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Brianna Laugher | 5 Mar 05:54
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Some cool new things

1)
There is now a template {{published}}, which can be used on the talk
page of Commons images that are used by third parties. This is neat.
They will appear in [[Category:Commons as a media source]].

2)
Thanks mainly to Adam Cuerden we have a brand-new help page:
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Scanning>

3)
If you use the Konqueror browser and have some idea about how to track
down JavaScript bugs, please contact Lupo
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lupo>. Your help is
needed in testing the planned new upload form. For your interest there
is a current screenshot here:
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Commons_javascript_enhanced_upload_form.png>

cheers,
Brianna

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Cary Bass | 5 Mar 19:15
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Re: Some cool new things

Brianna Laugher wrote:
> 1)
> There is now a template {{published}}, which can be used on the talk
> page of Commons images that are used by third parties. This is neat.
> They will appear in [[Category:Commons as a media source]].
> 
> 2)
> Thanks mainly to Adam Cuerden we have a brand-new help page:
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Scanning>
> 
> 3)
> If you use the Konqueror browser and have some idea about how to track
> down JavaScript bugs, please contact Lupo
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lupo>. Your help is
> needed in testing the planned new upload form. For your interest there
> is a current screenshot here:
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Commons_javascript_enhanced_upload_form.png>

The template doesn't take into account printed sources that may not 
appear on the net.  Take for instance: 
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_talk:Explorer-sinking-2.jpg>

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Erik Moeller | 6 Mar 04:23
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Stillman Wiki Wall Update!

Hey -

you may remember that a while ago, we asked for community submissions on:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stillman_Wiki_Wall_Photo_Contest

There was a pretty, light-up photo wall in our San Francisco office
space when we moved in (the previous tenant was a designer), so it was
only natural for us to use it to feature photos taken of and by
members of the community. We picked 9 of the submissions and put them
on our wall:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Stillman_Contest_Wall_1.jpg

This is still missing the little labels attributing the photographers
and describing the content - those will follow shortly, and I hope we
can get away with fair use until then ;-). But I can tell you, it
really makes the pictures look quite amazing.  It's the kind of low
cost effort that really creates a "Wikipedian" atmosphere.

We also have a big corkboard on our kitchen wall that has dozens of
photos from Wikimedia events on it - it's really quite lovely. :-)

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Brianna Laugher | 6 Mar 13:45
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Re: Some cool new things

On 06/03/2008, Cary Bass <cbass@...> wrote:
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> The template doesn't take into account printed sources that may not
>  appear on the net.  Take for instance:
>  <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_talk:Explorer-sinking-2.jpg>

Cary, I reckon you know how to edit a template :)

Brianna

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Majorly | 6 Mar 14:40

Re: Some cool new things

On 06/03/2008, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:


Cary, I reckon you know how to edit a template :)

You'd be surprised ;-)

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David Gerard | 6 Mar 22:08
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Fwd: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Another free encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of the Cosmos

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik Moeller <erik@...>
Date: 6 Mar 2008 20:40
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Another free encyclopedia:
Encyclopedia of the Cosmos
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@...>, Wikimedia
Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@...>

On 3/6/08, Oldak Quill <oldakquill@...> wrote:
 >  As an aside, how is Wikipedia/GFDL and CC-by-SA coming along? Is
 >  Wikipedia waiting on GFDL and CC-by-SA to work out compatibility?

(CCing foundation-l, since folks there may be interested-)

 Creative Commons is working actively with us on the "migration checklist":
 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-December/035677.html

 They are internally discussing a draft statement of intent, and
 they've updated the CC frontpages to reference the Definition of Free
 Cultural Works. Plus, at this point there is a consensus between our
 two organizations that CC-BY-SA should function as a "strong copyleft"
 license, just not yet about the best way to achieve that.

 On the FSF side, we're waiting for a version of the GFDL that has the
 migration language in it; hopefully this will be approved soon.

 So, things are progressing. Given that there are multiple
 organizations involved, plus a commitment from us to only make the
 final step after consultation with the community, it's a complex
 process, but I'll hope we'll get there soon enough -- the
 incompatibility between CC-BY-SA and GFDL is a serious impediment for
 the free culture movement.
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Magnus Manske | 6 Mar 22:16
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Category intersection: New extension available

(cross-posting wikitech-l and commons-l)

I created a new extension ("CategoryIntersection") that allows for
quick lookup of pages (and image) in intersecting categories. That
would enable wiki(m|p)edia sites to use categories as tags,
eliminating the need for oh-so-specialized categories.

Intersection of two categories works very fast, but intersecting more
categories is possible, and already implemented; the maximum number
can be limited.

I tried it on my (mostly empty) MediaWiki test setup, and it works
peachy. However, *I NEED HELP* with
* testing it on a large-scale installation
* integrating it with MediaWiki more tightly (database wrappers, caching, etc.)
* Brionizing the code, so it actually has a chance to be used on
Wikipedia and/or Commons

Techinical notes:
* This was recently discussed on wikitech-l
* More than two intersections are implemented by nesting subqueries
* Hash values are implemented as VARCHAR(32). Could easily switch to
INTEGER if desirable (less storage, faster lookup, but more false
positives)
* The hash values will only give good candidates (pages that *might*
intersect in these categories). The candidates have then to be checked
in a second run, which will have to be optimized; database people to
the front!
* Table to store hash values has to be created manually; SQL is in the main file
* I didn't implement code to fill the table for an existing
installation; however, since hash table updates solely hang on the
LinksUpdate hook, this should be easy
* There is no code covering page moves and deletions yet; do those
hang on LinksUpdate as well?
* SQL queries are currently "plain text" and not constructed through
the DB wrappers; I wan't sure how to do that for the subqueries

Cheers,
Magnus
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Bryan Tong Minh | 6 Mar 22:43
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Re: Category intersection: New extension available

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske@...> wrote:
>  * There is no code covering page moves and deletions yet; do those
>  hang on LinksUpdate as well?

No, since those do not update the links. Categorylinks are linked to
the page including them via page_id, which does not change during
move. If I recall correctly also deletions are not covered by
LinksUpdate; their links are manually deleted by
Artice::doArticleDelete.

Bryan
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mario1519 | 8 Mar 00:44
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hola

hola como esta bueno queria consultarle...y ahora como puedo acceder a  
la pagina y que benificios tiene la dicha pagina?

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Magnus Manske | 7 Mar 09:54
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Re: Category intersection: New extension available

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Bryan Tong Minh
<bryan.tongminh@...> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Magnus Manske
>  <magnusmanske@...> wrote:
>  >  * There is no code covering page moves and deletions yet; do those
>  >  hang on LinksUpdate as well?
>
>  No, since those do not update the links. Categorylinks are linked to
>  the page including them via page_id, which does not change during
>  move. If I recall correctly also deletions are not covered by
>  LinksUpdate; their links are manually deleted by
>  Artice::doArticleDelete.

OK, one more hook to catch...

Thanks,
Magnus
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