Hi All,
Will there be an official communiqué concerning the things that
were discussed at this conference? Some of the GLAM institutes that I am
working with would doubtlessly be interested in what’s planned for the future
where Commons is concerned.
Cheers,
Craig F.
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[mailto:commons-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gerard
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Sent: Monday, 9 November 2009 6:37 PM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List; Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
Subject: [Commons-l] Update from Paris
Hoi.
The French chapter did a wonderful job organising some of the brightest lights
that deal with Commons in one place. Many subjects were discussed and some
things were achieved.
The two (technical) things that stand out on the achieving part..
- there is now global usage for images from within
MediaWiki itself.. so no need for using the toolserver... The process of
gathering all the necessary data may now have ended..
- a first stab has been made at subtitles for video
- In the discussion there were many things I found
absolutely wonderful:
- the workflow of uploads will be reconsidered;
this means that a "working area" will exists where pictures can
have a temporary home. This will allow to upload a batch of images and tag
them all with shared attributes.. It will also allow for the checking of
known issues BEFORE they go live
- This working or staging area would also exist for
GLAMs or competitions
- A demo was given for what a competion workflow
might look like
- Pictures are now deleted when certain attributes
are wrong or missing.. When they are pushed back into the staging area, we
are less nasty and allow for cooperation
- Social networking tools help us support newbies,
resolve issues in a quiet way.. This helps us realise our objectives;
write an encyclopaedia, build a kick arse freely licensed resource of
multi media
- there is a mailing list for people involved in
GLAM and the outreach to GLAM, many people subscribed and hopefully this
will lead to better coordination and in shared lessons learned
It was a great meeting.. There were a few critical issues as
far as I am concerned:
- several relevant people refuse to post / answer
on the foundation-l. The list proves to be irrelevant because this list
does not get that message
- currently there is no alternative...
LiquidThreads may help as it is a pull not a push mechanism ...
- some people I missed at the meeting, Durova being
the most notable
- our focus was about improving Commons for the
people that use it particuarly as contributors.. The success of our
project is however the result of use and reuse. \
- subtitles was one of the more important
novelties, we need to make the reuse in WordPress, Drupal .... as easy as
the reuse of Commons in MediaWiki !! The API is getting to the stage where
that is doable
Thanks,
GerardM