Hey everyone :)
I've been asked to enable access to the data on Wikidata for Commons. I'm happy to make that happen. We'll enable access on December 2nd. What does this mean? You will be able to access data from an item on Wikidata like the date of birth of an artist or the name of a city in different languages. Where and how much you make use of that is up for you to decide. You will be able to access the data in two ways. The first one is the #property parser function (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Inclusion_syntax). The second one is via Lua (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua). There are two big caveats at this point. 1) You will only be able to access data for items that are connected via a sitelink to the page you want to show the data on. We're currently working on allowing accessing data from any item. This should be available around January/February. 2) You can not use this to store meta data (like the date a picture was taken or who took it) about individual files. This will in the future be stored on Commons itself as part of the structured data project (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data).
Please let me know if you have any questions. I am looking forward to more integration between Commons and Wikidata and all the things this will make possible. It'd be great if you could help with updating and expanding https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata. The relevant page on Wikidata is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Commons.
Cheers Lydia
Hey folks :)
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hey everyone :)
I've been asked to enable access to the data on Wikidata for Commons. I'm happy to make that happen. We'll enable access on December 2nd. What does this mean? You will be able to access data from an item on Wikidata like the date of birth of an artist or the name of a city in different languages. Where and how much you make use of that is up for you to decide. You will be able to access the data in two ways. The first one is the #property parser function (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Inclusion_syntax). The second one is via Lua (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua). There are two big caveats at this point. 1) You will only be able to access data for items that are connected via a sitelink to the page you want to show the data on. We're currently working on allowing accessing data from any item. This should be available around January/February. 2) You can not use this to store meta data (like the date a picture was taken or who took it) about individual files. This will in the future be stored on Commons itself as part of the structured data project (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data).
Please let me know if you have any questions. I am looking forward to more integration between Commons and Wikidata and all the things this will make possible. It'd be great if you could help with updating and expanding https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata. The relevant page on Wikidata is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Commons.
This has happened now. Commons has access to the data on Wikidata \o/
Cheers Lydia
Hurrah! Thank you for doing this, and for tracking and publicizing these changes.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hey everyone :)
I've been asked to enable access to the data on Wikidata for Commons. I'm happy to make that happen. We'll enable access on December 2nd. What does this mean? You will be able to access data from an item on Wikidata like the date of birth of an artist or the name of a city in different languages. Where and how much you make use of that is up for you to decide. You will be able to access the data in two ways. The first one is the #property parser function (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Inclusion_syntax). The second one is via Lua (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua). There are two big caveats at this point. 1) You will only be able to access data for items that are connected via a sitelink to the page you want to show the data on. We're currently working on allowing accessing data from any item. This should be available around January/February. 2) You can not use this to store meta data (like the date a picture was taken or who took it) about individual files. This will in the future be stored on Commons itself as part of the structured data project (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data).
Please let me know if you have any questions. I am looking forward to more integration between Commons and Wikidata and all the things this will make possible. It'd be great if you could help with updating and expanding https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata. The relevant page on Wikidata is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Commons.
Cheers Lydia
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Sorry for crossposting:Help one of the best volunteer photographers in Wikimedia Commons restore his stolen equipment.
