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
Hello everyone
I have a question about the licence at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Pink_Sponge_isolated_o…
There is a general self|cc-by-sa-4.0|attribution= template displaying, in
part
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons> Attribution-Share Alike
4.0 International <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en>
license.
- *attribution* – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to
the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any
reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses
you or your use.
- If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute
the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
However, there is also a bespoke declaration
A statement such as "From Wikimedia Commons" or similar is *not* by itself
sufficient. If you do not provide clear attribution to the author and
indicate the file name as shown here, you didn't comply with the terms of
the file's license and may not use this file. If you are unable or
unwilling to provide attribution and *release your own work* that incorporates
this work <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Derivative_works> with
a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license you should
contact Jonatan
Svensson Glad <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Josve05a> to
negotiate a different license.
These declarations are incompatible in two respects. Firstly, the
attribution requirements are different, and secondly the reuse conditions
are different, replacing "build upon" with "incorporate" -- these are
clearly different, and indeed if they are not different, why would the
uploader have written a different one for themselves?
Anyway, given the incompatibility between the two declarations, should this
file be on Commons at all?
JPS
Forwarding to other lists. :)
Pine
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From: Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 8:05 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] New data type: musical notation with Lilypond format
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all,
Following a request from community members, we just deployed a new data
type called “Musical Notation” in order to store musical notation in
Wikidata. Property creators can now find this new data type in the list and
create new properties with it.
A property with musical notation data type will display the notation in
Lilypond <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q195946> format, using the score
extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score>.
For example, if you enter this code as a value: \relative c' { c d e f | g2
g | a4 a a a | g1 |}, it will be displayed as a score:
[image: Screenshot musical notation Wikidata 1.png]
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_musical_notation_Wikidat…>
The score also appears on the diff pages.
[image: Screenshot musical notation Wikidata 2.png]
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_musical_notation_Wikidat…>
The existing property LilyPond notation (P5482)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5482> is used on around 300 items
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=P…>.
If you need any help from the developers to change the datatype of the the
property or to migrate the content, please let me know.
One bug is already known and we’re working on fixing it: if the score is
long, it gets out of the statement box and overlaps with the edit button.
If you encounter any issue, feel free to create a subtask of this ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208489>.
Cheers,
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication 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
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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Hi all,
Version 2.10 of the Commons Android app has just been released to
production on the Google Play Store[1] (also downloadable on F-Droid[2]).
The update contains:
New features:
- Users can search for (and upload pictures for) places that need pictures
in any location, not just their current location
- Current ongoing campaigns, if any, are displayed on the main screen
- "Retry" button to easily re-upload failed uploads
Fixes:
- Optimized Nearby map loading time
- Fixed various bugs and crashes, including errors with "image taken" date
We're excited to announce that we've also had our recent Project Grant
proposal[3] approved. :) This means there will be lots of improvements
coming up in 2019, with focus on improving stability and the upload
experience for users.
Our first priority will be rewriting the legacy backend code to adhere to
modern standards and reduce complexity (especially the network layer, which
currently uses a deprecated API). This is aimed at resolving a few major
lingering bugs (especially upload failures for a few users), as well as
creating a solid technical foundation to base future improvements on.
Several new features are slated for release after that, including filters
and bookmarks for the "Nearby places that needs pictures" feature, a pause
and resume function for uploads, and a "limited connection" mode.
Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us thus far, especially in
the last rocky year! :) At the conclusion of this grant, we hope to deliver
a much better app to you.
Best regards,
Josephine / @misaochan (project maintainer)
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons
[2]: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=fr.free.nrw.commons
[3]:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Commons_app/Commons_Android_…
Hi,
I don't usually forward Search Platform meeting announcements to project
lists, but I'll do so this month while I'm thinking about it. If you're
interested in future meeting announcements and other news from the Search
Platform team then you can subscribe to the Discovery email list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery.
