wikimedia commons for fun & profit
DESCRIPTION
Whirlwind \"state of the wiki\" overview of Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/TRANSCRIPT
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WIK
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Introduction
Who am I?[[user:pfctdayelise]], Wikimedia Commons admin since 2006
What is this? Why?Whirlwind “state of the wiki”, does it look familiar? (Not just cheerleading)
Who are you?Some familiarity with Wikimedia assumed
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What is Wikimedia Commons?
wikicommunity
mediamultilingual
Central resource for Wikimedia
Free
content
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What is Wikimedia Commons?
It's big... 3M big!
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Tech
STATUS: Resolved, Fixed
● SUL!● Inline video player● Thumbnails in search results● Email notification of talk page changes
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Tech
STATUS: New (open) 1/2
● Global Whatlinkshere (check-usage) ● Automatic transfer ● Move/rename images ● Integrated workflow ● Write (upload) via MediaWiki API● Category display/sorting options ● Category i18n ● Batch uploading ● Upload form customisability ● Searching template fields as DB
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Tech
STATUS: New (open) 2/2
● Improved RTL interface display ● Multilingual interface for anon users ● A/V format conversion on upload ● Integrated image editing (esp. SVGs) ● Integrated geo-stuff● Automatic user upload gallery● Category/user feeds● File rating system● Category archive downloads (ZIP)● Slideshows
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Commons API
MediaWiki has an API, but the community builds structure in the wiki
(templates, categories)
How can re-users reliably determine a file's license and author?
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Commons API
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/commonsapi.php
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Commons API
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/commonsapi.php
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Commons API
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/commonsapi.php
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Quality
Featured Pictures
Quality Images
Valued Images
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[[Image:Broadway tower edit.jpg]], by [[w:en:user:Newton2]], CC-BY-2.0
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Cheerleading, partnerships
●POTD●POTY●Meet our photographers●Meet our illustrators●Pearson Scott Foresman●Wikipedia Takes Manhattan●(PGIP)
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Policies and guidelinesGFDL (for text)
General disclaimerPrivacy policyCOM:SCOPE
COM:LCOM:DCOM:BPCOM:PCOM:A
COM:DESYSOP
COM:BOTSCOM:OTRS
COM:LPCOM:OWNCOM:TALKCOM:USER
COM:V
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Help/advice on content
COM:SOSUMICOM:ARTCOM:FAN
COM:NUDECOM:PEOPLE
COM:DWCOM:SCAN
Image casebookDe minimisFreedom of panoramaCurrency
ScreenshotsBad sources
Problematic sourcesScanning
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Major challenges
Usability
Scope/censorship
Project relationships
Partnerships
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Category:Vulva_symbolsCategory:Shaved_genitalia_(male)Category:Female_nude_in_potterycategory:Sex_positionsImage:Ashley_Heath_Station.jpgCategory:Female_musiciansImage:Heckert_GNU_white.svgcssImage:Map_of_USA_WV.svgIndex_Imperatorum_RomanorumImage:Ashley_Harkleroad.jpgcategory:Sex_positionsCategory:NudibranchCategory:MaleniskoCategory:MuumimaailmapenisImage:Michelangelo's_Pieta_5450_cropncleaned.jpgCategory:Erotic_artcategory:Female_genitaliaImage:Soccerball.svgcategory:EroticCategory:BreaststrokeImage:United_States_one_dollar_bill,_reverse.jpgImage:piercing_micro_banane.jpgImage:Teen_tennis_partners.jpg
Category:Images_by_AlaniarisCategory:Vagina_MonologuesCategory:FellbachImage:Baby.gnu-alpha-800x800.pngCategory:pornoCategory:Cameluscategory:breastsImage:Alenquer_(Portugal).jpgImage:Vagina-anatomy-labelled1.jpgCategory:Nude_photosCategory:Erotic_art_from_Johann_Nepomuk_GeigerCategory:OranCategory:Peter_KropotkinImage:Balloons_at_the_Gatineau_Hot_Air_Balloon_Festival.jpgImage:Olympic_rings.svgCategory:Vintage_photographsCategory:sexual_dimorphismCategory:Sexual_selectioncategory:sexcrystal_clearCategory:Poros.htmlCategory:CunninghamiaCategory:Films_by_countryCategory:Pubic_hair_(male)
http://dammit.lt/wikistats/daily-20080528.tgz
Category:Nude_paintingsCategory:FemalesCategory:Female_urinalsImage:New_York_City_Central_Park_from_Rockefeller_Center_NIH.jpgImage:Circumcision.jpgImage:Anus_m.jpgImage:Bermudatriangle_(sketch).pngCategory:Group_theoristsCategory:StrixCategory:Full_shot_black_and_white_photographsCategory:AutogenstraßeImage:Ejaculation_Educational_Demonstration_Animated.GIFCategory:Shaved_genitalia_(female)Category:Pornography_awards
Wikimedia Commons, readers' view
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Censorship?
Violence!
Nationalism!
Religion!
Sex!
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Thankyou!
[[user:pfctdayelise]]http://brianna.modernthings.org/
Commons mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l