Hello,
Coming soon: prototypes with the first structured statements on files.
Before this, however, the software team needs to know what are the basic
properties that Wikidata has, or will need, to support Commons.
There is more information and an exercise to help find the properties up on
the Structured Data hub on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
Please stop by and participate, the workshop will be open for all of the
month of July at a minimum. Contact me if you have any questions. Thanks!
--
Keegan Peterzell
Technical Collaboration Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
Wow. Interesting feature.
It may be useful for pdf/djvu file transfer sourceswiki <--> commons (in both directions).
Is there a filesize limit for this operation?
Ankry
W dniu 2018-06-25 17:17:31 użytkownik Birgit Müller via Commons-l <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> napisał:
Hello all,
over the past 1,5 years WMDE’s Technical Wishes team has been working on a new functionality that allows to transfer files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, while keeping all original data intact and documenting the move in the version history. [1]
The new functionality has been implemented via two extensions: FileImporter and FileExporter. [2] [3]
We’re happy to announce that the new feature set can be tried out as a beta feature on first wikis as of today! [4]
Why this feature
Many wikis have locally stored files, but most of them (if the license allows it) should be stored on Wikimedia Commons instead, so that all wikis can use them. Out of that reason, contributors have been moving locally stored files to Wikimedia Commons with the help of tools for years now. However, the current transfer process has limits: If you move a file, its version history page isn’t kept on Commons, so e.g. it doesn’t show who originally uploaded the file. Besides, previous revisions of the file have to be added separately to the file page. Keeping all file information intact currently can’t be done by tools, as this has to be programmed in the backend. [5]
This is why we developed the FileImporter/FileExporter extensions.
On a side note: The way the features are built, they theoretically could be used for transferring files from any mediawiki wiki to another mediawiki wiki in the future (the different wikis don't even have to be part of the same wikifarm).
However, our focus for now is:
Transfer of files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons
The FileExporter provides a link to Wikimedia Commons on the local wiki and hands over a URL to the extension FileImporter. The FileImporter is a Wikimedia Commons extension which imports the file including all data when all prerequisites are met. Technically, the files won't be "moved", but "copied". The local communities can decide which templates to use to indicate that a file should or shouldn’t be moved to Commons. [6] Further, the decision what to do with the files after they got transferred to Commons stays with the local communities (e.g. admins can delete the files).
To make use of the FileImporter, you have to activate the FileExporter in your local wiki, provided as a beta feature on Arabic Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia and Mediawiki.org for now. The FileImporter on Wikimedia Commons is not a beta feature, so there is no need to activate it. [7]
If your local wiki community is interested to test the new functionality in this first round as well, please discuss this with your community and let us know by filing a request ticket on Phabricator :-) (example ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196908)
Last but not least, we’d like to thank all the people who have tested the feature earlier, and who have provided valuable feedback. This is much appreciated!
Further feedback is very welcome on the central feedback page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:FileImporter
Thank you,
Birgit (for the Technical Wishes Team)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons (main project page on Meta)
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FileImporter
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FileExporter
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196969 (Deployment ticket for FileExporter/beta feature and FileImporter)
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons (main project page on Meta)
[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FileImporter/Data, please note that any updates to these files will be used by FileImporter only by next week!
[7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:FileImporter (central help page)
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Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
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Hi all,
There will be an IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons [0] from
18:00-19:00 UTC Tuesday, 26 June 2018. You can find links to join as well
as date and time conversion at the IRC Office Hour page on Meta [1].
Specific topics are not set in advance, you can come prepared to discuss
whatever aspect of the project that you would like. More information about
what has taken place can be found at the Structured Data hub on Commons [3].
Thanks, I look forward to seeing you all there. I will send out a reminder
a few hours before the meeting starts.
