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Pine W

3 May 2017 3 May '17

10:25 a.m.

I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group>. Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this): The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings for indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited experience, I concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I bought my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive to me as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop", the manual was written for someone who already had good technical knowledge of how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia has some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer. After a few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more knowledgeable people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers group will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider ways to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable open-source contributions are very high. What's making you happy this week? Pine

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Kalliope Tsouroupidou

3 May 3 May

3:08 p.m.

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+1 on this. News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :) K. On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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-- Kalliope Tsouroupidou Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation

Marielle Volz

4:06 p.m.

New subject: What's making you happy this week? (Week of 30 April 2017)

What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good scientific imagery that was openly licensed! The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain. I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php (anyone interested in molluscs?) I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under CC by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of content: https://opentextbc.ca/ [1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/ [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/ On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou <ktsouroupidou(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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+1 on this. News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :) K. On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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James Heilman

4 May 4 May

12:28 a.m.

New subject: What's making you happy this week? (Week of 30 April 2017)

Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook, Fae is there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot? James On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz <marielle.volz(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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+1 on this. News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :) K. On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User Group > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group>. > > Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this): > > The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings for > indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited experience, I > concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I

bought

> my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive

to me

> as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop", the > manual was written for someone who already had good technical knowledge

> how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia

has

> some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have > helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer.

After a

> few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more knowledgeable > people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a > variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers

group

> will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider

ways

to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable open-source contributions are very high. What's making you happy this week? Pine _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Isaac Olatunde

4:23 p.m.

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Greetings, What made me happy this week was the establishment of Wikimedia Hub in two academic institutions in Nigeria, University of Ibadan and Nigeria Institute of Journalism. I want to thank members of my community (Wikimedia User Group Nigeria) who made this happened. Regards, Isaac https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/02/digest-women-in-red/ On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:28 AM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

Group

>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group>. >> >> Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this): >> >> The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings

for

>> indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited

experience, I

> concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I

bought

> my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive

to me >> as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop",

the

>> manual was written for someone who already had good technical

knowledge

> how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia

has

> some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have > helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer.

After a >> few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more

knowledgeable

> people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a > variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers

group

> will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider

ways >> to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in >> situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable >> open-source contributions are very high. >> >> What's making you happy this week? >> >> Pine >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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Subhashish Panigrahi

5 May 5 May

7:17 p.m.

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What made me happy this week is the release of our latest converter (check it out: https://or.wikipedia.org/s/14kh) that converts the Odia-language text into International Phonetic Alphabet and Roman. We have been struggling for some time now to add pronunciations for words and could not find anything that could do that job. So another fellow Wikimedian Prateek Pattanaik I scraped the code from an existing converter and created this. Now we are going to integrate this into our pronunciation project Kathabhidhana (https://github.com/OdiaWikimedia/Kathabhidhana) where we create pronunciations of words. The next batch of audio recordings will come on Commons with IPA and Romanization. Yay for more metadata! :) Subhashish On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Group

for

>> indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited

experience, I > >> concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I > bought > >> my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not

intuitive

to me >> as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop",

the

>> manual was written for someone who already had good technical

knowledge > of > >> how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted.

Wikipedia

> has > >> some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would

have

> helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer.

After a >> few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more

knowledgeable > >> people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a > >> variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons

Photographers

> group > >> will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and

consider

> ways > >> to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in > >> situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable > >> open-source contributions are very high. > >> > >> What's making you happy this week? > >> > >> Pine > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

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Lionel Allorge

8:27 p.m.

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Hi, What made me happy this week was to see the tests of 3D objects being uploaded into Commons : https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/3d Regards. -- Lionel Allorge https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lionel_Allorge

Asaf Bartov

6 May 6 May

10:05 a.m.

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That's fantastic, Subhashish! :) A. On May 5, 2017 3:21 AM, "Subhashish Panigrahi" <psubhashish(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

Greetings, What made me happy this week was the establishment of Wikimedia Hub in

two

academic institutions in Nigeria, University of Ibadan and Nigeria Institute of Journalism. I want to thank members of my community

(Wikimedia

User Group Nigeria) who made this happened. Regards, Isaac https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/02/digest-women-in-red/ On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:28 AM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook, Fae

there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot? James On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz <marielle.volz(a)gmail.com

> wrote: > > > What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good

scientific

> > imagery that was openly licensed! > > > > The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of > > agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain. > > I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee > > Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to > > the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack > > job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for > > batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php > > (anyone interested in molluscs?) > > > > I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under

> > by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality > > medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch > > of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of > > content: https://opentextbc.ca/ > > > > [1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/ > > [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/ > > > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou > > <ktsouroupidou(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > +1 on this. > > > News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :) > > > > > > K. > > > > > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>

wrote:

> >> I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User

Group > >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group

. > > >> > > >> Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this): > > >> > > >> The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic

settings

for

>> indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited

experience, I > >> concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I > bought > >> my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not

intuitive > > to me > > >> as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and

"f-stop",

the

>> manual was written for someone who already had good technical

knowledge > of > >> how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted.

