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
Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation Board published the following
Resolution:
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The Wikimedia Foundation Board affirms the value of freely licensed
content, and we pay special attention to the provenance of this content. We
also value the right to privacy, for our editors and readers as well as on
our projects. Policies of notability have been crafted on the projects to
limit unbalanced coverage of subjects, and we have affirmed the need to
take into account human dignity and respect for personal privacy when
publishing biographies of living persons.
However, these concerns are not always taken into account with regards to
media, including photographs and videos, which may be released under a free
license although they portray identifiable living persons in a private
place or situation without permission. We feel that it is important and
ethical to obtain subject consent for the use of such media, in line with
our special mission as an educational and free project.* We feel that
seeking consent from an image's subject is especially important in light of
the proliferation of uploaded photographs from other sources, such as
Flickr, where provenance is difficult to trace and subject consent
difficult to verify.*
In alignment with these principles, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees urges the global Wikimedia community to:
- Strengthen and enforce the current Commons guideline on photographs of
identifiable
people<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people>
with
the goal of requiring evidence of consent from the subject of media,
including photographs and videos, when so required under the guideline. The
evidence of consent would usually consist of an affirmation from the
uploader of the media, and such consent would usually be required from
identifiable subjects in a photograph or video taken in a private place.
This guideline has been longstanding, though it has not been applied
consistently.
- Ensure that all projects that host media have policies in place
regarding the treatment of images of identifiable living people in private
situations.
- Treat any person who has a complaint about images of themselves hosted
on our projects with patience, kindness, and respect, and encourage others
to do the same.
Approved 10-0.
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Now, I am aware of a particular set of photographs on Commons, taken in a
private situation. They were taken from Flickr by an anonymous contributor
and uploaded to Commons. The images are no longer available on Flickr,
having been removed long ago.Over the past year, the photographer has
requested several times via OTRS that Commons delete these images. He said
that the subjects could not understand how these images of them ended up on
Commons, and were aghast to find them there. They were never meant to be
released publicly. According to the deletion discussions, OTRS verified
that the person making the request was indeed the owner of the Flickr
account.
Yet Commons administrators have consistently, through half a dozen deletion
discussions, refused to delete the images, disregarding the objections of
isolated editors who said that hosting the images in the clear absence of
subject consent runs counter to policy. Closing admins' argument has been
that licenses once granted cannot be revoked.
Yet according to the above resolution, Commons should not be hosting these
images. Not only was consent not obtained – an endemic situation – the
images are kept even though consent has been expressly denied.Why are these
images still on the Wikimedia Foundation server?
I am happy to pass further details on to any WMF staff, steward or Commons
bureaucrat who is willing and able to review the deletion requests and OTRS
communications, and remove the images permanently. Andreas
If you love monuments, love friends/relatives/wikis who love
monuments, or are just curious: join the Wiki Loves Monuments mailing
list and maybe even get involved with this year's celebration and
contest.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonumentshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline
SJ
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Hi all,
just forwarding this once - don't worry, won't do it again. But just
to let you know what you're missing out on if you're not on the Wiki
Loves Monuments mailinglist! You can subscribe through the link at the
bottom.
Best,
Lodewijk
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De: Tomasz Kozłowski <odder.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Data: 20 de Março de 2012 18:56
Assunto: [Wiki Loves Monuments] State of the Monuments - March 2012
Para: Wiki Loves Monuments <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
as promised, here is our first monthly overview of the State of the
Monuments!
We have been working on the project for some time already, and here is a
small report on where we are and what is going on behind the scenes.
Please note that this might not be a complete overview -- if you have
any questions, don't hesitate to ask. And please see at the bottom of
this e-mail for some action points for all countries (and make our lives
easier)!
== International coordination team ==
This year, there's a team of (still) four people who are trying to
facilitate WLM internationally. Elke and Tomasz will join Lodewijk and
Maarten in trying to keep the troops together, and help the countries
share information and experiences and coordinate their work as
effectively as possible. All four have experience with organising Wiki
Loves Monuments at least for one year.
