Re: [Commons-l] Pikiwiki project problems

David Gerard schreef: Anyone here have anything to say on the problems? You might want to read http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Pikiwikisrael It pretty much sums up all problems (and possible solutions!). Maarten

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Code updated

David Gerard schreef: A note on how to bug the devs about bugs :-) And these 2 bugs should be voted on by every active Commons user: Global deleted image review for Commons admins: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14801 Enable image renaming on WMF wikis:

Re: [Commons-l] [WikiEN-l] International Olympic Committee tells Flickr user to change license

Sage Ross schreef: Yes, but the CC-BY-SA license is also (usually understood as) a contract. I don't think the IOC is arguing that Giles doesn't own the copyright to his photos. But agreeing to terms and conditions is different from walking past a no photos sign. Contracts can be broken,

Re: [Commons-l] External click logging

Hi everyone, Magnus Manske schreef: This will capture all external link clicks within the page content, tell the toolserver about it, and then load the intended page. Something else: Is the toolserver able to handle the load this will produce? Maybe make it part of http://stats.wikimedia.org/ ?

Re: [Commons-l] GlobalUsage deployed an up to date

Hi Magnus, Magnus Manske schreef: Excellent! My GLAM reporter already works much better: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/glamorous.php?doit=1category=Images+from+the+German+Federal+Archiveuse_globalusage=1ns0=1 Yeah!

Re: [Commons-l] GlobalUsage deployed an up to date

Hi guys, Bryan Tong Minh schreef: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: As of today, a weekly stats update will be added to u_magnus_glam_p. Oh, I see that I forgot to mention it, but I have also been collecting stats in

Re: [Commons-l] Office Hour for Thursday, February 25

Hi Eusebius, Eusebius schreef: Sorry to sound stupid, but what's Office Hour? I hope http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours answers your question. Maarten ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Commons-l] Preferred licenses

Op 21-7-2010 4:48, Neil Kandalgaonkar schreef: On 7/20/10 7:28 PM, Stephen Bain wrote: Perhaps a checkbox could be displayed when the licence field is filled with the default preference but the user inputs something else, asking if they would like to update their preference?

[Commons-l] Add this at Commons

Hi guys, I keep coming across http://www.addthis.com/ . It's an easy way to share things on allmost 300 websites. Would be great if we had something like this on our image pages at Commons. You click it, select your site where you want to reuse the image and you're done. Clicking the image

[Commons-l] Video on Wikipedia

See http://openvideoalliance.org/wikipedia/ and http://videoonwikipedia.org/ Maarten ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Re: [Commons-l] Use labels in Commons and increase coverage

Hi, Op 28-10-2010 20:56, Gerard Meijssen schreef: Hoi, I am writing a series of blog posts about Commons. My aim is to identify the issues that I have with how it functions. There are several and I do not bother to write about the ones that are being tackled by the team around Guillaume (as

Re: [Commons-l] Use labels in Commons and increase coverage

Hi guys, So we're having the tags discussion again? Pops up every once in a while. Tags is a step backwards compared to categories. With tags there is a relation between an object (a photo) and a word. No way of telling what the relation is, what language the tag is, no relations between tags

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Friendliness

Hi Kevin, Op 23 feb 2011 om 04:07 heeft Kevin Morgan morgankev...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven:\ If the category field is a text field then that will likely lead to categories being created that do not link to the index. Instead a drop down menu or search feature should be used. Did

Re: [Commons-l] Commons-l Digest, Vol 69, Issue 21 - Friendliness

Hi Túrelio, Op 28-2-2011 10:12, turelio...@aol.com schreef: The problem Commons is facing since a while, is massively missing admin-power/resources. On February 23rd, Commons had 9 mio files. (read on [[:de:WP:Kurier]]) Today (Febr 28th), Commons has 9.35 mio files. (as of

[Commons-l] Your friendly CategorizationBot (was Re: Fwd: [Foundation-l] Friendliness)

Hi Ryan, Op 22-2-2011 21:06, Ryan Kaldari schreef: Speaking of friendliness on Commons, does CategorizationBot really need to post notices on both the File pages and User Talk pages? Maarten? Yes. People tend not the notice things left on file pages. This way they do notice. This seems

Re: [Commons-l] Photo contest for Kosovo and Albania

Hi Mike, Did you guys consider joining Wiki Loves Monuments 2011? It's a (big) European photo contest organized in September 2011, see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011 for more information. Maarten Op 5-6-2011 14:18, Mike Dupont schreef: Hi there, now

Re: [Commons-l] Commonist is down, backup binary now available

Hi Mike, Op 5-6-2011 13:57, Mike Dupont schreef: I have tried to build a version from the source code here, but note that the version you talk about is 0.4.27 and what is checked in is 0.3.44 here is the binary I produced, it is having problems uploading, cannot log in. Here is the binary

Re: [Commons-l] looking for help/advice with public domain image discoverability project

Hi Parker, Op 1-6-2011 22:58, Parker schreef: Hey Maarten, all, Here's the latest output from my upload script: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FWS_1_Local_resident_working_on_dog_sled_harness.jpg This includes all of the changes that I was planning to make. What do you think? Shall

Re: [Commons-l] Photo contest for Kosovo and Albania

Hi Mike, Op 5-6-2011 18:45, Mike Dupont schreef: I just talked to some of the guys, one thing that they mentioned is the contentious issue of serbia claiming kosovo territory. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Participating_countries_WLM2011.svg can we change that? I assume good faith

[Commons-l] Spread the love

WikiLove just got enabled at Commons :-D Maarten ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Re: [Commons-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

Op 16-9-2011 10:18, Rama Neko schreef: That is an unexpected outcome. Do we have any idea of the proeminent arguments for rejecting the filter ? -- Rama I don't think it's unexpected. It's actually the kind of outcome I would expect when you would run this poll at the Dutch Wikipedia.

