Re: [Commons-l] Typical sample of our content

2010-02-03 Thread Platonides
Guillaume Paumier wrote: > Hi, > > Platonides a écrit : >> What are you going to test there? >> For many usages you could just use commons as repository, so you >> wouldn't need to "import" anything. > > At some point we will work on the file description page, for example. Or > basic editing too

Re: [Commons-l] Typical sample of our content

2010-02-03 Thread geni
On 3 February 2010 22:13, Caroline Ford wrote: > But not video, audio, animated diagrams.. > The science museum and it's sub cats should contain at least two videos. -- geni ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wiki

Re: [Commons-l] Typical sample of our content

2010-02-03 Thread Caroline Ford
But not video, audio, animated diagrams.. On 3 February 2010 22:05, geni wrote: > On 3 February 2010 22:01, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > > I think the museum categories are *one* interesting group of pretty > uniform content. > > > > -- daniel > > They provide a range of image sizes and licenses. Fo

Re: [Commons-l] Typical sample of our content

2010-02-03 Thread geni
On 3 February 2010 22:01, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > I think the museum categories are *one* interesting group of pretty uniform > content. > > -- daniel They provide a range of image sizes and licenses. Formats are harder. A few vids but yes SVG and djvu is limited. -- geni __

Re: [Commons-l] Typical sample of our content

2010-02-03 Thread Daniel Kinzler
geni schrieb: > On 3 February 2010 21:54, Daniel Kinzler wrote: >> geni schrieb: >>> What are you looking for that hitting [[special:random/file]] as many >>> times as images are needed won't provide? >> That would give a fair sample, but not necessarily a good sample. the >> usability >> folks n

Re: [Commons-l] Typical sample of our content

2010-02-03 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, Platonides a écrit : > > What are you going to test there? > For many usages you could just use commons as repository, so you > wouldn't need to "import" anything. At some point we will work on the file description page, for example. Or basic editing tools such as crop / rotate etc. For the

Re: [Commons-l] Typical sample of our content

2010-02-03 Thread geni
On 3 February 2010 21:54, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > geni schrieb: >> >> What are you looking for that hitting [[special:random/file]] as many >> times as images are needed won't provide? > > That would give a fair sample, but not necessarily a good sample. the > usability > folks need "a few of eac

Re: [Commons-l] Typical sample of our content

2010-02-03 Thread Platonides
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 > cons

Re: [Commons-l] Typical sample of our content

2010-02-03 Thread Daniel Kinzler
geni schrieb: > > What are you looking for that hitting [[special:random/file]] as many > times as images are needed won't provide? That would give a fair sample, but not necessarily a good sample. the usability folks need "a few of each kind" for testing. getting numbers proportional to the actu

Re: [Commons-l] Typical sample of our content

2010-02-03 Thread Guillaume Paumier
geni a écrit : > > What are you looking for that hitting [[special:random/file]] as many > times as images are needed won't provide? Saving time? -- Guillaume Paumier ___ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [Commons-l] Typical sample of our content

2010-02-03 Thread geni
On 3 February 2010 20:46, 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

[Commons-l] Typical sample of our content

2010-02-03 Thread Guillaume Paumier
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, we're looking for a small subset