[Commons-l] Public domain status of European harmonised standards

The CJEU today ruled for Carl Malamud against the European Commission in C‑588/21 (Public.Resource.Org and Right to Know v. European Commission): https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=283443&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=6375509 https://curia.eur

[Commons-l] Mourning in Canada

From Michael Geist: «Not a surprise, but still disappointing. Canada makes copyright term extension official. Term extended to life + 70 years as of December 30th. New works entering the public domain lost for a generation.» https://mas.to/@mgeist/109394731754194423 https://orders-in-council.ca

[Commons-l] Re: Have you heard? The sound logo contest launches on September 13

Il 12/09/22 21:31, Mehrdad Pourzaki ha scritto: Tomorrow is the launch of the Wikimedia sound logo contest and we couldn’t be more excited. Do I see correctly that this website is promoting proprietary software, and adds insult to injury by calling them "fr

[Commons-l] Re: Preserving cities and buildings, block by block

Il 24/03/22 17:30, Samuel Klein ha scritto: Are there any projects in the vein of Geograph, OSM, Yelp, or Wikipedia for people remembering and preserving images and information about cities, city blocks, buildings? There are small projects like localwikis and regiowikis

[Commons-l] Re: Commons media archives

Il 13/12/21 20:59, Samuel Klein ha scritto: 1. WikiTeam, we love you, what do you need to be more effective at archiving WM wikis? Mainly, at least one volunteer willing to run the scripts in my stead so that it doesn't always fall on me. This is either a babysitting or a coding task to make

[Commons-l] Fwd: Why do you use Creative Commons licenses?

I wonder if Flickr really emailed this to all of the millions users who have Creative Commons photos. Some answers are already nice: https://www.flickr.com/groups/2684497@N24/discuss/72157719635960141/72157721915566046 Federico Messaggio Inoltrato Oggetto: Why do you use Creat

[Commons-l] Re: Special:MediaSearch released to logged-in users on Wednesday (12 May 2021)

Il 10/05/21 19:21, Keegan Peterzell ha scritto: Special:MediaSearch has been default for all anonymous/logged-out users since 1 April 2021, I've used this myself every now and then and I shared links to the new media share with others who are not so well versed in Commons. I didn't get much f

Re: [Commons-l] Moving toward Special:MediaSearch as the default search landing page

Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l, 23/02/21 22:36: Special:Search also functions at its best in English, and is not necessarily friendly to other languages. This is not true. I think you meant to say that the text in Commons is mostly English, while the new structured search is expected to be abl

Re: [Commons-l] Examples of *non-Wikimedia* videos lectures/performances held at GLAMs?

Asaf Bartov, 24/09/20 17:37: > What I was looking for, specifically, was a few examples of a GLAM > institution intentionally contributing (directly to Commons) footage of a > non-Wikimedia event taking place under its auspices I have troubles understanding the meaning of "intentionally" here. Wh

Re: [Commons-l] Examples of *non-Wikimedia* videos lectures/performances held at GLAMs?

Asaf Bartov via Commons-l, 24/09/20 01:48: > a hosting GLAM is recording and uploading video of a > lecture, performance, concert, or conference taking place on the premises, > *aside* from Wikimedia events. Indeed we don't have good categories for this. An intersection of categories like "Videos

[Commons-l] Community open letter on renaming Wikimedia

[To all Wikimedia projects, minus mailing lists with an active discussion already.] On August 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees may decide a rename to "Wikipedia Foundation" and various other things.

Re: [Commons-l] Photographer Sues for Failure to Provide Creative Commons-Required Attribution–Philpot v. WOS

I went through my list again on Courtlistener (if someone has a PACER account, please contribute more relevant documents). Philpot seems to have rushed to voluntarily dismiss a number of cases at the end of April 2019. Possibly not coincidental, this happened mere days after the judgement in

Re: [Commons-l] Photographer Sues for Failure to Provide Creative Commons-Required Attribution–Philpot v. WOS

Kunal Mehta via Commons-l, 26/06/19 00:28: CC0 licensed music metadata project (Only partially so. Part of their data is unfree: .) Federico ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikim

