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
Hi everyone,
I am new to the Commons API and would like to know how to get (in a machine readable way) the metadata found within the Summary section of a page.
In particular, given a File page like this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_Dusky_Nightjar_(Caprimulgus…
I would like to get the "Europeana link" part... it is enough for me to get the data as Wiki markup, but parsing the whole HTML would be too much :S
... btw, is there any way to query for such data? I have been using the API Sandbox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox ) but could not find a method that could do this...
Your help is really appreciated! Thank you in advance!
Best regards,
Hugo
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Von: Wikitech-l <wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> im Auftrag von Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. November 2016 10:57
An: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Update on WMF account compromises
Since Friday, we've had a slow but steady stream of admin account
compromises on WMF projects. The hacker group OurMine has taken credit
for these compromises.
We're fairly sure now that their mode of operation involves searching
for target admins in previous user/password dumps published by other
hackers, such as the 2013 Adobe hack. They're not doing an online
brute force attack against WMF. For each target, they try one or two
passwords, and if those don't work, they go on to the next target.
Their success rate is maybe 10%.
When they compromise an account, they usually do a main page
defacement or similar, get blocked, and then move on to the next target.
Today, they compromised the account of a www.mediawiki.org<http://www.mediawiki.org> admin, did
a main page defacement there, and then (presumably) used the same
password to log in to Gerrit. They took a screenshot, sent it to us,
but took no other action.
So, I don't think they are truly malicious -- I think they are doing
it for fun, fame, perhaps also for their stated goal of bringing
attention to poor password security.
Indications are that they are familiarising themselves with MediaWiki
and with our community. They probably plan on continuing to do this
for some time.
We're doing what we can to slow them down, but admins and other users
with privileged access also need to take some responsibility for the
security of their accounts. Specifically:
* If you're an admin, please enable two-factor authentication.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/H:2FA>
* Please change your password, if you haven't already changed it in
the last week. Use a new password that is not used on any other site.
* Please do not share passwords across different WMF services, for
example, between the wikis and Gerrit.
(Cross-posted to wikitech-l and wikimedia-l, please copy/link
elsewhere as appropriate.)
-- Tim Starling
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Forwarding.
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From: Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Pebble smartwatch tool for finding Wikipedia
photo opportunities
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Thanks everyone for the feedback!
I just published version 1.3; Albin added Wikidata support to the
wmflabs API, and Diderot now queries Wikidata if no nearby
unillustrated articles are found on Wikipedia.
(You can also now customize the color of the time text.)
-Sage
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Looks like a cool thing indeed! Any chance to expand that to Wikidata?
It's
> a superset of all Wikipedias, plus things like UK National Heritage sites,
> so it will give you many more candidates in some regions.
>
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 10:30 PM Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks!
>>
>> I made something that I think is pretty cool: a watchface for Pebble
>> smartwatches that shows you the nearest unphotographed Wikipedia
>> article. I've been using it for about a month, and I'm really happy
>> with how it's turned out. I've taken a lot of photos for articles that
>> I wouldn't have otherwise.
>>
>> It's called "Diderot". If you have a Pebble, check it out:
>> https://apps.getpebble.com/en_US/application/57dc94602a6ea665510000f0
>>
>> A few neat things about it:
>>
>> * You can configure it for a number of different language versions of
>> Wikipedia
>> * It uses a wmflabs API by Albin Larrson which filters out articles
>> that have only a png or svg illustration, so you still see the
>> articles that have a map or logo but lack a real photograph.
>>
>> -Sage
>>
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Date: Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 3:29 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Pebble smartwatch tool for finding Wikipedia photo
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Hi folks!
I made something that I think is pretty cool: a watchface for Pebble
smartwatches that shows you the nearest unphotographed Wikipedia
article. I've been using it for about a month, and I'm really happy
with how it's turned out. I've taken a lot of photos for articles that
I wouldn't have otherwise.
It's called "Diderot". If you have a Pebble, check it out:
https://apps.getpebble.com/en_US/application/57dc94602a6ea665510000f0
A few neat things about it:
* You can configure it for a number of different language versions of
Wikipedia
* It uses a wmflabs API by Albin Larrson which filters out articles
that have only a png or svg illustration, so you still see the
articles that have a map or logo but lack a real photograph.
-Sage
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