Oh ! Le petit message déprimant du matin...
Ma photo sur le #WikimediaCommons de la « Tour des Horizons », emblème de la ville de #Rennes, est vouée à être supprimée... Ainsi que toutes les autres de cet édifice remarquable !

Raison : "The building was completed in 1970 by Georges Maillols (1913–1998). There is no freedom of panorama in France. The copyright term of the country is 70 years, and the image can be undeleted in 2069."

C'est vraiment dommage...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_tour_%C2%AB_Les_Horizons_%C2%BB_de_Rennes_-_D%C3%A9cembre_2020.jpg

@inkscape Scientific typography support. I still use an old @gnu_texmacs Inkscape extension to get math equations into and out of Inkscape and I realize TeXmacs isn't Libreoffice, but the need to manipulate equations sometimes pops up in SVGs I'd like to upload to #WikimediaCommons.

Searching for images on Wikimedia Commons has not been easy. The text-based search we use on Wikipedia is very good at finding relevant documents in a corpus of text, but not so good at finding relevant images in a collection of sparsely labeled media files. Here's a blog post on our innovative approach to refining search capabilities for a more remarkable image-finding experience: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/08/04/improving-image-search-on-wikimedia-commons/

#wikimedia #wikipedia #wikicommons #wikimediacommons

Nouvelle occupation préférée (pour l’instant) : importer des photos de patounes sur #wikimediacommons

Released into the #PublicDomain, and uploaded to #WikimediaCommons together with the #Mathematica script used to generate it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Non_chaotic_double_pendulum.gif

Ich habe ein Paar #Gutscheine von #FlixBus. Jeder Gutschein ist für eine einzelne Fahrt ohne Umsteigen in #Deutschland und #Europa. Wie lange die Gutscheine noch gelten, weiss ich nicht. Daher biete ich sie jetzt hier an: Wer einen #Gutschein für eine #Fototour für #Wikipedia / #WikimediaCommons verwenden möchte, kann einen oder mehrere umsonst von mir bekommen. DM an mich mit Thema oder Datum (ich kann dann ein #Event / #Demo vorschlagen). Falls sich niemand findet um damit #Fotos zu machen, gebe ich die Gutscheine gegen höchstes Gebot ab (DM). Vor dem Verschicken der Gutscheine prüfe ich, ob der Gutschein zum geplanten Datum noch gilt.

I have some #vouchers from #FlixBus. Each voucher is for a single journey without changing buses in #Germany and #Europe. I don't know how long the vouchers will be valid. That's why I'm offering them here now: Anyone who wants to use a #voucher for a #phototour for #Wikipedia / #WikimediaCommons can get one or more for free from me. DM me with topic or date (I can then suggest an #event / #protest ). If no one can be found to take #photos with the vouchers, I will give away the vouchers against the highest bid (DM). Before sending the vouchers, I check whether the voucher is still valid on the planned date.

You may also not know that #WikimediaCommons has a page designated Category:Horses with erect penis (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Horses_with_erect_penis)

#horses #erect :ohnobubble:

I know there is https://lib-static.github.io but I want a good concise site that sets out how to run a small community archive based around static sites (because they're cheap, long-term, etc.) and #Wikidata, #WikimediaCommons, and the #InternetArchive.

Viele kennen und nutzen die Bilder aus der #WikimediaCommons für die Erstellung von #OERde. Wenig vertreten sind darin Fotos aus den Parlamenten. Damit sich das ändert hat @wikimediaDE ein Handreichung erarbeitet.
https://netzpolitik.org/2023/wikipedia-es-braucht-mehr-frei-lizenzierte-fotos-aus-den-parlamenten/

#Politikwissenschaften #Sozialwissenschaften #academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademiaEdu #hochschuldidaktik #FediLZ #FediCampus #OpenEducation

If you want colourful/textured 3D models in #Commons, maybe comment on the proposal and add some use cases.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Enable_textured_3D_files_on_Commons

#3dmodel #wikimediacommons

The #VoiceToParliament referendum campaigning seems to be increasing, but there aren't yet many photos of it on #WikimediaCommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2023_Australian_Indigenous_Voice_referendum #Australia #photography #documentation

When #WikimediaCommons was created with the goal of being a "public domain and freely licensed educational media file repository", I'm not sure https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banana_x.png was what they had in mind.

I like the country-daily categories on #WikimediaCommons (to which photos are added with the {{taken on}} template), they're a nice way to see what else is going on at any point in time.

Yesterday's: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Australia_photographs_taken_on_2023-07-23

@luis_in_brief Compression rate as criterion for a fair use test? (Or before that, for what #WikimediaCommons #copyright guidance calls "de minimis"?)

Released into the #PublicDomain and uploaded to #WikimediaCommons, together with the #Mathematica script used to generate it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shadow_faster_than_light.webm

The resulting metadata as it appears on #WikimediaCommons . https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanabata_tanzaku.jpg #creativecommons #photography

The forthcoming #Flickr to #WikimediaCommons tool has a new project page — with pink links! :-) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickypedia

@mjohanning @mage a good place to start for uploads to #WikimediaCommons is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine. Curious to know if it works for you! If you get stuck, there are various places where to ask for help, such as https://forum.openrefine.org/

Released into the #PublicDomain, and uploaded it to #WikimediaCommons together with the #Mathematica script used to generate it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Cittert-Zernike.webm

Great to see that the #WikimediaCommons Locator-tool now adds structured data at the same time as wikitext coordinates with {{location}}. (Thanks Simon Legner!)

This is definitely one of my favourite tools.

https://locator-tool.toolforge.org