I just tried to watch some presentation videos from Wikimania.
Some had very weak sound, some had no sound in the first minutes,
some only played the first minute and then stopped. I don't think
the Wikimania videos are unique in having such problems. Video is
new to Commons, and the expert contributors are more familiar with
still images.
How can we learn to make better videos? Are there some good
instructions? Perhaps a free instruction video (Wikibooks, but a
video instead of a book) on how to produce good videos is what we
need. In fact, the English Wikibooks has a title on "Video
Production", http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Video_Production but it
doesn't have a clear focus (pun not intended). It starts out with
discussing satellite TV and has long sections on file formats in
different operating systems.
There is a help page on Commons for converting video to the Ogg
Theora format, but that is only the last step in a long chain.
Given that video is new, how can we find and rate videos, nominate
"good/featured videos", and give advice on how to improve quality?
Is the Commons village pump enough for this? Commons has a
separate graphics village pump. Do we also need a separate video
village pump?
Current digital video cameras use hard disks or memory cards,
instead of tape cassettes. Many new models cost less than 300
euro (or dollars), some as little as 120 euro (memory card perhaps
not included). Some have a special "Youtube mode", and I guess
that kind of usage is what drives the price down. What models are
good, and what should one watch out for?
We can find free still photos on Flickr and copy them to Commons.
Is there somewhere we can find free videos and copy them? Yes, at
the Internet Archive. Somewhere else?
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
Hey everyone :)
I've been asked to enable access to the data on Wikidata for Commons.
I'm happy to make that happen. We'll enable access on December 2nd.
What does this mean? You will be able to access data from an item on
Wikidata like the date of birth of an artist or the name of a city in
different languages. Where and how much you make use of that is up for
you to decide. You will be able to access the data in two ways. The
first one is the #property parser function
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Inclusion_syntax). The
second one is via Lua
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua). There
are two big caveats at this point. 1) You will only be able to access
data for items that are connected via a sitelink to the page you want
to show the data on. We're currently working on allowing accessing
data from any item. This should be available around January/February.
2) You can not use this to store meta data (like the date a picture
was taken or who took it) about individual files. This will in the
future be stored on Commons itself as part of the structured data
project (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data).
Please let me know if you have any questions. I am looking forward to
more integration between Commons and Wikidata and all the things this
will make possible. It'd be great if you could help with updating and
expanding https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata. The
relevant page on Wikidata is
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Commons.
Cheers
Lydia
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Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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10963 Berlin
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Russavia, 21/11/2014 06:09:
> Just thought this might be of interest to people on list:
>
> http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/11/20/50-million-creative-commons-images-fli…
>
> Kinda makes Commons pale in comparison.
Pretty, but most importantly I hope it means Flickr will have some
financial incentive to do the right thing with freely licensed images.
Because Yahoo is REALLY brutal with the stuff which doesn't bring them
money.
I noticed some days ago that they're reintroduced the license selector
as one of the three selectors shown by default after a quick search.
That's a very good thing, unless they deployed it only to known
CC-addicted troublemakers.
Nemo
(Resending after resubscription…)
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net>
> Date: 23 November 2014 23:52:05 GMT
> To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Reducing the copyright term for (some) unpublished works
> Reply-To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Thanks Andrew - that’s a good start. :-) I’ve added some of my suggested answers to some of the questions. I’ve cc’d commons-l who I’m sure will be able to suggest better answers that I can…
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>> On 23 Nov 2014, at 23:14, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk <mailto:andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Some initial thoughts at
>> https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2039_consultation <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2039_consultation> - comments
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
>> On 7 November 2014 at 17:58, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk <mailto:andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The government is currently consulting on reducing the copyright term
>>> in some unpublished material - this is the "2039 problem" that a
>>> number of institutions have been raising in recent weeks, where
>>> unpublished works can be in copyright until 2039 despite being
>>> potentially several centuries old.
>>>
>>> https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reducing-the-duration-of-copyri… <https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reducing-the-duration-of-copyri…>
>>>
>>> This seems like something where WMUK should submit a response (we have
>>> a pretty clear interest in rationalising the regulations here).
>>> Deadline is a month away so we've got some time to think about it.
>>>
>>> I'm happy to draft up some notes for us to send in if no-one else is
>>> putting something together - have we been looking at this already?
>>>
>>> Andrew.
>>>
>>> --
>>> - Andrew Gray
>>> andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> - Andrew Gray
>> andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk <mailto:andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>
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Hey folks :)
We'll be doing another office hour to answer all of the questions
about structured data for multimedia files. We'll try...
It'll happen on November 20th at 19:30 UTC in #wikimedia-office on
freenode. See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&d…
for your timezone.
Hope to see many of you there!
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Greetings all,
My apologies for cross-posting lists. I would like to invite everyone
interested in the proposal for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons[1] to
join our third Office Hours today, 20 November, from 19:30 to 20:30 UTC[2
for time conversion]. The conversation is free to join on IRC using
freenode[3] in #wikimedia-office.
Discussion will continue about the different possible data structures, very
early development work, and touch base on some work that was done during a
small hackathon in Amsterdam[4] working with structured data and GLAM. As
always, other questions and discussion about the topic are always welcome.
I look forward to seeing you there!
1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
2.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&d…
3. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office
4. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2014
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Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Product
Wikimedia Foundation