User talk:Dschwen/Archive9

gigapan.org

Hallo Dschwen, schon http://www.gigapan.org gesehen? Hätte ich hier auch gerne :-). --Kolossos (talk) 20:52, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Meinst Du den Viewer? Ja, der waere nicht schlecht. Toll waere auch so einen Pano-Roboter zu haben. Aber was da so auf die Seite hochgeladen wird finde ich nicht so toll. Da geht es wohl eher um Pixelquantitaet als -qualitaet. Stitchingfehler noch und noecher, krumme Projektionen, Gosting, veraenderliche Belichtungsbedingungen. Na ja... --Dschwen (talk) 21:49, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Ja, es gibt da wirklich auch viel Mist. Aber die Leute lernen dazu, so sind die neusten Bilder meist besser als die Mostpopular's. Und manche Bilder sind wirklich interesssant: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=10660

Ich bin jetzt übrigens auch bald stolzer Besitzer eines Bots, dann schauen wir mal. --Kolossos (talk) 20:44, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Ja, jetzt hab ich das Ding und ich habe gleich mal meine Sony R1 draufgeklemmt, das ging von der Größe her gerade so. Mit meinem ersten Versuch aus 49 Einzelbildern bin ich dann aber doch recht zufrieden: Image:Dresden-Bruehl-Terasse-gp.jpg. Besser wäre das mit einer PhaseOne wohl auch nicht gewurden. Das hochgeladene Bild ist in der Auflösung auf ein Viertel reduziert, mehr möchte ich Commons im Moment nicht zumuten. Es wird also wirklich Zeit für einen neuen Viewer. ;-) --Kolossos (talk) 18:15, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Erstmal glueckwunsch! Mit der Aufloesung wuerd ich trotzdem nicht geizen. Ich hab auch schon groessere Bilder hochgeladen. In deinem Pano hat der Wind wohl ab und an mal am Stativ gewackelt. Meine EOS 5D pass dann wohl eher nicht drauf, oder was meinst Du? Kommt das Teil mit eigener Stitchingsoftware, oder nutzt Du Hugin? --Dschwen (talk) 20:37, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Ja, am Stativ werde ich noch echt arbeiten müssen, das Ding war recht billig, auch auf einen Schwenk- Neigekopf werde ich zugunsten besserer Steifigkeit verzichten. Deine EOS 5D wird da wirklich nicht drauf passen, du bräuchtest eher http://www.thegadgetworks.com/index.html. Wobei dabei das mit dem Nodalpunkt nicht stimmt. Es gab auch Bastler mit Teleskophalterungen und Handy-Steuerung: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuGIoE9QR2E Cool. Bei dem Sticher gibt man die Anzahl der übereinander gemachten Bilder an, damit weiß er auch wo kontrastloser Himmel in etwa hingehört. Das ganze ist recht pflegeleicht und einfach zu bedienen. http://gc.cs.cmu.edu/stitcher/ ist frei und soll Opensource werden, im Moment leider nur für Win+Mac. In anderthalb Stunden hätte Hugin diese 240 Megapixel sicher mit 1 GB Rechner auch nicht hinbekommen. --Kolossos (talk) 10:42, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Some difficulties in displaying all scopes correctly in Commons:Valued images/sample

Hallo Daniel,

Occasionally there are some problems in correctly displaying the scope for an image in the sample gallery. Like, currently, we have Image:Pula Aerial View.jpg on display, but here the displayed scope also includes the secons parameter to {{VI}}. I think what is special to this VI is that it has two links in its scope: [[w:Pula|Pula]], [[w:Croatia|Croatia]]. Maybe you have some regex filter which does not take this use case into account? -- Slaunger (talk) 06:31, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Benjamin Harrison Home.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good enough for QI --Massimo Catarinella 22:31, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Indiana World War Memorial interior.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments I like the perspective, some minor noise, good lighting. Dori 02:15, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Suggest DschewnBot description mention C:Geocoding

Maybe the User:DschwenBot page should mention its relevance to Commons:Geocoding so people who notice the bot will more easily discover that community. -- SEWilco (talk) 17:00, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

That's an excellent idea. I'll put it right in. --Dschwen (talk) 17:03, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Coords

Hi,

Is it a idea to place all user that have given there geodata in a category. That if you place the userbox you can be find in the category, that why it is easy to find users.

Cheers, Sterkebaktalk 21:02, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Yest, that idea is being discussed at Template talk:User location. We just haven't agreed on the category title :-). Meanwhile you can use Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:User location. --Dschwen (talk) 21:28, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Civil war reenactment 1.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments QI, but please geocode --Massimo Catarinella 20:53, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Civil war reenactment 2.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments QI, but please geocode --Massimo Catarinella 20:53, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image Image:Indiana State Capitol dome 2.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Indiana State Capitol dome 2.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

--Simonizer (talk) 09:10, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Notice of namespace-rename "Image" -> "File"

Dear user, the MediaWiki developers recently announced that the "Image:" namespace is going to be renamed to "File:". "Image:" will remain an alias. The canonical namespace name wgCanonicalNamespace will change from "Image" to "File".

I noticed that you use wgCanonicalNamespace in either your monobook.js page or a JavaScript file in your userspace (check this list).

Please check and replace all occurrences of

wgCanonicalNamespace == "Image"

with

wgNamespaceNumber == 6

to ensure that your scripts keep working. Thanks! --Dschwen (talk) 18:41, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Somewhat disappointing, as the whole point of CanonicalNamespace was that it's not supposed to change. Rather than use NamespaceNumber, I just went ahead and changed to File now despite it breaking my scripts for a week. Superm401 - Talk 06:27, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Another small favour

Hi Daniel,

I am lazy, and I was wondering if you could add a tiny bit of functionality to VICbot in relation to doing MVR closures. Specifically I would like to enquire if it would be possible for you to implement Closing most valued reviews, step 4 by copying processed MVRs to the relevant monthly log page? Saw the Biden WP:FPC in passing. Gee, what a terrible review... -- Slaunger (talk) 12:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

YASF

Hi Daniel,

Yet Another Small Favour:

We have converged on a sequence of VI subpages to use for topical VI galleries. The list is here:

Expandable list of topical VI gallery subpages

• Commons:Valued images/Activities/Sports
• Commons:Valued images/Activities/Arts
• Commons:Valued images/Activities/Techniques
• Commons:Valued images/Activities/Other
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Amphibians
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Arthropods/Spiders, mites and horseshoe crabs (Chelicerata)
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Arthropods/Dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata)
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Arthropods/Grasshoppers, crickets, mantis, bugs, etc. (Hemipterodea)
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Arthropods/Beetles (Coleoptera)
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Arthropods/Ants, bees and wasps (Hymenoptera)
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Arthropods/Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera)
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Arthropods/Flies and mosquitoes (Diptera)
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Arthropods/Mayflies (Ephemeroptera)
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Arthropods/Mecoptera
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Arthropods/Raphidioptera
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Arthropods/Other insects
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Arthropods/Crustaceans
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Birds
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Cnidaria
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Echinoderms
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Fish
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Mammals/Domesticated
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Mammals/Wild
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Mammals/Zoo
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Molluscs
• Commons:Valued images/Animals/Reptiles
• Commons:Valued images/Concepts and ideas/Religious
• Commons:Valued images/Concepts and ideas/Social and cultural
• Commons:Valued images/Concepts and ideas/Other
• Commons:Valued images/Events
• Commons:Valued images/Food and drink
• Commons:Valued images/Historical/Culture
• Commons:Valued images/Historical/Events
• Commons:Valued images/Historical/Wars, revolutions and battles
• Commons:Valued images/Historical/Documents
• Commons:Valued images/Historical/Other
• Commons:Valued images/Microscopic
• Commons:Valued images/Natural phenomena
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Cameras, optics and microscopes
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Electronics and electrical
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Geological objects/Fossils
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Geological objects/Rocks, minerals and elements
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Household items
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Industrial
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Transport and vehicles/Aerial trams
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Transport and vehicles/Automobiles
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Transport and vehicles/Balloons, aeroplanes, helicopters, etc.
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Transport and vehicles/Boats and ships
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Transport and vehicles/Cycles and motorcycles
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Transport and vehicles/Railway
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Transport and vehicles/Steam powered
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Transport and vehicles/Other
• Commons:Valued images/Objects/Other
• Commons:Valued images/People/Artists
• Commons:Valued images/People/Athletes
• Commons:Valued images/People/Leaders
• Commons:Valued images/People/People at work
• Commons:Valued images/People/Scientists and experts
• Commons:Valued images/People/Other
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Countries and regions
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Cities and towns
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Buildings/Castles, palaces and fortresses
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Buildings/Historical
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Buildings/Industrial buildings
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Buildings/Ports, airports and railway stations
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Buildings/Religious buildings and shrines
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Buildings/Skyscrapers and towers
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Buildings/Other
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Natural/Mountain sites
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Natural/Oceans and seas
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Natural/Rivers and lakes
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Natural/Islands and shore sites
• Commons:Valued images/Places/Natural/Other
• Commons:Valued images/Plants/Flowers
• Commons:Valued images/Plants/Foliage, etc.
• Commons:Valued images/Plants/Fruit, berries, seeds, etc.
• Commons:Valued images/Plants/Fungi
• Commons:Valued images/Plants/Lichen
• Commons:Valued images/Plants/Trees
• Commons:Valued images/Plants/Whole plants
• Commons:Valued images/Plants/Terminology
• Commons:Valued images/Science/Astronomy
• Commons:Valued images/Science/Engineering
• Commons:Valued images/Science/Mathematics
• Commons:Valued images/Science/Medicine, biology and biotechnology
• Commons:Valued images/Science/Physics and chemistry
• Commons:Valued images/Science/Computer science
• Commons:Valued images/Works of art/Paintings and pictorial arts
• Commons:Valued images/Works of art/Statues, monuments and plaques
• Commons:Valued images/Works of art/Music
• Commons:Valued images/Works of art/Architecture
• Commons:Valued images/Works of art/Other

I have created all the subpages (now, that was boring!) with empty galleries. Could you make a VI tool for adding newly promoted VIs into a relevant topical gallery. Just to make it a challenge and avoid complete reuse of the QI tool, I would like to enquire if it would be possible to use the scope as caption for each image, and, if possible sort them alphabetically by scope in each gallery? Cheers, -- Slaunger (talk) 22:33, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and it would be really nice is the subpage with imges to assign a topical VI gallery is initialized with all VIs so far. -- Slaunger (talk) 22:38, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Daniel, have you thought about this "favour"? Do you think it is feasible, do you have time for this? Most of it would be very similar to QI categorization, but maybe some specific issues will arise with an equivalent to the QIhelper JS script (since, ideally, not only the image, but also the scope should be displayed). I thank you in advance if you can tell us your opinion about it. --Eusebius (talk) 20:41, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Daniel, I have news about that... I've adapted QIhelper.js in a VIhelper.js (please don't look at file history :-P), and Commons:Valued images/Recently promoted is now ready to accept images. Input (by VICbot?) should be lines in the form: "File:foobar.jpg|VI scope (with links)", and output will be in the form: "File:foobar.jpg|{{VICbotMove|VI scope (with links)|Some/Path}}. Then, the bot should remove the line and include "File:foobar.jpg|VI scope (with links)" in the gallery (already created by Slaunger) at Commons:Valued images/Some/Path. There are currently examples at Commons:Valued images/Recently promoted. So, if you agree to modify VICbot to take care of that stuff, it will be a little bit different from QI categorization, since scope has to be processed as well (and it can include one or several links). Best regards, --Eusebius (talk) 22:22, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi. EuseBot does the job, but it would be really better if VICbot could populate Commons:Valued images/Recently promoted itself at promotion time, since it already has direct access to the newly promoted VIs. No big deal though, as long as I don't pay for CPU time on the toolserver. --Eusebius (talk) 12:34, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Pano question

Hi. I'm wondering if there is any template that bring the Image:360° Tolland Trig Station Panorama.jpg as if the image is totally joined? Bidgee (talk) 11:34, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

unfortunately this is currently not possible (not supported by the panorama viewer). If the edges to not join up then it is not a 360° image and therefore inappropriately named. What did you use to assemble the image? I'd consider restitching so it joins up. --Dschwen (talk) 14:08, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

The image is fine[1] (Both ends line up fine and is just how I viewed it in person). Only issue I have is the powerlines as it was windy. Software used was Panorama Maker 4. Bidgee (talk) 06:35, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, the image is indeed fine. I added the horizon parameter to straighten out the horizon. The value is the percentage of the image that is sky. In your image the horizon is about 65% of the imageheight down from the top. Don't worry about the powerline. --Dschwen (talk) 12:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

VICbot not running

Hi Daniel,

It seems like VICbot has not been running for 1-2 days. Has it gone on an extended weekend? -- Slaunger (talk) 21:21, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey Slaunger. The bot has been running, but due to a replication downtime it does not see the lates developments on the VIC page. Give it some time. As soon as the db has caught up it'll continue working. Sorry. Also, I'm kind of busy with work right now, so the bot extension will have to wait a while. --Dschwen (talk) 02:07, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Ok Daniel. Thanks for the explanation. And I am full of understanding wrt. the bot work. As we are all doing voluntary unpaid work here, bot work should be done when there is time for it. -- Slaunger (talk) 06:26, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Are you sure nothing is wrong with VICbot? It has not run for a long time now whereas I have noted QICbot has processed nomination, while VICs closed more than three days ago are still staled on the candidates page. Do you have any idea when the replication lag will be fixed? -- Slaunger (talk) 22:09, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Raising th bar

Hi Daniel,

You might want take a look at this discussion -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:49, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Glacier Express

Daniel - I work for a company that is just launching a footwear collection for Wenger. I am wondering if I can use the image of the Rhaetian Railway Glacier Express to help represent the Swiss Heritage of the brand. Would you allow me to use this picture or do you have others that might help to represent the heritage?

