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
Dear ones,
Where might I get or mirror a dump of Commons media files?
> It seems worth mentioning on the front page of
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
> It looks like the compressed XML of the ~50M description pages is ~25GB.
> It looks like wiki-team set up a dump script that posted monthly dumps to
the internet archive; in 2013 it stopped include the month+year in the
title; in 2016 it stopped altogether.
https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons
Hello Thad,
I think this comment merely is an enthusiastic shout-out that means 'in my
opinion, OpenRefine rules (as in: it's a great solution) for data'. I know
the person who responded here and will check with them if I'm correct.
Anyone is free to sign up to the project as a volunteer or advisor. There
are absolutely no obligations or 'rules' (as in 'regulations'). At this
moment, I see this as a sign that you are more interested than average, and
are OK with, for instance, being directly approached on your talk page when
new features can be tested and if we have questions or assumptions that we
would like to check with the community.
I will add this bit of info to the application text.
Sandra
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 2:26 PM Thad Guidry <thadguidry(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sandra and team!
>
> Great to see the application in its final form and kudos to you and
> Antonin for bringing this forward for the whole community.
>
> I do have 1 question on the application concerning the participants?
>
> * *Volunteer* OR rules data Ecritures
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ecritures> (talk
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ecritures>) 12:19, 16 March
> 2021 (UTC)
>
> I did not see a mention about "rules" in any of the phases of
> development? Can you explain the volunteer effort needed for this (or
> maybe added some of this missing detail in the phase where needed) and how
> it pertains to any of the phases of development?
>
> Thad
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/
> https://calendly.com/thadguidry/
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 4:07 AM Sandra Fauconnier <
> sandra.fauconnier(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Since 2019, it is possible to add structured data to files on Wikimedia
>> Commons [1] (SDC = Structured Data on Commons). But there are no very
>> advanced and user-friendly tools yet to edit the structured data of very
>> large and very diverse batches of files on Commons. And there is no batch
>> upload tool yet that supports SDC.
>>
>> The OpenRefine [2] community wants to fill this gap: in the upcoming
>> year, we would like to build brand new features in the open source
>> OpenRefine tool, allowing batch editing and batch uploading SDC :-) As
>> these are major new functionalities in OpenRefine, we have applied for a
>> Project Grant [3]. Your feedback [4] and (if you support this plan)
>> endorsements are very welcome.
>>
>> Thanks in advance, and many greetings,
>>
>> Sandra (User:Spinster / User:SFauconnier) as member of the OpenRefine
>> steering committee
>>
>> Antonin (User:Pintoch) as OpenRefine developer
>>
>> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
>>
>> [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine
>>
>> [3]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Structured_Data_on_Wikimedia…
>>
>>
>> [4]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Structured_Data_on_Wiki…
>>
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Hello everyone,
Since 2019, it is possible to add structured data to files on Wikimedia
Commons [1] (SDC = Structured Data on Commons). But there are no very
advanced and user-friendly tools yet to edit the structured data of very
large and very diverse batches of files on Commons. And there is no batch
upload tool yet that supports SDC.
The OpenRefine [2] community wants to fill this gap: in the upcoming year,
we would like to build brand new features in the open source OpenRefine
tool, allowing batch editing and batch uploading SDC :-) As these are major
new functionalities in OpenRefine, we have applied for a Project Grant [3].
Your feedback [4] and (if you support this plan) endorsements are very
welcome.
Thanks in advance, and many greetings,
Sandra (User:Spinster / User:SFauconnier) as member of the OpenRefine
steering committee
Antonin (User:Pintoch) as OpenRefine developer
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Structured_Data_on_Wikimedia…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Structured_Data_on_Wiki…
Hello,
I was wondering if there are any project pages / experiences / people documenting the process of uploading film loops and/or films from the end of the 19h century on Commons. I'm interested by any link or contact you may have on that.
Thanks in advance,
Flor MECHAIN
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