March 2018 - Inkscape Docs - Inkscape Mailman

moderation question - formats which aren't displayed
by brynn 18 Mar '18

18 Mar '18

Hi Moderators, I was just pondering the recent upload of a file with the format .studio3. (https://inkscape.org/en/~Tanzbella/%E2%98%85nahliebe-chrissibag-emblem-1mal) I'm not familiar with that format, and suspect it might be the native format for some particular graphics program. My question is what should we do with images with formats which the website does not recognize or display? Should we take the time to contact the member, and ask them to submit a different format? Or should we just delete them (not removing member in this case)? To me, it doesn't make sense to waste our space on something which no one can see (unless they download it, and have a program which will open it). To me, TIFF is a different story, as it's my understanding we hope to be able to display them someday. But for anything else which is fairly obscure, how should we handle it? Thanks for comments :-) brynn

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red dashed rectangle missing (moderation)
by brynn 18 Mar '18

18 Mar '18

Hi Martin, I'm no longer seeing the red dashed rectangle around hidden images anymore. Now the images are just missing entirely. Has something been changed? Thanks, brynn

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strange gallery behavior
by brynn 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Hi Friends, Just doing some browsing in the gallery, in Most Popular order category. Is it just me, or do I see the exact same images scattered on pages 6, 7, 8 (but not in the same order) ?? The image titled "Gastón" is on all three pages; Lazur's blue and brown Fibonacci sprial is on all 3 pages; an image titled "Lupo Ernest" is on pages 6, 7, 8, and 9; Lazur's 0.92 About Screen (wood shaving) also on all four of those pages; image titled "Red wine" on pages 9, 10, and 11; etc. I don't see this in other order categories, but I haven't looked past page 10 either. All best, brynn PS - Let me know if you want a new Issue for this (although I might not know the proper terminology).

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welcome new moderator, and discuss PDFs
by brynn 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

Hi Fellow Moderators! Welcome to our newest moderator, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer. Now with 6 moderators, 3 of which are able visit on almost daily basis, I'm starting to feel like the system is really able to meet its potential. (Fyi Everyone, JAKE is now Panda.) I'd also like to discuss a moderation issue regarding PDFs. There was a recent image, I think it was the map of Europe, uploaded as a PDF. One comment which was posted, along with a vote to delete, was "pdf can contain viruses or get your ip on opening". While I understand that potentially can happen, PDF is an acceptable format for uploaded resources (whether image or text) in the gallery. So we can't delete them only because they are PDFs. However, since their contents are not displayed, we must open them, to find out if they meet the CoC guidlines. What would be the best way to get a look at the contents, without risking our personal privacy and/or security? I'm thinking we should download and run our local security scans, before opening. (Or I suppose there are some free online scanners. Don't have any links right offhand though.) Does anyone know of a better, possibly less time consuming (and memory eating) way to get a safe look at the contents? All best, brynn

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welcome new moderator
by brynn 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Hi Fellow Moderators, Let's welcome a new moderator to our little team! Jake (or JAK3) has joined us yesterday. I also want to take this opportunity to mention sort of a new kind of spam which we are now recognizing (and of course deleting, along with the member). The discussions about it happened on the dev mailing list, and I'm not sure if all the moderators saw it. Regarding images which could have been made with Inkscape, but you suspect, for one reason or another, that it wasn't. For example, -- You're trying to figure out why they used such a tiny blur value, when you suddenly realize it's not a blur, but a raster image which has been saved or format converted too many times. -- Or maybe the name of the image is a long string of random characters. -- Or maybe (and yes, we have seen this) the image actually has a copyright symbol on it, or even a watermark claiming a copyright (license). -- Often they are JPGs, and often uploaded in the wrong category. There are many of these reasons, and I can't think of them all at the moment. But for any image you think might not be made with Inkscape, you can try searching for it on https://tineye.com/, which is a reverse image search. If you see the image has a page full (or more) of results, and associated with all kinds of different people, it likely was not made with Inkscape, or by the member who uploaded it. In these cases, remember to also flag the member, so he or she can be deleted as well. Anyway, thanks again to all the moderators who are helping with our mission to keep the gallery clean and awesome! (As a reminder, unfortunately not all moderators are subscribed to the mailing list. I have to copy this message to the website messaging system for some. So we can't really develop a discussion thread where everyone is involved. But if anyone is interested, the team has a private chatroom, where we could meet for a chat. Just let me know.) All best, brynn

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