Commons-l April 2013

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Re: [Commons-l] Enabling the Translate and UniversalLanguageSelector extensions on Commons
by Jean-Frédéric 20 May '13

20 May '13

Hi, I'd like to start a discussion about the merits and challenges of > enabling the Translate and UniversalLanguageSelector extensions on > Commons. > > The UniversalLanguageSelector extension ( > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector ) > allows users to easily switch the interface language; it also embeds > an interface to enter text in non-Latin languages even if your > keyboard doesn't allow it. > > My feeling is that both these tools would dramatically improve the > user experience on Commons for people who don't use English. As a > multilingual wiki, Commons even seems like the perfect audience for > these tools. > FYI, I quick drafted < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/UniversalLa… > in order to discuss the possible issues, then gain community consensus and hopefully get ULS enabled on Wikimedia Commons (I thought it was better to leave the question of the Translate extension to another discussion, as there seems to be more hurdles with the transition). Thanks, -- Jean-Frédéric

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Wikimania presentation on Commons risks
by Fae 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

After my slightly controversial talk on the top risks of partnering with Commons was popular at the London GLAMwiki conference (over 50 people attending), I have added a similar session to Wikimania. See http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Submissions/Top_risks_… Comments welcome. Cheers, Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] CC nears last call for comments on Creative Commons 4.0
by David Gerard 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 30 April 2013 20:19 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] CC nears last call for comments on Creative Commons 4.0 To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, all- As mentioned in a variety of places (mostly, it looks like, on Commons Village Pump) Creative Commons is revising their licenses to produce a new 4.0 version. The changes include a variety of things relevant to Commons and other WM projects, most importantly attribution, but also improved translations, database rights, and general improvements in readability. CC is nearing their final version, and have asked me to ask our community for one last round of review and comment. Consider this that request! A few relevant links: * The best way to comment is through their mailing list: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses * The actual drafts, including side-by-side comparisons to 3.0: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/Drafts#Licenses_.28all_six_are_presente… * Their complete wiki: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0 This is *not* a call for comments on the adoption of CC 4.0 by WM projects. That discussion, if it happens, would be after 4.0 has been finalized, so that we're not speculating about the final terms. FYI- Luis -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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Some comments and a question around workshop of Commons at Libre Graphics Meeting
by Lila Pagola 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hi everybody, This is my first message to this list, trying to find the good channel for sharing some impressions about a recent experience I made in the Libre Graphics Meeting. I'm from Argentina, a member of Wikimedia Argentina and also a teacher working with Wikipedia from several years ago. Maybe you have read this article in the WMF blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/07/creating-local-content-for-wikipedia/ So, to the point. I proposed there a workshop about Wikimedia Commons, oriented to spread the work dynamics of Commons among libre graphics designers, and also to do some concrete collaborations during the project. This workshop was inspired in a similar exercise I did last year with my students of digital photography, since I discovered (being jury of Wiki Loves Monuments Spain) a lot of photos with exposure problems. More info is at my userpage of Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lpagola and in a few days it will be also available the report at metawiki. Comments and suggestions are very welcome. Although time was too short (two hours), we could work with some requests, and doing so, somebody found something I didn't know, and I want to know if exists a better way to solve it. Problem appeared around files needing to be converted to a different file type, for instance a GIF that should be PNG (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_with_inappropriate_GIF_f…). When trying to upload the file through "upload new version", it was not allowed since the file type was different... and when trying through the general uploader, we need to change the name, so we lost not only the "history" of the file, but also its identical name. So, there is better way to do this? I asked Ezarate (maybe is he in this list?) for advice and he pointed out a "method" I tested here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:100-Hryvnia-1996-front.png A participant of the workshop also summarized her way as follows: 1. download the jpg in higher resolution 2. make the png version in your computer 3. create a page with the new title. example: File:title.png 4. upload the new file 5. add the same description, licence, source 6. put the date of your upload 7. update the author, also reffering to the original author. example: B based on A's work 8. add the original file to the "other versions" 9. add the same categories as the original file 10. add to the original jpg file your png version in "other versions" 11. remove the {{badjpg}} tag from the jpg version What do you think? Thanks in advance! And sorry for the long message... Best from Argentina,

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Fwd: Commons App v1.0 beta8 released
by Brion Vibber 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hello! New beta release of commons app went out today -- it should appear in the Google Play store shortly. Features of v1.0 beta 8 include: - Disable menu items for share and open browser when upload incomplete - Show recently-used categories - Prevent upload status from overlapping with the title of upload - Make template removal work properly - Relicense to Apache License - i18n updates <https://github.com/wikimedia/android-commons/blob/v1.0beta8/CHANGELOG.md#v1…> Bug reports welcome at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Commons%20App (pick the Android component). The apps team uses Trello to organize our work, you can look at the board for our current iteration at https://trello.com/board/mobile-app-team-sprint-7/51756be77b9586a0780053c0 Pull requests welcome at https://github.com/wikimedia/android-commons Thank you! This mail will be forwarded to other lists in case nobody remembers to read mobile-l. It's lonely in here! -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / bvibber @ wikimedia.org)

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How to fund your image related project
by Juan de Vojníkov 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Hello, folks. Maybe you know about this "startup" project. It seems to me photojournalists may nominate their projects and collect money from backers to performe them. So I am letting you known, in the case, you would need some funding. Regards, Juan (user:Juandev)

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UniversalSubtitles support
by Jean-Frédéric 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Hi list, We used to have UniversalSubtitles [1] support on Wikimedia Commons (and it was awesome) Since the removal/deprecation/painful death of mwEmbed/multimedia beta [2] this is gone. Any chance we might have that back? If so, how? Who must be harrassed to that end? Thanks for your help, (Not sure which list to send that - wikitech-l, wikivideo-l ? Feel free to forward around) [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Universal_Subtitles [2] The help page about it was even deleted last month... -- Jean-Frédéric

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Re: [Commons-l] Anybody able to help with database query?
by Jean-Frédéric 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

> BTW, out of curiosity can you send me SQL for the query. > > Yes, I’d be interested in it as well (I tried my hand at Jareky request, but not sure if my query failed “as expected” or because it was badly constructed :) -- Jean-Frédéric

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Anybody able to help with database query?
by Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Hello everybody, For last month I am trying to find someone that can run a database query for me. I asked about it at https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/DBQ-201 and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Search_for_old_f iles_with_no_licenses but so far there are no responses. The purpose of the query would be to find images with no licenses and in the simplest case the query would be just for images that do not transclude {{License template tag}}. In practice I would also like to exclude images already tagged as no license and exclude images that transclude a Layout template but were not updated correctly by the database. So a better query would be images without any of the below templates: License template tag PD-Layout GNU-Layout CC-Layout no license Delete Speedydelete You can see images that met this query at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_without_a_license:_need s_history_check . Can anybody help me out with this? Jarek T. User:jarekt

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is attributing ownership to God allowed ?
by Neel Gupta 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

The license in discussion is... *CC 3.0, Attribution: God* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#God.27s_Wo…

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