Diego Delso is known as Poco a poco in Wikimedia Commons. In case you don't know, Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository where anyone can share freely-licensed content with everyone. Wikipedia uses Wikimedia Commons as it's image repository, so, in fact, most of the times you view an image in Wikipedia, you are actually viewing a Wikimedia Commons image.While Diego is just one of the thousands of Wikimedia Commons volunteers, he is a very special one: he's one of the main Commons contributors ever, having some amazing records, such as being the user with the highest amount of Featured Pictures ever (153 images) and also the one with the highest amount of quality images ever, with 5,777 Quality Images. That's an awesome amount of very high quality material, that Diego has given to every living person for free.Never heard about Wikimedia Commons? It's the repository that hosts allmultimedia files that you can see (and download) in Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects. Diego's files are used in those projects and are also available for everybody else with a free license.Furthermore, Diego has contributed in Wikimedia Commons in other ways. One of them is by supporting (by being an organizer or a jury) two of the most importantphotographic contests in the Wikimedia movement (and in the world!): Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth.Sadly, while Diego was in Buenos Aires after participating in a Wikimedia Iberoamerican Encounter with other Wikimedia volunteers, he got his equipment stolen. In this unfortunate event, he didn't only lost his camera, zoom lenses and laptop, but also every single picture he took during his 2 weeks trip in South America, which he was going to upload to Wikimedia Commons so they could be used by everyone, everywhere.As Wikimedia volunteers and Diego's friends, we could not stand aside of this, so we decided to help him to restore his equipment. You can help, too, by contributing to this campaign!Our goal is simple: to collect enough money to help Diego to buy exactly the same equipment he lost.All the gear he lost in Argentina is described below, with a reference to the price from Amazon for the same equipment.TipoModeloPreçoCamera bodyCanon EOS 5D Mark II$ 2,694.00Objective fisheye f/4.0Canon EF 8-15mm L USM$ 1,349.00Objective wide-angle f/4.0Canon EF 17-40mm L USM$ 839.00Objective wide-angle to telephoto f/4.0Canon EF 24-105mm L IS UVM$ 1,149.00LaptopAcer Aspire 1810T$ 600.00Total$ 6,631.00
Converted to Euro (since Diego is based in Europe) that goes to 5,300 Euro + 200 euro of Indiegogo fee, which is our target to collect. This campaign is runned on indiegogo.com and the link is https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/funding-a-new-gear-for-wm-photographer-po... You can use the short link http://igg.me/at/pocoapoco in social networks Thank you Santi Navarro
On 2 December 2014 at 23:17, Santiago Navarro Sanz wikimillars@hotmail.com wrote:
Sorry for crossposting: Help one of the best volunteer photographers in Wikimedia Commons restore his stolen equipment.
*Diego Delso is known as Poco a poco https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Poco_a_poco in Wikimedia Commons*. In case you don't know, Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository where anyone can share freely-licensed content with everyone. *Wikipedia uses Wikimedia Commons as it's image repository*, so, in fact, most of the times you view an image in Wikipedia, you are actually viewing a Wikimedia Commons image.
While Diego is just one of the thousands of Wikimedia Commons volunteers, he is a very special one: *he's one of the main Commons contributors ever*, having some amazing records, such as being the user with the highest amount of Featured Pictures ever https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Featured_pictures_by_creator (153 images) and also the one with the highest amount of quality images ever, with 5,777 Quality Images https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Quality_images_by_User:Poco_a_poco. That's an awesome amount of very high quality material, that Diego has given to every living person for free.
Never heard about *Wikimedia Commons*? It's the repository that hosts all*multimedia files* that you can see (and download) in *Wikipedia *and all other Wikimedia projects. Diego's files are used in those projects and are also available for everybody else with a free license.
Furthermore, Diego has contributed in Wikimedia Commons in other ways. One of them is by supporting (by being an *organizer* or a *jury*) two of the most important*photographic contests* in the Wikimedia movement (and in the world!): Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth.
Sadly, while Diego was in Buenos Aires after participating in a Wikimedia Iberoamerican Encounter with other Wikimedia volunteers, *he got his equipment stolen*. In this unfortunate event, he didn't only lost his camera, zoom lenses and laptop, but also *every single picture he took during his 2 weeks trip in South America*, which he was going to upload to Wikimedia Commons so they could be used by everyone, everywhere.
As Wikimedia volunteers and Diego's friends, we could not stand aside of this, so we decided to help him to *restore his equipment*. *You can help, too*, by contributing to this campaign!
Our goal is simple: to collect enough money to help Diego to buy exactly the same equipment he lost.
All the gear he lost in Argentina is described below, with a reference to the price from Amazon for the same equipment.
TipoModeloPreçoCamera bodyCanon EOS 5D Mark II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS_5D_Mark_II$ 2,694.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-Mark-Frame-Camera-MODEL/dp/B001G5ZTLSObjective fisheye f/4.0Canon EF 8-15mm L USM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_8-15mm_lens$ 1,349.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-8-15mm-Fisheye-Ultra-Wide-Cameras/dp/B0040X4OZU/Objective wide-angle f/4.0Canon EF 17-40mm L USM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_17-40mm_lens$ 839.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-17-40mm-Ultra-Angle-Cameras/dp/B00009R6WO/Objective wide-angle to telephoto f/4.0Canon EF 24-105mm L IS UVM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_24-105mm_lens$ 1,149.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-24-105mm-USM-Lens-Cameras/dp/B000AZ57M6/ LaptopAcer Aspire 1810T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_Notebook$ 600.00 http://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Aspire-1810T-Series.21471.0.htmlTotal$ 6,631.00
Cost wise you don't buy the 5DII and 24-105mm as separate items. You buy the 5DIII with the 24-150mm as a kit.
