Commons-l March 2012

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translation of categories
by bawolff 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

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

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Personality rights
by Andreas Kolbe 14 Apr '12

14 Apr '12

Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation Board published the following Resolution: ---o0o--- The Wikimedia Foundation Board affirms the value of freely licensed content, and we pay special attention to the provenance of this content. We also value the right to privacy, for our editors and readers as well as on our projects. Policies of notability have been crafted on the projects to limit unbalanced coverage of subjects, and we have affirmed the need to take into account human dignity and respect for personal privacy when publishing biographies of living persons. However, these concerns are not always taken into account with regards to media, including photographs and videos, which may be released under a free license although they portray identifiable living persons in a private place or situation without permission. We feel that it is important and ethical to obtain subject consent for the use of such media, in line with our special mission as an educational and free project.* We feel that seeking consent from an image's subject is especially important in light of the proliferation of uploaded photographs from other sources, such as Flickr, where provenance is difficult to trace and subject consent difficult to verify.* In alignment with these principles, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees urges the global Wikimedia community to: - Strengthen and enforce the current Commons guideline on photographs of identifiable people<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people> with the goal of requiring evidence of consent from the subject of media, including photographs and videos, when so required under the guideline. The evidence of consent would usually consist of an affirmation from the uploader of the media, and such consent would usually be required from identifiable subjects in a photograph or video taken in a private place. This guideline has been longstanding, though it has not been applied consistently. - Ensure that all projects that host media have policies in place regarding the treatment of images of identifiable living people in private situations. - Treat any person who has a complaint about images of themselves hosted on our projects with patience, kindness, and respect, and encourage others to do the same. Approved 10-0. ---o0o--- Now, I am aware of a particular set of photographs on Commons, taken in a private situation. They were taken from Flickr by an anonymous contributor and uploaded to Commons. The images are no longer available on Flickr, having been removed long ago.Over the past year, the photographer has requested several times via OTRS that Commons delete these images. He said that the subjects could not understand how these images of them ended up on Commons, and were aghast to find them there. They were never meant to be released publicly. According to the deletion discussions, OTRS verified that the person making the request was indeed the owner of the Flickr account. Yet Commons administrators have consistently, through half a dozen deletion discussions, refused to delete the images, disregarding the objections of isolated editors who said that hosting the images in the clear absence of subject consent runs counter to policy. Closing admins' argument has been that licenses once granted cannot be revoked. Yet according to the above resolution, Commons should not be hosting these images. Not only was consent not obtained – an endemic situation – the images are kept even though consent has been expressly denied.Why are these images still on the Wikimedia Foundation server? I am happy to pass further details on to any WMF staff, steward or Commons bureaucrat who is willing and able to review the deletion requests and OTRS communications, and remove the images permanently. Andreas

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Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] State of the Monuments - March 2012
by Samuel Klein 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