Re: [Commons-l] Commons media archives

Samuel Klein via Commons-l, 24/05/19 00:09: Where might I get or mirror a dump of Commons media files? From https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons (updated irregularly; if someone wants to help so that I'm not the single bottleneck, let me know!). We also have a link to torrents to see

[Commons-l] Photographer Sues for Failure to Provide Creative Commons-Required Attribution–Philpot v. WOS

See This was briefly discussed also at I tried to make a list of some of Philpot cases (attac

Re: [Commons-l] Coming soon to all wikis: beta feature FileExporter

Gerard Meijssen via Commons-l, 15/01/19 09:25: I do understand the benefit of sharing files. What I fail to understand is how this will be better than using files from Wikidata. There is no contradiction. The main difference between this extension and the current systems for transfer to Comm

Re: [Commons-l] Update Reiss Engelhorn Museum

Fæ via Commons-l, 20/12/18 15:16: Is there going to be an appeal? No mention of it on the WMDE blog, they may have to decide still but they suggest to change the law instead: From a c

Re: [Commons-l] Update Reiss Engelhorn Museum

Lane Rasberry via Commons-l, 20/12/18 15:05: The case itself probably rises to stand alone English Wikipedia notability. There is no article either. There's . Federico ___ C

[Commons-l] Apple deprecates all media formats except few dozens

"About legacy media in Final Cut Pro X: To prepare for future versions of macOS, identify legacy media in your Final Cut Pro X and Motion projects." https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209000 Federico ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedi

Re: [Commons-l] new blog post: interview with designer George Oates about Wikimedia Commons

Sandra Fauconnier via Commons-l, 31/10/2018 17:23: It's not at all my intention to force anyone to use a platform they don't like, and I apologize again if I gave that impression. [...] I don't mind tracking (and pointing to) conversations happening elsewhere. One thing is to "track" on propri

Re: [Commons-l] [Multimedia] Is WebM a suitable archive format long term?

Kunal Mehta, 31/10/2018 02:26: I've been working on recording and uploading video to Commons lately, and I'm wondering what to do with the original files that my camera recorded (in a proprietary format unfortunately). My personal preference is to upload the original to the Internet Archive an

Re: [Commons-l] new blog post: interview with designer George Oates about Wikimedia Commons

Sandra Fauconnier via Commons-l, 31/10/2018 10:58: Medium, where you can leave comments: It's truly terrible if we're now outsourcing comments to an external proprietary platform. Federico ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org h

[Commons-l] Fwd: CJEU rules that unauthorized re-posting of protected content may be an infringement

For all our dear users who upload a photo on Common saying "it was online, it's in the public domain!". Federico Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto: CJEU rules that unauthorized re-posting of protected content may be an infringement Data: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:50:52 GMT Mittente:

[Commons-l] Fwd: Video output changing to WebM VP9/Opus soon

Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto:[Multimedia] Video output changing to WebM VP9/Opus soon Data: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 11:29:00 -0700 Mittente: Brion Vibber In the next couple weeks I'm planning to start switching our video transcode output from WebM VP8/Vorbis to the n

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: server-side importImages for videos?

Samuel Klein via Commons-l, 22/05/2018 23:22: I have some video editors interested in c.  We're stuck on a+b. I can upload these to Internet Archive. Bandwidth is not a problem for me. If bandwidth is not a problem for you either, I can help you prepare a CSV file for the batch upload to Inte

[Commons-l] Musician making a living on CC-BY music

Just found about him from the credits of a popular video tutorial: https://www.joshwoodward.com/faq (I see he's also mentioned on a page of the Creative Commons wiki, my ignorance.) It would be nice to make a blog post/interview with him about how a free license is not incompatible with earni

Re: [Commons-l] EXTERNAL: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Copyfraud of WLM winners photo

Lane Rasberry, 03/01/2018 21:59: There has never been a lawsuit for inappropriate reuse of cc media, has there? Several. Does anyone even know of a case of a copyright holder getting paid without a lawsuit in such a case? Sure. It's easier for works released with a non-commercial license

[Commons-l] Hirtle at December 7 CopyTalk: Where oh where is the public domain?

