Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images
I like the stray text around the images - it shows that the picture is from a book, rather than a separate unattached file like a photo or engraving, and the captions are necessary in most cases. The problematic images are the ones of letterheads and margin decorations, which, though perhaps interesting for articles on publishing or printing, are not really useful in the quantities available unless Wikisource is able to ingest the books in such a way that they use those too. As I understand it however, you cannot recycle a Commons image in a djvu file (yet). I do think some of the more encyclopedic books would be great to have in their entirety on Wikisource. 2013/12/18, geni geni...@gmail.com: On 17 December 2013 20:08, Matthew Flaschen matthew.flasc...@gatech.eduwrote: As Andrew said, the interesting question is whether the Commons community can effectively help curate/add metadata for this unidentified content. Even if we could a lot of the images could do with some preprocessing to remove things like stray text. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ombudsman Commission applications
With thanks to those who have already submitted applications, I wanted to just push out a reminder here. The deadline for applications is January 1, any timezone. With major holidays coming for many parts of the world, I didn't want people to overlook the opportunity. If you are interested in serving on the ombudsman commission, please drop me a note detailing your experience on the projects, your thoughts on the commission, and what you hope to bring to the role. Thanks! Maggie On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Maggie Dennis mden...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi It's coming close to time for annual appointments of community members to serve on the Ombudsman commission. This commission works on all Wikimedia projects to investigate complaints about violations of the privacy policy, especially in use of CheckUser tools, and to mediate between the complaining party and the individual whose work is being investigated. They may also assist the General Counsel, the Executive Director or the Board of Trustees in investigations of these issues. For more on their duties and roles, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission This is a call for community members interested in volunteering for appointment to this commission. Commissioners should be experienced Wikimedians, active on any project, who have previously used the CheckUser tool OR who have the technical ability to understand the CheckUser tool and the willingness to learn it. They are expected to be able to engage neutrally in investigating these concerns and to know when to recuse when other roles and relationships may cause conflict. (In the past, commissioners have turned in other roles that could cause conflict.) Commissioners are required to identify to the Wikimedia Foundation and must be willing to comply with the appropriate board policies (such as the access to non-public data policy and the privacy policy). This is a position that requires a high degree of discretion and trust. If you are interested in serving on this commission, please drop me a note detailing your experience on the projects, your thoughts on the commission and what you hope to bring to the role. The commission is deliberately quite small, so slots are limited, but all applications are appreciated. The deadline for applications is January 1. Any timezone. :) Please feel free to pass this invitation along to any users who you think may be interested. Thank you! Maggie -- Maggie Dennis Senior Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. -- Maggie Dennis Senior Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images
I did put a few of the books up in the past (as PDFs provided by the BL, then manually converted to DjVu): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennedy,_Robert_John_-_A_Journey_in_Khorassan_(1890).djvu https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennedy,_Robert_John_-_A_Journey_in_Khorassan_(1890).pdf https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Journey_in_Khorassan_and_Central_Asia I kept running into size limits wasn't quite sure how best to get the right material to Wikisource, but if there's particular titles, let me know I'll see what can be done. On 19 December 2013 09:07, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: I like the stray text around the images - it shows that the picture is from a book, rather than a separate unattached file like a photo or engraving, and the captions are necessary in most cases. The problematic images are the ones of letterheads and margin decorations, which, though perhaps interesting for articles on publishing or printing, are not really useful in the quantities available unless Wikisource is able to ingest the books in such a way that they use those too. As I understand it however, you cannot recycle a Commons image in a djvu file (yet). I do think some of the more encyclopedic books would be great to have in their entirety on Wikisource. 2013/12/18, geni geni...@gmail.com: On 17 December 2013 20:08, Matthew Flaschen matthew.flasc...@gatech.eduwrote: As Andrew said, the interesting question is whether the Commons community can effectively help curate/add metadata for this unidentified content. Even if we could a lot of the images could do with some preprocessing to remove things like stray text. -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images
On 19 December 2013 09:07, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote: I like the stray text around the images - it shows that the picture is from a book, rather than a separate unattached file like a photo or engraving, and the captions are necessary in most cases. Not for use in articles. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton_Socon_Castle -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
