Re: [Commons-l] Help needed

Hi Jora, did you consider creating Wikidata items for the buildings? That would give you * a list of buildings to work on * a map of these (see [1]) * the ability to store, and query on, metadata (e.g. year build) I have no idea if you have any of this metadata, or how easy it would be to get it.

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

Some quick thoughts from me. I, too, find the Facebook/Medium discussion reroute unfortunate (I'm not even on Facebook), though it might help attract some more newcomers. I'm sure we can find a suitable place to discuss this on-wiki, and there should be an appropriate link for that. As for the ac

Re: [Commons-l] Some help needed

One option (old, unmaintained code, no support, no warranty, good luck) would be my attempt at parsing this: https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/commonsapi.php On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 2:11 PM Hugo Manguinhas < hugo.manguin...@europeana.eu> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am new to the Commons API a

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Pebble smartwatch tool for finding Wikipedia photo opportunities

*cough* https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 12:30 PM wrote: > I made something that I think it´s good find you but I prefer you white me > in Spanish because my English id very bad thanks you. > > -- > *De: *"Pine W" > *Para: *"mobile-l" ,

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

x27;m traveling or out and about. If I relied > only on wikishootme when I went for my long bike ride Tuesday, I would have > spent a lot of time going to places that actually already had photos > despite what wikishootme said, which makes it a not-very-useful tool. > > Luis > >

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

ind of tool. Just saying it's not > the solution for wikishootme :) > > Luis > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:51 AM Magnus Manske > wrote: > >> What doesn't load - wikishootme or wdfist? The latter is really not >> intended for mobile, with hover buttons and

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

What doesn't load - wikishootme or wdfist? The latter is really not intended for mobile, with hover buttons and all. On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:38 PM Luis Villa wrote: > FWIW, this doesn't work for me on mobile (at least on Firefox for Android) > - beyond the clunky UI, results never load. So it'

Re: [Commons-l] Does anyone know...

thanks :-) On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Jeremy Baron wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Magnus Manske > wrote: > > Except it's not in the interwiki table either. > > it sure is there: > > MariaDB [commonswiki_p]> select * from page,iwlinks where &

Re: [Commons-l] Does anyone know...

Ah, nevermind, it's not in the /language link/ table; there is another one /iwlinks/ which seems to have this... Cheers, On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Jeremy Baron > wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 20

Re: [Commons-l] Does anyone know...

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Jeremy Baron wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Magnus Manske > wrote: > > ... how this: > > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburgh_Castle_-_06.jpg > > > > can contain a link to Wikidata, but this: >

[Commons-l] Does anyone know...

... how this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburgh_Castle_-_06.jpg can contain a link to Wikidata, but this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=www.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FQ17570962 does not find the link? (not a "protocol spelling" issue; I

Re: [Commons-l] Evacuation

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Petr Kadlec wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Magnus Manske < > magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> An attempt to alleviate the tensions caused by file deletions on Commons: >> >> http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=

Re: [Commons-l] Evacuation

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Pierre-Selim wrote: > Thank you a lot Magnus, you just showed the real problem with Wikimedia > Commons: the software! > > Yes! Right! Who's the moron who wrote that piece of ju... oh wait... ;-) ___ Commons-l mailing li

[Commons-l] Evacuation

An attempt to alleviate the tensions caused by file deletions on Commons: http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=218 ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Re: [Commons-l] The tragedy of Commons

>From https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope "Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to all. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia

Re: [Commons-l] [GLAM] Wellcome Trust CC-BY images

014/1/21 Edward Summers > >> oops, I forgot: >> >> [1] >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2014-January/007014.html >> >> On Jan 21, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Edward Summers wrote: >> >> > On Jan 21, 2014, at 11:53 AM, Magnus Manske <

Re: [Commons-l] [GLAM] Wellcome Trust CC-BY images

So, we have the following options: 1. Ignore them (pity) 2. Upload them as public domain and re-iterate the National Portrait Gallery issue, and teach them that these open content wiki people are not to be trusted 3. Label them CC-BY so the Wellcome Trust can get a mandatory attribution, which we

Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

Complex queries on wikidata are possible to find what you want, albeit not with wikidata itself (yet). Meanwhile: Visual query builder : http://208.80.153.172/wdq/ API : http://208.80.153.172/api_documentation.html On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Otourly Wiki wrote: > >Thank you for the in

Re: [Commons-l] Redesigning the tag.

