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Image Tagging Image:Edgar_colle.jpg edit

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Tip: Categorizing images edit

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Hello, Mro!
 
Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]
[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

BotMultichillT (talk) 06:00, 27 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

File:Rir-ipv6-allocation-rate.svg and File:IPv6-as.svg edit

Hi Mro, I would like to use the two above images in the German Wikipedia article about IPv6. It is however unclear to me what exactly the diagrams depict. Does File:IPv6-as.svg show the number of (ASes with) assigned IPv6 prefixes or only the visible ones? Does File:Rir-ipv6-allocation-rate.svg only show the number of RIR assignments or is their size factored in? It would be great if you could clarify the file descriptions and maybe add references to your sources. --Ben g (talk) 13:47, 4 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Hello. The file Ipv6-as.svg is built with the data from http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/bgp-as-count.txt and http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/bgp-active.txt maintained by Geoff Huston (see http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/ and the summary on http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/report.txt). bgp-active represents the number of unique IPv6 prefixes in the global routing table (as measured by Geoff), while bgp-as-count.txt is the total number of AS (origin or transit). rir-ipv6-allocation-rate.svg is based on the RIR statistics published by the RIRs and that can be found under ftp.ripe.net:/pub/stats/ it counts the number of IPv6 of prefixes regardless of their size. Mro (talk) 16:03, 4 June 2011 (UTC)Reply
Great, thank you. :) --Ben g (talk) 17:48, 6 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Announced AS.svg edit

Hi Mro,

Your work File:Announced AS.svg about number of annonced as is fine, but to illustrate the exhaustion of AS numbers, I thought it would be better to see the reserved ASNs instead of the announced ASNs, so I uploaded a new file : File:Reserved AS.png.

I hope you agree with that. If not, I'm open to the discussion :-) . Best, --22:45, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

File tagging File:Steve-Deering.jpg edit

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Denniss (talk) 11:49, 9 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

File:IPv6-as.svg edit

Hello Mro!

I've remade the IPv6-as image with updated data, but I don't know how to replace the image (or even if it is possible for me to do so?).

Cheers,

--Joaosampaio (talk) 14:52, 22 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
Hello. In the middle of the page, I see "import a new version of the file" in the History section, you can follow this link to upload a new version. Regards. Mro (talk) 06:41, 23 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Source of Rir-rate.svg edit

Just to mention I changed the "source" of File:Rir-rate.svg to add a link to ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ . I guessed this was your source for the data since you built the IPv6 graph using it. --Wagaf-d (talk) 15:23, 26 July 2012 (UTC)Reply


File:Rir-rate.svg edit

Hi Mro, as you update this diagram you seem to understand its meaning. Therefore I'm asking you to categorize it useful. The current Category:Unidentified diagrams is not useful at all! Greetings, -- Ies (talk) 12:30, 4 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

File:NAT64.svg edit

Hello Mro,

The file NAT64.svg has an error in the IPv6 address.

The address 64:ff9b::c00:201 encapsulates an IPv4 address of the form 12.0.2.1

The IPv6 address should be 64:ff9b::c000:201.

Best regards, Guillermo

Hello. You're right of course, it's funny nobody noticed before. I can't correct it immediately but I will do it as soon as possible. Thanks. Mro (talk) 10:02, 3 November 2014 (UTC)Reply
The fixed version seem to be broken somehow - the letters are overlapping. Can you please fix it? 2A01:8C00:FF05:0:0:0:0:1A1E 11:09, 4 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

File:Ipv4-exhaust.svg and File:Magnus Carlsen Elo.svg edit

Dear Mro,

may you publish your plot scripts and update the diagrams?--Kopiersperre (talk) 14:29, 26 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

File:IPv4 blocs.svg edit

 
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109.237.252.113 07:47, 18 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

File:IPv4 blocs.svg edit

 
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92.103.160.224 12:40, 18 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

File:IPv4 blocs.svg edit

 
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