Regards,

Caleb celiason@wengerfootwear.com

From User:Myrecovery, To User:Dschwen

Thank you for warning me. I have stopped unnecessary editing in talk pages. I have question with creating and using user templates in user pages of Wikimedia Commons. I tried but did not understand the WikiText Language for creating and formatting templates and tables. I am interested in learning advanced level of vector graphics, HTML, Wikitext and creating templates and tables.Please tell me the WikiText tag for the substituton of the HTML tag <br />.

You will get the effect of <br /> by inserting a blank line. And you can replace your span markup with <pre></pre>. pre is semantic markup (which means the tag describes what the text is for, and not just how it should look), span-usage like in your post is not, and should be avoided as well :-). There is no specific markup for creating templates, just to include them, but I think you know how that works ({{templatename}} or {{User:Myrecovery/myLittleTemplate}}). Table syntax is described in meta:Help:Tables, just check out the examples and play with them (somewhere in your user space, for example here). Also, please sign your posts with ~~~~ (that way you can use the subject line for the actual subject ;-) --Dschwen (talk) 14:44, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

FPX bot needed

Hi Daniel,

I wonder if it would be easy to program a bot to remove FPX tagged images from FPC and arquive them in the log page. FPC closing has become quite a burden and that would represent a significant help. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:31, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Some questions from User:Myrecovery

Hey, please reply to these qustions.

• What should be discussed in user talk page
• How can I sort the Babels/Userboxes in my user page like they are sorted in the user page of User:Leyo?

--Amit Gomes (talk) 14:17, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

• People will come to you if they have questions that should be discussed on your talk page. When I just signed up I was always disappointed when I didn't get new messages. As you can see that has changed, quite a bit. The more involved you get, the mpre discussion will take place at your talk page.
• check out the {{Babel|de|en-3|fr-3|es-1|la-1}} template on Leyo's page. That is how he includes the language boxes. The order of the language codes is the order in which the babel boxes appear. --Dschwen (talk) 17:12, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Template:Tmbox

Good day, why is this out of project scope? I can clearly see it's usage & why does it need "consensus"? --Kanonkas_(talk) 15:45, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello. I commented on that on the VP. One user wanting a cosmetic change to his talk page is no reason to import a set of templates from en.wp and bloat our global css in the process. Tmbox is for article talk page boxes, mostly maintenance boxes. There is no equivalent use for this on commons (yet). --Dschwen (talk) 16:57, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Well it was still in use on just one template & was created before that VP thread if I recall & I can't see any "consensus" problem with that. --Kanonkas_(talk) 17:27, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

It was used on two or three pages. And there is definitely a need for consensus when it comes to adding stuff to the global files that are served to each user. A template that is used on a handfull of pages does not justify that. --Dschwen (talk) 18:29, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Huh? I'm just using this for Template:!vote and that "global stuff" doesn't even make sense to me, I guess it's because of that VP thread you're saying that but what's the big deal to just leave it & have it on just that template above? Do we need consensus for that? --Kanonkas_(talk) 19:30, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

If that "global stuff" doesn't make sense to you we can stop discussing this right now and continue once you've read up on the global style sheet file, and its connection to the template. --Dschwen (talk) 19:49, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

No as this template was being used on that template, just because it got into a debate about "global stuff" doesn't give you the right to delete it saying there is no consensus, nor out of project scope as it is being used. I fail to see where it says that en.wp stuff can't be imported here & be used. --Kanonkas_(talk) 20:54, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, right now I do not have the time to go into a lot of detail (busy in real life). Again, please come back when you understand that "global stuff". Copying a template over, just to use it in one other template does not make sense to me. And when the themplate needs additional CSS style declarations added to the site wide stylesheet it makes even less sense. --Dschwen (talk) 21:33, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Well it's fine by me if you can improve this, then restore/recreate it or ask somebody else to fix the messy code. Best regards, --Kanonkas_(talk) 23:55, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

VICbot and the "subpage" parameter

Hi, I'm working in the VI project and it appears that VICbot misses a little feature. When putting the VI template on the promoted image, it does not take care of the "subpage" parameter when it should be set. It is the case when a same image is a VI for several scopes (for instance both VI templates on this image point to the same subpage), or when the image is modified during the reviewing process (see for instance this VICbot action and my correction). The initial discussion about that is here. I thank you in advance if you can improve the bot. Nothing urgent, of course! --Eusebius (talk) 13:58, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

note to self

Trigg Tower coords

Camera location	37° 29′ 16.05″ N, 88° 44′ 10.54″ W	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap

Dazu eine Frage: Gibt es etwas, was dagegen spricht in der Vorlage die Kategorisierung in Category:Media with locations auf bestimmte Namensräume zu beschränken? Deine Diskussionsseite (und auch andere) müsste ja nicht unbedingt kategorisiert werden, oder? --Leyo 17:29, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

m:Talk:Spam_blacklist#Logging_tool

I recall you had asked Herby about this. If you're still interested, we're looking for help.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 21:34, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

viewing panoramic images

Hallo Daniel,

This lunchtime I noticed that you have implemented a panoramic viewer within commons. Great! Although most of my stitches are less than 360 degrees, I got hold of one of my 360degrees images Image:Ardnish Peninsula01 360 2004-07-25.jpg to see how it works. Dankeschön. -- Klaus with K (talk) 14:05, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Heine's Camera location

Hallo Daniel,

Image:Brocken_Heine_memorial.jpg enthält in den EXIF-Daten GPS-Daten. Die hat aber der DschwenBot noch immer nicht gefunden, welche in später hochgeladenen Fotos (etwa Image:Harz_Neuer_Goetheweg.jpg) hingegen schon. Woran liegt das? Sollte ich die GPS-Daten von Hand eintragen? --DorisAntony (talk) 15:25, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Komisch. Es gab vor einiger Zeit Datenbankprobleme, etwa als das Bild hochgeladen wurde. Daran koennte es liegen. --Dschwen (talk) 21:25, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Daran habe ich auch schon gedacht, aber sind die nicht weitgehend behoben? Das gleiche Problem hat de:User:Slap882 mit einigen seiner Bilder wie etwa Image:Kabul TV Hill view.jpg, Image:Sorobi waterside.jpg, Image:Jalalabad Road 2.jpg, Image:Kabul Baghe Babur.jpg und Image:Kabul Babur tomb.jpg. Habe ich eine Möglichkeit, den DschwenBot konkret für diese Bilder aufzurufen? Und falls nicht, soll ich warten, ob der DschwenBot bei den Bildern noch mal „vorbeikommt“ oder die Daten direkt von Hand eintragen? --DorisAntony (talk) 23:15, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Oh, manuell eine Botbearbeitung anzufordern ist eine gute idee! Ich mache da mal ein Template {{GPS EXIF}} fuer. Der Bot kann dann einfach nach diesen Templates suchen, das Bild behandeln, und ggf. das Template entfernen. --Dschwen (talk) 23:20, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Ich habe das Template mal in die fraglichen Bilder reingesetzt (hoffentlich richtig). Bin gespannt … --DorisAntony (talk) 13:01, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Jo, ich muss den Bot noch anpassen. Versuche ich heute mal. --Dschwen (talk) 13:40, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Hallo Dschwen, zuerst mal danke vielmals für den tollen Bot, das wird vielen Uploadern, inklusive mir, viel Arbeit abnehmen. Bei zwei meiner Fotos hat das auch schon gut geklappt ([2], [3]), bei zwei anderen allerdings noch nicht ([4], [5] - zu diesen beiden habe ich aber schon den GPS EXIF-template hinzugefügt, damit der Bot drauf anspringt, sobald das implementiert ist). Meine Frage dazu: Könnte es sein, dass die GPS-Daten in den letzteren beiden Bildern fehlerhaft/für den Bot unlesbar sind? In den letzten beiden Bildern habe ich die Daten vollautmatisch mittels eines Sony GPS-Receivers eintragen lassen ([6]). Bei den beiden ersteren Bildern (Panoramen) habe ich die Daten mittels exiftool manuell eingetragen. Picasa erkennt die Daten in allen vier Fotos. Warum trotzdem der Unterschied? Danke, Florian Prischl (talk) 19:36, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Ok, ich glaube ich bin dem Fehler auf der Spur. Bei einem der mit {{GPS EXIF}} getaggten Bildern fehlt das GPSAltutude Feld, worueber der Bot stolpert. Werde ich im laufe des Tages reparieren. --Dschwen (talk) 20:56, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Super, danke! --Florian Prischl (talk) 13:27, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Es funktioniert :-) Danke! Übrigens habe ich bei meinen Fotos keinen Zusammenhang zwischen im GeoSetter ([7]) (1.) manuell versus (2.) aus dem Sony-GPS-Tracker eingetragenen versus (3.) aus Sony-GPS-Tracker eingetragenen und manuell korrigierten GPS-Daten und funktioniert bzw. funktioniert nicht feststellen können. Zur Kontrolle verwende ich übrigens XnView, der alle Varianten per „GPS-Position in Google Maps zeigen“ korrekt anzeigte. --DorisAntony (talk) 10:37, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Danke für die Nachforschungen und die Information! --Florian Prischl (talk) 13:27, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Opinion needed

Hi! Since you're one of the more active admins on the project, could you let me know you opinion on this: w:Wikipedia talk:Upload#Problem with text? Nichalp (talk) 13:16, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:CH Leontopodium alpinum 2.jpg

Hi Daniel.

Could you geotag this one? It is up for review as being our most valuable Edelweis image, but it won't pass without geodata. -- Slaunger (talk) 21:59, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Done. --Dschwen (talk) 22:14, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Semperoper und WP:GEO

Hallo Daniel, mein Semperopernbild hast du mit "tilted" bewertet. Damit meinst du bestimmt die vertikale Stauchung im oberen Bildteil. Oder? Mit der Bewertung kann ich leben. Dazu habe ich eine Frage an dich, mein neuer Gigapan-Stitcher bietet mir zwei Projektionsarten an,1. shearical/equirectangular und 2. die Mercatorprojektion. Die erste Projektion ist für die Kugelpanoramen von Google Earth gut. Die zweite sollte wie man es von Kartenanwendungen wie OSM kennt, die Proportionen beibehalten, dementsprechend nehme ich zumeist die zweite Projektionsart. Meine Frage ist nun, ob die Mercatorprojektion auch für Architekturfotografie unge-"tilte" Bilder liefert? Ich bin mir da nicht schlüssig da ich mit einigen meiner Bilder ganz zufrieden bin, mit anderen nicht. Und mathematisch bin ich mir da noch unschlüssig.

Das Bild Kippt leicht nach links. Das sieht man sowohl an horizontalen (immer problemetisch) als auch an vertikalen (eindeutiger) Linien im Bild. --Dschwen (talk) 21:18, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Stimmt, auch wenn es nicht so schrecklich viel ist. --Kolossos (talk) 18:14, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Was?! Mercator behaelt doch keine Proportionen bei! Mercator behaelt Winkel bei. Ich benutze meistens Equirectangular, eine halbwegs laengentreue Projektion, die gute Eigenschaften hat, wenn der Horizont richtig liegt (senkrecht beleibt senkrecht, proportionen werden netuerlich wiedergegeben). --Dschwen (talk) 21:23, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Ich meinte mit Proportionen die Höhen- zu Breitenverhältnisse in verschiedenen Bildteilen, also damit genau wie du die Winkel. Um auf möglichst viel Auflösung zu kommen, gehe ich momentan halt recht nah an Objekte ran und experimentiere so mit vertikalen Richtungen der Kamera >50°. Ich denke, in solche Verlegenheiten kommst du selten.