As Wiki Loves Monuments is growing each day, and there are some things
that even the most skilled volunteers cannot do (due to the lack of
time, willingness or motivation), during our meeting in Amsterdam in
December, we brought up the idea of a paid employee to help us organise
WLM 2012. This person will primarily help us to keep tasks timely and on
track.
We are now happy to announce that Wikimedia Deutschland have agreed to
host and fund an employee to help us facilitate the contest, and we will
be meeting with him/her very soon. More information on this will follow
in a fortnight, so please bear with us; and for now -- vielen Dank,
Wikimedia Deutschland!
Furthermore, we are still looking for a volunteer to join the
coordination team, and help take care of the international budget for
this year. Wiki Loves Monuments is fun, but the bigger it gets, the more
money we need -- and This Is Serious Business (unlike the meme). So, if
you'd like to take care of our budget, or you know a talented and
responsible person who has some experience with budget and finances (for
instance, your local Wikimedia treasurer), please contact any of us
off-the-list. A helping hand would be greatly appreciated!
== Countries ==
So far, over 25 countries indicated that they will participate, and 15
more have indicated interest in participating (see
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Partic…>).
Several more countries have privately shown interest, so things are
definitely going in the right direction!
>From the international side, we are trying to help all new participating
countries set up the contest in their country as efficiently as
possible. Besides the obvious on-line help (like setting up mailing list
or OTRS queues), we can help you by giving real life workshops: Lodewijk
has already given a
successful workshop in the United Kingdom, and Tomasz will be travelling
to Ukraine and the Czech Republic this very weekend; Italy is to follow
soon. If you feel that a brainstorming meeting in your country with one
of us present would be helpful to sort some things out, please let us
know, and we'll try to help. We have some budget available to
accommodate in case your chapter has no funds.
Recently, we have also redesigned our progress page
(<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Progre…>)
to suit the needs of so many countries, and would like you to update the
status of the preparations in your area. Keeping that page up-to-date
would ensure that we can always keep track of the goings-on in all
countries, and also give you some help when needed.
== Documentation ==
The lack of proper documentation was identified as one of main problems
of the previous edition of the contest. This year, we have started
working on the documentation from the very beginning (with Tomasz being
our docmeister); all of this is merely a work-in-progress, but we
currently have a few pages (re)written and ready to use:
* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Philosophy
*
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline
*
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Who%27s…
*
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Communi…
* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/FAQ
Besides that, we have been taking notes from all our Skype sessions, and
they are all linked at
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Meetings>
for your convenience. These are mostly some internal notes and
discussions, but they are of course 100% public ;-)
== Tech ==
Elke and Maarten have taken the lead on the technical side of the
preparations, and have worked on some of the things. We are in a
constant touch with Wikimedia Foundation developers about the
UploadWizard (some bugs have already been fixed, and some features
implemented) as well as about the mobile application.
Elke created a Wordpress theme for the local teams (more information to
follow soon!) an did some work on the toolbox
(<http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/toolbox/>) together with Maarten and
Andre (Akoopal).
Maarten and Raymond worked on setting up some OTRS queues, and Nicole
has helped to forward the .EU domain to .ORG -- some additional work on
the website (a more powerful hosting, etc.) is still ahead of us.
Maarten has been working on the monuments database, too, and requested
some help with documentation; we'll work on that in the upcoming weeks.
For some additional detailed information on the tools and recent
developments, please see Maarten's e-mail from this past Saturday:
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2012-March/002582.h…>.
== Partners ==
We're working very hard on getting in touch with relevant partners on an
international level again. There are no definite results that we can
announce apart from the existing partners from last year, so more about
that will follow later. If you have suggestions or have contacts that
can help out, please get in touch with Maarten!
== Action points ==
This will be the end of the report for February-March, so thank you for
taking the time to read it :-) As a follow-up, please:
#1: Fill in the progress page for your country
(<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Progre…>),adding
all the information you have -- and if you don't have information on
something, feel free to omit it;
#2: Create a page for your country on Wikimedia Commons; the US page
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_the_…>
might be a good example.
#3: Make sure at least one or two people of your local team are on this
list; please sign up at
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments>.
Thanks!
