{"id":203,"date":"2008-07-19T13:03:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T12:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2008-07-19T13:03:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T12:03:58","slug":"wikimedia-commons-for-fun-and-profit-brianna-laugher-wikimedia-2008-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wikimedia-commons-for-fun-and-profit-brianna-laugher-wikimedia-2008-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikimedia Commons for Fun and Profit &#8211; Brianna Laugher [Wikimedia 2008 notes]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Commons-logo-en.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/41\/Commons-logo-en.svg\/202px-Commons-logo-en.svg.png\" alt=\"Wikimedia Commons logo\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Commons-logo-en.svg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>What is Wikimedia Commons:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Central resource for Wikimedia<\/li>\n<li>Wiki &#8211; anyone can edit, be bold, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Media &#8211; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not text, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s especially images<\/li>\n<li>Multilingual &#8211; all the languages inside the single wiki<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Free content\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_content\">Free Content<\/a> &#8211; all the files are availalbe under Free Licenses<\/li>\n<li>Community &#8211; lots of people who consider this their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wiki home\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a rapidly growing project &#8211; 3 million+ files!<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia has now single user login, so they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re expecting to increase their database even more.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical problems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Solved<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Single user login<\/li>\n<li>Inline video player<\/li>\n<li>Thumbnails in search results<\/li>\n<li>Email notifications of talk page changes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Wish list\u00c2\u00a0for the future:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global Whatlinkshere (check-usage) &#8211; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to help administrators and keep <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Copyright infringement\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copyright_infringement\">copyright infringement<\/a> out<\/li>\n<li>Automatic transfer<\/li>\n<li>Move\/rename images &#8211; a move tab. Now you need to use bots to do that.<\/li>\n<li>Integrated workflow &#8211; like having a way if someone already checked the file<\/li>\n<li>Write (upload) via <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"MediaWiki\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/\">MediaWiki<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Application programming interface\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Application_programming_interface\">API<\/a> -\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Category display\/sorting options<\/li>\n<li>Category i18n<\/li>\n<li>Batch uploading<\/li>\n<li>Upload form customisability<\/li>\n<li>Searching template fields as a database<\/li>\n<li>Improved Right-To-Left interface display<\/li>\n<li>Multilingual interface for non users<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Video\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Video\">A\/V<\/a> format conversion on upload<\/li>\n<li>Integrated image editing (esp. SVGs)<\/li>\n<li>Integrated geo-stuff &#8211; as part of MediaWiki, not templates<\/li>\n<li>Automatic user upload gallery<\/li>\n<li>Category\/user feeds<\/li>\n<li>File rating systems<\/li>\n<li>[.. and a few more .. <span>\u00e2\u02dc\u00ba<\/span>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commons API<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MediaWiki has an API, but the community builds structure in the wiki (templates, categories).<\/p>\n<p>How can register user reliably determine a file\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s license and author.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mangnus &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User_talk:Magnus_Manske\">http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User_talk:Magnus_Manske<\/a> &#8211; has create a tool for that: <a href=\"http:\/\/toolserver.org\/~magnus\/commonsapi.php\">http:\/\/toolserver.org\/~magnus\/commonsapi.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quality processes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Featured pictures<\/li>\n<li>Quality images<\/li>\n<li>Valued images<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A way to encourage people to contribute and recognize their contribution.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheerleading, partnerships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Picture of the day<\/li>\n<li>Picture of the year<\/li>\n<li>Meet our photographers<\/li>\n<li>Meet our illustrators<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Pearson Scott Foresman\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pearson_Scott_Foresman\">Pearson Scott Foresman<\/a> &#8211; educational publisher donated illustrations (in paper); now they community is tagging and categorizing them and adding other <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Metadata\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metadata\">meta-data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia Takes Manhattan &#8211; people took photos of Manthattan, lots of high quality pictures of important buildings and places<\/li>\n<li>(PGIP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Policies and guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"GNU Free Documentation License\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GNU_Free_Documentation_License\">GFDL<\/a> (for text)<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a central repository<\/p>\n<p>They want high quality images and meta-data<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a volunteer project<\/p>\n<p>[and lots of other information that was too fast to present]<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Usability &#8211; too much warnings, quite scary to upload file<\/p>\n<p>Scope\/censorship<\/p>\n<p>Project relationships &#8211; all the communities need to work together; some local wikipedias are already requiring people to upload to commons directly<\/p>\n<p>Partnerships &#8211; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to make good connections with institutions on volunteer base<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wikimedia Commons, readers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 view \/ Censorship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Top views show pictures related to sexuality. There is currently a proposal in working that require files to be realistically useful. The problem is that the project doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to be historically short-sighted.<\/p>\n<p>Hot topics: Violence, Nationalism, Religion, Sex!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/cc82fcb4-200c-41b7-ae3e-ce0dcbe24669\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_c.png?x-id=cc82fcb4-200c-41b7-ae3e-ce0dcbe24669\" alt=\"Zemanta Pixie\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via Wikipedia What is Wikimedia Commons: \u00c2\u00a0 Central resource for Wikimedia Wiki &#8211; anyone can edit, be bold, etc. Media &#8211; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not text, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s especially images Multilingual &#8211; all the languages inside the single wiki Free Content &#8211; all the files are availalbe under Free Licenses Community &#8211; lots of people who consider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[298,346,344,61,347,330,345],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","tag-application-programming-interface","tag-free-content","tag-mediawiki","tag-wiki","tag-wiki-engines","tag-wikimania","tag-wikimedia-commons"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}