Hello all,
There seems to be a dispute between the Outreach and the Commons components
of The Community, judging by the article "Wikimedia Commons: a highly
hostile place for multimedia students contributions" at the Education
Newsletter
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/April_20
Dear all,
We are glad to inform you of our recent courtesy visit to the University of
Nigeria.
Our mandate as Wikimedia User Group (operating as Wikimedia Nigeria
Foundation in Nigeria) is to introduce Wikipedia and it's sister projects
to all the citizen of the federal republic of Nigeria.
I an
Dear all,
There have been announcements about the Structured data project on Commons,
that is intended to make it easier to view, search, edit, organize and
re-use the metadata on media. This is clearly of great value to
researchers and developers in image recognition, who will have a large
reposi
Well, Actually, at the moment it looks they are all undeleted.
The good habit - which I was keeping when organizing several GLAM-related
mass uploads - was to create on Commons project page describing what it is
intended to be uploaded, preferably in English. Then you can create a
project template
Is the shortage of admins due to a lack of people willing or capable to do the
job, or increasing difficulty in obtaining the bit?
On May 12, 2019, at 3:55 AM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
> Well, Actually, at the moment it looks they are all undeleted.
>
> The good habit - which I was keeping w
Just the active community itself is too small, compared with the amount of
material it has to deal with.
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 1:07 PM Benjamin Ikuta
wrote:
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> Is the shortage of admins due to a lack of people willing or capable to do
> the job, or increasing difficulty i
IMO commons need either a Clue Bot NG for new uploads or ores support for
images that might be copyright violation, or both.
Best
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 1:10 PM Yaroslav Blanter wrote:
> Just the active community itself is too small, compared with the amount of
> material it has to deal with.
Yes, Yaroslav is right. The active community is small compared to the
amount of work to be done.
I have advocated since long that massive training is needed to fix this.
These trainings should be sponsored by the WMF and its affiliates.
Regards,
Yann Forget
Jai Jagat 2020 Grand March Coordinator
A couple of years ago a proposed project was for the WMF to pay for
access to the Google image matching API access so we could run a
copyvio bot on the live new uploads list. Such a bot would not be
terribly hard to get working, and would be a great experiment to see
if this aspect of the more bori
It is hard to get the admin bit there aswell. Is Commons interested in
having more admins?
James
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 5:41 AM Fæ wrote:
> A couple of years ago a proposed project was for the WMF to pay for
> access to the Google image matching API access so we could run a
> copyvio bot on th
I wonder wheter local sysops could be allowed to delete/undelete images on
commons in order to reduce workload. Most risky commons' uploads come from
cw-upload, allow local sysops to handle them could work.
Vito
Il giorno dom 12 mag 2019 alle ore 15:31 James Heilman
ha scritto:
> It is hard to
As I am the author of the post, some remarks:
* Commons is, indeed, the only [cloud] storage for file in most of the
Wikipedias. Making an accusation of using Commons as a storage place is unfair
and nonsense.
* Communication could be better, of course, but we don't have to think on
exp
This episode exposes a policy of Commons that may be unknown to many folks
- the precautionary principle.
It is an explicit exception to assuming good faith, so I noted this on the
AGF page on Commons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Assume_good_faith&oldid=prev&diff=34965
niedz., 12 maj 2019 o 16:23 Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
napisał(a):
> As I am the author of the post, some remarks:
>
> * Commons is, indeed, the only [cloud] storage for file in most of the
> Wikipedias. Making an accusation of using Commons as a storage place is
> unfair and nonsense.
>
I th
I absolutely disagree with this. A Wikipedia sysop do not necessarily has -
and from my experience, most of the time hasn't - the necessary skills to
deal with copyright.
Best,
Paulo
A domingo, 12 de mai de 2019, 14:35, Vi to
escreveu:
> I wonder wheter local sysops could be allowed to delete/u
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] the Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
group aims to support the community of active contributors that develop
content about Bénin, its story, culture, and people; to promote
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] the WikiClassics User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group
aims to improve the quantity and quality of information about classical
antiquity on the Wikimedia projects.
Please join me in congratula
On Sun, 12 May 2019 11:43:22 -0400
Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] the WikiClassics User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group
> aims to improve the quantity and quality of information about classic
On Sun, 12 May 2019 11:41:53 -0400
Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] the Wikimédiens du Bénin User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
> group aims to support the community of active contributors that dev
It seems to be a situation where there were no clear instructions, so people
did what they thought was a good idea, but others thought it was a bad idea. No
communications, now the blame is being spread without analysing the problem and
proposing a solution. Not an unusual situation really.
Che
Well.. there where instructions. All the videos were supervised before
uploading, all the songs were perfectly cited at the descriptions and all the
own work was marked as own work. This are the instructiones to follow when
uploading to Commons.
From: Wikimedia-l
A large part of the problem is the disconnection between online and offline
communities or types of users. It is quite counterproductive having
affiliates, outreach programs, whatever, reaching out to people out to the
Wikimediaverse inviting them to use our projects without having any plans
or mea
This is true. I verified and restored almost all the files. There was one
or two problems with students who uploaded an occasional derivative work
(integrated in their own work), but almost all the files were OK, and
correctly uploaded. The main problem here, IMO, was marking sourced stuff
as "no s
Major projects surely deal with a significant amount of uploads in an
efficient way.
Vito
Il giorno dom 12 mag 2019 alle ore 17:31 Paulo Santos Perneta <
paulospern...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> I absolutely disagree with this. A Wikipedia sysop do not necessarily has -
> and from my experience, m
Anyone doing Commons stuff has to do have Commons skills. Wikipedia sysops
are not asked to have them, and do not have them by default.
If Wikipedia sysops that deal with copyright want to be Commons admins,
they can apply anytime for that role. Otherwise, render to Caesar the
things that are Caes
I wouldn't even have any idea what I'd need to do to be a sysop on Commons.
I frequently do find copyvio images and nominate them for deletion on
Commons while working on the English Wikipedia spam queue (and yes, I'm
familiar with copyright law, and they have all, to my knowledge, indeed
been foun
Hi James,
Of course. More admins would lesser the work charge, and it would be great.
We specially appreciate admins with multi-language capabilities, as it is a
multilangual project.
Of course, comprehensive knowledge of copyright is needed.
That is complex, but it can be learnt.
Regards,
Yann
J
This was reverted. It is a dishonest edit with a misleading summary.
Regards,
Yann
Jai Jagat 2020 Grand March Coordinator
https://www.jaijagat2020.org/
+91-74 34 93 33 58 (also WhatsApp)
Le dim. 12 mai 2019 à 19:59, Andrew Lih a écrit :
> This episode exposes a policy of Commons that may be u
Hi,
To have a clearer image of Commons admins, please see this
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:List_of_administrators_by_recent_activity
There are currently 223 admins (comparing with the English Wikipedia 1,176).
Among them 165 have done one admin action during the last month.
But only
A good question to ask would be why the admin group is not growing. And maybe
(maybe) we can find a common answer to both problems pointed here.
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This looks like a project at risk of collapsing under its own weight.
Cheers,
Peter
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