Jetzt gibt es aus meiner Sicht aber zwei Dingen:

• Wenn ich z.B. einen Weihnachtsbaum fotografiere, sollten alle Weihnachtskugeln kreisförmig bleiben, soviel ist klar. Ich denke das macht Mercator.
• Gebäude haben Fenster in der vertikalen Ebene, sprich durch das vertikale Schwenken der Kamera schaut man mit unterschiedlichen Winkeln auf die Fenster. Ich bin noch nicht sicher, was das dann ist.

Ich habe jetzt das Porgram noch etwas getestet, und mit verschiedenen Einstellungen genau die selben Ergebnisse bekommen, da ist wohl noch etwas buggy im beta. --Kolossos (talk) 18:14, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Ja richtig, in diese Verlegenheit komme ich nicht so oft (meine beste Panoramalinse ist die 150mm Makro Linse von Sigma, prima Abbildungseigenschaften ueber den ganzen Frame). Und wenn ich mal groessere Winkel abbilde, dann pfeiffe ich auch mal auf gerade Linien. Eine Fisheyeprojektion sieht manchmal sogar natuerlicher aus. --Dschwen (talk) 21:20, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Der zweite Punkt ist unter: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung#Auslagerung_der_Einwohnerzahlen_in_Vorlagen.2C_Ersatz_f.C3.BCr_Einwohnerzahl zu finden. Danke. --Kolossos (talk) 18:14, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Hm. Ich hatte mal drum gebeten, dass die Einwohnerzahlen immer in den Links auftauchen, da ich so die Moeglichkeit habe alle Daten, die ich brauche aus der Datenbank zu extrahieren. Damit bin ich unabhaengig von den aetzenden Dumps. Aber das wird ja vielleicht besser. Ich wuerde allerdings lieber die Daten von WikipediaWorld benutzen, also sollten wir Lobbyarbeit leisten, dass die Vorlagenauswertung auf jeden Fall funktioniert. --Dschwen (talk) 21:18, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Great Blue Heron 1.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Fine picture, neglected animal (could have combed itself !) --B.navez 18:09, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! LC-39 Observation gantry pano.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments This is FP material. --Massimo Catarinella 22:52, 11 November 2008 (UTC) But the sun isn't shining and the sky isn't blue! --Dschwen 23:33, 11 November 2008 (UTC) So, since when is a blue sky a criterion for a FP? The picture is of a good quality, doesn't show stitching errors and has a nice composition. Further more, the picture isn't hazy due to the weather. --Massimo Catarinella 19:45, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! LC-39 Observation gantry pano2.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Great view! --Mrmariokartguy 02:39, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

VICbot bug: sample images

Hi Daniel. A problem has occured twice with the same picture, when VICbot chose it for its "random sample of four valued images". Here, the scope "Pula, Croatia" has been truncated (to the second pipe) and I don't really know why. Thanks in advance if you can have a look at it some time. Regards, Eusebius (talk) 07:10, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

★ An image you created has been reviewed and promoted ★
Congratulations! The image you created was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope:
Leontopodium alpinum (Edelweiss).

review

•  Info Not geotagged, but if this appears to be the best candidate we could ask Dschwen (creator) to geotag it. --Eusebius (talk) 12:29, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
•  Info It is geotagged now. -- Slaunger (talk) 22:33, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
  • Thanks! --Eusebius (talk) 07:18, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
•  Support - I prefer this one because the whole plant is shown -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 16:35, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Indeed, scope would have to be inflorescence or flower otherwise. Lycaon (talk) 15:20, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Scores: 
1. 5668 - Schynige Platte - Leontopodium alpinum.JPG: 0
2. CH Leontopodium alpinum 2.jpg: +2 <--
=>
Image:5668 - Schynige Platte - Leontopodium alpinum.JPG: Declined.
Image:CH Leontopodium alpinum 2.jpg: Promoted. <--

--Eusebius (talk) 14:53, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Anhinga.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Very nice pose, quality looks ok to me. --Eusebius 19:27, 14 November 2008 (UTC) Very good indeed. Lycaon 17:41, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Eastern Lubber Grasshopper.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Excellent image, great job capturing a finicky subject. --J.smith 17:40, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Fabulous cow picture!

Hi Daniel,

My name is Alan Edwards and I am the Assistant Editor at 'The School Magazine', a government publication that goes out to public schools across the State of New South Wales in Australia. I would love to use your cow picture on the cover of one of our issues in 2009 as we are featuring a few articles, stories and poems on cows.

I am not sure how I go about getting your permission to do this. We are a non-profit government publication and the magazine would be printed in a once-only run of about 40,000. It is then read by Grade 5 kids and I know they would get a real kick out of that shot!

We have a limited budget, but can pay for the use of the image if you wish. If you could get back to me, it would be much appreciated.

Best regards,

Alan Edwards Assistant Editor The School Magazine <alan.edwards@det.nsw.edu.au>

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! US1 end Key West.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Nice composition, great colors Manco Capac 15:16, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:Castillo de San Marcos pano1.jpg

Just reviewing for QI noticed that there is a lady, pink/white top on the grass (LH side of the image) that is missing her legs, it doesnt look like the terrain is the cause. Gnangarra 09:09, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! CTA Quincy station 2.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments good --Mbdortmund 01:01, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Night speed limit.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Why is the 45 sign looks like it has been cut in half? --Mrmariokartguy 14:11, 18 November 2008 (UTC), Now explained in the caption. --Dschwen 15:24, 18 November 2008 (UTC) caption clarifies the reason, a night shot to match would make a good VI set Gnangarra 09:12, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! US Southernmost.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments good composition, interesting mundane subject, maybe a crop of the group of three people on RHS will strengthen the composition Gnangarra 09:00, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Template:Painting, and Templates used there-in, like e.g. "Oil on canvas"

Hi Dschwen, Mike L. sent me ;).

Would you please be as kind as to pass by Template_talk:Painting#Hopefully_more_clear_now and comment on my idea of a popup-or-similar design for "media used"? (=question/note 3). Thanks. Wolfgang (talk) 18:20, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

This should be easy to implement. I commented on the linked discussion page. --Dschwen (talk) 18:40, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

TX, and eod here. Wolfgang (talk) 18:58, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Remark on noise reduction

Hi, thanks for your reviews. When you say you don't like my use of denoising, do you mean in that particular picture or in my pictures in general? In your opinion, which software should a beginner use for denoising? Thanks in advance, --Eusebius (talk) 20:59, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

That was a more general observation after seeing a couple of your pics. IMO a beginner should use no denoising. Denoising is a destructive editing step. It's fine on a blurred background or the sky, but denoising is not a silver bullet against low quality imaging devices. Try to use a low ISO number in your camera to prevent noise when taking the pictures. --Dschwen (talk) 22:02, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer. In pictures that are a few months old, like the Parthenon, my ISO settings were not good, but now my camera is almost constantly at 64 ISO and I almost always have noise in the sky, this is why I use denoising on most pictures... --Eusebius (talk) 06:11, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Negative Höhenangaben werden vom dschwenbot falsch aus den EXIF-Daten übernommen

Hallo, z.B.: . Das negative Vorzeichen wird anscheinend ignoriert. Die Höhendaten werden zwar momentan, glaube ich, nicht verwendet, aber besser wäre es doch wenn sie richtig übernommen werden. Vielleicht hast du irgendwann Zeit danach zu schauen. Dabei noch nachträglich Vielen Dank, der Bot stellt eine erhebliche Erleichterung dar! --Berthold Werner (talk) 08:04, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Danke fuer den Hinweis! Ich muss das EXIF Feld GPSAltitudeRef mit auswerten. Wenn da eine 1 drin steht ist die Hoehe unter dem Meeresspiegel. --Dschwen (talk) 21:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Castillo de San Marcos pano1.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Lady on the LH edge in the grass area is missing her legs. Gnangarra 09:07, 21 November 2008 (UTC) That is due to a small hill in front of her. There is no stitching seam near that woman. --Dschwen 13:46, 21 November 2008 (UTC) Very good one. I like it. --Lestath 18:16, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Noise in Hubble Ultra Deep Field photograph

G'day, I noted that you have a physics background. There is some discussion at w:Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Hubble Ultra Deep Field about the source of noise in the replacement version. I wondered if you might be able to weigh in with your opinion on the matter. Noodle snacks (talk) 00:21, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Dear Mr. Snacks ;-). I commented on that page. While the edits are pleasing to the eye, and the noise is IMO a simple physical limitation of the imaging device (thermal noise, which is independent of the actual image) I still would not feel comfortable editing an image that has been worked on by professional astronomers. Well, maybe if the edit is mentioned in the caption it is no big deal. --Dschwen (talk) 01:00, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Joliet Prison.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Verticals are a little bit disturbing, but I failed to find any "obvious" flaws. --Eusebius 08:46, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:Loxahatchee boardwalk.jpg

Daniel. Concerning this image. I don't want to pick a fight over this with you. I respect you here too much for that. The thing is that in this particular case it is almost impossible, with all the epiphytic lichens to reach a DOF that does justice to the reality. You're bound to end up with blurry stretches whether close-up or in the background. Sorry about that. Lycaon (talk) 19:44, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Its alright. The picture was about the boardwalk, replacing a picture in the Loxahatchee article on en.wp. I have better pictures of the lichens and will upload them soon. In any case I withdrew the picture as it is not worth the fuss (unlike my Kankakee aerial shot - that is worth the fuss  ;-) ). --Dschwen (talk) 20:22, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Meinungsbilder/GFDL_1.2-only

Hallo, hat zwar nix mit Commons zu tuen, aber hast du schon http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/GFDL_1.2-only_für_Dateien gesehen. --Kolossos (talk) 11:58, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Kankakee aerial.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments {{{3}}}

vG again

Hi, would you please, in favour of vG, mankind and user:W. make {{:Creator:Vincent Willem van Gogh}} collapsible/dropdown/popup? I meanwhile hate reading again-and-again what was partially written by myself ;]]]

I besides think that such sample which I'd widely use within next 4 weeks might be discussed afterwards, and possibly might be used in other "creator" templates as well. In case you disagree on my proposal, please leave a note here anyways.
TX. Wolfgang (talk) 13:40, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Václav Havel.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Fine portrait --B.navez 14:34, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Urbana Free Library entrance.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments {{{3}}}

MediaWiki:QICSigs.js

This script prevents me from posting at Commons:Quality images candidates/candidate list. I think the end of function convertSignatues should read:

   ...
   if( QICSigs.old_onsubmit ) return QICSigs.old_onsubmit();
   return true;
 },

but I'm reluctant to change a script that's been used for so long. FF2 at least requires onsubmit handlers to return true if the submission is to proceed, and false if not. Apparently not returning anything is seen as a "false" by FF2. The script does properly replace the four tildes by my username and timestamp, but then does not submit the form. On the upload form, i always return a value (either true or the old submit handler's return value). BTW, are you sure that oldonsubmit is always a callable function? Can't it also be a string if it's defined in the HTML source as <form onsubmit="foo; return true;">... ? Because of that, I have UploadForm.call_onsubmit... Lupo 14:11, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

You might be right. But the fact that nobody complained so far makes me wonder :-). I've added it anyways. There certainly is no harm to it. --Dschwen (talk) 15:57, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Nobody complaining about it is what made me refrain from touching that script :-) Anyway, it works now. Thanks! Lupo 16:21, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and of course you are right about the onsubmit string thing. But who would set it to a string? I'd rather not clutter up my code for a fringe case that cannot happen (unless the mediawiki developers make a really ugly change). And script editors who change the onsubmit into a string should be blocked anyways ;-) --Dschwen (talk) 16:00, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Sure :-) Lupo 16:21, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Curious

Hi, how can you tell that this picture has been downsized? --Eusebius (talk) 21:25, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Twelve megapixel is rather small for a panoramic image like this, and the image is too sharp. Yep. Too sharp. Call me greedy, but I'd prefer if people upload their images as large as possible and do not hold back. Downscaling is essentially just bs'ing the reviewers. --Dschwen (talk) 21:55, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

OK, a guess based on experience then... I understand the downsampling issue (although I'm not sure I'm totally convinced that the no-downsampling QIC policy is really fair) but my aim was not to trigger another debate on the subject! Thanks for your reply. --Eusebius (talk) 22:02, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I understand your fairness concerns, and I've been on both ends of that stick. But hey, whats fair in life? ;-) Remember that QI should not be about petting some photographers egos, it should be a selection of high quality images for our users. Unfortunately there is no fairness in some cheap compact cameras producing crappy pictures and some ridiculously expensive DSLRs producing great images. Anyhow, we should at least encourage uploaders to always upload the best possible versions for our users. --Dschwen (talk) 22:08, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm totally ok with your last sentence, it's just that QI reviewing policies tend to induce a bias against it. Don't worry, I don't put my ego in my pictures. I'm used to receiving reviews IRL and I think I know how to make them useful for me. But consider a fictional 3Mpix picture of QI quality. If it has been taken by a good or lucky (but old?) 3Mpix compact camera, then it can be promoted. If it has been taken by a 5Mpix bridge (with photosites crowded on a small captor for marketing reasons) and then downsampled to reach the effective resolution of the captor, then it cannot be promoted. It has been said several times that QI review was about the technical quality of the picture and not about the way it was taken, but in the case of downsampling criticisms it is not true anymore: we're judging the process and not only the result. When I say "unfair", I think about that, not about photographers or nominators. We punish downsampling here, we don't assess quality.