My bad Geni, I never had one and therefore priced then as two itens and not one.
_____ *Béria L. de Rodríguez*
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.*
2014-12-02 21:57 GMT-02:00 geni geniice@gmail.com:
On 2 December 2014 at 23:17, Santiago Navarro Sanz < wikimillars@hotmail.com> wrote:
Sorry for crossposting: Help one of the best volunteer photographers in Wikimedia Commons restore his stolen equipment.
*Diego Delso is known as Poco a poco https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Poco_a_poco in Wikimedia Commons*. In case you don't know, Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository where anyone can share freely-licensed content with everyone. *Wikipedia uses Wikimedia Commons as it's image repository*, so, in fact, most of the times you view an image in Wikipedia, you are actually viewing a Wikimedia Commons image.
While Diego is just one of the thousands of Wikimedia Commons volunteers, he is a very special one: *he's one of the main Commons contributors ever*, having some amazing records, such as being the user with the highest amount of Featured Pictures ever https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Featured_pictures_by_creator (153 images) and also the one with the highest amount of quality images ever, with 5,777 Quality Images https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Quality_images_by_User:Poco_a_poco. That's an awesome amount of very high quality material, that Diego has given to every living person for free.
Never heard about *Wikimedia Commons*? It's the repository that hosts all*multimedia files* that you can see (and download) in *Wikipedia *and all other Wikimedia projects. Diego's files are used in those projects and are also available for everybody else with a free license.
Furthermore, Diego has contributed in Wikimedia Commons in other ways. One of them is by supporting (by being an *organizer* or a *jury*) two of the most important*photographic contests* in the Wikimedia movement (and in the world!): Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth.
Sadly, while Diego was in Buenos Aires after participating in a Wikimedia Iberoamerican Encounter with other Wikimedia volunteers, *he got his equipment stolen*. In this unfortunate event, he didn't only lost his camera, zoom lenses and laptop, but also *every single picture he took during his 2 weeks trip in South America*, which he was going to upload to Wikimedia Commons so they could be used by everyone, everywhere.
As Wikimedia volunteers and Diego's friends, we could not stand aside of this, so we decided to help him to *restore his equipment*. *You can help, too*, by contributing to this campaign!
Our goal is simple: to collect enough money to help Diego to buy exactly the same equipment he lost.
All the gear he lost in Argentina is described below, with a reference to the price from Amazon for the same equipment.
TipoModeloPreçoCamera bodyCanon EOS 5D Mark II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS_5D_Mark_II$ 2,694.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-Mark-Frame-Camera-MODEL/dp/B001G5ZTLSObjective fisheye f/4.0Canon EF 8-15mm L USM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_8-15mm_lens$ 1,349.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-8-15mm-Fisheye-Ultra-Wide-Cameras/dp/B0040X4OZU/Objective wide-angle f/4.0Canon EF 17-40mm L USM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_17-40mm_lens$ 839.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-17-40mm-Ultra-Angle-Cameras/dp/B00009R6WO/Objective wide-angle to telephoto f/4.0Canon EF 24-105mm L IS UVM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_24-105mm_lens$ 1,149.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-24-105mm-USM-Lens-Cameras/dp/B000AZ57M6/ LaptopAcer Aspire 1810T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_Notebook$ 600.00 http://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Aspire-1810T-Series.21471.0.htmlTotal$ 6,631.00
Cost wise you don't buy the 5DII and 24-105mm as separate items. You buy the 5DIII with the 24-150mm as a kit.
-- geni
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there are lot variants possible with the 5dmkIII kits, as a quick guide I added a link to B&H I buy gear from there and get it shipped to Australia but I'm sure those closer to home for Diego will of other options,. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?atclk=Camera+Model_Canon+5D+III&ci=...
On 3 December 2014 at 08:04, Béria Lima berialima@gmail.com wrote:
My bad Geni, I never had one and therefore priced then as two itens and not one.
*Béria L. de Rodríguez*
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.*
2014-12-02 21:57 GMT-02:00 geni geniice@gmail.com:
On 2 December 2014 at 23:17, Santiago Navarro Sanz < wikimillars@hotmail.com> wrote:
Sorry for crossposting: Help one of the best volunteer photographers in Wikimedia Commons restore his stolen equipment.
