Commons-l April 2011

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Video skills and equipment
by Lars Aronsson 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

I just tried to watch some presentation videos from Wikimania. Some had very weak sound, some had no sound in the first minutes, some only played the first minute and then stopped. I don't think the Wikimania videos are unique in having such problems. Video is new to Commons, and the expert contributors are more familiar with still images. How can we learn to make better videos? Are there some good instructions? Perhaps a free instruction video (Wikibooks, but a video instead of a book) on how to produce good videos is what we need. In fact, the English Wikibooks has a title on "Video Production", http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Video_Production but it doesn't have a clear focus (pun not intended). It starts out with discussing satellite TV and has long sections on file formats in different operating systems. There is a help page on Commons for converting video to the Ogg Theora format, but that is only the last step in a long chain. Given that video is new, how can we find and rate videos, nominate "good/featured videos", and give advice on how to improve quality? Is the Commons village pump enough for this? Commons has a separate graphics village pump. Do we also need a separate video village pump? Current digital video cameras use hard disks or memory cards, instead of tape cassettes. Many new models cost less than 300 euro (or dollars), some as little as 120 euro (memory card perhaps not included). Some have a special "Youtube mode", and I guess that kind of usage is what drives the price down. What models are good, and what should one watch out for? We can find free still photos on Flickr and copy them to Commons. Is there somewhere we can find free videos and copy them? Yes, at the Internet Archive. Somewhere else? -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

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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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2010 Picture of the Year Competition
by Aaron Adrignola 05 May '11

05 May '11

Dear Wikimedians, Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2010 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2010. Any user registered at a Wikimedia wiki since 2010 or prior with more than 200 edits as of 1 January 2011 (UTC) is welcome to vote. Check your eligibility now.[1] If you meet the criteria, you are able to vote. Nearly 800 images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors. For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year. To see the candidate images just go to: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Galleries Wikimedia Commons is interested in hearing your opinions on our featured images of 2010. The deadline for first round voting is the 4th of May at 23:59 (UTC). Thanks, Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010 [1] http://toolserver.org/~pathoschild/accounteligibility/?user=&wiki=&event=16

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Winner of the Wiki Loves Monuments Logo Contest
by Delphine Ménard 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Hello all, The contest has now come to an end, with more than 30 logos in competitions, and many votes to choose the logo. The winner of the competition is: Piece of puzzle monument 2 by User:Lusitana Which can be seen here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LUSITANA_WLM_2011_d.svg There were lots of good logos, and some came close second, notably: YATL – Yet another tower logo http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_loves_monuments_logo_contest_el… Somewhat hand drawn heartish - Compact http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sertion_-_WikiLoves_Monuments_-_Comp… All vote results can be found on this page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Logo_contest… I want to thank everyone who participated, both in designing great logos, and in voting for choosing the best logo. There were tons of ideas in there, and some I am sure can be used again throughout the Wiki Loves Monuments competition. 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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[wiki loves monuments] Voting has opened for Wiki Loves Monuments logo contest!
by Delphine Ménard 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

[xpost foundation-l/commons-l] Hello all, By now surely you have heard of Wiki Loves Monuments, an event destined to populate Wikimedia Commons with photos of listed monuments across the world. As advertised some time ago, a logo contest has been launched to find a great logo for Wiki Loves Monuments. It has prompted more than 50 entries, some of which unfortunately did not match the rules. [1] However, competition yielded a lot of very good ideas and it's now time to choose. After review of basic compliance with the rules of guidelines, more than 30 logos are left to choose from. It's a lot, so we need lots of eyes to tell us what logo they'd like to see on caps, mugs, flyers et al. for the Wiki Loves Monuments events. Voting has now opened and we need your participation! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Logo_contest… Please visit this page and vote. Voting is opened until the 27 of April. Have fun voting! Best, Delphine [1] removed entries from the competition can be seen on this page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons Talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Logo_contest/Submissions -- @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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YouTube Copyright School
by Michael Dale 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

Wanted to point out youtubes recent copyright school video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InzDjH1-9Ns They face a hard education task around fair use, but I think they fail in doing any real education about fair use. The whole clip is a bit draconian ( do this or else ) and does not rationalise the reasons for doing things. The voice over of authority is a little over the top at times, but I guess its hard to capture the intricacies of copyright law in less than 5 minutes ;) Makes me think our Licensing_tutorial.svg is not so bad at all ;) peace, --michael

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Call for meta data for CommonsHelper2
by Jan Luca Naumann 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hi, the CommonsHelper 2 needs for working meta data which describes the transfer rules and other project specified things. I want to call for updating/creating this data: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CommonsHelper2 . Our reference page is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CommonsHelper2/Data_en.wikipedia . Thank you and best regards, Jan Luca

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Re: [Commons-l] Call for meta data for CommonsHelper2
by Linar Khalitov 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

>Hi, > >the CommonsHelper 2 needs for working meta data which describes the transfer rules and other project specified things. > >I want to call for updating/creating this data: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CommonsHelper2 . Ok, it isn't so difficult to update it (at least, for ru.wiki). But we still have a problem with commonshelper in ru.wiki, which makes it completely unusable: https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MAGNUS-218 Will it be solved? If not, there is no meaning to update this data for us, because this tool will remain unusable. -- mailto:rubin.happy@gmail.com

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