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

2010-09-29 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I asked for something and I love the result. Having a tool that helps us share our pictures is an important tool to make people aware about Commons as a source of material that is there to be used. Used outside of Wikipedia. I blogged about this and I changed the provided link to this YAC (ye

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

2010-09-29 Thread Magnus Manske
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 some around it; besides uploading and

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

2010-09-29 Thread Magnus Manske
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 customers interested in reusi

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

2010-09-29 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
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 customers interested in reusing files. > I like the previous position better. Perhaps we can

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

2010-09-29 Thread Magnus Manske
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 customers interested in reusing files. I'll also have a look into BBcode, and maybe InstantCommons Wikilink? Cheers, Magnus On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:0

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

2010-09-28 Thread Krinkle
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:Stockphoto.js >> >> Sincerely, >> One Of The Few (TM) > > Magnus, you are if any

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

2010-09-28 Thread Andrew Gray
On 28 September 2010 22:10, Magnus Manske wrote: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inachis_io_qtl4.jpg?withJS=MediaWiki:Stockphoto.js > > Sincerely, > One Of The Few (TM) Magnus, you are if anything the All. It's marvellous! :-) I suppose the way to go from here would be to figure out wh

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

2010-09-28 Thread Platonides
Magnus Manske wrote: > 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

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

2010-09-28 Thread Magnus Manske
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] Problems using pictures from Commons in Blogger - making it more of a stock photo repository

2010-08-25 Thread Guillaume Paumier
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 BBCode for various sizes. > > If Commons did this, it could provide cod

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

2010-08-21 Thread Platonides
Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > When I try to upload a picture I get a screen that I uploaded as a > screen shot to commons. > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot-Blogger_in_draft-Words_and_what_not_-_Create_Post_-_Mozilla_Firefox.png > Thanks. > GerardM I don't think you can li

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

2010-08-17 Thread David Gerard
On 17 August 2010 10:25, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > David Gerard, 17/08/2010 10:44: >> Hotlinking is fine, and InstantCommons is really really nice and really >> usable. > Yes, IstantCommons is great, but I wouldn't call it "really usable". We > use it on http://www.wikimedia.it and we often

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

2010-08-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
David Gerard, 17/08/2010 10:44: > On 17 August 2010 03:30, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > >> By the way, this was proposed (also) by Erik Moeller two years ago >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/31977 during a >> discussion on hotlinking >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org

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

2010-08-17 Thread David Gerard
On 17 August 2010 03:30, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Sage Ross, 16/08/2010 23:19: >> 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 BBCode for various sizes. > By the way, this

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

2010-08-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Sage Ross, 16/08/2010 23:19: > 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 BBCode for various sizes. By the way, this was proposed (also) by Erik Moeller two years ago http://arti

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

2010-08-16 Thread Sage Ross
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > The problem is not that I cannot use svg files, I cannot upload ANY files. > My problem is not solved as I had to be told where I could find this pgn. > This does not scale. > Thanks, >    GerardM > The way Flickr does things is

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

2010-08-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The problem is not that I cannot use svg files, I cannot upload ANY files. My problem is not solved as I had to be told where I could find this pgn. This does not scale. Thanks, GerardM On 16 August 2010 21:45, Bence Damokos wrote: > (On Windows at least, Blogger has a more subtle wa

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

2010-08-16 Thread Bence Damokos
(On Windows at least, Blogger has a more subtle way of preventing you from using svg files.) I see on the blog that your problem was solved, finally; and as an upside it seems that there are built in links on the description pages of Commons for the PNG versions in many sizes. Bence On Mon, Aug

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

2010-08-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When I try to upload a picture I get a screen that I uploaded as a screen shot to commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot-Blogger_in_draft-Words_and_what_not_-_Create_Post_-_Mozilla_Firefox.png Thanks. GerardM On 16 August 2010 21:37, Bence Damokos wrote: > Hi, > Can

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

2010-08-16 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi, Can you describe your problem and the steps to reproduce it? It seems that Blogger doesn't support SVG images (you cannot use its uploader to upload a svg or to hotlink to one; you can of course edit the HTML of the post and hope for the best – it will not show the image in its wysywig editor i

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

2010-08-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Blogger is the platform I use now for many years to blog about the subjects that are important in my appreciation of a Wiki world. At first I did not illustrate my blogposts but thanks to Pfctdayelise I started to pepper my blog posts with illustrations. At this moment it is no longer possibl