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Your image Image:Rhodometra sacraria.jpg seems empty. Please try to upload a better version. Fvlamoen 10:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Parrot photo
[edit]Thank you for contributing the image Image:Amazona amazonica (1).jpg. I wonder if you could say in the description if it is a wild parrot or a parrot in a zoo. 86.156.151.39 17:17, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
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relicensing
[edit]Re: this, Creative Commons licenses are irrevokable. You are free to license this under v3.0, but you can't revoke the v2.5 license. Hesperian 23:28, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Tip: Categorizing images
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IPTC info in photos
[edit]Hi. I just recently saw your post at the help desk about IPTC info in photographs. Support for extracting IPTC and XMP information is pretty much done (well common XMP info anyways; XMP can encode lots of rather obscure properties we wouldn't extract.). Support for doing this is in the 1.18 release of MediaWiki (This wiki is currently on 1.17 release). Next time the version of the MediaWiki software that commons runs is updated, XMP support should be present. (Hopefully anyways - that's assuming nothing goes wrong) A while back there was a projected date of doing that by August 31, but I'm not sure if that date got pushed back or not, or what really the state of 1.18 is.
For example in 1.18 mediawiki the data extracted for File:Petrorhagia prolifera (1).JPG (after pressing the show extended details button) looks like:
Camera manufacturer | NIKON CORPORATION |
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Camera model | NIKON D300 |
Author | PHILIPP WEIGELL |
Copyright holder | PHILIPP WEIGELL |
Exposure time | 1/400 sec (0.0025) |
F Number | f/18 |
ISO speed rating | 250 |
Date and time of data generation | 11:55, 26 June 2011 |
Lens focal length | 90 mm |
Latitude | 41° 26′ 57.94″ N |
Longitude | 45° 22′ 32.47″ E |
Image title | |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | ViewNX 2.0 W |
File change date and time | 21:24, 18 July 2011 |
White point chromaticity |
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Chromaticities of primarities |
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Colour space transformation matrix coefficients |
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Y and C positioning | Centered |
Pair of black and white reference values |
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Exposure programme | Manual |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitising | 11:55, 26 June 2011 |
Meaning of each component |
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APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 4.3 APEX (f/4.44) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Unknown |
Flash | Flash did not fire |
DateTime subseconds | 83 |
DateTimeOriginal subseconds | 83 |
DateTimeDigitised subseconds | 83 |
Supported Flashpix version | 0,100 |
Colour space | Uncalibrated |
Sensing method | One-chip colour area sensor |
File source | Digital still camera |
Scene type | A directly photographed image |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 135 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Scene control | None |
Contrast | Normal |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Normal |
Subject distance range | Unknown |
Geodetic survey data used | WGS-84 |
GPS tag version | 2.2.0.0 |
Urgency | High (4) |
Label | Green |
Rating (out of 5) | 4 |
For reference, the one property that is in that file but we don't extract is Microsofts rating tag (namespace http://ns.microsoft.com/photo/1.0 , element name Rating). But we do extract the standard xmp rating tag.