Note: I don't mean to quarrel or argue with you (or with anybody), I don't need a reply on that. It's just that since we went on that ground, I'd rather be sure that you understand what I meant. Furthermore, I'm not sure my point of view on the issue is totally consistent/coherent for the moment. --Eusebius (talk) 22:27, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, you are right. It is a fine line between encouraging upload of fullsize images, and unfair bias against people with better cameras (which it boils down to in your example). As I said, I've experienced both sides of the story personally. At least for me downscaling alone is not reason to oppose (in the Bitschweil Pano case I merely noted it). --Dschwen (talk) 23:00, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I've noted your reaction. Thanks for sharing your insights on the subject! Regards, --Eusebius (talk) 09:28, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

messages

Thanks for writing the bot? -- carol (talk) 18:22, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Also, your talk page has been categorized to Category:Vincent van Gogh. Should I find and repair this for you while you author the bot? -- carol (talk) 18:23, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh shit! I'm a bad user. Shame on me! Sorry. --Dschwen (talk) 18:25, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for writing it to work well and not necessarily as I described? -- carol (talk) 18:49, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Bonde Sta Tereza01.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments {{{3}}}

VICbot

Hi Daniel, do you know why VICbot hasn't touched the candidate list for a few days? A problem on the tool server? Or maybe you're working on the categorization extension? :-P Regards, --Eusebius (talk) 12:33, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh no! I'm getting status mails from the bot twice daily, and the top of the email always looked normal, but there is an error at the end

print "Candidate %s is missing cruicial parameters" % name.encode("utf-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)

One of the candidates seems to have an odd name, and I botched up the unicode handling. I'll have a look ath the script. --Dschwen (talk) 15:57, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Mmmh, some candidates have accents, or "ç", but it has happened already in the past without problem. The last MVR entry is the only candidate introduced after the last visit of the bot and before its first failed visit. --Eusebius (talk) 16:17, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Ok, fixed. The error was triggered by an undecipherable nominator signature [8]. I did not debug the output of the error message (never hapened before). --Dschwen (talk) 17:14, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. While you're taking care of VICbot, it still has an issue (diff) with one picture when preparing the samples... --Eusebius (talk) 17:25, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I know what the problem is. Essentially it is impossible to get the scope by regular expression. I'll have to write a miniparser that counts opening and closing [[ and {{ tags. --Dschwen (talk) 17:50, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Welcome in the wonderful world of context-free grammars ;-) --Eusebius (talk) 18:03, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

It's probably a bit presumptuous, but I think I might be able to help, depending on where you fetch your information from. Starting from the nomination pages, I was able to capture scopes properly without regular expressions and without a parser. My method is likely suboptimal, though. Anyway, if you accept to show me the code responsible for generating the sample set, I'd love to have a look at it (and I understand if you say no, I don't like showing my own code :-P). --Eusebius (talk) 12:36, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Daniel, this one is still stuck at the top of the candidate list... --Eusebius (talk) 12:29, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah that was due to a leading space in the subpage parameter [9]. I made the bot a little more robust now. --Dschwen (talk) 14:33, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! --Eusebius (talk) 14:42, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

• Hi Daniel (I'll post VICbot issues in the same thread, unless you prefer otherwise). VICbot has properly promoted this picture today, but it wasn't included in Commons:Valued image candidates/tag galleries. I thought it was because it came from an MVR, but another VI coming from an MVR (the red panda) is present in the list... No big deal here, though. Regards, --Eusebius (talk) 17:45, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Oh, I think this is not a bug, but a feature. Whenever the bot finds a gallery matching the scope on its own, then he adds the little tag himself [10]. Thus there is no need to list the picture on the tag galleries page. This conversely relates to the problem of images not appearing on the by scope page. The images only appear there, if the bot cann find a gallery matching the given scope. So images either show up on the tag gallery or the by scope page. My suggestion: enforce scopes that are also gallery names, or that contain links to galleries (the bot understands both). --Dschwen (talk) 17:54, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
    • I'm sorry, I knew that the bot didn't add the pictures for which he found a gallery. I might be a bit tired today... However, I see no logical reason why VIs added to the tag gallery page should not be added to the by scope (since the page has, semantically speaking, nothing to do with galleries, it points to pictures). If there is actually such a selection, could it be removed (so that all the VIs are added to the "by scope" page)? About your last suggestion, we try to include a link to a gallery in the scope when it is possible (and when usual reviewers are careful enough), but we do not create a gallery for each submission, and I don't think we will (mainly because the nomination and closure phases can already be seen as "not so simple", and it would add another manual step). Thank you anyway for your reply & remarks. --Eusebius (talk) 18:56, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

      The original intention from my side was also that all VI should be on the "by scope" page irrespective of weather there is a gallery of the matching name. If this is not the case it is an error from my part in properly describing the requirements for the bot, when I requested it to be implemented.

      I do not think it is a good idea to require that there has to exist a gallery of the same name of the scope. Galleries can be renamed, or split up, and I do not think that would be very healthy. And last, but not least, happy new year from Denmark! -- Slaunger (talk) 09:05, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Daniel. I think you should see to it that VICbot always use the "subpage" parameter in the VI template (for promoted VIs), even when it does not seem necessary. Otherwise, when an image is renamed, it breaks the link to the review page. It has occured once recently, and if not all VIs are watched by aware users, slight problems could remain uncorrected. I let you decide whether this update is useful or not. Best regards, --Eusebius (talk) 16:12, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Eusebius. That is a good suggestion, I did not think about candidate renamings. I just changed the bot accordingly. --Dschwen (talk) 17:44, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot then, it may also solve other little issues about image switch during review phase. About promoted image renaming, I just hope it will not happen again, since the subpage parameter was only the emerged part of the iceberg... --Eusebius (talk) 17:55, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Link between photographers page

Hello.

I have made a topic called "More good photographers" on my user page. You could create a similar topic on your user page and you could include me in it. --ComputerHotline (talk) 19:27, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Discussion in WP:FPC

A big discussion is taking place in WP:FPC about the promotion and closing processes (various topics). You may be interested in participating and help improving things there. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 16:43, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Falls Du Zeit hast...

Hi Dschwen, auf User_talk:Lupo#Und_noch_ein-zwei_Bitten habe ich soeben Lupo mein Herzchen ausgeschüttet. Falls Du aber Zeit hast Dich damit zu befassen (und das Problemchen, wie ich vermute, bei Fachkenntnis bloß ein kleines ist), wird Lupo Dir gewiss nicht gram sein mich einmal weniger am Hals zu haben. Dass Du dann dort eine Notiz hinterlässt, nehme ich eh als selbstredend an. Hier eod. lg, Wolfgang 09:30, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Diese Namensraum-Umbenennung war schuld. Kann man das noch besser korrigieren? Lupo 09:39, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Slideshow

Ich hätte mir ja denken können, dass du dahintersteckst ;-). Jedenfalls habe ich dir unter Commons:Village_pump#Gadget_slideshow geantwortet. Über die Gadgets-Seite wird nichtmal in der Monobook.js eine Link gesetzt, über den man herausbekommen könnte, dass das Tool aus deiner Ecke kommt. Mit der Slideshow kann man schon fast vom Commons-Fernsehen sprechen, da man sich einfach mal ein paar Minuten davor setzen kann. --Kolossos (talk) 11:23, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

So besser? Ich koennte uebrigens die Bilder auch an die Bildschirmgroesse anpassen. Aber ich hab z.Zt. etwas wenig Zeit. --Dschwen (talk) 18:07, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Ja also die BArch Bilder laufen jetzt. Der Rest hat ja Zeit. Leider werden auch hin und wieder mal Bilder übersprungen. --Kolossos (talk) 21:19, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Jo, das scriptr ist noch ziemlich dumm. Wenn das laden laenger dauert als die Bildanzeigedauer, dann sieht man vom neuen Bild nix. Ich muesste das neue Bild im Hintergrund laden, und das onload event abfangen, aber ich weiss nicht, ob das nicht wieder cross-browser Probleme gibt... --Dschwen (talk) 21:22, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Garden of the Gods Sunset.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Beautiful sunset and nice colors. I am curious though, as to why you preferred a lower-resolution image (when the original was such higher res).

Hmm, who promoted this? The hig res version id in the history and can easily be downloaded for printing. The slightly downsampled version was for judging purposes. And since I turned off AF when shooting to avoid focus hunting in that series of exposure blended images, I managed to shoot slightly off-focus (darn!). --Dschwen (talk) 13:17, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki:QIhelper.js

Hi Daniel. The QIhelper script doesn't like the "File:" prefix. Could you please have a look at it when you have some time? Thanks. --Eusebius (talk) 12:22, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Working on it. But there seems to be an unrelated javascript bug in the site code which prevents it form working. --Dschwen (talk) 13:39, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

OK. Thanks. --Eusebius (talk) 14:01, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

 Done, it works again. --Dschwen (talk) 16:48, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Wonderful :-) --Eusebius (talk) 19:34, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Würde gerne ein Bild von Dir verwenden

Hallo Daniel, ich würde gerne dein Bild File:Empire State Building pano.jpg kommerziell verwenden. Ich plane gerade ein Schaufenster für einen unserer Kunden zu dem Thema New York. In dem Schaufenster sind zwei schlanke schwarze Regale zu sehen und bei einem soll die Rückwand mit einem New York Motiv bedruckt. Dein Bild würde da vom Format ganz gut passen. Kannst Du mich bitte diesbezüglich mal kontaktieren? Schreib mir bitte eine Mail an sko at barthelmess.de Danke --Simonizer (talk) 12:32, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! FL Alligator 1.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments good quality --Mbdortmund 01:53, 13 December 2008 (UTC). Indeed. I have also nominated it as a featured picture. --AlexanderKlink 19:24, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

image request

i need to talk to you about one of your pictures, but i can't find your address anywhere, so i'm giving you mine. please write back :) http://mips42.altervista.org/img/email.png p.s. i don't know if i should be writing here, you can delete this when you have read it.

This is exactly the right place to write. Just e-mailed you. --Dschwen (talk) 20:30, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Request for adminship

Hi Daniel, I'd like to tell you that I have recently made a request for adminship. You might want to express your opinion about it. Best regards, --Eusebius (talk) 22:23, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately I will have to oppose. You have created way too much work for me lately ;-) --Dschwen (talk) 22:52, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

I understand. I'll stop coming here for a few months and then make another RFA :-) --Eusebius (talk) 22:53, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Das Übliche ;)

User talk:Lupo#Notes (vG-related), de. -- falls möglich. Lieben Gruß, Wolfgang 06:07, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Wie versprochen: Job zu vergeben!

