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new moderation features
by brynn 10 Feb '18

10 Feb '18

Hi moderators (and website developers and/or editors too), We have some awesome new features in the gallery, regarding moderation. Gone are the yellow "sheriff star" placeholders to indicate a hidden resource. Yay! With the amount of spam we've been getting lately, I would literally cringe to see a third or half page of yellow star images (when looking at Last Updated view). And no one will be seeing those, anymore! Moderators will still see the hidden resources, but they have a dashed red outline around them, and highlighted very light pink. Non-moderators (regular members) will just see a beautiful gallery, with no hint of moderation activity. Perfect! If a moderator needs to look at the resource (whether resource, thumbnail, or other) they can click on the resource and see the regular resource page. But now, it has a nice bold red label "Removed by Moderators", so there's no confusion. Martin, would it be possible to have a similar label for flagged members? Just to prevent confusion? Or is the idea more about identifying hidden things, while members don't get hidden? I'm not sure if all the moderators saw my last message on the Docs mailing list (because I didn't think to address it individually to moderators). We've been getting a type of spam called "flood spamming" where someone posts 4 or 5 (or more) spam images or comments at a time. A new wrinkle is they are pushing toll free phone numbers for fake support desk or customer service. Not much we can do except be vigilant, really. I just wanted to notifiy about this slight uptick in spam. Thanks Martin for the improvements! And thanks for everyone's hard work and dedication to keeping the gallery clean and well-organized. As always, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. All best, brynn

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new moderation procedure?
by brynn 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

Hi Friends, This is something which has never been discussed. But recently we've had some images being reported by a regular member, which moderators have approved, and they remain in the gallery. In one case they reported a member. Should we contact a member who reports an image, thank them for helping, and explain our decision, why we decided not to delete the image? In this particular case, I'm thinking we may need to contact him or her, just to try and prevent more unnecessary reports. But in general, I wonder if we should take the time to explain our motivation, since the member is taking the time to help us. (Hah, for these recent reports, maybe I should try to recruit him or her as a moderator....?) Thanks for any comments :-) brynn

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inkscape-docs has a new home
by Eduard Braun 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

Hi all, I'm happy to announce that the former "inkscape-docs" (i.e. manpages, keys and mouse reference and tutorials) has a new home! You can now find the "Inkscape Documentation" at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/documentation After migrating the repo to GitLab some time ago I finally got around and tweaked some last bits, so it's now in a production-ready state again. Obviously there's still a lot to do (on my short list: getting updated docs onto the website and make translation statistics work again, preferably using some CI automation) but I think the repo is at a point were contributions should be possible without too much effort again and I'd appreciate any help in getting it updated in time for the 0.92.3 release! If you have any questions let me know! Happy documenting, Eduard

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gallery moderators - re spam flooding
by brynn 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

Hi moderators (and other interested folks), Just a heads up for moderators. You may have seen the spam which came in today (if it hasn't already been deleted by now). Five separate uploads, each into a different category (even in the pastebin!) advertising a toll free phone number for tech support for Malewarebytes (MBAM). Since I've known mbam to be an excellent and reputable anti-malware program, I was shocked. I had to investigate. As it turns out, the spam isn't coming from the mbam community. They are the target, or victim, and yes, along with us and our gallery. Anyway, long story short, there's a rash or outbreak of a type of spam known as "spam flooding" throughout the internet. It's happening in forums, galleries, and email....social media too, I suppose. The spammers typically post several to many identical messages, in one go. And most commonly it gives a toll free phone number, offering software support or customer service. (And lord only knows what's on the other end of that number!) And many, many businesses, corporations, products, whether software or otherwise are being targetted by this. Well, all we really can do at this point, is be vigilant. Thanks for your help :-) All best, brynn

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Spanish Website Editor
by Jabier 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Hi All. Can we add privileges to a new Inkscape spanish website translator? His user in inkscape.org is: "RREDesigns" He is a amacing member of graficalibre spanish comunity. Thanks in advance.

