Commons-l October 2015

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Video skills and equipment
by Lars Aronsson 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

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? -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

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A new derivative/compilation court ruling
by Andrew Gray 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

Perhaps of interest... A new (US) district court ruling on the distinction between a derivative work and a collection in the context of CC-BY-SA licenses - http://www.technollama.co.uk/us-court-interprets-copyleft-clause-in-creativ… Looks like they came to the sensible decision - interpreting 'derivative' relatively narrowly. In this case, a CC-BY-SA image was used for the cover of a book and it was held that the license clearly did not extend to the rest of the book as a derivative work. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

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Re: [Commons-l] refresh rate
by WereSpielChequers 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

Thanks Jane and Steinsplitter, Categories I created yesterday are now appearing, but we still have the same problem when categorising uncategorised images. I've subscribed to the phabricator bug and will take a little break from commons. Hopefully it will be fixed at some point and I should then get a message from phabricator saying it is OK to return to Commons. WSC > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:27:42 +0200 > From: Steinsplitter Wiki <steinsplitter-wiki(a)live.com> > To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Commons-l] refresh rate > Message-ID: <DUB124-W380274F1AAC56909B96BB7E6380(a)phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Likely because of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116001 > >

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refresh rate
by WereSpielChequers 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

Hi, has someone changed something on commons to slow the rate at which things show up when you create categories and so forth? There was a thread on the cultural partners list about who could and could not see images in a new category of UNESCO videos uploaded, and now I'm finding when I recategorise images they no longer disappear from the category I'm working through. WSC

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Mentor needed for Outreachy project (Upload to Commons Android app development)
by Josephine Lim 04 Oct '15

04 Oct '15

Hi, I'm Josephine, an Outreachy applicant who's hoping to work on the Upload to Commons Android app project - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114358#1701261 With the guidance of Nicolas_Raoul (co-mentor for this project), I have started contributing to the app on GitHub and have completed the microtask. However, we are still needing one more mentor for this project. If anyone is willing to help out as a mentor or point me to someone who would, I'd hugely appreciate it. -- Regards, Josephine

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