Re: [Commons-l] GSoC 2012 : Automatically tagging photos in Wikimedia Commons

Hello, It sounds nice in theory. But knowing the current limitations of object recognition and our category/tagging system on Commons, I don't see how it could really help to improve the project. For example: We don't tag every object in the background since it is much better for the user to

Re: [Commons-l] Picture rotation: what on earth?

Yes you are right. It only hits images with present EXIF data that has wrong rotation values. Therefore all images uploaded with wrong EXIF data have to be tagged by a template so that the bot can through the pages and correct the EXIF tag to have the right value. I'm counting myself to the luc

Re: [Commons-l] [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

Am 17.10.2011 12:47, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: Note: This foundation-l post is cross-posted to commons-l, since this discussion may be of interest there as well.* * * * *> From:* Tobias Oelgarte * *> It is a in house made problem, as i explained at brainstorming [1]. > To put it short

Re: [Commons-l] Proposed custom wikitext license feature for UploadWizard

Am 17.09.2011 05:54, schrieb Neil Kandalgaonkar: > UploadWizard is currently not used by experienced uploaders for a number > of reasons, among which is that they can't use some custom wikitext > licenses. We'd like to address that. > > I made a mockup of a possible implementation. Comments welcome

Re: [Commons-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

Am 16.09.2011 11:42, schrieb Rama Neko: What motives this rejection? Has the nature of the filter been understood? Do people fear a creep towards censorship? Something else? -- Rama ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://l

[Commons-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

ple and to question other communities the same question? Greetings from Tobias Oelgarte [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Einf%C3%BChrung_pers%C3%B6nlicher_Bildfilter [2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Einf%C3%BChrung_pers%C3%B6nlic

Re: [Commons-l] Spread the love

Damn. More kittens smashed at ground of the talk page, buried by the annoyed user. Great and important feature we haz now! Greetings from Tobias Am 22.08.2011 20:26, schrieb Maarten Dammers: > WikiLove just got enabled at Commons :-D > > Maarten > > __

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 17.05.2011 18:36, schrieb Gnangarra: On 18 May 2011 00:22, Tobias Oelgarte <mailto:tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com>> wrote: Am 17.05.2011 18:16, schrieb Gnangarra: On 18 May 2011 00:03, Tobias Oelgarte mailto:tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com>> wrote: L

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 17.05.2011 18:16, schrieb Gnangarra: On 18 May 2011 00:03, Tobias Oelgarte <mailto:tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com>> wrote: Laws are the one thing, liberty without harm to others the other thing. You can't jump from a plane that is used for suicide, but you can lo

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 17.05.2011 18:07, schrieb Cary Bass: > On 05/17/2011 09:03 AM, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: >> Laws are the one thing, liberty without harm to others the other >> thing. You can't jump from a plane that is used for suicide, but you >> can look away if you don't like

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Don't mix up two different matters. Am 17.05.2011 18:07, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: --- On *Tue, 17/5/11, Tobias Oelgarte //*wrote: If we buy this contributions with a loss of liberty. Then yes. Nothing is as worthy as liberty. There is more than one way to view this. One could eq

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

On 17 May 2011 19:05, Tobias Oelgarte <mailto:tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com>> wrote: If we buy this contributions with a loss of liberty. Then yes. Nothing is as worthy as liberty. While we are at it do appreciate the denial of liberty for people who break the law? do you appre

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Any proof for this imputation? Am 17.05.2011 17:53, schrieb Gnangarra: On 17 May 2011 23:44, Tobias Oelgarte <mailto:tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com>> wrote: Or did we start we start with the intention to create a project in that everyone can participate on his own will, in

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

The "Diva" comment is far older then this recent development. It has nothing todo with this current "case". Am 17.05.2011 17:24, schrieb Sarah Stierch: I've never denied not being a Diva ;-) -Sarah On 5/17/2011 9:26 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: --- On *Tue, 17/5/11, Craig Franklin //*wrote:

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

o be fact. So lets put some honey on the mainpages and install an leading to a fly-donor-trap at the end. Is that really all you care about? Am 17.05.2011 17:17, schrieb Sarah Stierch: On 5/17/2011 7:05 AM, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: If we buy this contributions with a loss of liberty. Then yes. Not