Meet the human behind https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Hirtle_chart ! Federico Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto: [SCHOLCOMM] December 7 CopyTalk: Where oh where is the public domain? Dat

[Commons-l] Case law on copyleft cause for images

Hirtle summary of on Drauglis v. Kappa Map Group, also covered in

Re: [Commons-l] precautionary principle

It would probably be easier to specify that "significant doubt" means raising some specific fact and source for it (even if falling short of a complete proof). For instance, a bad reason for deletion is "I don't see a proof this is <1923"; a better one is "I think this photo is from 19xy or lat

Re: [Commons-l] Metadata of digitized manuscripts

Arne Wossink, 15/06/2017 14:57: Does anyone have experience with uploading manuscripts and associated metadata to Commons, and can point me to some examples of how specific problems were solved? As part of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BEIC I suspect we've not uploaded our manusc

Re: [Commons-l] Doubts on uploading other's audio files to commons with attribution

Nowadays, tools generally use OAuth to upload on the user's behalf. See examples: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_tools#Transfer_tools Examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth/For_Developers https://github.com/toollabs/video2commons/blob/master/video2commons/frontend/app.

Re: [Commons-l] Picture of the Year 2016 Results

Steinsplitter Wiki, 09/05/2017 18:50: # 615 people voted for the winner, File:Jubilee and Munin, Ravens, Tower of London 2016-04-30.jpg . Brexit reference? Nemo

Re: [Commons-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] How can we put together a more rigorous screening

WereSpielChequers, 31/01/2017 09:39: I'm not an admin on commons, but where I am an admin it would be expected that you would check the history of a file before deleting it. It's expected on Commons too, see . When m

[Commons-l] License enforcement: German court on a link to a Wikimedia Commons image

Clarifications welcome on (LG Hamburg, Az. 310 0 402/16 EV), especially from German speakers. Nemo ___

[Commons-l] Gotthard Base Tunnel

The tunnel under the Gotthard was just opened, as you surely heard from the news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel Is someone going to visit the tunnel on June 4 or 5 to take photos? http://www.gottardo2016.ch/ Nemo ___ Commons-l ma

Re: [Commons-l] Size of images donated

Andre Engels, 07/05/2016 08:48: As such, we should not set a general minimum standard, but instead compare with what is already available for the subject depicted. A topic-agnostic standard, however, does matter when it comes to using Wikimedia resources for an official partnership. It's entir

Re: [Commons-l] Size of images donated

Romaine Wiki, 05/05/2016 13:51: My question is: what is the minimum of quality we should ask? Bundesarchiv was the first big content partnership and already provided 800px wide images. Minimum standards should grow gradually over time, hence Wikimedia entities and groups should keep in mind t

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: Biggest donation of photos in Italy - Paolo Monti (BEIC)

ankry.wiki, 09/04/2016 00:10: Categorization of these images seems to be a big problem. Category names shouldn't be in Italian. They will not be, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BEIC#Work_in_progress . Nemo-BEIC ___ Commons-l mailin

[Commons-l] Fwd: Biggest donation of photos in Italy - Paolo Monti (BEIC)

Forwarding on request. Nemo-BEIC Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto: [cultural-partners] Biggest donation of photos in Italy - Paolo Monti (BEIC) Data: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 16:26:20 +0200 Mittente: marcok Hi to all, I’m the Wikipedian in residence at the digital library of Fondazione

Re: [Commons-l] Is commons Healthy?

Nkansah Rexford, 01/03/2016 16:47: Page doesn't end loading. Images don't show. Text and layout is fine. Yes, that's a typical networking problem. Follow my instructions. Nemo ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wi

Re: [Commons-l] Is commons Healthy?

Nkansah Rexford, 01/03/2016 16:42: Common pages show, images keep loading forever. Status message is, "Sending Request". Works for me, check your ISP/networking. You can use: "mtr -r -c 50 commons.wikimedia.org" if you have a serious computer or http://winmtr.net/ if you're on Windows. Nemo

Re: [Commons-l] Searching for media by license and keyword

Sam Pablo Kuper, 17/02/2016 04:19: For example, suppose I want to find images of cats, that are licensed under CC-BY (but not CC-BY-SA or CC-0, etc). How should I go about this? Usually I use categories. When I search a specific copyright status it's usually PD (when I don't have space for att

Re: [Commons-l] Finding articles without photographs near your current location.

