Commons-l September 2007

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34 discussions

We may have somewhere to send the exhibitionists
by Brianna Laugher 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Of tangential interest: http://bayimg.com/ Apparently "completely uncensored". ("We will not remove any pictures that are just immoral or in any way legal to host under Swedish law." - well, still seems like they'll have a lot of removing to do, to me.) They use a tag system - e.g. http://bayimg.com/tag/background . uploading is ultra quick. cheers Brianna user:pfctdayelise -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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Obtaining copies of old photos from the Library of Congress?
by David Gerard 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

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.

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Too announcement : WatchFlickr
by Magnus Manske 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

In response about the discussion on wikien-l about fair use and placeholder images for biographies (and other things?) I have written a new tool, WatchFlickr. Given a category (at selectable depth), it retrieves all articles in that category, checks if it lacks an image, and if so, searches Flickr for relevant CC-BY and CC-BY-SA images. It shows found flickr thumbnails, links to the wikipedia and flickr page, and to Flominator's Flinfo tool. Not that due toolserver problems, several wikipedias, notably en, are not available to search right now. German wikipedia works, though, in case you want to test. URL: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/watchflickr.php I have already found, uploaded, and used about a dozen "celebrity" images, both adding a new image and (on en.wp) replacing fair use and placeholder images. Cheers, Magnus

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Wikimedia Outreach Project
by Andrew 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Hi, I found really good the Wikimedia Outreach Project, which tries to improve the relationships between sister projects and Commons. The it.wiki community has talked long about this. The description of the pictures are almost always in english (anyway in a single language: the language of the uploader) and this makes things not easy for those who explore commons and want to understand what the descriptions say. I was wondering "what about a requiring-language template?" For example we could add in the information template - in the description field - the main language-templates: {{Information |Description = {{de|...}} {{en|...}} {{es|...}} {{fr|...}} {{it|...}} When a language-template is not filled it could appear en: description of XXX fr: *description in french language required* it: descrizione di XXX ecc.. When a language is missing, the picture could be automatically put in a category like [[Category: French description required]].

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The trouble with licenses
by David Gerard 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/bonobo-conspiracy/?i=749 - d.

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Reuse FAQ - is almost done!
by David Gerard 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia I got a call from some UN branch office (!) this morning, asking about how to reuse pictures from Wikipedia. I gave the usual response: (1) we don't own the images (2) they're under a variety of licenses, some of which are easy to obey, some of which are a nuisance (3) what's your email? I'll send you a link to the Reuse FAQ. So, having sent him there, I looked over the page. It's almost complete! The only thing really missing is, in the CC section: [TO DO: note differences between 1.0, 2.0 and 2.5, and different countries] Presumably 3.0 as well, if we're allowing that. I also tweaked the intro. With the recent Virgin Mobile case (the hazards of reusing a CC-by-sa pic without clearing model or personality rights), I put a warning at the top about images of people: "Take care with context." So, I'd like those of you who know your way around the copyright brambles and who can write simply and clearly to: 1. Review the whole thing for accuracy. 1a. Review the whole thing for readability. 2. Fill in that and any other gaps you notice. 3. Re-synchronise translations. (I only edit the English version. Anything in other versions I've missed?) - d.

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"'Metadata Mining for Image Understanding'' (MMIU) second call for papers
by Brianna Laugher 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

