Commons talk:Media of the day
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[edit] 2007
If anyone reads this page anymore :)
The captions are now complete. As it has been raised nearly a year ago, there aren't that many media files, still, so it is likely that this list will pretty much stay. I will nonetheless scour the Commons and see if I can compile a decent 365-member list within three days :) —UED77 15:14, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- I think there just isn't to much interest in media because of the formats we use here and because of existence of YouTube and such. Anyway I think we should go for 2008 rather then 2007. Most of the titles for the current media are not even present and the templates aren't ready to be divided by year. --Nux (talk··dyskusja) 00:55, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
- I'm very happy it's all finished. There are more files now, and I suppose it's possible there *might* be enough if you use some low quality ones. However, I'd prefer to avoid that. The setup we have now is good. Raul654 01:31, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
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- You're right, 2008 would be a more realistic goal. I know there are some files from known series that are not MOTD, but others are, so we could use the remainder. And cross our fingers that we'd receive some nice new files over the following year. —UED77 18:11, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Yearly
How are we going to deal with this as we get into the next year. So far, i only see variables for the month and the date. Maybe someone should think about adding a year variable to the templates. -- Sam916 02:48, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
- There aren't nearly enough media files to do new ones every day forever. There's *barely* enough to do one for every day of the year. (There are roughly 400 combined songs and videos, of which 45 are from Handel's Messiah, so I intentionally avoided using all of them). So, when setting up the rotation, I set it up to cycle back at the end of the year (like the selected anniveraries on Wikipedia). Raul654 18:46, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
- what is with this place? there's barely anything to get from here!--205.202.240.104 16:16, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- I don't understand the question. Are you talking about commons? The media-of-the-day page? Something else? Raul654 21:07, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- the IP is right in some way. There is no information of how new Media gets added and who chooses them (Raul?). E.g. I´ve uploaded a new video called media:Moving_Octopus_Vulgaris_2005-01-14.ogg and don´t if / where I should add it as a MotD. --MilesTeg 18:40, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
- what is with this place? there's barely anything to get from here!--205.202.240.104 16:16, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] MOTD German
I have added the german module of the MOTD to the front page. Someone will have to fix the small things, like the text that remains english. -- Sam916 02:44, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- Bah! You beat me to it by a few seconds! :) Raul654 02:50, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry about that. -- Sam916 02:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] More files coming
I just got back from vacation today, and I have a *ton* of videos from the animal kingdom to upload (about 80, give or take), so look for the number of videos to double overnight. Raul654 03:20, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- If you need any help, I could help you encode the videos. -- Sam916 01:25, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reorganization
In the current version, it is impossible to add another translation. I'd like to reorganize the page like COM:POTD, with all those neat (and slow? :-x) templates, so that it would be easily expanded.
IMHO it would be a good idea to also add an icon to represent the media type.
Any ideas, objections?
- It might be a good idea to add the year to the template names, but that would be quite a big heap of work... So?
- I think it would be good if every file would show an icon showing the media type (music/video/...). Well, if I think about that, it would be fine if the image description page would show such icon automatically (would have to be built into MediaWiki... wait a minute, well, there is bugzilla:1578).
- Of course, a link to the file description page should be somewhere, too...
- Any ideas about layout? The POTD layout is beautiful, but does not really fit this, as we won't have the large picture to show. What about something like this:
Template:Motd/Day Template:Motd/Day
--Mormegil 12:52, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
- Extremely bad idea. The POTD page is very slow to load, and that's only doing one month's worth. It would be a factor of 12 worse for this page - making it virtually impossible to load. Also, I am not keen on adding new translations until someone in those other languages actually expresses an interest in doing a media of the day page. And, if they should do it, then they should use an entirely different page, instead of trying to cram them all on a single page. Raul654 05:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
You question the idea of one page for all languages (which I have not invented, BTW; I have just seen the German caption side by side with the English one, which is obviously unscalable). That is fine by me, it's not any big difference if the one-day template would show all languages or just the selected one. I don't understand what should be the "slow" part of it? On POTD, there are 30 pictures, which take quite some time to load; that would not be the case here. To be honest, I don't think having all 365 items on a single page is a good idea, anyway.
