Re: [Commons-l] Robert Myers (aka BIDGEE) violation of COVID restrict

2020-10-14 Thread Gnangarra via Commons-l
What a load of rubbish, Robert Myers has been subject to continual harassment and abuse over many years by trolls. Travel restrictions in NSW allow for movement within the state provided you were not resident in any of the hot spots when they were declared. There have been no breaches of any

Re: [Commons-l] Commons' month of kindness

2020-03-12 Thread Gnangarra via Commons-l
fabulous idea Fae On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 21:09, Fæ via Commons-l < commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#April_2020_Wikimedia_Commons'_month_of_kindness > > There are many active members of our community that are going to be >

Re: [Commons-l] [GLAM] Fwd: [Analytics] Introducing statistics for media files

2020-01-02 Thread Gnangarra via Commons-l
+1 to Kerry's request its import to be able to easily access such information both a KPI for the those contributing and as a demonstrable indicator for those being asked to contribute On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 10:31, Kerry Raymond wrote: > Good news indeed! Does this include metrics for articles

[Commons-l] threat to future

2019-02-13 Thread Gnangarra via Commons-l
Hi Everyone I read this https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/camera-market-has-collapsed-84-since-2010 with interest and some trepidation. Reading this we face two issues; - the good issue in that the potential for more immediate smart phone uploads of events and the use of gps located

Re: [Commons-l] new blog post: interview with designer George Oates about Wikimedia Commons

2018-10-31 Thread Gnangarra via Commons-l
I too dislike the idea of having to pay to contribute to a discussion about Wikimedia Commons. I also see some irony in advice from a platform that being generous can be described as having lost its way many years ago, yes we can learn from the mistakes of others. As others have said collectively

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikimedia-l] Classification/Categorization games for Commons?

2018-06-06 Thread Gnangarra via Commons-l
I'd be more concern that the game throws up very generic and vague descriptions like, person, ship, cat, dog, tree, flowers, street. Which in itself might seem helpful but may not even highlight the important aspect. - Would a bot doing an initial keyword search of the description be more