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Mass add images to categories
by wayne 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

> >From: Ayelie <ayelie.at.large(a)gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [Commons-l] HotCat JavaScript tool, V0.1 > >Hmm... adding this to this thread because it kind of fits in with the idea >of HotCat.js. > >What about the ability to mass-add images to a category? I'm thinking of >cases where people have created a gallery with images but none are >categorised; this happens a lot and it's a pain to open every image and edit >to add the category. Something like Magnus's category move javascript, where >you can select images in a category and move them to another, but activated >for galleries. No I totally disagree, if there are many images organized in a gallery then the gallery should already be linked to a category. I have been busy taking these duplicated images out of Categories and leaving them in the article galleries. It's would be the same as that User who created 1000's of species categories with all the photos duplicated in the category that were already in the individual galleries, Way too much duplication. Magnus and others have that great tool for showing galleries and categories on the screen and some photos are in up to 6 or 7 different categories and galleries, simplification is the best way. [[User:WayneRay]]

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Re: [Commons-l] Use Flickr? (was: My Photo Was Reused (God or Bad News?))
by Jimmy Wales 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

As a part of this brainstorming, please know that we have very good friends at Flickr. I see Stewart and Caterina socially fairly often, and of course they are huge fans. So if there is anything we need from Flickr, let's discuss it, write it up, and I can ask them. On Jul 7, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > During an IRC discussion earlier today, Rama suggested we use > Flickr to help increase our exposure - per the recent conversation > in the "My photo was reused" thread. We discussed the fact that we > could upload our Featured Pictures using a Wikimedia Commons > account; hopefully people would see these images and ask to use > them, thereby increasing the visibility and knowledge of the > Commons. Cbrown1023 created the account to ensure nobody else could > steal the name, and now we're bringing this idea here to see what > the community has to say :) May also be brought up on the village > pump if it seems wise. > > The e-mail address has been temporarily set to info- > en(a)wikimedia.org so requests, etc. can be handled there in private; > we also thought of requesting an info-commons(a)wikimedia.org address > (if one doesn't currently exist?) for such purposes. The fact that > requests may be in many different languages as Commons is > multilingual (Flickr too) would also be a good reason for not > having things sent to info-en but to info-commons directly. > > Thoughts? Comments? Ideas? > > -- > Casey Brown ( Cbrown1023 ) > Ayelie ( Editor at Large ) > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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Facebook
by Brianna Laugher 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2572111922 I heard Facebook users are more technology-savvy than MySpace users. ;) I know at least two Commoners who are on Facebook. Someone else PLS JOIN MY GROUP OR OMG I FEELS LONELY <insert cat meme> OK I'm done. ps: our Flickr group is still doing good business too: http://www.flickr.com/groups/wikimedia_commons/ cheers! Brianna user:pfctdayelise -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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HotCat JavaScript tool, V0.1
by Magnus Manske 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

New experimental tool to quickly add new categories. Called "HotCat", in reminiscence of "hot dog". Sorry. 1. Go to [1], or add "includePage('MediaWiki:HotCat.js');" to your monobook.js (do the latter to see the full functionality) 2. In the list of categories at the bottom of the page, notice the final "(+)" 3. Click on it to add a new category 4. An input box opens. It will suggest a category name "as you type". 5. Click "OK" to add the category. NOTES: * If you got there via [1], you will only get an open edit window. This is due to the "script test mode". If you add the script to your monobook.js, you will get the full functionality, that is, it will add the category at the bottom of the page and save it. * The script actually retrieves several matches to what you type, but I was too lazy to add a listbox with options. Maybe someone else will implement that :-) * This can be adapted to replace/remove categories. Requires some text parsing, though. Maybe I will do it later, if noone beats me to it :-) Cheers, Magnus [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Valeriana_officinalis_…

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Software impreovments (was: Should Commons be renamed?)
by Bryan Tong Minh 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

On 7/3/07, Barcex <barcexwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I Agree on this point, and think that the real problems why Commons is not > so successful are not related to its name but to the MediaWiki software (as > is now) that is very good to write encyclopedias but awful to implement an > image bank. The concept of "wiki" (easy edit with full history of changes) > is very useful for our needs, but the implementation with MediaWiki is far > from being good. > > Barcex > This issue has come up multiple times, but without much result. What specific features does Commons need to have? A list of this might be interesting, because their are very likely users who are willing to implement those kind of things, either as an extension, javascript hack or external service. Bryan

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Re: [Commons-l] Use Flickr? (was: My Photo Was Reused (God or Bad News?))
by Brianna Laugher 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

