Romaine Wiki wrote:
Hi all,
Great news!
Freedom of panorama has been voted today in the Belgian parliament.
A mayority voted in favour of freedom of panorama, including commercial use.
Congratulations! Really great news indeed.
Soon images of artworks and modern buildings in Belgium can
On 08/07/12 19:21, Seth Woodworth wrote:
The argument you are making are focused on copyright, but when you are
more specific, you seem to be desiring attribution, and want to ensure
that that attribution is legally enforceable. Please forgive me if I am
putting words in your mouth.
--Seth
Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
- How to monitor how this changes what gets uploaded, does it increase
copyvio, etc. Obviously if this starts to increase we want to pull back
and reassess.
You have to take a 0 measurement now to be able to compare. Define
critical success factors, measure, deploy,
Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
This is a good thing to watch for, but I don't see how it relates to the
idea of having share buttons.
Wikimedia projects already have towering, monumental PageRank. And our
URLs can already be submitted to social media, and there are obvious
opportunities for
Gnangarra wrote:
I just trialed the form
How does one abort the upload process if at the license stage they dont
have the information, without it we are going to end with 1,000's of
media with false licensing.
If they do what I just did and that is click on the main page icon or
another
Gnangarra wrote:
Admins have always look unfavourably at deletion request because the
loader says they didnt intend releasing the work for commercial use or
thought they were only releasing for educational use or some other
reason, we can do that because the person made the choice with each
Paul Houle wrote:
Hi, I'm looking for the API call can be used to get the File Usage On
Other Wikis that is commonly seen on pages in commons.wikimedia.org,
for example, near the bottom of:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Almogaren_roquebentayga.jpg
Cary Bass wrote:
Hi all:
Dan Watts, who is helping Mike Godwin here in our San Francisco office,
has drafted some templates to be used for DMCA takedown notices, as well
as some DMCA counterclaims.
As these impact Commons as much as any one Wikimedia community, it is
our hope that
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Daniel Schwen wrote:
Maybe we should try to detect the language with javascript and offer the
choice that we guess is right, with the others hidden under a scroll.
Just added that functionality to Mediawiki:MainPages.js
I'm sure it could use a bit more love.
A link is added to the Welcome
Daniel Schwen wrote:
It should fallback to javascript vieweer in case there's no javascript
support.
Huh?
*Ahem*, it should fallback to javascript viewer in case there's no flash
support.
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Daniel Schwen wrote:
I seriously doubt that it causes _noticeable_ lack of fidelity. I
think it should work with only one conversion step in any case, as the
TIF contains jpg tiles. In theory it should even work without any
conversions as it should be possible to tile the raw jpg block data. I
Guillaume Paumier wrote:
Dear all,
As part of the Multimedia usability project [1], we're going to set up a
prototype environment, similar to the sandboxes used by the Wikipedia
Usability initiative [2].
Importing all of Commons into the prototype would be overkill. As a
consequence,
Daniel Schwen wrote:
Wow, fantastic :-(
So this had nothing to do with the timing of the mass-upload?
Commons has just reached 6 million files! At 10:17, January 31,
2010, Sailing_on_Ullswater_-_geograph.org.uk_-_173422.jpg became our 6
millionth file on Commons!
Well, the mass uploaded
Andrew Turvey wrote:
The EU Observer web newspaper seems to be a regular re-user of
Wikimedia images. From their current edition of stories:
http://euobserver.com/9/28853
PD-Self
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Aias_body_Akhilleus_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_1884.jpg
Michael Dale wrote:
I would add systems like Firefogg help a bit with chunked uploading
letting us accept larger files by breaking it up into 1 MB POST chunks
on the client side.
Also new-upload-api has improved http copy upload support so if the
500MB Tiff or 5GB .ogg was ftp uploaded to a
Daniel Kinzler schrieb:
Platonides schrieb:
Process? Tools?
It would just be making a 'bigupload' right for people to bypass file
size restrictions (or have a extremely high one).
Then give it to sysops or a new group.
Tell me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, the file size is limited
Alex Brollo wrote:
I'm happy from this since I currently use hotlinking from Commons into
web communities, forums and so on. More, if I have some interesting
personal picture to share into a community, and I presume that such a
picture could be useful to any other user of the web here or there
Luiz Augusto wrote:
2) The blue background is simply a blue background. You can't claim for
copyrights on a colour. If you don't see the blue background as a
background, no problem: there is
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-shape for you;
What about the blue text?
Fell free
Liam Wyatt wrote:
On 22/03/2009, at 11:57 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
An image apparently made in 1975 is not public domain, unless the
author declares it to be.
Can't tell about the other one.
The original painting is certainly NOT public domain - but what about
the copyright status of a
Анатолій Гончаров wrote:
So, we do not need BetacommandBot now, do we? And what to do with so
called trusted users ([[Commons:MediaMoveBot/CheckPage]])?
A new group with users able to move images could be created, and those
users assigned to it.
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Samuel Klein wrote:
Copying the Commons list.
I am interested in hosting (and running some scripts on) copies of the
commons media dump on offline regional servers for offline-reading
purposes. This is difficult without an image dump.
The last time I looked, I was able to find an image
Liam Wyatt wrote:
Dear All,
[cross post to commons-l and wikimediaaustralia-l]
Picture Australia is interested in adding Commons photos to their
service but has several technical issues they would like to resolve
first. Can we help?
Picture Australia is an archive aggregation service
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
Why is Commons ticker not active on the English Language Wikipedia ?
Thanks,
GerardM
The toolserver didn't have an up to date db of enwiki. It was then fixed
but seems it wasn't added (and now enwiki replag is high again after the
toolserver maintenance!).
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Michael Maggs wrote:
(1) That the ideas in this thread be captured, and copied to Commons
under a new project page called (eg) Commons: Outreach.
What can we learn from this? We must change the people and the
way they work, not create new institutions.
I think
Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
The problem that the Jmol extension worked with 1.12 but not with recent
versions has been fixed. That is now in the latest svn release of Jmol.
This has just been announced on the jmol e-mail list. I was the one who
raised the issue of jmol on wikipedia in response to
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