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
Over the weekend I had some problem with causality. I found this
page on Commons,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pine_Grove_Springs_Hotel,_Spofford_L…
which claims to have gotten an image from my web site,
http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/picture/1849742/Pine_Grove_Springs_Hotel_Spof…
which in turn claims to have gotten the image from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pine_Grove_Springs_Hotel,_Spofford_Lake,_…
which also claims to have gotten the picture from Ookaboo.
Obviously this doesn't make sense. Although this image is old enough
that we're not going to have anyone getting angry about attribution,
but our users deserve to have sensible provenance information for this
image.
Ookaboo almost certainly got this image from Wikimedia Commons by
an automated process. It seems that somehow, Wikimedia Commons
re-imported the image from Ookaboo.
I'll grant that a large majority of images on Ookaboo were
gathered by an automated process that found images on Commons and
enriched the metadata. However, Ookaboo now allows users to add
images, and Ookaboo is now gathering images that aren't in Commons, see:
http://about.ookaboo.com/a/about/add_a_picture
Specifically, we're tuning our image loading process to fill gaps
in what Commons has, so I'd like to invite people to add our images to
Commons -- however, we ought to have a mechanism to prevent mistakes
like the one above.
Any ideas?
I asked on this list a few years about negative scanning. The topic's
come up again at http://saveaussiemusic.org/ , so I wrote this up:
http://wiki.saveaussiemusic.org/wiki/Negative_scanning (feel free to
add, correct, etc - here is fine) - precis: flatbeds are unusable,
Ion's is as bad as scanning a small print, professional ones are the
only archival quality option.
I am now told that high-quality negative scanners are not being made
any more, and the remaining ones are becoming precious commodities ...
And I'm still after anyone in London with a high-quality negative
scanner to hand!
- d.
I think this is worth at least a forward to Commons-l as well.
Nemo
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Oggetto: [Communia] OutOfCopyright.eu makes Public Domain Calculators
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OutOfCopyright.eu <http://OutOfCopyright.eu/> makes Public Domain
Calculators available for the entire European Union
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I just made several changes to an SVG file:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_of_pyramids.svg
However, the system refuses to update the image. It is still displaying
the oldest version, which has been modified 9 times now.
This is a severe bug and will likely cause frustrated users to stop
contributing edits to image and/or encourage them to upload the edit
under a new filename, causing duplicates. When a new version is
uploaded, all caches must be cleared and all thumbnails regenerated when
needed.
Thanks!
Timwi
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