I have simplified the template a bit so it displays only one language, what about that? Better? Worse? --Mormegil 12:58, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
- The POTD page loads slowly, but not because of the 30 thumbnailed pictures. It loads slowly because it transcludes (by my estimate) just under 1,300 templates. Pages with lots of templates load slowly; pages with ridiculously large numbers of templates load very slowly.
- This page loads slowly with roughly 730 templates; each new language adds (at least) another 365 and makes the page more crowded and harder to use. Putting all langugages, for the entire year on a single page is just out of the question.
- So you can break it up by months (have all the languages for january on a page, like POTD), or you can break it up by language (like this page is now - have the whole years' worth of english templates on the same page). I prefer the latter, but I'm not dead-set on it. Raul654 17:54, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Now I get it, you are right that using hundreds (or thousands) of templates is not a good idea. So -- why not break it up both by month and by language? It would make the page more maintanable and friendlier to servers. I don't think splitting the months has any significant negative effects, splitting the languages makes it a bit more difficult to translate the description, but I can live with that. (I have (temporarily?) removed the icons since it would require manual adding that information to all MOTD files, which I am too lazy to do now; still I think the icons would make the page much prettier. ;-) ) --Mormegil 16:45, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] License and other info
Plase take care that featured media files at least have accurate and complete license info, and ideally an informative description page. I belive that this should be an important criterium for selecting featured media.
Note that today's featured file, Image:Bwv558.ogg, does not have sufficient license info: it is tagged as cc-by-sa without giving the author (in this case, the interpreter). I have already contacted the uploader about this issue... but as I said, this should be done before the file gets to the main page! -- Duesentrieb(?!) 14:03, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Project on English Wikipedia
Please see Wikipedia:Sound of the day. Thanks.--Pharos 23:28, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Red links
Bonjour,
All the music of Martinu has been deleted. Why? (problem of copyright ?). How do we remplace them? How do we choose an media as "Media of the day" ? Is there a special page for that? Kiwa 20:13, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Almost universal template
Hi.
I used something like this on Polish version only less universal (here de version):
| Datum | Datei | Titel |
|---|---|---|
| 01-1 | Media:Gesualdo-moro lasso al mio duolo.ogg [ Info · Bearbeiten ] |
"Moro Lasso Al Mio Duolo" von Carlo Gesualdo, gesungen vom MIT-Kammerchor [ Bearbeiten (de) · (en) ] |
| 01-2 | Media:Depression era gangsters.ogg [ Info · Bearbeiten ] |
Berühmte Verbrecher zur Zeit der Weltwirtschaftskrise; unter anderem Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly [ Bearbeiten (de) · (en) ] |
| 01-3 | Media:BOCCHERINI op27n°3 G303 Mvt1 Moderato assai - Jacques Lochet violin and synthesizer.ogg [ Info · Bearbeiten ] |
String Quintet op.27 No 3, first movement, by Luigi Boccherini [ Bearbeiten (de) · (en) ] |
| 01-4 | Media:San Francisco Earthquake aftermath, 1906.ogg [ Info · Bearbeiten ] |
Auswirkungen des San-Francisco-Erdbeben von 1906. [ Bearbeiten (de) · (en) ] |
I belive this will make translations easier. I've also used {{Motd-head-pl}} for headers so they can be put into place only once and you can change whole table with two templates.
You may also want to see the code of Polish version as I messed with parser function and made it so it will only show current month on main page.
