[Commons-l] Upload for large files is broken

2021-10-27 Thread Yann Forget
should be used on priority for maintaining the existing functionalities. Uploading large files used to work very well, so why has no effort been done to fix this bug? Regards, Yann Forget -- Jai Jagat 2020 Grand March Coordination Team https://www.jaijagat2020.org/ +33-780 60 90 42 +91-74 34 93 33 58

Re: [Commons-l] IRC office hours - Structured Commons - Tuesday 13 February

2018-02-13 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, Could you please say on which this will happen? Thanks, Yann Forget 2018-02-07 2:00 GMT+05:30 Keegan Peterzell : > Greetings, > > As the subject line says, there will be a Wikimedia Foundation-hosted IRC > office hours [0] this coming Tuesday, 13 February 2018, from 18:00-19

Re: [Commons-l] precautionary principle

2017-08-01 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, I agree that the "precautionary principle" has been used repeatedly to delete files while there wasn't a "significant doubt" about a copyright violation. Alas, the community has had difficulties (euphemism...) to read a sain consensus on this point. If you have any receipt for a solution, I a

Re: [Commons-l] Minimum resolution image for Commons

2017-05-25 Thread Yann Forget
Bonjour, Voici un exemple concret pour expliquer la résolution nécessaire : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pennsylvania_coal_miner.jpg 1200 × 1200 pixels est suffisant pour illustrer un article de Wikipédia, mais pas pour restaurer les défauts de la photo (les rayures sont clairement visi

Re: [Commons-l] Minimum resolution image for Commons

2017-05-23 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, 2017-05-22 22:07 GMT+02:00 geni : > On 22 May 2017 at 20:03, Yann Forget wrote: > >> geograph's 640 × 480 is the lowest widely used resolution. > > > > Any that small resolution should be refused nowadays. > > > > Regards, > > > > Ya

Re: [Commons-l] Minimum resolution image for Commons

2017-05-22 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, 2017-05-21 18:51 GMT+02:00 geni : > On 21 May 2017 at 12:38, Flor Méchain wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I am in touch with a museum that is thinking of uploading images to > Commons. > > They are a bit uncertain about uploading high resolution, but I told them > > the resolution they need to upl

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

2015-08-30 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, I can only say that I agree 100% with Steinsplitter. Yann 2015-08-29 15:39 GMT+02:00 Steinsplitter Wiki : > Wikidata needs to ask the Commons Community before doing commons related > changes. > > It is so hard to understand what the wikidata people like to do with > commons. Tons of text, har

Re: [Commons-l] images

2014-08-31 Thread Yann Forget
e images specifically is that the key part of their > project was the great difficulty in identifying and extracting the images > from the books. . . > > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Yann Forget wrote: >> >> I think it would be better to have the whole books, r

Re: [Commons-l] images

2014-08-30 Thread Yann Forget
I think it would be better to have the whole books, rather than images out of context. Regards, Yann 2014-08-29 15:04 GMT+05:30 Gerard Meijssen : > Hoi, > This article is of both interest to Commons and Wikipedia.. It is awesome. > Thanks, > GerardM > > http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-289

Re: [Commons-l] The tragedy of Commons

2014-06-26 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, 2014-06-25 0:54 GMT+05:30 Rama Neko : > The question of deleted images on Commons is exactly isomorphic to the > various Wikipedias refusing to host copy-pasted material taken from Cthulhu > knows where. And I have never heard anybody suggest that Wikipedia would be > more "reliable" is it ac

Re: [Commons-l] The tragedy of Commons

2014-06-26 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, 2014-06-24 22:04 GMT+05:30 Nathan : > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Chris McKenna wrote: >> >> On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Magnus Manske wrote: >> >>> 2. It means other projects can use files form Commons. Nowhere it states >>> that Commons has to take whatever Wikipedias feel like storing the

Re: [Commons-l] The tragedy of Commons

2014-06-21 Thread Yann Forget
Hi Rama, Sorry, but you have it all wrong. 1. Wikimedia is a repository for other Wikimedia projects. It is its primary mission. 2. But this does not make Commons contributors second-class. On the opposite, importing and managing files for other projects make them first-class IMHO. ;oD Yann 2

Re: [Commons-l] The tragedy of Commons

2014-06-20 Thread Yann Forget
o serve Wikipedia projects, not to antagonize them, like it is the case. I think users of the Hebrew Wikipedia has the right to know and to say what they think about what affects them. Yann > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Yann Forget wrote: >> Suite of the drama. >> >> A re

Re: [Commons-l] The tragedy of Commons

2014-06-20 Thread Yann Forget
olution is not found. Regards, Yann 2014-06-17 5:05 GMT+05:30 Yann Forget : > Hi, > > Some Commons contributors like to ask impossible requirements, and > threaten to delete files if these are not met. We have now a case of > famous pictures from the government of Israel and Israel

