Hoi, Blogger is the platform I use now for many years to blog about the subjects that are important in my appreciation of a Wiki world. At first I did not illustrate my blogposts but thanks to Pfctdayelise I started to pepper my blog posts with illustrations. At this moment it is no longer possible for me to upload pictures to blogger. The message that I get is that I have to ensure that I have a license for the pictures that I upload. This is true for pictures that I have downloaded from Commons and cropped, it is for screen shots of the interaction with the Blogger user interface.. It is possible for me to get pictures displayed when I refer to the upload page of a Commons picture but that does me no good when it is a svg picture. Obviously I can download the picture and save it as an png ... but that does me no good. There are several "solutions" to this problem. I can upload the png, I can use Wordpress instead. The obvious solution is for Google to get its act together. The solution that I like best is for Commons to become a true repository of images that is not only intended for the illustration of Wikipedia and its sister projects but also for the illustration of blogs like mine. Commons is my first choice for illustrations for my blog but for some topics it just does not provide me with the illustration that I am looking for. I think that Commons has already many images that are usable, what would be needed is just a different kind of pictures or more pictures that are grouped by subject and easier to find. Thanks, GerardM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Farsi.svg The svg I would like to use as a png http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/08/big-boost-for-mediawiki-localis… blog post that needs an illustration _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Hi, Can you describe your problem and the steps to reproduce it? It seems that Blogger doesn't support SVG images (you cannot use its uploader to upload a svg or to hotlink to one; you can of course edit the HTML of the post and hope for the best – it will not show the image in its wysywig editor if you do this but it should be fine after saving.) I can insert the PNG version of the image you mentioned by using the URL when you right click on the image on the file description page and choose "Copy image URL". Downloading and uploading the same PNG version also works fine for me. Best regards, Bence On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Hoi, The problem is not that I cannot use svg files, I cannot upload ANY files. My problem is not solved as I had to be told where I could find this pgn. This does not scale. Thanks,        GerardM

Sage Ross, 16/08/2010 23:19:

> The way Flickr does things is a good comparison.  They have a "share > this" pulldown, with options to share by email, share by long or short > url, and HTML and BBCode for various sizes.

By the way, this was proposed (also) by Erik Moeller two years ago http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/31977 during a discussion on hotlinking http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/31919

David Gerard, 17/08/2010 10:44:

> Hotlinking is fine, and InstantCommons is really really nice and really usable.

Yes, IstantCommons is great, but I wouldn't call it "really usable". We use it on http://www.wikimedia.it and we often have random errors like http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/File:Failed_to_open_stream.png , especially with big images like those added here http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/5_anni,_5_milioni_di_file_multimediali_su… (obviously this is more frequent when the image scalers are busy; and looks like it's happening less frequently, lately, but I'm not sure).

The way Flickr does things is a good comparison. They have a "share this" pulldown, with options to share by email, share by long or short url, and HTML and BBCode for various sizes. If Commons did this, it could provide code for displaying PNG versions of SVG files in assorted sizes. And it could provide links back to Common and ideally license and attribution information as well, making it much easier to build momentum for best practices in using copyleft content.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Guillaume Paumier &lt;gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inachis_io_qtl4.jpg?withJS=MediaWiki… Sincerely, One Of The Few (TM)

On 28 September 2010 22:10, Magnus Manske &lt;magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote: Magnus, you are if anything the All. It's marvellous! :-) I suppose the way to go from here would be to figure out where best to put it - underneath, with the full resolution link, or in the bar across the top above the image? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

I put it in the top bar for now. It looked a little lost there, so I threw some <b> around it; besides uploading and editing, we probably have more customers interested in reusing files.

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Bryan Tong Minh &lt;bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Now trying a button floating over the left side of the top bar. Looks weird though. Also, now Wikimedia/InstantCommons code for thumbs and full image. And download links, several sizes + original. Cheers, Magnus