Re: [Commons-l] Status of upload wizard for Flickr uploading

Is anybody willing to pursue having the Flickr upload wizard enabled for everybody? I really don't want to port over my tool when the Toolserver shuts down. Bryan On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Steven Walling wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > >> 1. It makes i

[Commons-l] Status of upload wizard for Flickr uploading

Hi, With the pending toolserver shutdown, I was thinking about retiring Flickr Upload Bot. However, this bot is apparently still used about 2000-4000 times per month. I was under the impression that the upload wizard would replace this bot, however, I couldn't find any references to this. Does an

[Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Media infrastructure maintenance (uploads disabled) Friday Oct 5, 11 am UTC

No uploading possible from Friday Oct 5 at 11am UTC, to 2pm UTC. Bryan -- Forwarded message -- From: Ariel T. Glenn Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:19 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Media infrastructure maintenance (uploads disabled) Friday Oct 5, 11 am UTC To: Wikimedia developers We

[Commons-l] Possibility of broken upload tools

Hi all, As some you may remember, two years ago all upload tools to Commons broke when changes to the upload interface were made. These changes were reverted [1]. However, as it turned out that this had security implications, the restrictions have been put back into place [2]. If you use an uploa

Re: [Commons-l] Updated images don’t update properly

Hi, On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Arne 'Timwi' Heizmann wrote: > > I just made several changes to an SVG file: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_of_pyramids.svg > This is yet another incarnation of . It appears to me that

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

Op 16 mei 2011 22:53 schreef "Tobias Oelgarte" < tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com> het volgende: > > Any > action done without consent (like Jimbo did before) is offensive against > the community, making her mistrusting the WMF, that interferes with > community decissions. > Your analogy is misplaced

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

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Béria Lima wrote: >> Actually, given that the template was cascade protected by virtue of it >> being on the main page, only administrators can edit it.  You're not an >> administrator on Commons, but you do have a staff flag.  Therefore I'd say >> that's a staff a

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

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Krinkle wrote: > On 4 March 2011, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: >> Google has introduced some nifty extensions to the Sitemap protocol, >> including geocoding and (especially dear to our hearts) licensing![2] >> However we don't have such information easily available in

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Friendliness

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:02 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 23 February 2011 19:48, Daniel Schwen wrote: > >> Boils down to my main point (don't worry David Gerard did not read it >> either): > > > For someone going on (and on) about how thick-skinned everyone else > should be, you're remarkably t

[Commons-l] File licensing information support

Hello, As you may have noticed, Roan, Krinkle and me have started to more tightly integrate image licensing within MediaWiki. Our aim is to create a system where it should be easy to obtain the basic copyright information of an image in a machine readable format, as well as querying images with a

Re: [Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Hey Bryan, > Did you ever make any progress on getting a Flickr uploading extension > going? If not, I would like to go ahead and propose it as a project for > the WMF to work on. > Not yet, perhaps February or March. I think it would be good t

Re: [Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: > It should be comparatively simple > to write a more generic "transfer" parent class, which then would have > derived classes for each of these sites; a simple method (e.g. for an > image page on flickr, give me the URL of the most high-res f

[Commons-l] What do you like of the various Flickr upload tools

Hi all, As most of you probably know, I wrote Flickr upload bot back in May 2007 because there was a lot demand for uploading free images from Flickr to Commons. And apparently people find it useful, since as of September 2010, over 80k images have been uploaded via this bot. In addition over 50k

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: > Another idea: Instead of inventing new syntax or pseudo-HTML tags, why > not use language links? On [[Tag:Flower]] > [[en:Flower]] > [[de:Blume]] > Because you want to avoid using a single syntax for multiple purposes if different contexts. W

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Krinkle wrote: > Op 29 okt 2010, om 14:51 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven: > >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Bryan Tong Minh >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Krinkle >>> wrote: >>>>

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: > Multilanguage tags, as well as synonyms, could simply be implemented > as #REDIRECTs, maybe. [[Tag:Blume]] would redirect to [[Tag:Flower]], > so a search for "Blume" would know about "Flower" easily. However, the > system would then have to

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Krinkle wrote: > For one, tags would not be hierarchical and not stored under a name, > rather a number (an id if you will). I would store the tag-i18n definitions in a separate Tag: namespace. Then you don't need to create the history tracking etc. all by yoursel

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > (Of course, our main *disadvantage* is also MediaWiki, since random > templates do not add up to a real indexing system. That's the main thing > we need to build). > Related to that: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25624 S

Re: [Commons-l] Problems using pictures from Commons in Blogger - making it more of a stock photo repository

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: > I put it in the top bar for now. It looked a little lost there, so I > threw some around it; besides uploading and editing, we probably > have more customers interested in reusing files. > I like the previous position better. Perhaps we can

