The press release is almost done at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/100K
If someone wants to write a background section on what wikis are etc.,
that might be a useful addition. Beyond that, please make minor fixes,
and help to translate it into as many languages as possible. We can
start sending this out on Monday. It doesn't need to be done in all
languages simultaneously; if some need a few more days, that's fine.
As noted in the release, the 100,000th file, by my count, is:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Dataflowfiringnodes.png
All best,
Erik
Please, stop using national flags for denoting human languages. Both
entities do not match. Using flag is discriminating minorities - it is
not appropriate to discriminate someone even if this would actually
improve accessibility.
These misleading flags are that small that I often must look twice to
recognize them; and if recognized, it isn't even sure that I know what
they mean! I don't watch TV and that's probably why I'm not familiar
with all these modern flags.
Instead of flags use a cobination of language code (ISO) and the native
name:
de - Deutsch
en - English
es - Español
ja - 日本語
etc.
For reference see
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Templates_for_galleries (where
you must change the templates) and
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump . As long as
this feature is under discussion we should stay away from announcing
it; at least, for the time being we must make it as neutral as possible:
Display {{german}} as <nowiki>{{german}}</nowiki> .
It is important for me to get this issue right.
--
http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ | ,__o
| _-\_<,
| (*)/'(*)
Key fingerprint = F138 B28F B7ED E0AC 1AB4 AA7F C90A 35C3 E9D0 5D1C
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Yorck_Project
'''de:''' Bitte teilt mir mit, ob das alles soweit OK ist; wenn ja,
folgt als nächstes der komplette Upload der 10.000.
'''en:''' Please tell me if there are any problems with the images
uploaded so far, if not, I will proceed to upload the rest.
An Karl: Alle Datumsangaben sind jetzt im ISO-Format.
Viele Grüße
Erik
I have now imported some of the artist metadata from the Directmedia
"10,000 masterpieces" DVD that was kindly donated to Wikimedia. For this
purpose, I have created a new "Creator:" metadata namespace on the
Commons. You can see all pages in this namespace at:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&nam…
As you can see, I have written some conversion routines to translate
date information from German into English. Other information, however,
is primarily in German.
Note that the current bot output still sometimes produces a *de: bullet
point when it should not pass any parameter at all to the template,
i.e., when the field is blank. For this reason, I have not completed the
import, and will run the bot again after this bug is fixed. (Also, the
bot didn't have a bot flag, with so many pages, that was very annoying
on Recent Changes.)
Before I proceed, however, I ask you to take a look at the current
imported pages, and tell me about any other issues with the metadata as
it is.
What's the point of this? Simple, using this content, I can now put
{{Creator:Johann Anwander}}
on an image page, or on a gallery page, and get instant metadata
information as well as a proper category with sort key. I will add these
{{Creator:Xy}} tags to all the uploaded images. This avoids redundancy
across different pages where the same information is used, and thereby
makes updating and extracting artist metadata easier. Effectively, we
are modelling the structure of the relational database using templates
(yay, Wikidata without Wikidata ;-).
After the bot run is finished, I will upload a few example images from
the DVD, and if that is to everyone's satisfaction, we can go for the
full load.
All best,
Erik
Hi,
I have seen a page in english that doesn't have a equivalent in
spanish.
I was born in Argentina, my primary language is spanish and I would like
to cooperate translating this page into spanish.
What should I do ?
Thank you,
Alberto
Hi all,
Registration for Wikimania, the first international Wikimedia conference
is now possible on http://wikimania.wikimedia.org
We'd like to invite all participants of the wikimedia projects to join
this big event in summer 2005.
Wikimania will take place from 4th to 8th august 2005 in Frankfurt am
Main, Germany. The event will combine Wikimedia community discussions
and software hacking with academic research, presentations of current
implementations, and user/community panels. Wiki fans, community
members, and developers are all invited to attend.
We are also encouraging presentation and content submissions for the
conference; for more information, see the call for papers
(http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_papers).
Please pass this message along to all Wikimedia projects, in english or
translating it (for coordination see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Wikimania/Announcement)
If you'd like to help or have ideas for the conference, don't hesitate
to contact us at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Feedback (or
just ask here on the mailing list).
Wikimania is an event from the community for the community - it will
live from your participation ;-)
greetings and hope to see you in summer,
elian,
for the Wikimania organisation team
Hi,
situation today: a Wikipedian at a meetup shows me a collection of at
least 100 beautiful high-resolution photos from Ecuador. Unfortunately,
only a couple of them are on the German Wikipedia, and none are on the
Commons. He's perfectly willing to make them GFDL, though. I offered to
do the uploading for him, but it occurred to me that a more general
solution might be in order.
Hence, I've just launched an experimental file upload service for the
Wikimedia Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_upload_service
(please translate!)
The idea is that people who are not comfortable using the Commons
directly (such as non-Wikimedians), or who want to upload a large number
of files, can contact a registered helper who will batch-upload them.
I can obviously only handle a limited number of such requests, so I
encourage anyone familiar with handling an upload bot to add themselves
to the list of helpers. If you can't handle large email attachments, let
me know, and I can give you an account on my FTP space.
Note that this is really a workaround for the Commons not being as
user-friendly as it should be (no single login, no easy upload form, no
batch upload support, categorization requires wiki knowledge).
Eventually, I'd like this to become obsolete.
I'm posting this announcement to foundation-l, wikipedia-l, wikinews-l,
and commons-l, since all these projects are affected. Please
forward/translate the message for other affected projects.
All best,
Erik
board(a)wikimedia.foundation doesn't work (not cool, it'everywhere on the
Foundation.org pages). So this this it again :
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Christophe Chazalette" <jean-christophe.chazalette(a)laposte.net>
To: <board(a)wikimedia.foundation>
Cc: "Andre Engels" <andreengels(a)gmail.com>; <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de>;
<commons-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:16 PM
Subject: SXC poll
| Hello there,
|
| Short note to make you all aware that the poll I organized on Commons
about
| the validity of pictures coming from the would be free site
| http://www.sxc.hu/ is about to end up, see
| http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Stock.xchng_images/vote
|
| This vote was based on my legal analysis of the situation (text - in
| English - at the top of the page), from which I demanded people their
| opinion about two issues.
|
| 1°) Can pictures from Stock.XCHNG be uploaded on Commons as long as there
is
| no conflicting usage restriction explicitely decided by the copyright
holder
| (the photographer) ?
|
| 2°) Should pictures from Stock.XCHNG not be categorized as such or listed
as
| such in a special page to avoid setting up a Stock.XCHNG « gallery » ?
|
| The vote is over the day after tomorrow and appears to approve my
analysis.
| Out of loyalty, I nonetheless prefer to tell you about the whole thing
| because it is not impossible that this new policy makes SCX.HU very
unhappy.
| My opinion is that there is nothing to fear as long as SXC's terms of use
| are the way they are.
|
| But please speak up now if you're thinking to veto the community decision
or
| to suspend it for a while in consideration of troubles that you might
fear.
| Otherwise, I'm just going to close the vote on March 13th and to enforce
it
| on the Commons.
|
| Thank you :)
|
| villy ~~JC
|
