[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Travelguide
Hi all, Wikivoyage has been producing a travel guide for Wikimania delegates. The idea is to provide a comprehensive guide to the area within a short walking distance from the conference venue and main hotels. It's pretty good already but could always be better - contributors welcomed: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014_London_Guidebook *Edward Saperia* Conference Director Wikimania London http://www.wikimanialondon.org email e...@wikimanialondon.org • facebook http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia • twitter http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
[Wikimediauk-l] Authority Control in Welsh Wikipedia
The English (and many other ) Wikipedias use Authority Control; identifiers like VIAF, ORCID and several others, which help us to disambiguate people with the same name, and to be sure that the subject is the same person as that referred to in other sources. The main tool for doing this is the template: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control I can see no evidence that the template, or Authority Control in general, is used on the Welsh Wikipedia (I'm not a Welsh speaker). Have I missed somethng? If not, I'd be happy to advise on its implementation. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Authority Control in Welsh Wikipedia
If it's not used on Welsh Wikipedia, maybe the best thing would be to make a Wikidata-based one - just add the blank template to people's articles, and watch it automagically fill with vaules from Wikidata. The last thing the Wikiverse needs is to add the occasional VIAF entry on Welsh Wikipedia as wikitext. Not in 2014. Cheers, Magnus On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: The English (and many other ) Wikipedias use Authority Control; identifiers like VIAF, ORCID and several others, which help us to disambiguate people with the same name, and to be sure that the subject is the same person as that referred to in other sources. The main tool for doing this is the template: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control I can see no evidence that the template, or Authority Control in general, is used on the Welsh Wikipedia (I'm not a Welsh speaker). Have I missed somethng? If not, I'd be happy to advise on its implementation. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Authority Control in Welsh Wikipedia
On 17 July 2014 15:36, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: [Authority control] If it's not used on Welsh Wikipedia, maybe the best thing would be to make a Wikidata-based one - just add the blank template to people's articles, and watch it automagically fill with vaules from Wikidata. The last thing the Wikiverse needs is to add the occasional VIAF entry on Welsh Wikipedia as wikitext. Not in 2014. Yes; that's my intention. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
[Wikimediauk-l] 3D file formats.
I can't remember who asked about this at the London meetup but options are: .X3D seems to be trying to become the web standard. We would want to modify it a bit to support our preferred video and audio formats. .blend Native file format of blender 3D rendering software. Covered by various versions of GPL. They also make films. The latest, Tears of Steel, is not on commons because even the low res versions clock in at over 300MB. The 4K version is a bit over 6GB. In any case their films can be found on the usual video sites. .Blend would perhaps be best treated as a raw data format with the renderings exported to something else. On the other hand blender is probably the most powerful free and open source tool for 3d work. From the 3D printing world we have .STL and .AMF. If supporting printable objects is our prime interest they would be the way to go. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 3D file formats.
Very exciting! Is this discussion happening on wiki anywhere? *Edward Saperia* Conference Director Wikimania London http://www.wikimanialondon.org email e...@wikimanialondon.org • facebook http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia • twitter http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG On 17 July 2014 20:14, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: I can't remember who asked about this at the London meetup but options are: .X3D seems to be trying to become the web standard. We would want to modify it a bit to support our preferred video and audio formats. .blend Native file format of blender 3D rendering software. Covered by various versions of GPL. They also make films. The latest, Tears of Steel, is not on commons because even the low res versions clock in at over 300MB. The 4K version is a bit over 6GB. In any case their films can be found on the usual video sites. .Blend would perhaps be best treated as a raw data format with the renderings exported to something else. On the other hand blender is probably the most powerful free and open source tool for 3d work. From the 3D printing world we have .STL and .AMF. If supporting printable objects is our prime interest they would be the way to go. -- geni ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
