Hi all!
There will be 2 overlapping creative communities for planning Wikimaps
1. Wikimaps Designers & Developers (GLAM & map Wikipedians,
OpenHistoricalMappers etc)
2. Wikimaps Nordic (Regional collaboration: Wikimedia chapters,
wikimedians, mappers and GLAMs from the Nordic countries)
This is an invitation to join the international designer & developer
community. Wikimaps Nordic will form a project community in the beginning
of January.
We’ll arrange a video conference with *http://videoconf.wikimedia.ch/
<http://videoconf.wikimedia.ch/>*
Tuesday December 3
at 8:00 PDT - 11:00 EST - 16:00 GMT - 17:00 CET - 18:00 EET - 21:00 IST
Sign up in the collaborative Etherpad
*http://wmfi.muistio.tieke.fi/wikimaps-online-1
<http://wmfi.muistio.tieke.fi/wikimaps-online-1>*
Let's talk freely about what Wikimaps could be. Here are some ideas to get
you started. See, comment and discuss them here:
*https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EvXZtoV9vihtXZxVhA5ZKTEfmKFVI2btNQUREF-6so0/edit#slide=id.g11cd82f09_034
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EvXZtoV9vihtXZxVhA5ZKTEfmKFVI2btNQU…>*
*Meeting agenda*
Introductions 30 min
1. Round for presentations ~1 min per person
2. Brief presentations of Wikimaps projects ~2 min / ~8 projects
Discussion 70 min
3. Discuss expectations. Create working groups. Focus on a project or two.
4. What kind of technologies and communication tools we will use
Practicalities 20 min
5. Future schedule for the process
6. To-Do before the next meeting
See you soon!
Susanna Ånäs / Wikimedia Suomi
ps.
Info about Wikimaps Nordic with links to Wikimaps info:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EhKgIUshgUHq3c4NeCDvMTPoRPCXxF-IInwtHHE…
I've cross-posted this on maps-l, commons-l, cultural partners in wikimedia
and historic at osm
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FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:05 PM
Subject: Help needed: Machine-readable metadata for local uploads
To: Wikitech Ambassadors <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
as of yesterday, the CommonsMetadata extension is active on all wikis.
As the name suggests, it's optimized for providing API access to
metadata for files on Commons, but it will also work for project-local
uploads (e.g. fair use metadata on en.wp) -- provided that the
templates used for describing metadata emit the same machine-readable
information.
The format for emitting such machine-readable metadata is documented here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Machine-readable_data
The documentation page for the extension (which could use some cleanup
& examples BTW) is at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CommonsMetadata
Help modifying local templates accordingly is appreciated.
All best,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Hi folks,
We're happy to let you know that the first version of Beta Features (1) has now been deployed worldwide on all wikis.
Beta Features is a new program that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released widely. Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming changes and help designers and engineers make improvements based on their feedback.
This first worldwide release includes these features:
* Media Viewer — view images in large size (2) (7)
* Typography Refresh — make text more readable (3)
* Near this page — see what other pages are nearby (4)
* VisualEditor Opt-in — edit pages without having to learn wiki code (5 - see below)
* VisualEditor Formulæ — edit algebra or equations on your pages (6 - see below)
(Note that Visual Editor Opt-in is only on a couple hundred sites where it was already available, but not enabled by default.)
We invite you to test these new features on your sites and let us know what you think. You can share your feedback about this Beta Features program on its discussion page (8) -- or about individual features on their respective discussion pages (see links 2-6 below). And if you find any technical bugs, please report them on Bugzilla (9).
We also invite you to join tomorrow's office hours IRC chat, this Friday, 22 November, 2013 at 18:00 UTC. (10)
Many thanks to all the community and team members who made this program possible! We hope it can help us improve Wikipedia together and provide a better experience for all our users around the world.
