WikiVoyage has a small but clever extension to do quicker lookup of
pages in additional content namespaces if no namespace prefix is
provided. So if we used this for Commons, and configured "Category:"
as an extra lookup namespace, you could type "Low quality chemical
diagrams" and it'd pull up the category of that name immediately
without the full-text search being loaded. This appears to basically
be another solution to
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11380
The drawback is that it doesn't play nice with autocompletion and
other API consumers yet. Ideally I suspect you'd want autcompletion to
do lookup in multiple namespaces as well, and provide subtle namespace
hinting (as oposed to prefixing) in the dropdown, like so (where
CATEGORY would be in a smaller font).
[ Low ]
Low quality chemical diagrams CATEGORY
Lower Saxony
Thoughts? Would this be a useful improvement for Commons in
particular, even without autocompletion? I suspect it could help
reduce some of the category/gallery pain.
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From: Tom Morris <tom(a)tommorris.org>
Date: 16 December 2012 17:30
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage images being imported to Commons
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I haven't really been paying much attention to the Wikivoyage stuff recently.
But it looks like Wikivoyage images are being imported to Wikimedia Commons…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_moved_from_shared.oldwiki…
There are 8,345 images that need review and categorisation. If you've
got some spare time, perhaps you could welcome our new friends from
Wikivoyage by going through, checking copyright status, adding
categories, improving descriptions and marking them as checked when
you are done.
Dealing with over eight thousand images seems a lot, but many hands
makes light work...
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This should probably be shared on this list.
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From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:53 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Easy upload of Flickr photos to Commons
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Drecodeam(a)gmail.com
I hereby celebrate that we've merged Ankur Anand's (drecodeam's) Flickr
integration work into UploadWizard, and that administrators on Commons
can now upload photos directly from Flickr. See
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28731 .
Once we've shaken this out on the live site, I believe we'll be able to
open it up so all users will be able to upload multiple images at once
from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons. I can only imagine how great this
will be for Wiki Loves Monuments next year. :-) Thanks to Ankur, Ryan
Kaldari, Mark Holmquist, and everyone else who worked on this!
The Gerrit changeset that went through 26 patchsets (if at first you
don't succeed, try, try again): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/12269/
Ankur worked on this as part of his 2012 Google Summer of Code project.
His HTML5 drag-and-drop support and geolocation metadata import
for UploadWizard, still need polish before we can merge them:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:drecodeam+status:open,n,z Feel
free to help.
Also, our blog post about this year's GSoC students is now re-posted on
the Google open source blog:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/11/wikimedia-students-share-thei…
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From: Stevie Benton <stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
Date: 6 December 2012 16:59
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Calling contributors to Wikimedia Commons
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone,
I hope you're all having a lovely Thursday.
As you may have noticed, Wikimedia Commons has reached the remarkable
landmark of 15 million files donated. This is an amazing achievement.
What I'm looking for, then, is someone who regularly contributes to
Commons and would be keen to write a guest blog wor Wikimedia UK about
this, telling us a little about how you got involved in the project
and why you value it. It doesn't have to be long, and it doesn't have
to be detailed. I can support you through the process if needed.
Any takers? There may be chocolate in it for you.
Thanks,
Stevie
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