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Cross-posting User:Odder's message from Commons VP: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Crowdfunding_campai…
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Hi everyone, just as I did with the crowdfunding campaign for Jee, I think it important to let you know that a crowdfunding campaign is currently running to support one of our contributors, photographers and administrators, Rehman; Azeez is the organiser and author of a truly fabulous video presenting Rehman's work on energy-related subjects in Sri Lanka. The campaign is being run on Indiegogo's Generosity site, and was co-ordinated at User talk:Rehman/Campaign (in case anyone wants to comment). I'm sure that Rehman will deeply appreciate even the tiniest of donations, if anyone is willing to support his campaign. odder (talk) 22:07, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you,
User:Azeez
Hello List,
Special:TranslatorSignup is now available on commons as well.
You can use Special:TranslatorSignup to indicate what languages you can translate in, and how you want to be contacted about new translation requests.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignup
Best regards,
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I've just been introduced to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby
which lists articles near your current location and from the thumbnail it
is fairly obvious whether it has an image or not.
Has anyone tried using this in outreach to photographers?
WereSpielchequers
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:50:49 +0000
From: Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Finding articles without photographs near
your current location.
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What doesn't load - wikishootme or wdfist? The latter is really not
intended for mobile, with hover buttons and all.
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:38 PM Luis Villa <luis(a)lu.is> wrote:
> FWIW, this doesn't work for me on mobile (at least on Firefox for
Android)
> - beyond the clunky UI, results never load. So it'll need some work to
> become an integrated solution for would-be photographers.
>
> Luis
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:09 AM Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Federico Leva (Nemo), 16/02/2016 18:59:
>> > The "standard" way would be to make wikishootme output a pagepile to
be
>> > fed into wdfist: https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/
>>
>> Correction: there *is* already such a warning which links wdfist, with a
>> query using around[]: "You can also check if Wikipedia already has
>> suitable images for these items, here" e.g.
>>
>>
https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html?wdq=around%5b625,45.000000…
dia&no_images_only=1&prefilled=1
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From: Sam Pablo Kuper <sampablokuper(a)riseup.net>
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> Sam Pablo Kuper, 17/02/2016 04:19:
>> For example, suppose I want to find images of cats, that are licensed
>> under CC-BY (but not CC-BY-SA or CC-0, etc). How should I go about
this?
Thanks for the various replies.
I had hoped that there might be a "license:" filter in MediaWiki (or
CirrusSearch, etc) that worked semantically rather than just using
string matching (i.e. syntactically).
If anyone does know of such a thing - perhaps via Wikidata? - please let
me know. Thanks again!
Now, some comments on the suggestions :)
On 17/02/16 14:06, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
>
> Usually I use categories. When I search a specific copyright status it's
> usually PD (when I don't have space for attribution):
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/cat_incategory:%22CC-PD-Ma
rk%22
Thanks for this. It's a good reminder to me to learn the CirrusSearch
filters.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Filters_.28intitle:.2C_inca
tegory:_and_linksto:.29
On 17/02/16 12:41, Fæ wrote:
> There are a lot of different license templates that can mark a file as
> CC-BY, refer to
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_Creative_Commons_licenses
>
> If you were looking for the generic {{CC-BY-4.0}} you can use the
category <
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CC-BY-4.0>
>
> So using the category that 'cats' redirects to, and putting this into
> catscan gives:
>
http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan3/quick_intersection.php?lang=commons&proje…
000&start=0&format=html&callback=
>
> To get more, you can swap in CC-BY-3.0 etc.
Nice. I wasn't aware of the "Quick Intersection" tool :)
On 17/02/16 13:54, Jane Darnell wrote:
> https://www.google.com/search?q=site:commons.wikimedia.org+cats+cc-0
Google works irritatingly well for this, I must admit, and allows
searches like:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=off&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=site%3Acommons.wiki
media.org+cat+%28%22cc-by-4.0%22+OR+%22cc-by-3.0%22+OR+%22cc-by-2.0%22%29
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Is it possible for a user to search Wikimedia Commons by license and
keyword?