Pine
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From: Trey Jones <tjones(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—March 6th
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
This is a reminder that the Search Platform Office Hours are tomorrow!
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:34 AM Trey Jones <tjones(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The Search Platform Team
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds
> office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come ask us anything about
> Wikimedia search!
>
>
> We’re particularly interested in:
>
> * Opportunities for collaboration—internally or externally to the
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> * Challenges you have with on-wiki search, in any of the languages we
> support
>
>
> But we're happy to talk about anything search-related. Feel free to add
> your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
>
>
> Details for our next meeting:
>
> Date: Wednesday, March 6th, 2018
>
> Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-9:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET
>
> Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
>
> Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww
>
>
> *N.B.:* Google Meet System Requirements
> <https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7317473>
>
>
> Trey Jones
> Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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Forwarding to additional lists. I believe that in the past there has been
consideration of using automated image recognition to categorize images on
Commons.
Pine
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From: caip2019(a)unisa.it <caip2019(a)unisa.it>
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 6:58 AM
Subject: [AI] Extended call for Workshops/Tutorials at CAIP 2019 in
Salerno, Italy
To: <ai(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
The CAIP2019 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops and
tutorials in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Computer
Analysis of Images and Patterns. The workshops and tutorials will be held
as side events of the main conference.
*Proposals for Workshop*
The CAIP2019 workshops will provide forums where participants will have
opportunities to discuss technical topics and actively share ideas. The
topics of the workshops should be at the frontiers of academic research or
important applications in the domain of computer vision and pattern
recognition. Each proposal will be assessed for its scientific content,
structure and relevance. Cogently, good proposals would encourage
discussion and interaction between the participants, achievable in a
several ways, e.g., through presentations of submitted work, panel
discussions and hands-on sessions.
Download here the Call for Workshops
<http://caip2019.unisa.it/pages/submission/callcaip2019workshop.pdf>
*Proposals For Tutorials*
The CAIP 2019 Organizing Committee invites proposals for tutorials to be
held as side events of the main conference in Salerno, Italy. Tutorials
should serve one or more of the following objectives:
-
Introduce students and newcomers to major topics of CAIP research
-
Provide instruction on established practices and methodologies
-
Survey a mature area of CAIP research and/or practice
-
Motivate and explain a CAIP topic of emerging importance
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Introduce expert non-specialists to a CAIP research area
Proposals should contain the following information:
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The title and a brief description of the tutorial
-
A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length of
tutorial: either 3 hours (half day) or 6 hours (full day). If it is a
full-day tutorial, please give a brief justification
-
Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial,
including prerequisite knowledge and estimated number of attendees
-
A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a
substantial part of the CAIP audience
-
A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name, title,
affiliation, e-mail address, background in the tutorial area, example of
work in the area (e.g. publications and/or industrial work).
Download here the Call for Tutorials
<http://caip2019.unisa.it/pages/submission/callcaip2019tutorials.pdf>
*Submission*
Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the CAIP Organizing
Committee (caip2019(a)unisa.it)
*Important Dates*
Deadline for workshop proposal:
*March 11, 2019 *Notification of Acceptance: *March 15, 2019*
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Dear Wikimedians,
We are happy to announce that the 2018 Picture of the Year
competition is now open. This is the thirteenth edition of POTY.
Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured
on Commons (FP) during the year 2018, 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 historically relevant images, 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 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.
Users must vote with an account meeting following requirements: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2018/Rules
To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2018 page on Wikimedia
Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2018
Round ends on 17 February 2019, 23:59:59 [UTC].
