I just tried to watch some presentation videos from Wikimania.
Some had very weak sound, some had no sound in the first minutes,
some only played the first minute and then stopped. I don't think
the Wikimania videos are unique in having such problems. Video is
new to Commons, and the expert contributors are more familiar with
still images.
How can we learn to make better videos? Are there some good
instructions? Perhaps a free instruction video (Wikibooks, but a
video instead of a book) on how to produce good videos is what we
need. In fact, the English Wikibooks has a title on "Video
Production", http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Video_Production but it
doesn't have a clear focus (pun not intended). It starts out with
discussing satellite TV and has long sections on file formats in
different operating systems.
There is a help page on Commons for converting video to the Ogg
Theora format, but that is only the last step in a long chain.
Given that video is new, how can we find and rate videos, nominate
"good/featured videos", and give advice on how to improve quality?
Is the Commons village pump enough for this? Commons has a
separate graphics village pump. Do we also need a separate video
village pump?
Current digital video cameras use hard disks or memory cards,
instead of tape cassettes. Many new models cost less than 300
euro (or dollars), some as little as 120 euro (memory card perhaps
not included). Some have a special "Youtube mode", and I guess
that kind of usage is what drives the price down. What models are
good, and what should one watch out for?
We can find free still photos on Flickr and copy them to Commons.
Is there somewhere we can find free videos and copy them? Yes, at
the Internet Archive. Somewhere else?
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
Commons has just reached 6 million files! At 10:17, January 31, 2010, Sailing_on_Ullswater_-_geograph.org.uk_-_173422.jpg became our 6 millionth file on Commons!
Could anyone help us draft a blog post about this?
I've started a page at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press_releases/Geograph_images
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Michael Peel" <email(a)mikepeel.net>
To: "board(a)wikimedia.org.uk WMUK Board" <board(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, 30 January, 2010 11:58:22 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: [WMUK Board] Geograph images
Hi all,
I've just been given a heads-up that 250,000 images of the UK that
people have released on Geograph.org.uk are currently being mass-
uploaded onto Wikimedia Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Category:Images_from_the_Geograph_British_Isles_project
We should probably do a blog post about this sometime soon; next week
perhaps?
Mike
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Hi all,
In case you haven't heard already, "Britain Loves Wikipedia", a free
photography scavenger hunt following on from Wiki Loves Art et al.,
will be taking place in 21 museums and archives across the UK
throughout February, and is launching on Sunday at the Victoria and
Albert Museum! Full details are now up on the WMUK blog, at:
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2010/01/britain-loves-wikipedia/
and also the Britain Loves Wikipedia website at:
http://www.britainloveswikipedia.org/
Thanks,
Mike Peel
Wikimedia UK
PS: Apologies if you're not in the UK...
Forward from wikitech-l, no uploading from 9 pm UTC.
(timezone corrected with Ariel's second post)
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From: Ariel T. Glenn <ariel(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:54 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] image service switchover
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
We are going to move image serving from ms1 (plus a few other
miscellaneous things that also live on that host) to the new much bigger
ms7 starting at 1 pm PST, 9 pm UTC.
We expect 30 to 60 minutes of down time (= no uploads of media files).
Depending on how things go, reads of pages may be spotty as well during
this time.
Any questions or comments, I'm in the #wikimedia-tech irc channel.
Ariel Glenn
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Hi all,
In accordance with the Meta Checkuser policy, and in spite of the fact
that I am more a reader than a contributor on this mailing list, I would
like to inform you that I have been nominated for the checkuser rights
on Commons.
You are invited to express your opinion there:
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Checkusers/Requests/Eusebius>
Regards,
Eusebius
*Apologies for the cross posting.*
Wikimedia UK, the UK chapter, is organising an event called Britan Loves
Wikipedia Britain Loves Wikipedia is a cultural event bring organised in
partnership between Wikimedia UK, the Collections Trust and the MLA
(Museums, Libraries, Archives Partnership) starting on January 31 which will
encourage members of the public to visit certain participating museums
around the UK and photograph certain exhibits and make those photos
available for use on Wikipedia, and other projects, through Wikimedia
Commons. There will then be various prizes given out based on the pictures
people produce. For this event, we need a logo. While we are getting quotes
to have a professionally produced logo made, we would much prefer one
produced by a member of the community. The community has produced excellent
logos in the past and we are sure it will be able to provide us with one
that is just as professional looking as what we could get by paying an
enormous amount for it. If you would like to have a go, the brief is as
follows:
* The logo must include the words ‘Britain Loves Wikipedia’
* The logo does not necessarily need to feature the Wikipedia globe
* The logo must work in black and white and colour
* The logo must not be year-specific
Unfortunately we have very limited time so deadlines for this project are as
follows:
* Expression of Interest (and, ideally, a first draft of your idea or ideas)
-- 12:00 midday UTC Thursday, January 21 2010
* Final Logo -- 23:59 UTC Sunday, January 24 2010
We understand that that doesn't give you much time, and we're sorry we
didn't organise this sooner. Hopefully a few people can knock something up
in that time! If you want to have a go, please let us know by following the
link.
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Britain_Loves_Wikipedia/Logo_submissions
Thanks!
Joseph Seddon
Wikimedia UK
I AM SO SORRY
I have small knowlege of that lenguage
I hope receive thus information in my idioms
I don´t undertood any
If you can´t ,then I´ll lost your meeting.
PLEASE HELP ME
All my best for all you.
Jorge
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