---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hey Judson,
Having them hosted on the commons had occurred to me as well. They are raw tiff's, still with the map border, etc. So it might be advantageous to make them easier to handle by a average wikipedia viewers.
They are also about 300 GB in total. So if you think it makes sense for the commons to host them, I can arrange to mail a hard drive with the data.
Thanks, -jared
I emailed Jared (the person that bought the maps) just to say that there was interest in uploading them to commons, and he offered to mail a hard drive with all the images! I was thinking we would probably just grab them from the Archive, but I thought I would let everyone know of this offer in case anyone wanted to do it that way.
It is a lot of data, and in tiff format.
On 8/30/06, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
I emailed Jared (the person that bought the maps) just to say that there was interest in uploading them to commons, and he offered to mail a hard drive with all the images! I was thinking we would probably just grab them from the Archive, but I thought I would let everyone know of this offer in case anyone wanted to do it that way.
It is a lot of data, and in tiff format.
Anyone know the status of Djvu support in mediawiki? I know brion was working on it for Wikisource.
Djvu would be the most correct format for the distribution of this data.
I'm very glad to see people involving themselves in this project, and Jared's answer is fantastic :)
g.
On 8/30/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/30/06, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
I emailed Jared (the person that bought the maps) just to say that there was interest in uploading them to commons, and he offered to mail a hard drive with all the images! I was thinking we would probably just grab them from the Archive, but I thought I would let everyone know of this offer in case anyone wanted to do it that way.
It is a lot of data, and in tiff format.
Anyone know the status of Djvu support in mediawiki? I know brion was working on it for Wikisource.
Djvu would be the most correct format for the distribution of this data. _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
On 31/08/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone know the status of Djvu support in mediawiki? I know brion was working on it for Wikisource.
Djvu would be the most correct format for the distribution of this data.
It was announced a few weeks ago that DJVu is an accepted file format now.
Brianna
On 8/30/06, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 31/08/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone know the status of Djvu support in mediawiki? I know brion was working on it for Wikisource.
Djvu would be the most correct format for the distribution of this data.
It was announced a few weeks ago that DJVu is an accepted file format now.
Yes, but do we support adding the embede tags for viewing with the DJVu plugin? or automagic conversion to png or jpeg for unequipted browsers?
On 31/08/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, but do we support adding the embede tags for viewing with the DJVu plugin? or automagic conversion to png or jpeg for unequipted browsers?
I don't think so. See Brion's announcement: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-June/036562.html He says
For now there is no inline rendering (eg thumbnails), so it's only really suitable for
archival data
such as the scans of books that go into Wikisource.
Brianna
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On 8/30/06, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
Anyone know the status of Djvu support in mediawiki? I know brion was working on it for Wikisource.
Djvu would be the most correct format for the distribution of this data.
There exists a testimplemantation for multipage viewing of DjVu on a testwiki: http://semantic.jeluf.mormo.org/index.php/Image:Test.djvu?page=16
This code is implemented on Wikimedia servers too but not reviewed/activated. I will ask Jeluf and/or brion today.
Raymond.
Raimond Spekking wrote:
Gregory Maxwell schrieb:
On 8/30/06, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
Anyone know the status of Djvu support in mediawiki? I know brion was working on it for Wikisource.
Djvu would be the most correct format for the distribution of this data.
There exists a testimplemantation for multipage viewing of DjVu on a testwiki: http://semantic.jeluf.mormo.org/index.php/Image:Test.djvu?page=16
This code is implemented on Wikimedia servers too but not reviewed/activated. I will ask Jeluf and/or brion today.
The code's there, but I'm not sure if we've installed the required utilities for it yet. Check with JeLuF...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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Raimond Spekking wrote:
This code is implemented on Wikimedia servers too but not reviewed/activated. I will ask Jeluf and/or brion today.
The code's there, but I'm not sure if we've installed the required utilities for it yet. Check with JeLuF...
JeLuF told me today that it works at his home installation but not on the MW servers... He is still debugging...
Raymond.
