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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Hi everyone,
Myself Anu G Enchackal ,GNOME Outreach Program for Women Round 7
Intern,working on UploadWizard : OSM embedding mentored by Gergő Tisza.
This project is about enhancing the image upload process for Wikimedia
Commons.The main goal of the OpenStreetMap map embedding project would be
to provide map interface & the integration with external databases to the
UploadWizard.The secondary goal is to integrate with some databases of
locations and use that in various ways. One way would be checking if there
are locations with requested images nearby (that is, someone put out a note
that Commons needs good images about a certain place and doesn't currently
have any), and warn the uploader about them.
****Week 1 ( Dec 10 --- Dec 16 )****
This week was spent mostly by navigating through the existing structure and
working on a link introduction within UploadWizard.
The present plan is to introduce a link next to coordinate fields within
UploadWizard , which can initialize the map widget onclick. Patch sets [1]
which replaces the existing 'Show on Map' with a link having the same
functionality are already uploaded to gerrit.
Expecting valuable comments from everyone
Anu G Enchackal
OPW Round 7 Intern
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101029/
Just discovered a short note of Andrew Gray, why Flickr was preferred
instead of Commons.
http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2013/mechanical-curator-on-commons/
2013/12/15 Jens Best <jens.best(a)wikimedia.de>
> Thanks for the news.
>
> A question comes to my mind when I read this article: Why did the British
> Library use Flickr instead of Wikimedia Commons? Maybe it has to do
> something with a better usability of Flickr? -
>
> The usability of Wikimedia Commons most be increased to make it more
> attractive to individual and institutional users. Don't you think so?
>
> The next steps mentioned in the article indicates good opportunities for
> us to get involved and show the potential of an experienced platform for
> crowdsourcing information and knowledge:
>
> "We are looking for new, inventive ways to navigate, find and display
> these 'unseen illustrations'. and furtheron in the blogpost, "We plan to
> launch a crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to help
> describe what the images portray. Our intention is to use this data to
> train automated classifiers that will run against the whole of the content."
>
>
> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-f…
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jens
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2013/12/15 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emijrp(a)gmail.com>
>
> Quote from full announcement
>>
>> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-f…
>>
>> We have released over a million
>> images<http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary>onto Flickr Commons
>> for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images
>> > were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised
>> > by Microsoft<
>> http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/The-British-Library-19th-Century…>who
>> then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release
>> > them back into the Public Domain. The images themselves cover a
>> startling
>> > mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful
>> > illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters,
>> > colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more
>> that
>> > even we are not aware of.
>>
>>
>> Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary
>> Example of image http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11307195524/
>> Example of all images from a book
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/sysnum002660292
>> Stuff for coders https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory
>>
>> So... :-)
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>
>
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> Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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web: http://www.wikimedia.de
mail: jens.best <http://goog_17221883>@wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Just discovered the Commons project-site, too. Good to break down the
massive amount of unsorted material in countries first. Could help to
address interested editors quicker.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curat…
Jens
2013/12/15 Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net>
> There’s been quite a lot of discussion of this on the cultural-partners
> mailing list (https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners).
> As a result of that, Tom Morris has set up a working page on Commons at:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curat…
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On 15 Dec 2013, at 17:37, Jens Best <jens.best(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
> > Just discovered a short note of Andrew Gray, why Flickr was preferred
> > instead of Commons.
> > http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2013/mechanical-curator-on-commons/
> >
> >
> > 2013/12/15 Jens Best <jens.best(a)wikimedia.de>
> >
> >> Thanks for the news.
> >>
> >> A question comes to my mind when I read this article: Why did the
> British
> >> Library use Flickr instead of Wikimedia Commons? Maybe it has to do
> >> something with a better usability of Flickr? -
> >>
> >> The usability of Wikimedia Commons most be increased to make it more
> >> attractive to individual and institutional users. Don't you think so?
