Dear all, As part of the Multimedia usability project [1], we're going to set up a prototype environment, similar to the "sandboxes" used by the Wikipedia Usability initiative [2]. Importing all of Commons into the prototype would be overkill. As a consequence, we're looking for a small subset of content from Commons to use as a sample. We would like to have a reasonable range of: * filetypes * file sizes * licenses * metadata We don't necessarily need a wide range of topics. Would you have any suggestion of category (or set of categories) to use for this purpose? [1] http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia:About [2] http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sandbox -- Guillaume Paumier Product Manager, Multimedia Usability Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

Dear all, As part of the Multimedia usability project [1], we're going to set up a prototype environment, similar to the "sandboxes" used by the Wikipedia Usability initiative [2]. Importing all of Commons into the prototype would be overkill. As a consequence, we're looking for a small subset of content from Commons to use as a sample. We would like to have a reasonable range of: * filetypes * file sizes * licenses * metadata We don't necessarily need a wide range of topics. Would you have any suggestion of category (or set of categories) to use for this purpose? [1] http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia:About [2] http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sandbox

geni schrieb: That would give a fair sample, but not necessarily a good sample. the usability folks need "a few of each kind" for testing. getting numbers proportional to the actual "population" of images is unnecessary and probably rather counterproductive. So, I see two tasks: * identifying relevant "group" of media (along the parameters guillom specified) * sampling from  each group -- daniel

On 3 February 2010 21:54, Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de> wrote: At a guess I'd say the museum categories are the best bet. Stuff like: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Science_Museum_%28London%29 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:British_Museum

On 3 February 2010 22:01, Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de> wrote: uniform content. They provide a range of image sizes and licenses. Formats are harder. A few vids but yes SVG and djvu is limited. -- geni _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Hi, Platonides a écrit : At some point we will work on the file description page, for example. Or basic editing tools such as crop / rotate etc. For these cases, we need "local" files.