Commons-l March 2011

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translation of categories
by bawolff 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

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

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[Wiki Loves Monuments] Logo Contest open on Commons!
by Delphine Ménard 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

[xpost foundation-l/commons-l] Hello all, You might have heard of Wiki Loves Monuments, an event destined to populate Wikimedia Commons with photos of listed monuments across the world. The 2011 edition is centered on Europe, but this is a movement wide/worldwide event, and we'd like to have a logo that fits both the ambitions of the project and reflect how fun it may be to participate. Therefore, a logo contest has been opened to get a great logo for Wiki Loves Monuments. The contest opens NOW, and logos can be submitted until the 17th of April 23.59 UTC. Voting will start on the 18th of April at 0:00 UTC. (we'll ping you again when it's time). Please distribute widely in your language communities and let your creativity loose! The contest page with rules and how to submit your logo can be found here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Logo_contest Submissions are here for your perusal: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Logo_contest… Cheers, Delphine -- @notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org Photos with simple eyes: notaphoto - http://photo.notafish.org

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Need to contact list owner
by Paul Houle 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hi, I'm really sorry to bring this up in public, but I'm in contact with a person who has a serious concern about the commons-l list and I need to get in contact with the list owner so we can get certain actions taken. Could the owner please send me a private e-mail so we can get this matter resolved. Thanks, Paul.

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UploadWizard nearing 1.0
by Neil Kandalgaonkar 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Tech blog post! http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/03/uploadwizard-nearing-1-0/ -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| <neilk(a)wikimedia.org>

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Einstein University - free university/ academic social network
by Isaac Wojcik 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Hello all! Just launched a new wiki and would love to get your input. Einstein University is a free online university/academic social network where students and professors from around the world can share ideas, read each others papers and collaborate on research. You can upload your photo, curriculum vitae and up to four research papers. Instead of charging students tuition the university funds itself through ad revenue and uses volunteer professors. Our focus is solely on higher education and our goal is to become a fully accredited degree granting university. With your help we can give the 2.5 billion people that live off less than $2 a day a chance at a higher education for the first time. Check us out at www.einstein-university.org

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Picture of the Year 2010
by Aaron Adrignola 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

There have been a few people posting to the village pump asking when the Picture of the Year 2010 competition would start. There were no names listed on the committee page or really anything done beyond some copying of the 2009 structure. I've taken the initiative and begun populating the galleries from the page listing all the featured pictures for 2010. I cannot assist with translation or non-English announcements, however, so hopefully others will join in and make the five year anniversary of POTY a reality. -- Adrignola

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Beta test of CommonsHelper2
by Jan Luca Naumann 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

Hi, I'm looking for some beta tester for the CommonsHelper2 (http://toolserver.org/~commonshelper2). The main work is to control the description and the upload feature. The upload is limited to the testers. I want to call the projects for controlling/adding the meta data for the transfer on Meta-Wiki (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CommonsHelper2), too. If you are interested in beta testing or have a question, send me a mail to jan(a)toolserver.org Best regards, Jan

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Can you suggest any course how to handle a wiki?
by Per Liss 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hi I have been using the Mediawiki for some time but I am not very experienced. I have received support so my wiki is now quite advanced. I would like to learn more about wiki and php and all this programming behind the wiki. Is there any good course (or on-line you-tube course ?) available somewhere that you can suggest? Perhaps there is anyone that would be able to have a private course for some days? Thanks, Per

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Re: [Commons-l] Corbis Sygma
by Samuel Klein 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2029367/fate-… Early reports of destruction may have been too bold. But the motivation was the potential for crippling lawsuits by the photographers under French law -- one of whom won ~$2M from Sygma when Sygma could not produce 750 of his images. I fully support the idea of helping archives in distress, but it's not clear what is needed in this case, or if help from us would be valuable. (an archive that specializes in digitization might be more relevant; and a project like the Internet Archive that hosts and shares orphaned works.) SJ > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/02/sygma-collection-needs-refuge.h… >>> From: Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> >>> >>> http://blog.melchersystem.com/2011/02/25/the-fire-this-time/ >>> >>> 12 Million Photographs are to be destroyed because liquidators cant >>> find a buyer? >>> >>> these arent just random landscape photos, these are photos are from >>> the fench news agency Sygma >>> >>> Wikimedia-france, Jimbo, any chance they could find their way to >>> Commons rather than just being destroyed and lost for ever....... >>> >>> -- >>> GN. >>> Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com >>> Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Commons-l mailing list >>> Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Internal-l mailing list >>> Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Internal-l mailing list >> Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Internal-l mailing list > Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l > > -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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re-enabling sitemaps for Commons, or, why your image isn't in Google
by Neil Kandalgaonkar 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

So lately Google has been pinging the WMF about the lack of sitemaps on Commons. If you don't know what those are, sitemaps are a way of telling search engines about all the URLs that are hosted on your site, so they can find them more easily, or more quickly.[1] I investigated this issue and found that we do have a sitemaps script in maintenance, but it hasn't been enabled on the Wikipedias since 2007-12-27. In the meantime it was discovered that Google wrote some custom crawling bot for Recent Changes, so it was never re-enabled for them. As for Commons: we don't have a sitemap either, but from a cursory examination of Google Image Search I don't think they are crawling our Recent Changes. Even if they were, there's more to life than Google -- we also want to be in other search engines, tools like TinEye, etc. So it would be good to have this back again. a) any objections, volunteers, whatever, for re-enabling the sitemaps script on Commons? This means probably just adding it back into daily cron. b) anyone want to work on making it more efficient and/or better? Google has introduced some nifty extensions to the Sitemap protocol, including geocoding and (especially dear to our hearts) licensing![2] However we don't have such information easily available in the database, so this requires parsing through every File page, which will take several millenia. This will not work at all with the current sitemaps script as it scans the entire database every time and regenerates a number of sitemaps files from scratch. So, what we need is something more iterative, that only scans recent stuff. (Or, using such extensions will have to wait until someone brings licensing into the database). [1] http://sitemaps.org/ [2] http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178636 -- Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk(a)wikimedia.org>

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