On 08/07/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > During an IRC discussion earlier today, Rama suggested we use Flickr to help > increase our exposure - per the recent conversation in the "My photo was > reused" thread. We discussed the fact that we could upload our Featured > Pictures using a Wikimedia Commons account; hopefully people would see these > images and ask to use them, thereby increasing the visibility and knowledge > of the Commons. Cbrown1023 created the account to ensure nobody else could > steal the name, and now we're bringing this idea here to see what the > community has to say :) May also be brought up on the village pump if it > seems wise. > > The e-mail address has been temporarily set to info-en(a)wikimedia.org so > requests, etc. can be handled there in private; we also thought of > requesting an info-commons(a)wikimedia.org address (if one doesn't currently > exist?) for such purposes. The fact that requests may be in many different > languages as Commons is multilingual (Flickr too) would also be a good > reason for not having things sent to info-en but to info-commons directly. > > Thoughts? Comments? Ideas? Interesting idea. I'm sure a bot could be written to do the daily upload. I'm not sure it would help a ton in terms of exposure, but it couldn't hurt, hey. Flickr is geared towards people uploading their own work. It might be worth checking if there is something in the TOS against uploading others' work (regardless or whether or not license terms allow it). cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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My Photo Was Reused (God or Bad News?)
by Eugene Zelenko 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

Hi! I want to shamelessly announce :-) that my photo is used on http://www.schmap.com/sanfrancisco/sights_richmond/#mapview=Map&tab=Places&…. But this image was taken from flickr, not Commons. Indeed, I advertised Commons in "thank you" letter, but this is information for critical analysis... We still have problems with Commons visibility :-(. Google still can't find images on Commons. GeoCommons is not included by default in Google Earth. And so on and so on... :-( Just some thoughts... Eugene.

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Call for help: improve LilyPond's SVG support!
by Benjamin Esham 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Hi all, I was recently playing around with GNU LilyPond, trying to export some music clips as SVG for use on the Commons. I had a bunch of rendering issues, and after posting to the LilyPond list I was told that there weren't enough developers familiar with SVG to really fix all of the outstanding problems. LilyPond, as you can see from [1], produces beautiful output; it is certainly the most prominent free-software music engraving package. I am writing to this list as an open request to all of the developers out there: please help to improve LilyPond's support for SVG! I have found many unattractive images from Sibelius that could be replaced with Lily images, but I prefer not to use raster images when everything is originally vectors anyway (LilyPond's native output format is PDF). Surely there are a number of competent programmers here who are familiar with the SVG format; if you are one of them, please consider visiting [2] and seeing what needs to be done to make LilyPond's SVG output as beautiful to XML parsers as it is to humans. (Related to this is WikiTeX [3]; I haven't heard much about that project's integration with Wikipedia recently, but LilyPond's support for SVG will be very important once that project gets off the ground.) Thanks a ton for any help and code you can contribute! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LilyPond [2] http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/call-for-help [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Music_markup Cheers, -- Benjamin D. Esham bdesham(a)gmail.com | AIM: bdesham128 | Jabber: same as e-mail "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." — Douglas Adams, /The Hitchhiker's Guide/

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Use Flickr? (was: My Photo Was Reused (God or Bad News?))
by Casey Brown 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

During an IRC discussion earlier today, Rama suggested we use Flickr to help increase our exposure - per the recent conversation in the "My photo was reused" thread. We discussed the fact that we could upload our Featured Pictures using a Wikimedia Commons account; hopefully people would see these images and ask to use them, thereby increasing the visibility and knowledge of the Commons. Cbrown1023 created the account to ensure nobody else could steal the name, and now we're bringing this idea here to see what the community has to say :) May also be brought up on the village pump if it seems wise. The e-mail address has been temporarily set to info-en(a)wikimedia.org so requests, etc. can be handled there in private; we also thought of requesting an info-commons(a)wikimedia.org address (if one doesn't currently exist?) for such purposes. The fact that requests may be in many different languages as Commons is multilingual (Flickr too) would also be a good reason for not having things sent to info-en but to info-commons directly. Thoughts? Comments? Ideas? -- Casey Brown ( Cbrown1023 ) Ayelie ( Editor at Large )

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ResizeGalleries
by Magnus Manske 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Yet another script announcement... If you have a high screen resolution (1280x? and above), you might have noticed that galleries and categories waste a lot of screen space, as they only show four thumbnails in a row. The user option to resize the thumbnails is currently deactivated for caching doomsday predictions, AFAIK. But fear not, have a tiny JavaScript to rearrange thumbnails in gallery tables, so your screen width will be optimally filled: [[MediaWiki:ResizeGalleries.js]] I keep having the vague notion of someone else who wrote a script like that before, but I didn't see it on [[Category:User scripts]]. Maybe it's just because its sooo obvious... Cheers, Magnus

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