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikitech-l] InstantCommons serving up non-free files

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Huib Laurens wrote: > > When the files are on meta people can always use the meta api to get > the logo's, we just move it arround. > Yes, but people who use InstantCommons on Commons are then guaranteed to get free images, which is what most would expect. If they

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikitech-l] InstantCommons serving up non-free files

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, David Gerard wrote: > But Commons contains a certain number of non-free files, specifically > Wikimedia logos and so forth. I just noticed (on a wiki using > InstantCommons) that these are served up through it just the same. > > Is there any relatively simple way

[Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] image service switchover

Forward from wikitech-l, no uploading from 9 pm UTC. (timezone corrected with Ariel's second post) -- Forwarded message -- From: Ariel T. Glenn Date: Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:54 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] image service switchover To: wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org We are going to

Re: [Commons-l] GlobalUsage deployed an up to date

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: > > As of today, a weekly stats update will be added to u_magnus_glam_p. > Oh, I see that I forgot to mention it, but I have also been collecting stats in p_globalusage_weekly_p Bryan ___ Commons-

[Commons-l] GlobalUsage deployed an up to date

Hi all, As you may know I have been working on GlobalUsage, a MediaWiki extension that allows showing on which Wikimedia wikis a Commons image is used. We had some problems before, requiring it to be disabled before deployment complete, but now it has finally be deployed and the data set has been

Re: [Commons-l] Update from Paris

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Eusebius wrote: > Hi Gerard, thanks for your report, > >> there is now global usage for images from within MediaWiki itself.. so no >> need for using the toolserver... The process of gathering all the necessary >> data may now have ended.. > > I hadn't seen that, t

[Commons-l] Customizable forms using HTMLForm

[cc commons-l, please keep the discussion on wikitech-l] As you may know we use ugly uselang hacks on Commons to create our own distinct upload forms. I want this functionality in MediaWiki. HTMLForm provides a great way to abstractify form construction by providing a descriptor that can be tran

Re: [Commons-l] Re : Almost 5 million free media files

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Otourly Wiki wrote: > Hi, > Wikimédia France and Wikimedia CH have published a common press release: > (french) > http://blog.wikimedia.fr/commons-5-millions-de-fichiers-930 Interesting release, it might be worth to translate it to English as well. A minor remark:

[Commons-l] Maintainers of collection of flickr tools

Hi all, In the past few years I have been creating some Flickr related tools. These are: * FlickreviewR: A bot that reviews the licenses from images uploaded from Flickr * FlickreviewR human reviewer: A bot that re-reviews reviews by humans * Flickr upload bot: A web interface that allows easy ac

Re: [Commons-l] Some reflections about the governance of Commons

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:22 PM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/6/15 Rama Neko : > >> The "service project angle" worries me too. I have noticed that many >> articles of Wikipedia, the service project that makes it easier to >> find media in Commons by providing encyclopedic context to our >> content,

[Commons-l] Image moving enabled for sysops

A quick heads up: Image moving has been enabled for sysops per https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15842 ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Re: [Commons-l] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 voting now open

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Florence Devouard wrote: > I have meant to ask what happened with the toolserver (or the team > dealing with the toolserver) so that it could not be used this year ? > I was unfortunately too busy to set that up. Bryan __

Re: [Commons-l] [Fwd: Pikiwiki - Israel free image collection project - Starting engines]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Platonides wrote: >>> 1. Uploading - WikiMedia Commons does not have an API or other >>> completely supported interface, to allow any operations in their system, >>> without manual intervention. >> Yes, it does. Check http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API for more in

Re: [Commons-l] [Fwd: Pikiwiki - Israel free image collection project - Starting engines]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:08 PM, ChrisiPK wrote: >> 1. Uploading - WikiMedia Commons does not have an API or other >> completely supported interface, to allow any operations in their system, >> without manual intervention. > Yes, it does. Check http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API for more info on >

Re: [Commons-l] 100k image donation to Wikimedia Commons

That is not true. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-December/040520.html On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Sylvain Brunerie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the new search engine implemented on enwiki, you could search « > incategory:Images_from_the_German_Federal_Archive ». Unf

Re: [Commons-l] [Foundation-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Lars Aronsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But as soon as it comes to image uploading, an area where the > elderly have decades of photos to contribute, we're sending our > beginners off to Wikimedia Commons. Even if the menues and most > templates are localized

Re: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

The problems on Commons are a direct result of the enourmous growth in Commons. Currently the counter is at 3.5M and that number is increasing with 120K each month. Last time I checked (about a year ago) about 10% to 20% of those images is deleted. If this value is still the same, which I expect, t

Re: [Commons-l] Video licenced CC

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Douglas Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have been downloading some video that is made from old silent film > movies. They are licenced cc no derivatives. Some are remixed. How is > this possible? I am thinking these old films were in the public domain