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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] ANNOUNCE: OpenStreetMap maps will be added to Wikimedia projects
by Brianna Laugher 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab(a)gmail.com> Date: 2009/4/5 Subject: [Wikitech-l] ANNOUNCE: OpenStreetMap maps will be added to Wikimedia projects To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, OSM-Dev Openstreetmap <dev(a)openstreetmap.org>, Talk Openstreetmap <talk(a)openstreetmap.org> There has been rapid progress on the subject of adding OpenStreetMap maps to Wikimedia projects (e.g. Wikipedia) during the MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up[1] taking place right now in Berlin. We now have a clear plan of action for getting OpenStreetMap maps embedded in Wikimedia wiki (e.g. Wikipedia) pages: * Wikimedia will set up a database to mirror the OSM data (Planet.osm) * Wikimedia will set up its own rendering infrastructure for rendering tiles & other maps from the OSM data * The existing MediaWiki extensions for displaying OSM data in a MediaWiki article will be improved to work acceptably in production on Wikimedia servers To prototype all this we'll be using new infrastructure provided by Wikimedia Deutschland[2]. Once things have been tested there they'll eventually be deployed on the main Wikimedia sites. After discussion with the Wikimedia operations people (including Brion Vibber, Mark Bergsma et al) there seem to be no objections to the above plan as long as: * The maps will work not only for JavaScript enabled browsers but also non-JavaScript enabled ones * The tools involved are improved to be relatively stable & deployable on Wikimedia, e.g. being able to embed more than one slippy map, the internationalization of error messages etc. * The end product (the generated tiles or map files) are cachable so that they can be thrown at the frontend squids, as they're static images this should be easy. The featureset that we're aiming for to be able to deploy this on Wikimedia sites from the view of the user (more can be added later once we've got it working) is: * The ability to embed OSM maps in articles with something like the Simple image extension[3], perhaps automagically turning into a Slippy Map if the browser supports it * A static or slippy map that can be used by geotagged articles[4] so we can have maps without explicit inclusion of a <map> tag. We'll also set up a map toolserver for experimenting with other uses of OpenStreetMap data on Wikimedia. People with relevant projects can get access[5] to this toolserver to try out their ideas for tools that could eventually be integrated on the main Wikimedia sites. This project is seeking help from anyone who's interested who'd like to be a part of making this happen, if you want to be a part of adding free maps to the world's largest encyclopedia please subscribe to this mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l And/or read/edit/comment on the relevant wiki coordination pages: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia 1. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Developer_meet-up_2009 2. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap#.E2.80.9CMap_Toolserver.E2.80.… 3. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_image_MediaWiki_Extension 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord 5. mailto:osm@wikimedia.de _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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add media wizard in testing / update
by Michael Dale 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

The add media Wizard is in testing see blog post: http://metavid.org/blog/2009/03/27/add-media-wizard-and-firefogg-on-test-wi… If no one objects (or has any blocker bugs that I have missed) I will add the gadget option for firefogg / add media wizard to commons shortly. (for wider testing) We could also add the basic commons search as a gadget for wikipedia proper. (making commons image inserts much easier) more about add_media_wizard: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Media_Wizard The searching remote repository and in-line upload and template via url component that is working on test.wikimedia.org is not as easy to push out. The implementation on test.wikimedia.org is limited to files that it can copy in less than 30 seconds (php time out ) and is parsing html page output to determine errors. To move the add media wizard searching and insert into production we will need to deploy the new-upload branch. I will be targeting fixes to upload bugs 18200, 18201, 18202 to the new-upload branch. Looking beyond English language gadgets ... Localization is dependent on the javascript script server which I will create a patch for core shortly. more about js server: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ScriptLoader peace, --michael

