Re: [Wikimedia-l] Media handling is difficult

On 31 July 2015 at 06:48, Juan de Vojníkov juandevojni...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to ask, if the ease of media handling (images, photographs on Wikimedia Commons) is a priority for Wikimedia Foundation? If not, could it be a priority? Recently we have seen a big step done for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Big problem to solve: good WYSIWYG on WMF wikis

On 16 June 2015 at 02:53, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-December/063225.html I just found back this post by David Gerard from 2010 and was struck by how dead-on the discussion and analysis was and how far we have

[Wikimedia-l] Media handling is difficult

Hi, I would like to ask, if the ease of media handling (images, photographs on Wikimedia Commons) is a priority for Wikimedia Foundation? If not, could it be a priority? Recently we have seen a big step done for editors = VisualEditor. Contributors have no longer study wikicode to be able to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Media handling is difficult

On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:37:19 -0400, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se wrote: Some thoughts inline. 2015-07-31 15:48 GMT+02:00 Juan de Vojníkov juandevojni...@gmail.com: Hi, 1) there is no app for mobile phones and tablets for image upload Well, there is one [1] (but not supported by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Media handling is difficult

FYI, for those interested in uploading to Commons, there was an interesting presentation at Wikimania about usability testing this. https://archive.org/details/videoeditserver-96 The short answer to your very valid question -- licenses and copyright are complicated legal issues when it comes to

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 11, Issue 30 -- 29 July 2015

News and notes: BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-07-29/News_and_notes Op-ed: My life as an autistic Wikipedian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-07-29/Op-ed Recent research:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

On Jul 27, 2015 5:33 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: snip This still leaves me wondering if WMF Legal could be involved in the legal defense of the reusers if they acted in good faith in attempting to comply

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Media handling is difficult

2015-07-31 19:54 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com: FYI, for those interested in uploading to Commons, there was an interesting presentation at Wikimania about usability testing this. https://archive.org/details/videoeditserver-96 The short answer to your very valid question --

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does Foundation have 3rd party standing against Harald Bischoff?

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:34 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: Therefor allow me come back to my original question which I d love to have an answer from the wmf legal department, and cc-by expert readers: independent of this case, is there a technical possibility to put

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Media handling is difficult

*Jan Ainali:* thx for the link, we will have a look on that. *Bahodir Mansurov:* that sounds great. Most of the people here use Android. We will deffinitely test it. *Andrew Lih:* I havent catched the point. The presentation was about usability and how to run it. For image uploads we can run it