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Re: [Commons-l] Request to use Image:Cumulus clouds in fair weather.jpeg on riverventure.org
by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Hello Samantha, this E-Mail is sent in reply to a comment on my Wikimedia Commons talk page [1] where you asked for permission to use the "Cumulus clouds in fair weather" image hosted on Wikimedia Commons. I'm sending a copy of this E-Mail to the general Wikimedia Commons discussion list so as to keep a record of this correspondence, and in case anyone else would like to chime in and offer you further advice. Firstly, to answer your request, yes you may use that image as long as you attribute the author (Michael Jastremski) in some way and inform your users that the image came from Wikimedia Commons, e.g. by supplying a hyperlink to the image page. There's further information on using media from Wikimedia Commons on the commons wiki [3]. Secondly, you don't have to ask for permission to use media from Wikimedia Commons, it is a repository of freely licensed media which means you never have to ask for permission to use the media hosted therein. You merely have to fulfill the license requirements applicable to each piece of media you use. Usually this means stating the author of the image, its source, and informing the user what license the image is under. 1. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ævar_Arnfjörð_Bjarmason#Cumulus… 2. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cumulus_clouds_in_fair_weather.jpeg 3. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia

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Re: [Commons-l] [Internal-l] 100k image donation to Wikimedia Commons
by Delphine Ménard 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 17:51, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Starting on Thursday Dec 4, Wikimedia Commons will witness a massive > upload of new images. We are anticipating about 100.000 files from a > donation > from the German Federal Archive. These images are mostly related to > the history of Germany (including the German Democratic Republic) and > are part of a cooperation between Wikimedia Germany and the Federal Archive. > > These images are licensed cc-by-sa. [snip] > > The images are 800 pixel in size on the longer side, which is near the > lower bound for being useful on the internet. We are aware of that, > and we hope > that after some time, we will be able to get the Archive to release > the images in a higher resolution. The quality of the work of > Wikimedia Commons > might help this negotiation process. One thing that might be interesting to track is the outgoing traffic from the images to the website of the Bundesarchiv (I suppose the credits link to them?). This might give us some insight as to what visibility these things actually bring to the organisations involved. Even better would be to get statistics of how these outgoing links actually result in people buying the higher resolution prints to integrate in some publication (if they are for sale, of course). Delphine -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org

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Firefogg: a firefox extension to encode and upload video in Ogg/Theora
by Gregory Maxwell 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Of interest (and related to the recent wikitech-l threads on uploading large files) is this new firefox extension that handles transcoding from * to Ogg/Theora and uploading: http://firefogg.org/ Not only is this something we may wish to use, but it demonstrates the viability of a complex uploading widget via a firefox extension. The extension is GPLed, so it could serve as a starting point for a commons-uploader firefox extension.

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Re: [Commons-l] [Wmfcc-l] 100k image donation to Wikimedia Commons
by Erik Moeller 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

2008/12/3 Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com>: > Dear Commonists, > > Starting on Thursday Dec 4, Wikimedia Commons will witness a massive > upload of new images. We are anticipating about 100.000 files from a > donation > from the German Federal Archive. These images are mostly related to > the history of Germany (including the German Democratic Republic) and > are part of a cooperation between Wikimedia Germany and the Federal Archive. Got to love any email that starts out with "dear commonists" ;-). Many, many heartfelt congratulations to WM-DE on this. I don't think it can be easily overstated how significant this is: I've talked to many organizations over the years about media donations, and the awareness and understanding of open access is still very limited. I can very much imagine the kinds of conversations you've been having. Kudos to the archive as well for "getting it" and taking this bold step. I'm very much looking forward to seeing these files used in Wikipedia and elsewhere. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Support for Chemical Markup Language
by Eugene Zelenko 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

Hi! We are discussing on Commons list (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2008-November/004338.html) possible support for Chemical Markup Language (http://cml.sourceforge.net) and Jmol viewer (http://jmol.sourceforge.net). Extension for MediaWiki is already implemented (http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/MediaWiki). However it was done for 1.12 and some security concerns exists. Will be great if somebody will review extension code and adapt it to current MediaWiki state if necessary. Eugene.

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GPS data logger and software
by Guillaume Paumier 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hello, I am considering the purchase of a GPS data logger to automagically geotag my photos on Commons (I am currently geotagging hundreds of them manually and it's a *real* pain). I've been doing some research already, but if anyone had some feedback to share about the hardware available and the software to do the mapping (linux-compatible, I'm using Ubuntu), that would be great. Thanks, -- Guillaume Paumier [[m:User:guillom]]

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Support for Chemical Markup Language
by Eugene Zelenko 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi! Just re-incarnation of old idea to support 3D image of chemical structures... I played a little bit with Kalzium in KDE 4 today and discovered molecule viewer which render molecules in Chemical Markup Language. CML (http://cml.sourceforge.net) is open XML-based format so we could allow it on Commons and provide files repository for other projects (such as Kalzium). There is also Java-based open source viewer JMol (http://jmol.sourceforge.net) including web browser plugin. With JMol we could dramatically enreach chemistry/biochemistry related pages in Wikipedia/Wikibooks/Wikiversity in same way as we support Ogg media files playback now. Eugene.

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Vorbis implementations in Flash 10
by Erik Moeller 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

You may have already seen the FVorbis implementation of Vorbis in Flash 10: http://people.xiph.org/~arek/pg/hx/test.html This is a more integrated demo of the same approach: http://www.omtk.org/js/demo-mod.html The FVorbis implementation uses lower CPU on my system, but in any case, this definitely seems like a viable approach to bring at least Vorbis to many more people - especially when combined with native support in Firefox 3.1 and the existing Java player. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Re: [Commons-l] Upload filesize limit bumped
by Platonides 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Posted on wikitech-l :) :) Brion Vibber wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Now that we've got uploads running on our new, beefier file servers, > I've experimentally bumped the upload limit from 20 to 100 megabytes. > > Files nearing the high end of that range might not actually succeed, > though, as it'll be hitting post-size limits etc. > > As time goes on we'll be improving ways to upload large video files in > particular... > > - -- brion > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkknVv4ACgkQwRnhpk1wk45HaQCgzH3rAHh9cvBUQtSt6FZtO0cF > s+0AoNNBOGGA9S8vFE4AQqALJuCHVtUZ > =YKTr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Licensing for textures within SVG files
by Bruce Perens 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Forgive me if this is the wrong list. Inkscape is an Open Source authoring program used by some Wikipedians to create SVG files. The author of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M1_Abrams-TUSK.svg placed one such image in the public domain. On examining the image, I found a non-public-domain texture called "Sand". Fortunately, the texture is under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 . It has an "inkscape:stockid" attribute, so I'm assuming it is a built-in stock image of Inkscape. It is possible that Inkscape is not informing image authors that their stock textures have a license. Those authors then dedicate the entire image to the public domain on Wikimedia, and do not note the licensing of the contained texture. Recommended action: parse Wikimedia SVG files to detect <pattern> tags, see how many have this problem, fix information pages to indicate licensing of the textures, delete inappropriately licensed content if necessary. Thanks Bruce

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