For example, suppose I want to find images of cats, that are licensed
under CC-BY (but not CC-BY-SA or CC-0, etc). How should I go about this?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Sam Pablo Kuper
Hi all,
I've been working on a project to improve the categorization of
pictures in the Upload to Commons Android app
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115101> as part of the Outreachy
Dec '15 program, which is soon drawing to an end. To summarize, 3 new
features have been implemented in this app:
1. If a picture with geolocation is uploaded, nearby category
suggestions are offered (based on the categories of other Commons
images with similar coordinates)
2. If a picture with no geolocation is uploaded, nearby category
suggestions are offered based on the user's current location. This is
optional and only works if enabled in Settings.
3. Category search (when typing in the search field) has been made
more flexible, whereas previously this was done solely by prefix
search. E.g. now searching for 'latte' should be able to return 'iced
latte'.
The latest version of the app is v1.11 and can be downloaded at
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons>.
Please feel free to leave feedback or bug reports at
<https://github.com/nicolas-raoul/apps-android-commons/issues>.
I have had an amazing time working on this app as part of the
Outreachy program, and I greatly appreciate all the support and help
that the WMF community has given me. :)
Cheers!
--
Regards,
Josephine
Hi all,
I've been working on a project to improve the categorization of
pictures in the Upload to Commons Android app
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115101> as part of the Outreachy
Dec '15 program, which is soon drawing to an end. To summarize, 3 new
features have been implemented in this app:
1. If a picture with geolocation is uploaded, nearby category
suggestions are offered (based on the categories of other Commons
images with similar coordinates)
2. If a picture with no geolocation is uploaded, nearby category
suggestions are offered based on the user's current location. This is
optional and only works if enabled in Settings.
3. Category search (when typing in the search field) has been made
more flexible, whereas previously this was done solely by prefix
search. E.g. now searching for 'latte' should be able to return 'iced
latte'.
The latest version of the app is v1.11 and can be downloaded at
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons>.
Please feel free to leave feedback or bug reports at
<https://github.com/nicolas-raoul/apps-android-commons/issues>.
I have had an amazing time working on this app as part of the
Outreachy program, and I greatly appreciate all the support and help
that the WMF community has given me. :)
Cheers!
--
Regards,
Josephine
Hi Multimedia enthusiasts, Commonists, and Wikitechers,
The Multimedia team has been hard at work building a new extension for
editing images on-wiki, and we believe we now have a workable demo
running on Labs! You can find it on our Multimedia Alpha Wiki[0], where
there are also instructions for testing.
Note that we have a list of known bugs and failings on that wiki, and we
are working on getting those fixed before we push the extension into any
kind of deployment - our next steps will likely be to put it on
test2wiki, then to push a BetaFeature to Commons if all goes well. We
will keep you updated with the status of the project as we progress.
If you find more bugs, or have concerns about this extension, you can
share them on the Village Pump[1]. You can also file a Phabricator task
against ImageTweaks[2] if you prefer to be in more direct contact with
the team about a technical issue.
Thanks for helping us test new stuff, and I look forward to getting this
great tool out to you soon!
[0] http://multimedia-alpha.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#ImageTweaks_extensi…
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=ImageTwea…
--
Mark Holmquist
Lead Engineer
Multimedia Team
Wikimedia Foundation
http://marktraceur.info
Thanks Nemo,
Why not? Because I didn't know it existed, thanks for telling me about it.
Back to my original question, now updated,
I've just been introduced to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby
which lists articles near your current location and https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ which can show you articles near places your are planning to visit. From the thumbnails it is fairly obvious whether it has an image or not.
Has anyone tried using these in outreach to photographers?
Regards
WereSpielChequers
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> To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Finding articles without photographs near
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> WereSpielChequers, 16/02/2016 10:26:
> > I've just been introduced to
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby which lists articles near
> > your current location and from the thumbnail it is fairly obvious
> > whether it has an image or not.
>
> Why not use https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ ?
> Nemo