Commons-l June 2011

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Video skills and equipment
by Lars Aronsson 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

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? -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

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translation of categories
by bawolff 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Someone in the thread on friendliness mentioned that categories are always in one language (usually english). Well still a long way from fixing the issue, perhaps if we allowed unrestricted {{DISPLAYTITLE:...}}, combined with the {{int: hack, that'd allow better translatable categories. (of course you'd only be able to use the actual category name in [[category:Foo]] links. I suppose one could use a bot to automatically change links to redirect categories to their canonical name, but then we're getting really really hacky). Anyways, just a thought. cheers, bawolff

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Re: [Commons-l] [cultural-partners] Museum of Photographic Arts on Flickr
by Béria Lima 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

Is there anyone doing the batch upload? _____ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal <http://wikimedia.pt> (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer.* 2011/6/18 Paula Kate Marmor <pkmpobox(a)gmail.com> > Whoo-hoo! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com> > Sender: cultural-partners-bounces(a)wikimedia.ch > Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:53:51 > To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination< > cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch> > Reply-To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination > <cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch> > Subject: [cultural-partners] Museum of Photographic Arts on Flickr > > _______________________________________________ > cultural-partners mailing list > cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch > http://lists.wikimedia.ch/listinfo/cultural-partners > > _______________________________________________ > cultural-partners mailing list > cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch > http://lists.wikimedia.ch/listinfo/cultural-partners >

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UploadWizard with instant previews on commons.prototype
by Neil Kandalgaonkar 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hey there. I've added instant previews & file sizes (for recent versions of Chrome & Firefox) to UploadWizard. It's on commons.prototype right now; would anyone like to try it and let me know how it's working for you? http://commons.prototype.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard There aren't a lot of other bugs fixed at this moment -- rest assured they are on the agenda... -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) <neilk(a)wikimedia.org>

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Re: [Commons-l] [Foundation-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released
by Luiz Augusto 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Congratulations! Specially because it is a non-Wikipedia CD project released after of a Wikipedia CD project [1]. Maybe the entire Wikimedia community learn from your experience what they can do if someone remembers that Wikimedia is more than Wikipedia. --[[:m:User:555|Lugusto]] [1] - http://www.mlwiki.in/ : Malayalam Wikisource on CD *2011* release and Malayalam Wikipedia on CD *2010* release On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 4:12 PM, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Creating an offline version of a wiki project is a hard work. Keep up the > good work! Congratulations! : ) > > P.D.: downloading... > > 2011/6/11 Jyothis E <jyothis.e(a)gmail.com> > > > Dear fellow Wikimedians, > > > > With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD > > project "Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0" at the 4th > > annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest digital > > collection of free books in Malayalam language available on CD for > offline > > use. This is an important milestone, as majority of the households in > > Kerala > > does not have internet or does not have an always on connection and this > > will enable them to access these books as an offline content. > > > > Contents: > > > > Selected Poems by > > * Kumaranasan > > * Cherusseri > > * Changampuzha Krishna Pillai > > * Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar > > * Irayimman Thampi > > * Ramapurathu Warrier > > > > Malayalam Grammer > > * Kerala Panineeyam by AR Rajaraja Varma > > > > Legends/Folklore > > * Aithihyamala > > > > Novels > > * Indulekha > > > > Religious > > * Bhagavad Gita > > * Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippaatu > > * Harinama Keerthanam > > * Geetha Govindam > > * Sathya Veda Pusthakam (Malayalam Bible) > > * Quran > > * Works of Sree Narayana Guru > > * Devotional songs for Christian, Hindu and Islamic religions > > > > Native Art Form > > * Parichamuttukali pattukal > > > > Philosophy (Political) > > * Communist Manifesto > > * Principles of Communism (Friedrich Engels) > > > > The CD also contains the commons collections of images on food, plants, > > birds, maps and celebrations from Kerala. The CD is made available for > > download in iso format as well as browsing at our community website - > > http://www.mlwiki.in. For those who are interested in the technical > > challenges and aspects of the background work may read Santhosh's blog > > post< > > > http://thottingal.in/blog/2011/06/11/malayalam-wikisource-offline-version/ > > >about > > it. > > > > We thank every one who participated in the effort. Comments and questions > > are welcome. > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Malayalam Wikimedia Community. > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >

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Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released
by Jyothis E 12 Jun '11

12 Jun '11

Dear fellow Wikimedians, With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD project "Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0" at the 4th annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest digital collection of free books in Malayalam language available on CD for offline use. This is an important milestone, as majority of the households in Kerala does not have internet or does not have an always on connection and this will enable them to access these books as an offline content. Contents: Selected Poems by * Kumaranasan * Cherusseri * Changampuzha Krishna Pillai * Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar * Irayimman Thampi * Ramapurathu Warrier Malayalam Grammer * Kerala Panineeyam by AR Rajaraja Varma Legends/Folklore * Aithihyamala Novels * Indulekha Religious * Bhagavad Gita * Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippaatu * Harinama Keerthanam * Geetha Govindam * Sathya Veda Pusthakam (Malayalam Bible) * Quran * Works of Sree Narayana Guru * Devotional songs for Christian, Hindu and Islamic religions Native Art Form * Parichamuttukali pattukal Philosophy (Political) * Communist Manifesto * Principles of Communism (Friedrich Engels) The CD also contains the commons collections of images on food, plants, birds, maps and celebrations from Kerala. The CD is made available for download in iso format as well as browsing at our community website - http://www.mlwiki.in. For those who are interested in the technical challenges and aspects of the background work may read Santhosh's blog post<http://thottingal.in/blog/2011/06/11/malayalam-wikisource-offline-version/>about it. We thank every one who participated in the effort. Comments and questions are welcome. Thanks and Regards, Malayalam Wikimedia Community.

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Re: [Commons-l] [cultural-partners] Writing Public Domain Guidelines
by Liam Wyatt 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Thank you Jean-Fred for creating this page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Usage_guidelines_for_public_domai… I've gone ahead and on the basis of Europeana's original guidelines<http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html>and some of the comments that have been made so far (on both lists) I've attempted to fill out this page on Commons with our own PD usage guidelines. I've summarised it to 6 points: - Give attribution - Give credit - Show respect - Share - Be aware - Preserve I have also added in the lead... "Importantly, such a guideline is in no way a legal contract or an attempt to "enclose" the reuse of public domain works; but would indicate a "polite" way to deal with these works. If these principles prevents you from improving Wikimedia projects or sharing cultural heritage, ignore it." Can I suggest that we take discussions from both cultural-partners-l and commons-l on this issue to the talkpage: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Usage_guidelines_for_public_… Sincerely, -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata

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Photo contest for Kosovo and Albania
by Mike Dupont 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

Hi there, now that I found this list, I wanted to let you know about this photo contest we have been working on for almost one year http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:BestPictureOfKosovoForWikipediaC… there are photos on flicker, facebook and commons, we are still working on processing all of them, any help would be nice. The idea was from gerardm who spoke at the freesb conference in vlore albania last year. We are still working on the next events for this year, sfk11 is being planned for the first weekend of november in prishtina. It would be nice if we can find some sponsors of the photo contest, I was thinking of something like a 500Euro prize for the first photo to make it to the picture of the day for the commons, I would even be willing to donate some money myself to wikimedia ev germany if I could tax deduct it. thanks, mike -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org

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Commonist is down, backup binary now available
by Mike Dupont 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

I have tried to build a version from the source code here, but note that the version you talk about is 0.4.27 and what is checked in is 0.3.44 here is the binary I produced, it is having problems uploading, cannot log in. Here is the binary I produced, any help would be appreciated, like a copy of the current source code. https://github.com/downloads/h4ck3rm1k3/mediawiki-svn/commonist-0.3.44.zip I updated this page here : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Tools/Commonist#Source_code thanks, mike -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org

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looking for help/advice with public domain image discoverability project
by Parker 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

Hey gang, I'm looking for advice on this project: http://images.freeculture.org/ I've scraped out images and metadata from a bunch of federal agency image libraries, and I want to make them more easily discoverable. I'm looking for feedback. * What's the easiest way to cross-post the images to wikimedia commons? * What else should I do to make the images easier to find? * Any other feedback? This essay has the background on my thinking for this project so far: http://madebyparker.com/blog/2011/03/usable-more-than-just-open/ Thanks! -- http://www.madebyparker.com

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