Wikipedia

> has > >> some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would

have > > >> helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer. > > After a > > >> few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more > knowledgeable > > >> people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist

in a

> >> variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons

Photographers

> group > >> will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and

consider

https://meta.wikimedia.org/

> >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > >> wiki/Wikimedia-l > >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/

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Subhashish Panigrahi

7 May 7 May

6 a.m.

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Thanks Asaf. :) Subha On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Asaf Bartov <asaf.bartov(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

That's fantastic, Subhashish! :) A. On May 5, 2017 3:21 AM, "Subhashish Panigrahi" <psubhashish(a)gmail.com> wrote:

What made me happy this week is the release of our latest converter

(check

it out: https://or.wikipedia.org/s/14kh) that converts the Odia-language text into International Phonetic Alphabet and Roman. We have been struggling for some time now to add pronunciations for words and could

not

find anything that could do that job. So another fellow Wikimedian

Prateek

Pattanaik I scraped the code from an existing converter and created this. Now we are going to integrate this into our pronunciation project Kathabhidhana (https://github.com/OdiaWikimedia/Kathabhidhana) where we create pronunciations of words. The next batch of audio recordings will come on Commons with IPA and Romanization. Yay for more metadata! :) Subhashish On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Isaac Olatunde <

reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com>

wrote:

Greetings, What made me happy this week was the establishment of Wikimedia Hub in

two

academic institutions in Nigeria, University of Ibadan and Nigeria Institute of Journalism. I want to thank members of my community

(Wikimedia > User Group Nigeria) who made this happened. > > Regards, > > Isaac > > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/02/digest-women-in-red/ > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:28 AM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>

wrote:

> > > Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook,

Fae

is > > there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot? > > > > James > > > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz <

marielle.volz(a)gmail.com

> wrote: > > > What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good

scientific > > > imagery that was openly licensed! > > > > > > The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of > > > agricultural interest and released the images into the public

domain.

> > > I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the

Bee

> > > Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text

> > > the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a

hack

> > > job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate

for

> > > batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.

php

> > (anyone interested in molluscs?) > > > > I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under

CC > > > by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high

quality

> > > medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a

bunch

> > of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of > > content: https://opentextbc.ca/ > > > > [1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/ > > [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/ > > > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou > > <ktsouroupidou(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > +1 on this. > > > News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :) > > > > > > K. > > > > > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>

wrote: > > > > > > > >> I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers

User

> > Group > > > >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_

User_Group

. > > >> > > >> Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this): > > >> > > >> The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic

settings > > for > > > >> indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited > > experience, I > > > >> concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time

later I

> bought > >> my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not

intuitive > > to me > > >> as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and

"f-stop", > > the > > > >> manual was written for someone who already had good technical > > knowledge > > > of > > > >> how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. > Wikipedia > > > has > > > >> some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would > have > > > >> helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced

photographer.

> > After a > > >> few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more > knowledgeable > > >> people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist

in a > > > >> variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons > Photographers > > > group > > > >> will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and > consider > > > ways > > > >> to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers

> >> situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable > >> open-source contributions are very high. > >> > >> What's making you happy this week? > >> > >> Pine > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

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4 May 4 May

7:28 p.m.

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I browsed through the bee mites example. Though a bot or tool can be good for mass uploading thousands of images from a 'flat' archive source, i.e. each image has a catalogue record to take suitable data from, the species web pages and diagrams gain a lot of their value by illustrating the page they are part of. So doing the uploads "by hand" to Commons actually makes a lot of sense, rather than a "brute force" mass upload. Where possible, it may be better to upload the PDF version of the same information rather than separate images, though some of the images are nice and illustrative in their own right. For small numbers of files, say under a couple of hundred, the standard upload wizard can be a useful way of downloading images locally, then uploading ten or twenty at a time, making sure the right text description is against each. For large upload numbers the upload wizard can still be handy, but the other tools at <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_tools> are designed to be quite easy to use for local uploads, or loading from some white-listed sites like Flickr. Anyone with a large archive to upload, like 10,000+ files, should consider creating a request at <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading>. Even if you end up doing the upload yourself, it is handy to have a page discussing the upload method, naming conventions, categorization and the way that metadata will be added. There are only a handful of regular experienced volunteer mass uploaders around, so for very large upload projects the requester should plan on it taking more than a couple of weeks to happen. Cheers, Fae On 3 May 2017 at 16:28, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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+1 on this. News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :) K. On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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