Federico Leva (Nemo), 16/02/2016 18:59: The "standard" way would be to make wikishootme output a pagepile to be fed into wdfist: https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ Correction: there *is* already such a warning which links wdfist, with a query using around[]: "You ca

Re: [Commons-l] Finding articles without photographs near your current location.

Luis Villa, 16/02/2016 18:45: Suggestion: Maybe integrate that functionality directly into wikishootme? ("this has no picture, but the article does, review and add it?") The "standard" way would be to make wikishootme output a pagepile to be fed into wdfist: https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfi

Re: [Commons-l] Finding articles without photographs near your current location.

Jonathan Cardy, 16/02/2016 15:16: Has anyone tried using these in outreach to photographers? The professional photographers that WMIT is in contact with have little interest for such activities, presumably because they don't see a benefit for their career. As for the Wikimedia Commons photo

Re: [Commons-l] Finding articles without photographs near your current location.

WereSpielChequers, 16/02/2016 10:26: I've just been introduced to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby which lists articles near your current location and from the thumbnail it is fairly obvious whether it has an image or not. Why not use https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ ? Nemo

[Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today

Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto:[Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today Data: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 14:55:30 -0600 Mittente: Ellie Young Reminder: Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in Esino Lario, Italy on June 22–27

Re: [Commons-l] Wikidata data in templates

This is definitely needed and there is some interest; the last discussion seems to be , while others are outdated: * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata/How_G

[Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee

Still a couple days available to offer yourself as Wikimania scholarships committee member, or as ambassador for your community. Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto:[Wikimania-l] Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee Data: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 21:11:05 + (UTC)

Re: [Commons-l] TPP - copyright

Wikimedia Italia already supported the campaigns against copyright restorations and copyright terms extensions in Argentina and Canada, though without much fuss: * http://www.vialibre.org.ar/2015/10/02/organizaciones-contra-la-privatizacion-del-patrimonio-fotografico-en-argentina/ * https://twi

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikidata] Trends in links from Wikidata items to Commons

Luca Martinelli, 30/08/2015 12:03: Am I the only one that thinks that jheald's .js is a temporary solution? Am I the only one that actually appreciate his attempt at solving a *practical* problem by providing a *practical* solution, It might be a practical solution, but I don't understand what

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikivideo-l] Most popular videos

For comparison, following a question elsewhere, I extracted from https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Mediacounts a list of wav/flac/ogg files with at least 5 usages and 1 MB transferred in a random day, see http://koti.kapsi.fi/~federico/tmp/mediacounts-audio-top.2015-07-27.v00.c

[Commons-l] Fwd: Commission launches €1 million initiative to crowdsource subtitling to increase the circulation of European works

Curious. Let's hope something free software and reusable comes out of it! http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/commission-launches-eu1-million-initiative-crowdsource-subtitling-increase-circulation-european Nemo ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikimania-l] Cloud Storage Photos to Commons

(Cc Commons-l; maybe continue there?) Kenrick, 23/07/2015 06:20: is there any tool (on Tool Labs or elsewhere) to quickly upload those photos from cloud storage to Commons? If not, it may be a nice tool idea for me to work on. :) This is a typical fit for digiKam/KIPI: https://commons.wikimed

Re: [Commons-l] Freedom of Panorama in danger!

Fæ, 19/06/2015 18:47: There is no "good" FoP in Europe to save Exception 5(3)(h) does exist, or there would be no FOP anywhere. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32001L0029:EN:HTML Nemo ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@

[Commons-l] Google Picasa Web CC images being trashed

See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Picasa_Web_Albums_files#Creative_Commons_licensing_unavailable_in_Google.2B And I thought Yahoo was bad. ;) Nemo ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/

[Commons-l] Commons vs. Europeana metadata quality

In reading the recent http://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Publications/Metadata%20Quality%20Report.pdf summary I think that some of the principles apply to Commons as well, tohugh of course we're talking of very different beasts. For instance: * "Data should be enriched where

