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
Hi,
I am attending ImageCLEF and they seem to have pretty reliable way
to identify content on images automatically. For instance they can identify
if an image has a specific species of Plant based on the leaf type or if the
image has a UK flag and etc.
This can even be used to detect image vandalism to for example quickly
catch genitalia uploads and quickly tag them for review I am thinking.
Any thoughts on the matter?
-- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko)
Very nice essay emijrp. I think this essay belongs on meta, as it
pertains to the archival and curation of primary sources (Commons,
Wikisource) rather than crowd sourced creation of secondary and
tertiary sources (Wikipedia and Wikibooks).
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:43 AM, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> I have written an essay (my first one)[1] about the idea "There is a
> deadline". It is opposite to the old essay (from 2006) which holds that
> there is no deadline.
>
> I hope my redaction is good enough to explain my opinion about this topic.
> Please, if you find errors, fix them, I'm not very fluent in English.
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> emijrp
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_a_deadline
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UploadWizard is currently not used by experienced uploaders for a number
of reasons, among which is that they can't use some custom wikitext
licenses. We'd like to address that.
I made a mockup of a possible implementation. Comments welcome,
especially on balancing usability versus convenience here. We already
have people abusing the {{FAL}} option, and we don't want to make it worse.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard/CustomWikiTextLicenseF…
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Neil Kandalgaonkar (| <neilk(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear readers
Yesterday, on September 15th 2011, the German Wikipedia closed the poll
(Meinungsbild) "Einführung persönlicher Bildfilter". [1] It asked the
question if the personal image filter can be introduced or if it should
not be introduced.
A strong majority of 86% percent voted to not allow the personal image
filter [2] , despite the fact that the board already decided to
introduce the feature.
The questions are:
* Will the board or the WMF proceed with the introduction of the
personal image filter against the will of it's second largest community?
* If the WMF/board does not care about the first question. Will it
affect the way the personal image filter will be implemented? For
example: Not for all projects. A different implementation as suggested
inside the "image filter referendum".
* Will there be an attempt to follow this example and to question other
communities the same question?
Greetings from
Tobias Oelgarte
[1]
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Einf%C3%BChrung_pers%…
[2]
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Einf%C3%BChrung_pers%…
"Authority control" refers to controlled (i.e. curated, edited) list of
authorities: i.e. authors of works. The issue, then, is metadata that
links an image on Commons to the information about the subject in the
catalogue of the relevant museum or art gallery.
Jarek is working on templates to make this metadata capture/linkage
easier. He wrote about it to a few people. Thought other Wikimedia
devs might want to know, so I got his permission to forward his emails.
If there's a better mailing list for template discussion, please point
me there.
(I'm not going to stay subscribed to this list, and Jarek is not
subscribed, so please include him in cc if you reply. Thanks.)
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
From: *Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W.* <JAROSLAW.W.TUSZYNSKI(a)saic.com>
Date: 2011/9/12
Hi,
I am not sure how many of you are familiar with "Vorlage:Normdaten"
template on German Wikipedia or "template:Authority control" on English,
but it is a mechanism to add metadata to biographical articles which
provide links to catalogs of some major libraries (US Library of
Congress and German National Library) and online catalogs with links to
even more libraries. German Wikipedia has over 171,000 of those and
English wiki about 1,700.
Lately, I was working on adding similar templates to Categories and
Galleries on Commons, I added about 13,000 by now and expect to have
about 20,000 by the end of the week. I think those templates have a lot
of potential:
1) They link articles and categories to library catalogs and additional
information about people
2) They help with disambiguation problem
3) I think I heard that it also allow some library catalogs (German
National Library ?) to link back to Wikipedia articles
4) I think this might help in future mass uploads to help find correct
categories on Commons or articles on Wikipedias, since name is not
always the best way to find someone. Lately I was trying to link couple
thousand painters from http://www.wga.hu/ with categories on Commons and
there seem to be no easy way to do it.
5) Those might be especially powerful when combined with QRpedia.
I think we should use this template more widely, especially on EN
Wikipedia, Wikisource and other Wikipedias and possibly use it more in
GLAM context.