*Diego Delso is known as Poco a poco https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Poco_a_poco in Wikimedia Commons*. In case you don't know, Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository where anyone can share freely-licensed content with everyone. *Wikipedia uses Wikimedia Commons as it's image repository*, so, in fact, most of the times you view an image in Wikipedia, you are actually viewing a Wikimedia Commons image.
While Diego is just one of the thousands of Wikimedia Commons volunteers, he is a very special one: *he's one of the main Commons contributors ever*, having some amazing records, such as being the user with the highest amount of Featured Pictures ever https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Featured_pictures_by_creator (153 images) and also the one with the highest amount of quality images ever, with 5,777 Quality Images https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Quality_images_by_User:Poco_a_poco. That's an awesome amount of very high quality material, that Diego has given to every living person for free.
Never heard about *Wikimedia Commons*? It's the repository that hosts all*multimedia files* that you can see (and download) in *Wikipedia *and all other Wikimedia projects. Diego's files are used in those projects and are also available for everybody else with a free license.
Furthermore, Diego has contributed in Wikimedia Commons in other ways. One of them is by supporting (by being an *organizer* or a *jury*) two of the most important*photographic contests* in the Wikimedia movement (and in the world!): Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth.
Sadly, while Diego was in Buenos Aires after participating in a Wikimedia Iberoamerican Encounter with other Wikimedia volunteers, *he got his equipment stolen*. In this unfortunate event, he didn't only lost his camera, zoom lenses and laptop, but also *every single picture he took during his 2 weeks trip in South America*, which he was going to upload to Wikimedia Commons so they could be used by everyone, everywhere.
As Wikimedia volunteers and Diego's friends, we could not stand aside of this, so we decided to help him to *restore his equipment*. *You can help, too*, by contributing to this campaign!
Our goal is simple: to collect enough money to help Diego to buy exactly the same equipment he lost.
All the gear he lost in Argentina is described below, with a reference to the price from Amazon for the same equipment.
TipoModeloPreçoCamera bodyCanon EOS 5D Mark II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS_5D_Mark_II$ 2,694.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-Mark-Frame-Camera-MODEL/dp/B001G5ZTLSObjective fisheye f/4.0Canon EF 8-15mm L USM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_8-15mm_lens$ 1,349.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-8-15mm-Fisheye-Ultra-Wide-Cameras/dp/B0040X4OZU/Objective wide-angle f/4.0Canon EF 17-40mm L USM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_17-40mm_lens$ 839.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-17-40mm-Ultra-Angle-Cameras/dp/B00009R6WO/Objective wide-angle to telephoto f/4.0Canon EF 24-105mm L IS UVM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_24-105mm_lens$ 1,149.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-24-105mm-USM-Lens-Cameras/dp/B000AZ57M6/ LaptopAcer Aspire 1810T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_Notebook$ 600.00 http://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Aspire-1810T-Series.21471.0.html Total$ 6,631.00
Cost wise you don't buy the 5DII and 24-105mm as separate items. You buy the 5DIII with the 24-150mm as a kit.
-- geni
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All the gear he lost in Argentina is described below, with a reference to the price from Amazon for the same equipment.
Tipo Modelo Preço Camera body Canon EOS 5D Mark II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS_5D_Mark_II $ 2,694.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-Mark-Frame-Camera-MODEL/dp/B001G5ZTLS Objective fisheye f/4.0 Canon EF 8-15mm L USM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_8-15mm_lens $ 1,349.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-8-15mm-Fisheye-Ultra-Wide-Cameras/dp/B0040X4OZU/
Objective wide-angle f/4.0 Canon EF 17-40mm L USM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_17-40mm_lens $ 839.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-17-40mm-Ultra-Angle-Cameras/dp/B00009R6WO/ Objective wide-angle to telephoto f/4.0 Canon EF 24-105mm L IS UVM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EF_24-105mm_lens $ 1,149.00 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-24-105mm-USM-Lens-Cameras/dp/B000AZ57M6/ Laptop Acer Aspire 1810T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_Notebook $ 600.00 http://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Aspire-1810T-Series.21471.0.html Total $ 6,631.00
Converted to Euro (since Diego is based in Europe) that goes to 5,300 Euro + 200 euro of Indiegogo fee, which is our target to collect.
Looking up prices on amazon US and then doing a straight conversion to EUR is likely to result in anunderestimate of the cost for a european of replacing their stuff. There is VAT to consider (though if they are a VAT registered buisness they may be able to claim this back, not sure how a VAT claimback would interact with a donation like this though) and also the fact that equipment tends to cost more on this side of the pond even before VAT.