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Re: [Commons-l] Picture of the Day criteria.
by Brianna Laugher 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

Please see http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2006-October/000784.html . Brianna On 25/10/06, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > Does a Picture of the Day have to be a Featured Picture first? > > [[User:Digon3]] seems to think so... did I miss something? > > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LoopZilla > > aka > > Gordo > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l(a)wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >

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Picture of the Day criteria.
by Gordon Joly 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

Does a Picture of the Day have to be a Featured Picture first? [[User:Digon3]] seems to think so... did I miss something? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LoopZilla aka Gordo

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www.wikitheque.fr (.org, .com)
by David Monniaux 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

Wikimédia France has installed a portal at www.wikitheque.fr (and had obtained .com and .org in order to prevent squatting). This portal provides task-oriented directions for finding images and text content on Commons and Wikisource, with the help of Wikipedia (we may in the future extend this to friendly third-party sites with libre content). Examples of tasks include: I'm looking for a photograph of an animal, where do I look? I only know the French common name of that species, what do I do? The idea is to address the needs of e.g. teachers and schoolchildren with step-by-step instructions. This portal is now not much developed, but we aim to make it bigger. In order to preemptively address a few obvious questions: * This portal will not provide content; content will all be on other sites (Commons, Wikisource etc.). * This portal is not editable as a wiki because there would be difficulties with that: ** The wiki interface may scare "normal" people - too many buttons. ** We cannot afford vandalism on a portal for welcoming e.g. schoolchildren. ** We might use a "closed" wiki but it's a heavier solution than the current one. -- DM

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Poll to make all future POTDs FPs or QIs (from Jan 1 2007)
by Brianna Laugher 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Picture_of_the_day/Poll POTD: picture of the day (appears in a nice template that people often add to their talk page, as well as on the main page) FP: featured pictures QI: quality images (somewhat akin to 'good articles' on en.wp, but only for Wikimedian-created works) Feel free to translate at will (on the poll page). There is some discussion about it at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Picture_of_the_day too. I personally rather like the fact that POTD is so open, and anyone can add anything they want whenever they want, including anons. I'm sure plenty of good FP nominations have come out of POTDs. I would like to see the creation of an "alternative POTD" process that allows this ad-hoc contributing to continue. (but doesn't appear on the main page) If this current poll succeeds, and other people think it's a viable idea, I will probably set it up. regards, Brianna user:pfctdayelise

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Dream a little...
by Jimmy Wales 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

I would like to gather from the community some examples of works you would like to see made free, works that we are not doing a good job of generating free replacements for, works that could in theory be purchased and freed. Dream big. Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase copyrights to be made available under a free license. What would you like to see purchased and released under a free license? Photos libraries? textbooks? newspaper archives? Be bold, be specific, be general, brainstorm, have fun with it. I was recently asked this question by someone who is potentially in a position to make this happen, and he wanted to know what we need, what we dream of, that we can't accomplish on our own, or that we would expect to take a long time to accomplish on our own. --Jimbo

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Scheduled attendance for Wikinews or Commons
by bawolff 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Do to some recent confusion about overlaps of attendance of events (at wikinews), theres now a new page for coordinating event attendance, and I thought it probably should be announced on the mailing list: Summary from the page: Anyone planning to schedule attendance at an event, as a representative of Wikinews or Wikimedia Commons, should announce their plans as soon as possible on [[meta:Scheduled attendance for Wikinews or Commons]] , in order to not cause unnecessary overlap. Formally arranged coverage is best registered here. This is not necessary if you're attending informally, such as a tourist attraction, a protest, etc. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler#Page_for_coordination http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scheduled_attendance_for_Wikinews_or_Commons -bawolff

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And in other news...
by Brianna Laugher 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Brief comments on happenings around the wiki: * A process to recognise "featured galleries" has been started. (A "gallery" is a Commons main namespace page that is used to display/organise/annotate/present media files.) If you are interested in helping develop the criteria, or suggest some of your favourite galleries as possible models, please comment at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Featured_galleries . Innovative and unusual presentations are especially welcome. * Commons is rapidly approaching one million files. How can we celebrate and mark the occasion? See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Commons:One_million_… * A new process has been started [for admins] to review images from Flickr, as license changes or license mismatches are a common problem. No decision has been made about how to handle the images with differing licenses. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Para/Flickr http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flickr_review_needed http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Att… * There is a fledging project developing to organise and encourage Commons maintenance and cleanup work to be done. Mop and bucket optional. Your help needed at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:CommonTasks . * A new process for photography feedback has been started. It doesn't offer any shiny awards, but could give you more expansive feedback than COM:QI (Quality images, ala 'Good articles', but only for Wikimedian-created works) or COM:FP (Featured pictures). See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photography_critiques . regards, Brianna user:pfctdayelise

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Language
by damodar vinayak bale 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Can one refer to book "How Language Works" By:David Crystal, published by Penguin Books. Shyam.

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Re: [Commons-l] Dream a little...
by damodar vinayak bale 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

TRUTH only will WIN,is the meaning of the words SATYA MEVA JAYATE. There is no need to Dream."Arogyam Dhana Sampada" is translated as "Health is Wealth".So converting every moment of living in terms of dollars will not lead the world to good.We have harmed the Nature more than enough.We now should think on the basis of recycling from the waste that has been left,in search of good.End of the globe is very near,if Nature is disturbed any more.So GOOD LUCK. Shyam. On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 Jimmy Wales wrote : > >I would like to gather from the community some examples of works you >would like to see made free, works that we are not doing a good job of >generating free replacements for, works that could in theory be >purchased and freed. > >Dream big. Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase >copyrights to be made available under a free license. What would you >like to see purchased and released under a free license? > >Photos libraries? textbooks? newspaper archives? Be bold, be specific, >be general, brainstorm, have fun with it. > >I was recently asked this question by someone who is potentially in a >position to make this happen, and he wanted to know what we need, what >we dream of, that we can't accomplish on our own, or that we would >expect to take a long time to accomplish on our own. > >--Jimbo >_______________________________________________ >Commons-l mailing list >Commons-l(a)wikimedia.org >http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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Ogg Theora is too hard to play. We need YouTube-style Flash streaming video.
by Jason Spiro 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi all, Click this link: http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/SynBERC:MIT/Lab_video_tours It's far different from most video on Commons: it's Flash streaming video and it works in 99% of web browsers. (The VLC web browser plugin is supoosed to support Flash video too, though I've never tried it. Also I don't know if Flash video is based on patented codecs or not. But assuming that no such problems come up...) Perhaps we should put in a MediaWiki feature request: MediaWiki should convert all our videos to low-rez Flash Video format for streaming previewing as soon as the .ogg original is uploaded. This way, more people will be able to view our videos, so we'll get more uploads. Agree or disagree? Cheers, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. 416-781-5938 / Email: info(a)jspiro.com / MSN: jasonspiro(a)hotmail.com

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