Commons-l February 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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Re: [Commons-l] Commons-l Digest, Vol 81, Issue 8
by Stanqo 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

Гледам, че са си махнали личните имейли, но това може да стане чрез личните им страници като се кликне на "Писмо до потребителя". Спас - http://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%… Спирития - http://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%… Успех

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please remove me from your email list
by norman mackay 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

-- Best wishes Norm

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The categorisation backlog
by WereSpielChequers 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

In case anyone on this list isn't aware of it, we have a very large categorisation backlog on Commons. The Geograph load of UK images alone includes hundreds of thousands of uncategorised images, and as many only categorised by bot. However there are some recently improved tools out there that people may not be aware of, so I thought I'd email the United Kingdom and Commons lists to make sure everyone knew about the changes. The UK mailing list is relevant because we have a very large part of the Common categorisation backlog, and it has come up as a problem for our Wiki loves monuments plan. There have been two major enhancements to Catalot in the last few weeks. It now has an autoprompt/complete feature similar to Hotcat to make it much easier to add categories, and crucially for our Geograph backlog, it is now possible to use Cata a lot on uncategorised Geograph images such as in the categories in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Geograph_British… you have to copy rather than move as you are replacing a template with a category rather than moving from one category to another). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot The other big change is that Rillke has written some code to change the way that Hotcat works, so that if you open an a Geograph image that needs its categories checked you can confirm the categories eiter with one click or by using Hotcat to ad or remove a category. Previously Hotcat would remove the Geograph uncategorised template but not the partially categorised template, so if bots had added some categories you couldn't remove the cats need review template other than by editing. The Rillke's js code can be accessed by installing importScript('User:Rillke/checkCat.js'); Details at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:HJ_Mitchell#Check-categories-au… I've been using it, it works well and is many times quicker than confirming categories manually. If everyone who is active on Commons installs it I think we'll see the backlog reduce quite noticeably. Regards WereSpielChequers

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Using computer vision to categorize images at Commons
by David Gerard 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> Date: 20 February 2012 21:08 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Using computer vision to categorize images at Commons To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Cc: pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi everyone, Some time ago I played around with computer vision to get images categorized on Commons. I documented this at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Using_OpenCV_to_categori… . I don't think I'm going to spend time on it soon, but the results were quite promising, so maybe someone else feels like working on this? Would probably be a pretty nice student project or just fun to do. Maarten _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Wikimania scholarship deadline: Feb 16
by aude 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Reminder that the deadline to apply for a Wikimania 2012 travel scholarship is February 16 (23:59 UTC). We encourage you to apply! http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships Full travel scholarships, funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and chapters (France, UK, Israel, Austria), will cover transportation, hostel accommodations, and conference registration. Partial scholarships are also offered by WMF (and Wikimedia Hungary). Wikimania 2012 will take place July 12-15 at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. The call for participation is also open now (deadline: March 18), and registration is open. Cheers, Katie

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Remove from mailing list
by norman mackay 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Please remove my email from your mailing list -- Best wishes Norm

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Upcoming deployment of MediaWiki 1.19 to Wikimedia sites.
by Guillaume Paumier 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Greetings, The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki, the software powering Wikipedia and its sister sites, to its latest version. The upgrade will happen in several stages over the month, starting this week. You can still help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information: * Announcement on the Wikimedia blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/11/mediawiki-1-19-deployment/ * The announcement in other languages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Deployment_announcement Thank you for your understanding. -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation

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Remove from Mailing List
by norman mackay 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Please remove me from the Wikimedia mailing list -- Best wishes Norm

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Call for votes! Steward elections 2012
by Tanvir Rahman 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce the beginning of the voting of steward elections 2012 [1]. Eligible voters are now encouraged to give their valuable votes to elect new stewards this year. To find out more about voter eligibility, please take a look on our guidelines page. [2] Vote page will remain open to vote until February 27 2012, 23:59 (UTC). This year, we have made some modifications so it will be easier for voters to vote compared to the last years. You just have to follow the following steps. - Click on the big gray vote button on the vote page, a box will appear; - Select your vote (yes/no/neutral), and write your comments (if you have any) in the comment box; - And click "vote" on that box and it will save your vote automatically. Additionally, we are using template and bot so it will be easy to check the votes and verify the eligible ones. This year, we are also arranging the confirmation of existing stewards [3], so you are also welcome to give your valuable comments/feedback about their works. Confirmations are a good opportunity to check if we are still happy with our current stewards. So please speak your voice there. if you have any queries related to anything about to the election, you can ask us on the talk page [4]. You are also free to poke us on IRC channel #wikimedia-stewards-elections. We hope you will participate as soon as possible to speak your opinion and make this year's election a successful one (as you did in past). Please feel free to forward this e-mail to any other lists if you think it will be useful. :-) Regards, Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir on Wikimedia (On behalf of the Election Committee.) [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2012 [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2012/Guidelines [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Confirm/2012/en [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stewards/Elections_2012

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