Anyways, if you have any questions about XMP/IPTC/EXIF/other types of metadata in mediawiki, please feel free to ask me. Bawolff (talk) 22:28, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Bawolf, cool that's great news. Actually the only tag I really care about is the exif-imagedescription sicne I here put normally some information. And to have this is a real . It seems that returns are not encoded? Thank you --Morray (talk) 12:13, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by returns? For Image Description what we will be doing in 1.18 is merging several types of info to decide what to say for that tag, including exif's Image Description tag (which was already extracted in 1.17) as well as dc:description in XMP, and iptc caption. We first check for exif, if that's not there move on to either iptc or xmp. (following MWG guidelines). Cheers. Bawolff (talk) 21:34, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
- Hi, I though of the iptc part. And by returns I thought of en:Newline. --Morray (talk) 17:42, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
- Oh. At the moment we treat the metadata as if its wikitext (which is probably un-ideal, but it does make urls become linked) so a newline (and other whitespace) will be collapsed in general, but 2 consecutive newlines will go through. Bawolff (talk) 23:16, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
- Hi, I though of the iptc part. And by returns I thought of en:Newline. --Morray (talk) 17:42, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
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WLM
[edit]Hallo Morray, wirklich tolle Bilder, die du für WLM einreichst! Unter Commons sind die jedoch unter Buildings und Cultural heritage monuments "in Munich" kategorisiert, nicht "in München". Du scheinst nicht den WLM-Hochladeassistenten zu benutzen, da wird das gleich berücksichtigt. Bitte kategorisiere weitere Bilder daher unter "Munich" oder noch besser gleich in die entsprechenden Stadtteile, falls du dich da auskennst. Grüße --Bjs (talk) 19:35, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
- Wichtiger Hinweis
- Du hast in einigen deiner Bilder (anscheinend sogar den meisten) nicht die Vorlage {{Wiki Loves Monuments 2011|de}} eingebunden. Das ist aber erforderlich, damit das Bild am Wettbewerb teilnimmt, da die Bilder über die Vorlage ausgewählt werden. Die Einordnung in die Kategorie dient nur der Übersicht. --Bjs (talk) 10:29, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
P.S.:Dateien mit falschen Namen brauchst du nicht löschen zu lassen, du kannst beantragen, sie zu verschieben. Grüße --Bjs (talk) 15:41, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 has finished
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Haworthia herbacea var. herbacea
[edit]Hi Morray, unfortunately not any of your images in Category:Haworthia herbacea var. herbacea shows Haworthia herbacea. Actually these images show very typical specimen of Aloe perfoliata. Here are images of true Haworthia herbacea to compare with: [1] [2] [3] -- Ies (talk) 14:48, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Ies, thanks for the comment. I took the name from the name tag in the botanical garden, but if yiou are sure, feel free to start a renaming. --Morray (talk) 19:57, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
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Location?
[edit]Hi Morray - do you have a photo location for File:Cirsium eriophorum (1).jpg and related files, please? Thanks! - MPF (talk) 11:33, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
- Hi, just added it. Hf--Morray (talk) 14:59, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks! - MPF (talk) 20:13, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
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Picture of the Year voting round 1 open
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Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.
For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.
To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.
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Picture of the Year 2013 R2 Announcement
[edit]Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open!
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Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2013) to produce a single Picture of the Year.
Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.
There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category have continued to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year.
Round 2 will end on 7 March 2014. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2013/Introduction/en Click here to learn more and vote »]
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Picture of the Year 2013 Results Announcement
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Dear Morray,
The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).
- In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
- In the second round, 2919 people voted for the 50 finalists (the top 30 overall and top 2 in each category)
We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:
- 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
- In second place, 155 people voted for an image of "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains) National Park in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
- In third place, 131 people voted for an image of a swallow flying and drinking.
Click here to view the top images »
We also sincerely thank to all 4070 voters for participating and we hope you will return for next year's contest in early 2015. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work.
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 startet in Kürze
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Hallo Morray,
in Kürze ist es wieder soweit. Der nun schon traditionelle Fotowettbewerb Wiki Loves Monuments wird im September zum vierten Mal stattfinden. In ähnlicher Form hatte unlängst der Wettbewerb "Wiki Loves Earth" eine erfolgreiche Premiere. Zu allen bisherigen vier Wettbewerben haben seit 2011 gut 3000 unterschiedliche Teilnehmer (User) ihren Beitrag geleistet. Du warst dabei, und bist auch herzlich eingeladen, am bevorstehenden WLM-Wettbewerb wieder dabei zu sein.
Allein in Deutschland wurden in den letzten drei Jahren im Rahmen von WLM rund 100.000 Fotos zu den insgesamt ca. 850.000 Kulturdenkmalen bundesweit hochgeladen. Jährlich haben sich mehrere Hundert Wiki-Fotographen daran beteiligt. Auch im kommenden Denkmalmonat wird dies gewiss wieder der Fall sein. Der Tag des offenen Denkmals am 14. September bietet bundesweit vielfältige Möglichkeiten, Denkmale nicht nur von außen, sondern auch von innen zu fotografieren. Denkmallisten sind dabei ein wichtiger Orientierungspunkt und zugleich auch Ziel der Einbindung der Fotos. Auch in diesem Jahr sind wieder neue Denkmallisten hinzugekommen, die hilfreich bei der Planung von individuellen oder Gruppen-Fototouren sind und auf eine Bebilderung warten, wie z.B. zu Görlitz oder Zittau. Unter den Landeshauptstädten fehlt nur noch Stuttgart. Aber auch hier ist Licht in Sicht.