Jarek
Jarosław Tuszyński (user:Jarekt)
.....
I was adding Authority_control
template<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control>which
is based on German Normdaten
<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Normdaten> template to categories
and articles on Commons. See for example
Category:Charles_Fourier<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charles_Fourier>.
The template parameters were copied from German Wikipedia articles
whenever I could link them through interwiki links (aka inter-language
links).
It is unclear what Info
pages<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Info_pages>were since
the effort was abandoned and there are very few of those pages. More
successful effort focused on creation of creator
templates<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Creator_templates>based
on creator:template
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Creator>. We have about
9,000 of them mostly for artists and writers. Those templates should be
fully internationalized (show all text in language of the user). Current
version of that template supports PND, LCCN and VIAF codes, and calls
Authority_control
template<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control>.
See for example
Creator:Leonardo_da_Vinci<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Creator:Leonardo_da_Vinci>,
and I will be adding those parameters to many more.
**
.....
Yes and no. there are "only" 9,000 creator templates, while we have
113,000 subcategories in Category:People by
name<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:People_by_name>. I will
be adding " Authority control" data to creator
templates<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Creator_templates>,
which are transcluded in the categories for that person. However that
will cover probably less than 10% of People categories. The rest was
(and will be) getting an Authority_control
template<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control>directly.
....
I can add “NARA” parameter to Authority_control
template<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control>and creator:template
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Creator>. However I do not
know how to look up those Author IDs. For example I can link
to<http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalPersonIdSearch?id=1332556>
*Ansel Adams record with it s ID: 1332556. But I do not know if there
is a way to look up this ID, if I know the name. Or is there a way to
search NARA using Library of Congress ID (for Ansel Adams it is
n79056359<http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79056359.html>) ? Without
easy way to look it up or ability to download large volume of names with
ID’s, this parameter might be rarely used. *
* *
*Jarek*
*(user:jarekt)*
Your stupid!
Am 16.09.2011 12:39, schrieb emijrp:
> Hi all;
>
> There are more issues with images in German Wikipedia.
>
> It is funny how German Wikipedia doesn't allow images[1] (image added by
> me[2] in de:, and later removed by other[3]) because they follow the most
> restrictive copyright law from Germany, Austria and Switzerland[note 1], but
> they are now against giving people the choice to hide images.
>
> I think that we can do a nice move here. We can enable image filter in
> German Wikipedia for all those who don't want to see
> copyrighted-images-for-German-law, meanwhile allowing other people to see
> all Commons splendour. Using the image filter to improve the rights of
> readers of German Wikipedia. Very cool, right? ; )
>
> Regards,
> emijrp
>
> [1]
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bildrechte#Wikipedia_richtet_sich_na…
> [2] http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Knox&oldid=81377280
> [3] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Knox
>
> [note 1] I heard there are German speaking users outside Europe, right? I
> heard too that, from Germany, you can follow interwiki and see that images
> in other Wikipedias, right? So, what is the sense of that policy? Are not
> the servers in USA?
>
> 2011/9/16 Tobias Oelgarte <tobias.oelgarte(a)googlemail.com>
>
>> Dear readers
>>
>> Yesterday, on September 15th 2011, the German Wikipedia closed the poll
>> (Meinungsbild) "Einführung persönlicher Bildfilter". [1] It asked the
>> question if the personal image filter can be introduced or if it should
>> not be introduced.
>>
>> A strong majority of 86% percent voted to not allow the personal image
>> filter [2] , despite the fact that the board already decided to
>> introduce the feature.
>>
>> The questions are:
>> * Will the board or the WMF proceed with the introduction of the
>> personal image filter against the will of it's second largest community?
>> * If the WMF/board does not care about the first question. Will it
>> affect the way the personal image filter will be implemented? For
>> example: Not for all projects. A different implementation as suggested
>> inside the "image filter referendum".
>> * Will there be an attempt to follow this example and to question other
>> communities the same question?
>>
>> Greetings from
>> Tobias Oelgarte
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Einf%C3%BChrung_pers%…
>> [2]
>>
>> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Einf%C3%BChrung_pers%…
>>
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