[Foundation-l] Announcing... CommonsTicker

shi zhao shizhao at gmail.com
Thu Jun 1 17:00:18 UTC 2006


zh wp long time....

:)

[[zh:user:shizhao]]


On 6/2/06, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> CommonsTicker is a special tool created by
> (commons:,meta:,:de:w:)User:Duesentrieb to allow for greater
> communication and transparency between the Commons and local projects
> (all projects, all languages) that use the Commons. When it is set up,
> a log page is created and a bot posts updates about any critical
> events that occur to any Commons images that are being used by that
> project. Critical events are: image replacement (a new version of an
> image being uploaded over the top of an existing one), an image being
> marked or unmarked with a deletion tag (including no source, etc), and
> an image being deleted.
>
> This allows local project users to immediately identify any images
> that have been nominated for deletion, giving them plenty of notice to
> take part in the deletion discussion, as well as checking that image
> replacements are not vandalism and removing any red links from deleted
> images.
>
> CommonsTicker is completely translatable (if you provide a
> translation). All it needs to be set up is a project admin to
> "sponsor" it through the early days. Now taking requests! :)
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Duesentrieb/CommonsTicker :
> instructions on set-up, contact, translation, request queue
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:CommonsTicker : Example
> Ticker in English
> (There are also Tickers already set up in German, Indonesian, Italian,
> Dutch, Chinese and Slovak.)
>
> (Note that it will not be possible to set up on English Wikipedia
> until the toolserver issue is resolved.)
>
> cheers,
> Brianna (commons:user:pfctdayelise)
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