Enjoy,
Fabrice -- on behalf of the Multimedia, Visual Editor and Design teams
(1) About Beta Features:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
(2) About Media Viewer v0.1:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
(3) About Typography Refresh:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update
(4) About Nearby Pages:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages
(5) About Visual Editor Opt-in:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/General
(6) About VisualEditor Formulæ:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae
(7) Media Viewer - New Version 0.2:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo
(This new version displays larger images, for a more immersive experience. It is now on MediaWiki.org only and will be released to all wikis in early December.)
(8) Discuss Beta Features:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features
(9) Report a Bug:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions…
(10) Office hours IRC chat - Friday, 22 November at 18:00 UTC:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
P.S.: If any community member would like to hide the 'Beta' link in their personal menu, they can easily remove it by going to their personal style page [[Special:MyPage/common.css]] and pasting in this CSS rule on a line by itself: "#pt-betafeatures { display: none; }" (do not include the quotes).
____________________________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
Hi everyone,
For the past years, I and other CD maintainers have gotten less and less
time to operate CommonsDelinker. It is currently still one toolserver, and
should probably be moved to Wikimedia Labs. We currently have maintainers
in name, but in practice, there aren't any.
Code changes are not being done, the bot is still running from Subversion
code instead of Gerrit, and that's really something we'd like to change
given the importance of the bot.
We would happily accept new maintainers into our midst. I think you should
have (some) knowledge of Python and the Pywikibot framwork, as well have
understanding of Wikimedia Commons and it's rename and deletion
procedures.
If you're an expert Python developer and bot operator, as well as a
Wikimedia Commons admin, you'll be the ideal candidate.
Please write us at delinker at toolserver dot org if you're interested in
the job.
If you're not interested in the job, please consider updating the delinker
code that's in the pywikibot-compat repo. We'll review patches.
Cheers!
Siebrand
Hi everyone,
As an applicant of FOSS-OPW Round 7, I took a deep and profound interest in
one of the featured projects "Uploadwizard:OSM map embedding" . If chosen
or allowed I am planning to focus on this particular project.
****Project Synopsis***
"This project is about enhancing the image upload process for Wikimedia
Commons.
Commons has millions of images and Wikipedia editors need to be able to
find quickly the right ones for their articles, so it is important to store
various metadata with the image which will help navigation - topic of the
image, when it was made and so on. This metadata is usually stored in a
complex template language that is specific to MediaWiki, and the sight of
which usually makes people to flee in terror.
Since we cannot expect image authors to learn to write something like that,
Commons has a tool called UploadWizard which creates all the code for you,
after you fill out a bunch of forms. The main goal of the OSM map embedding
project would be to provide map interface & the integration with external
databases to the UploadWizard. (OSM stands for OpenStreetMap - a free map
application which is similar to Google Maps but not encumbered by
restrictive copyright.)
The secondary goal is to integrate with some databases of locations and use
that in various ways. One way would be checking if there are locations with
requested images nearby (that is, someone put out a note that Commons needs
good images about a certain place and doesn't currently have any), and warn
the uploader about them. Another involves image competitions where people
can participate with pictures taken at some predefined locations;
UploadWizard could get a list of these locations and use it to help the
participant in selecting where he took the photo."
- Mentor,Gergő Tisza
Expecting valuable comments and suggestions to improve the project from
vibrant MediaWiki community. :)
A post is live on Gizmodo today about a Commons contributor (Evan-Amos) who
takes high quality photos of video game systems and hardware.[1] Towards
the end it mentions that Evan started a Kickstarter to fund his efforts to
buy and photograph more systems as part of an online museum.[2]
Anyone know if this is the first Wikimedia-related Kickstarter campaign, or
has it happened before? What do people think about someone raising ~$13k to
contribute photos to Commons? How does that fit in the debate about paid
editing? To me it has a very different feel than, say, Wiki-PR. But...
[1]
http://gizmodo.com/how-i-became-gamings-most-popular-and-anonymous-photog-1…
[2]
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1699256938/the-vanamo-online-game-museum