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Desktop upload tool

Platonides — 2012-05-25T15:47:50

As some of you are already aware, I'm doing for this GSoC a Desktop tool
for conveniently uploading images to commons.
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikilovesmonuments/2641

How can you help with this?

a) Propose a cool name for this tool


b) Suggest new functionalities/requisites
Either on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Platonides/GSOC_proposal or
in this thread.


c) Volunteer for testing the program and giving early feedback
(please reply directly to avoid spamming the mailing list with "I can
test it, too")

Re: Help test chunked uploading

Erik Moeller — 2012-05-24T23:25:41

It is now. Please try chunked uploading again -- it should work now,
at least in recent versions of Firefox and Chrome, for files up to
500MB (some steps may take a long time to complete, but you shouldn't
get errors).

Fwd: [Wikitech-l] UploadWizard changes live on Commons

David Gerard — 2012-05-24T22:18:56

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Subject: [Wikitech-l] UploadWizard changes live on Commons
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We've pushed some updates to UploadWizard, most notably:

* disabled multiple-file selection in browsers where it didn't work
* files now start uploading immediately when selected (this can be disabled
server-side if there are problems with it)
* improved category input fields
* 'skip tutorial' step is now saved as a pref instead of a cookie -- so the
tutorial won't come back every time you switch computers anymore!
* fixes for when pre-upload thumbnails do and don't get drawn
* initial API for fetching upload campaign metadata
('action=uploadcampaign'), to be used by Wiki Loves Monuments mobile app

Don't be shy about giving feedback!

Re: New stats for Commons

Federico Leva (Nemo — 2012-05-18T05:27:16

Erik Moeller, 18/05/2012 03:38:

This is really great, something I've waited for years!
The good news is that, if I understand correctly, he's also adjusting 
stats to include all content namespaces also on other wikis, which is 
particularly helpfl for Wikisource (Author, Page and Index namespaces).

Nemo

New stats for Commons

Erik Moeller — 2012-05-18T01:38:49

Hi all,

Erik Zachte has compiled some new statistics for Wikimedia Commons.
Previously, WikiStats primarily captured the standard metrics (editing
activity etc.). Since Commons is first and foremost about media, those
metrics weren't as useful to see trends in activity. You can see the
new numbers starting here:

http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaCOMMONS.htm#uploader_activity_levels

.. and they should be reliably and automatically generated going
forward. There are also some new summary graphs:

http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/SummaryCOMMONS.htm

Note that we can break out in both tables the impact of Upload Wizard.
The numbers show that the growth rate of Commons increased very
significantly after UW was enabled in May 2011. The number of
contributors grew by about 25% from March 2011 to March 2012, compared
with ~12% in the prior year.

The numbers also clearly show the impact of "Wiki Loves Monuments" in
terms of the number of uploaders -- in September 2011, 22642 people

UploadWizard: Batch copying of metadata

Erik Moeller — 2012-05-16T21:30:47

As of the deployment of the wmf3 branch today, Upload Wizard has a new
feature that lets you copy the metadata of the first file to the
entire batch (you can pick which parts of the metadata you want to
copy). This should be helpful for users regularly uploading large
batches.

To use it, upload a batch of more than one file through
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard and use the
"Copy information to all uploads below" menu on the first upload.

Please report bugs in BugZilla or use the feedback page to share more
detailed comments:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_Wizard_feedback

Note that the feature tries to be clever about the numbering of the
first file -- if there's a number with less than four digits in the
file already, it increments it; otherwise it adds and increments "01".
If you're uploading a file with a number in the name that should not
be incremented, like a street address, but still want to auto-number
all uploads, just add "01" -- it will always increa

Re: LOC access needed

Howard Cheng — 2012-05-13T09:42:52

This is done.

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LOC access needed

とある白い猫 — 2012-05-12T12:05:55

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boys_from_the_Turkish_orphanage_at_Ezerum_waiting_for_the_coming_of_General_Harbord%27s_party_at_Ezerum,_Turkey_(1919-11-25).jpg


Could someone recover the higher quality version from LOC?
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674938/ It currently has an ugly cobis
watermark. A user asked me to fix this issue but I lack access to LOC.

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Re: Creative Commons 4.0 draft--please help answerquestions about attribution!

