Heya all, Yesterday, at the 32nd Bangalore Meetup, Shubhashish, Ralph, Aniruddh and I had a talk, and I decided to send this mail across. Not all people know about geocoding images, or adding multilingual descriptions. I thought I would give a brief introduction to these two concepts. Please NOTE : All examples used below are images uploaded by me.
*1> Multilingual Descriptions:* While uploading a file, it is best recommended, to add a brief description. By default, the language setting is English. However you cann add as many as you want, and in the order of your preference. I use Hindi first, and then English. EG: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central-Silk-Board-Flyover.jpg I suggest adding descriptions in your local language and/or mother tongue apart from English. It is irrelevant whether the language in which you type has any connection the the picture. I have uploaded pictures of Tamil Nadu with Hindi descriptions. You can type in Indian languages using http://www.Quillpad.in or http://www.google.com/transliterate/ Alternatively, you can use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keymanweb/Keymanweb on Wikipedia itself.
*2> Geocoding images* Geocoding is a relatively easy process. You can use http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html to generate geolocation tags. The process is simple, open Google Maps/Wikimapia/Open Street Maps, locate the place in question, and copy the link, in Wikimapia, from the address bar, Google maps, click on link, copy the first link, in OSM, click on permalink, copy from address bar and paste it in the box on the link given above. Click on Apply, it'll show the location in the map. Zoom in and give final adjustments, if any to the location and copy the tags below. I suggest {{location}} over {{coord}} as the latter is being depreciated. Among the two {{location}} tags, I use the longer one. Add the location tags to the additional info box while uploading.
Note: i] For some images, getting a location is easy. Eg: In http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RCC-Magic-Box-Hosur-Road.jpg it was easy as the picture's location is an important junction on a major road. Locating it on the maps was an easy task. ii] For some pictures, it wasn't so easy, like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NH-209-Dimbam_Ghat.jpg I didn't know where to place the exact marker, so I chose a hairpin bend from the map that seemed most likely or close to the one I photographed. [ *For those who have GPS enabled devices with you: Try saving the location, or like I discovered later on, tweet out the something with locations enabled and favourite that tweet for easy access later on.* ]
I bookmarked, the Commons Upload Form, GeoLocator, and the Indic Text tool on my browser bookmarks toolbar so it can be opened as and when I take a photograph.
If anybody has any problems or issues with the above matter, please let me know. I'll be happy to help you out in any event you haven't understood what I mentioned.
Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan User:Rsrikanth05 @rsrikanth05
I must say that one lives and learns in the most unpredictable ways. This Sunday, at the Bangalore meetup, I learned that Srikanth (who I met for the first time) is finishing his last two years of school. Srikanth told me off-list that he is not the youngest Wikipedian in India. For the record, however, he is the youngest Wikipedian that I know in India. And it felt pretty amazing....
Glad that you do what you do Srikanth. The world is a better place with you editing it!
On Monday 11 April 2011 04:39 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:
Heya all, Yesterday, at the 32nd Bangalore Meetup, Shubhashish, Ralph, Aniruddh and I had a talk, and I decided to send this mail across. Not all people know about geocoding images, or adding multilingual descriptions. I thought I would give a brief introduction to these two concepts. Please NOTE : All examples used below are images uploaded by me.
_1> Multilingual Descriptions:_ While uploading a file, it is best recommended, to add a brief description. By default, the language setting is English. However you cann add as many as you want, and in the order of your preference. I use Hindi first, and then English. EG: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central-Silk-Board-Flyover.jpg I suggest adding descriptions in your local language and/or mother tongue apart from English. It is irrelevant whether the language in which you type has any connection the the picture. I have uploaded pictures of Tamil Nadu with Hindi descriptions. You can type in Indian languages using http://www.Quillpad.in or http://www.google.com/transliterate/ Alternatively, you can use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keymanweb/Keymanweb on Wikipedia itself.
_2> Geocoding images_ Geocoding is a relatively easy process. You can use http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html to generate geolocation tags. The process is simple, open Google Maps/Wikimapia/Open Street Maps, locate the place in question, and copy the link, in Wikimapia, from the address bar, Google maps, click on link, copy the first link, in OSM, click on permalink, copy from address bar and paste it in the box on the link given above. Click on Apply, it'll show the location in the map. Zoom in and give final adjustments, if any to the location and copy the tags below. I suggest {{location}} over {{coord}} as the latter is being depreciated. Among the two {{location}} tags, I use the longer one. Add the location tags to the additional info box while uploading.