Re: [Commons-l] Imker - batch download tool

Steinsplitter Wiki, 03/05/2015 19:06: The question whether a tool exists which allows to download all images of a categorywas asked often. As far as i know there does not exist such a tool since toolserver has been switched off. This week I also found tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/can_i_haz_fi

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

John Mark Vandenberg, 18/03/2015 05:54: The message includes instructions to rename an account, but what happens if a user unifies all accounts having the same name now, after this announcement. I've heard someone say that their account is still listed on 'Special:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed' after th

Re: [Commons-l] [Multimedia] Google Code-in accomplishments

Gergo Tisza, 28/01/2015 01:37: we had a great Google Code-in contest this year. Of the 28 multimedia-related tasks we had, 23 were closed, thanks to three very talented students,

Re: [Commons-l] Duplicate removal?

Gergo Tisza, 04/12/2014 23:27: On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: This is happening automatically: the SHA1 hash of every file is computed on upload, and placed in the img_sha1 field on the database. I believe this is used to warn users who try to upload an

Re: [Commons-l] Duplicate removal?

Jonas Öberg, 04/12/2014 08:31: In our work with Elog.io[1], we've come across a number of duplicate files in Commons. Great! Some of them are explainable, such as PNGs which also have a thumbnail as JPG[2], but others seem to be more clear-cut duplicated uploads, like [3] and [4], and yet oth

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikimedia-l] 50 million Flickr images

Russavia, 21/11/2014 06:09: Just thought this might be of interest to people on list: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/11/20/50-million-creative-commons-images-flickr-wall-art/ Kinda makes Commons pale in comparison. Pretty, but most importantly I hope it means Flickr will have some financial

Re: [Commons-l] Media Viewer Update: First Improvements

Gergo Tisza, 15/10/2014 17:03: More generally, I think there is a tendency in the community to be overconfident in the effectiveness of the current interface, and a tendency in WMF to dismiss it off-hand. More curiosity as to what works well and what not would be a welcome change on both sides.

[Commons-l] Panoramio is closing

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Panoramio «On September 16, 2014, Google announced they would be "migrating" Panoramio over to Google Maps. During the migration, site features such as comments, favorite photographers, and groups would be deleted.» I think Panoramio, as a source of geota

Re: [Commons-l] [Multimedia] Hashing Wikimedia Commons

Daniel Schwen, 09/09/2014 16:34: > IMHO worrying about load for such a small number of downloads (less than > 25 millions) is silly. Just use a sensible, common size, for instance > > > I don't think it is silly to point out best practices on an archived and > searchable mailing list. Su

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikimedia-l] Upload Wizard work (was Re: Next steps regarding WMF<->community disputes about deployments)

Erik Moeller, 06/09/2014 08:44: > - The multimedia dev team has spent a fair bit of time doing some > initial UploadWizard refactoring and code cleanup. We've also > contracted Neil Kandalgaonkar, the original UploadWizard developer > (who left WMF a while ago), to help out a bit and provide some h

Re: [Commons-l] [Multimedia] Hashing Wikimedia Commons

IMHO worrying about load for such a small number of downloads (less than 25 millions) is silly. Just use a sensible, common size, for instance 800px wide which is the default. There's also an outdated

Re: [Commons-l] images

https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/fist.php is capable of finding useful images in that Flickr stream; I've reported some issues at https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/magnustools/issues/ I asked the researcher to post suggestions in the tracker etc. but he replied that "broader conversations [...] with

Re: [Commons-l] July: drop in images served

Thanks, so the answer seems to be that it doesn't mean anything. Do we have any meaningful statistical resource for the trends in multimedia traffic? Nemo ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listi

[Commons-l] July: drop in images served

If I'm reading this correctly: * * there was a substantial drop in the to

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikimedia-l] Commonwealth Games

Andy Mabbett, 22/07/2014 15:48: > Do we have anyone at the Commonwealth Games? If you ask for photo coverage, Cometstyles pointed to: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gj_thewhite/ Easy to upload with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/flickrripper.py but needs a categoriser. Nemo _

Re: [Commons-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

Daniel Mietchen, 03/08/2014 03:57: > The issue of mirroring Wikimedia content has been discussed with a > number of scholarly institutions engaged in data-rich research, and > the response was generally of the "send us the specs, and we will see > what we can do" kind. > > I would be interested in

