Hi!
This is complete off topic, but...
We all take great care about our small but constantly growing online
world Commons. However, physical world still need care too. I invite
you to join a Google cause: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/cleanup/.
Not because of Google PR, but because of great idea.
I think to clean up a place where I took all my dragonflies images -
there are many broken glass battles around.
With best regards,
Eugene.
http://www.ingimp.org/
InGimp is an initiative at the Human-Computer Interaction department
of the University of Waterloo. It's the Gimp, but it gathers
anonymised data on how you use the application.
If you use the Gimp, you may wish to start using InGimp so as to
influence future Gimp versions to your way of working!
Present version is 2.2.17. I've emailed asking about plans for a
version of 2.4 (presumably when 2.4.0 final is released).
I installed InGimp on Windows and it picked up my Gimp preferences
just fine. Everything works the same.
- d.
Hi list,
I've seen that some users run bots that add some message templates to
user talk pages, generally in order to warn them about missing tags and
other similar problems.
The problem is that bots are not able to guess the preferred user
language :)
As for now, here are some clues about the user preferred language:
* he has a Babel box on his user page or on his talk page => the highest
skill could do it
* he has a Welcome template or another message template that is not in
English => get the lang code from the template translation subpage, but
actually this is quite difficult because templates are generally subst'd
and no link remains to the translation page...
Then, which tools could we set up to know in an easier way the user
preferred language?
I'd say:
* other users check the user contributions and guess his preferred
language, then add some {{guessed language|<language code>}} template to
the user talk page. This very template would provide information about
how to add a Babel box. This is not much better than adding a Welcome
template, so I don't think it to be a good solution.
* some toolserver asking the database and returning as raw text the
preferred language code that the user has set up in his preferences.
This seems to me the best way to handle automatically this information,
but shall assume that the user has set up this information. I think it's
okay because when we need to contact this user, that's because he
interacted on the project and has a high probability of having set up
his preferences...
Any thoughts? Any volunteers to code such a simple tool? :)
Best regards from France,
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Hello all,
It seems to me we haven't added any new file formats/types for a while
now. Are there any we should work on adding? Are there any reasons we
shouldn't add them?
- something for Blender? (sth. like game environments if my impression
is correct)
- SMIL? (open standard alternative to Powerpoint, I think)
- Open Office 2 formats?
- what would be best for animations? I would find it hard to believe
that GIF is optimal...
TIFF was mentioned on wikitech-l recently. The comment was made that
anything TIFF should really be a better format: jpg for photographs
and djvu for scans, and maybe png for anything else. TIFF tiles are
typically huge and all those options are much smaller.
Someone else commented on the VP that we have no documentation on DjVu
which I found to be true, from how to create DJvu files, to how to use
them in MediaWiki. I had a look on mediawiki.org and couldn't find
anything too useful either. So any hints here would be appreciated.
cheers,
Brianna
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Hi,
I just wanted to thank Magnus again for reinventing the wheel (and such a
nice one):
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/whatisthat.php
Is there any chance to produce raw output and to include it via AJAX to the
edit page? This would be really great, because you'd be able to see, if
there are any translations available.
Thanks in advance,
Flo
PS: Was this the right way or should I've used your Issue Tracker on TS?
On Saturday, October 06, 2007 9:54 AM I wrote:
> I tried but I stumbled over the same origin policy (SOP) :(
Meanwhile I got some pretty ugly iframe implementation at my monobook:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Flominator/monobook.js
Regards,
Flo
I'm looking for replacements for [[:en:Image:Gifford-pinchot.jpg]],
which happens to be the same image as [[:commons:Image:Gifford
Pinchot.jpg]] - it's US State, not US Federal, so may not be PD. The
LOC has some lovely pics, all pre-1923:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,go…
So, it says "we have the neg." How does one get access to a scannable
copy of the full-sized thing? Would they have a large scan available,
not just the thumbnail? Etc., etc.
- d.
On 10/4/07, Alexandre NOUVEL <alexandre.nouvel(a)alnoprods.net> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> I've seen that some users run bots that add some message templates to
> user talk pages, generally in order to warn them about missing tags and
> other similar problems.
>
> The problem is that bots are not able to guess the preferred user
> language :)
>
> As for now, here are some clues about the user preferred language:
> * he has a Babel box on his user page or on his talk page => the highest
> skill could do it
> * he has a Welcome template or another message template that is not in
> English => get the lang code from the template translation subpage, but
> actually this is quite difficult because templates are generally subst'd
> and no link remains to the translation page...
>
> Then, which tools could we set up to know in an easier way the user
> preferred language?
>
> I'd say:
> * other users check the user contributions and guess his preferred
> language, then add some {{guessed language|<language code>}} template to
> the user talk page. This very template would provide information about
> how to add a Babel box. This is not much better than adding a Welcome
> template, so I don't think it to be a good solution.
> * some toolserver asking the database and returning as raw text the
> preferred language code that the user has set up in his preferences.
> This seems to me the best way to handle automatically this information,
> but shall assume that the user has set up this information. I think it's
> okay because when we need to contact this user, that's because he
> interacted on the project and has a high probability of having set up
> his preferences...
>
> Any thoughts? Any volunteers to code such a simple tool? :)
>
> Best regards from France,
> --
> Alexandre.NOUVEL(a)alnoprods.net
> |-> http://alnoprods.net
> |-> L'encyclop?die libre et gratuite : http://fr.wikipedia.org
> \ I hate spam. I kill spammers. Non mais.
>
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Don't forget {{notify me}}. You can get lang info from that too.
-bawolff
Hi all,
This "personality rights DB" looks interesting. And happily it is
licensed CC-BY.
cheers,
Brianna
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jordan S Hatcher <jordan(a)opencontentlawyer.com>
Date: 5 Oct 2007 17:25
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Distribution of picture on the internet in US-law?
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts
<cc-licenses(a)lists.ibiblio.org>
On 4 Oct 2007, at 21:37, Dana Powers wrote:
> In the U.S., this question is governed by state privacy law. The most
> active cases deal with what is known as the "Right of Publicity,"
> dealing with commercial exploitation of a person's likeness. The
> Wikipedia article is pretty informative:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_publicity
>
I can't resist giving a plug to an earlier project I was working on
about this area. It is a wiki of personality rights (rights of
publicity plus others). It is a project of the AHRC Research Centre
for Studies in IP and Technology law at the University of Edinburgh.
Personality Rights Database
http://personalityrightsdatabase.com/
It has links to many US cases, as well as the opportunity to build
out the law state-by-state.
Thanks!
~Jordan
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