Re: [Commons-l] Rotated images

2011-12-06 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
for RotateBot? Thanks. ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list

Re: [Commons-l] Al Jazeera in Flickr goes cc-by-sa

2011-11-23 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons

Re: [Commons-l] GOOD: The Most Important Occupy Wall Street Photographer You've Never Heard of

2011-10-29 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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

2011-10-14 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
. - d. ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l

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

2011-10-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
seem to prefer all rights reserved images (including this blog post), or they don't care. Nemo ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne

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

2011-10-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
make me work harder to take more photos upload more to Commons! Hell yes! -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Re: [Commons-l] Proposed custom wikitext license feature for UploadWizard

2011-09-18 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
, they don't have every license that Wikimedia Commons uses. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

[Commons-l] UploadWizard with instant previews on commons.prototype

2011-06-13 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
There aren't a lot of other bugs fixed at this moment -- rest assured they are on the agenda... -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
seem as concerned about the real incidents of censorship on our projects. +1000 -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
interest. It's possible to make erotic images in this genre that are worth defending, even as candidates for the Main Page, but this certainly wasn't one of them, IMHO. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l

Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons (reverted back)

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
that the captions are now all wrong in other languages -- some of them were updated in the meantime to reflect the Amazonian image.) -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Commons-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
Examples of files that are not realistically useful for an educational purpose: [...] * Self-created artwork without obvious educational use. QED. Someone else cross-post this to Foundation-L... I have assiduously avoided subscribing there and don't plan to now. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ne

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

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
or unofficially, they can start to take that role too seriously or become captured by various radical factions. But I guess we have to take that chance. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

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

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
CENSORED or DAMN YOU AMERICANS AND YOUR BLUENOSE STANDARDS I'm going to have to file you in the troll folder. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Commons-l] Spec for Geolocator widget

2011-03-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
to be have something that can go live to many users by the end of this month. See the other post I'm making about UploadWizard's release. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Commons-l] UploadWizard roll-out

2011-03-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
project to you? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Re: [Commons-l] UploadWizard roll-out

2011-03-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
contact the uploaders in question, if possible, and just ask them what they thought they were doing? (I'm assuming most copyvio is done in good faith). -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l

Re: [Commons-l] Spec for Geolocator widget

2011-03-03 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
that this rapidly gets kind of hard, and definitely hard to support in all our target browsers. Anyway if you see easy answers to all this, please post them here... -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l

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

2011-02-27 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
could be nicer. The tone of its messages could be improved, but more importantly, we need to reduce the need for there to even be nagging messages. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

2011-02-22 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Commons-l] Social sharing widget

2010-10-07 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
not clear to me that this brings the wrong audience to Wikimedia projects. It's not like this site is a secret or anything. ;) -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

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

2010-10-06 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
the various share icons into one popup is probably the most extensible / least annoying. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Re: [Commons-l] Suggestion: Improve Panoramic viewer

2010-09-17 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
decisions about tools. I myself have raised questions about (for instance) our decision to never use Flash, even if we use a 100% free toolchain. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Commons-l] Suggestion: Improve Panoramic viewer

2010-09-17 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
://www.mail-archive.com/wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org/msg08550.html On 9/17/10 2:25 PM, Michael Dale wrote: On 09/17/2010 12:24 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: Discussions about using closed source tools are not taboo. Not at all, I think we should continue to review decisions about tools. I myself

Re: [Commons-l] Suggestion: Improve Panoramic viewer

2010-09-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
be working on - how can we fund the software we want to have - rather than looking for some compromise with proprietary software, which we know will come back to haunt us. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l

Re: [Commons-l] Suggestion: Improve Panoramic viewer

2010-09-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 9/16/10 11:02 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: Also, if we know that all of our software and data can be replicated without limit Oh and I forgot a very large benefit: this greatly reduces our exposure to any lawsuits based on software or patents. Anyway, I know you are really just advocating

Re: [Commons-l] Add this at Commons

2010-08-26 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
to the image page at Commons. This would be a great way to promote reuse of our content! Maarten ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l -- Neil Kandalgaonkar (| ne

Re: [Commons-l] Preferred licenses

2010-07-22 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
users set a preferred license for their own uploads, where it's their own work. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

[Commons-l] Preferred licenses

2010-07-20 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
even finished uploading this one. If it turns out that we have to ask them about this explicitly, I'd rather leave that to the end of the process. [1] http://commons.prototype.wikimedia.org/ -- this is JUST a prototype, we're changing a lot -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) ne...@wikimedia.org

[Commons-l] Photography platforms, case study: Flickr and astronomy

2010-03-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
/ In my view there isn't anything that Flickr is doing which Commons couldn't be doing. And as much as I have faith in the Flickr team, I have doubts about whether Yahoo is the right place, long term, for the world to be relying on for such resources. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Commons-l] Neil K intro / Photography Platforms

2010-03-16 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
. (It's unclear to me whether metadata like the astrotags is also CC-licensed.) FYI, as mentioned above, I used to work at Flickr and had a stint in the rest of Yahoo as well. Those blog posts of mine that I linked to were on the Flickr developer blog. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.org