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website unavailable
by brynn 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Hi Friends, Just in case it's not already known, the website is down. First noticed about an hour ago. All best, brynn

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"linked image not found" in gallery
by brynn 04 Jan '18

04 Jan '18

Hi Friends, I just noticed a string of....well, they seem to be sort of a placeholder in the gallery, since they are linked to the same page (3rd page of a search for "logo"). It's the same graphic which is used in Inkscape "linked image not found". https://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/linf.png I guess it could mean that someone has uploaded a link to something, but deleted it. But then I would wonder why it's place is being represented in the gallery, instead of being completely deleted. Or does it have some other meaning in the gallery? Or should I report a new Issue in gitlab, as a bug? Or is it already reported.....? I searched (using "linked image") but didn't find. Oh! .....Well I was thinking maybe curating would cause it to be moved to a different directory. But I have not seen that happen when I've curated something. Maybe I just never noticed....? All best, brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-docs] [Inkscape-devel] holiday graphics for website?
by brynn 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

I like the idea about the seasonal motifs! (although we still have the 2 hemispheres to deal with) Had to look up "Google doodle style artwork" (I'm not a google user). How would we ever find out about these more or less obscure events (Kazakhstan Republic Day showed up in my search)? You could almost put one single person whose full time job is identifying them! I wonder how google decides who draws the graphics? Do they just take submissions? Like maybe we would put certain guidelines (so that we don't end up celebrating some rogue regime or something) and just allow people to submit them? Because they only "run" for a day, right? I suppose we could have them up for any amount of time we choose. brynn -----Original Message----- From: C R Sent: Friday, December 22, 2017 1:20 AM To: Brynn Cc: Martin Owens ; inkscape-docs ; Inkscape-Devel Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] holiday graphics for website? Maybe seasonal motifs would be better. Snow flakes and mittens and skis work nicely. Maybe hot chocolate, snowball fights and other winter activities for a secular holiday season. :) fall might see fallen leaves placed around, flowers for spring and summer. Would be kinda cool to do a Google doodle style artwork to celebrate specific holidays when they come up, which is in lusive rather than exclusive, but obviously that would take a lot more work. My 2p -C On 22 Dec 2017 5:30 am, "brynn" <brynn@...78...> wrote: The biggest consideration for things like this is the both western centric and perceivably christian/pagan centric traditions. That's why I said "holiday" and not "Christmas" or "Hanukah" or "Kwanza" or etc. Most all faiths and religions have some kind of winter celebration - something for every season. It's why I also added a suggestion about doing it for seasons, rather than holidays. Although then there's the problem with seasons, when it's winter in the northern hemisphere, it's summer in the southern. Usually when people decorate their website, they do it for wherever the website lives. Because really, it's impossible to please everyone. I think as long as it's something small, which does not appear to cram anything down anyone's throat, it should be ok. For example, even if there's a little decoration for spring, but it's autumn where some people live, I think it will still be seen as a nice graphic. But mostly, I think it would be sad if we have to say we can never decorate the website, because it's impossible to please everyone. /That/ would be sad! And also, I think we have to start somewhere, with getting more graphics throughout the site. Maybe it would be better not to have just 1 graphic? Maybe there could be a collection of graphics which represent all the major religions or faiths, and some kind of script serves them up at random? All best, brynn -----Original Message----- From: Martin Owens Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 4:22 PM To: brynn ; Inkscape-Docs Cc: Inkscape-Devel Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] holiday graphics for website? Hi Brynn, The poster originally emailed me directly and I asked them to post the image to the gallery and then post a message to the inkscape mailing list. Mostly just to see what people were thinking. I like the idea personally. But I see some challenges to it professionally. The biggest consideration for things like this is the both western centric and perceivably christian/pagan centric traditions. If images can be targeted, then it makes it easier to just show it for certain countries etc. If we don't mind being a bit blustering and ham fisted about it, then putting up a replacement image is just a matter of a small code update to the website. Although then you do have to look after the site later when you need it to come down. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Wed, 2017-12-20 at 14:19 -0700, brynn wrote: Hi Friends, I'm thinking about starting a tradition of making holiday graphics for the website. Like for example, today I spiffed up the logo for Inkscape Community with some lights (not twinkling, but maybe next year ;-p ). https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php I'm thinking of just something small and simple like that. Holly and berries, or something. We couldn't do exactly the same thing on the website, because the logo doesn't work the same way as IC. (plus it's pretty small) But there must be some ways to easily slip in some extra graphics into the website? Like maybe in the menu/navigation bar? (could they be red and green? or look like snow is piled on them?) Or the white space between the logo on the top-left and the search field on the right? I saw that cute Inkscape logo with a santa hat in the gallery (https://inkscape.org/en/~jiawhein/%E2%98%85inkscape-logo-christmas), and that's what got me started. But unfortunately, it has a solid white background, which I don't think could be used for the site. I requested either SVG or a transparent PNG, but no answer yet. I made some sort of straight lines of lights, one of which might fit in the white space at the top. But alone, they're hardly creative. Anyway, if someone could explain what those ways might be, where we could sneak in some cute graphics around holidays, I'll take the responsibility to put out a call for such graphics before each major holiday.....or maybe just 4 seasons? Or maybe holidays plus 4 seasons? (I still want to see more graphics on the site, in general. But that's a much bigger project which I can't take a leadership role right now. Well, not unless someone else wants to co-leader it?) Thanks for comments :-) All best, brynn ------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs mailing list Inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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holiday graphics for website?
by brynn 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