0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved
--
Keegan Peterzell
Technical Collaboration Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello all,
over the past 1,5 years WMDE’s Technical Wishes team has been working on a
new functionality that allows to transfer files from a local wiki to
Wikimedia Commons, while keeping all original data intact and documenting
the move in the version history. [1]
The new functionality has been implemented via two extensions: FileImporter
and FileExporter. [2] [3]
We’re happy to announce that the new feature set can be tried out as a beta
feature on first wikis as of today! [4]
Why this feature
Many wikis have locally stored files, but most of them (if the license
allows it) should be stored on Wikimedia Commons instead, so that all wikis
can use them. Out of that reason, contributors have been moving locally
stored files to Wikimedia Commons with the help of tools for years now.
However, the current transfer process has limits: If you move a file, its
version history page isn’t kept on Commons, so e.g. it doesn’t show who
originally uploaded the file. Besides, previous revisions of the file have
to be added separately to the file page. Keeping all file information
intact currently can’t be done by tools, as this has to be programmed in
the backend. [5]
This is why we developed the FileImporter/FileExporter extensions.
On a side note: The way the features are built, they theoretically could be
used for transferring files from any mediawiki wiki to another mediawiki
wiki in the future (the different wikis don't even have to be part of the
same wikifarm).
However, our focus for now is:
Transfer of files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons
The FileExporter provides a link to Wikimedia Commons on the local wiki and
hands over a URL to the extension FileImporter. The FileImporter is a
Wikimedia Commons extension which imports the file including all data when
all prerequisites are met. Technically, the files won't be "moved", but
"copied". The local communities can decide which templates to use to
indicate that a file should or shouldn’t be moved to Commons. [6] Further,
the decision what to do with the files after they got transferred to
Commons stays with the local communities (e.g. admins can delete the files).
To make use of the FileImporter, you have to activate the FileExporter in
your local wiki, provided as a beta feature on Arabic Wikipedia, German
Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia and Mediawiki.org for now. The FileImporter on
Wikimedia Commons is not a beta feature, so there is no need to activate
it. [7]
If your local wiki community is interested to test the new functionality in
this first round as well, please discuss this with your community and let
us know by filing a request ticket on Phabricator :-) (example ticket:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196908)
Last but not least, we’d like to thank all the people who have tested the
feature earlier, and who have provided valuable feedback. This is much
appreciated!
Further feedback is very welcome on the central feedback page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:FileImporter
Thank you,
Birgit (for the Technical Wishes Team)
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons
(main project page on Meta)
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FileImporter
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FileExporter
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196969 (Deployment ticket for
FileExporter/beta feature and FileImporter)
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons
(main project page on Meta)
[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FileImporter/Data, please note
that any updates to these files will be used by FileImporter only by next
week!
[7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:FileImporter (central
help page)
--
Birgit Müller
Community Communications Manager
Software Development and Engineering
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hello friends,
We are pleased to announce that *Wiki Loves Love* is recruiting volunteers
for the international team.
Application deadline: August 1, 2018
*But What Is WLL?*
Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of
Wikimedia Commons that is to take place — with the subject love
testimonials — in various locale places. The primary goal of the
competition is to collect photos of love testimonials through human
cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender
gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate
articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia
Foundation (WMF) projects.
*Positions Open:*
Communication and media
Community liaison
Community outreach
Finance team
Tech team: to design banners and templates
Find out more on: https://t.co/D1yeNclTRm
Don't forget to spread the word!
Cheers!
Rupika Sharma
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Oggetto: [Multimedia] Video output changing to WebM VP9/Opus soon
Data: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 11:29:00 -0700
Mittente: Brion Vibber
In the next couple weeks I'm planning to start switching our video
transcode output from WebM VP8/Vorbis to the newer WebM VP9/Opus
profile, which saves us about 38% on file size and bandwidth while
retaining the same quality.
This will not affect what kinds of files you upload; only the scaled
transcoded output files used for playback will change. All modern
browsers that support VP8 support VP9 as well, and our player shim for
Safari and IE will continue to work.
