Someone in the thread on friendliness mentioned that categories are
always in one language (usually english). Well still a long way from
fixing the issue, perhaps if we allowed unrestricted
{{DISPLAYTITLE:...}}, combined with the {{int: hack, that'd allow
better translatable categories. (of course you'd only be able to use
the actual category name in [[category:Foo]] links. I suppose one
could use a bot to automatically change links to redirect categories
to their canonical name, but then we're getting really really hacky).
Anyways, just a thought.
cheers,
bawolff
On 11/28/2011 10:23 PM, Alex Brollo wrote:
> [...] FineReader 11 [...] produces a complete djvu file [...] Text
> layer hasn't full range of details, it's organized into two levels
> (page and line), while OCR engine on IA servers produces a very rich
> "tree" (page, column, region, paragraph, line and word).
Has anybody designed a web interface that shows the scanned
image and the zones or regions of the Djvu text layer? It would
look similar to image annotation on Commons,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Image_annotations
For a Djvu file uploaded to Commons, could you automatically
generate image annotations for the various text columns and
illustrations? Does image annotation handle multi-page
document formats such as PDF and Djvu?
(Shouldn't image annotations and timed text be the same thing?)
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
[I am crossposting this announcement to two mailing lists, feel free to
pick up the topic on either of them.]
Dear All,
I am--yet again!--delighted to announce that Wikimedia Polska, the
Polish chapter of the WMF, is organising a travelling exhibition of the
winning POTY contest pictures. 16 images chosen by Wikimedians from all
over the world in the annual POTY contests from 2006 onwards are going
to be shown at exhibitions in various places around Poland.
As some of you may recall, the exhibition premièred during the 10th
anniversary of the Polish Wikipedia conference, having been visited by a
few hundred visitors in just two weeks; some images from the pubic
viewing of the exhibition are available on Wikimedia Commons at
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Picture_of_the_Year_exhibition_-…>.
Our first stop is Przystanek Książka (a Polish wordplay for "Book
Break"), a media library of the Public Library of the district of Ochota
in Warsaw. The exhibition starts on Monday, November 28, and will remain
until the end of the year. 16 pictures, the best of the best of the
Wikimedia movement, will be shown in an exhibition open for the public,
with descriptions available in Polish, English and German.
For those of you currently living in Warsaw or going to visit the
capital in the upcoming weeks: the library is located at 42 Grójecka
Street, just two tram stops (and 8 minutes) away from the Warsaw Central
railway station (tram lines "9" and "25"), and is open on working days
from 10 AM until 7 PM (2 PM-7 PM on Wednesdays).
We are still looking for more organisations and institutions willing to
hold the exhibition--if there's anyone from the neighbouring (European)
countries willing to get involved or just looking for some information,
feel free to approach me at <tomasz.kozlowski @ wikimedia.pl>.
We hope to have a great event, and even if you can't visit the
exhibition, please keep your fingers crossed that it goes well, and
spread the news!
PS For those going to take a peek at the exhibition _in real life_,
there's also a Facebook event:
<https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100219446762276>.
Regards,
--
Tomasz Kozłowski | [[user:odder]]
Dear Cultural-patners-l and Commons-l,
As some of you know I'm currently in Qatar at the invitation of
CreativeCommons Qatar talking to various GLAMs. We met with the good folks
from Al Jazeera English the other day and discussed various ways that we
could work together in the future - based on the great early work of the Al
Jazeera CC portal: http://cc.aljazeera.net/ (copied in to this email is
Bilal from Al Jazeera and Brian from CC.Qatar). One of the specific
questions that they asked me was about why does Wikipedia use screenshots
from those videos rather that using their still images from flickr
directly. The reason is, as we know, was that the Al Jazeera photostream on
Flickr was licensed as cc-by-ND.
So... It is now my pleasure to pass on a message from Bilal:
Hi Liam - I've updated our Flickr account and all images are now available
under the CC share-alike option.
EXCELLENT! :-) Everyone, have a look at some of the gorgeous photos
available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/sets/ they
cover topics from Hajj to the Gaza War, and many different countries
involved in the "Arab Spring". Not only are these beautiful pictures with
great provenance they are also extremely encyclopedic and impossible to
replace. They are all taken by Al Jazeera journalists in the field.
Furthermore, this is an amazingly fast turnaround time for changing a large
institution's copyright policy :-)
Let's start getting these across to Wikimedia Commons in the Category
"files from Al Jazeera"
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Al_Jazeera and start
integrating them into various WP articles!
Is there someone who can dedicate a bot to sucking these across to Flickr
straight away?
Perhaps we can also create a nice "partnership template" too?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Partnership_templates
Sincerely,
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
Hi folks,
as you may or may not know, we ran a coding competition in October
which included mobile photo upload as one of the challenges.
You can see the submissions here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/October_2011_Coding_Challenge/Submissions
The submissions include a "Share with Commons" application for
Android. It can be installed through the Android market and the source
code is available on GitHub.
https://market.android.com/details?id=nl.michiel1972.mainhttps://github.com/michiel1972/shareWithCommons
The application adds a "Share with Wikimedia Commons" option to the
"Share with" menu that's available in the Android Gallery app. That
is, when you're viewing a picture on your phone, you can easily upload
that particular picture to Commons through the same process that's
used for Picasa and other websites.