[Commons-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

WikiTeam[1] has released an update of the chronological archive of all Wikimedia Commons files, up to 2013. Now at ~34 TB total. I wrote to – I think – all the mirrors in the world, but apparently nobody is interested in such a mass of media ap

[Commons-l] New new photo page design on Flickr

Yesterday a number of yahoo.uservoice.com highly voted requests were closed on the basis that a redesign of the redesign has fixed them. It seems the update is only available in English and I don't find a way to change interface language (!), can someone who sees it please give some insight? Nemo

Re: [Commons-l] Support for Chemical table files

Rainer Rillke, 08/07/2014 14:13: > I am currently looking for features you would find helpful as well as > your opinion of what is needed to deploy MolHandler to Wikimedia Commons > and therefore created a test wiki[1] > > [1] http://mol.wmflabs.org/ Great! Have you already contacted the Wikiped

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: One Hundred Million Creative Commons Flickr Images for Research

Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada, 05/07/2014 11:00: > If the metadata dataset license allow it, it would be interesting to > import it into Labs as a database. I'm not sure they're considering it copyright eligible, but one just has to ask: http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=i&did=67

[Commons-l] Fwd: One Hundred Million Creative Commons Flickr Images for Research

12 GB of metadata and 50 TB of files released by Yahoo!. «Plus about 49 million of the photos are geotagged!» http://yahoolabs.tumblr.com/post/89783581601/one-hundred-million-creative-commons-flickr-images-for Can this dataset help linking projects' articles and Wikidata items to the images we mis

Re: [Commons-l] Challenge: develop tools to track and identify reuse of PD material

Jean-Frédéric, 05/06/2014 14:38: Reminds me of these papers, in case you have not seem them already: Interesting, downloaded; but why don't you add reviews of them to ? :) Nemo __

Re: [Commons-l] Challenge: develop tools to track and identify reuse of PD material

Andrew Gray, 27/03/2014 20:31: Here's an interesting project from the British Library - interesting both because people may wish to enter (there's £25000 available), and because it touches on a lot of the same questions we have about the value and impact of content donations Interestingly, from

Re: [Commons-l] [Multimedia] How to disable MediaViewer for some images

John Mark Vandenberg, 20/05/2014 02:45: But many infoboxes have logos and low res nonfree content in the infobox. Not so much outside en.wiki. Nemo ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Commons-l] Fwd: Let Our Video Go

Messaggio originale Oggetto:Let Our Video Go Data: Wed, 07 May 2014 15:24:09 + Mittente: Let Our Video Go MetMuseunScroll_DT11631 UI / UX Advances in Freeing Information Enslav

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: Restoring CC attribution to Flickr, because Yahoo broke it

Noopur, 01/05/2014 08:00: Not sure if this still works (disclosure: I work with Commons Machinery) but we had a similar conversation regarding Flickr and some people on twitter found this useful: http://commonsmachinery.se/2014/02/copyrdf-addon-updates-oembed-site-rules/ Thanks. There is a bug

[Commons-l] Fwd: Restoring CC attribution to Flickr, because Yahoo broke it

«For years, Flickr has been one of the most important repositories of Creative Commons imagery in the world; now, thanks to a new design, it's all but useless for serving and attributing the CC-licensed images it's been entrusted with by museums, galleries, national archives, libraries, and mil

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Changes to tabs when viewing the file page for a commons file on a local wiki

Brian Wolff, 08/04/2014 05:28: tl;dr : The navigation tabs at the top of pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Rousseau_009.jpg, are soon going to look like http://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:16001000395904-Kiruna-Riksantikvarie%C3%A4mbetet.jpg This is a small c

[Commons-l] Fwd: DBpedia @ GSoC14 deadline is approaching

They also have a project idea related to Commons, "Wikimedia Commons extraction". http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2014/ideas#h359-6 It seems they have some (possible?) applications already. Nemo Messaggio originale Oggetto: [Wiktionary-l] DBpedia @ GSoC14 deadline is approaching D

