Hello colleagues,
Continued sympathies to those who are in challenging situations. Some changes are under consideration for these emails for the purpose of making them be more relatable to people who are in a wide variety of circumstances. More information regarding possible changes may be published in the next few weeks.
-- Quotes from Dinah Maria Craik --
* The English Wikiquote of the Day for 19 April 2020 was from English author Dinah Maria Craik: "There never was night that had no morn."
* Related image of a sunrise at Akumal, Mexico: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunrise_Akumal.png
* A portrait of Craik: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dinah_Maria_Craik_(n%C3%A9e_Mulock)_...
* Another quote from Craik: "I think, at any day throughout his long reign, the King would sooner have lost his crown than have lost sight of the Beautiful Mountains."
* Related image: the painting _Krishna. Spring in Kulu_, by Russian artist and lawyer Nicholas Roerich (Никола́й Константи́нович Ре́рих), circa 1930): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicholas_Roerich_008.jpg.
-- Visiting the Thai Wikipedia and Thailand --
In the interest of featuring languages which have not previously appeared in "What's making you happy this week?", I decided to visit the Thai language Wikipedia. There I learned that Thailand has two calendar systems. [1] [2] Also, I found images from อุทยานแห่งชาติภูซาง, known in English as Phu Sang National Park [3] [4] , which appears to be a place that I would enjoy visiting. One of the photos of a waterfall was a finalist for Commons Picture of the Year in 2017.
* Picture of a hot waterfall that is in the park, Namtok Phu Sang: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phayao_phu_sang_waterfall.jpg
* Picture of a boy in a waterfall at the park. This photo was a finalist for Commons Picture of the Year in 2017: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhuSangWTF_01.jpg
* The animals that are depicted below are members of species that are found in Phu Sang National Park *
* Video of a black giant squirrel: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_giant_squirrel_(Malayan_giant_...
* Picture of a red muntjac: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Muntjac_(Muntiacus_muntjak_curvo...
* Picture of a Siamese hare: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Siamese_Hare,_Lepus_peguensis,_in_Ku...
* Picture of a jungle cat: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jungle_Cat_on_tree_at_Sundarban,_Wes...
-- Closing comments --
Translations of the subject line of this email would be appreciated on Meta. [5] Thanks to User:Patsagorn Y. [6] for the Thai translation.
What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_calendar
[2] https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%8F%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B4%...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phu_Sang_National_Park
[4] https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B2%...
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations
On 23 Apr 2020, at 20:21, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
A few years ago, I took some photos of some abandoned and heavily-decayed trains in Paranapiacaba, an old railway town in southern Brazil, and uploaded them to Commons. This week, User:Sorocabano_32 came along and identified several of them!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Siemens-Schuckert_B-B_(RFFSA) These seem to be the only photos we have of this locomotive class, as it’s the last of its kind.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TUE_S%C3%A9rie_100_(EFCB) It turns out these were built in the UK!
(There are still many more still to be identified in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Vila_Ferrovi%C3%A1ria_de_Paranap... !)
Thanks, Mike
I actually also had a train identified this week, by User:Altona https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Altona with whom I never interacted as far as I know.
My train is from Canada, uploaded a week ago.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Coast_Railway_Heritage_Park_08....
Best Yaroslav
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:35 PM Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
On 23 Apr 2020, at 20:21, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
A few years ago, I took some photos of some abandoned and heavily-decayed trains in Paranapiacaba, an old railway town in southern Brazil, and uploaded them to Commons. This week, User:Sorocabano_32 came along and identified several of them!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Siemens-Schuckert_B-B_(RFFSA) These seem to be the only photos we have of this locomotive class, as it’s the last of its kind.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TUE_S%C3%A9rie_100_(EFCB) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TUE_S%C3%A9rie_100_%28EFCB%29 It turns out these were built in the UK!
(There are still many more still to be identified in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Vila_Ferrovi%C3%A1ria_de_Paranap... !)
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Hello, Pine, thanks for sharing the quote of Dinah Maria Craik. Very timely and helpful. I stopped for a while after reading this quotation in your email.
2 things I can think of, right now, which make me happy this week a) The Wikidata COVID-19 dashboards: I saw 2 dashboards: https://sites.google.com/view/covid19-dashboard (and another is: https://speed.ieee.tn/) b) Wikidata WikiProject India COVID-19 task force and their effort: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task_force
My good wishes,
Thanks Tito Dutta Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind me over email or phone call.
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 01:12, Yaroslav Blanter ymbalt@gmail.com wrote:
I actually also had a train identified this week, by User:Altona https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Altona with whom I never interacted as far as I know.
My train is from Canada, uploaded a week ago.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Coast_Railway_Heritage_Park_08....
Best Yaroslav
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:35 PM Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
On 23 Apr 2020, at 20:21, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
A few years ago, I took some photos of some abandoned and heavily-decayed trains in Paranapiacaba, an old railway town in southern Brazil, and uploaded them to Commons. This week, User:Sorocabano_32 came along and identified several of them!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Siemens-Schuckert_B-B_(RFFSA)
These seem to be the only photos we have of this locomotive class, as
it’s
the last of its kind.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TUE_S%C3%A9rie_100_(EFCB) <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TUE_S%C3%A9rie_100_%28EFCB%29%3E
It turns out these were built in the UK!
(There are still many more still to be identified in
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Vila_Ferrovi%C3%A1ria_de_Paranap...
!)
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