Note: i] For some images, getting a location is easy. Eg: In http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RCC-Magic-Box-Hosur-Road.jpg it was easy as the picture's location is an important junction on a major road. Locating it on the maps was an easy task. ii] For some pictures, it wasn't so easy, like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NH-209-Dimbam_Ghat.jpg I didn't know where to place the exact marker, so I chose a hairpin bend from the map that seemed most likely or close to the one I photographed. [ /For those who have GPS enabled devices with you: Try saving the location, or like I discovered later on, tweet out the something with locations enabled and favourite that tweet for easy access later on./ ]
I bookmarked, the Commons Upload Form, GeoLocator, and the Indic Text tool on my browser bookmarks toolbar so it can be opened as and when I take a photograph.
If anybody has any problems or issues with the above matter, please let me know. I'll be happy to help you out in any event you haven't understood what I mentioned.
Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan User:Rsrikanth05 @rsrikanth05
-- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq
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Achal, I would like to steal your youngest Wikipedian tag from Srikanth (rsrikanth05) to this kid (Bvajresh) whom we met in Trichy :) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trichy_Wikimeetup1_2060.jpg He has been editing for more than 2 years , he claims...He edits mostly anonymously though..
An admin from Malayalam Wikipedia, Abhishek_Jacob is also a school student.
Nothing to undermine your huge efforts, Srikanth .. You have been always one of the most energetic young Wikipedians, we all know :) Keep up the good work.
Regards Tinu Cherian
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.comwrote:
I must say that one lives and learns in the most unpredictable ways. This Sunday, at the Bangalore meetup, I learned that Srikanth (who I met for the first time) is finishing his last two years of school. Srikanth told me off-list that he is not the youngest Wikipedian in India. For the record, however, he is the youngest Wikipedian that I know in India. And it felt pretty amazing....
Glad that you do what you do Srikanth. The world is a better place with you editing it!
Tinu, I told you I wasn't young. : )
Unlike others, I'm active only on English, sporadically on Hindi, and even less on the Commons. Also, unlike Abhi Jacob, I'm not an admin either, nor do I have 20,000+ edit. I have less than half of that, and am just a Rollbacker.
Anyway, I request all to please bring back the topic. : ) Cheers, Regards, Srikanth R,
On 12 April 2011 17:52, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.com wrote:
Achal, I would like to steal your youngest Wikipedian tag from Srikanth (rsrikanth05) to this kid (Bvajresh) whom we met in Trichy :) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trichy_Wikimeetup1_2060.jpg He has been editing for more than 2 years , he claims...He edits mostly anonymously though..
An admin from Malayalam Wikipedia, Abhishek_Jacob is also a school student.
Nothing to undermine your huge efforts, Srikanth .. You have been always one of the most energetic young Wikipedians, we all know :) Keep up the good work.
Regards Tinu Cherian
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.comwrote:
I must say that one lives and learns in the most unpredictable ways. This Sunday, at the Bangalore meetup, I learned that Srikanth (who I met for the first time) is finishing his last two years of school. Srikanth told me off-list that he is not the youngest Wikipedian in India. For the record, however, he is the youngest Wikipedian that I know in India. And it felt pretty amazing....
Glad that you do what you do Srikanth. The world is a better place with you editing it!
Just a note, if you want to use this note, and it gets lost I have posted it to my meta userpage. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rsrikanth05
--Regards,
On 12 April 2011 19:39, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikanth05@gmail.com wrote:
Tinu, I told you I wasn't young. : )
Unlike others, I'm active only on English, sporadically on Hindi, and even less on the Commons. Also, unlike Abhi Jacob, I'm not an admin either, nor do I have 20,000+ edit. I have less than half of that, and am just a Rollbacker.
Anyway, I request all to please bring back the topic. : ) Cheers, Regards, Srikanth R,
On 12 April 2011 17:52, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.com wrote:
Achal, I would like to steal your youngest Wikipedian tag from Srikanth (rsrikanth05) to this kid (Bvajresh) whom we met in Trichy :) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trichy_Wikimeetup1_2060.jpg He has been editing for more than 2 years , he claims...He edits mostly anonymously though..
An admin from Malayalam Wikipedia, Abhishek_Jacob is also a school student.
Nothing to undermine your huge efforts, Srikanth .. You have been always one of the most energetic young Wikipedians, we all know :) Keep up the good work.
