[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Poland to start a travelling POTY pictures exhibition in Warsaw (an announcement)
[I am crossposting this announcement to two mailing lists, feel free to pick up the topic on either of them.] Dear All, I am--yet again!--delighted to announce that Wikimedia Polska, the Polish chapter of the WMF, is organising a travelling exhibition of the winning POTY contest pictures. 16 images chosen by Wikimedians from all over the world in the annual POTY contests from 2006 onwards are going to be shown at exhibitions in various places around Poland. As some of you may recall, the exhibition premièred during the 10th anniversary of the Polish Wikipedia conference, having been visited by a few hundred visitors in just two weeks; some images from the pubic viewing of the exhibition are available on Wikimedia Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Picture_of_the_Year_exhibition_-_Pozna%C5%84_2011. Our first stop is Przystanek Książka (a Polish wordplay for Book Break), a media library of the Public Library of the district of Ochota in Warsaw. The exhibition starts on Monday, November 28, and will remain until the end of the year. 16 pictures, the best of the best of the Wikimedia movement, will be shown in an exhibition open for the public, with descriptions available in Polish, English and German. For those of you currently living in Warsaw or going to visit the capital in the upcoming weeks: the library is located at 42 Grójecka Street, just two tram stops (and 8 minutes) away from the Warsaw Central railway station (tram lines 9 and 25), and is open on working days from 10 AM until 7 PM (2 PM-7 PM on Wednesdays). We are still looking for more organisations and institutions willing to hold the exhibition--if there's anyone from the neighbouring (European) countries willing to get involved or just looking for some information, feel free to approach me at tomasz.kozlowski @ wikimedia.pl. We hope to have a great event, and even if you can't visit the exhibition, please keep your fingers crossed that it goes well, and spread the news! PS For those going to take a peek at the exhibition _in real life_, there's also a Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100219446762276. Regards, -- Tomasz Kozłowski | [[user:odder]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists
Andreas K. wrote: The way this would work is that each project page would have an Enable image filtering entry in the side bar. Clicking on this would add a Hide button to each image displayed on the page. Clicking on Hide would then grey the image, and automatically add it to the user's personal filter list. I think this sounds pretty good. Is there any indication how German Wikipedians generally view an implementation like this? I can't imagine English Wikipedians caring about an additional sidebar link/opt-in feature like this. Apart from enabling users to hide images and add them to their PFL as they encounter them in surfing our projects, users would also be able to edit the PFL manually, just as it is possible to edit one's watchlist manually. In this way, they could add any image file or category they want to their PFL. They could also add filter lists precompiled for them by a third party. Such lists could be crowdsourced by people interested in filtering, according to whatever cultural criteria they choose. Some sort of subscription service would work well here, right? Where the list can auto-update from a central list on a regular basis. I think that's roughly how in-browser ad block lists work. Seems like it could work well. Keep who pulls what lists private, though, I suppose. For unregistered users, their PFL could be stored in a cookie. I'm not sure you'd want to put it in a cookie, but that's an implementation detail. Watchlist editing is generally based on looking at titles. I don't suppose you'd want a gallery of hidden images, but it would make filter-list editing easier, heh. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists
Am 24.11.2011 15:09, schrieb MZMcBride: Andreas K. wrote: The way this would work is that each project page would have an Enable image filtering entry in the side bar. Clicking on this would add a Hide button to each image displayed on the page. Clicking on Hide would then grey the image, and automatically add it to the user's personal filter list. I think this sounds pretty good. Is there any indication how German Wikipedians generally view an implementation like this? I can't imagine English Wikipedians caring about an additional sidebar link/opt-in feature like this. Apart from enabling users to hide images and add them to their PFL as they encounter them in surfing our projects, users would also be able to edit the PFL manually, just as it is possible to edit one's watchlist manually. In this way, they could add any image file or category they want to their PFL. They could also add filter lists precompiled for them by a third party. Such lists could be crowdsourced by people interested in filtering, according to whatever cultural criteria they choose. Some sort of subscription service would work well here, right? Where the list can auto-update from a central list on a regular basis. I think that's roughly how in-browser ad block lists work. Seems like it could work well. Keep who pulls what lists private, though, I suppose. For unregistered users, their PFL could be stored in a cookie. I'm not sure you'd want to put it in a cookie, but that's an implementation detail. Watchlist editing is generally based on looking at titles. I don't suppose you'd want a gallery of hidden images, but it would make filter-list editing easier, heh. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l I'm a little bit confused by this approach. On the one side it is good to have this information stored privately and personal, on the other side we encouraging the development of filter lists and the tagging of possibly objectionable articles. The later wouldn't be private at all and even worse then tagging single images. In fact it would be some kind of additional force to ban images from articles just to keep them in the clean section. Overall i see little to now advantage over the previously supposed solutions. It is much more complicated, harder to implement, more resource intensive and not a very friendly interface for readers. My proposal would be: Just give it up and find other ways to improve Wikipedia and to make it more attractive. nya~ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists
