the best time to start
thinking about what is and isn't working with the current version of
the licenses.
There is a public wiki explaining more about the goals, timeline,
considerations, and ways to participate:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0
Wikimedia wants the 4.0 licenses to be better for us and for the
commons than the 3.0 versions, which most Wikimedia projects are
currently using; CC has already reached out to us, wanting to come out
with a version that the Wikimedia community will adopt, and we'll be
trying to make sure everything is coordinated and communicated well
throughout the revision process. But if you are interested, you should
be participating directly. This is doubly true if you are in a
jurisdiction with unusual requirements, or part of a group of users
with particular wants that are not handled well by the current
version.
Please pass this message on to other places where interested people will see it!
Cheers,
Kat
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I've noticed recently a number of images that require rotation, usually
photos that are in landscape orientation when they should be in portrait.
What's weird is that in the articles, MediaWiki already "knows" the correct
orientation and in some cases the file history even shows multiple uploads.
It's hard to explain in words so here's an example:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castelo_Sao_Jorge_Lisboa_3.JPG
This image has been in the article since September 2006 so I can't imagine
that nobody has noticed the wrong orientation for 5 years. Does anyone know
what happened here? Is this related to the huge backlog for RotateBot?
Thanks.
On 11/28/2011 10:23 PM, Alex Brollo wrote:
> [...] FineReader 11 [...] produces a complete djvu file [...] Text
> layer hasn't full range of details, it's organized into two levels
> (page and line), while OCR engine on IA servers produces a very rich
> "tree" (page, column, region, paragraph, line and word).
Has anybody designed a web interface that shows the scanned
image and the zones or regions of the Djvu text layer? It would
look similar to image annotation on Commons,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Image_annotations
For a Djvu file uploaded to Commons, could you automatically
generate image annotations for the various text columns and
illustrations? Does image annotation handle multi-page
document formats such as PDF and Djvu?
(Shouldn't image annotations and timed text be the same thing?)
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