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 17.05.2011 15:26, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: --- On *Tue, 17/5/11, Craig Franklin //*wrote: From: Craig Franklin Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" Date: Tuesday, 17 May, 2011, 12:54

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

denying other contributors the opportunity to participate. On 17 May 2011 16:16, Tobias Oelgarte <mailto:tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com>> wrote: Am 17.05.2011 02:34, schrieb Neil Kandalgaonkar: > On 5/16/11 8:21 PM, Cary Bass wrote: >> We need an active group o

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 17.05.2011 02:34, schrieb Neil Kandalgaonkar: > On 5/16/11 8:21 PM, Cary Bass wrote: >> We need an active group of contributors who represent at the very least >> some cross-section of not only Commons contributors but of interested >> re-users of Commons content to actively monitor and maintain

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 16.05.2011 23:20, schrieb Bryan Tong Minh: Op 16 mei 2011 22:53 schreef "Tobias Oelgarte" <mailto:tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com>> het volgende: > > Any > action done without consent (like Jimbo did before) is offensive against > the community, makin

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 16.05.2011 22:39, schrieb Nathan: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Chris McKenna wrote: > >> I don't know where you get the impression that anyone here is promoting >> any sort of lackadaiscial attitude? >> As far as I read the arguments we have two groups of people, those who >> want to cens

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 16.05.2011 22:39, schrieb Nathan: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Chris McKenna wrote: > >> I don't know where you get the impression that anyone here is promoting >> any sort of lackadaiscial attitude? >> As far as I read the arguments we have two groups of people, those who >> want to cens

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 16.05.2011 22:05, schrieb Stan Shebs: > On 5/16/11 12:43 PM, Chris McKenna wrote: >> As far as I read the arguments we have two groups of people, those who >> want to censor images that they do not like or that they think other >> people will not like; and those that want to actively stand up fo

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 16.05.2011 21:07, schrieb Cary Bass: > On 05/16/2011 11:57 AM, Chris McKenna wrote: > >> Nor is it the mission of Commons to pander to the sensibilitites, no >> matter how common (and outside the US they really aren't at all) > "Pander" is a word doesn't in the least bit describe what anyone is

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 16.05.2011 19:17, schrieb Paul Houle: >On 5/16/2011 10:55 AM, Chris McKenna wrote: >> Pornography is defined as: >> "The explicit depiction of sexual subject matter, especially with the sole >> intention of sexually exciting the viewer." >> >> The subject matter of this image is not sexual.

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 16.05.2011 18:03, schrieb Sarah Stierch: On 5/16/2011 10:32 AM, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: Reading the words of Sarah Stierch, someone could assume that a picture of a naked male is fine. Do we get more female contributers by treating them as some special, out of the oridinary? At the last

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 16.05.2011 17:38, schrieb Sarah Stierch: On 5/16/2011 9:04 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Chris McKenna > wrote: Am I alaone in completely failing to understand what the fuss is about? The image is not pornographic, exploitativ

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 16.05.2011 17:20, schrieb geni: > On 16 May 2011 15:55, Chris McKenna wrote: >> The subject matter of this image is not sexual. Therefore it is not >> pornographic. > A semi-naked women posing in a position that accents her secondary > sexual characteristics is not sexual? A picture showing a n

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Am 16.05.2011 17:19, schrieb Stan Shebs: > On 5/16/11 7:55 AM, Chris McKenna wrote: >> On Mon, 16 May 2011, geni wrote: >> >>> On 16 May 2011 09:56, Chris McKenna wrote: Am I alaone in completely failing to understand what the fuss is about? >>> Your statement isn't credible. >> I don't unde

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

Could you explain what you mean with GLAM? Not anyone is used to such terms. Greatings from Tobias Oelgarte Am 16.05.2011 16:52, schrieb Gnangarra: On 16 May 2011 22:46, Tobias Oelgarte <mailto:tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com>> wrote: Do it in your freetime and not at work

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

the image its about where its displayed. On 16 May 2011 22:32, Tobias Oelgarte <mailto:tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com>> wrote: Just logged in, so please bear with the possible wrong entry place. I strongly disagree with the removal. Not because that it is an image that

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

rry for my English. But English isn't my main language. Tobias Oelgarte Am 16.05.2011 16:24, schrieb Chris McKenna: > On Mon, 16 May 2011, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > >> The image is also not artistically, historically, or culturally significant, >> unlike all the other examples you ci