Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 18 February 2018)
Hi, What is making me happy this week is the start of the 3D models uploads in Commons: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/20/three-dimensional-models/ Regards. -- Lionel Allorge Wikimedia France : http://wikimedia.fr « People who say "I have nothing to hide" misunderstand the purpose of surveillance. It was never about privacy. It's about power. » Edward Snowden ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: 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] Naive questions: what could do the movement with 1B dollars/euros?
Hi, > Are there any activities that could have a meaningful impact if we ask > donors for such amount of seed money? Are there reasons to do so? In many areas we lack good secondary sources. Some times we don't even have any secondary sources. I did some work at the National Manufacture of Ceramics of Sèvres in France[1]. They have knowledge there that is not in any book. It is transmitted directly from master to student... My idea would be to create a publishing company that would hire specialists to write monographs on subjects where we lack good secondary sources. The compagny would regularly ask the wikimedians about which subjects they need sources. Those works would be published under a Free Licence but independantly from the Wikipedias so there would be no risk for the Wikimedia Foundation to be seen as doing paid editing. Wikipedians would then be free to use those sources to improve the Wikipedias. Regards. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacture_nationale_de_S%C3%A8vres -- Lionel Allorge Wikimedia France : http://wikimedia.fr ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: 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] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 30 April 2017)
Hi, What made me happy this week was to see the tests of 3D objects being uploaded into Commons : https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/3d Regards. -- Lionel Allorge https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lionel_Allorge ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: 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] Picture of the Year | 2016 | voting open
Hi, > We are happy to announce that the 2016 Picture of the Year competition is now > open. Thank you. It is always a pleasure to vote for those very good pictures. > For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Great ! I dont understand why this picture : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feixina_Park_Torrent_de_Sa_Riera_Basti%C3%B2_de_Sant_Pere_Palma_de_Mallorca.jpg is in the birds category : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2016/R1/Gallery/Birds Regards. -- Lionel Allorge April : http://www.april.org Lune Rouge : http://www.lunerouge.org Wikimedia France : http://wikimedia.fr ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: 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] “Reliable”, “Notable”, and “Encyclopaedic” Sources for Automated Solvers for FreeCell
Hi, > I see. Thanks for the information (though I'm still frustrated it took this > list so long to give me a reply). I guess I won't be adding information > about the solvers to the FreeCell article after all. It's your loss, > really. You should mention this information on the talk page of the article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:FreeCell My two cents. -- Lionel Allorge Lune Rouge : http://www.lunerouge.org April : http://www.april.org Wikimedia France : http://wikimedia.fr ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: 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] Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA
Hi, ... Many years ago, the editors of the Spanish Wikipedia decided to close the possibility to directly host images, choosing instead to use Wikimedia Commons. If we miss the opportunity to find a workaround that saves hundreds of thousands of images from an unrequested deletion that hurts our very mission, Wikipedia editors could ultimately evaluate reversing that decision, reopening project-hosted uploads just to avoid the restrictive and exclusionary URAA interpretation that Wikimedia Commons has been sustaining against the Foundation's political and legal advice. That would be far from being an optimal outcome. The french version of Wikipedia http://fr.wikipedia.org is already doing that by keeping pictures of recent buildings that got erased from Commons. So I think you should do exactly the same and keep all those documents in your local Wikipedia until they become Free enough for Commons. If you can read french, the decision is here : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Prise_de_d%C3%A9cision/Remise_en_cause_de_l%27exception_au_droit_d%27auteur_sur_les_b%C3%A2timents_r%C3%A9cents Best regards. -- Lionel Allorge April : http://www.april.org Lune Rouge : http://www.lunerouge.org Wikimedia France : http://wikimedia.fr ___ 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] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?
Hi, Todd Allen said: ... This proposal asks to move to a free as in beer model, where content will be free to view, but not necessarily to reuse (and with the opaque license, it may not even be possible to tell). We could choose to make that change, but it is a major change to the founding principles of what we do. As such it should be discussed directly and across all projects as such a major change, and not backdoored through a vote that is on its surface a question about format support. I agree with Todd that the support of MP4 would be loosing the freedom that is at the heart of the Wikimedia projects. There is also a problem with the idea that it will allow people to directly upload the videos made by their camcorder. Most of the time it is a bad idea to upload a video without any form of editing. Most of the time you need to remove at least the begining and the end of a video file. It will result in many very bad videos. On the contrary, we should encourage people to edit their videos with tutorials and to render the final edit in a free file format. Best regards. -- Lionel Allorge April : http://www.april.org Lune Rouge : http://www.lunerouge.org Wikimedia France : http://wikimedia.fr ___ 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] Paid editing v. paid advocacy (editing)
Hi, I agree it's an important distinction. I personally think it could be worthwhile to think about a separate non-profit organization which receives payments and manages contracts to systematically expand Wikipedia coverage, with payment entirely or largely decoupled from specific articles (at most coupled to specific domains) and the organization's policies being developed transparently in partnership with the community. I suspect such an org could receive significant grants and public support in its own right. ... I'd love to see more experiments that are conducted in full awareness of the ethical issues involved, both with funding models for free content, and with other incentive structures. WikiMoney was actually quite popular for a short while, considering how much of a pain it was to actually administer! I agree with you that the Wikimedia Foundation is not in the best position to pay people to produce Free content. But there are many fields where it would useful to pay people to produce Free (as in freedom) content. For exemple, we could have a Free news website with paid journalists that could get to places forbiden to amateurs like in press conferences or get interviews with celebrities. We could have a Free photography agency that could send professionals to take pictures and videos all over the world, especially where amateurs won't be allowed like in war zones. We could have a publishing company that would pay specialists to write Free books about subjects where we lack tertiary sources. It would be a great way not to antagonize renowned scientists who might get bitten if they edit Wikipedia directly. Those Free texts, pictures, videos, etc. could then be used by the Wikimedia projects by amateurs. Best regards. -- Lionel Allorge April : http://www.april.org Lune Rouge : http://www.lunerouge.org Wikimedia France : http://wikimedia.fr ___ 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] Wikivoyage logo
Hi, Sometime in the next couple of weeks, we will need to launch a contest for the new Wikivoyage logo, but first I'm hoping to get feedback and assistance in making the best process for that possible. We had been considering ways to optimize logo selection by the community, with the idea that we would have plenty of time to talk about the process before needing it. Unfortunately, we now need something quite quickly. Accordingly, I'd be really grateful for feedback on the process, which has been posted here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_contest_procedure You can read a little more about it here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Logo_contest_procedure If it is so urgent, why start a new contest ? It would be a lot faster to take the second best choice from the first contest. Regards, -- Lionel Allorge April : http://www.april.org Lune Rouge : http://www.lunerouge.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