Oh BTW on 2007 we can just use something like:
| Datum | Datei | Titel |
|---|---|---|
| 2007-01-1 | [[Media:Template:Motd/2007-01-1]] [ [[:Image:Template:Motd/2007-01-1|Info]] · Bearbeiten ] | |
| 2007-01-2 | [[Media:Template:Motd/2007-01-2]] [ [[:Image:Template:Motd/2007-01-2|Info]] · Bearbeiten ] | |
| 2007-01-3 | [[Media:Template:Motd/2007-01-3]] [ [[:Image:Template:Motd/2007-01-3|Info]] · Bearbeiten ] | |
| 2007-01-4 | [[Media:Template:Motd/2007-01-4]] [ [[:Image:Template:Motd/2007-01-4|Info]] · Bearbeiten ] |
Or like this:
| Datum | Datei | Titel |
|---|---|---|
| 01-1 | [[Media:Template:Motd/2007-01-1]] [ [[:Image:Template:Motd/2007-01-1|Info]] · Bearbeiten ] | |
| 01-2 | [[Media:Template:Motd/2007-01-2]] [ [[:Image:Template:Motd/2007-01-2|Info]] · Bearbeiten ] | |
| 01-3 | [[Media:Template:Motd/2007-01-3]] [ [[:Image:Template:Motd/2007-01-3|Info]] · Bearbeiten ] | |
| 01-4 | [[Media:Template:Motd/2007-01-4]] [ [[:Image:Template:Motd/2007-01-4|Info]] · Bearbeiten ] |
Hm... I guess it will need some work in the second column, but that's not a big problem.
Nux (talk) 08:11, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] How to nominate a media of the day?
Could somebody explains me how to indicate a media for the " Media of the day"? I want to nominate a media of myself (Image:Turdus rufiventris.ogg), which is a record of a bird song, and it is like a tropical rainforest sunrise simphony. Zimbres 19:03, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Date width
made some sexy changes to way date is appearing...now can someone change the date column to match the time box's width? thans--69.111.36.17 19:42, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
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- and also fix the nominate links!!--69.111.36.17 19:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Chopin Nocturne.ogg (24th April)
Image:Chopin Nocturne.ogg - the media of the day for the 24th April is under a non-commercial license (see the source) and should be deleted. I have added the relevant template on the image page but it will also need removing from here. Lcarsdata 19:45, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] RSS?
Has there been any attempt at syndicating the media of the day? I know it's pre-determined, but still, some of us are addicted to our RSS, and expect any relevant information to come from our aggregator :P Gryc ueusp 23:49, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- (Speaking as the person who set this up) Not to my knowledge Raul654 05:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
need this!!!--69.110.137.145 22:19, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] How to convert mpg to ogg?
Can someone post a link to some sort of software to do this in Windows? It doesn't seem to be an easy task, and I want to gift wikipedia with a cool video I took but can't figure out how to convert to ogg videos. (audio seems easy) thanks! Nesnad 12:04, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Template
Look {{Media of the day}}. I think it's good idea to add it into media files. MOTD consist descriptions at more than 5 3-4 (sometimes 5-6) languages for every day / file, but when we open file information, we don't look them. ~ putnik 18:24, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
- Example: Image:Moving Octopus Vulgaris 2005-01-14.ogg. ~ putnik 18:25, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] RSS feed
Besides "by category" and "by user name", my "Catfood" commons RSS feed script can create a "medium of the day" feed, here. It will take a few seconds to generate, as the tool has to read 10 pages containing filenames from commons. Should we add it as RSS feed in the template, like Picture of the Day has? --Magnus Manske 12:13, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
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- Well, I added it :)
- This page needs a tiny bit of maintenance. With the new ogg player it would be good to have them directly on this page. And get the category sorted... pfctdayelise (说什么?) 12:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Audio_2009
I would like to nominate new audio files as MOTD for the next year (If you know the better place then copy this text, please). You can continue this list of audio superior files:
- Image:Persia anthem old.ogg --AKA MBG 12:33, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
- Image:Yusuf islam - the holy koran -qur'an - al layl.ogg --AKA MBG 12:33, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
- Image:Mendelssohn Songs without Words Funeral March.ogg --AKA MBG
P.S. If the list will be less than 365 audio files then it will be MOTD of the next year. --AKA MBG 22:05, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
