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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Are there any projects in the vein of Geograph <https://geograph.co.uk/>,
OSM, Yelp, or Wikipedia for people remembering and preserving images and
information about cities, city blocks, buildings? Particularly for cities
that are damaged by disaster or war, this seems like a valuable thing to do
at the granularity of "the unit that individuals photograph, remember,
share with one another".
It would be good to have a freely-licensed structural history of a city in
this fashion, block by block. And something that refugees from a crisis
could do to preserve areas they frequented.
SJ
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Such a beautiful project Nikolay, thank you! With a wide range of locales
<https://domofoto.ru/cities/> (here is Mykolaiv
<https://domofoto.ru/cities/138/>).
Do you know if they accept mundane houses and buildings? That might
overload the current interface.
And I wonder if a parallel interface into the same dataset that is
localized / backed up would be helpful.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 1:34 PM Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi!
> There is a Russian project https://domofoto.ru directly on that. IDK if
> there’s same projects on other languages.
>
>
>
> Четверг, 24 марта 2022, 18:32 +03:00 от Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>:
>
> Are there any projects in the vein of Geograph <https://geograph.co.uk/>,
> OSM, Yelp, or Wikipedia for people remembering and preserving images and
> information about cities, city blocks, buildings? Particularly for cities
> that are damaged by disaster or war, this seems like a valuable thing to do
> at the granularity of "the unit that individuals photograph, remember,
> share with one another".
>
> It would be good to have a freely-licensed structural history of a city in
> this fashion, block by block. And something that refugees from a crisis
> could do to preserve areas they frequented.
>
> SJ
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Hello everyone!
As some of you may know, several developers are currently working on a
project (funded by a Wikimedia grant) to add Structured Data on Wikimedia
Commons functionalities to OpenRefine. See
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine for more info :-)
We are making good progress on this project. Many people in the Wikimedia
community actively use OpenRefine and are interested in these new features.
Because of this interest, the OpenRefine team starts hosting online,
monthly office hours for OpenRefine users from the Wikimedia community. You
can meet and ask questions to other OpenRefine / Wikimedia users here, and
talk to members of the development team. These office hours are informal,
have no set agenda, are held via Zoom but are not recorded. Registration is
not needed.
For now, we have scheduled office hours until the end of June 2022. Time of
the day alternates to accommodate participants from diverse time zones. If
these office hours prove to be popular, we will plan more of these later!
- Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 9AM UTC
- Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 4PM UTC
- Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 8AM UTC
- Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 4PM UTC
See
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine#Join_OpenRefine_meetu…
where
we will post the Zoom links. Feel free to drop by :-)
Hope to see many of you there!
Sandra (User:Spinster / User:SFauconnier)
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I am an artist and I would like to get in contact with Ivar Leidus for a future art project are working on, can I ask you to help to get I contact with Ivar Leidus?
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