Fwd: [Commons-l] Structured data - file captions coming this week (January 2019) - Libraries

10 Jan 2019

Hello everyone!

Forwarding the latest message from Keegan:

Multilingual captions are scheduled to go live on Wikimedia Commons today,
Thursday 10 January, between 15:00 and 16:00 UTC. The time window may
change at the last minute, and the team may hold the deployment (or roll it
back) if last minute problems occur. Should that happen I will keep you all
informed, and I'll see you all at the IRC office hour today.

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From: Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l &lt;commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;
Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Structured data - file captions coming this week
(January 2019)
To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List &lt;commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;
Cc: Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia Team &lt;Multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>,
Wikimedia Mailing List &lt;Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;

Hi all, following up on last month's announcement... [0]
...

 Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either
 Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature
 to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you
 might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:

 * Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on
 mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel
 free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons. [1]
 * Test out using captions on Beta Commons. [2]
 * Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you
 have anything you'd like to say prior to release. [3]

 Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January
 with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as
 anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as
 well as a link to join, are on Meta. [4]

 Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to
 the IRC office hour on Thursday. I'll reply to this post once I confirm
 exactly what day file captions will be released to Commons.

 0.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&ol…
 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:File_captions
 2. https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/
 3.
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Beta_captio…
 4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours

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