Kat Walsh — 2012-05-11T21:56:31

As has been posted here before, CC is working on version 4.0 of their
licenses--in case you haven't seen it, the public draft is up in
several different formats at
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0_Drafts

Right now their focus is on attribution, and they are asking several
specific questions about things to change in the new version.
(A few of the open questions: Is there too much flexibility in
"reasonable manner"? Or not enough? Is there any information people
should be required to provide that they aren't providing? Should you
be able to use a shortcut by just providing a link, and if so, what
should you have to include?)

The questions and space for comment is on the CC wiki here:

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/Attribution_and_marking#Questions_about_attribution.2Fmarking_in_4.0

(Ultimately, we hope to be able to use the 4.0 license version as the
default license version for Wikimedia projects--either BY-SA or BY,
depending on which project you are using. Several Wikimedians are
already partici

Re: Help test chunked uploading

とある白い猫 — 2012-05-11T21:16:27

I have a no go on IE (attempts to upload forever) and Chrome (crashes the
first second). I managed to upload a file on Firefox:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iridescent_Glory_of_Nearby_Helix_Nebula.png

Could someone review if the upload is corrupted or not?

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Re: Help test chunked uploading

Erik Moeller — 2012-05-11T20:34:30

Until this change is merged and deployed:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/6722/

You'll experience browser crashes/slowness with very large files.

However, _if_ (and only if) you're able to manage to start a chunked
upload of a large file in a recent version of Firefox and Chrome,
please tell me if you're still seeing errors on the first step. We
just deployed a timeout fix that may have resolved the error message
sometimes returned on the first step.

Re: Help test chunked uploading

とある白い猫 — 2012-05-11T18:22:13

I get the same problem with a 173 mb file.

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Re: Help test chunked uploading

Federico Leva (Nemo — 2012-05-09T21:56:40

とある白い猫, 09/05/2012 23:18:

Erik Moeller, 04/05/2012 05:16:
 > The carrot is that with this preference
 > enabled, you can upload files<500 MB today (as opposed to<100 MB)


Nemo

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Re: Help test chunked uploading

とある白い猫 — 2012-05-09T21:18:30

Firefox, IE and Chorme on Windows 7


   - IE upload just goes on forever. It attempted to upload for over a day
   and nothing happened.
   - Chrome just dies.
   - Firefox does nothing when I pick to upload any file

I am using Special:UploadWizard to upload a 1.4gb file.

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Re: Help test chunked uploading

Erik Moeller — 2012-05-08T21:51:49

It's not -- if you get that message, it's likely that your browser
doesn't support chunked uploading (or you don't have the user
preference enabled). Which browser were you testing with?

Re: Help test chunked uploading

とある白い猫 — 2012-05-08T20:08:22

Limit still is 100MB. I am willing to test but I can't with the 100MB
restriction.

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] : RFC/Disable uploads on smallerwikis

Federico Leva (Nemo — 2012-05-08T14:33:54

Sorry for crossposting but it's something that will (hopfeully, IMHO) 
affect hundreds of wikis and it's interesting to know how to get to it.

Nemo

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Oggetto: [Wikimedia-l] : RFC/Disable uploads on smaller wikis
Data: Tue, 8 May 2012 11:40:00 +0200
Mittente: とある白い猫

    -
 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Disable_uploads_on_smaller_wikis


Feel free to participate.

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Re: Help test chunked uploading

Federico Leva (Nemo — 2012-05-07T19:06:02

Erik Moeller, 07/05/2012 19:13:

What about the automatic clearing of the stash? Wasn't that made more 
aggressive at some point?


Done: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36599

Nemo

Re: Help test chunked uploading

Erik Moeller — 2012-05-07T17:13:11


Yeah, UW was trying to extract JPEG metadata from video files. :-P
This should be fixed once https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/6722/ is
reviewed and deployed.

The internal API error bug will probably be a bit harder to track
down; hazarding a guess it might be a timing issue with the copy
operation on very large files.

Can you file a bug for the upload performance issue as well? That one
is new to me.

Thanks,
Erik

Re: Commons-l Digest, Vol 84, Issue 3

Policlinico XX Aniversario — 2012-05-07T06:28:06

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Re: Help test chunked uploading

Federico Leva (Nemo — 2012-05-07T10:33:30

Prolineserver, 07/05/2012 12:24:

On the contrary, with Chromium 18.0.1025.142 (Build 129054 Linux) I had 
a much better experience. It still failed though, filed as 
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36587

Nemo