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Considerations for museums and archives to gain their cooperation
by Gerard Meijssen 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hoi. I am talking to a few museums and archives and several of them are interested in considering Commons for their collection. At the same time they are also considering Flickr. The issue they have with Commons is its restrictions. One of the museums said it like this: "We have done our best to ascertain the copyright status of much of our material. We have not been able to find the original copyright holder or someone who inherited these rights. When we post our material to Flickr, we just remove the material when a copyright holder turns up and asks us to. Doing it in any other way requires much more effort. Effort that we rather spend in more productive endeavours like digitising and annotating." My question is, will it be acceptable when a museum or archive provides us with their material and when we learn about a request to take down material, we do this when requested by the copyright holder. This is not considered an issue with Flickr !! Thanks, GerardM

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Ogg Theora "Thusnelda" codec alpha out
by David Gerard 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2009-March/002080.html Promises much higher quality per bitrate, using exactly the same file format. This is alpha, but if you're prepared to experiment we could get much nicer video for the same file size. - d.

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Re: [Commons-l] Commons-l Digest, Vol 46, Issue 16
by wayne 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

> > >Today's Topics: > > 1. hello (ramosrios(a)pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu) > 2. Re: hello (Cary Bass) >hello, my name is anthony, i am 20 years old and i am studing general >medicine in cuba. i need known new friends around the world, please mail me >to following address: > >ramosrios(a)pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu > >please in spanish or english languaje This is the 3rd or fourth time this has come in, Try Facebook Wayne

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hello
by ramosrios＠pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

hello, my name is anthony, i am 20 years old and i am studing general medicine in cuba. i need known new friends around the world, please mail me to following address: ramosrios(a)pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu please in spanish or english languaje thank you hola mi nombre es antonio, tengo 20 años y estudio medicina genberal en cuba, quisiera conocer amigos de todo el mundo, por favor escribeme preferiblemente en idioma español si no en ingles, gracias mi direccion es ramosrios(a)pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu --------------------------------------- Red Telematica de Salud - Cuba CNICM - Infomed

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de antonio
by ramosrios＠pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

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de antonio
by ramosrios＠pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

hi, my name is anthony. i am 20 years old and studing general medicine in Cuba, please i like known news friends around the world. mail me to following address: ramosrios(a)pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu please in spanish or english languaje thank you hola, mi nombre es antonio, tengo 20 años y estudio medicina general en Cuba, me gustaria conocer nuevos amigos alrededor del mundo, si lo deseas escribeme, prometo responder, mi direccionn es: ramosrios(a)pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu por favor preferiblemente en idioma español o si no en ingles gracias --------------------------------------- Red Telematica de Salud - Cuba CNICM - Infomed

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de antonio
by ramosrios＠pol1cab.ssp.sld.cu 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

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Tech updates: code updates going live to Wikimedia sites
by Brion Vibber 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

After a few weeks of bug fixes, we've caught up with MediaWiki development code review and I'm pushing out an update to the live sites. This fixes a lot of little bugs, and hopefully doesn't cause introduce too many new ones. :) * Change logs: http://ur1.ca/2rah (r47458 to r48811) As usual in addition to lots of offline and individual testing among our staff and volunteer developers, we've done a shakedown on http://test.wikipedia.org/ -- and as usual we can fully expect a few more issues to have cropped up that weren't already found. Don't be alarmed if you do find a problem; just let us know at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or on the tech IRC channels (#wikimedia-tech on Freenode). We should be resuming our weekly update schedule soon -- I won't be doing a mega-crosspost like this every week! -- and will continue to improve our pre-update staging and shakedown testing to keep disruption to a minimum and awesome improvements to a maximum. I'd also like to announce that we've started a blog for Wikimedia tech activity & MediaWiki development, in part because I want to make sure community members can easily follow what we're working on and give feedback before we push things out: * http://techblog.wikimedia.org/ I'd very much like to make sure that we've got regular contacts among the various project communities who can help coordinate with us on features, bugs, and general thoughts which might affect some projects distinctly from others. -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO, Wikimedia Foundation San Francisco

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