Assuming an individual wanted filters, all methods such as this require them to be aware of whatever they consider to be the disturbing image(s) before deciding to apply the filter. In those methods which filter on an image by image basis, this requirement rather defeats the purpose. The only way it is applicable is when someone else blocks the images first--presumably a parent, who thus has the need to identify and read every potentially disturbing page before their child happens upon it. It is more likely to be conducive to outsiders providing their prebuilt lists. They have the right to use what ever we provide, but do we want to provide tools that decrease actual individual choice and encourage the more heavy-handed methods of censorship? This suggestion has one advantage over previous: it goes page by page, not image by image. In some cases, this might be realistic, but in others the user, especially the inexperienced user, will not realize from the page title what sort of images are likely to be found on it. On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 24.11.2011 15:09, schrieb MZMcBride: Andreas K. wrote: The way this would work is that each project page would have an Enable image filtering entry in the side bar. Clicking on this would add a Hide button to each image displayed on the page. Clicking on Hide would then grey the image, and automatically add it to the user's personal filter list. I think this sounds pretty good. Is there any indication how German Wikipedians generally view an implementation like this? I can't imagine English Wikipedians caring about an additional sidebar link/opt-in feature like this. Apart from enabling users to hide images and add them to their PFL as they encounter them in surfing our projects, users would also be able to edit the PFL manually, just as it is possible to edit one's watchlist manually. In this way, they could add any image file or category they want to their PFL. They could also add filter lists precompiled for them by a third party. Such lists could be crowdsourced by people interested in filtering, according to whatever cultural criteria they choose. Some sort of subscription service would work well here, right? Where the list can auto-update from a central list on a regular basis. I think that's roughly how in-browser ad block lists work. Seems like it could work well. Keep who pulls what lists private, though, I suppose. For unregistered users, their PFL could be stored in a cookie. I'm not sure you'd want to put it in a cookie, but that's an implementation detail. Watchlist editing is generally based on looking at titles. I don't suppose you'd want a gallery of hidden images, but it would make filter-list editing easier, heh. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l I'm a little bit confused by this approach. On the one side it is good to have this information stored privately and personal, on the other side we encouraging the development of filter lists and the tagging of possibly objectionable articles. The later wouldn't be private at all and even worse then tagging single images. In fact it would be some kind of additional force to ban images from articles just to keep them in the clean section. Overall i see little to now advantage over the previously supposed solutions. It is much more complicated, harder to implement, more resource intensive and not a very friendly interface for readers. My proposal would be: Just give it up and find other ways to improve Wikipedia and to make it more attractive. nya~ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- David Goodman DGG at the enWP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DGG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Poland to start a travelling POTY pictures exhibition in Warsaw (an announcement)
This is a really nice idea! I think Wikimedia South Africa should consider doing something like this to advertise ourselves as soon as we're incorporated. -- David Richfield e^(πi)+1=0 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Poland to start a travelling POTY pictures exhibition in Warsaw (an announcement)
David - you don't have to wait to be incorporated :-) Feel free to go and recreate this exhibition, it's free culture after all! Tomasz - great work. I've always wanted to have my local community art gallery have a PoTY exhibition and maybe with the photos of your event I might be able to convince them. Perhaps it is out of the scope of what you could do this year, but have you thought about using QRpedia codes to link to the articles about the subject of the photos (so people can read more about what they are looking at). Perhaps for those images that are created by Wikimedians (not NASA etc) we could even get a paragraph from the artist talking about how they got the photo or why they like using Commons. Would give some nice contextualisation for the pictures :-) Congrats, -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata 2011/11/24 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com This is a really nice idea! I think Wikimedia South Africa should consider doing something like this to advertise ourselves as soon as we're incorporated. -- David Richfield e^(πi)+1=0 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Poland to start a travelling POTY pictures exhibition in Warsaw (an announcement)
David Liam -- thank you for your comments and good words, it's appreciated! The idea of QRpedia codes has been suggested to us just a couple of days ago by a Wikimedian who will be co-organising the exhibition in Bytom (in the south of Poland) in January and I unfortunately forgot about it, thanks for reminding me :) As the photos have already reached Warsaw, I can't add any stickers to them myself, but I'll try to sort it out with the library, if possible. And I particularly like the idea about the 'interviews' with the authors, it sounds really cool! :-) As for the images of the exhibition, for now we only have http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Picture_of_the_Year_exhibition_-_Pozna%C5%84_2011 released under a free licence (there's more unfree photos taken by various media photographers, links available off-list); hopefully, there will be more coming to the Commons as there are of course some Wikimedians from Warsaw going to visit the exhibition. Regards, -- Tomasz Kozłowski | [[user:odder]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Google Knol is closing
Please, our main involvement is free knowledge, so, this call is of the outmost concerns about the things we are devoting to. This is not a question about competence, but about the value of contents. I know that Google is one of our benefactors, but I don't think that it will be difficult to make an agreement in which Google is not presented a looser counterpart. So, please, think about contents. We have hired people who can negociate the best way to do so, but anyway we have targets and we must do our best to preserve those contents. 2011/11/23 emijrp emi...@gmail.com Dear all; Knol, the Google project described as a rival to Wikipedia, is closing on April 2012. There are many links to Knol from Wikipedia[3] and some of them are free. Lot of content will be lost. People interested on saving Knol content can join to Archive Team[4] on #archiveteam channel on Efnet. Regards, emijrp [1] http://knol.google.com/k [2] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/more-spring-cleaning-out-of-season.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinkSearchtarget=http%3A%2F%2Fknol.google.com [4] http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Knol ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
