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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Erik Moeller, 21/05/2013 19:40:
> Here's one of many overviews of Flickr's redesign:
>
> http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/121165-old-flickr-vs-new-flickr-what-s-new
>
> Next time you feel that Wikimedia's community is particularly change
> averse, take a spin through the comments here. :-)
>
> http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633547442506/
AFAICS, they also:
1) collapsed the button that allows you to set the license of an image
of yours, which is now hidden below a "more" link in the metadata
section that was moved outside the screen (or did this happen before?
certainly after 2010) ;
2) removed any UI path to the advanced search and to the search for
free/CC images, so that now you can find them only on the advanced
search, by knowing its URL: http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/ ;
3) less importantly, hid under that mysterious triple-ball "ellipsis"
button the option to find high resolution versions of the image,
consistent with a similar regression in the interface of Google Plus
compared to PicasaWeb.
I found also some bugs, at least for Linux, which make (2) worse.
So, what's the future of CC on Flickr?
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ shows only 260M CC images: there
were already 220M in 2011 if I read news correctly; only 60M are free.
75 % of the times I ask a user to put an image under cc-by-sa they
choose -nc-nd because "it was the first option" (and some of course
"what, isn't Wikipedia non-commercial?!).
Is this the price to pay to Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook? Will the
unusable&pretty-fication help bring more people to an environment where
they may meet free knowledge, or will free knowledge just be sacrificed?
It's unclear to me what's going on.
Nemo
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From: "Shrinivasan T" <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
Date: 21-May-2013 5:31 PM
Subject: Is there any easy way to add photo link to wikipedia articles?
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
When I upload photos to commons, I try to add the photos to relevant pages.
It seems a tough process.
1. copy the info of the image from commons.( using use this file )
2. open the relevant page in wikipedia
3. click the edit page.
4. paste the image info from the clip board.
5. save the page.
Every time, I have to do the same for all the images.
Is there any easy way or widget to automate this?
A gallery can be added by clicking a link in wikipedia page, with the
images link we paste.
Share your thoughts on this.
Thanks.
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Friends.
How to get the list of images with the thumbnail url and meta data of
all the images uploaded by a particular user?
Here is a sample api for getting all the images with info of a given
category "Coins_in_the_Walters_Art_Museum"
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=categorymemb…
Like this, I want to get the info of all images uploaded by any given user.
Please help me to design the api.
Thanks.
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Hi,
I'd like to start a discussion about the merits and challenges of
> enabling the Translate and UniversalLanguageSelector extensions on
> Commons.
>
> The UniversalLanguageSelector extension (
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector )
> allows users to easily switch the interface language; it also embeds
> an interface to enter text in non-Latin languages even if your
> keyboard doesn't allow it.
>
> My feeling is that both these tools would dramatically improve the
> user experience on Commons for people who don't use English. As a
> multilingual wiki, Commons even seems like the perfect audience for
> these tools.
>
FYI, I quick drafted
<
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/UniversalLa…
>
in order to discuss the possible issues, then gain community consensus and
hopefully get ULS enabled on Wikimedia Commons
(I thought it was better to leave the question of the Translate extension
to another discussion, as there seems to be more hurdles with the
transition).
Thanks,
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Jean-Frédéric
Hi all
For the very first time, the UK community will be competing in the annual Wiki Loves Monuments competition in September. This is a community-led effort, with support from WMUK. A number of volunteers have already expressed interest in helping to organize the contest, but there is much to be done and many more volunteers are needed, both now and over the coming few months.
If you would like to contribute towards making our first ever competition the great success we expect it to be, please visit
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the_…
and leave your name there. Even if you are only able to offer us moral support, or want to take part as photographer in September, please leave your details anyway. You need not be based in the UK to help.
Michael
(MichaelMaggs on wiki)
Hi all, this was a mail sent on the India public list today.
Can anyone help out?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:45 AM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a nice gallery for commons
contributions
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
I like to showcase my photo contributions to commons to my friends.
The current page
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/<username>
is so old and not very intuitive to see the photos.
Is it any possible to show the photos as a gallery like in flickr/picasa?
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