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Michael Maggs | 18 May 2013 14:06

Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom is ready to go!

Hi all

For the very first time, the UK community will be competing in the annual Wiki Loves Monuments competition in September.  This is a community-led effort, with support from WMUK.  A number of volunteers have already expressed interest in helping to organize the contest, but there is much to be done and many more volunteers are needed, both now and over the coming few months.  

If you would like to contribute towards making our first ever competition the great success we expect it to be, please visit 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the_United_Kingdom 

and leave your name there.  Even if you are only able to offer us moral support, or want to take part as photographer in September, please leave your details anyway.  You need not be based in the UK to help.

Michael
(MichaelMaggs on wiki)

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Srikanth Ramakrishnan | 15 May 2013 08:23
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Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a nice gallery for commons contributions

Hi all, this was a mail sent on the India public list today.

Can anyone help out?

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From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Date: Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:45 AM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a nice gallery for commons contributions
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <wikimediaindia-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>


Hi,

I like to showcase my photo contributions to commons to my friends.
The current page
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/<username>

is so old and not very intuitive to see the photos.

Is it any possible to show the photos as a gallery like in flickr/picasa?

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Fae | 30 Apr 2013 23:04
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Wikimania presentation on Commons risks

After my slightly controversial talk on the top risks of partnering
with Commons was popular at the London GLAMwiki conference (over 50
people attending), I have added a similar session to Wikimania.

See http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Submissions/Top_risks_for_Wikimedia_Commons_partners

Comments welcome.

Cheers,
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Lila Pagola | 29 Apr 2013 06:08
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Some comments and a question around workshop of Commons at Libre Graphics Meeting

Hi everybody,

This is my first message to this list, trying to find the good channel
for sharing some impressions about a recent experience I made in the
Libre Graphics Meeting.

I'm from Argentina, a member of Wikimedia Argentina and also a teacher
working with Wikipedia from several years ago. Maybe you have read
this article in the WMF blog:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/07/creating-local-content-for-wikipedia/

So, to the point. I proposed there a workshop about Wikimedia Commons,
oriented to spread the work dynamics of Commons among libre graphics
designers, and also to do some concrete collaborations during the
project.

This workshop was inspired in a similar exercise I did last year with
my students of digital photography, since I discovered (being jury of
Wiki Loves Monuments Spain) a lot of photos with exposure problems.

More info is at my userpage of Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lpagola and in a few days it
will be also available the report at metawiki.
Comments and suggestions are very welcome.

Although time was too short (two hours), we could work with some
requests, and doing so, somebody found something I didn't know, and I
want to know if exists a better way to solve it.

Problem appeared around files needing to be converted to a different
file type, for instance a GIF that should be PNG
(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_with_inappropriate_GIF_format).

When trying to upload the file through "upload new version", it was
not allowed since the file type was different... and when trying
through the general uploader, we need to change the name, so we lost
not only the "history" of the file, but also its identical name.

So, there is better way to do this?
I asked Ezarate (maybe is he in this list?) for advice and he pointed
out a "method" I tested here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:100-Hryvnia-1996-front.png

A participant of the workshop also summarized her way as follows:

1. download the jpg in higher resolution
2. make the png version in your computer
3. create a page with the new title. example: File:title.png
4. upload the new file
5. add the same description, licence, source
6. put the date of your upload
7. update the author, also reffering to the original author. example:
B based on A's work
8. add the original file to the "other versions"
9. add the same categories as the original file
10. add to the original jpg file your png version in "other versions"
11. remove the {{badjpg}} tag from the jpg version

What do you think?

Thanks in advance!
And sorry for the long message...

Best from Argentina,

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Juan de Vojníkov | 24 Apr 2013 22:03
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How to fund your image related project

Hello,

folks. Maybe you know about this "startup" project. It seems to me photojournalists may nominate their projects and collect money from backers to performe them. So I am letting you known, in the case, you would need some funding.


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Juan (user:Juandev)
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Jean-Frédéric | 21 Apr 2013 01:23
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UniversalSubtitles support

Hi list,

We used to have UniversalSubtitles [1] support on Wikimedia Commons (and it was awesome)

Since the removal/deprecation/painful death of mwEmbed/multimedia beta [2] this is gone.

Any chance we might have that back? If so, how? Who must be harrassed to that end?

Thanks for your help,

(Not sure which list to send that − wikitech-l, wikivideo-l ? Feel free to forward around)
[2] The help page about it was even deleted last month…


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Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. | 19 Apr 2013 16:57
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Anybody able to help with database query?

