«For years, Flickr has been one of the most important repositories of Creative Commons imagery in the world; now, thanks to a new design, it's all but useless for serving and attributing the CC-licensed images it's been entrusted with by museums, galleries, national archives, libraries, and millions of individuals.» http://boingboing.net/2014/04/07/restoring-cc-attribution-to-fl.html
Didn't pass here yet I think, though many commoners care a lot about this sad fate of Flickr for obvious reasons including the ease with which stuff à la https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickr_files/Appeal_for_license_change earns us new material daily.
Nemo
I've found numerous images on Flickr which I've got on to the Commons. Especially for Wikipedia Takes Chennai, back in 2009. It's sad that Yahoo decided to screw up. Something needs to ensure that this is fixed ASAP.
Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender. -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Treasurer. On May 1, 2014 2:37 AM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
«For years, Flickr has been one of the most important repositories of Creative Commons imagery in the world; now, thanks to a new design, it's all but useless for serving and attributing the CC-licensed images it's been entrusted with by museums, galleries, national archives, libraries, and millions of individuals.» http://boingboing.net/2014/04/07/restoring-cc-attribution-to-fl.html
Didn't pass here yet I think, though many commoners care a lot about this sad fate of Flickr for obvious reasons including the ease with which stuff à la https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickr_files/ Appeal_for_license_change earns us new material daily.
Nemo
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I know that the real issue here is that most Flickr users have absolutely no idea how to either find or change their licenses, however two pragmatic technical pointers:
1. The flickrapi gives you back the licence based on a simple query using the photo_id. I recently used this to double check licences using a custom Python script during a mass upload. For Commons, it would be not too hard to build friendly web-based simple tools to help users check licences and even mass change their own licences in their Flickr albums to be "Commons compatible" with a simple couple of button presses (using oauth). The well designed Upload Wizard can do the mass upload of their chosen albums to Commons.
2. I use a bookmarklet to quickly find images that can be used on Commons: javascript:(function(){if("".length==0){window.location="http://www.flickr.com/recent_activity.gne?days=1%22%7Delse%7Bwindow.location...)
Here is an example search for "cookies" using the bookmarklet: https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=cookies&l=commderiv&ss=2&ct=6&a...
Fae
On 1 May 2014 06:04, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
- I use a bookmarklet to quickly find images that can be used on Commons:
Correction to bookmarklet: javascript:(function(){if(%22%s%22.length==0){window.location=%22http://www.flickr.com/recent_activity.gne?days=1%22%7Delse%7Bwindow.location...)
Fae
Not sure if this still works (disclosure: I work with Commons Machinery) but we had a similar conversation regarding Flickr and some people on twitter found this useful: http://commonsmachinery.se/2014/02/copyrdf-addon-updates-oembed-site-rules/
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 May 2014 06:04, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
- I use a bookmarklet to quickly find images that can be used on
Commons:
Correction to bookmarklet: javascript:(function(){if(%22%s%22.length==0){window.location=%22 http://www.flickr.com/recent_activity.gne?days=1%22%7Delse%7Bwindow.location... )
Fae
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Noopur, 01/05/2014 08:00:
Not sure if this still works (disclosure: I work with Commons Machinery) but we had a similar conversation regarding Flickr and some people on twitter found this useful: http://commonsmachinery.se/2014/02/copyrdf-addon-updates-oembed-site-rules/
Thanks. There is a bug asking oEmbed support: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25854
Nemo