Commons-l February 2016

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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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Crowdfunding campaign for User:Rehman
by Azeez Abubakr 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Hello everyone, Cross-posting User:Odder's message from Commons VP: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Crowdfunding_campai… <quote> Hi everyone, just as I did with the crowdfunding campaign for Jee, I think it important to let you know that a crowdfunding campaign is currently running to support one of our contributors, photographers and administrators, Rehman; Azeez is the organiser and author of a truly fabulous video presenting Rehman's work on energy-related subjects in Sri Lanka. The campaign is being run on Indiegogo's Generosity site, and was co-ordinated at User talk:Rehman/Campaign (in case anyone wants to comment). I'm sure that Rehman will deeply appreciate even the tiniest of donations, if anyone is willing to support his campaign. odder (talk) 22:07, 25 February 2016 (UTC) <unquote> Thank you, User:Azeez

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Special:TranslatorSignup available on Wikimedia Commons
by Steinsplitter Wiki 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Hello List, Special:TranslatorSignup is now available on commons as well. You can use Special:TranslatorSignup to indicate what languages you can translate in, and how you want to be contacted about new translation requests. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignup Best regards, Steinsplitter [CC: translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org]

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Finding articles without photographs near your current location.
by WereSpielChequers 20 Feb '16

20 Feb '16

I've just been introduced to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby which lists articles near your current location and from the thumbnail it is fairly obvious whether it has an image or not. Has anyone tried using this in outreach to photographers? WereSpielchequers

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Re: [Commons-l] Commons-l Digest, Vol 129, Issue 6 /Ivo David Fine Art painter..
by IVODAVID＠aol.com 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

About Ivo David/ completion of Artist founder of Art Movement" Fusionism 1956" Reg. biography: WWW. IVODAVIDFINEART.COM/ revesions avalable on line/ In a message dated 2/18/2016 7:03:01 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, commons-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org writes: Send Commons-l mailing list submissions to commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to commons-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at commons-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Commons-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Finding articles without photographs near your current location. (Magnus Manske) 2. Re: Searching for media by license and keyword (Sam Pablo Kuper) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:50:49 +0000 From: Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Finding articles without photographs near your current location. Message-ID: <CAGHUEtYmw5pV_e1niOza_HsCepJGQ9nzSwXrf4ub_TULJkzO7w(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" What doesn't load - wikishootme or wdfist? The latter is really not intended for mobile, with hover buttons and all. On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:38 PM Luis Villa <luis(a)lu.is> wrote: > FWIW, this doesn't work for me on mobile (at least on Firefox for Android) > - beyond the clunky UI, results never load. So it'll need some work to > become an integrated solution for would-be photographers. > > Luis > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:09 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Federico Leva (Nemo), 16/02/2016 18:59: >> > The "standard" way would be to make wikishootme output a pagepile to be >> > fed into wdfist: https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ >> >> Correction: there *is* already such a warning which links wdfist, with a >> query using around[]: "You can also check if Wikipedia already has >> suitable images for these items, here" e.g. >> >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html?wdq=around%5b625,45.000000… dia&no_images_only=1&prefilled=1 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Commons-l mailing list >> Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/attachments/20160217/11d0b0…> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 04:41:03 +0000 From: Sam Pablo Kuper <sampablokuper(a)riseup.net> To: commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Searching for media by license and keyword Message-ID: <56C54B5F.4040500(a)riseup.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > Sam Pablo Kuper, 17/02/2016 04:19: >> For example, suppose I want to find images of cats, that are licensed >> under CC-BY (but not CC-BY-SA or CC-0, etc). How should I go about this? Thanks for the various replies. I had hoped that there might be a "license:" filter in MediaWiki (or CirrusSearch, etc) that worked semantically rather than just using string matching (i.e. syntactically). If anyone does know of such a thing - perhaps via Wikidata? - please let me know. Thanks again! Now, some comments on the suggestions :) On 17/02/16 14:06, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > > Usually I use categories. When I search a specific copyright status it's > usually PD (when I don't have space for attribution): > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/cat_incategory:%22CC-PD-Ma rk%22 Thanks for this. It's a good reminder to me to learn the CirrusSearch filters. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Filters_.28intitle:.2C_inca tegory:_and_linksto:.29 On 17/02/16 12:41, Fæ wrote: > There are a lot of different license templates that can mark a file as > CC-BY, refer to > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_Creative_Commons_licenses > > If you were looking for the generic {{CC-BY-4.0}} you can use the category < > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CC-BY-4.0> > > So using the category that 'cats' redirects to, and putting this into > catscan gives: > http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan3/quick_intersection.php?lang=commons&proje… 000&start=0&format=html&callback= > > To get more, you can swap in CC-BY-3.0 etc. Nice. I wasn't aware of the "Quick Intersection" tool :) On 17/02/16 13:54, Jane Darnell wrote: > https://www.google.com/search?q=site:commons.wikimedia.org+cats+cc-0 Google works irritatingly well for this, I must admit, and allows searches like: https://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=off&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=site%3Acommons.wiki media.org+cat+%28%22cc-by-4.0%22+OR+%22cc-by-3.0%22+OR+%22cc-by-2.0%22%29 Thanks, all! ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l ------------------------------ End of Commons-l Digest, Vol 129, Issue 6 *****************************************