In der Mitte Deutschlands hat die Denkmallandschaft der thüringischen Landeshauptstadt Erfurt nun das Licht der Wikipedia-Welt entdeckt. Mehr als 50 Tabellen enthalten 3.700 Denkmale. Allein die wunderschön restaurierte Altstadt umfasst 1.800 Denkmale. Eine von WMDE geförderte WLM-Fototour nach Erfurt am Wochenende vom 29. – 31. August lädt herzlich ein, diese einzigartige Kulturlandschaft zu dokumentieren. Mehr Informationen findest Du auf der Projektseite.
Wir freuen uns auf Deine weiteren Beiträge für Wikimedia-Projekte.
Viel Spaß beim größten Fotowettbewerb der Wiki(m/p)edia wünscht Dir das Orga-Team.
( Bernd Gross, 16. August 2014)
Der WLM-Countdown hat begonnen
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Hallo Morray,
nun ist es wieder soweit. Vom 1. bis zum 30. September findet zum fünften Mal der internationale Wettbewerb Wiki Loves Monuments statt. Im Mittelpunkt steht bekanntlich das Fotografieren von Kulturdenkmalen. Du hast an einem der letzten Fotowettbewerbe teilgenommen und wir freuen uns auf weitere Bildbeiträge von Dir.
Viele interessante Motive, nicht nur Burgen und Schlösser, sondern auch Fachwerkhäuser, Brücken und Brunnen, technische und Industriedenkmale und vieles mehr gibt es noch zu fotografieren, damit sie in der Wikipedia dokumentiert werden können. Nützliche Tipps findest du auf unserer WLM-Projektseite. Du kannst gerne individuell Fototouren durchführen oder aber Dich auch Gruppentouren anschließen. Besonders freuen wir uns auf Fotos, die Lücken in den Denkmallisten der Wikipedia ausfüllen.
Darüber hinaus kannst Du auch an der Arbeit der Jury teilnehmen, die Mitte Oktober die Fotos bewerten und die Gewinner ermitteln wird. Bis zum 15. August kannst du hier Deine Bewerbung einreichen.
Viel Erfolg und Spaß beim größten Fotowettbewerb der Wiki(m/p)edia in den bevorstehenden Wettbewerbswochen wünscht Dir das Orga-Team. Wir freuen uns auf Deine Fotos.
( Bernd Gross, 6. August 2015)
Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2015 is open!
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Important message for file movers
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A community discussion has been closed where the consensus was to grant all file movers the suppressredirect
user right. This will allow file movers to not leave behind a redirect when moving files and instead automatically have the original file name deleted. Policy never requires you to suppress the redirect, suppression of redirects is entirely optional.
Possible acceptable uses of this ability:
- To move recently uploaded files with an obvious error in the file name where that error would not be a reasonable redirect. For example: moving "Sheep in a tree.jpg" to "Squirrel in a tree.jpg" when the image does in fact depict a squirrel.
- To perform file name swaps.
- When the original file name contains vandalism. (File renaming criterion #5)
Please note, this ability should be used only in certain circumstances and only if you are absolutely sure that it is not going to break the display of the file on any project. Redirects should never be suppressed if the file is in use on any project. When in doubt, leave a redirect. If you forget to suppress the redirect in case of file name vandalism or you are not fully certain if the original file name is actually vandalism, leave a redirect and tag the redirect for speedy deletion per G2.
The malicious or reckless breaking of file links via the suppressredirect
user right is considered an abuse of the file mover right and is grounds for immediate revocation of that right. This message serves as both a notice that you have this right and as an official warning. Questions regarding this right should be directed to administrators. --Majora (talk) 21:36, 7 November 2019 (UTC)