Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic image colorization

2016-05-03 Thread Tim Starling
On 04/05/16 05:21, Ori Livneh wrote: > Colorization > > refers to the process of adding color to black-and-white photographs. This > work was historically done by hand. These days, colorization is usually > done digitally, with

[Wikitech-l] ImageMagick reported security vulnerability

2016-05-03 Thread Brion Vibber
There's a reported ImageMagick security vulnerability making the rounds: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05/easily-exploited-bug-exposes-huge-number-of-sites-to-code-execution-attacks/ Many MediaWiki sites are configured to use ImageMagick's 'convert' command to perform image rescaling/thumbn

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic image colorization

2016-05-03 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 05/03/2016 03:21 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: In this thread, let's discuss how this technology could be integrated with the projects. Should we have a bot that can perform colorization on demand, the way Rotatebot can rotate images? A couple no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic image colorization

2016-05-03 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 05/03/2016 06:31 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: Matt, I agree that they probably picked an inappropriate license. However, we shouldn't assume that the people picking the license have a very sophisticated understanding of licenses. It might be worthwhile to ask the authors why they chose CC BY-NC-

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic image colorization

2016-05-03 Thread Ori Livneh
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > It might be worthwhile to ask the authors why they chose CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 > instead of a free license (like MIT, Apache, GPL or AGPL). If we > approach them respectfully, we might convince them to learn more about > our ideals, and change the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic image colorization

2016-05-03 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > On 05/03/2016 03:21 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: >> A forthcoming paper >> from >> researchers at Waseda University of Japan have developed a method for >> automatic image colorization

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic image colorization

2016-05-03 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 05/03/2016 03:21 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: A forthcoming paper from researchers at Waseda University of Japan have developed a method for automatic image colorization using deep learning neural network. The results are both impressive a

[Wikitech-l] Automatic image colorization

2016-05-03 Thread Ori Livneh
Colorization refers to the process of adding color to black-and-white photographs. This work was historically done by hand. These days, colorization is usually done digitally, with the support of specialized tooling. But it is s

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting rid of $wgWellFormedXml = false;

2016-05-03 Thread Brian Wolff
On Monday, May 2, 2016, Max Semenik wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > >> > At this point, I would say that everybody who screen-scrapes saw it coming > and breaking them is a good thing as sometimes, lessons just have to be > learned. > Personally, I dont think we sh

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting rid of $wgWellFormedXml = false;

2016-05-03 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:43 AM, Max Semenik wrote: > At this point, I would say that everybody who screen-scrapes saw it coming > and breaking them is a good thing as sometimes, lessons just have to be > learned. > There aren't many options other than content-scraping if you want to transform Wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting rid of $wgWellFormedXml = false;

2016-05-03 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Gergo Tisza wrote: > > There aren't many options other than content-scraping if you want to > transform Wikipedia articles into some semblance of structured data. We > even do it ourselves, for media metadata (and use an XML parser for it > Actually the XML parser