Has the look of a commercial engine. Not sure if it's good or not, but seems 'profesional'. Instead of Copyright... Copyleft? ;)

Wow, this is really good! I can finally find something on Commons without having to click trough a list of images or browsing categories :) Just some small recommendations: * I would give the 'x results found' a colourful background (maybe purple) to separate the search box from the thumbnail view. You could also move the search box to the right of the logo and use the dotted grey bar as a separator. * Having the license beneath the image would be very handy. Even more handy would be an option to do an 'advanced search' for a specific license (e.g. only PD images) * Maybe the colours should be a little more Wikimedia-like (green, blue, red) and the imagery could be more related to Wikimedia Commons to refer to the connection between the two. I attached an example logo (just an idea). Anyway, great job! With some more work Mayflower could be a great replacement for the current Commons search. -- Hay Kranen / [[User:Husky]] On 2/13/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 13/02/07, Tangotango <tangotango(a)wikignome.net> wrote: Very funky. Would it be possible to have an option to restrict it only to image files? Some searches bring up quite a few .ogg files stored on Commons, which are not desperately useful for most people using the search... The thumbnailing is sometimes a bit unexpected. For example, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Tromboon.jpg is displayed as just the top fraction of the image - a plain brass U-bend and nothing else. Is it possible to do a full-article thumbnail? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

On 14/02/07, Husky &lt;huskyr(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: I suspect it would already be vastly more useful to our average user than our default search :P Yeah, I would put a by-line that says something like 'Search a database of over one million <b>freely licensed</b> media files'. This can be a great way to introduce non-Wikimedia people to Commons. As a couple of people have commented, distinguishing between images/sound/documents would be useful too. Anyway -- fantastic work, Tangotango! It looks fabulous and we will push it hard at Commons. And when you want some help developing that MediaWiki extension, well, you know where to find me :) cheers, Brianna

Pls dont exclude the ogg files - instead, offer checkboxes by which the uer can select media types he/she searches On 2/14/07, Andrew Gray &lt;shimgray(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

On 14/02/07, Gerard Meijssen &lt;gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Hey, I didn't say "stop displaying them", I said "make it disableable" ;-) [Most people doing a commons search are likely looking for images only; I suspect a large fraction of the rest are looking for non-images only. I wonder how many are intentionally looking for a mixture...] Making this more fine-grained would be interesting, too - restrict by "image", and then provide the option to restrict by filetype. Hmmm. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Gregory Maxwell wrote: This is a resolvable problem; the more minor the permutation, the smaller its effect on the image that shows up in the interface... SJ

Hello Husky, Thursday, February 15, 2007, 2:24:15 AM, you wrote: H> I don't think you have to start with *all* licenses (that would indeed be a H> very long list). Simply starting with some of the most popular ones you H> could capture a major part of the collection. Licenses like H> * {{PD-old}} H> * {{PD-Art-YorckProject}} H> * {{PD Art}} H> * {{self2|GFDL|cc-by-2.5}} H> * {{self2|GFDL|cc-by-sa-2.5,2.0,1.0}} H> * {{PD-self}} H> Are used by many pictures throughout the whole project. If you could only H> match these you could already display the license under a lot of the images. H> And for more licenses you could take one of the main license categories such H> as H> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_domain H> And extract all categories from there and use it for the 'license array'. H> However easy it might seem, i'm not sure if this will work out. As i said H> before, i'm not a programmer :) H> -- Hay Kranen / [[User:Husky]] + new one way. Once a month take 10 popupar licenses from db. And mark all other as "other". -- Best regards, Yaroslav mailto:rodovid@andatra.kiev.ua