[Commons-l] Problems using pictures from Commons in Blogger - making it more of a stock photo repository

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
When I try to upload a picture I get a screen that I uploaded as a screen
shot to commons.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot-Blogger_in_draft-Words_and_what_not_-_Create_Post_-_Mozilla_Firefox.png
Thanks.
     GerardM

On 16 August 2010 21:37, Bence Damokos <bdamokos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Can you describe your problem and the steps to reproduce it?
> It seems that Blogger doesn't support SVG images (you cannot use its
> uploader to upload a svg or to hotlink to one; you can of course edit the
> HTML of the post and hope for the best – it will not show the image in its
> wysywig editor if you do this but it should be fine after saving.)
> I can insert the PNG version of the image you mentioned by using the URL
> when you right click on the image on the file description page and choose
> "Copy image URL". Downloading and uploading the same PNG version also works
> fine for me.
>
> Best regards,
> Bence
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
> gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hoi,
>> Blogger is the platform I use now for many years to blog about the
>> subjects that are important in my appreciation of a Wiki world. At first I
>> did not illustrate my blogposts but thanks to Pfctdayelise I started to
>> pepper my blog posts with illustrations.
>>
>> At this moment it is no longer possible for me to upload pictures to
>> blogger. The message that I get is that I have to ensure that I have a
>> license for the pictures that I upload. This is true for pictures that I
>> have downloaded from Commons and cropped, it is for screen shots of the
>> interaction with the Blogger user interface..
>>
>> It is possible for me to get pictures displayed when I refer to the upload
>> page of a Commons picture but that does me no good when it is a svg picture.
>> Obviously I can download the picture and save it as an png ... but that does
>> me no good.
>>
>> There are several "solutions" to this problem. I can upload the png, I can
>> use Wordpress instead. The obvious solution is for Google to get its act
>> together.
>>
>> The solution that I like best is for Commons to become a true repository
>> of images that is not only intended for the illustration of Wikipedia and
>> its sister projects but also for the illustration of blogs like mine.
>> Commons is my first choice for illustrations for my blog but for some topics
>> it just does not provide me with the illustration that I am looking for.
>>
>> I think that Commons has already many images that are usable, what would
>> be needed is just a different kind of pictures or more pictures that are
>> grouped by subject and easier to find.
>> Thanks,
>>      GerardM
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Farsi.svg The svg I would like to use
>> as a png
>>
>> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/08/big-boost-for-mediawiki-localisation-in.htmlthe blog post that needs an illustration
>>
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