Hello everybody,

 

For last month I am trying to find someone that can run a database query for me.  I asked about it at https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/DBQ-201 and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Search_for_old_files_with_no_licenses but so far there are no responses.

 

The purpose of the query would be to find images with no licenses and in the simplest case the query would be just for images that do not transclude {{License template tag}}. In practice I would also like to exclude images already tagged as no license and exclude images that transclude a Layout template but were not updated correctly by the database. So a better query would be images without any of the below templates:

 

License template tag
PD-Layout
GNU-Layout
CC-Layout
no license
Delete
Speedydelete

 

You can see images that met this query at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_without_a_license:_needs_history_check . Can anybody help me out with this?

 

Jarek T.

User:jarekt

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Neel Gupta | 17 Apr 2013 19:21
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is attributing ownership to God allowed ?

The license in discussion is...
CC 3.0, Attribution: God
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#God.27s_Work
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Brion Vibber | 12 Apr 2013 22:50
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Commons iOS app 1.0.0 released to beta and submitted for review

The iOS version of the Commons app is now bumped to 1.0.0 for provisional App Store release; however we don't know how long review will take or if there'll be any surprises of course...

Big thanks to our new developer Monte Hurd for lots of little visual & behavior fixes since earlier versions!


Also available for beta testing via TestFlightapp.com -- registered beta users should already have an email in their inbox with install directions.

For those who aren't in on the beta yet or aren't getting announcement emails:
* First you must register and join the beta group at http://tflig.ht/Zl9Ef7
* THEN, you must log into http://testflightapp.com ON YOUR DEVICE and "Connect" it. This will register your device ID with us, so we can include you in the next beta push. If you don't do this step, you won't be able to install the betas!

A couple people who registered in the last few days aren't included in this release; you'll be in the next one.

Note I created a Wikimedia test account for the reviewers and uploaded a couple photos to it:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:App_Store_Review_Tester
The Apple store reviewers might upload a couple junk photos on this account.

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Rahul Maliakkal | 11 Apr 2013 00:16
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Re: [Wiktionary-l] Advice Needed

The whole idea is project specific,we are not converting to wav, but since its the only format that browsers can easily upload in for the time being.

Thanks


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Sebastian Hellmann <hellmann-jNDFPZUTrfTw9Zu3TmXbXSJk02hg1TJes0AfqQuZ5sE@public.gmane.org> wrote:
You didn't include the list in your reply.
What about: http://firefogg.org/ ?
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Am 10.04.2013 23:41, schrieb Rahul Maliakkal:
The point is not about efficiency rather the only format that browsers can presently capture into. As browsers add support for AAC converting / uploads, then we will prefer that.

Thanks


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Sebastian Hellmann <hellmann-jNDFPZUTrfTw9Zu3TmXbXUfgI0U4WI5m@public.gmane.orgpzig.de> wrote:
Well, I guess this should be researched quite well, before investing time in this feature:

WAV

WAVEform audio format (WAV) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format for storing audio on PCs. It is the main format used on Microsoft Windows systems for raw audio storage. The WAV format is most commonly used with an uncompressed, lossless storage method (pulse-code modulation) resulting in comparatively large audio files. Today, the WAV audio format is no longer popular being superseded by other more efficient means of audio storage.[19]


from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Comparison_of_File_Formats#WAV

So who wants "wav" files actually, they are normally very large as well.

The legal status is not so obvious. Maybe you even need a lawyer to judge this correctly.
Again, is .wav really so popular,  that it justifies the effort?

All the best,
Sebastian



Am 10.04.2013 19:40, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo):
Rahul Maliakkal, 10/04/2013 19:27:
As we all know right now uploading an audio file is only possible in
.ogg format.

In my GSOC project , i plan on adding *.wav support* to commons ,since
its not patent encumbered i think it should be fine

Context: "Pronunciation Recording Extension" https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rahul21/Gsoc

I would like to get the communities feedback on this.

Is the reason that the dependencies you found all require this format?

Nemo

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Rahul Maliakkal | 10 Apr 2013 19:27
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Advice Needed

Hello

As we all know right now uploading an audio file is only possible in .ogg format.

In my GSOC project , i plan on adding .wav support to commons ,since its not patent encumbered i think it should be fine
I would like to get the communities feedback on this.

Thanks Rahul
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