This is great! I've been hoping for this feature for a while! Thanks to the Structured Data team for implementing this, and also thanks to Multichill for adding all the license data via his BotMultichillT bot.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 6:27 AM Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l <commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
(I've also posted this text on the main Commons Village Pump)

Greetings,

The Structured Data team has released licensing filters for Special:MediaSearch [0]. When looking for files you can now narrow or expand your choices by deciding what free license permissions you would like to work with, or use to share with particular reuse parameters.

* All licenses
* Use with attribution
* Use with attribution and same license
* No restrictions
* Other

Please give it a try, and leave feedback on the feature or anything else about the new search in general [1] to let the team know how you like it or how it can be further improved.

Additionally, there is a quick survey available on the MediaSearch project page [2] about search preference. The survey is available to logged-in and anonymous users, but is only available to be taken once–it should disappear after filling it out. However, the survey is cookie-based so it will reappear again if you use another browser. Anonymized survey results will be published on-wiki soon after the survey closes. The survey is hosted on-wiki, and the privacy statement [3] is available.

The Structured Data team looks forward to what people think about the new feature for MediaSearch, and their preferences for search in general. This information will help to continue to improve the experience of trying to find the media that is being curated here. Thanks for your time, I'll be posting some short followup reminders about the survey over the next few weeks.


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Keegan Peterzell (he/him)
Technical Collaboration Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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