For a quick comparison of layouts of all 53 Main Pages have a look at
http://eza.gemm.nl/Wikipedia/Gallery/Gallery.htm
Complete pages are shown, captured at a virtual 1000*3000 screen resolution,
reduced to 40% size.
At 40% reduction the text is hardly readable, but it gives a nice comparison
of overall layout per wikipedia.
Erik Zachte
This job was easy thanks to url2bmp (Windows freeware)
http://www.pixel-technology.com/freeware/url2bmp/
despite its name it handles other image formats as well,
can be run in batch mode
Tomasz wrote:
>Kuro5hin maybe ?
LOL. I wouldn't be surprised if their servers exploded if we had a prominent
link them on the English Wikipedia's main page.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=1y&size=large&comp…
Note that our daily Alexa ranking has dipped into the 500s - our best daily
showing ever.
--mav
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Jeff Meyer wrote:
>Isn't GRASS raster only? If so, are you thinking of that
>as one of several options? If not, cool, but will that
>make some interesting vector data inaccessible?
I think it used to be raster only, but I'm pretty sure it handles vectors
natively now. But then, as I said, I haven't played with it yet (from what
I've seen it looks a lot like ArcInfo workstation - which I'm currently
learning).
>From http://grass.baylor.edu/general.html :
|GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)
|is a raster/vector GIS, image processing system, and
|graphics production system
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Oops, sent my reply to Wikitech first, I hope the discussion does not fork
:)
There is a Historical Event Markup and Linking Project
http://heml.mta.ca/heml-cocoon/
They try to address issues mentioned here.
There is demo of an animated map there as well.
They choose SVG as the medium which seems a good choice.
I know there are (were ?) problems with SVG viewing on Mozilla,
but that will be fixed, I'm sure.
Erik Zachte
"Constans, Camille (C.C.)" <cconsta4(a)ford.com> schrieb:
> I like this idea, but it doesnt exist yet elsewhere ? It's true that
> a wiki system would be nice.
Well, I have not found anything quite like it. As said, the closest thing
would be the GIMP Image Archive (http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/),
but that one has only specific sources (NASA, NOAA, USDA and FWS). I would
like to give users the possibility to add images they found elsewhere (as
long as they're PD or Copyleft). It also suffers the disadvantage of not
having downloaded a context with the image, because of which it is often
not clear to the volunteer describing the picture what is actually on it.
A second similarity would be Google's image source, but there one cannot
choose to get only images that are PD or Copyleft, but has to wade through
masses of copyrighted images to see whether there is one that one is
allowed to use.
> But if a picture has nothing to do, how will you choose to keep or
> delete it ? Will we use the same system as wikipedia for pages deletion ?
That's a policy decision that is to be taken, but should not influence
whether and how this is done otherwise. My own opinion would be that 'unused
image' should not be a reason for deletion (on the other hand, unused images
on Wikipedia might well be transwikied), but that one might set up a system
to delete images that do not seem useful for Wikipedia or similar projects -
Here I think in the first place of "yet another image of a..."-cases.
Andre Engels
I like this idea, but it doesnt exist yet elsewhere ? It's true that a wiki system would be nice.
But if a picture has nothing to do, how will you choose to keep or delete it ? Will we use the same system as wikipedia for pages deletion ?
Shaihulud
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Objet : [Wikipedia-l] Wiki-images?
On [[en:Wikipedia:Public domain image resources]], there is a nice list of sources, but it is not
easily searchable. It is not clear which if any of these sources could provide me with an image of
(fill in something). Because of this, we will find people either search long for images, not do it at
all, or fail to find them. It's made even worse by sources such as http://www.radiobras.gov.br/
that someone added recently - the site has some very useful content, but searching the site is a
nightmare.
I would propose to start a place where we can keep descriptions of images and image searches,
a search on which could then be used to get free or copyleft images for a certain subject. A nice
start in this direction is made by the GIMP image archive, but:
* It only contains a few sources, and does not have the possibility to add others
* The original image descriptions are not included or linked to, so people when giving descriptions
cannot use these, which means that for example portraits are worth much less because one does
not know who is being portrayed.
Could it be made a wikiproject to make such information available? My idea would be a wiki
(we're wikipedia aren't we?) where one could either upload the photographs and add its
description and copyright status, or use a 'normal page' to link to the place where the image
are, and again add a description. Adding keywords would also be a good idea. If a number of
people would work on this for some time, we would thus get a nice, searchable collection of
public domain and copyleft images.
Andre Engels
On [[en:Wikipedia:Public domain image resources]], there is a nice list of sources, but it is not
easily searchable. It is not clear which if any of these sources could provide me with an image of
(fill in something). Because of this, we will find people either search long for images, not do it at
all, or fail to find them. It's made even worse by sources such as http://www.radiobras.gov.br/
that someone added recently - the site has some very useful content, but searching the site is a
nightmare.
I would propose to start a place where we can keep descriptions of images and image searches,
a search on which could then be used to get free or copyleft images for a certain subject. A nice
start in this direction is made by the GIMP image archive, but:
* It only contains a few sources, and does not have the possibility to add others
* The original image descriptions are not included or linked to, so people when giving descriptions
cannot use these, which means that for example portraits are worth much less because one does
not know who is being portrayed.
Could it be made a wikiproject to make such information available? My idea would be a wiki
(we're wikipedia aren't we?) where one could either upload the photographs and add its
description and copyright status, or use a 'normal page' to link to the place where the image
are, and again add a description. Adding keywords would also be a good idea. If a number of
people would work on this for some time, we would thus get a nice, searchable collection of
public domain and copyleft images.
Andre Engels
Hi all -
Has anyone looked into or heard anything about a map-based complement to the
Wikipedia?
I am looking at putting something together that would be targeted at K-12,
but might have some nice tie-ins.
The plan is to deliver an easily searchable repository (content & searchable
clearinghouse) of quality map content to cover the entirety of human
history. Along with it would be a freely distributable, open source map
player. People could then link their existing maps, add modifications, build
new map content, etc.
There are a lot of reasons why a text-based search metaphor doesn't work
well for map-based data and why a lot of the maps on the web fall short of
current technologies potential for delivering better map-based experiences.
I am hoping to base this loosely on what the folks at TimeMap and the ECAI
have already established, but their current tools, setup, and content would
need to be modified and expanded to be useful for K-12 education.
Naturally, it would be great to provide contextual links to related web
resources... like the Wikipedia.
Anyway, if anyone has heard of something similar, or has any suggestions,
please let me know.
Thanks,
Jeff
jeff(a)gwhat.org
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