This might slightly off topic, though if someone uses Google image search
to track down free licensed images or something it might be usefull. Seems
Google is experimenting with image recognition in theyr image search, so
now you can for example limit searches to human faces only. There is no
GUI option for it yet, but just add &imgtype=face at the end of the search
URL to see the results. Try this search sting for example:
<http://images.google.com/images?rls=en&q=site%3Awikimedia.org&sourceid=oper…>
When will get get this kind of technology in the MediaWiki search? :P
Found the full storry here:
<http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-05-28-n84.html>
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Forwarding this to commons-l as Commons is the mainly concerned project.
There have been answers on foundation-l you might want to look at too.
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From: Peter Halasz <email(a)pengo.org>
Date: Jun 3, 2007 1:32 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Decision on Creative Commons 3.0
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons staff) and Jimbo Wales have left
comments in favour of accepting Creative Commons 3.0 into our own
commons, but ultimately the decision seems to be up to the Wikimedia
Foundation Board of Trustees, as no one else is willing (or able) to
make a final decision. The issues have been discussed ad nauseam, and
it's decision time. Please make one soon.
Peter Halasz [[user:Pengo]]
Discussion below copied from:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Licensing#Creative_Commons_3…
I invited Creative Commons staff member Mike Linksvayer to weigh in on
the discussion of CC-3.0, and he's left comments. The conversation has
again gone stale since then: [[Commons talk:Licensing/Creative Commons
3.0]]. When are we going to move towards allowing CC-3.0 licenses, and
who makes the decision? Are we just going to ignore it while there are
lingering doubts? For people who want to allow Wikipedia to use their
material, it's enough trouble to explain that they have to use BY or
BY-SA licenses, and not the others listed on creativecommons.org. But
it's just going too far having to say "you need to hunt down an
outdated creative commons license... one which isn't even listed at
creativecommons.org". The 3.0 licenses create no new conditions which
don't already exist in law. Let's take them on already. [those are my
thoughts, not CC's] Pengo 05:39, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I think the real important question is "who makes the decision?"
But yes, it seems to me that the don't accept them camp can always win
by stalling. Meanwhile, more and more free content appears on the web
under CC-3.0 that we can't use. --Selket 06:17, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
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imagined." Henry David Thoreau
FYI: Thanks to Yuri, who implemented a new api function,
[[MediaWiki:Gallerypreview.js]] can now preview galleries as well as
categories. Guess it can keep the name then...
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Magnus