Thanks,
POTY 2018 committee
Forwarding in case people are interested in seeing what was funded.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Chris "Jethro" Schilling <cschilling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:06 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Project Grants program will fund 20 community-led
projects
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
In the latest round of Project Grants, the committee has recommended 20
projects for a total of approximately $678,666 USD in funding. We received
42 proposals for review, the largest round of proposals we’ve received in a
single round. Please join me in congratulating the applicants! I’d also
like to express my thanks to all applicants this round for their hard work
and engagement with their proposals, and to the Project Grants Committee
for their careful diligence in reviewing and providing crucial feedback
during this round. Without further ado, here’s what we’re funding:[1]
==Software: five projects funded==* Commons Android app v3: This third
version of the Commons mobile uploader app aims to increase app stability,
improve a recommendations feature for nearby places, maintain a limited
connectivity mode, and provide better outreach to underrepresented
communities. [2]
* Scribe: Scribe is an editing tool to support underserved Wikipedia
editors, helping them to plan the structure of their new articles and to
find references in their language.[3]
* Culture Gap Monthly Monitoring: The Wikipedia Cultural Diversity
Observatory (WCDO) proposes a set of solutions to regularly assist
communities and individual editors to increase the cultural diversity in
their language editions’ content.[4].
* GlobalFactSyncRE: GlobalFactSyncRE will extract all infobox facts and
their references to produce a tool for Wikipedia editors that detects and
displays differences across infobox facts in an intelligent way to help
sync infoboxes between languages and/or Wikidata. The extracted references
will also be used to enhance Wikidata.[5]
* Wikidata & ETL: This project aims at improving management and increasing
automation of processes loading data into Wikidata, and proposes a tool as
a platform for creation of repeatable processes for bulk loading data into
Wikidata and other Wikibase instances from various data sources.[6]
==Online organizing: four projects funded==* Wiki Loves Monuments
international team/2019 coordination: The international coordination team
for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) [7] proposes to strengthen the foundation
for healthy and sustainable WLM competitions across the world. In this
grant, the team will focus considerable effort on increasing the
sustainability of these events by addressing known issues around developing
best practices, resourcing local teams to run successful events, and
adapting to mobile engagement.[8]
* CEE Spring 2019: This annual international article writing contest
generates
content from every country and region in Central and Eastern Europe on 30+
Wikipedias. CEE Spring’s remarkable community spirit plays a central role
in fostering a thriving, collaborative volunteer base in the region. The
grant will continue incentivizing content creation focused on similar
themes from last year, including closing the gender gap, and expanding
minority language Wikipedias, and showcasing the cultural heritage of
Central and Eastern Europe. [9]
* WM HU/Editor retention program: This grant will fund the editor retention
program in the Hungarian Wikipedia. The project helps the Hungarian
Wikipedia community in decreasing the negative experiences and
strengthening the positive experiences of the contributors; improving the
community atmosphere and strengthening the community cohesion, the
Wikipedia identity, the sense of mission and pride in Wikipedia.[10]
* VisibleWikiWomen2019: Whose Knowledge?, in partnership with Wikimedians
and women’s and feminist organizations around the world, is organizing a
campaign to add more diverse and quality images of women to Commons and
Wikipedia throughout March 2019 to celebrate International Women’s Month.
This year, the organization plans to take what they have learned from 2018
#VisibleWikiWomen and grow the campaign, creating more materials and
connections that will be useful for this year’s campaign and many more
years to come.[11]
==Offline outreach: ten projects funded==* Smithsonian
Wikimedian-in-Residence for Gender Representation: This project will
establish a Wikimedian-in-Residence for the Smithsonian Women's History
Initiative, and increase the representation of women on Wikimedia projects,
and seek ongoing support for a permanent Wikimedian-in-Residence at the
institution.[12]
* Action Plan for Wikipedia + Libraries Training in Mexico: OCLC will
investigate the viability of and approach to a Wikipedia+Libraries training
program for library staff in Mexico, to leverage the libraries in support
of the Wikimedia Foundation’s New Readers initiative. This project will
identify a Mexico-based organization that would lead the training, develop
an advisory group, and produce an action plan for how to design and deliver
the training.[13]
* Offline Wikipedia in Senegal Schools: The problem this project plans to
address is the absence of an easy, rapid and reliable way to access the
treasure-trove of information contained in Wikipedia. The Offline Wikipedia
in Senegal Schools project is a Train the Trainers project: trainers will
attend a seminar teaching them about offline Wikipedia the Kiwix program.
