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Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for July-September 2015
by Tilman Bayer 17 Oct '15

17 Oct '15

Forwarding regarding the quarterly documentation of the WMF Multimedia team ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:15 PM Subject: Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for July-September 2015 To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Greetings everyone, the Wikimedia Foundation's quarterly reviews of teams' work in the past quarter (July-September, Q1 of the 2015-16 fiscal year) took place last week. Minutes and slides for those meetings are now available: Community Engagement: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Discovery: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Reading and Advancement (with Fundraising Tech): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Editing (comprising the Collaboration, Language Engineering, Multimedia, Parsing, and VisualEditor teams): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Infrastructure (comprising the Analytics, Release Engineering, Services, TechOps, and Labs teams) and CTO (comprising the Design Research, Research & Data, Performance, and Security teams): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… Legal, Talent & Culture (HR), Communications, Finance & Administration & Office IT, and Team Practices: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… As usual, much of this information will also be available in consolidated form as part of the general WMF quarterly report for Q1, which is planned to be published on October 19. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarter… for some general background about the Foundation's quarterly review process. -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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FLIF - Free Lossless Image Format
by Gilles Dubuc 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

Self-explanatory website explaining the project: http://flif.info/ HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10317790

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Popcorn Maker is dead; long live Popcorn Editor
by Brion Vibber 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

One of the really cool ‘web maker’ projects that Mozilla sponsored in the last few years was Popcorn Maker <https://popcorn.webmaker.org/>, an in-browser video editor that could take direct video clips or videos from Youtube etc and let you remix to your heart’s content. (See Ben’s blog post from July <http://www.benmoskowitz.com/?p=1083> and Mike’s presentation on Air Mozilla <https://air.mozilla.org/mnolan/>) Obviously this capability is very attractive for the future of video on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites! Unfortunately Mozilla has to shuffle priorities, and Popcorn Maker is on the outs <https://blog.webmaker.org/product-update-for-appmaker-and-popcorn-maker>. Fortunately, there’s enough interest in the Wikimedia video world that we’re helping to pick it up! Popcorn Editor is a standalone version <https://github.com/mozilla/popcorn-editor#readme> of the Popcorn Maker editor tool, and I’m going to be helping with integrating that into MediaWiki. We’ve got a milestone in the bug tracker <https://github.com/mozilla/popcorn-editor/milestones/Wikimedia%20proof%20of…> and everything. [image: :)] If you’re interested in helping out, we’re going to have some work sprints at WikiConference USA <http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/2015/Main_Page> next weekend in Washington, DC. Please come and help out! -- brion

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Alliance for Open Media: everybody but Apple now working on next-gen open codec
by Brion Vibber 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

This may be of interest: http://aomedia.org/press-release/alliance-to-deliver-next-generation-open-m… Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Netflix are pooling resources to work on hammering out a standard, royalty-free, next-gen open video codec. Cisco and Mozilla had already started working together, combining ideas from Cisco's Thor codec and the Mozilla-sponsored Xiph's Daala codec, but getting them together with Google's VPx team is a big happy occasion... getting Intel and Microsoft on board means probably hardware support on x86_64 chips and support in Windows and MS Edge, while Amazon and Netflix pump a lot of video volume out both to browsers and devices, so should help push adoption by ARM SoC makers. In other words, AWESOME SAUCE! The only missing major player looks to be Apple... so we'll see if they eventually join on or if they double down on HEVC and we keep having to play JavaScript tricks. :P I'm subscribing to their mailing list for updates; it may be worth looking into if we can partner in or at least follow along and support stuff on our end. -- brion

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Video: updated support for VP9, Opus source media
by Brion Vibber 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Thanks to Giuseppe in ops & a bunch of other folks who have helped out, we've got an updated server configuration for the 'video scalers' that generate media transcodes, supporting VP9 video and Opus audio. Initially we have one server updated and in production, and the rest should follow by tomorrow. (Updated servers are also in place on the beta cluster.) This should make it possible for WebM files using VP9 video and/or Opus audio to work as fully first-class citizens in TimedMediaHandler, generating medium- and low-resolution transcodes in Ogg and WebM VP8. It should also fix Ogg audio files using the Opus codec to work consistently. Support for generating VP9 transcodes as well is in the code and just needs to be switched on -- I'll tweak that configuration once we've got the rest of the servers upgraded and have more capacity for batch runs. (I've got a client-side bot which I'll start once that's ready, to force all the files to generate over time.) -- brion

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Systems used for uploads on Commons
by Sylvain Boissel 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Hello, Wikimédia France is working on the next Wiki Loves Africa contest, and in this context, we published this graphic : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2014_-_cameras_us… These are the cameras used to take the pictures uploaded for the event last year. A person from the Africa Centre asked us if we have the same kind of information about the devices that are used to import the pictures. Is it possible for the WMF to have the same kind of data for all African countries (or the whole continent)? Best regards, Sylvain. -- *Sylvain Boissel* ADMINISTRATEUR SYSTÈME ET RÉSEAUX *WIKIMÉDIA FRANCE* *Tél +33 1 42 36 97 72* *www.wikimedia.fr <http://www.wikimedia.fr/>* *40 rue de Cléry, **75002 Paris* <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/691082430#map=19/48.86814/2.34683> *Imaginez un monde où chaque personne sur la planète aurait librement accès à la totalité du savoir humain. C'est notre engagement. Aidez Wikimedia France à en faire une réalité <https://dons.wikimedia.fr>.*