All the details:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/VP9_transition>
Comments and questions welcome!
-- brion
Dear Wikimedians,
We are happy to announce that the 2017 Picture of the Year competition is now open.
Picture of the Year 2017 is the twelfth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons image competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons (FP) during the year 2017, to produce a single Picture of the Year.
Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, Commons features pictures of all flavors.
For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first (and current) round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.
To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2017 page on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2017
Round 1 will end 24 June 2018, 23:59:59 [UTC].
Thanks,
POTY 2017 committee
Note: Users must vote with an account meeting following requirements: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2017/Rules
Hey Yaroslav and Asaf,
>From the SDC team perspective, I think it would definitely be preferable
for such a tool to include/anticipate the need for structured data on
Commons, or default to filling in Depicts and/or other structure data
fields. Building more tools which generate categories by default would
definitely be a bit counter-productive (and hard on multilingual
contributors). One option, might be designing such a tool to work with
Artworks and other unique objects (like photographs) already on Wikidata,
and then have it prepared to hook up with the Wikibase/Structured data
features that will go live on Commons in the fall.
Cheers,
Alex
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Absolutely; I wanted to know if such a tool perhaps already exists. If one
> does not, then definitely, if we develop a tool, it should look to the
> future and be based on Structured Data on Commons already!
>
> A.
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:54 PM Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think it is pretty similar to what we have built in Wikidata, Do
> > Structured Commons folks want to comment?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Yaroslav
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, folks.
> > >
> > > It occurs to me there are tens or hundreds of thousands of images
> donated
> > > en masse (GLAM etc.) that are only categorized as "image from X
> > collection"
> > > or "Files donated by X", i.e. essentially uncategorized by content.
> > >
> > > This obviously greatly reduces the likelihood of discoverability and
> > > re-use. But it's hard to find such files, and the massive categories
> > > (thousands of files, often) don't make organizing the work easy.
> > >
> > > I'm think of a gamified interface -- à la Wikidata Game -- that would
> > let a
> > > volunteer (after OAuth identification) pick a category (from a pre-fed
> > list
> > > of massive categories of donated files) and show one photo from the
> > > category that has only that category listed (i.e. has no categorization
> > by
> > > content), and let the volunteer type (with auto-complete, like HotCat)
> > some
> > > appropriate categories and hit Save, and the categories would be added,
> > and
> > > the next file shown.
> > >
> > > (Optionally, a second layer of verification could be added, where
> > > volunteers would [also] be invited to vet or change previous
> volunteers'
> > > categorization, and actual change to categories on Commons would only
> > take
> > > place after 2 (or N) users approved the categories. I'm not at all
> sure
> > > this is needed, and I think we can start without it and see how it
> goes.)
> > >
> > > So, does something like this exist? If not, who wants to build it? :)
> > >
> > > A.
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Hi, folks.
It occurs to me there are tens or hundreds of thousands of images donated
en masse (GLAM etc.) that are only categorized as "image from X collection"
or "Files donated by X", i.e. essentially uncategorized by content.
This obviously greatly reduces the likelihood of discoverability and
re-use. But it's hard to find such files, and the massive categories
(thousands of files, often) don't make organizing the work easy.
I'm think of a gamified interface -- à la Wikidata Game -- that would let a
volunteer (after OAuth identification) pick a category (from a pre-fed list
of massive categories of donated files) and show one photo from the
category that has only that category listed (i.e. has no categorization by
content), and let the volunteer type (with auto-complete, like HotCat) some
appropriate categories and hit Save, and the categories would be added, and
the next file shown.
(Optionally, a second layer of verification could be added, where
volunteers would [also] be invited to vet or change previous volunteers'
categorization, and actual change to categories on Commons would only take
place after 2 (or N) users approved the categories. I'm not at all sure
this is needed, and I think we can start without it and see how it goes.)
So, does something like this exist? If not, who wants to build it? :)
A.