Hoi, There has been much talk about starting a repository for all kinds of media. Pictures etc that have a license compatible with the ideas of wikimedia. The idea lives to have one repository for all pictures so that we need to store it only once. The idea lives to make Wikicommons ?? the location where the userid's for the wikimedia projects may live.
Anyway, Wikicommons does not exist and we have all these harddrives full of our digital snapshots.that may eventually end up on wikisomewhere. Wouldn't it be nice to start Wikicommons and have a place to dump these pictures now for people to find?
Yes, we cannot use Wikicommons pictures in the diverse projects yet, but now we do not have the pictures either. What is stopping us from creating this space and get something going ??
Personally I have nice pictures from within the Vatican, a scull of a Homo erectus etc etc. I have been to many musea and I have pictures a plenty from Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Brussels, Oostvaardersplassen. I am sure that I am not the only one with interesting pictures that are usefull to others.
Please let us start the Wikicommons and add functionality when we think of some, when we program some.
Thanks, GerardM
A wikicommons would be very nice to have, a place to store all the pictures and sound files we find, and then link to them in the wikipedia/wiktionary, etc. - that'd save space in the wikis for more articles, etc.
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gerard Meijssen Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:25 PM To: wikitech-l@Wikipedia.org; wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Wikicommons
Hoi, There has been much talk about starting a repository for all kinds of media. Pictures etc that have a license compatible with the ideas of wikimedia. The idea lives to have one repository for all pictures so that we need to store it only once. The idea lives to make Wikicommons ?? the location where the userid's for the wikimedia projects may live.
Anyway, Wikicommons does not exist and we have all these harddrives full of our digital snapshots.that may eventually end up on wikisomewhere. Wouldn't it be nice to start Wikicommons and have a place to dump these pictures now for people to find?
Yes, we cannot use Wikicommons pictures in the diverse projects yet, but now we do not have the pictures either. What is stopping us from creating this space and get something going ??
Personally I have nice pictures from within the Vatican, a scull of a Homo erectus etc etc. I have been to many musea and I have pictures a plenty from Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Brussels, Oostvaardersplassen. I am sure that I am not the only one with interesting pictures that are usefull to others.
Please let us start the Wikicommons and add functionality when we think of some, when we program some.
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And it will save time looking for pictures where you can never be sure about the license etc. I'm sure, lots of us (myself included) have holiday pics from various places on their computer, so let's share them.
Caroline, LB.
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:27:58 -0400, James R. Johnson wrote
A wikicommons would be very nice to have, a place to store all the pictures and sound files we find, and then link to them in the wikipedia/wiktionary, etc. - that'd save space in the wikis for more articles, etc.
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gerard Meijssen Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:25 PM To: wikitech-l@Wikipedia.org; wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Wikicommons
Hoi, There has been much talk about starting a repository for all kinds of media. Pictures etc that have a license compatible with the ideas of wikimedia. The idea lives to have one repository for all pictures so that we need to store it only once. The idea lives to make Wikicommons ?? the location where the userid's for the wikimedia projects may live.
Anyway, Wikicommons does not exist and we have all these harddrives full of our digital snapshots.that may eventually end up on wikisomewhere. Wouldn't it be nice to start Wikicommons and have a place to dump these pictures now for people to find?
Yes, we cannot use Wikicommons pictures in the diverse projects yet, but now we do not have the pictures either. What is stopping us from creating this space and get something going ??
Personally I have nice pictures from within the Vatican, a scull of a Homo erectus etc etc. I have been to many musea and I have pictures a plenty from Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Brussels, Oostvaardersplassen. I am sure that I am not the only one with interesting pictures that are usefull to others.
Please let us start the Wikicommons and add functionality when we think of some, when we program some.
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FYI, you might be interested in a similar new Open Source Media project started by Marc Canter and J.D. Lasica, which can be found here: http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2004/08/open_media_the_.html
Their emphasis is primarily video, but pictures and audio are also a large part. We might want to open up channels to them just to stay in touch with their ideas. They have a wiki on SocialText they are using for planning/coordination. It would be good to have some Wikimedia/pedia folks in touch with it.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 02:12:10 +0200, Ewen Caroline caroline@www.web.lu wrote:
And it will save time looking for pictures where you can never be sure about the license etc. I'm sure, lots of us (myself included) have holiday pics from various places on their computer, so let's share them.
Caroline, LB.
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:27:58 -0400, James R. Johnson wrote
A wikicommons would be very nice to have, a place to store all the pictures and sound files we find, and then link to them in the wikipedia/wiktionary, etc. - that'd save space in the wikis for more articles, etc.
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gerard Meijssen Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 4:25 PM To: wikitech-l@Wikipedia.org; wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Wikicommons
Hoi, There has been much talk about starting a repository for all kinds of media. Pictures etc that have a license compatible with the ideas of wikimedia. The idea lives to have one repository for all pictures so that we need to store it only once. The idea lives to make Wikicommons ?? the location where the userid's for the wikimedia projects may live.