Re: [Commons-l] Commons search function vs. Google

Hi Andreas, Op 11-10-2011 17:22, Andreas Kolbe schreef: Why is our listing so different from the one in Google, and why are sexual images so much higher up in our listing of search results? My assumption is that the popularity (either incoming links or number of clicks) might be taken into

Re: [Commons-l] Commons search function vs. Google

Hi Andreas, Op 11-10-2011 23:36, Andreas Kolbe schreef: Maarten, That sounds like the most plausible answer to me to date. We know that sexual images are among the most popular in Commons. knip This is something the personal image filter would (in part) address. We could also have a look

Re: [Commons-l] GOOD: The Most Important Occupy Wall Street Photographer You've Never Heard of

Hi Neil, Op 29-10-2011 18:12, Neil Kandalgaonkar schreef: Commons-L gets relatively little traffic compared to VP. Yet as far as I can tell, that forum is explicitly about policy disputes and so on. Is there anywhere else we can post this news? I'm starting to wonder if there is any place

Re: [Commons-l] Al Jazeera in Flickr goes cc-by-sa

Hi Liam Op 23-11-2011 14:23, Liam Wyatt schreef: Is there someone who can dedicate a bot to sucking these across to Flickr straight away? Perhaps we can also create a nice partnership template too? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnership_templates Great news! Enjoy the show at

Re: [Commons-l] [cultural-partners] CC licences, other free licences and compatibility

Hi Peter, This has nothing to do with GLAM's any more so moving over to Commons-l. Please direct any further replies in this thread to that (public) mailing list. Op 15-1-2012 11:16, Peter Weis schreef: 4. Is the community willing to delete files that do not comply to compatibility (given

Re: [Commons-l] GSoC 2012 : Automatically tagging photos in Wikimedia Commons

Hi Tobias, Op 20-3-2012 13:34, Tobias Oelgarte schreef: Hello, It sounds nice in theory. But knowing the current limitations of object recognition and our category/tagging system on Commons, I don't see how it could really help to improve the project. For example: We don't tag every object

Re: [Commons-l] Personality rights

Hi Ryan, Op 6-4-2012 2:22, Ryan Kaldari schreef: This is generally a straightforward decision per Commons:Photographs of identifiable people. If the photos were taken in a private place, consent is required. If the photos were taken in a public place, consent is not required (with exceptions

Re: [Commons-l] TranslateSvg: beta version available for testing

Hi Harry, You might want to add https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_infographics as a test case. We ran into some interesting issues while translating. Maarten Op 4-8-2012 23:48, Harry Burt schreef: [Apologies for the cross-post] Hey all, After a short delay

Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

Hi Daniel, I like to focus on one thing: Where to store it. Op 25-6-2013 14:30, Daniel Kinzler schreef: Over the last year, we have seen some discussion about if and how Wikidata can be useful for Wikimedia Commons. One aspect of this is maintaining meta data as structured data. I think that

Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

Hi Daniel, Op 26-6-2013 20:37, Daniel Kinzler schreef: Am 25.06.2013 22:16, schrieb Maarten Dammers: I think that the technology of Wikidata would be very useful for this, but that the meta data should be maintained on Commons itself. Why? Because it makes sense that the meta-info is stored

Re: [Commons-l] Tarballs of all 2004-2012 Commons files now available at archive.org

Hi Nemo, Op 13-10-2013 11:09, Federico Leva (Nemo) schreef: WikiTeam has just finished archiving all Wikimedia Commons files up to 2012 (and some more) on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons So far it's about 24 TB of archives and there are also a hundred

Re: [Commons-l] Images from the National Museum of Denmark

Nice! When do you start uploading them to Commons? ;-) Maarten Op 30 aug. 2014 om 13:03 heeft Ole Palnatoke Andersen palnat...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: The National Museum of Denmark are releasing approximately 750,000 images under free licences. About 50,000 have been tagged

Re: [Commons-l] Some help needed

For the other people who are reading this: I also got this question. Solved this by doing a query on the database, see https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/14350 Parsing wikitext is generally messy. Quite a few identifier templates on Commons (like

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS)

Hi Guillaume,     * The MediaInfo concept URIs (e.g. http://commons.wikimedia.org/entity/M37200540) are currently HTTP; we may change these to HTTPS in the near future. Please comment on T258590 if you have concerns about this change. I'm pretty sure that's not correct. The Commons

Re: [Commons-l] Update to MediaSearch and a search preference survey

Hi Ryan and Keegan, On 22-12-2020 19:29, Keegan Peterzell wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 4:33 PM Ryan Kaldari > wrote: This is great! I've been hoping for this feature for a while! Thanks to the Structured Data team for implementing this, and also

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikidata] WCQS Beta Downtime beginning Feb 4 18:30 UTC

Hi Ryan and Guillaume, Last time I checked WCQS was short for "Wikimedia Commons Query Service" ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service ) so I'm a bit puzzled why you posted this on the Wikidata mailing list instead of the Wikimedia Commons list? I hope it will be