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Searching for media by license and keyword
by Sam Pablo Kuper 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

Is it possible for a user to search Wikimedia Commons by license and keyword? For example, suppose I want to find images of cats, that are licensed under CC-BY (but not CC-BY-SA or CC-0, etc). How should I go about this? Thanks in advance for your help! Sam Pablo Kuper

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(no subject)
by Josephine Lim 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

Hi all, I've been working on a project to improve the categorization of pictures in the Upload to Commons Android app <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115101> as part of the Outreachy Dec '15 program, which is soon drawing to an end. To summarize, 3 new features have been implemented in this app: 1. If a picture with geolocation is uploaded, nearby category suggestions are offered (based on the categories of other Commons images with similar coordinates) 2. If a picture with no geolocation is uploaded, nearby category suggestions are offered based on the user's current location. This is optional and only works if enabled in Settings. 3. Category search (when typing in the search field) has been made more flexible, whereas previously this was done solely by prefix search. E.g. now searching for 'latte' should be able to return 'iced latte'. The latest version of the app is v1.11 and can be downloaded at <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons>. Please feel free to leave feedback or bug reports at <https://github.com/nicolas-raoul/apps-android-commons/issues>. I have had an amazing time working on this app as part of the Outreachy program, and I greatly appreciate all the support and help that the WMF community has given me. :) Cheers! -- Regards, Josephine

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Update on Upload to Commons Android App project
by Josephine Lim 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

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ImageTweaks demo now on display at Wikimedia Labs
by Mark Holmquist 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Hi Multimedia enthusiasts, Commonists, and Wikitechers, The Multimedia team has been hard at work building a new extension for editing images on-wiki, and we believe we now have a workable demo running on Labs! You can find it on our Multimedia Alpha Wiki[0], where there are also instructions for testing. Note that we have a list of known bugs and failings on that wiki, and we are working on getting those fixed before we push the extension into any kind of deployment - our next steps will likely be to put it on test2wiki, then to push a BetaFeature to Commons if all goes well. We will keep you updated with the status of the project as we progress. If you find more bugs, or have concerns about this extension, you can share them on the Village Pump[1]. You can also file a Phabricator task against ImageTweaks[2] if you prefer to be in more direct contact with the team about a technical issue. Thanks for helping us test new stuff, and I look forward to getting this great tool out to you soon! [0] http://multimedia-alpha.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#ImageTweaks_extensi… [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=ImageTwea… -- Mark Holmquist Lead Engineer Multimedia Team Wikimedia Foundation http://marktraceur.info

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Re: [Commons-l] Finding articles without photographs near your current location.
by Jonathan Cardy 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Thanks Nemo, Why not? Because I didn't know it existed, thanks for telling me about it. Back to my original question, now updated, I've just been introduced to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby which lists articles near your current location and https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ which can show you articles near places your are planning to visit. From the thumbnails it is fairly obvious whether it has an image or not. Has anyone tried using these in outreach to photographers? Regards WereSpielChequers > > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:10:42 +0100 > From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Finding articles without photographs near > your current location. > Message-ID: <56C2F5A2.9010900(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > WereSpielChequers, 16/02/2016 10:26: > > I've just been introduced to > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby which lists articles near > > your current location and from the thumbnail it is fairly obvious > > whether it has an image or not. > > Why not use https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ ? > Nemo

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