> >>
> >> The next steps mentioned in the article indicates good opportunities for
> >> us to get involved and show the potential of an experienced platform for
> >> crowdsourcing information and knowledge:
> >>
> >> "We are looking for new, inventive ways to navigate, find and display
> >> these 'unseen illustrations'. and furtheron in the blogpost, "We plan to
> >> launch a crowdsourcing application at the beginning of next year, to
> help
> >> describe what the images portray. Our intention is to use this data to
> >> train automated classifiers that will run against the whole of the
> content."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-f…
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Jens
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2013/12/15 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emijrp(a)gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Quote from full announcement
> >>>
> >>>
> http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-f…
> >>>
> >>> We have released over a million
> >>> images<http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary>onto Flickr Commons
> >>> for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images
> >>>> were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books
> digitised
> >>>> by Microsoft<
> >>>
> http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/The-British-Library-19th-Century…
> >who
> >>> then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release
> >>>> them back into the Public Domain. The images themselves cover a
> >>> startling
> >>>> mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful
> >>>> illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters,
> >>>> colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more
> >>> that
> >>>> even we are not aware of.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary
> >>> Example of image
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11307195524/
> >>> Example of all images from a book
> >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/sysnum002660292
> >>> Stuff for coders https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory
> >>>
> >>> So... :-)
> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
> >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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> >> anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
> >> Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Jens Best
> > Präsidium
> > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
> > web: http://www.wikimedia.de
> > mail: jens.best <http://goog_17221883>@wikimedia.de
> >
> > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
> > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
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Greetings!
Can you help us create a better multimedia experience on Wikipedia and its sister sites?
If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, we'd like to invite you to join a special Multimedia Meetup at the Wikimedia Foundation, this Monday, December 9 at 6:30pm PST.
This one-hour event will bring together dozens of developers and community members to discuss how we can use images, sounds and videos to help people learn more effectively on our sites.
To join us, simply sign up here:
http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/123456892/
We will start our meeting by presenting a vision for multimedia in 2016 and ask you how we can improve it.
We will then demo and discuss these new projects together:
* media viewer
* file feedback
* new video formats
* campaign tools
As a group, we will brainstorm new ways to view, contribute, curate, discover and use media files on Wikipedia, and grow our audio-visual knowledge base in the process.
This is a great opportunity to meet our developers and network with other like-minded community members. And we'll be serving free drinks and pizza to make this even more fun for you. :)
Images, sounds and videos can engage users more deeply than text articles, and better support their individual learning styles. To that end, we aim to engage more users to collaborate through multimedia -- by improving their viewing experience, increasing their media contributions, and making it easier to use media in articles.
We look forward to your thoughts on how to make this vision happen together.
Thanks for your consideration. We hope to speak with you soon, so we can plan our next steps with your help. :)
All the best,
Fabrice
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia
Hi all!
There will be 2 overlapping creative communities for planning Wikimaps
1. Wikimaps Designers & Developers (GLAM & map Wikipedians,
OpenHistoricalMappers etc)
2. Wikimaps Nordic (Regional collaboration: Wikimedia chapters,
wikimedians, mappers and GLAMs from the Nordic countries)
This is an invitation to join the international designer & developer
community. Wikimaps Nordic will form a project community in the beginning
of January.
We’ll arrange a video conference with *http://videoconf.wikimedia.ch/
<http://videoconf.wikimedia.ch/>*
Tuesday December 3
at 8:00 PDT - 11:00 EST - 16:00 GMT - 17:00 CET - 18:00 EET - 21:00 IST
Sign up in the collaborative Etherpad
*http://wmfi.muistio.tieke.fi/wikimaps-online-1
<http://wmfi.muistio.tieke.fi/wikimaps-online-1>*
Let's talk freely about what Wikimaps could be. Here are some ideas to get
you started. See, comment and discuss them here:
*https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EvXZtoV9vihtXZxVhA5ZKTEfmKFVI2btNQUREF-6so0/edit#slide=id.g11cd82f09_034
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EvXZtoV9vihtXZxVhA5ZKTEfmKFVI2btNQU…>*
*Meeting agenda*
Introductions 30 min
1. Round for presentations ~1 min per person
2. Brief presentations of Wikimaps projects ~2 min / ~8 projects
Discussion 70 min
3. Discuss expectations. Create working groups. Focus on a project or two.
4. What kind of technologies and communication tools we will use
Practicalities 20 min
5. Future schedule for the process
6. To-Do before the next meeting
See you soon!
Susanna Ånäs / Wikimedia Suomi
ps.
Info about Wikimaps Nordic with links to Wikimaps info:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EhKgIUshgUHq3c4NeCDvMTPoRPCXxF-IInwtHHE…
I've cross-posted this on maps-l, commons-l, cultural partners in wikimedia
and historic at osm
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