OK, should be fixed now. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > In this page: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Fish?withJS=MediaWiki:Newgallery.js > there is an image called *Dactylopterus > volitans

Re: [Commons-l] Redesigning the tag.

> this image has a strange behaviour: > > [image: POTY ribbon > 2007.svg]<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:POTY_ribbon_2007.svg> > > (second row of the Bony fishes, first image) > > Aubrey > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Magnus Manske < &

Re: [Commons-l] Redesigning the tag.

Implementation in JavaScript: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Fish?withJS=MediaWiki:Newgallery.js Good: * Works. Bad: * Needs to load thumbnails twice (for hi-res versions). * Excessive API usage for getting hi-res thumbnails, but could be grouped for multiple

Re: [Commons-l] Anybody able to help with database query?

Actually, it failed after some hours (twice!) with a strange "server not found" error or some such, not a timeout (as would be traditional for the toolserver;-) Query: select /* SLOW_OK */ page_title from page where page_is_redirect=0 and page_namespace=6 and not exists (select * from templatelink

Re: [Commons-l] Anybody able to help with database query?

t; *From:* commons-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: > commons-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Magnus Manske > *Sent:* Saturday, April 20, 2013 1:49 PM > *To:* Wikimedia Commons Discussion List > *Subject:* Re: [Commons-l] Anybody able to help with database query? &

Re: [Commons-l] Anybody able to help with database query?

I'm running it on the toolserver now. Very slow going. On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. < jaroslaw.w.tuszyn...@saic.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > ** ** > > For last month I am trying to find someone that can run a database query > for me. I asked about it at http

[Commons-l] ALAC is open source

The Apple Lossless Audio Codec has been released under Apache license 2.0: http://alac.macosforge.org/trac/wiki Something to add to the Commons file format portfolio? Do we support FLAC already? ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org h

Re: [Commons-l] Blog entry about finding free images

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > Google has a standard for us to tell them the license, in the extended > Sitemap syntax for images, linked to above. That's what we should do, > because it would make that information available to Google, and > potentially to any other s

[Commons-l] Blog entry about finding free images

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/how-to-find-free-pictures-for-your-blog/ Guess which site with lots of free images is not mentioned...? We /seriously/ need to do more PR (viral or otherwise) for Commons! ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedi

Re: [Commons-l] File comments and favourites : an experiment

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Gnangarra wrote: > First impression I like :) > > I gather if a comment is unwelcome it can be removed by editing the talk > page history, if the talk page is protected does that prevent the addition > of comments or favourites? It does, for both. Pity for the fa

Re: [Commons-l] File comments and favourites : an experiment

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Béria Lima wrote: > Where the comments stay? In > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/My_file_comments there > are only one entry and in the file are 6 or 7. Those are only the logs for my personal use. The actual comments are on the file talk pa

[Commons-l] File comments and favourites : an experiment

The foundation mailing list recently discussed "Like"-buttons for articles, to improve community building and attract new editors. I thought about improving Commons for the less-techie community. So I looked at Flickr, and the "community" part on image pages consists mainly of comments and favouri

Re: [Commons-l] Negative scanning (again)

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Daniel Schwen wrote: >>> I asked on this list a few years about negative scanning. The topic's >>> come up again at http://saveaussiemusic.org/ , so I wrote this up: > > I have quite a bunch of slides myself. And I was wondering how the > slide scanners stack up ag

[Commons-l] Commons Commander rewrite

Example for the impatient: (currently limited to Commons logged-in users only; tested in Chrome, Firefox, Safari; wide screen is a

Re: [Commons-l] Call for meta data for CommonsHelper2

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Linar Khalitov wrote: >>Hi, >> >>the CommonsHelper 2 needs for working meta data which describes the transfer >>rules and other project specified things. >> >>I want to call for updating/creating this data: >>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CommonsHelper2 . > > Ok,

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

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > As a proponent of agile development, I would actually suggest not > worrying about non-Flickr transfers for a first iteration. Most of the > non-Flickr cases can be adequately supported by bots and manual > uploading in the meantime. If we cou

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

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > I agree, but whenever I'm going to do this, I am going to make a > generic interface for sites that can output metadata in a structured > way. This means that Flickr, Picassa and others can be easily > supported, but that MediaWiki will on

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

gt; September 2010, over 80k images have been uploaded via this bot. In > addition over 50k images have been uploaded via a similar bot by > Magnus Manske. > > Unfortunately as you may know, every other day those tools break (mine > more than Magnus'). Both have an annoying authenti

Re: [Commons-l] Extension:Tags-idea (was: Active projects on Commons)

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Krinkle wrote: > Op 29 okt 2010, om 15:29 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven: > >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Gerard Meijssen >> wrote: >>> Hoi, >>> Typically I am happy with hacks but this is an exception.

