WMI = Wikimedia Israel, a chapter PicWik = "pictures for Wikimedia", internal name for their historical picture collecting project
An English translation of the project spec is available at meta, who are interested to know more about it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_image_collection_project
cheers, Brianna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_Scott_Foresman
We've had a substantial number of illustrations donated to the Wikimedia Foundation under Public Domain that are presently being uploaded by interns in the office. These illustrations may be found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PD-ScottForesman.
I'd also like to point out that a great many of these scans require cleanup (cropping, rotation, inversion, levels adjustment, grayscale conversion, conversion to PNG) and/or categorization, and have been added to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_for_cleanup. These illustrations are a great resource, and many Commons users have already begun to help out in the cleanup process, but I wanted to offer the cleanup opportunity to a greater number of users with graphics skills.
Woah! That's a substantial and good addition!!!
On 8/15/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_Scott_Foresman
We've had a substantial number of illustrations donated to the Wikimedia Foundation under Public Domain that are presently being uploaded by interns in the office. These illustrations may be found at < http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PD-ScottForesman%3E.
I'd also like to point out that a great many of these scans require cleanup (cropping, rotation, inversion, levels adjustment, grayscale conversion, conversion to PNG) and/or categorization, and have been added to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_for_cleanup. These illustrations are a great resource, and many Commons users have already begun to help out in the cleanup process, but I wanted to offer the cleanup opportunity to a greater number of users with graphics skills.
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On 16/08/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_Scott_Foresman
We've had a substantial number of illustrations donated to the Wikimedia Foundation under Public Domain that are presently being uploaded by interns in the office. These illustrations may be found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PD-ScottForesman.
Very cool! :) Thanks to Pearson Scott Foresman for the generous donation.
Might it not be worth having a separate template that said something like 'This image was kindly donated by PSF' and had a link to a short page on Commons just with some details about this? i.e. when they were donated, how many in total, what exactly the collection consists of, and a thankyou. I think pages like this are very useful for reference years in the future. Such a link could be added to existing PD template I guess. cf. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:10%2C000_paintings_from_Directmedi...
Also, if you want to help but you're not so flash on the image editing, please help by improving the image's descriptions/keywords and placing them in appropriate articles or galleries. Also remember Wiktionary when thinking about places to put these images!
Cary, maybe if you can get a list of all the image names (or all the ones so far), we can create a page with a big table to check off as the images get cleaned up, annotated and placed into articles?
Having great pictures is almost pointless if nobody knows about them and nobody uses them. :)
cheers Brianna
On 15/08/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
WMI = Wikimedia Israel, a chapter PicWik = "pictures for Wikimedia", internal name for their historical picture collecting project
An English translation of the project spec is available at meta, who are interested to know more about it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_image_collection_project
Interesting indeed. Point 5 is promising - a content-flagging system. Do you know what's planned for this? It seems like it might be more broadly usable...
On 16/08/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 15/08/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
WMI = Wikimedia Israel, a chapter PicWik = "pictures for Wikimedia", internal name for their historical picture collecting project
An English translation of the project spec is available at meta, who are interested to know more about it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_image_collection_project
Interesting indeed. Point 5 is promising - a content-flagging system. Do you know what's planned for this? It seems like it might be more broadly usable...
I think that would only be part of the toolserver interface, sorry. :)
IIRC Magnus started to put together something like a 'copyright flagging' interface. It would be very good to have that. (and as distinct from a quality rating property.)
cheers Brianna
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On 15/08/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting indeed. Point 5 is promising - a content-flagging system. Do you know what's planned for this? It seems like it might be more broadly usable...
I think that would only be part of the toolserver interface, sorry. :)
IIRC Magnus started to put together something like a 'copyright flagging' interface. It would be very good to have that. (and as distinct from a quality rating property.)
Yeah, I did wonder how to design one a while back (a big red "PROBLEM" button on the sidebar, sort of thing, and whether it should let you fill in details or just mark it to be looked at on some list somewhere...) but never properly worked out how to do it.
Hmmm.
A JS kludge for this would be 10 minutes of work. Create a webpage on toolserver that displays the form for the user. Take the popup code from the media player, direct it to your form.
What do we do with the data this produces? How about a bot that copies the message to the talk page? Dealing with abuse might be a problem, the bot could check ipblocklist I suppose.
On 8/15/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 15/08/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting indeed. Point 5 is promising - a content-flagging system. Do you know what's planned for this? It seems like it might be more broadly usable...
I think that would only be part of the toolserver interface, sorry. :)
IIRC Magnus started to put together something like a 'copyright flagging' interface. It would be very good to have that. (and as distinct from a quality rating property.)
Yeah, I did wonder how to design one a while back (a big red "PROBLEM" button on the sidebar, sort of thing, and whether it should let you fill in details or just mark it to be looked at on some list somewhere...) but never properly worked out how to do it.
Hmmm.
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On 8/15/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/08/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 15/08/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
WMI = Wikimedia Israel, a chapter PicWik = "pictures for Wikimedia", internal name for their historical picture collecting project
An English translation of the project spec is available at meta, who are interested to know more about it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_image_collection_project
Interesting indeed. Point 5 is promising - a content-flagging system. Do you know what's planned for this? It seems like it might be more broadly usable...
I think that would only be part of the toolserver interface, sorry. :)
IIRC Magnus started to put together something like a 'copyright flagging' interface. It would be very good to have that. (and as distinct from a quality rating property.)
I did? Really? Good to know ;-)
Well, I started a rating system, as described in your wikitech-l wishlist, to allow any logged-in user to assign a rating 1-5 to any image. This would not include a big red "evil" button, though one could tick an image as "1" to express dismay...
I *did* develop a "tasks" extension a long time ago. It would allow for a "bad content" flagging system, with sidebar/page top message. However: * after all the time it lay and rusted in the extensions directory, I'm not sure if/how well it would work on the current MediaWiki * it would be overkill to employ it as a simple flagging system. It can do so much more.
Cheers, Magnus