[Commons-l] Fwd: Link to Media Viewer on Commons

Messaggio originale Oggetto:[Multimedia] Link to Media Viewer on Commons Data: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:39:05 -0500 Mittente: Keegan Peterzell Greetings everyone! As the Multimedia team finishes up this cycle of Media Viewer development, we'd appreciate your fee

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikiversity-l] University engagement with Wikimedia projects

Leigh Blackall, 28/05/2013 11:18: Hi folks. Who can point me to or suggest a process for a university wishing to engage Wikimedia projects? By that I mean initial consultation to get advice on how to consider and formulate an appropriate plan encompasing the alignment of policy and practices thr

Re: [Commons-l] Data mining for media archives

Samuel Klein, 06/02/2014 23:39: Are we doing any commons analysis like this at the moment? Is any similarity-analysis done on upload to help uploaders identify copies of the same image that already exist online? Or to flag potential copyvios for reviewers? I'm sure TinEye would be glad to give

Re: [Commons-l] LibreOffice's LibreLogo and diagram generation

David Gerard, 02/11/2013 23:08: I'm going "holy crap!" at what you can do with LibreLogo for diagram generation. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_with_LibreLogo_source_code Is this a tool which could help also the "maths community"? If yes you could let them know e.g. at ht

Re: [Commons-l] "Tarballs" of all 2004-2012 Commons files now available at archive.org

Yann Forget, 16/10/2013 21:29: Hello, I got the torrent file file, but there isn't any peer. https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons-torrents https://archive.org/download/wikimediacommons-torrents/wikimediacommons-torrents.torrent What do you mean? archive.org webseeds them from two separ

Re: [Commons-l] [wikiteam-discuss:699] "Tarballs" of all 2004-2012 Commons files now available at archive.org

Paul A. Houle, 15/10/2013 00:35: I’d like to see the Commons backups available in the AMZN S3 cloud, even if it is only as “requester pays”. Frankly, my experience is that getting data from the Internet Archive is so slow that I wonder if they are on the Moon. When did you try last time? They

Re: [Commons-l] [wikiteam-discuss:699] "Tarballs" of all 2004-2012 Commons files now available at archive.org

I agree with Gerard of course, but I still think there is no contradiction between the two things: the minute, careful curation and interface improvement work on Commons; and the mass-preservation, analysis and usage of it as a dataset. They also are interests for different people with differen

Re: [Commons-l] [wikiteam-discuss:699] "Tarballs" of all 2004-2012 Commons files now available at archive.org

Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada, 14/10/2013 14:18: Internet Archive has this problem in several other topics, like its Wayback Machine, there is not search engine to search the billions grabbed websites by keyword of whatever. Internet Archive is a pile of hard disks and a time capsule with backups,

Re: [Commons-l] "Tarballs" of all 2004-2012 Commons files now available at archive.org

Maarten Dammers, 13/10/2013 13:50: Nice, this was really needed for https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Right_to_fork (although I hope that never happens). I wonder who is going to use it and for what. Are you keeping statistics so we can get an idea what gets downloaded and how many times? There a

[Commons-l] "Tarballs" of all 2004-2012 Commons files now available at archive.org

WikiTeam has just finished archiving all Wikimedia Commons files up to 2012 (and some more) on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons So far it's about 24 TB of archives and there are also a hundred torrents you can help seed, ranging from few hundred MB to over a TB,

Re: [Commons-l] JavaScript payload on Commons is twice English Wikipedia's

Erik Moeller, 25/09/2013 07:19: Ori Livneh has created a nice dashboard that regularly polls the Main Pages of a few of our projects to break down the amount of JavaScript (and other static assets) that's loaded for an anonymous pageview of the Main Page: https://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/?r=

[Commons-l] Google Maps/Panoramio vs. Commons

There's been some outcry lately about the removal of the Wikipedia layer from Google Maps, both by wikimedians (mainly on wikimedia-l) and Google users + wikimedians (on Google's support forums). Someone speculated that the Wikipedia/Commons layer was not popular enough because it was too hidd

[Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] It's time to reclaim the community logo

list[2] as well as on Meta[3] back in March, a small group of community members—Artur, myself, Federico Leva (Nemo) and John Vandenberg—have initiated a formal process of opposition against the registration of the trademark by the Foundation in order to *reclaim the logo* for unrestricted use by the

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