Commons-l May 2012

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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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New stats for Commons
by Erik Moeller 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hi all, Erik Zachte has compiled some new statistics for Wikimedia Commons. Previously, WikiStats primarily captured the standard metrics (editing activity etc.). Since Commons is first and foremost about media, those metrics weren't as useful to see trends in activity. You can see the new numbers starting here: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaCOMMONS.htm#upload… .. and they should be reliably and automatically generated going forward. There are also some new summary graphs: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/SummaryCOMMONS.htm Note that we can break out in both tables the impact of Upload Wizard. The numbers show that the growth rate of Commons increased very significantly after UW was enabled in May 2011. The number of contributors grew by about 25% from March 2011 to March 2012, compared with ~12% in the prior year. The numbers also clearly show the impact of "Wiki Loves Monuments" in terms of the number of uploaders -- in September 2011, 22642 people uploaded at least one file to Commons, a huge jump from the previous month (16869). The number of uploaders quickly returned to previous levels, but it's fantastic to see that a single event can bring in so many new people. Erik's working on some additional stats, but I wanted to share this date with you. He's also going to write a blog post about this new data. Please report any oddities or inconsistencies directly to him. I also want to give a shout-out to Bryan Tong Minh who's been maintaining the incredibly useful commons-stats here: https://toolserver.org/~bryan/stats/ - which previously were my primary source of relevant data (and there are still some stats there that don't exist anywhere else). Cheers, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Re: [Commons-l] [Wikitech-l] Desktop upload tool
by Mike Dupont 28 May '12

28 May '12

How will it be different than the commonist? geotagging would be one big feature and the ability to group photos with common tags would be useful! mike On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I would name it Snuggle, so that it's in harmony with Huggle :) > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:55 PM, John <phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> One thing I have done quite a bit of was Image modification. Everything >> from watermark removal to coping to rotating. When Im on a spur ofH>> watermark removal, it would be awesome if I could just point the program to >> a directory of fixed files, set a upload summary and have the bot upload >> those files keeping the existing file information. (that is the biggest >> drawback of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist ) >> >> John >> >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Platonides <platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> As some of you are already aware, I'm doing for this GSoC a Desktop tool >>> for conveniently uploading images to commons. >>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikilovesmonuments/2641 >>> >>> How can you help with this? >>> >>> a) Propose a cool name for this tool >>> >>> >>> b) Suggest new functionalities/requisites >>> Either on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Platonides/GSOC_proposal or >>> in this thread. >>> >>> >>> c) Volunteer for testing the program and giving early feedback >>> (please reply directly to avoid spamming the mailing list with "I can >>> test it, too") >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3

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Desktop upload tool
by Platonides 25 May '12

25 May '12

As some of you are already aware, I'm doing for this GSoC a Desktop tool for conveniently uploading images to commons. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikilovesmonuments/2641 How can you help with this? a) Propose a cool name for this tool b) Suggest new functionalities/requisites Either on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Platonides/GSOC_proposal or in this thread. c) Volunteer for testing the program and giving early feedback (please reply directly to avoid spamming the mailing list with "I can test it, too")

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Help test chunked uploading
by Erik Moeller 25 May '12

25 May '12

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-uploads There's a new user preference "chunked uploads for files over 1 MB" for Upload Wizard. The intent of this feature is to reliably transfer large files, mitigating connection reliability issues. This will enable us to raise the file size limit for all users. Please help test this feature and report issues (performance, file corruption, errors, etc.). The carrot is that with this preference enabled, you can upload files <500 MB today (as opposed to <100 MB) :-) The feature currently only works with Upload Wizard. More information: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Chunked_uploads Please report bugs on the talk page or against UploadWizard in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions… -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] UploadWizard changes live on Commons
by David Gerard 25 May '12

25 May '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 24 May 2012 23:03 Subject: [Wikitech-l] UploadWizard changes live on Commons To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> We've pushed some updates to UploadWizard, most notably: * disabled multiple-file selection in browsers where it didn't work * files now start uploading immediately when selected (this can be disabled server-side if there are problems with it) * improved category input fields * 'skip tutorial' step is now saved as a pref instead of a cookie -- so the tutorial won't come back every time you switch computers anymore! * fixes for when pre-upload thumbnails do and don't get drawn * initial API for fetching upload campaign metadata ('action=uploadcampaign'), to be used by Wiki Loves Monuments mobile app Don't be shy about giving feedback! -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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UploadWizard: Batch copying of metadata
by Erik Moeller 17 May '12

17 May '12

As of the deployment of the wmf3 branch today, Upload Wizard has a new feature that lets you copy the metadata of the first file to the entire batch (you can pick which parts of the metadata you want to copy). This should be helpful for users regularly uploading large batches. To use it, upload a batch of more than one file through https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard and use the "Copy information to all uploads below" menu on the first upload. Please report bugs in BugZilla or use the feedback page to share more detailed comments: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_Wizard_feedback Note that the feature tries to be clever about the numbering of the first file -- if there's a number with less than four digits in the file already, it increments it; otherwise it adds and increments "01". If you're uploading a file with a number in the name that should not be incremented, like a street address, but still want to auto-number all uploads, just add "01" -- it will always increase the rightmost number. We'll see if we're being too clever here and may revert to just stupidly adding "01" to the title. Cheers, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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LOC access needed
by とある白い猫 13 May '12

13 May '12

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boys_from_the_Turkish_orphanage_at_E… Could someone recover the higher quality version from LOC? http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674938/ It currently has an ugly cobis watermark. A user asked me to fix this issue but I lack access to LOC. -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko)

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Re: [Commons-l] Creative Commons 4.0 draft--please help answer questions about attribution!
by Kat Walsh 12 May '12

12 May '12

As has been posted here before, CC is working on version 4.0 of their licenses--in case you haven't seen it, the public draft is up in several different formats at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0_Drafts Right now their focus is on attribution, and they are asking several specific questions about things to change in the new version. (A few of the open questions: Is there too much flexibility in "reasonable manner"? Or not enough? Is there any information people should be required to provide that they aren't providing? Should you be able to use a shortcut by just providing a link, and if so, what should you have to include?) The questions and space for comment is on the CC wiki here: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/Attribution_and_marking#Questions_about… (Ultimately, we hope to be able to use the 4.0 license version as the default license version for Wikimedia projects--either BY-SA or BY, depending on which project you are using. Several Wikimedians are already participating in these discussions, as well as the legal staff and myself, but your input on things that have and haven't worked well in 3.0 would really help the process, especially if you have good examples.) I will be posting this message around to some of the wikis as well, but please pass this message around where it is relevant, especially if you are active on non-English projects! Cheers, Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia free: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate Web: http://www.mindspillage.org Email: kat(a)wikimedia.org, kat(a)mindspillage.org (G)AIM, Freenode, gchat, identi.ca, twitter, various social sites: mindspillage

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] : RFC/Disable uploads on smaller wikis
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 08 May '12

08 May '12

Sorry for crossposting but it's something that will (hopfeully, IMHO) affect hundreds of wikis and it's interesting to know how to get to it. Nemo -------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: [Wikimedia-l] : RFC/Disable uploads on smaller wikis Data: Tue, 8 May 2012 11:40:00 +0200 Mittente: とある白い猫 - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Disable_uploads_on_smal… Feel free to participate. -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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