Hi everyone,
I lead platform work
<https://github.com/creativecommons/platform-initiative> at Creative
Commons. As part of that work, we are exploring the potential of a standard
field in EXIF that could make attribution and license info more sticky
across the web. We are currently in the research phase -- talking to major
image hosting platforms (and platforms that read and ingest images) about
what kinds of image metadata they read and retain. Zhou and his engineering
team at Wikimedia directed me to this list as I am seeking feedback from
the Wikimedia community.
Ultimately, we want to make it easier for platforms to display provenance
and license info -- increase the likelihood that when a user lands on an
image, they know who created it and what license to use it under. For
example, images from Wikimedia Commons may get tweeted, but the image
metadata is not retained in tweets. How can we work with platforms to use
the same metadata standard so that info can be retained across them?
Since we are just in the research phase now, I welcome your thoughts on
Wikimedia Commons' and Wikipedia's own uses of image metadata. Specifically:
1. The most common image metadata standards we know about are EXIF and
XMP. Which does Wikimedia primarily read and retain? Are there others that
are more widely used?
2. Which standard does Wikimedia prefer? What would be easiest to
implement? for Wikimedia, but also for the platforms that Wikimedia
interfaces with. Aka, what are the pros and cons of each?
Lastly, welcome any general thoughts about the feasibility and need for
such a project.
Best,
Jane
Jane Park
@janedaily
Creative Commons | Los Angeles
Make a donation to support CC in 2015: http://bit.ly/supportcc2015
Hello, friends!
We have some preliminary numbers and graphs for Commons, English
Wikipedia, and German Wikipedia on the following:
* Uploads per month
* Unique uploaders per month
* New uploaders per month
* Cross-wiki uploads per month (currently wonky, patch in to fix it)
* UploadWizard uploads per month (based on categories, might be flawed)
You can find the graphs here:
https://edit-analysis.wmflabs.org/multimedia-health
The raw numbers are available, if you're into it:
http://datasets.wikimedia.org/limn-public-data/metrics/multimedia-health/
These numbers will automatically update each month, and we have
historical data as far back as is necessary (but feel free to disagree
with that assessment).
Upcoming numbers:
* Uploaders by tool per month (i.e. people using UW, CWU, etc.)
* New uploaders by tool per month
* Deletions
Numbers I want but haven't totally sussed out how to find (but I'm close!):
* Number of pages with images per month
* Number of images on pages per month
All of those numbers and graphs will show up in the same places (see
links above) and will also be updated automatically, so we never have to
think about implementing metrics ever again.
If you want to mess up my code, you can try to do so in the
analytics/limn-multimedia-data repository on gerrit, and the
configurations for Dashiki are here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Config:MultimediaHealthhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dashiki:CategorizedMetrics
Let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, complaints, or
praise for these efforts - I'm available on- or off-list, on
Phabricator, or on IRC in the #wikimedia-multimedia channel as always :)
And, side plug, the wonderful Analytics humans who brought you the
reportupdater and Dashiki tools can be found on the analytics list (one
of the addressees of this message) or in #wikimedia-analytics.
Thanks everyone, here's to more great numbers this year!
--
Mark Holmquist
Lead Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org
http://marktraceur.info
Hi Multimedians,
Are there any significant interface or capability changes planned in the
near future for the Commons upload wizard? The reason that I ask is that I
plan to demonstrate the use of the wizard in my IEG-funded educational
video project
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid…>,
and I would like to future-proof the content to the extent that it's
possible to do so.
Thank you,
Pine
FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Wilfredor <wilfredor(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:59 AM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikiradio
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*Wikiradio* is a real-time audio service transmitted via the Internet. This
service offers various stations, covering all genres of music and even
including recordings of Wikipedia articles on different languages, all of
which are available on Wikimedia Commons. Each sound is chosen by the
community to be highlighted as some of the finest work on Wikipedia and the
Wikimedia Commons.
What is Wikiradio?
Rather than listening to several audio files in Wikimedia Commons, which
require clicking "play" one after another on each one, the wikiradio
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio> tools works not as a radio streaming
service, but instead as a synchronized (with UTC time) set of tracks so
that everybody can hear at the same time, simulating a radio.
How I can add my station?[edit
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiradio_(tool)&action=edit&s…>
]
1. Create a page in meta with your dayparting
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayparting> with your music list
like *[[Wikiradio
(tool)/playlist/<my_Station>]]*ej: for clasic music station we have
Wikiradio
(tool)/playlist/classic
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiradio_(tool)/playlist/classic>
2. Edit the Template:Wikiradio (tool)/stations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikiradio_(tool)/stations> and
add your station like *{{RadioUrl|<my_station>|<My_station>}}*,ej, for
classic music we have {{RadioUrl|classic|Classic}}
3. Ready, now you can listen your music in wikiradio
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio> !!
*Note:* Alternatively, you can archive your dayparting and ask for an
administrator to protect those pages.How work Wikiradio software?
Wikiradio load javascript pages dynamically from meta pages to make the
dayparting. This is thus in order that the community can choose the music
to be placed in these pages. Please edit the page of the station when you
want hear your music.
Some ideas for stations include the spoken Wikipedia
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/spoken_Wikipedia> audios, music by genre
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Audio_files_of_music> and
topics like ambient audio
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sounds_of_nature>. But we can
do it better. Hourly, a signal is heard
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Busy_tone_(France).ogg> to warn about
o'clock hours, like a real radio :p. Even better we could add a "You are
listening wikiradio, the free radio" spoken message every half hour, and
other stuff.
Each radio station load a dayparting from a wikipage in meta like
"Wikiradio (tool)/playlist/<my_radio_station>" (ej: Wikiradio
(tool)/playlist/classic
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiradio_(tool)/playlist/classic>) and it
could be archived.
Finally, the main station could use music to fill the gaps of a daily radio
programming based on Wikimania conferences, wiki podcasts, etc. So, what do
you think? Your help is welcome, picking new tracks for any station or
suggesting your ideas. Thanks. (Soure here
<https://github.com/emijrp/wikiradio>)
See also
- WikiRadio stations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiRadio_stations>
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For those who may be interested in interactive visualizations.
Pine
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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] New tutorial for interactive graphics on Wiki
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I've played with this more, and I like how it works. I can imagine people
using this map with other data sets like HDI, GDP per capita, inflation,
Wikipedia readership, and WMF fundraising (:
Pine
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Szymon Grabarczuk <tar.locesilion(a)gmail.com
> wrote:
> Great! now, I think it should be marked for translation.
>
> On 31 December 2015 at 08:38, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The tutorial looks nice! I will take a look when I am less distracted by
> > finance reports. Thank you for working on this.
> >
> > Pine
> > On Dec 30, 2015 22:37, "Yuri Astrakhan" <yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I just finished writing a tutorial on how to build interactive Vega
> > graphs
> > > for Wikipedia. And yes, we could build video games this way too :)
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Interactive_Graph_Tutorial
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