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
Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2010 Picture of the Year
competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which
images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2010. Any user registered
at a Wikimedia wiki since 2010 or prior with more than 200 edits as of 1
January 2011 (UTC) is welcome to vote. Check your eligibility now.[1] If
you meet the criteria, you are able to vote.
Nearly 800 images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the
international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered
in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to
breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant
images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems,
diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human
portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.
For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two
rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many
images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall
will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number
of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become
the Picture of the Year.
To see the candidate images just go to:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Galleries
Wikimedia Commons is interested in hearing your opinions on our featured
images of 2010. The deadline for first round voting is the 4th of May at
23:59 (UTC).
Thanks,
Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010
[1]
http://toolserver.org/~pathoschild/accounteligibility/?user=&wiki=&event=16
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Hello all,
By now surely you have heard of Wiki Loves Monuments, an event
destined to populate Wikimedia Commons with photos of listed monuments
across the
world. As advertised some time ago, a logo contest has been launched
to find a great logo for Wiki Loves Monuments.
It has prompted more than 50 entries, some of which unfortunately did
not match the rules. [1] However, competition yielded a lot of very
good ideas and it's now time to choose.
After review of basic compliance with the rules of guidelines, more
than 30 logos are left to choose from. It's a lot, so we need lots of
eyes to tell us what logo they'd like to see on caps, mugs, flyers et
al. for the Wiki Loves Monuments events.
Voting has now opened and we need your participation!
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Logo_contest…
Please visit this page and vote.
Voting is opened until the 27 of April.
Have fun voting!
Best,
Delphine
[1] removed entries from the competition can be seen on this page:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons
Talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Logo_contest/Submissions
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Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org
Photos with simple eyes: notaphoto - http://photo.notafish.org
Wanted to point out youtubes recent copyright school video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InzDjH1-9Ns
They face a hard education task around fair use, but I think they fail
in doing any real education about fair use. The whole clip is a bit
draconian ( do this or else ) and does not rationalise the reasons for
doing things. The voice over of authority is a little over the top at
times, but I guess its hard to capture the intricacies of copyright law
in less than 5 minutes ;)
Makes me think our Licensing_tutorial.svg is not so bad at all ;)
peace,
--michael
>Hi,
>
>the CommonsHelper 2 needs for working meta data which describes the transfer rules and other project specified things.
>
>I want to call for updating/creating this data: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CommonsHelper2 .
Ok, it isn't so difficult to update it (at least, for ru.wiki). But we
still have a problem with commonshelper in ru.wiki, which makes it
completely unusable:
https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MAGNUS-218
Will it be solved? If not, there is no meaning to update this data for
us, because this tool will remain unusable.
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