(Honorar wie üblich ;). Guten Morgen,

Soeben habe ich auf Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Vincent Willem van Gogh 033.jpg einen Vorschlag eingebracht (oder zwei) wie das leidige Problem mit entlinken in exotischen Sprachen umgangen werden könnte. Da dort seit geraumer Zeit niemand reagiert, und auch mein speedy für File:Van-willem-vincent-gogh-die-kartoffelesser-03850.jpg tagelang nicht exekutiert wurde, frage ich Dich auf Deutsch ob man sowas so handhaben kann. Kurz: wir hatten zwei gefakte Versionen der Kartoffelesser (!!), daher vermutlich wohl auch noch Copyvio, die natürlich weißgottwo überall verwendet werden (die oben genannte unattraktiv kleine: 28mal in 15 Projekten, darunter bg, jv, ...). Kannst Du dort aktiv werden oder jemanden hinlocken der sich drum kümmert? lg, Wolfgang 07:44, 19 December 2008 (UTC) Nachtrag: Mein Vorschlag2=Versuch, aus dem kleinen Unding eine Weiterleitung zu machen, funktioniert offensichtlich nicht, wie ich anhand der Einbindung auf enWP merke. Jedenfalls nicht so. Wolfgang 07:59, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Die Kartoffelesser sind kein Speedy Kandidat, bestenfalls ein Kandidat fuer eine Umbenennung. Das Bild wird auf diversen Projekten noch verwendet. Wenn ich das einfach loesche ist das Geschrei wieder gross. Was Du schonbmal machen koenntest, waere das Bild ueberall durch eine der neuen Versionen zu ersetzen. Danach kann man ueber loeschen reden (ach ja, es sei denn es ist tatsaechlich eine copyvio). --Dschwen (talk) 22:47, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Subpages translation

I’m posting this to you as you are one of the two maintainers listed at MediaWiki:Common.js. The Norwegian (no) translation of subpages is “undersider”. Please add it to the list. Thanks! =) — H92 (t · c · no) 13:40, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Valued images by scope

Hi Daniel, it's me again ("Oh, no..."). I've noticed that there are 191 VIs referenced in Commons:Valued images by scope, but 421 promoted VIs in Category:Promoted valued image candidates. It's no big deal, it does not prevent the project for running, but is there a known reason for that? I couldn't figure out by myself a logical "selection pattern" that would explain that. --Eusebius (talk) 12:53, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Crap! How is that possible!? Do you have an example for one that was recently promoted and did not show up in the by scope list? --Dschwen (talk) 22:41, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

The most recently promoted among the absent ones should be this one. --Eusebius (talk) 22:54, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

So apparently, VIs are added there only when not added to Commons:Valued image candidates/tag galleries. Consistent with what you said somewhere else in your talk page, but not very handful. I've been playing with pywikipedia and I now have a script able to rebuild the list from scratch, but it would be nicer to have them added one by one by VICbot :-) The full list is quite long, I think it will be soon needed to think about another organization (transclusion of shorter pages, per letter?). --Eusebius (talk) 12:29, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Mutter erde

I know this is probably canvassing, but I wanted to relate my feelings on this matter, and why he should be banned for the year at least, if not longer.

First off, as we know, ME is banned indefinitely from both the English and the German wikipedias for his incivility. Now, I know we don't usually care what en does, and we try not to judge people by their actions away from Commons, but when not one but TWO projects ban him for the same thing, that is something we should take notice of. I am in no doubt that both en and de instituted RfCs, numerous discussions and the like, and at the end of it all, ME is here and doing the same thing he was doing there. He has been warned about his behaviour multiple times before, and has shown no willingness to change. Even through this whole process he has been utterly unrepentant and hostile to everyone who disagrees with him. It wouldn't matter if we banned him for five minutes or five months, he doesn't understand that his threatening behaviour is not acceptable here, nor any other project, and he never will. If we ban him for any length of time short of indefinitely, he will come back with the same attitude, and we will have the same discussions AGAIN, with the same people saying that the good outweighs the bad.

I believe in second chances. But I don't believe we should just give chance after chance. ME has had numerous chances over several projects to change his behaviour, and it has come to nought. It's time we finally just banned him for good.

Thanks for listening. -mattbuck (Talk) 00:28, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Problemchen mit "Defaultsort"

Zwar hatte ich brav ebendiesen meines Wissens in alle Files der Category:Vincent van Gogh eingebracht, aber immer in der der Form "DEFAULTSORT:van Gogh..." und nicht bedacht, dass Dateinamen (die ich nach dem selben Muster stricke) jedenfalls mit Großbuchstaben beginnen 8(

Frage; ist es mit bescheidenem Aufwand & auf die Schnelle möglich, einen Bot in dieser Kategorie +Unterkats DEFAULTSORT:van durch DEFAULTSORT:Van ersetzen zu lassen? Würdest Du das tun, oder an wen könnt' ich mich wenden? Sonst müsste ich halt in die neu hochzuladenden Dateien auch wieder den DEFAULTSORT:van einflicken. Wolfgang 06:33, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Uff, plus Unterkats... Na ja, gut. Ich bau mal einen Bot. Wusste gar nicht, dass Defaultsort zwischen Gross- und Kleinschreibung unterscheidet. --Dschwen (talk) 16:32, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Betr. Groß&Klein: sind wir offenbar mindestens 2. ;]]] -- wenn die Unterkats ein Extra-Problem darstellen [ist mir als Programmiernullie nicht selbstverständlich] dann vergiss' sie: zu annähernd 98% müssten diese auch auf der obersten Ebene erfasst sein, den Rest mach' ich G.E.R.N "zu Fuß". lgw. Wolfgang 19:36, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

So, geht los. --Dschwen (talk) 23:34, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

[<3, w.]06:35, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Multilingualomania

In einem Anfall habe ich soeben {{Self-portrait}} gebastelt, weil mich in einem konkreten Fall der patzige Eintrag {{Vincent van Gogh}}

Deutsch: Selbstbildnis des Vincent van Gogh

garzusehr nervte, möchte aber jetzt doch anfragen, ob das sinnvoll war (um den penetranten Duplikatlink direkt unterhalb des selben Links im "Creator:Vincent van Gogh" wegzunehmen, hatte ich das file sowieso geöffnet ;) -- ich habe aber auch irgendwas von "autotranslate" aufgeschnappt, aus dem ich nicht schlau werde.

• Frage: Würde der Eintrag "Self-portrait" im Feld "Title=" sowieso irgendwie automatisch übersetzt? Falls ja, gehört meine Spielerei (die tierisch Spaß macht und mein van Gogh-Projekt um Monate verzögern könnte ;) natürlich gelöscht. Falls Du bez. automatischer Übersetzung mir einen Link möglichst auf Deutsch hermalen könntest, würde ich versuchen mich zunächst schlauer zu machen. Dank im voraus, [w.] 07:56, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Ooops: vorläufig ist Deine Disku in der Kategorie vG -- kommentiere den "Creator" bitte aus, sobald Du Deine Seite besuchst ;)) -- die automatische Kategorisierung durch das tl lass bitte vorerst, ich habe mit Lupo bereits drüber gesprochen: Es wäre sinnvoll sie abzuschalten nachdem sämtliche Bildbeschreibungen auf gutem Stand sind -- wird wohl Februar werden. [w.] 08:02, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Ceterum censeo

dass da jemand gewaltig irren könnte. [w.] 11:09, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

So weit ich weiss ist die Ansicht korrekt. Als Museumsbesucher wird ein Vertrag zwischen Dir und dem Museum geschlossen. Dritte Parteien sind durch diesen Vertrag nicht gebunden. Bei heimlich aufgenommenen Bildern ist also der Lizenzstatus des Kunstwerks allein ausschlaggebend. Frohes knipsen. --Dschwen (talk) 15:54, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey, vergiss nicht, Deine Disku wieder IRGENDWANN aus der Category:Vincent van Gogh rauszunehmen ;) [s. "section" oberhalb ;] -- und danke für die FachMeinung: Knipsen "per se" macht [mich, versteht sich] sowieso meist fröhlich ;} -- es ging um etwa mögliche Konsequenzen, die ich inzwischen mit Gelassenheit zu tragen versuche ;}

Ich selber mach' jetzt DEMNÄCHST meinen Weihnachts-SPAM und bin dann erst morgen irgendwannmal wieder online -- sofern uns nicht vorher der Himmel aufn Kopf fällt.
;}}} [w.] 16:06, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

SPAM

Hi, I'm aware that Christmas greetings are more-or-less to be considered to be SPAM, but I can't help:
Here is one more, which is from me.
Although I might have [and might in the future] disagree with you, I'd like to ascertain you that I respect and love you. Believe it or not. [w.] 16:17, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi Dschwen, I'd like to thank you for correcting my spelling! It is interesting that few days ago, when I was editing Commons from the same computer, all misspelled words were underline with red. I'm not sure how it came about and why it is here no more, but I really liked it.--Mbz1 (talk) 18:00, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Consider it my special christmas present ;-). Konqueror and Firefox (at least from 3.0 on) should highlight spelling mistakes. For FF2 there might be an extension (but I'd rather upgrade to FF3). --Dschwen (talk) 18:32, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Carpenter bee.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Meets the requirements IMHO. --Leyo 19:57, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the Christmas review!

Hi Dschwen/Archive9. I would like to thank you for the interest you have shown in my request for adminship, and for the time you have taken to review my profile. As a Christmas present I've just been given the admin tools, for which I'm thankful as well. I have understood all the remarks that have been made during the review period. I will take them into account and begin using the tools with much care, until I gain more experience and self-confidence. Thanks again, and Merry Christmas! --Eusebius (talk) 15:12, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

okapi picture

thanks for changing the category and you said it looks good license wise but a bigger picture i'am not sure of what can i do now? --Vaxley (talk) 22:52, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

I just looked for scans of that book. No luck so far. Maybe at the library. There is not much you can do about it. --Dschwen (talk) 23:13, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

but is it still useable? --Vaxley (talk) 01:10, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, sure. --Dschwen (talk) 05:28, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

File:TestRedirect.gif

Neujahrskonzert, visuell ;))

Tja, die Welt ist voller Wunder. Danke für Deine Tests. Lösch' "TestRedirect" nach Kenntnisnahme. Ich glaube, dass ich heute noch ein paar "FairUses" nach enWP hochlade und mich dann dem Feiern hingebe (zu gegebener Stunde, versteht sich ;) damit das Jahr mit ein wenig Schmunzeln ausklingt. [w.] 15:32, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Redirects quer zu anderen Projekten gehen so weit ich weiss ohnehin nicht. Na ja, Guten Rutsch schonmal! --Dschwen (talk) 16:09, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

• Wär' ja auch garzu schön gewesen, auf diese Weise FairUse-Bilder beliebig "einschummeln" zu können ;)) -- Wie Du liest, lebe ich, der Rutsch ist also dank Deiner Wünsche gelungen. Auf ein glückliches ~ !
• Das Testfile hat ausgedient. Muss ich einen formalen SLA stellen, oder kannst Du es auch so löschen (die "Freigabe" zur Löschung habe ich bereits beim Erstellen des files in die Kommentarzeile eingetragen).

• Auf meine Anfrage betr. etwaiger Umbenennung von {{Painting}} zwecks Nutzung für z.B. Zeichnungen und auch Skulpturen, sowie, ob ich ein Muster zum 'Rumprobieren kriegen könnte, hast Du nicht reagiert. Hast Du dafür einen Grund, oder entging dies bloß Deiner Aufmerksamkeit (Antwort ggf. per Mail)?
  lg, [w.] 10:13, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Panoramic of Albuquerque

Sorry, meant to leave a comment.

I think it'd be a good idea to keep expanding the list of "versions" per year. That way the images would be easier to find for readers. It'll not only show the progression of time, but also improving camera technology regardless of the photographer. I plan on getting another camera (mine broke :/) some time this year, so I'll be adding a 2009 version, probably some time in late summer.

Shalom and God bless, Mystic Sonic (talk) 02:00, 3 January 2009 (UTC).

Hey, that does sound like a good idea. I'll put it back in. --Dschwen (talk) 03:48, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Roxy Theatre.jpg

Re: your comment on the page. The photo isn't a panorama. The original photo had some work done to it. Bidgee (talk) 09:49, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

I know it is not a panorama. Oh, you think I thought that because I suggested using hugin? Hehe, I frequently use hugin on single frames to correct the perspective distortion and lens errors. You'll have to apply vertical guides to the image and optimize it. There is a tutorial on perspective correction on the hugin site. --Dschwen (talk) 16:11, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Tried hugin but it just crashes in Vista. :( Bidgee (talk) 13:40, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Did you download a new version from hugin.sf.net? It seems unlikely, that a program that is used by hundreds of people just crashes. Nah, well, I guess I cannot help you, I don't have vista (although I recently installed it on a friends computer and it worked flawlessly with vista). --Dschwen (talk) 14:20, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Uggh Vista, urgghhhh :P --Tony Wills (talk) 10:49, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Was that just a comment, or an oppose?