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Typically I am happy with hacks but this is an exception. The terminology > used in the categories are not optimal. The use of plural, the use of latin > names for organisms.. It is better for people to add new tags because > otherwi

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Krinkle wrote: > So [[Tag:Blume]] would never appear in wiki-text. Instead > [[Tag:Flower]] or [[Tag:100]] (depending > on the sytem we decide to use). And in sidebar (and whereever else > tag_i18n is consulted) the currect language > appears. [[Tag:Flower]] would

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Krinkle wrote: > Op 29 okt 2010, om 14:51 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven: > >> Multilanguage tags, as well as synonyms, could simply be implemented >> as #REDIRECTs, maybe. [[Tag:Blume]] would redirect to [[Tag:Flower]], >>

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > 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

Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:32 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 29 October 2010 02:11, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > >> The debate I see on Commons and elsewhere focuses on trying to fix >> Categories, but frankly IMO it would be better to migrate them to some >> other systems entirely. > > > :Let me pre

[Commons-l] NPG, reloaded?

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Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

as well. >> >> Promoting reuse is one of the primary functions of Wikimedia Commons, so >> we ought to make it as easy and visible as possible. >> >> >> > Op 6 okt 2010, om 22:24 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven: >> >> Also, I had added a bu

Re: [Commons-l] Nice icons...

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Paul Houle wrote: >  I was just browsing wikimedia.org and saw some new icons on the side > of the image on: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marmolejo_summit_cone_on_the_edge_of_collapsed_caldera_close_up_chile_rm.jpg > > These say "Download",  "Use this

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

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Bryan Tong Minh > wrote: >> 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 so

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

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > 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

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

at 1:04 AM, Krinkle wrote: > Or both :-) > > Op 29 sep 2010, om 01:07 heeft Andrew Gray het volgende geschreven: > >> On 28 September 2010 22:10, Magnus Manske >> wrote: >> >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inachis_io_qtl4.jpg?withJS=MediaWiki:Sto

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

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: > Hi, > > Le lundi 16 août 2010 à 17:19 -0400, Sage Ross a écrit : > >> The way Flickr does things is a good comparison.  They have a "share >> this" pulldown, with options to share by email, share by long or short >> url, and HTML and BBCo

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikisource-l] Dublin Core and TEI

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > On 07/16/2010 03:03 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: >> This is also a problem with Wikimedia Commons. >> >> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Dublin_Core > > It would take 5 minutes to implement the suggested support > for "Dublin core"

Re: [Commons-l] Wiki(p|m)edia page display on iPad

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Cary Bass wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/15/2010 02:30 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> since there's already several million iPad (and soon, other >> tablet) users out there,

[Commons-l] Wiki(p|m)edia page display on iPad

Hi all, since there's already several million iPad (and soon, other tablet) users out there, I thought I'd try one in the Apple store to see what Wikipedia looks/feels like. Generally, I think it's very nice, with one exception. In "portrait" mode, the sidebar takes up a lot of real estate. Especi

Re: [Commons-l] Files per decade

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > Maarten Dammers wrote: >> Op 19-5-2010 13:45, Lars Aronsson schreef: >>> I tried to parse the year, I was successful for 3.5 million files. >>> (Maybe I didn't try very hard.) >> I guess you used a regex. Which one exactly? Or did you publis

Re: [Commons-l] Files per decade

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Platonides wrote: > Magnus Manske wrote: >>> And the graph is found on >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Commons_files_per_decade.png >> >> ...using date format "19 May 2010" :-) > > Fail. Se

Re: [Commons-l] Files per decade

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > The ideal format is the > ISO date format -MM-DD, but this is not always followed. > And the graph is found on > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Commons_files_per_decade.png ...using date format "19 May 2010" :-)

Re: [Commons-l] About MediaWiki:Main_page_thumbnail_cycler.js

e that additional Ajax request by > using something like this: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/thumb.php?f=Example.jpg&w=100 > > -- > Greetings, > Krinkle > > Op 16 mei 2010, om 17:04 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven: > >> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:02

Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:35 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 16 May 2010 16:04, Magnus Manske wrote: > >> Sorry, should be: >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?withJS=MediaWiki:Main_page_thumbnail_cycler.js > > > Nice idea, a bit broken in Vector - overlaps t

Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:35 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 16 May 2010 16:04, Magnus Manske wrote: > >> Sorry, should be: >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?withJS=MediaWiki:Main_page_thumbnail_cycler.js > > > Nice idea, a bit broken in Vector - overlaps

Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Gnangarra wrote: >> Does the page need any of the banners on the main page, loosing these would >> bring all the information up the page. >> >> Could there be a Java sript box to

Re: [Commons-l] About the current Commons homepage

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Gnangarra wrote: > Does the page need any of the banners on the main page, loosing these would > bring all the information up the page. > > Could there be a Java sript box to cycle through a few images rather than > just one. Hacked something: http://commons.wikim

[Commons-l] Lightworks Video editor to become open source later this year

This could be a boom for Commons videos! http://ostatic.com/blog/powerful-video-editor-lightworks-released-as-open-source ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Re: [Commons-l] sitenotice

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > My interface is English and I do not see a green sitenotice .. Are you on secure.wikimedia.org? I don't see it either on secure/logged in, but I do see it on commons.wikimedia.org when logged out. Magnus _

Re: [Commons-l] Broken videos

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > Magnus Manske wrote: >> You mean like you marked them as "speedy-delete" because your browser >> doesn't like them? > > I'm still convinced there is something strange > with these two videos. I

Re: [Commons-l] Broken videos

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > This past weekend, at the SXSW conference, a new initiative > was launched to "get video on Wikipedia", > http://videoonwikipedia.org/ > > That sounds like a great idea. > > (I wasn't there, but I was told.) > > But among the first videos to

[Commons-l] Rudimentary tagging system for Commons, in place, right now

Now that I have your attention :-) I've cooked up a simple tagging system for Commons. It uses the category system by prefixing tag "categories" with TAG, e.g. [[Category:TAG:Flower]]. TAG categories will be "flat", so intersections are easy. Merging of equivalent tags could later be possible thro

Re: [Commons-l] Commons has reached 6 million files

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Michael Peel wrote: > Yes, it would be nice if these were higher resolution images (does > anyone actually know why they are only 640x480 - uploader choice, or > resized upon upload?) http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/Larger-Uploads-Information

[Commons-l] AmalGLAMate

I'll just leave this here :-) http://toolserver.org/~magnus/amalglamate.php ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Hi guys, > > Bryan Tong Minh schreef: >> 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. >>> >>>

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

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Hi Magnus, > > Magnus Manske schreef: >> Excellent! My GLAM reporter already works much better: >> http://toolserver.org/~magnus/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=Images+from+the+German+Federal+Archive&use_globalus

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

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > 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 c

Re: [Commons-l] External click logging

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Magnus Manske schreef: >> This will "capture" all external link clicks within the page content, >> tell the toolserver about it, and then load the intended page. > Something else: Is the

[Commons-l] External click logging

Hi all, as promised on the meeting, I wrote a small JavaScript/Toolserver setup that can log clicks on Commons leading to external pages. This requires JavaScript to be active, but that should be the case with the "normal" (read: not-geek) population. If JavaScript is turned off or not available,

Re: [Commons-l] Commons Commander

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Michael Dale wrote: > I like it :) ... would be neat to package it as a gadget or some client > side javascript that could be used in commons directly with your login > credentials. I'd like that. Which raises the following questions: * When will JQuery & JQuery

[Commons-l] Commons Commander

Dear Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and Media-on-Wikis-interested, with the Paris multimedia meeting looming ahead, I finally got around to write some software I planned to do for some time, but never could muster quite enough incentive for. It is a JavaScript (JQuery)-based file management tool for Common

Re: [Commons-l] Wikimedia as stock photo source

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:14 PM, David Gerard wrote: > Is anyone keeping track of these? Try http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FUser%3A%22+-site%3Awikimedia.org+-site%3Awikipedia.org&btnG=Search&meta= for an estimate...