Hi Friends, I'm thinking about starting a tradition of making holiday graphics for the website. Like for example, today I spiffed up the logo for Inkscape Community with some lights (not twinkling, but maybe next year ;-p ). https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php I'm thinking of just something small and simple like that. Holly and berries, or something. We couldn't do exactly the same thing on the website, because the logo doesn't work the same way as IC. (plus it's pretty small) But there must be some ways to easily slip in some extra graphics into the website? Like maybe in the menu/navigation bar? (could they be red and green? or look like snow is piled on them?) Or the white space between the logo on the top-left and the search field on the right? I saw that cute Inkscape logo with a santa hat in the gallery (https://inkscape.org/en/~jiawhein/%E2%98%85inkscape-logo-christmas), and that's what got me started. But unfortunately, it has a solid white background, which I don't think could be used for the site. I requested either SVG or a transparent PNG, but no answer yet. I made some sort of straight lines of lights, one of which might fit in the white space at the top. But alone, they're hardly creative. Anyway, if someone could explain what those ways might be, where we could sneak in some cute graphics around holidays, I'll take the responsibility to put out a call for such graphics before each major holiday.....or maybe just 4 seasons? Or maybe holidays plus 4 seasons? (I still want to see more graphics on the site, in general. But that's a much bigger project which I can't take a leadership role right now. Well, not unless someone else wants to co-leader it?) Thanks for comments :-) All best, brynn

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too many hidden images? (moderation)
by brynn 29 Nov '17

29 Nov '17

Hi Friends, Does everyone see the hidden images placeholders in the gallery? Or is it only moderators who see them? If it's only moderators who see it, it's not as big of a problem as I thought. But if everyone sees them, those who usually view the Last Updated page of the gallery have probably noticed, we have more hidden images than not, on the first page. This has 2 sources (aside from the spam itself) -- (1) not enough moderators, and (2) decided items are retained for a week. I can't remember the reason for this. But I can think of a couple of ways to improve the situation. Could we consider not retaining decided items so long? Maybe only 2 or 3 days? Maybe not at all? Or maybe could we only retain those approved items, and let deleted items go? As far as I understand, once an item is deleted, it's gone from the database and can't be recovered. So I'm not sure why we hold them on the moderation page. Would there be any problem posting a call for new moderators in forums? I think I will post another call for mods on the mailing list. But I'm not sure there would be any interested people from forums. I guess it can't hurt? Comments? Thanks for any comments :-) brynn

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