Re: [Commons-l] Spec for Geolocator widget

2011-03-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 3/3/11 3:14 PM, Daniel Schwen wrote: >> Hey there. As part of our efforts to make uploading better, I spec'ed >> out a Geolocation widget. It will probably first appear in UploadWizard > > This will be useful if you > a) point out that the location of teh camera should be specified! Yeah, I'm t

[Commons-l] re-enabling sitemaps for Commons, or, why your image isn't in Google

2011-03-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
So lately Google has been pinging the WMF about the lack of sitemaps on Commons. If you don't know what those are, sitemaps are a way of telling search engines about all the URLs that are hosted on your site, so they can find them more easily, or more quickly.[1] I investigated this issue and f

Re: [Commons-l] Spec for Geolocator widget

2011-03-03 Thread Daniel Schwen
> Hey there. As part of our efforts to make uploading better, I spec'ed > out a Geolocation widget. It will probably first appear in UploadWizard This will be useful if you a) point out that the location of teh camera should be specified! b) add direction/heading support Thanks!

Re: [Commons-l] UploadWizard roll-out

2011-03-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am pretty sure that when we announce that the easy upload facility becomes available in Indian languages once the software is localised there will be a friendly competition what language gets the new functionality first. when you add a competition that showers recognition on the first Indi

Re: [Commons-l] UploadWizard roll-out

2011-03-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 3/3/11 2:12 PM, Siebrand Mazeland wrote: > Op 03-03-11 22:25 schreef Neil Kandalgaonkar: > >> - How best to roll this out ? > Can the roll-out be geo based? This will allow you to slowly grow usage > across different countries, and make it possible to most likely get > feedback from for example

Re: [Commons-l] UploadWizard roll-out

2011-03-03 Thread Siebrand Mazeland
Op 03-03-11 22:25 schreef Neil Kandalgaonkar : >- How best to roll this out -- it should be phased, but how exactly? Can the roll-out be geo based? This will allow you to slowly grow usage across different countries, and make it possible to most likely get feedback from for example "language X" sp

[Commons-l] UploadWizard roll-out

2011-03-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
It's been a long time coming but we're getting close to being able to release UploadWizard to a broader spectrum of users. If you are unfamiliar with the project, the idea is to greatly improve the usability of the uploading experience. We haven't been public for a while but we are working hard

[Commons-l] Spec for Geolocator widget

2011-03-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
Hey there. As part of our efforts to make uploading better, I spec'ed out a Geolocation widget. It will probably first appear in UploadWizard http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard/Location Your next question might be, when is UploadWizard being released for real? We plan to be ha

[Commons-l] Sparky Awards

2011-03-03 Thread Samuel Klein
SPARC and the Open Access Initiative are running an annual contest to find the best video by students about open access (the limited scholarly version). The best entries will win ... that epitome of free culture ... an Apple product. Mmm. Would there be value in having these videos on Commons?

Re: [Commons-l] Corbis Sygma

2011-03-03 Thread Samuel Klein
http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2029367/fate-uncertain-millions-sygmas-images Early reports of destruction may have been too bold. But the motivation was the potential for crippling lawsuits by the photographers under French law -- one of whom won ~$2M from Sygma wh