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 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 available media.

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 htt

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

2010-10-28 Thread Michael Snow
On 10/28/2010 6:11 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > I was just talking about this with some other people at the WMF... I > don't fully understand the ramifications of the debate, but it seems > obvious to me that categories as implemented are not useful. > > The debate I see on Commons and elsewhere

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

2010-10-28 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > As for the Wiki(p|m)edia thing, I have to say I agree 100%, although I > don't know what other complications there might be. > > > On 10/28/10 1:21 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > >> Now, the second part. Finding pictures in Commons >> is re

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

2010-10-28 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
As for the Wiki(p|m)edia thing, I have to say I agree 100%, although I don't know what other complications there might be. On 10/28/10 1:21 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > Now, the second part. Finding pictures in Commons > is really hard. It seems that categories and textual > descriptions are adde

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

2010-10-28 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > 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 wikim

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

2010-10-28 Thread geni
On 28 October 2010 21:21, Lars Aronsson 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 across Europe mig

[Commons-l] Born of the monument portuguese Project on Commons

2010-10-28 Thread Otourly Wiki
Hello, There are know three monuments projects on Commons. A Nederland one, a French one and the last Portuguese one. Objectives are to place médias on right categories and geotagged them. See the template specialy created for: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Rijksmonumenten http://com

[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 th

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

2010-10-28 Thread Michael Peel
On 28 Oct 2010, at 20:38, Maarten Dammers wrote: > 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

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 f

[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 lates

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