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
Here's an interesting project from the British Library - interesting
both because people may wish to enter (there's £25000 available), and
because it touches on a lot of the same questions we have about the
value and impact of content donations
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2014/03/tracking-pu…https://ictomorrow.innovateuk.org/web/digital-innovation-contest-data/briti…
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The British Library has a large and growing collection of material in
the public domain, available through online platforms, such as Flickr
(www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary) and Wikimedia Commons, for
anyone to use, remix and repurpose. However, once released online, the
British Library has little way of following that content as it is
re-used, which makes it difficult to measure any creative and economic
benefit.
The successful solution will allow public institutions to better
quantify and optimise the economic impact of releasing content into
the public domain (...)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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De: "Gryllida" <gryllida(a)fastmail.fm>
Data: 29/03/2014 21:22
Assunto: [Wikitech-l] Going full-screen on image click
Para: <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: <design(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all.
I apologize for cross-posting; I'm trying to reach all projects here, and
encourage you to translate and spread this message to relevant village
pumps. (I explain a tool here, some points, and provide you with a link
where you can participate in the discussion I opened.)
The WMF Engineering Team is kindly working on Media Viewer, which would
show a pop-up of some sort when you click an image. This tool is available
for testing to those people who created an account, in Beta tab, on all
projects. Like you may see the tool has a relatively high impact on average
reader experience.
It came to my mind that the tool goes full-screen, which doesn't meet the
"I stay on the article" expectation. I feel it may be important to an
average reader to gain orientation.
I opened a discussion, with some people calling my idea a "metadata pop-up"
rather than a "media viewer". I feel that may be good thing: the existing
default opens a lot of image info and tells people what Commons is. I feel
the media viewer should do something close to the same, with the advantage
of not leaving the page, and some interactive means of viewing the image if
the user clicks some buttons.
As opposed to that, a "Media Viewer" would show a bigger image and make use
of space. But the mock I have is slightly bigger already, like the existing
"File:*" page. I am not assuming that the reader wants a bigger image; I'm
assuming he may also be interested (and it would be more transparent to) in
reading some metadata, description, date, author.
Please see the discussion here and weigh in, basing on your preferences and
Wikimedia projects experience. Your voice powers the future of the tool,
and Wikimedia projects.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#Please_do…
Regards,
Gryllida.
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Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons has been a feature
requested for a long time[1][2] and now I think it's time to act. Please
consider my GSoC proposal[3]. I will focus on molecules and reactions,
both supported by MDL molfiles, through a media file handler and a
JavaScript front end.
Spectra and analytical data, chemical crystallography and materials --
this is somewhat more complicated and I think; let's start it simple. If
there is sufficient time to play with CML after implementing MOL file
support, no one prevents us from doing so. But past experience has shown
that even simple projects grew into dimensions that were not expected
resulting in software that is not ready to use till today.
Curious about your opinion.
Kind regards
Rainer Rillke
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[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-June/010715.html
[2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-April/068573.html
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rillke/Chemical_Markup_support_for_Wiki…
Chemical Markup support for Wikimedia Commons has been a feature
requested for a long time[1][2] and now I think it's time to act. Please
consider my GSoC proposal[3]. I will focus on molecules and reactions,
both supported by MDL molfiles, through a media file handler and a
JavaScript front end.
Spectra and analytical data, chemical crystallography and materials --
this is somewhat more complicated and I think; let's start it simple. If
there is sufficient time to play with CML after implementing MOL file
support, no one prevents us from doing so. But past experience has shown
that even simple projects grew into dimensions that were not expected
resulting in software that is not ready to use till today.
Curious about your opinion.
Kind regards
Rainer Rillke
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[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-June/010715.html
[2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-April/068573.html
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rillke/Chemical_Markup_support_for_Wiki…
Please ignore the previous mail. I'm not sure what happened; sorting it
out with the intended recipient.
Back to the amazing galleries from the Kosovo Wikiacademy...
SJ
Hi all,
I am Umang Sharma from IIITH (International Institute of Information
Technology - Hyderabad), India and am interested in working for one the
projects proposed by the community i.e. "New media types supported in
Commons" as a GSOC candidate. I have drafted a proposal for the same.
This project has been a long standing community request and it would be
great if I were given the opportunity to work on this and make some
progress. I have planned a basic outline on how to approach the problem. I
have decided to provide a solution for either x3d or collada file
formats(required for representing computer graphics). I will work on the
other if time is there during my project. However, I would like feedback on
which file format is more in demand currently. Also, if anyone has any
recommendations for efficient raster image generations do tell. Please go
through my proposal and tell me how can I improve it and make it up to the
expectations of the community.
Link : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Umang13/Gsoc14
Regards,
Umang
They also have a project idea related to Commons, "Wikimedia Commons
extraction". http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2014/ideas#h359-6
It seems they have some (possible?) applications already.
Nemo
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Oggetto: [Wiktionary-l] DBpedia @ GSoC14 deadline is approaching
Data: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:23:19 +0100
Mittente: Sebastian Hellmann
Dear all,
The GSoC deadline is in three days (March 21st) [1] and there is still
time to apply.
The DBpedia GSoC students are quite active this year too [2] but we can
certainly handle more :)
Please forward our ideas page [3] to students (Bachelor, master or PhD)
working on Semantic Web & Linked Data.
Best regards,
Sebastian and Dimitris
[1] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014
[2] http://sourceforge.net/p/dbpedia/mailman/dbpedia-gsoc/?limit=250
[3] wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2014/ideas <http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2014/ideas>
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Sebastian Hellmann
AKSW/NLP2RDF research group
Insitute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) affiliated with DBpedia