Commons:Quality_images_candidates/candidate_list#File:360.C2.B0Gipfelpanorama_Gapfohl.jpg (PS happy new year :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 10:49, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Christmas lights 2.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Possibly as we're still hung over from Christmas. Good use of wide dynamic range - Composition gives a feeling of an island of Christmassy glitz in the midst of the cold...well done - Peripitus 02:20, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Template:QICtotal

Hallo Dschwen. Müsste der Text nicht von „Running total“ in „Result“ oder ähnlich geändert werden, sobald das Resultat feststeht? --Leyo 22:21, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Aeehhh... na ja, prinzipiell hast Du recht, aber das waere a) redundant zur Farbaenderung der Nominationsbox, und b) komplizierter als wegen a) noetig ;-). KISS-Prinzip. --Dschwen (talk) 22:27, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Ich finde, dass es insbesondere auf Archivseiten etwas komisch wirkt. Ich habe mir verschiedene Möglichkeiten überlegt (Text abhängig vom Alter der Signatur, von der Nominationsbox-Vorlage, von der Seite {aktuelle Kandidatenliste oder Archiv}; kleine Änderung durch den Bot beim Archivieren), wobei nicht alle umsetzbar wären. Umgesetzt habe ich etwas einfacheres (siehe Vorlage). Ist es vorgesehen, dass die Vorlage schon vor dem Ablauf der 48 Stunden eingefügt wird? Dann wäre mein Vorschlag wohl weniger geeignet und du darfst ihn gerne rückgängig machen oder abändern. --Leyo 00:14, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

No, no! This is wrong, the QICtotal box now shows a "result" while the nomination is still being discussed. There should only be a result when the discussion is closed, and closure is not after a set time, but when discussion is finished - no sooner than 48 hours after the last comment.

In the original manual implimentation of this running total, the "promote"/"decline"/"more votes?" in "()" brackets was a comment and each was followed by a "?" (ie "promote?", "decline?", "more votes?"). When the nomination was closed "Running total" was changed to "Result", and the "promote"/"decline" was made bold and the brackets and "?" were removed.

To simplify things to aid automation, I would suggest just leaving it as "running total" even when archived - changing it is redundant as the promotion/decline is indicated by the QIC template used (and its colour). --Tony Wills (talk) 09:07, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

 Info Copied discussion to Template_talk:QICtotal --Tony Wills (talk) 10:27, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Placing of Location template in Image

Would it be possible to amend Dschwenbot to place the Location template after the Information template, assuming the Image has one. I think putting the location in front of the image caption is too intrusive. If there is no Information template, then just continue as at present.

As an example see File:Starcross railway station 1.JPG, as amended by Dschwenbot, and as further amended by myself.

Thanks. -- Chris j wood (talk) 16:46, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

It would be possible, but would require substantially more effort. I'd essentially have to parse the wikimarkup, counting opened and closed templates to determine the end of the Information template. Finding the beginning of the Information template is much easier, I just have to find a single string. Now I am currently working on a more intelligent template parameter extraction routine, and as a side-effect I would be able to get end-of-template positions, which I could use in the dschwenbot. Don't hold your breath though ;-). --Dschwen (talk) 18:36, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough, but the manually effort in finding and reordering all images edited by your bot is also substantial. You should also be aware that as a result of a consensus developed there, the project page Commons:Geocoding now states that if an image has a {{Information}} template, the {{Location}} template should follow it. -- Chris j wood (talk) 15:52, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I would not call this a consensus I'd call it utter lack of interest. I told you that I will change the bot when I get to it. If you feel that you need to change every page my bot has edited, well that's your choice. But please don't come here to pressure me with a guideline you just changed. Because then I might just as well redirect you to COM:BLOCK to post a block request for my bot. --Dschwen (talk) 16:24, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Three in favour (myself, Sv1xv and ClemRutter), one abstaining (how I read your response) and no objections, after 15 days grace, is a consensus in my books. Otherwise I would not have gone ahead and changed the guideline. Sorry you felt so heated about it, but I stand by my change. I've no inclination to go thermo-nuclear by blocking your bot, but I look forward to your improvements. -- Chris j wood (talk) 14:52, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Et voila: [11] [12]. --Dschwen (talk) 17:26, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

(undent) Dschwen said:

I am currently working on a more intelligent template parameter extraction routine

Any chance you would post the .py somewhere for your template identification routine? -J JMesserly (talk) 17:41, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Nochmal was

Hallo Dschwen. Beim aktuellen QIC-Archiv hat's ein paar kleine Fehler. Einen habe ich korrigiert (bevor ich die anderen gesehen habe). Ich lasse die anderen vorerst mal so, da du diese ev. zum Testen des Bots verwenden kannst. --Leyo 19:49, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Das Problem scheint nach wie vor zu bestehen (ganz unten). --Leyo 12:40, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Mist! Ich versetehe das nicht. Der bot macht ein string replace von "{{/" mit "{{../" das muesste doch alle Faelle abdecken. Was ist den anders an den kaputten Archiveintraegen? --Dschwen (talk) 16:13, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Ah, habs gefunden! Komisch, dass das nicht frueher schon bemerkt wurde. --Dschwen (talk) 16:20, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Sehr gut, danke. Dann wollen wir mal sehen, ob es in Zukunft zuverlässig klappt... :-) --Leyo 17:23, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Scheint es leider noch nicht zu tun. --Leyo 15:38, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok, das ist mir voellig schleierhaft. Ich hab nochmal einen zusaetzlichen check eingebaut, aber eigentlich muesste es schon funktionieren. --Dschwen (talk) 17:53, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

I really appreciate your help. Regards, --Tomascastelazo (talk) 18:16, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Sure! Tomas, you have a really nice portfolio on photo.net. I wonder how you approach people for portrait shots. Any tips? :-) --Dschwen (talk) 19:29, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Uff! Where do you want to start? I'd be glad to give you tips.... everything is very situational. It can range from close up intimate portraits to on-the-fly portraits. In anycase, you have to read the situation. In close up photos, setting the mood and the communication between photographer and subject is important. In situational opportunities, two things are very, very important, to set real fast rappor with the subjects, making conversation about them, not about oneself, and the other is to become as invisible as possible, becoming part of the scene. Ask me specifically what portrait you liked and I will tell you its story. Or if you have something in mind, tell me how you see it and will offer insights. Photography is all about sharing really. Just about everything I know was taught to me, or what was taught to me helped me develop new things, which in turn one must pass on. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 06:53, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Profile ready

Hi Dschwen, I put my name (profile line) in the page, but for some reason it made Lycaon´s information dissapear, so I reverted. Can you help?

Thanks! --Tomascastelazo (talk) 19:26, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Ugh. This is nasty. Not your fault, and Lycaon's info did not disappear. The entries get shuffled by javascript. There must be unbalanced HTML tags, somewhere on the page. Let me check... --Dschwen (talk) 19:38, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok, fixed. The error was in Boehringer's profile. --Dschwen (talk) 19:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

One more issue, in this link, going through the main page: #REDIRECT [[13]], the uploaded information does not appear, however that is not the case in this other one: #REDIRECT [[14]], the the ino does appear. Someone else suggested I reboot, I did, cleared the cache and no go. Can you help? Regards, --Tomascastelazo (talk) 13:26, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

It does appear now. Rebooting has nothing to do with it. In this case it was the parser cache in the Commons webserver. I cleared it, forcing a re-render of the page. Everything is fine now. --Dschwen (talk) 14:43, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Featured Picture

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Anhinga.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Anhinga.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

geocoding NASA images.

Hi Dschwen. You seem to be quite the geocoding whiz. I was thinking that it might be relatively easy, and useful to retrieve coordinate information for all images downloaded from Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.". We have many pictures that are sourced to this website, and they almost always have known orientation and coordinates. I figure that it should be possible to put a bot on this. Is this feasible and desired ? TheDJ (talk) 20:13, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Mh. I'm indifferent about this. Our current heading system isn't designed for steep upward or downward angles. And I don't really want to clutter the MiniAtlas with gazillions of NASA images (which would overshadow our user-generated content). NASA supplies kml files for viewing the images in GoogleEarth, which I think is the most suitable way of viewing them (as GE gives you an impression of the altitude as well). It would be better to add a direct link to the KML to the NASA-template. --Dschwen (talk) 16:25, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Proposal to change allowable scope of userpage content

I have made a proposal to specify more clearly what is and what is not allowed on usepages. You have expressed interest in this issue, and you may wish to comment at Commons_talk:Project_scope/Pages,_galleries_and_categories#The use of userpages to advance personal political opinions. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:42, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

COM:VIC

Somebody told me to notify you about it, so i'm doing it. There's a problem with creating new nomination page for images, but set works fine. I got message box that i should keep prefix, but it's there. If that will help i'm using last version of Fx 2 on WinXP SP2. Herr Kriss (talk) 15:21, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh! Yep, I forgot to implement the Image:->File: namespace change. Will get right on it. --Dschwen (talk) 16:34, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

No, that shouldn't have been it. Please tell me exactly what you put into the box. --Dschwen (talk) 16:37, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

For eg. "Commons:Valued image candidates/test45". So i'm adding only test45. When i'm doing same thing with set, it works fine. Also another users have same problem. Herr Kriss (talk) 20:16, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok, got it. Works again. The internal structure of that input form changed. I changed the script accordingly. Thanks for reporting the bug. --Dschwen (talk) 20:29, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing it :-). Lycaon (talk) 23:23, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Herr Kriss (talk) 00:19, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Multilingual search on cats- any objections to this sort of approach?

Category:Shenzhou 7. So if some guy google searches on spacecraft in chinese or tamil, they have a way of discovering that there may be relevant media on Shenzhou 7 in our repository. -J JMesserly (talk) 00:05, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Photo license request

Dear Daniel,

Here at the American Printing House for the Blind, a not-for-profit agency, it is our mission to provide educational materials for students with visual impairments and blindness. We are currently developing an atlas for students with partial sight. In the product we need a photo of a Swiss dairy cow. We found one at Wikipedia that belongs to you.

We noticed that you are the owner of the original image and are now seeking permission from you to use the image in our atlas, Address: Earth. We know you have released it under the Creative Commons license, but our standards require us to have specific permission from you. We like your image because it has the high contrast and clarity needed by students with visual impairments, and it's beautiful as well.

We are asking you to donate a license for this photo for the life of the atlas (5-10 years) or accept a small donation for it. I promise you our students will receive much educational value from your photo. We will, of course give proper attribution to you and print an URL of your choice in close proximity to the photo.

Please consider our request and get back with me when you have determined your answer.

Thank you very much for your consideration,

Elaine Kitchel Research Scientist American Printing House for the Blind 1839 Frankfort Ave. Louisville, KY 40206 (800) 223-1839 ext: 313

Image:Wasp_morphology.png

After seeing your comments on the FP promotion of this image [15], I thought you might like to know that it appears to have been based on an outline diagram from a USDA publication. I came across this scanned diagram [16] credited to the USDA. I have asked the author of Wasp_morphology.jpg about the source, it will be interesting to see his reply as he claimed it all as his own work :-) [Also he has introduced a errors by omitting the actual Ocelli from the diagram (the label looks as though it is just pointing to the forehead) and describing the "vertex" as the back of the head rather than the top.] --Tony Wills (talk) 10:38, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Your Panorama-- Rockefeller Center, New York

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=32503956#post32503956

Wow, thanks. This is an extensive analysis. Was that your posting? If so would you mind if I copy it onto the image talk page and incorporate all the facts into the image description? --Dschwen (talk) 22:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, that's my post, and you can copy whatever you like. Do you want details, like actual azimuth and distance to each object? I didn't bother identifying foreground buildings (figuring the guys at that forum didn't need that) but we can do that too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timz (talk • contribs) Dschwen (talk) 20:52, 19 February 2009 (UTC) (UTC)

That would be great. I turned your descriptions so far into an image map, but I'll yet have to find a way to convieniently upload it here. --Dschwen (talk) 20:52, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I reposted your comment on File_talk:NYC_TotR_Queens.jpg. I had to expand the tinyurls, as the Wikimedia spam filter blocks tinyurl.com . --Dschwen (talk) 21:16, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Btw. do you know File:NYC_TotR_pano_Brooklyn.jpg and File:Empire_State_Building_pano.jpg. They also have quite a bit of detail. The fact that you saw and identified the Captree bridge really amazed me! --Dschwen (talk) 21:34, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I can point out a couple of objects in the Brooklyn pano, but I'm not really familiar with the New Jersey shore-- and anybody can identify Brooklyn buildings as easy as I can. But if you do a panorama looking west or north give me a look at it.

