User talk:Rachel Helps (BYU)

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Permisos

Hola, perdoda que te escriba en español.

He visto los archivos subidos por ti y he leído lo que has puesto en tu página de usuario. Es por eso que te informo que podrías solicitar el permiso de autoverificado aquí para que todas tus subidas aparezcar ya verificadas. Un saludo --Jcfidy (talk) 09:48, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Anñado en inglés es: Autopatrolled --Jcfidy (talk) 11:15, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Re:File:Dalton-Bust-in-PIVA-LR.jpg

The permission is still dealt with the copyright holder at OTRS. Please addres your concerns in the ticket. --Amitie 10g (talk) 16:31, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

I don't have an OTRS account, so I don't think I can see the ticket. I'll post on the OTRS noticeboard. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 16:34, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:David Dalton.jpg

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Jarekt (talk) 20:38, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

@Jarekt: I added the CC-BY-SA 4.0 tag that the photographer's son gave us permission for. I thought the OTRS request would go through sooner and generate a copyright tag? Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 15:45, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

IRC

Hi. You might find it helpful to join the Wikimedia Commons IRC channel on Freenode (https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-commons is a link to the WWW client) to discuss your work... there are usually quite a few people around. English Wikipedia itself also has a channel, at #wikipedia-en. Revent^talk 04:55, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the invitation @Revent: ! Certainly if I have a time-sensitive or more specific question I'll bring it up in IRC. I like leaving a paper trail of my questions though, just in case other users have similar questions. I've learned a lot from village pump archives. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 17:35, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Understandable, it's just sometimes easier (or less time-consuming) to explain something through an actual 'conversation'... that's the main advantage of IRC, really. Revent^talk 17:40, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Creator Templates for GLAM Uploads

Hi Rachel, I wanted to draw your attention to my recent updates to the uploads in the collection at Category:HBLL_C._R._Savage_collection. You left out the Creator template for the images, which disassociates the collection with the other metadata available through Wikidata and other sources. For future uploads, especially of notable creators, I would recommend including that data: it will help make your collections more resiliant as we integrate more structured data into Commons. Sadads (talk) 14:46, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi Sadads, thank you for your message, and for adding the creator template to the images I've uploaded. I do plan to upload more images, and integrating the metadata better into Commons templates is definitely something I want to improve! I've been having one of my students put images in more image-specific categories, and next time I want to make the image's title the filename. Are there other ways you'd recommend improving the metadata on the images? Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 15:52, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

So I am not a commonist first. I am going to @Jarekt: , because he focuses a lot on improving data. As best as I know, creator and institution templates, alongside the standard copyright templates are the core tools. Categories, help us do a lot later, because most categories can be rapidly translated into structured data statements. Also, if you are looking for other data types, the Artwork template documentation does a good job scoping other templates that can be used (such as the Technique template, which is really useful for labeling stuff created with unique techniques). Sadads (talk) 02:30, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

I can definitely help if you have any questions about technical best practices. Providing proper metadata is a lot of work, but proper use of templates allows your images to be accessible to people that do not speak English. Reading documentation of the templates is a great start. I did not have a chance to work with it yet but Commons:Pattypan uploader sounds like a great tool that might come handy. --Jarekt (talk) 03:02, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Jarekt, the Pattypan uploader is the tool I used to upload the photos in the Category:HBLL_C._R._Savage_collection, and I used the Photograph template. I'm planning to upload more photos from the collection, but I want to improve how I enter the metadata. Right now I'm putting the link to the photo under Source, but maybe it would be more appropriate under accession number? For date, we often don't know the exact year; I can use the "other date" template, but the effort to change the metadata is fairly large and I'm unsure of the benefits of using the template. Are there any photographs or collections that have excellent metadata I could use as an example of what I should strive for in my own metadata? Many of the NYPL's uploads look really good, like thumb|Habit of the sultaness, or empress of the Turks in 1700. La sultane Asseki ou Sultane reine (NYPL b14140320-1638012). They have their own summary template, is that something I should look into? Thanks for the advice, and sorry for all the questions!. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 17:07, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Some collections have metadata that does not fit existing infoboxes, than we write extensions to existing templates to customize them for this of that institution. NYPL uses custom template . To see some examples see Walters collection, Web Gallery of Art, , NARA or Bundesarchiv collections. The more templates you use the more translations happen and more people can use it. As for link back I would add it through link from accession number and the source could be some sort of "donation from ... institution template. I would also use {{Technique}} and {{Size}} templates. Another think to look into is AutoWikiBrowser and its ability to quickly change descriptions of many files, so some of those can be added afterwards. --Jarekt (talk) 04:22, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

File tagging File:Melissa Leilani Larson 2019.jpg

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Patrick Rogel (talk) 22:35, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Understood! I've asked Larson to send the release e-mail. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 22:38, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Stretch Armstrong reunion.jpg

Copyright status: File:Stretch Armstrong reunion.jpg

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I think I fixed this Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 19:34, 12 May 2022 (UTC)