If you love monuments, love friends/relatives/wikis who love monuments, or are just curious: join the Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list and maybe even get involved with this year's celebration and contest. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline SJ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hi all, just forwarding this once - don't worry, won't do it again. But just to let you know what you're missing out on if you're not on the Wiki Loves Monuments mailinglist! You can subscribe through the link at the bottom. Best, Lodewijk ---------- Mensagem encaminhada ---------- De: Tomasz Kozłowski <odder.wiki(a)gmail.com> Data: 20 de Março de 2012 18:56 Assunto: [Wiki Loves Monuments] State of the Monuments - March 2012 Para: Wiki Loves Monuments <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, as promised, here is our first monthly overview of the State of the Monuments! We have been working on the project for some time already, and here is a small report on where we are and what is going on behind the scenes. Please note that this might not be a complete overview -- if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. And please see at the bottom of this e-mail for some action points for all countries (and make our lives easier)! == International coordination team == This year, there's a team of (still) four people who are trying to facilitate WLM internationally. Elke and Tomasz will join Lodewijk and Maarten in trying to keep the troops together, and help the countries share information and experiences and coordinate their work as effectively as possible. All four have experience with organising Wiki Loves Monuments at least for one year. As Wiki Loves Monuments is growing each day, and there are some things that even the most skilled volunteers cannot do (due to the lack of time, willingness or motivation), during our meeting in Amsterdam in December, we brought up the idea of a paid employee to help us organise WLM 2012. This person will primarily help us to keep tasks timely and on track. We are now happy to announce that Wikimedia Deutschland have agreed to host and fund an employee to help us facilitate the contest, and we will be meeting with him/her very soon. More information on this will follow in a fortnight, so please bear with us; and for now -- vielen Dank, Wikimedia Deutschland! Furthermore, we are still looking for a volunteer to join the coordination team, and help take care of the international budget for this year. Wiki Loves Monuments is fun, but the bigger it gets, the more money we need -- and This Is Serious Business (unlike the meme). So, if you'd like to take care of our budget, or you know a talented and responsible person who has some experience with budget and finances (for instance, your local Wikimedia treasurer), please contact any of us off-the-list. A helping hand would be greatly appreciated! == Countries == So far, over 25 countries indicated that they will participate, and 15 more have indicated interest in participating (see <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Partic…>). Several more countries have privately shown interest, so things are definitely going in the right direction! >From the international side, we are trying to help all new participating countries set up the contest in their country as efficiently as possible. Besides the obvious on-line help (like setting up mailing list or OTRS queues), we can help you by giving real life workshops: Lodewijk has already given a successful workshop in the United Kingdom, and Tomasz will be travelling to Ukraine and the Czech Republic this very weekend; Italy is to follow soon. If you feel that a brainstorming meeting in your country with one of us present would be helpful to sort some things out, please let us know, and we'll try to help. We have some budget available to accommodate in case your chapter has no funds. Recently, we have also redesigned our progress page (<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Progre…>) to suit the needs of so many countries, and would like you to update the status of the preparations in your area. Keeping that page up-to-date would ensure that we can always keep track of the goings-on in all countries, and also give you some help when needed. == Documentation == The lack of proper documentation was identified as one of main problems of the previous edition of the contest. This year, we have started working on the documentation from the very beginning (with Tomasz being our docmeister); all of this is merely a work-in-progress, but we currently have a few pages (re)written and ready to use: * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Philosophy * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Who%27s… * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Communi… * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/FAQ Besides that, we have been taking notes from all our Skype sessions, and they are all linked at <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Meetings> for your convenience. These are mostly some internal notes and discussions, but they are of course 100% public ;-) == Tech == Elke and Maarten have taken the lead on the technical side of the preparations, and have worked on some of the things. We are in a constant touch with Wikimedia Foundation developers about the UploadWizard (some bugs have already been fixed, and some features implemented) as well as about the mobile application. Elke created a Wordpress theme for the local teams (more information to follow soon!) an did some work on the toolbox (<http://toolserver.org/~erfgoed/toolbox/>) together with Maarten and Andre (Akoopal). Maarten and Raymond worked on setting up some OTRS queues, and Nicole has helped to forward the .EU domain to .ORG -- some additional work on the website (a more powerful hosting, etc.) is still ahead of us. Maarten has been working on the monuments database, too, and requested some help with documentation; we'll work on that in the upcoming weeks. For some additional detailed information on the tools and recent developments, please see Maarten's e-mail from this past Saturday: <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2012-March/002582.h…>. == Partners == We're working very hard on getting in touch with relevant partners on an international level again. There are no definite results that we can announce apart from the existing partners from last year, so more about that will follow later. If you have suggestions or have contacts that can help out, please get in touch with Maarten! == Action points == This will be the end of the report for February-March, so thank you for taking the time to read it :-) As a follow-up, please: #1: Fill in the progress page for your country (<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Progre…>),adding all the information you have -- and if you don't have information on something, feel free to omit it; #2: Create a page for your country on Wikimedia Commons; the US page <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_the_…> might be a good example. #3: Make sure at least one or two people of your local team are on this list; please sign up at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments>. Thanks! -- Elke, Lodewijk, Maarten and Tomasz _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu _______________________________________________ Internal-l mailing list Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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Possibility of broken upload tools
by Bryan Tong Minh 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

Hi all, As some you may remember, two years ago all upload tools to Commons broke when changes to the upload interface were made. These changes were reverted [1]. However, as it turned out that this had security implications, the restrictions have been put back into place [2]. If you use an upload tool that used to work but doesn't anymore, this might be the cause. Bryan [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/56793 [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35317