If you want to send me an email address I'll send you some data on the view from the Empire State Bldg-- lots of the same water tanks etc as listed here. I'm tim underline zukas at hotmail.

Which devices support GPS tagging

can you send me list of device which can geotag.Yousaf465 (talk)

Uhm, no, sorry, but I can't. You'll have to google that just as I'd have to to compile the list. I just handle the processing and am oblivious as to how the data gets here :-). --Dschwen (talk) 09:49, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Any example pl.Yousaf465 (talk)

w:Nikon_Coolpix_P6000 has a built-in GPS receiver. --Dschwen (talk) 20:01, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

R160 CAB photo

HOw did you photograph the cab of an R160 train in New York City? Are you a motorman, or did you get a motorman friend? --GK tramrunner229 (talk) 01:32, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Ha, I wish! I'd love to get a ride in front. Everytime I'm going to New York I'm looking forward to riding the subway! The shot was luck. I was just getting off that train, the window was open and nobody inside the cab so I took a couple of shots. Pretty tough lighting conditions. --Dschwen (talk) 01:48, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Re:Relicensing

Reply here. I trust you will take the time to clean up the mess you have created. Noodle snacks (talk) 02:08, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

I already spent considerable time to clean up the mess you made. My time is too precious to waste. Sorry. --Dschwen (talk) 03:02, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

The irony is you have re-liscenced a bunch (at least 50) images. Eg (http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AFlower_1383_2.jpg&diff=18940888&oldid=18934418). You can absolutely not relicense images. Noodle snacks (talk) 08:09, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

As you can see here Idid not change the license at all. --Dschwen (talk) 11:37, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

In reliscencing the image was released under GDFL-1.2, previously being CC-BY-SA only. A revert "reliscences" the image back to CC-BY-SA, when it should be CC-BY-SA|GDFL-1.2 (since it is released under both). I don't know if you have a bot available or similar. Noodle snacks (talk) 09:47, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

• My image pages are cluttered with you and Abigor replacing my customized templates with all the code. I have created a plain GFDL and a GFDL 1-2 only here and here respectively and I expect the mess to be cleared. Come on, my own template protected from me editing it? If time was precious you wouldn't have made the mess in the first place. --Muhammad 07:22, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
  • You should not have used these templates in the first place. Sorry you had to learn this the hard way. Btw. I tried fixing the messy markup. --Dschwen (talk) 11:37, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
    • Mh nyeah anyways. Let me see if I have time to run a bot to clear things up. --Dschwen (talk) 11:39, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
      • Thanks. Sorry if I was rude, just frustrated :( --Muhammad 15:09, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
• Which reminds me: going from GFDL 1.2 or later to GFDL 1.2 only is not really OK, is it? --Slaunger (talk) 18:24, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

No it's not ! --MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:31, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

And that is precisely why there has been quite a build-up of frustration on my side, too. And Fir is even an admin here! I thought we require basic understanding of licensing technicalities. Maybe snapping good pictures is accepted as a substitute. The most annoying thing is that people take him as a role model, not only in his good attributes (excellent photography) but also in his bad ones (only uploading downsampled trial-versions of his pictures, retraction of licenses) --Dschwen (talk) 18:45, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

I have previously tried to make FIR subt his license template, but i did not suceed in that, and now I have asked him to consider the GFDL license change. I am thinking if I should raise the issue on COM:AN, but maybe he should a little more time to address my comment. --Slaunger (talk) 18:51, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I'd appreciate if someone would put this on COM:AN. I don't want to that person right now. The whole NC story on en.wp has me so p***ed-off that I could not stay level-headed. Besides I howcheng mentioned it in the section about Muhammad's license change. My guess is nobody wants to throw the first stone because Wikipedia might be doomed without his pretty pictures... --Dschwen (talk) 18:56, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

nur ne Frage...

Kannst du mir das erklären? http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ralf_Roletschek/Lizenz&diff=19086241&oldid=17593236 - prinzipiell könnte ich auch damit leben, wenn Lizenzbausteine geschützt sind, aber gibt es dafür einen Konsens? Nur dein Edit-Kommentar verstehe ich nun wirklich nicht. --Marcela (talk) 21:33, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Ja, dafuer gibts einen Konsens. Benutzertemplates, welche Lizenzen enthalten sollten immer mit subst eingefuegt werden. Alternativ muessen sie gesperrt werden. Die Sperrbegruendung steht als Vorlage in der Liste auf der Sperrseite. Ich habe 2 Kommentare gechrieben. Beim ersten mal hatte ich zu schnell geklickt. --Dschwen (talk) 22:25, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Please Geocode me

My new camera geocoded my pictures including File:173-176 Perry St jeh.JPG which I uploaded days ago. It hasn't got its automated geocode template yet. Must I do something else to make it happen? Jim.henderson (talk) 18:29, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

It doesn't appear to have a lat/long in the metadata, just "north" and "west". -mattbuck (Talk) 18:44, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

When I open it in Picasa and ask it to show me on a map, Google Earth locates the camera correctly on the Hudson River waterfront. Is there some sort of incompatibility between my camera and the Wiki software? Jim.henderson (talk) 18:52, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

The data is all there, but only in the original file. The built-in EXIF extraction by Mediawiki is broken (GPS data shows up incomplete). I had to tweak my bot a bit to make it notice your images. It is running now and should catch up with your uploads any time. --Dschwen (talk) 20:00, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you; I see your bot has indeed transcoded the pix I made in the previous half hour, and one from a couple days earlier. I feared I had bought a buggy Nikon P6000, and hope the Mediawiki extractor can be repaired almost as quickly as you fixed your bot to work around the problem. Additional pix with Geocode already in EXIF are sure to arrive as word gets out in Wikiworld that a not terribly expensive camera can eliminate almost all the effort at the photographer's end. Jim.henderson (talk) 21:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Deprecating GFDL 1.2-only on en.wiki

Thought you might be interested in this discussion going on at en.wiki about deprecating the use of GFDL 1.2-only licensing tags there. Kaldari (talk) 16:46, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I am. Fascinating how polarizing this license is and how different the motives for using it can be. --Dschwen (talk) 16:53, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Geocoding Bot

Hallo, ich war jetzt mal im sonnigen Florida im Urlaub. Muß sagen die USA zu sehen war mal sehr interessant. Hatte teilweise einen Geologger dabei und mein File:Kennedy_Space_Center-Saturn_rocket-V.jpg habe ich danach über die Zeit mittels locr georeferenziert. Die GPS-Daten sind also in den EXIF-Daten. kannst du mal schauen, ob dein Bot damit umgehen kann. Bzw. wie lange muß ich durchschnittlich warten bis Bilder durch den Bot laufen? --Kolossos (talk) 15:21, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Der Bot laeuft einmal taeglich. Hattest Du Glueck mit dem Wetter? Florida ist schon ganz nett, war ja selber letzten November dort. Bin mal auf Deine Fotos gespannt. War Gigapan im Gepaeck? --Dschwen (talk) 15:36, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Hab ihn jetzt mal von Hand gestartet, und er hat einige Bilder von Dir verarbeitet. --Dschwen (talk) 15:50, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Ja hat funktioniert, bei den anderen Bildern war der Logger aus um Batterien zu sparen.

Bezüglich Gigapan, nee, leichtes Gepäck und Rücksicht auf meinen Begleiter war angesagt. War auch mal wieder spannend spontan und ohne Stativ zu fotografieren. Ich hätte ja gedacht, dass das Land in dem die Wikipedia erfunden wurde besser fotografisch erschlossen wäre. Es gibt da aber durchaus auch noch Lücken. Das Wetter war verglichen mit Deutschland oder den Schneeestürmen im Norden der USA super, doch zum baden/schnorcheln doch leider etwas zu kalt. Zum krönenden Abschluss der Reise konnte ich die Delta2 mit dem Kepler-Teleskop noch Starten sehen allerdings aus Orlando, als Lichtpunkt am Horizont. Wir haben so eine Rundreise von Orlando bis Key West an beiden Küsten lang gemacht. Es wird noch ein paar Tage dauern bis ich alle Bilder aufgearbeitet habe. --Kolossos (talk) 16:04, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

User:Botev/license

Thanks. I have moved and automatized my template. Now everybody can also add image descriptions in additional languages. --Botev (talk) 07:03, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Mh, you really should not pack everything into that license template. Why don't you use {{Information}} on your image pages like everyone else? You make it harder for both the editors and the data extractors, which both have to learn a new template just for one user. --Dschwen (talk) 12:35, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Getting started with my own bot using pywikipedia

Hi Daniel,

I have been programming in Python over the last couple of months (or rather in SciPy), and I am interested in making my own bot using pywikipedia. As a startup project I was thinking of adding missing and correcting wrong subpage links to nominations of FPs in the {{Assessments}} template, and perhaps in the future, cf. Template talk:Assessments let my bot replace the existing Assessment template with a new template, based on consensus and with more meaningful parameter names and values. To get started I would like to just experiment, reading pages from Commons to see if I can extract the information I need to add missing subpages. Now, it is a little unclear for me what to do to get started concerning a user account. Surely I would not need a bot flag in the beginning and not at all for just reading information, but do I just start out by creating a new account, say SlaungerBot and then use that account for letting the bot read information, or can I use my existing account as long as I am only using the bot to read content? --Slaunger (talk) 23:21, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

If your bot is read only I'd suggest using your existing account. Then again, it doesn't really matter, if sooner or later you will eventaully create User:SlaungerBot, you mght as well do it now. --Dschwen (talk) 23:31, 14 March 2009 (UTC) P.S.: Let me know if I can help you in any way. --Dschwen (talk) 23:32, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Daniel! I plan to just let it run on my local machine, or are there better places, like the tool server, which gives better access to data?

The toolserver only gives you better access to data when you need to use the databases directly, which pywikipedia does not do. Although it can make your bots run more efficiently. Applying for an account is a lengthy process (there is quite a backlog of accounts to be approved currently). It will certainly help to have a running working bot to present when making that account application. --Dschwen (talk) 02:17, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Daniel, for explaining that. One last question, I normally use SVN for version control, and I like using it. Are you familiar with SVN respositories out there which endorse putting this type of Python code in? Alternatively, I have thought of simply making a source subpage under the bot user page, and then update that from time to time - then the source is in the immediate vicinity of where it is used. --Slaunger (talk) 21:21, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

How about Google Code? I'm really bad with SVN. I constantly remind myself to start using it consistently... --Dschwen (talk) 23:17, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

On the glorious day of March 16, 2009, SlaungerBot was born with the ability to read its own page assisted by the midwife Dschwen. Birth was unexpectedly easy and fast, now the bot only had to learn how to write...--SlaungerBot (talk) 23:20, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Darn, I forgot to logout from the bot account. Classic mistake. ;-) BTW, how is it? One does not have to be an admin to operate a bot without a bot flag, right? --Slaunger (talk) 23:23, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Uhm, nobody should operate a bot without a bot flag. I guess for testing it is ok, otherwise it would be a chicken vs. egg problem, as you should demonstrate your bot is working to get the account. I used userspace subpages when I first developed QICbot. Just copy some pages you want the bot to work on into your userspace. Writing is super-easy by the way. Just issue a page.put(text) command :-) --Dschwen (talk) 23:28, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Huh, as I understood according to Commons:Bots#Bot flag it is OK to run witout one in the beginning, such that other users easily can see and check its operations and build up trust. Perhaps that is not the actual practise? Yes, I noticed how absolutely amazingly simple it is to get started - it seems like a mature and well documented package. --Slaunger (talk) 23:35, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Daniel, Hi Kim (welcome back), sorry to interfere. Just for us not to do the same job several times: I plan to have my bot take care of the VI categorization (unless one of you tells me something's on its way already). And BTW, the backlog in the toolserver account requests is being taken care of, I've got my account a few days ago. --Eusebius (talk) 08:51, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Eusebius. Do continue your planned VI categorization work. I had some other tasks in mind for my bot. Cheers, --Slaunger (talk) 10:24, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I work as an art director and a client of mine has taken a liking to you image Rapsfield 2007 and would like to use it in their print advertising in (mostly south) Sweden.

Please reply with an offer of what it would cost to get full, non-exlusive and non-attributing rights to this image.

Purchasing image rapsfield

Hi, I work as an art director and a client of mine has taken a liking to you image Rapsfield 2007 and would like to use it in their print advertising in (mostly south) Sweden.