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ICADIWT 2016
by conference＠icdim.org 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016) National Taipei University, Taipei Taiwan (March 29-31, 2016) Proceedings will be published in IOS Press series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA) The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other related themes. This conference (ICADIWT Edition VI) will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. This conference welcomes papers address on, but not limited to, the following research topics: Internet Communication Internet Technologies Web Applications Internet Software Data Access and Transmission Digital Communication Software Digital Networks Web Communication Interfaces Internet Content Processing Internet of Things Internet of Everything Data Communication Databases and applications Web Systems Engineering Design Intelligent Agent systems Semantic Web Studies Adaptive Web applications and personalization Navigation and hypermedia Digital signal processing Communication and control systems and networks Hardware and software solutions Innovative eHealth, Applications and Products Medical Image Analysis and Biomedical Visualization Computer-Aided Diagnosis Telemedicine, Telehealth and Remote Monitoring Human factor Software reliability Computational Intelligence Data mining and Knowledge discovery Education, e-learning Proceedings: The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be indexed in many databases as given at http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing (papers in EI will be indexed as Journal Article) All the accepted papers will be published in Scopus and or SCI indexed journals Journal of Computer and System Sciences/ (ISI/Scopus) Journal of Digital Information Management (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) Decision Analytics International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI) Important Dates Submission of papers January 01, 2016 Camera ready February 28, 2016 Registration February 28, 2016 Conference Dates March 29-31, 2016 Honorary Chair Dalton Lin, National Taipei University, Taiwan Jang-Ping Sheu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy General Chairs Yao-Liang Chung, National Taipei University, Taiwan Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, Opole University, Poland General Co-Chair Tong-Ying Juang, National Taipei University, Taiwan Advisory Chair Rong-Lin Shen, National Taipei University, Taiwan Nen-Fu Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Tsern-Huei Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Program Chairs Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Jung-Shyr Wu, National Central University, Taiwan Tsung-Nan Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Program Co-Chairs Adrian Florea, University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu, Romania Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/ Email: icadiwt(a)socio.org.uk ----------------------------------------------------

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ICADIWT 2016-Macau Satellite Session
by conference＠icdim.org 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016) Macau Satellite Session April 2-3, 2016 University of Macau, Macau Proceedings will be published in IOS Press series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications) (FAIA) The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other related themes. This conference (ICADIWT Edition VI) will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. This conference welcomes papers address on, but not limited to, the following research topics: Internet Communication Internet Technologies Web Applications Internet Software Data Access and Transmission Digital Communication Software Digital Networks Web Communication Interfaces Internet Content Processing Internet of Things Internet of Everything Data Communication Databases and applications Web Systems Engineering Design Intelligent Agent systems Semantic Web Studies Adaptive Web applications and personalization Navigation and hypermedia Digital signal processing Communication and control systems and networks Hardware and software solutions Innovative eHealth, Applications and Products Medical Image Analysis and Biomedical Visualization Computer-Aided Diagnosis Telemedicine, Telehealth and Remote Monitoring Human factor Software reliability Computational Intelligence Data mining and Knowledge discovery Education, e-learning Proceedings: The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be indexed in many databases as given at http://www.frontiersinai.com/? q=indexing (papers in EI will be indexed as Journal Article) All the accepted papers will be published in Scopus and or SCI indexed journals Journal of Computer and System Sciences/ (ISI/Scopus) Journal of Digital Information Management (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) Decision Analytics International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI) Important Dates Submission of papers January 01, 2016 Camera ready February 28, 2016 Registration February 28, 2016 Conference Dates March 29-31, 2016 Honorary Chair Dalton Lin, National Taipei University, Taiwan Jang-Ping Sheu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy General Chairs Yao-Liang Chung, National Taipei University, Taiwan Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, Opole University, Poland General Co-Chair Tong-Ying Juang, National Taipei University, Taiwan Advisory Chair Rong-Lin Shen, National Taipei University, Taiwan Nen-Fu Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Tsern-Huei Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Program Chairs Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Jung-Shyr Wu, National Central University, Taiwan Tsung-Nan Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Program Co-Chairs Adrian Florea, University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu, Romania Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/ Email: icadiwt(a)socio.org.uk ----------------------------------------------------

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Paper about DBpedia Commons (RDFization of content metadata)
by Guillaume Paumier 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Hello, Vaidya et al. have published a paper about the work they did to extract content metadata from Commons description pages, using existing and new DBpedia tools. This could be of interest to this list as it relates to Structured data for Commons. PDF: http://jens-lehmann.org/files/2015/iswc_dbpedia_commons.pdf The paper is relatively short and reads easily. I've also written a review for the Signpost's latest "Recent research" report: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-08-26/Recen… -- Guillaume Paumier

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Exif values retrieved incorrectly if they appear before IFD
by Andre Klapper 15 Aug '15

15 Aug '15

Could someone clarify in the task what's the way ahead for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97253 ? Do we "just" wait for upstream and do nothing? Thanks! andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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