First of all, I hereby inform everyone of the recently created Administrators' noticeboard, located at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard
Secondly, everyone who is watching recent changes have probably seen that the mass-upload of scans for Wikisource is commencing. I personally had worries about this, but since they do belong on Commons, this flooding-problem must be possible to solve in some technical way.
Third. Because of the ever-increasing traffic, several new admins have been promoted: August 16th, User:Lestath (pl, en-2, la-1) August 17th, User:Cnyborg (no, en-3, +others) August 17th, User:Odder (pl, en-2, de-2) August 30th, User:Platonides (es, en-2, fr-1) August 31st, User:Drini (es, en-3)
We welcome them and hope they will make good use of their admin abilities.
Fourth. Because of the increased traffic, there is a larger backlog, although not critical. There are around 1,100 images without source from July, and 100 left from June. The categories can be reached from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Unknown .
The speedy delete categories should never have a backlog. Recently the copyright violation category, located at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Against_policy , was up to 140 images, which is too much. Now it is down to about 50 which is acceptable, but keep an eye on it. In case anyone is interested, there is also a category for duplicates, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Duplicate , that hardly gets any attention.
Finally, I am still looking for someone who runs Linux and understands MySql to make a specific administrator-list. A complete tutorial is available!
/ Fred-Chess
On 02/09/06, Fredrik Josefsson fred_chessplayer@yahoo.se wrote:
Finally, I am still looking for someone who runs Linux and understands MySql to make a specific administrator-list. A complete tutorial is available!
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_queries .
Brianna user:pfctdayelise
On 9/1/06, Fredrik Josefsson fred_chessplayer@yahoo.se wrote: [snip]
Finally, I am still looking for someone who runs Linux and understands MySql to make a specific administrator-list. A complete tutorial is available!
What exactly do you want? I don't quite understand the question, but I can almost certainly generate whatever info you desire.
--- Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com skrev:
On 9/1/06, Fredrik Josefsson fred_chessplayer@yahoo.se wrote: [snip]
Finally, I am still looking for someone who runs
Linux
and understands MySql to make a specific administrator-list. A complete tutorial is
available!
What exactly do you want? I don't quite understand the question, but I can almost certainly generate whatever info you desire.
It concerns the list of administrators by number of deletions.
A user made a list, but after some disputes on the mailinglist he didn't want to maintain it. He also heavily truncated the page. I am looking for someone who can maintain it and update it monthly.
If anyone is interested, I will provide the tutorial that the user generously wrote for me.
/ Fred-Chess
Greg,
This sounds like it's right up your alley :)
Cary
-----Original Message----- From: commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Fredrik Josefsson Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 8:45 AM To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Some stats and info
--- Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com skrev:
On 9/1/06, Fredrik Josefsson fred_chessplayer@yahoo.se wrote: [snip]
Finally, I am still looking for someone who runs
Linux
and understands MySql to make a specific administrator-list. A complete tutorial is
available!
What exactly do you want? I don't quite understand the question, but I can almost certainly generate whatever info you desire.
It concerns the list of administrators by number of deletions.
A user made a list, but after some disputes on the mailinglist he didn't want to maintain it. He also heavily truncated the page. I am looking for someone who can maintain it and update it monthly.
If anyone is interested, I will provide the tutorial that the user generously wrote for me.
/ Fred-Chess _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
Fred, first I would establish an on-wiki opt-in page. Ask Orgullomoore to drop a line on all admin's talk pages, ask them to go to a page and sign if they consent to being identified with statistics about their admin activities.
Brianna
On 02/09/06, Fredrik Josefsson fred_chessplayer@yahoo.se wrote:
--- Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com skrev:
On 9/1/06, Fredrik Josefsson fred_chessplayer@yahoo.se wrote: [snip]
Finally, I am still looking for someone who runs
Linux
and understands MySql to make a specific administrator-list. A complete tutorial is
available!
What exactly do you want? I don't quite understand the question, but I can almost certainly generate whatever info you desire.
It concerns the list of administrators by number of deletions.
A user made a list, but after some disputes on the mailinglist he didn't want to maintain it. He also heavily truncated the page. I am looking for someone who can maintain it and update it monthly.
If anyone is interested, I will provide the tutorial that the user generously wrote for me.
/ Fred-Chess _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l