Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Release of educational videos under creative commons
2012/4/24 Andrew Cates andrew.ca...@soschildren.org Um. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video appear to all be images relevant to the topic of videos. Not themselves videos. Sorry, a missing S, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos Owner? Not personally but I am the CEO of the charity which owns them and I can release them. Is there any actual video anywhere on WP and in what format? Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_containing_video_clips The prefered format is Theora https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Video Andrew == (Please, press Reply all to send your e-mails to the mailing list too, and not just me) On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:26 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/4/24 Andrew Cates andrew.ca...@soschildren.org I am wondering about releasing many hundreds of Africa educational videos under creative commons. They are the videos currently at www.our-africa.org which is a child generated reference site about Africa. There is a lot of material in the videos which could be edited and used to improve Wikipedia article (a solar kettle in operation, a maize plant grinding maize, a variety of musical instruments in use, different religious festivals, cocoa plantations etc etc) However at present Wikipedia does not seem to support or want video material. Wikipedia supports video with [[Media:]] tag. Also, Wikimedia Commons has a little collection of them https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video Does anyone have a feel whether this is likely to change? http://www.videoonwikipedia.com Also, this message is more related to Wikimedia or Commons mailing lists (cc:). If you are the owner of those videos and you want to donate them, some people can help you in the process. Andrew ___ Wikitech-l mailing list wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT http://code.google.com/p/avbot/ | StatMediaWikihttp://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es | WikiEvidens http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/ | WikiPapershttp://wikipapers.referata.com | WikiTeam http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/ Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT http://code.google.com/p/avbot/ | StatMediaWikihttp://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es | WikiEvidens http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/ | WikiPapershttp://wikipapers.referata.com | WikiTeam http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/ Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedians in Other Languages Needed
Hello All The project we have been working on to develop medical content and translate it into other languages is going well. We have an initial set of 13 top importance GAs ready for translation by Translators Without Borders. Article should begin arriving in a couple of weeks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force We are looking at starting with an initial group of 9 languages and need Wikipedians to help incorporate article into that wiki language in 7 of them including: Croatian, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Persian, Romanian and Turkish. If there are people with these language / wiki abilities who wish to help volunteers would be much appreciated. Please sign up here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force#People_involved_.28with_language_ability.29 Also if you know of anyone who is not on this list who might be interested send them my way. Many thanks -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 18:41, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, how do we want to work on editor retention if we lack social features at all??? These go in the right direction: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Improving_our_platform http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_features Is WMF going to act finally??? Kozuch Hello, I put together that second link during the strategy process. Others have since added to it but the page looks much the way I remember it from back then. It's really hard for me to recall quite what I was thinking. I did believe that some kind of social glue would make the site more sticky (as the geek parlance goes) but whether I still believe that would lead to a better encyclopedia... I guess I'm not so sure about that now. Probably I was more driven by a sense of loneliness and isolation I felt whilst I did my Wikipedia work. Thing is, I think there are already vibrant communities within Wikipedia and I'm sure there are bonds. Although, I confess, I'm guessing because I'm not involved with any of them. But I would assume that those that put together Signpost each week feel connected. Those in the Military History group I imagine work together. I think if one wants to join a group for social interaction there are plenty of possibilities open to one. So now, time having passed since I put together that page, I more feel that the type of stuff I do on Wikipedia doesn't really lend itself to bonding. I tend to read articles on myriad topics and follow where my curiosity takes me. Is there the possibility of an Autodidact reader's group? If so, what would they talk about? I read *this* today! Cool! Today I read this *other* thing! Is there much value in such exchanges? It seems to me that, no, there probably isn't. There is also the Copyeditors Group but my relationship to it is that there is plenty of info there for me to learn from but I don't feel qualified to add to it. But I do know where to go if I have a question, which is not to be sniffed at. So if I am left daunted I know where to find support. Good. What do I think about it all now... Personally, I think there is no good on-wiki way to address my feelings of loneliness as a volunteer but - guess what - that's fine! Because if I want to salve my solipsism then I am a member of plenty of other websites where I have friends to talk to. However, I imagine there are ways to improve things for the groups that already exist. I would suggest anyone wishing to pursue this interviews regular contributors to the larger Wikigroups such as MILHIST and the Signpost crew. What innovations can be made to MediaWiki to help them do what they're already doing more easily? Maybe liquid threads is enough? (I'm afraid I'm not a fan). Perhaps it would be better if the Signpost guys, for example, want to feel more bonded they simply exchange Twitter/Facebook details? Of course many people want their Wikipedia identity to be separate from their identity elsewhere and so would not wish to share such details. Is there a solution to that? Dunno. To finish: your post as quoted at top states there are ZERO social features. People can quite readily share text and images; there's a talk page on EVERY page we have. I'm not sure what else you expect a computer to do short of adding Skype/Voicemail. en.wp.User:Bodnotbod ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Doctors use, but don’t rely totally on, Wikipedia
All, We think you might find our latest blog post interesting. It's about research in which an online survey of medical staff at two large hospital trusts in England was conducted. Nearly all the 109 responses included free-text comments. Unsurprisingly, the respondents - all medical professionals - all consult Wikipedia. Worth a read, I think! It's at http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/04/doctors-use-but-dont-rely-totally-on-wikipedia/ We owe a big thanks to Suzanne Hardy of Newcastle Universityhttp://www.medev.ac.uk/ for bringing the research to our attention, and Dr David Mathieson of the University of Nottingham for help with this summary. Big thanks also go to Martin Poulter, who facilitated things at our end. All the best, Richard Symonds Office Development Manager Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 07885 764 613 Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission
On 24 April 2012 01:00, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: Queues are normally setup so that the OTRS admins can see all tickets. This makes things easier when checking for errors, making sure there are no backlogs, cleaning up cross-queue spam, etc. However, there are definitely some private queues -- like the oversight and Wikimedia registration/scholarship queues -- that OTRS admins cannot see unless they give themselves access to it, which they wouldn't do unless they needed to for some reason. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 Oh of course, what I intended in my previous email was to highlight the fact that OTRS admins *technically *have the ability to view private emails that may even be discussing actions that they themselves have done in their capacities as oversighters or checkusers. I completely trust the integrity of the OTRS admins (yes I even trust you ;-) ) to not do anything they shouldn't do, but I see the importance in giving advance warning about who could *potentially *view emails if an OTRS queue for the Ombudsman commission was created. -- Thehelpfulone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone English Wikipedia Administrator ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Harvard Library releases 12M bibliographic records under CC0
This is big news -- though still only part of Harvard's full collection of records. Following the British Library's release of 3M bib records under CC0 18 months ago: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982pageid=icb.page498373 David Weinberger writes: This is the largest contribution of full bib records we know of. Stuart Shieber [of the Berkman Center] (and of the Office of Scholarly Communication) was the driving force behind this. Woohoo! David W. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikipedia-l] Fwd: Harvard Library releases 12M bibliographic records under CC0
Very good news for Open Library, and for us too. 2012/4/24 Samuel Klein s...@wikimedia.org This is big news -- though still only part of Harvard's full collection of records. Following the British Library's release of 3M bib records under CC0 18 months ago: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982pageid=icb.page498373 David Weinberger writes: This is the largest contribution of full bib records we know of. Stuart Shieber [of the Berkman Center] (and of the Office of Scholarly Communication) was the driving force behind this. Woohoo! David W. ___ Wikipedia-l mailing list wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT http://code.google.com/p/avbot/ | StatMediaWikihttp://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es | WikiEvidens http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/ | WikiPapershttp://wikipapers.referata.com | WikiTeam http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/ Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Release of educational videos under creative commons
Where's the latest thread on the Timed Media Handler progress? I am meeting with MIT Open CourseWare tomorrow - they want to expand the set of videos they released last year under CC-SA, starting with categories / vids that would be fill gaps on Wikipedia. Any thoughts on how to make that collaboration more effective would be welcome. SJ On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:59 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 April 2012 13:26, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Also, this message is more related to Wikimedia or Commons mailing lists (cc:). If you are the owner of those videos and you want to donate them, some people can help you in the process. Well, not really - uploading video is still laborious because we've been waiting literally years for the Timed Media Handler, which is a wikitech issue. Andrew could probably deal with the ffmpeg2theora bit, but it's still faffy and troublesome. - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission
There is no such log within the OTRS software. Admin actions are logged by the OTRS admins on the OTRS wiki. Yes, these are manual edits. There has never (that I know of) been an issue with the OTRS admins accessing queues they shouldn't. While of course it is possible for them to, as others have explained, I'm not sure it is a realistic concern that needs a solution. It would be ideal if the OTRS software logged all actions ... I wonder if this is changed at all in the new version, which hopefully will be set up for Wikimedia soon ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22622). On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:06 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com wrote: You would be able to easily keep track of what tickets have been answered, but as far as I am aware the OTRS admins are technically able to view all the emails in any queues - so that would be another 12ish people plus devs that would be able to view the tickets. I'm not saying that they would, but bearing in mind a fair number of the OTRS admins are checkusers/oversighters themselves, I think there will be some issues with using OTRS. Queues are normally setup so that the OTRS admins can see all tickets. This makes things easier when checking for errors, making sure there are no backlogs, cleaning up cross-queue spam, etc. However, there are definitely some private queues -- like the oversight and Wikimedia registration/scholarship queues -- that OTRS admins cannot see unless they give themselves access to it, which they wouldn't do unless they needed to for some reason. Is there an auditable log of these actions? i.e. one that OTRS admins cant doctor? -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Ryan User:Rjd0060 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:06 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: Is there an auditable log of these actions? i.e. one that OTRS admins cant doctor? -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l It really amazes me how much we distrust the people who have been doing a great work (otrs admins, ombudsmen, etc). And all upon contrived hypothetical scenarios. And how about one of the root-access devs is secretly working for the goverment of... is anyone working on a solution for this? Pedro Sánchez http://drini.mx @combinatorica ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Release of educational videos under creative commons (Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 97, Issue 73)
Thanks Sumana! :) --michael On 04/24/2012 09:10 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap indicates that we aim to have TimedMediaHandler deployed onto Wikimedia Foundation sites by the end of May 2012. TimedMediaHandler has been reviewed by Ian Baker and Kandalgaonkar extensively, with lots of changes made in response by Michael Dale. Review notes and Michael's follow-up are at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/TimedMediaHandler/ReviewNotes . It is currently being tested, including transcoding support, at http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:Electric_sheep.webm . (Copied this from the extensions review queue status at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue .) ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
