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 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
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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")
>>>
>>>
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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")
---------- 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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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