I've tested it, and it works. It doesn't prompt for categories and the
license selection is basically just a template field, but it gets the
job done. Images uploaded using the app are added to this category:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_uploaded_by_Android_app
We'll reach out to the author to see if they're interested in
continuing to develop it and host it in Wikimedia's SVN.
There are some other submissions as well:
* An effort to build uploading functionality into the official
Wikipedia Android app by User:Tpt
* Three iOS / Objective C implementations of varying degrees of
completeness. I haven't tested those yet, but we'll review them as
well and share notes.
The full list of submissions can be found here -- please add your own
comments on the talk page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/October_2011_Coding_Challenge/Submissions
Thanks :)
Erik
--
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson(a)gmail.com>
Date: 12 November 2011 14:11
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Overzealous Commons deletionists
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, info(a)wikimedia.org
I've noticed a problem with overzealous deletionists on Commons. While
this may be something of a legal and political issue, it's also
operational and affects multiple *[m,p]edias at the same time.
I've spent some time over the years convincing public figures that we
need official pictures released for articles, rather than relying on
fan (or publicity or staff) produced pictures. Because of my own
experience in the academic, computing, political, and music industries,
I've had a modicum of success.
I also ask them to create an official user identity for posting them.
Since Single User Login (SUL), this has the added benefit that nobody
else can pretend to be them. From their point of view, it's the same
reason they also ensure they have an existing facebook or linkedin or
twitter account.
This week, one of the commons administrators (Yann) ran a script of
some sort that flagged hundreds of pictures for deletion, apparently
based on the proximity of the word facebook in the description. There
was no time for actual legal analysis, at a rate of more than one per
minute. The only rationale given was: "From Facebook. No permission."
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Sharon_Ag…
In this case, timestamps indicate the commons photo was posted before
the facebook photo, and the facebook version is somewhat smaller, so
there's not even the hint that it was copied "From Facebook." Besides,
many public figures also have facebook accounts, so it shouldn't matter
that a photo appears in both places.
A bot posted a link to the notice on the en.wiki talk page that used
the photo, where in turn it appeared in my watchlist.
Then, despite my protest noting that the correct copyright release was
included, the administrator (Yann) argued that "The EXIF data says that
the author is John Taylor. The uploader has another name, so I don't
think he is allowed to decide a license."
That appears to be post-hoc explanation, as the facebook one obviously
wasn't applicable. Self-justifying strawman argument.
In this case, as is usual in the most industries, the *camera* owner
appears in the EXIM file. A public figure who pays the studio for
headshots owns the picture itself. The photographer would need the
public figure's permission to distribute the photo!
After pointing out the nomination didn't even remotely meet the
deletion policy nomination requirements (that I cited and quoted), this
administrator wrote: "I see that discussion with you is quite useless."
Then, minutes later, another administrator, Béria Lima, deleted the
photo without waiting for the official 7 day comment period to expire.
That indicates collusion, not independent review.
There are a number of obvious technical issues. YouTube and others
have had to handle this, it's time for us.
1) DMCA doesn't require a takedown until there's been a complaint. We
really shouldn't allow deletion until there's been an actual complaint.
We need technical means for recording official notices and appeals.
Informal opinions of ill-informed volunteers aren't helpful.
2) Fast scripting and insufficient notice lead to flapping of images,
and confusion by the owners of the documents (and the editors of
articles, as 2 days is much *much* too short for most of us). We need
something to enforce review times.
3) Folks in other industries aren't monitoring Talk pages and have no
idea or sufficient notice that their photos are being deleted. The
Talk mechanism is really not a good method for anybody other than very
active wikipedians. We need better email and other social notices.
4) We really don't have a method to "prove" that a username is actually
under control of the public figure. Hard to do. Needs discussion.
5) We probably could use some kind of comparison utility to help
confirm/deny a photo or article is derived from another source.
If there's a better place to discuss this, please indicate.
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[sorry for cross-posting]
Hi all,
I just wanted to announce that the wikiguides produced by Wikimedia Italy
are now
on Youtube with subs in different languages. If you are interested in
translation, just contact me.
The videos have proven themselves as a good introduction to the wiki world
(a fourth video on Wikiquote is under production),
and (at least in Wikisource) we have seen a significant improvement in
access and use of the website.
Hope you will enjoy too.
*Wikisource
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR0g5ACaC-g
*Wikipedia*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoLBZ7_vY-k
*
Commons*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOTlhuokVDs
Aubrey
Multi-file selection, perhaps the single most requested feature for
UploadWizard, is now ready for testing on a staging wiki. Please see
Neil's announcement here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Multi-file_selection…
I'm really excited about this, as it's the first step to making large
uploads a lot more manageable without the use of third party tools
like Commonist.
Other improvements in the next release that you can test now will
include a better licensing workflow, including support for custom
wikitext licenses, and automatic extraction of file-embedded
geographic coordinates and display of those coordinates using a
template.
--
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