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Pics on Facebook
by Alhen 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

Will it be terribly bad to post Commons pictures on Facebook? User jduranboger had the idea to promote Wikimedia Bolivia by posting a different picture about Bolivia every week. Take a look at it here[1]. So, my question is if by doing this we fulfill the terms of cc-by-sa 3.0 or is there a way to post facebook pages providing another way to mention the author and the terms of the licence. Greetings Alhen 1. http://www.facebook.com/wikimediabolivia @alhen_ alhen at wikipedia, wikihow, wikispaces, and most places. Promotor de Wikimedia Bolivia 00-591-79592235

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Proposal to serve H.264 video
by David Gerard 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_video_codec_policy - d.

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GSoC 2012 : Automatically tagging photos in Wikimedia Commons
by Vivek kumar bagaria 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hello all, I am Vivek Kumar Bagaria <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Bagariavivek>, 2nd year student from IIT Madras. I am interested in participating in *GSoC 2012* with mediawiki. I am *working with Mediawiki from past two months* and have submitted various patches. I was very much interested in the idea of - "Automatically tagging photos in Wikimedia Commons using computerised object recognition", which was suggested by Maarteen Dammers in the GSoC 2012 Page<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012> I have *experience* with OpenCv. I had done a project last summer which involved detection of a ball. This is the youtube link - Ball Following Robot <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcXBcUvCC1w>. I would like to know if anyone is willing to *mentor* this idea. I would * love* to work on this idea. Thank you, Vivek Kumar Bagaria IIT Madras -- With regards, Vivek Kumar Bagaria 9176079646

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Deadline for Wikimania submissions is Sunday
by aude 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Reminder to get your Wikimania program submissions in soon! The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 18 at 11:59 (San Francisco) Pacific Daylight Time (or 06:59 UTC on 19 March 2012). We seek submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, and other types of sessions. Topics may include anything related to Wikipedia, MediaWiki & tech (e.g. mobile), Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons and other sister projects, OpenStreetMap, third-party wikis (e.g. WikiHow), wikis in business, government, etc., civic & local wikis, GLAM-wiki and other cultural outreach initiatives, education outreach, research into wikis and collaboration, and more. These topics are just suggestions. You can view the call for participation and make submissions here: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Cheers, Katie -- President, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org @wikimediadc / @wikimania2012

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Re: [Commons-l] [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status
by Andreas Kolbe 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:49 AM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote: > > What happened with implementing software related to controversial content? > There was quite a bit of hubbub at some point, then Wikimedia pulled back a > little (and Sue visited Germany to give some assurances)... what's the > current status of the project? Is it still a project? (If there's a project > status page somewhere with updated info, feel free to just link that.) > > MZMcBride > > P.S. I'm always fascinated by cases where there's an extreme contrast > between how seemingly innocuous the search term is and how explicit the > search results are. I think my current favorite case is the search for > "forefinger" on Wikimedia Commons. More examples always welcome at > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Problems>. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > Niabot has just come up with what I think is a great idea for addressing the search problem you mention in your postscript. He's proposed a clustered search function. (Anybody remember Vivísimo?) This could not just solve the problem of NSFW media popping up unexpectedly in media searches in Wikipedias and Commons. It would generally make Commons' search function more user-friendly, by grouping search results according to categories. So adult media would no longer pop up in the middle of unrelated searches, monarch butterflies would be separated from other types of monarch, etc. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Brainstorming#Clusteri… for Niabot's own write-up of his proposal. (If you are unfamiliar with the Commons search problem please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Problems as well as the recent Fox article: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/24/why-is-wikipedia-still-doling-out… And see (note that this link is NSFW) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=images&s… for what the forefinger search looks like in Wikipedia.) Beyond wanting to drop the list a note about Niabot's idea, I also just meant to ask the question that MZMcBride asked above. What is the status of the image filter? Last year, we heard that in January, developers would sift through the proposals on the Meta brainstorming pages, and select one for implementation. But now it is March, and nothing seems to be happening. Where are we on this? Andreas

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