I don't know if there's anyone within Wikimedia doing any kind of research like this, but it might be interesting if we had someone attending this to see if there's anything that we could use to improve our own image search techniques. I recall we had a bot at one stage on Commons that would grab the local captions of images used in various projects and then put those captions back on the Commons image page. Seems a bit the same :) cheers, Brianna user:pfctdayelise See message 2 at http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-2794.html#2 Date: 21-Jan-2008 - 21-Jan-2008 Location: Funchal, Madeira, Portugal Web Site: http://www.visapp.org/MMIU.htm Scope The number of digital images being generated, stored, managed and shared through the internet is growing at a phenomenal rate. Press and photo agencies receive and manage thousands or millions of images per day and end-users (e.g. amateur reporters) can easily participate into the related professional workflows. In an environment of approximately one billion photos, searchable in online databases worldwide, finding the most relevant or the most appealing image for a given task (e.g. to illustrate a story) has become an extremely difficult process. In these huge repositories, many images have additional information coming from different sources. Information related to the image capture such as date, location, camera settings or name of photographer is often available from the digital camera used to take the photograph. The owner can further add a relevant title, filename or/and descriptive caption or any other textual reference. If the image is uploaded to a shared photo collection, additional comments are frequently added to the image by other users. On the other hand, images used in documents, i.e. web pages, frequently have captions and surrounding text. All this information can be considered image metadata and is of value for organizing, sharing, and processing images. However, it is not always evident how to exploit the information contained in such metadata in an intelligent, generic or task-specific way. Linking this information with the actual image content is still an open challenge. The aim of this workshop is to offer a meeting opportunity for researchers, content providers and related user-service providers to elaborate on the needs and practices of digital image management, to share ideas that will point to new directions on using metadata for image understanding and to demonstrate related technology representative of the state of the art and beyond. Research paper topics that may be addressed include, but are not limited to: - image metadata pattern discovery and mining - interaction of image metadata and visual content - image and video metadata enrichment - automatic metadata creation - hybrid collaborative and machine learning techniques for metadata creation and/or fusion - cross image-text categorization and retrieval - image auto-captioning and annotation transfer - learning user preferences, aesthetical and emotional measures from opinion mining - integration of camera settings with image categorization, retrieval or enhancement - application-specific issues of metadata mining: integration of visual and geo-location information for improved virtual tourism stock-photo web-based image retrieval Important Dates Full Paper Submission: October 15, 2007 Authors Notification: November 7, 2007 Final Paper Submission and Registration: November 19, 2007 -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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Fwd: [ORG-discuss] Open Data Commons draft licence
by David Gerard 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jordan S Hatcher <jordan(a)opencontentlawyer.com> Date: 24 Sep 2007 15:27 Subject: [ORG-discuss] Open Data Commons draft licence To: Open Rights Group open discussion list <org-discuss(a)lists.openrightsgroup.org> All, I would like to announce the draft Open Data Commons Database licence. This is the new name, face, and text of the Talis Community Licence update that I may have mentioned in an earlier email. A special thanks to Talis for sponsoring the update. It is an attempt at a worldwide licence for data. In Creative Commons terms it is an SA licence. The blog post announcing its release is here: http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/2007/09/24/open-data-commons-licence- now-out/ Or try: http://tinyurl.com/32ekh6 The homepage on my site for information related to the licence is here: http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/ The draft text of the licence itself is located here: http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/open-database-licence/ Because we separated out the Data from the Database in the licensing, a supplemental BSD/MIT style licence for the data, intended for factual information rather than other "contents of databases" is here: http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/open-data-commons-factual- info-licence/ Finally, though I suspect that we will have a lot to talk about on this list, I've set up a discuss list specifically for the licence here: http://lists.opencontentlawyer.com/listinfo.cgi/tcl-discuss- opencontentlawyer.com Thanks! ~Jordan ____ Mr. Jordan S Hatcher, JD, LLM jordan at opencontentlawyer dot com IP/IT Blog: http://twitchgamer.net Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations <http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007> "The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Information Technology Based Business" <http://ssrn.com/abstract=984864> _______________________________________________ ORG-discuss mailing list ORG-discuss(a)lists.openrightsgroup.org http://lists.openrightsgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/org-discuss

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Re: [Commons-l] Looking for PowerPoint slides to encourage media contributions
by bawolff 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

> Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:22:19 +1000 > From: "Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Looking for PowerPoint slides to encourage > media contributions > To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" > <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <d20d84ea0709200522x6ec6eb81xeaad320e7aa6a490(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hey John, > > On 20/09/2007, John Tex <johntexster(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am currently in communication with the director of the media collection > > for a large university system. This person is intrigued by the idea of > > making some (possibly a lot) of their collection available under a free > > license. > > > > This is speculative, but I MAY get the opportunity to make a pitch in person > > to the decision makers. > > > > I am wondering if anyone has been in this position before and if you have > > any tips. I would especially like it if anyone has made some PowerPoint > > slides they could share with me, so I don't have to start from scratch. > > That's really exciting! Please let us know how it goes. > > I don't know of any such slide sets. However I have about half-written > a promo/intro-type booklet for Commons. You can download it from here: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Commons_promo_booklet.sxw > (open office format) > > They're not slides, but you can probably adapt the text pretty easily. > And in a similar vein there is > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Spotlight_on_Wikimedia_Commons . > > Of course feel free to use the text by me without credit, in this good cause ;) > > Are you looking for stuff that advocates for Wikimedia Commons > specifically, or for the use of free licenses in general? > > There are several good reasons to use Commons specifically. > * We are good curators who care about our content and improve it > * Providing it to Commons makes it available for use at Wikipedia, one > of the most commonly visited and influential websites in the world > today (and likely to be for some time). Thus, it can have a much > greater impact here compared to other sites. (This is the strongest > argument in my opinion) > * We can put a (tastefully subtle) link on each image page noting the > image was provided due to the generosity of X organisation or Y > person. > > cheers, > Brianna > > > -- > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: > http://modernthings.org/ > > > Try the Creative commons site as well. -bawolff

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Fair use at commons (yet another...)
by Pedro Sanchez 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

Why aren't most of the images here not "fair use" ? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_600px_association_football_flags Samples: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:600px_Bayer_Leverkusen.png http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:600px_Amaranto_con_lettere_A-S-L_Bi… http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:600px_Bianco_e_Nero_con_lettere_al_… http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:600px_Fish_and_ball_on_orange.png http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:600px_1FCK_su_sfondo_rosso.png http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:600px_Dogs_on_black_and_red.png the first images on the page, yes, pd-inelegible but after it, most of them are using copyrighted logos, aren't they?

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