-- Elke, Lodewijk, Maarten and Tomasz
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Hi all,
As some you may remember, two years ago all upload tools to Commons
broke when changes to the upload interface were made. These changes
were reverted [1]. However, as it turned out that this had security
implications, the restrictions have been put back into place [2].
If you use an upload tool that used to work but doesn't anymore, this
might be the cause.
Bryan
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/56793
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35317
Will it be terribly bad to post Commons pictures on Facebook? User
jduranboger had the idea to promote Wikimedia Bolivia by posting a
different picture about Bolivia every week. Take a look at it here[1].
So, my question is if by doing this we fulfill the terms of cc-by-sa
3.0 or is there a way to post facebook pages providing another way to
mention the author and the terms of the licence.
Greetings
Alhen
1. http://www.facebook.com/wikimediabolivia
@alhen_
alhen at wikipedia, wikihow, wikispaces, and most places.
Promotor de Wikimedia Bolivia
00-591-79592235
Hello all,
I am Vivek Kumar Bagaria <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Bagariavivek>,
2nd year student from IIT Madras. I am interested in participating in
*GSoC 2012* with mediawiki. I am *working with Mediawiki from past two
months* and have submitted various patches.
I was very much interested in the idea of -
"Automatically tagging photos in Wikimedia Commons using computerised
object recognition", which was suggested
by Maarteen Dammers in the GSoC 2012
Page<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012>
I have *experience* with OpenCv. I had done a project last summer which
involved detection of a ball. This is the youtube link - Ball Following
Robot <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcXBcUvCC1w>.
I would like to know if anyone is willing to *mentor* this idea. I would *
love* to work on this idea.
Thank you,
Vivek Kumar Bagaria
IIT Madras
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With regards,
Vivek Kumar Bagaria
9176079646
Reminder to get your Wikimania program submissions in soon!
The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 18 at 11:59 (San Francisco)
Pacific Daylight Time (or 06:59 UTC on 19 March 2012).
We seek submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, and other types
of sessions.
Topics may include anything related to Wikipedia, MediaWiki & tech (e.g.
mobile), Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons and other sister projects,
OpenStreetMap, third-party wikis (e.g. WikiHow), wikis in business,
government, etc., civic & local wikis, GLAM-wiki and other cultural
outreach initiatives, education outreach, research into wikis and
collaboration, and more. These topics are just suggestions.
You can view the call for participation and make submissions here:
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
Cheers,
Katie
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President, Wikimedia District of Columbia
http://wikimediadc.org
@wikimediadc / @wikimania2012
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:49 AM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
>
> What happened with implementing software related to controversial content?
> There was quite a bit of hubbub at some point, then Wikimedia pulled back a
> little (and Sue visited Germany to give some assurances)... what's the
> current status of the project? Is it still a project? (If there's a project
> status page somewhere with updated info, feel free to just link that.)
>
> MZMcBride
>
> P.S. I'm always fascinated by cases where there's an extreme contrast
> between how seemingly innocuous the search term is and how explicit the
> search results are. I think my current favorite case is the search for
> "forefinger" on Wikimedia Commons. More examples always welcome at
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Problems>.
>
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Niabot has just come up with what I think is a great idea for addressing
the search problem you mention in your postscript. He's proposed a
clustered search function. (Anybody remember Vivísimo?)
This could not just solve the problem of NSFW media popping up unexpectedly
in media searches in Wikipedias and Commons. It would generally make
Commons' search function more user-friendly, by grouping search results
according to categories. So adult media would no longer pop up in the
middle of unrelated searches, monarch butterflies would be separated from
other types of monarch, etc.
See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Brainstorming#Clusteri…
for
Niabot's own write-up of his proposal.
(If you are unfamiliar with the Commons search problem please see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Problems
as well as the recent Fox article:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/24/why-is-wikipedia-still-doling-out…
And see (note that this link is NSFW)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=images&s…
for what the forefinger search looks like in Wikipedia.)
Beyond wanting to drop the list a note about Niabot's idea, I also just
meant to ask the question that MZMcBride asked above. What is the status of
the image filter? Last year, we heard that in January, developers would
sift through the proposals on the Meta brainstorming pages, and select one
for implementation. But now it is March, and nothing seems to be happening.
Where are we on this?
Andreas