Anyway, Wikicommons does not exist and we have all these harddrives full of our digital snapshots.that may eventually end up on wikisomewhere. Wouldn't it be nice to start Wikicommons and have a place to dump these pictures now for people to find?
Yes, we cannot use Wikicommons pictures in the diverse projects yet, but now we do not have the pictures either. What is stopping us from creating this space and get something going ??
Personally I have nice pictures from within the Vatican, a scull of a Homo erectus etc etc. I have been to many musea and I have pictures a plenty from Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Brussels, Oostvaardersplassen. I am sure that I am not the only one with interesting pictures that are usefull to others.
Please let us start the Wikicommons and add functionality when we think of some, when we program some.
Thanks, GerardM _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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Andrew Lih wrote:
FYI, you might be interested in a similar new Open Source Media project started by Marc Canter and J.D. Lasica, which can be found here: http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2004/08/open_media_the_.html
Thanks for pointing this out Andrew. I've created a page for people to give ideas on how we might collaborate with them at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons/Collaboration_with_Open_Med.... For those with a login to the wiki on Socialtext, there is a discussion page on how they might collaborate with various partners at http://www.socialtext.net/openmedia/index.cgi?partners.
Angela.
I have asked for this for several months now, but it seems that those who actually can do something prefer to use extreme delay policy here. I propose to hijack one of the currently inactive Wikimedia Wikis, and just start this. I'm tired of waiting.
Andre Engels
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:24:56 +0200 Gerard Meijssen gerardm@myrealbox.com wrote:
Hoi, There has been much talk about starting a repository for all kinds of media. Pictures etc that have a license compatible with the ideas of wikimedia. The idea lives to have one repository for all pictures so that we need to store it only once. The idea lives to make Wikicommons ?? the location where the userid's for the wikimedia projects may live.
Anyway, Wikicommons does not exist and we have all these harddrives full of our digital snapshots.that may eventually end up on wikisomewhere. Wouldn't it be nice to start Wikicommons and have a place to dump these pictures now for people to find?
Yes, we cannot use Wikicommons pictures in the diverse projects yet, but now we do not have the pictures either. What is stopping us from creating this space and get something going ??
Personally I have nice pictures from within the Vatican, a scull of a Homo erectus etc etc. I have been to many musea and I have pictures a plenty from Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Brussels, Oostvaardersplassen. I am sure that I am not the only one with interesting pictures that are usefull to others.
Please let us start the Wikicommons and add functionality when we think of some, when we program some.
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On 08/18/04 12:07, Andre Engels wrote:
I have asked for this for several months now, but it seems that those who actually can do something prefer to use extreme delay policy here. I propose to hijack one of the currently inactive Wikimedia Wikis, and just start this. I'm tired of waiting.
Hmm. So what is the technical delay?
Can we get together an action plan needed to implement it?
Things needed:
* place to put it * syntax to easily include images and media files
I assume it can use the current MediaWiki software.
Anything I've missed
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
On 08/18/04 12:07, Andre Engels wrote:
I have asked for this for several months now, but it seems that those who actually can do something prefer to use extreme delay policy here. I propose to hijack one of the currently inactive Wikimedia Wikis, and just start this. I'm tired of waiting.
Hmm. So what is the technical delay?
It's a specific proposal by Erik Möller (Eloquence): http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2004-May/000050.html http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons
AFAIK none of this stuff has actually been done.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 08/18/04 12:07, Andre Engels wrote:
I have asked for this for several months now, but it seems that those who actually can do something prefer to use extreme delay policy here. I propose to hijack one of the currently inactive Wikimedia Wikis, and just start this. I'm tired of waiting.
Hmm. So what is the technical delay?
It's a specific proposal by Erik Möller (Eloquence): http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2004-May/000050.html http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons
AFAIK none of this stuff has actually been done.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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Reading the meta article, you will find several people saying let's start. What is the problem with starting a database for content and add technology as and when it arrives?
What are we waiting for but more importantly what is holding us back ? Who can give the goahead for the creation of the new WikiCommons.
There is content, let's do the open source thing and publish, publish often.
Thanks, GerardM
David Gerard wrote:
On 08/18/04 12:07, Andre Engels wrote:
I have asked for this for several months now, but it seems that those who actually can do something prefer to use extreme delay policy here. I propose to hijack one of the currently inactive Wikimedia Wikis, and just start this. I'm tired of waiting.
Hmm. So what is the technical delay?
Can we get together an action plan needed to implement it?
Things needed:
- place to put it
- syntax to easily include images and media files
I assume it can use the current MediaWiki software.
Anything I've missed
- d.
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There is nothing stopping us from starting.
*We need an environment where we can upload media. *We have to appreciate that it will be an experimental place where new software will be tested.
That is what is needed to start with.
Thanks, GerardM
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