Re: [Commons-l] Commons images loop video

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Daniel Schwen, 22/09/2009 14:45: >> This is neat. Needs randomizing, noscroll, wait until images are fully >> loaded, opacity/fading, Ken Burnsing(?) > > But still it's great (and sooo quick). Thank you, Magnus! I turned randomization

Re: [Commons-l] Commons images loop video

Quick hack: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/browser_saver.php?category=Featured%20pictures%20on%20Wikimedia%20Commons Best viewed in full-screen mode. Tested in Firefox only. Cheers, Magnus On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Do you know if there's a script or somet

[Commons-l] Sync videos and PDFs

Hi all, I am looking at the Wikimania videos right now - great stuff! I noticed that many talks have the slides uploaded as PDFs as well, where we can browse to individual pages within the PDF. Also, I noticed that there is a large blank space right of a playing video. So, why not have the app

[Commons-l] CommonsHelper 2

Hi all, this is a tool announcement for my second version of CommonsHelper. You can find it at http://toolserver.org/~magnus/commonshelper2.php My original CommonsHelper has been a true workhorse, shoveling over a quarter of a million files to Commons from other Wikimedia projects. But, it had so

Re: [Commons-l] Google Images now has Creative Commons search

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:32 AM, David Gerard wrote: > http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-07-09-n80.html Sweet! Now, if only their API would support that... ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/l

Re: [Commons-l] Picasa has Creative Commons search!

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:56 AM, David Gerard wrote: > http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-06-11-n19.html Nice! I've added an option to my FIST [1] image search tool. Unfortunately, there is no search for a precise CC license, so you can end up with NC ones as well. Cheers, Magnus [1] http://t

Re: [Commons-l] Pikiwiki project problems

I haven't been involved in this, but I'll add my 2 Eurocent... On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Dror Kamir wrote: > - The upload bot uses a standard Commons' template. I didn't see any > rigid rules about how this template should be filled in. We did our best > to fill it in properly. In any case,

Re: [Commons-l] Wiki-to-playlist

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Platonides wrote: > Magnus Manske wrote: >> My latest toy can convert a wiki page a wiki-markup OGG file list to a >> M3U playlist on the fly: >> >> http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wiki2playlist.php >> >> Example wiki playlis

[Commons-l] Wiki-to-playlist

My latest toy can convert a wiki page a wiki-markup OGG file list to a M3U playlist on the fly: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wiki2playlist.php Example wiki playlist: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/playlist Works quite well with VLC... Cheers, Magnus _

[Commons-l] VLC 1.0 RC with Dirac encoder

It seems that the VLC media player is now available as V1.0 release candidate, featuring (among other things) a Dirac encoder. How's our Dirac support these days? ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailm

Re: [Commons-l] National Gallery of Australia - 2 issues

2009/3/22 Liam Wyatt : > Our insistence that "we > don't have to, it's PD" only makes us look silly and them less likely to > want to work with us. Meeting their requirements would be a good thing to > do. > So, I ask that when we copy images from galleries/museums/libraries, or even > when we take

Re: [Commons-l] Upload-by-URL for test.wikipedia.org

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > In addition to being able to handle large files without an ugly manual > download+reupload, the upload-by-URL functionality is also needed for > future-facing work Michael Dale is working on to allow an on-wiki media > picker to fetch freely-

Re: [Commons-l] Image moving enabled for sysops

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: > 2009/3/17 Bryan Tong Minh : >> A quick heads up: Image moving has been enabled for sysops per >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15842 > > Oh, excellent. Is there somewhere central we can submit images that > need retitling? Ther

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikitech-l] License information

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Brianna Laugher schrieb: >> >> I agree that it makes a lot of sense. But because it would be a big >> change, I fear that unless the lead developers show great enthusiasm >> for the idea, it will take a very long time to be accepted and >> c

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikitech-l] License information (was: PDF/Collection feature live on de.wikibooks)

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Brianna Laugher wrote: > 2009/1/30 Johannes Beigel : >> On 29.01.2009, at 13:48, Brianna Laugher wrote: >> > On Wikimedia Commons a little bit of work has been done to this end: >> > >> >> We've been aware

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

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Platonides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lars Aronsson wrote: >> Maybe we should turn the system around, so our Swedish newcomers >> can upload images to the Swedish Wikipedia, where they are >> patrolled by Swedish speaking admins. Then, the patrolled images >> can b

[Commons-l] Category intersections tool

As a spinoff of the discussion of category intersections on wikitech-l, I have ported my toolserver-powered JavaScript add-on to Commons. Screenshot: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Category_intersection_screenshot.png The tool will add a new link beneath the category list of a page. A cl

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

Congratulations to this fantastic deal! Great work! Now, let's continue feeding the BArchBot :-) Magnus On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Mathias Schindler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Commonists, > > Starting on Thursday Dec 4, Wikimedia Commons will witness a massive > upload of new image

Re: [Commons-l] Support for Chemical Markup Language

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Eugene Zelenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:58 PM, geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/11/26 Eugene Zelenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Just re-incarnation of old idea to support 3D image of chemical >>> structures... I