[Commons-l] The tragedy of Commons

2014-06-16 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, Some Commons contributors like to ask impossible requirements, and threaten to delete files if these are not met. We have now a case of famous pictures from the government of Israel and Israel Defense Forces. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Matanya#Files_and_pages_that_were_delete

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikimedia-l] A decision in Commons regarding URAA affected files

2014-04-04 Thread Yann Forget
://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Massive_restoration_of_deleted_images_by_the_URAA 2014-04-04 2:02 GMT+05:30 Robinson Tryon : > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Yann Forget wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Well, it doesn't go so easily. Some Commons admins refuse to accept the >> community de

Re: [Commons-l] [Wikimedia-l] A decision in Commons regarding URAA affected files

2014-04-03 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, Well, it doesn't go so easily. Some Commons admins refuse to accept the community decision, and want to maintain the status quo inspite of the huge majority of opinions for supporting this. They are usually the most vocal and bold admins. Some admins are supporting it, some are afraid to go ag

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

2013-10-16 Thread Yann Forget
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 Regards, Yann 2013/10/13 Federico Leva (Nemo) > WikiTeam has just finished archiving a

Re: [Commons-l] Priorities for copyright and freedom (was: Copyright of deep space objects)

2012-09-18 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, Oh, there already was a wishlist, and it is quite funny to see how fast it is already party obsolete. I think that # Buy the Encyclopaedia Britannica is not necessary any more. We have a better free encyclopedia. ;o) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Copyright_wishlist Regards, Yann 2012/9

Re: [Commons-l] Priorities for copyright and freedom (was: Copyright of deep space objects)

2012-09-17 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, 2012/9/18 Michael Snow : > On 9/17/2012 5:22 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > > Personally, I would prefer that people pursue freedom of panorama before we > pursue "freedom of deep space objects". The later I would put pretty far > down the priority list, actually. How about the following agenda:

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

2009-10-23 Thread Yann Forget
Py mouss wrote: > The license of the site (http://euobserver.com/static/terms) seems to be > incompatible with the use of pictures licensed CC-BY-SA, no ? What the license of the site has to do with the image ? The site is certainly not a derivative of the image, so I don't see the relation. Re

Re: [Commons-l] Different upload systems

2009-09-18 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, Platonides wrote: > I was thinking on a FTP server where you log in with your wiki > credentials and get to a private temporary folder. You can view pending > files, delete, rename, append and create new ones (you can't read them > though, to avoid being used as a sharing service). > You ar

Re: [Commons-l] TIFF support is coming!

2009-09-12 Thread Yann Forget
Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > The objectivehere is NOT to have PNG but to support TIFF. This is what > gets us credibility with our partners. This is what gives us the > provenance that we care about representing material as it has been given > to us. In this urging the use of PNG in stead of T

Re: [Commons-l] Archive pictures of North East Midlands, England

2009-08-11 Thread Yann Forget
Andrew Turvey wrote: >> Images on Commons need to be free in the US and the country of origin. > If I >> understand correctly, these images are from the UK, but the PD status to >> pre-1923 images only applies to US images. > > That's interesting. How does this apply to the National Portrait Galle

Re: [Commons-l] Pikiwiki project problems

2009-06-08 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, Dror Kamir wrote: >>> - People who upload images to the Pikiwiki interface sign a legally >>> binding statement in Hebrew. There is no use showing you the statement >>> unless you speak Hebrew. I can translate it, but why on earth don't you >>> trust the word of a recognized Wikimedia chapt

Re: [Commons-l] Cheap film scanners at this time?

2009-05-11 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, Michael Maggs wrote: > Flatbed scanners can be good, but only if they are of the (much more > expensive) type that has an additional light in the lid as well as under > the glass. > > Michael > > David Gerard wrote: >> 2009/5/8 Jon Davis : >> >>> Not exactly a recommendation but a sugge

[Commons-l] 26 March 2008: The world's first Document Freedom Day

2009-05-01 Thread Yann Forget
HI, I think this might interest Commons contributors. Yann Original Message Subject: [LIG] 26 March 2008: The world's first Document Freedom Day Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:58:13 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] http://documentfreedom.org/Applications Greve concl

[Commons-l] Court: Congress can't put public domain back into copyright

2009-04-06 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, This will have implications for Commons too. Regards, Yann On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:54 AM, GerardM wrote: > Hoi, > This is of sufficient merit that I do it this way. > Thanks, > GerardM > > Aan u verzonden door GerardM via Google Reader: Court: Congress can't > put public domain back i

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

2009-03-17 Thread Yann Forget
Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > A quick heads up: Image moving has been enabled for sysops per > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15842 OMG, the feature we have been waiting for 4 years!... Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.n