They will then go out to remote schools in and in turn run a seminar
presenting Kiwix to the teachers. This seminar will be part of the
certification process.[14]
* Heritage GLAM: This project will focus on growing successful GLAM
partnerships with government institutes, capacity building and documenting
rare archives, books and artwork of historical and cultural importance to
North India with no or little online presence via our project Wiki Loves
Heritage. A part of the project will also be focused on integration of
content with Wikisource and Wikipedia.[15]
* Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO 2019-2020: Past engagement with UNESCO
has demonstrated that working with Wikipedia to share knowledge allows
UNESCO to reach a far wider public with detailed information that
traditional report publication. The applicants have prepared a roadmap to
mass adoption of open licensing and sharing of content on Wikimedia
projects across the UN. By the end of this grant in early 2020, the project
will result in policies, documentation and processes in place to share
knowledge from across the UN on Wikimedia projects. [16]
* Wiki Loves Africa 2019: Funding for this project will support prize
distribution efforts associated with local contests supported by Wiki Loves
Africa 2019, an annual public contest where people across Africa can
contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to
Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.[17]
* Wiki Kouman 2019 en Côte d'Ivoire (Local langua in Côte d'Ivoire): The
aim of the WikiKouman project is to increase the visibility and content of
Côte d'Ivoire’s local languages through the Wiktionary and other related
projects. WikiKouman derives its etymology from Dioula, one of the local
languages, in which "Kouman" means "to speak"[18]
* History of Quebec and French-speaking North America: This
Wikimedian-in-Residence project with the Fondation Lionel-Groulx (FLG) aims
to build and support the community of individuals and organizations
interested in developing and improving wikimedia contents pertaining to the
history of Quebec and French-speaking North America.[19]
* Wikipedia Women and Ancestral Knowledge from the Global South in the
Colombian context: In collaboration with Centro de Internet y Sociedad
Universidad (ISUR), this project is aimed at supporting indigenous
communities in Colombia to participate on Wikipedia and enhance the
participation of women through promotion of digital skills and article
development on multiple Wikipedia projects to represent their knowledge.[20]
* Editathons in Pistoia district: The project centers on an edit-a-thon
series in the Pistoia district of Italy. This grant is a way to get a
complete deep-level coverage and to develop a model for localized work for
other regions in Italy.[21]
==Research: one project funded==
* Machine Learning to Predict Wikimedia User Blocks: This project will
involve investigating user misconduct on English Wikipedia using machine
learning techniques to better understand and predict what circumstances
lead to user blocks. [22]
With thanks,
Chris Schilling
1. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Browse_applications>
2. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Commons_app/Commons_Android_…
>
3. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Scribe:_Supporting_Under-res…
>
4. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WCDO/Culture_Gap_Monthly_Mon…
>
5. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/DBpedia/GlobalFactSyncRE>
6. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/MFFUK/Wikidata_%26_ETL>
7. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_interna…
>
8. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments>
9. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikimedians_of_CEE/CEE_Sprin…
>
10. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WM_HU/Editor_retention_progr…
>
11. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Whose_Knowledge/VisibleWikiW…
>
12. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Effie_Kapsalis/Smithsonian_W…
>
13. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/OCLC/Action_Plan_for_Wikiped…
>
14. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Offline_Wikipedia_in_Senegal…
>
15. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikilover90/Heritage_GLAM>
16. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/UNESCO/Wikimedian_in_Residen…
>
17. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019>
18. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Modjou/Wiki_Kouman_2019_en_C…
>
19. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/History_of_Quebec_and_French…
>
20. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ISUR/Wikipedia_women_and_anc…
>
21. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Editathons_in_Pistoia_distri…
>
22. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/University_of_Virginia/Machi…
>
Chris "Jethro" Schilling
I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
He/His/Their
Program Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
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