Please reply with an offer of what it would cost to get full, non-exlusive and non-attributing rights to this image. --Bearwalk (talk) 08:58, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

What is the expected circulation? Please Email me here. --Dschwen (talk) 10:40, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Bug macro FPC

I think you can come back. Richard and I have given up bugs, and Dschwen the panos. Things may start to be fun again, all we have to do is learn how to appreciate vintage pics ;-) Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:01, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

He he. Now that I think of it, I could write a small bit of Javascript that just hides all nominations by certain people. Unfortunately the FPC page would get rather short that way ;-). --Dschwen (talk) 23:12, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Or replace boring nominations with something like this? Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:21, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Restorationists

It was something of an unpleasant surprise to discover this morning that you had edited my own user space without notifying me. If you don't wish to participate in a project then of course you don't need to, but please don't change its name over the objections of the people who are actually active there. Durova (talk) 17:18, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Uh oh, looking at my watchlist and seeing a 444 character posting by you on my talk page I already figured that it must be something different than a mere thank you. In any case you are still welcome. Orthography is not a matter of opinion, especially when it concerns a project that is meant to be visible. I find it a bit sad that you feel the need to dismiss my honest attempt at improving commons in light of our recent run-ins. --Dschwen (talk) 17:42, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

I undid you here, as it looked like a mistake. Was it intentional? PeterSymonds (talk) 19:56, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Rolled back. The answer to whether that was a mistake can easily be obtained by consulting a dictionary. Which is something the people who set up that project should have done beforehand. I'm a bit puzzled by this resistance toward correct spelling. Do you really believe this is about en:Restorationism rather than restorers?! --Dschwen (talk) 20:01, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

May I ask you to stick to using rollback for clear cases of vandalism, as the policy dictates, please? I ask because it does look like a mistake when an administrator is rolling back another administrator, with the rollback links in many more places. It creates confusion and is rather unnecessary. Thanks, PeterSymonds (talk) 20:15, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

I am shocked by this farce! The term restorationist is bogus. This is a completely clear cut case! Full stop. Only the huge egos of some of the people involved makes correcting this error a drama. Yeah, that happy clappy consensus talk sounds really grand. "Let's discuss it." Discuss what?! Should we discuss orthographic errors on Wikipedia, too, before fixing them? --Dschwen (talk) 21:02, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Following up from posts of a few days ago, and in retrospect rather glad to have deprioritized them. You might want to look into the reasons CarolSpears was sitebanned from en:wiki. Having a large edit count would not be a good thing at all if the problem has carried over here. It was a long time before anyone checked it out properly over there, and the cleanup required a team of people. Durova (talk) 23:02, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey Durova. I will look into it for the sake of a fair argument. My only "stake" in this is that I frankly like Carol, her work here, and interaction with her. But I guess not everybody shares these sentiments. Have you given the restorationist vs. restorer issue some thought? I had a discussion with Gerard (which he took off-wiki as it was getting slightly heated... ;-) ). He seemed to have his reasons for coining a new word, and he mentioned that you had a discussion about the choice of the title. Could you point me in the right direction? --Dschwen (talk) 23:32, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

The difference between being serious about checking edits for accuracy and harassment is that checking all edits daily for accuracy and imaginary copyright violations would have an end product of accuracy. Checking one users edits for accuracy has an end product of the harassment of one user.

It should not be such a challenge for people who have requested and have been given a break to find an existing word to use to describe themselves in an environment which caters to the less-intellectually hindered.... -- carol (talk) 01:49, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

To put it in a nutshell, I handled her with kid gloves for half a year on the assumption that she was so active, she must be doing good for the site. Then it turned out she was a habitual copyright violator and plagiarist. We ran dispute resolution without making any progress at all. The final siteban discussion was unanimous.[17] CarolSpears also has the unusual distinction at en:wiki for having inspired a policy change, not by directly editing the policy but by demonstrating empirically that the policy was in need of amendment. See Wikipedia:Copyright_violations: In extreme cases administrators may impose special conditions before unblocking, such as requiring assistance with cleanup by disclosing which sources were used. Durova (talk) 04:25, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

In a mustard seed husk: what is/are "kid gloves"? -- carol (talk) 16:07, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

In a pea pod they are gloves made from very soft leather eg from a baby goat or sheep, suitable for an archivist or restorationist perhaps ;-) [18] :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 19:33, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

What, nobody is suggesting Durova skins little children to make her gloves? ;-P --Dschwen (talk) 21:04, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Regarding the different issue of the title change, that's a much smaller matter. Mainly I was caught off guard to see someone else editing my user space without informing me. Things have been tense lately and, although it might not have been fair to think this, what went through my mind was Oh goodness, not another trick to marginalize this endeavor by someone who has no interest in helping it? Bear in mind this was shortly after I had opened a thread at FPC talk to discuss such things, and other than Carol's sarcasm no response from the community had been forthcoming. Discuss things reasonably and you'll find I'm a reasonable person. :) Best regards, Durova (talk) 04:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Hm, yeah, once things get to heated rational discourse becomes more and more difficult. You are right, I have no interest in helping it, restorations are not my business and I have plenty other projects here that tie up my time. However neither do I have an interest in sabotaging your endeavor. The irony is that the opposite renaming (restorers->restorationist) would have been a marginalization in my book. After all, according to the dictionaries I consulted the former term describes what you set out to do, while the later term has no connection to it whatsoever (a fact that unfortunately seems to stay largely unnoticed by the masses of non-native English speakers on commons). I'd like to think of myself as being able to separate my personal opinions from simple maintenance tasks. And I can assure you that the rename was performed in good faith. But I can understand that with the controversy around MOR and featuring restorations in general you are extra suspicious of any actions taken in this area. Anyhow, I don't want to go around Gerard's back here, as he made quite an effort to justify the name post hoc. As I mentioned above he alluded to a consensus in the restorator-community about the naming of the project and made it sound as if his explanations were discussed and agreed upon by the members. Is this really a silent consensus or could you point me to that discussion? --Dschwen (talk) 13:44, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

As far as I'm aware there never was an onsite discussion. It's a comedy of errors there, although well-meaning. Mainly I was of the opinion that it would be better to wait until there were more than just two people, then heard it was already running. Hadn't been around when the photographers and illustrators pages went up, so wasn't aware of the mechanisms that got them going. In retrospect, really should have asked more questions before adding my name to it. Regarding the difficulty of communication in a tense atmosphere, one really cogent point came across only overnight: what's the distinction between 'meet our restorers' and 'meet our uploaders'? Once the cart slows down and the horse catches up, I really hope this episode doesn't become a barrier to starting a similar page once we're ready for it. Durova (talk) 17:48, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: More unwanted advice ;-)

I might do that, ~75% of the time I use Commons:Tools/Commonist (particularly when I have more than one file to upload at once), though. Noodle snacks (talk) 00:18, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

GFDL-1.2 only warning

Hey Daniel, I understand you adding the warning notice to my images. The images however, are used in many different wiki projects and adding such a template is degradation IMO. So far I have seen the template in my image pages alone. I request the removal of the warning. --Muhammad 07:13, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Muhammad, there currently is a discussion involving your Tachinidae pic on de.WP. I'd ask you to leave the text for a few more days. I won't be adding it to any further images. It might get added to the license template though. I'm not targeting [19] you specifically, but your images are "unfortunately" of high quality and come up for use more often (which is why it is a shame they might not be available for the German Wikipedia). And you should have noticed that I added only one of these templates so far (the one you removed already on the buttefly image was added by a different user). --Dschwen (talk) 11:20, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough. Thanks for clarifying. I had a look at the comments at de.wiki FPC about the tachinid. Pretty harsh, eh ;) --Muhammad 17:06, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Mh yeah,two reasons for that a) the bar is very high due to the "flood" of high quality macros, b) if you are already a good photographer people expect even more of you (yeah, kinda unfair). --Dschwen (talk) 22:19, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Annoying VICbot issue

Hi there. VICbot keeps removing one of the candidates of an MVR, although it is not closed: [20], [21], [22], [23]. I don't know why, but I guess it is related to the fact that the same picture was involved in another nomination (with a very close name) recently closed. --Eusebius (talk) 12:31, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

D'Oh! Yes, it matches part of the filename as well (it sees Tomar_December_2008-4.jpg is contained in Tomar_December_2008-4.jpg_(2) and removes it). I could change the matching code, and I should (or you should as soon ast the stable server project gets approved :-) ). The issue is going to go away by itself, when the closing of the old candidate is sufficiently far in the past (3 days, but this can be changed to 1 or 2, as the bot is running twice a day). --Dschwen (talk) 14:47, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

OK, let's just wait then. I'm curious about the methods you use, I look forward to gaining access to your code (that's not a criticism, on what my bot does, it looks way slowlier than yours, I guess I should forget about pywikipedia for most of the querying stuff and rely directly on SQL). --Eusebius (talk) 15:41, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Geoloaction Shaheen Air International Boeing 737-200 .jpg ?

I have geoloaction data about this file on flickr how should it be imported.[24]Yousaf465 (talk)

You need to know latitude, longitude and heading. Then just add {{Location dec|lattitude|longitude|heading:heading}} to the image description. --Dschwen (talk) 16:05, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for it.I will try it.Yousaf465 (talk)

Quality Image Promotion

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Request for File:NYC Top of the Rock Pano.jpg

Hello Daniel,

I really like your panoramic picture taken from the "Top of the Rock" and I would like to print it out as a poster. Do you have a higher resolution version and would you agree to release it?

Thank you very much for sharing your superb pictures!

Clément

Clément, I usually upload all my pictures at full resolution. This one is quite old and was shot with my old Powershot G3. I'm afraid this is all the resolution I got. It should look good up to a height of maybe 30cm. --Dschwen (talk) 21:32, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

In fact I would like to print it out as large as 52x150 cm with some white borders (I already own the frame...). I think I found one of the original picture on photos.schwen.de (img_2020) and it has a greater resolution. Did you keep the original pictures you used to assemble the panorama ? Sorry to bother you but I would really like to use your art. Thank you.

Commons_talk:Meet_our_restorationists#Move_for_lowering_of_bar

It was a joke. Perhaps not a fantastic one, but I thought it at least mildly amusing =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:56, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Mh yeah, I'll write that off to ze language barrier ;-). --Dschwen (talk) 14:56, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

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revoking GFDL licenses

At the administrator's noticeboard you mentioned that using unsubsted user licensing templates is against policy. Can you please point me to the policy which says that so that I can bring it to other editors' attention. Also, you may want to weigh in on the proposal here to explicitly prohibit revoking licenses on Commons. Kaldari (talk) 18:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Sure it is well hiden: Commons:User-specific_galleries,_templates_and_categories_policy#Regarding_licenses. This wiki-lawyering really annoys the living crap out of me. I appreciate your effort to clarify the situation, but the licenses should be clear on their own. Well, at least in an ideal world I guess. Aren't you happy that Fir is now pursuing a law degree. Geez, way to be a shing example Mr. Administrator ;-). --Dschwen (talk) 20:05, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

File:Chacaltaya Pano MC.jpg

Sodala, ich hab das Pano nochmal überprüft und denke auch das da ein Tilt drinnen war. Ich habe zweimal eine neue Version hochgeladen, wovon ich denke das die letzte die bessere ist. Vielleicht kannst du nochmal einen Blick drauf werfen? Danke, Christian --Chmehl (talk) 21:11, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

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Who does the KML scraping for en:Wikipedia?

I figured you might know who generates the KML layers for google earth? Or does google do the extraction themselves? -J JMesserly (talk) 23:28, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Is that what you're looking for? Commons:Geocoding/Overlay --Eusebius (talk) 06:59, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

I think google does it on their own. user:para has a nice layer of commopns images. --Dschwen (talk) 03:26, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

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Important proposal

I wrote a proposal for equalizing the different picture formats on FPC Please have a look. Best regards --Richard Bartz (talk) 20:37, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

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Slideshow

Hey, die Slideshow läuft heute irgendwie nicht.

Um die Show schneller zu machen könntest du immer schon das nächste Bild mitladen und dann z.B nur 1 Pixel groß anzeigen. Dann wäre es beim weiterblättern schon im cache und könnte sofort angezeigt werden. Beim ersten Mal müßte die Intervaldauer halt ggf. verdoppelt werden.

Kolossos (talk) 17:41, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

P.S.:Zwei Dumme ein Gedanke: File:Fort Lauderdale-Stranahan House-waterside.jpg und File:Stranahan House 1.jpg. Bei mir weht die Fahne aber etwas schöner im Wind.

Nochwas: Unter de:Benutzer:Kolossos/Wikipedia-Abmahnung habe ich mal was zum Thema der leidigen Lizenzen geschrieben. --Kolossos (talk) 17:59, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

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