Re: [Commons-l] Status of upload wizard for Flickr uploading

2013-09-17 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
Is anybody willing to pursue having the Flickr upload wizard enabled for everybody? I really don't want to port over my tool when the Toolserver shuts down. Bryan On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Ryan Kaldari

[Commons-l] Status of upload wizard for Flickr uploading

2013-08-30 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
Hi, With the pending toolserver shutdown, I was thinking about retiring Flickr Upload Bot. However, this bot is apparently still used about 2000-4000 times per month. I was under the impression that the upload wizard would replace this bot, however, I couldn't find any references to this. Does

[Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Media infrastructure maintenance (uploads disabled) Friday Oct 5, 11 am UTC

2012-10-04 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
No uploading possible from Friday Oct 5 at 11am UTC, to 2pm UTC. Bryan -- Forwarded message -- From: Ariel T. Glenn ar...@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:19 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Media infrastructure maintenance (uploads disabled) Friday Oct 5, 11 am UTC To:

[Commons-l] Possibility of broken upload tools

2012-03-22 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
Hi all, As some you may remember, two years ago all upload tools to Commons broke when changes to the upload interface were made. These changes were reverted [1]. However, as it turned out that this had security implications, the restrictions have been put back into place [2]. If you use an

Re: [Commons-l] Updated images don’t update properly

2011-07-04 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
Hi, On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Arne 'Timwi' Heizmann ti...@gmx.net wrote: I just made several changes to an SVG file: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_of_pyramids.svg This is yet another incarnation of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28613. It appears to

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-16 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, given that the template was cascade protected by virtue of it being on the main page, only administrators can edit it.  You're not an administrator on Commons, but you do have a staff flag.  Therefore I'd say

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-16 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
Op 16 mei 2011 22:53 schreef Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com het volgende: Any action done without consent (like Jimbo did before) is offensive against the community, making her mistrusting the WMF, that interferes with community decissions. Your analogy is misplaced. The

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Friendliness

2011-02-23 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:02 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 February 2011 19:48, Daniel Schwen li...@schwen.de wrote: Boils down to my main point (don't worry David Gerard did not read it either): For someone going on (and on) about how thick-skinned everyone else should

[Commons-l] File licensing information support

2011-01-20 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
Hello, As you may have noticed, Roan, Krinkle and me have started to more tightly integrate image licensing within MediaWiki. Our aim is to create a system where it should be easy to obtain the basic copyright information of an image in a machine readable format, as well as querying images with

Re: [Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

2011-01-04 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey Bryan, Did you ever make any progress on getting a Flickr uploading extension going? If not, I would like to go ahead and propose it as a project for the WMF to work on. Not yet, perhaps February or March. I think

Re: [Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

2010-10-30 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: It should be comparatively simple to write a more generic transfer parent class, which then would have derived classes for each of these sites; a simple method (e.g. for an image page on flickr, give me the URL

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

2010-10-29 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: For one, tags would not be hierarchical and not stored under a name, rather a number (an id if you will). I would store the tag-i18n definitions in a separate Tag: namespace. Then you don't need to create the history tracking

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

2010-10-29 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: Another idea: Instead of inventing new syntax or pseudo-HTML tags, why not use language links? On [[Tag:Flower]] [[en:Flower]] [[de:Blume]] Because you want to avoid using a single syntax for multiple purposes

Re: [Commons-l] Problems using pictures from Commons in Blogger - making it more of a stock photo repository

2010-09-29 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: I put it in the top bar for now. It looked a little lost there, so I threw some b around it; besides uploading and editing, we probably have more customers interested in reusing files. I like the previous

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikitech-l] InstantCommons serving up non-free files

2010-07-26 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: But Commons contains a certain number of non-free files, specifically Wikimedia logos and so forth. I just noticed (on a wiki using InstantCommons) that these are served up through it just the same. Is there any

[Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] image service switchover

2010-01-26 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
Forward from wikitech-l, no uploading from 9 pm UTC. (timezone corrected with Ariel's second post) -- Forwarded message -- From: Ariel T. Glenn ar...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:54 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] image service switchover To:

Re: [Commons-l] GlobalUsage deployed an up to date

2010-01-12 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: As of today, a weekly stats update will be added to u_magnus_glam_p. Oh, I see that I forgot to mention it, but I have also been collecting stats in p_globalusage_weekly_p Bryan

Re: [Commons-l] Update from Paris

2009-11-09 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Eusebius wikipe...@eusebius.fr wrote: Hi Gerard, thanks for your report, there is now global usage for images from within MediaWiki itself.. so no need for using the toolserver... The process of gathering all the necessary data may now have ended.. I hadn't

[Commons-l] Maintainers of collection of flickr tools

2009-08-03 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
Hi all, In the past few years I have been creating some Flickr related tools. These are: * FlickreviewR: A bot that reviews the licenses from images uploaded from Flickr * FlickreviewR human reviewer: A bot that re-reviews reviews by humans * Flickr upload bot: A web interface that allows easy

Re: [Commons-l] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 voting now open

2009-02-17 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: I have meant to ask what happened with the toolserver (or the team dealing with the toolserver) so that it could not be used this year ? I was unfortunately too busy to set that up. Bryan