Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: Commons ZIP file upload for admins

2010-10-28 Thread Osama Elcontar
As long as the files will be checked for malicious code, I don't think there could be any arguments against it. Such option is way overdue. It will allow edits that are now impossible. It will give editors more flexibility and save a lot of time. Especially if the original author decides to leave

[Commons-l] Use labels in Commons and increase coverage

2010-10-28 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am writing a series of blog posts about Commons. My aim is to identify the issues that I have with how it functions. There are several and I do not bother to write about the ones that are being tackled by the team around Guillaume (as far as it is clear to me what they are doing). The

Re: [Commons-l] Use labels in Commons and increase coverage

2010-10-28 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi, Op 28-10-2010 20:56, Gerard Meijssen schreef: Hoi, I am writing a series of blog posts about Commons. My aim is to identify the issues that I have with how it functions. There are several and I do not bother to write about the ones that are being tackled by the team around Guillaume (as

[Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

2010-10-28 Thread Lars Aronsson
Today I attended yet another workshop where a brave volunteer tried to explain the usefulness of Wikimedia Commons to teachers/scientists. During the following exercise, a very computer literate senior geneticist tried to access wikimedia.org and landed on the Wikimedia Foundation website. After

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

2010-10-28 Thread geni
On 28 October 2010 21:21, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: Now, the second part. Finding pictures in Commons is really hard. It seems that categories and textual descriptions are added by the uploader, and rarely modified or enhanced by others. Finding a map of bird migration paths

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

2010-10-28 Thread Gnangarra
Galleries need to be encouraged to higher degree, these galleries work well as a guide but also as a way for potential contributors to identify areas where theres a short fall in available media. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banksia --- which then links to the species categories directly

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

2010-10-28 Thread Gnangarra
oops wrong button hit when new message appeared [?] On 29 October 2010 13:18, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: Galleries need to be encouraged to higher degree, these galleries work well as a guide but also as a way for potential contributors to identify areas where theres a short fall in