Regards Tinu Cherian
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.comwrote:
I must say that one lives and learns in the most unpredictable ways. This Sunday, at the Bangalore meetup, I learned that Srikanth (who I met for the first time) is finishing his last two years of school. Srikanth told me off-list that he is not the youngest Wikipedian in India. For the record, however, he is the youngest Wikipedian that I know in India. And it felt pretty amazing....
Glad that you do what you do Srikanth. The world is a better place with you editing it!
-- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq
Heya guys, to make things easier for you all, I have created a Short URL for the GeoLocator tool: http://bit.ly/GeoLocWiki Take Care, Enjoy. : ) -- Regards, Rsrikanth05 EDIT: Can't post to my Meta page due to the spam filter. Keeping it here. If anybody wants, do share. Regards,
On 12 April 2011 19:39, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikanth05@gmail.com wrote:
Tinu, I told you I wasn't young. : )
Unlike others, I'm active only on English, sporadically on Hindi, and even less on the Commons. Also, unlike Abhi Jacob, I'm not an admin either, nor do I have 20,000+ edit. I have less than half of that, and am just a Rollbacker.
Anyway, I request all to please bring back the topic. : ) Cheers, Regards, Srikanth R,
On 12 April 2011 17:52, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.com wrote:
Achal, I would like to steal your youngest Wikipedian tag from Srikanth (rsrikanth05) to this kid (Bvajresh) whom we met in Trichy :) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trichy_Wikimeetup1_2060.jpg He has been editing for more than 2 years , he claims...He edits mostly anonymously though..
An admin from Malayalam Wikipedia, Abhishek_Jacob is also a school student.
Nothing to undermine your huge efforts, Srikanth .. You have been always one of the most energetic young Wikipedians, we all know :) Keep up the good work.
Regards Tinu Cherian
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.comwrote:
I must say that one lives and learns in the most unpredictable ways. This Sunday, at the Bangalore meetup, I learned that Srikanth (who I met for the first time) is finishing his last two years of school. Srikanth told me off-list that he is not the youngest Wikipedian in India. For the record, however, he is the youngest Wikipedian that I know in India. And it felt pretty amazing....
Glad that you do what you do Srikanth. The world is a better place with you editing it!
-- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq
Amazing Tool, I tried to upload and find the approximate location as the exact was not known to me. But this is really healpful. Thanks Srikanth again. :)
Subhashish, You're most welcome. Do bookmark the page, it is hard to find.: ) Or use the short code. http://bit.ly/GeoLocWiki ---Regards,
On 26 April 2011 00:08, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhashish@gmail.com wrote:
Amazing Tool, I tried to upload and find the approximate location as the exact was not known to me. But this is really healpful. Thanks Srikanth again. :) _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Hi all,
By geo tagging the articles we can use wikiminiatlas. Check the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Canada by clicking on the any globe
Some of the indic wiki are not enabled with wikiminiatlas.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas
Following wiki has enabled wikiminiatlas :- Marathi,Malayalam,Tamil,Odhisa
Following wiki has not enabled :- Hindi,Bengali
How to enable WikiMiniAtlas on a wiki ? <snip copied from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas > I am from *xx*.wikipedia.org and would like to enable the WikiMiniAtlas on our project!Great, this is easy and should work out of the box, just add code to include MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.jshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.jsin your local *MediaWiki:Common.js* file. Please do not copy the whole javascript code to your project as you will not get automatic updates, and the interaction protocol between the client javascript and the server may change any time.If you'd like clickable links in your project language on the map your project should have an active geocoding effort going on and must be supported by Wikipedia-Worldhttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en . </snip>
Thanks, Naveen Francis
On 26 April 2011 11:47, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikanth05@gmail.com wrote:
Subhashish, You're most welcome. Do bookmark the page, it is hard to find.: ) Or use the short code. http://bit.ly/GeoLocWiki ---Regards,
On 26 April 2011 00:08, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhashish@gmail.comwrote:
Amazing Tool, I tried to upload and find the approximate location as the exact was not known to me. But this is really healpful. Thanks Srikanth again. :) _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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Naveen, Thank You VERY VERY much for that information. I seriously didn't know that. Just a pointer:
* To view Google Maps/Google Earth with a lyer for all Commons Related Images: http://toolserver.org/~para/GeoCommons/GeoCommons-simple.kml
* To view OpenStreetMaps with the same layers: http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers/commons-on-osm.php?
* For those who use Google Earth, and want to get Coordinates from it, Edit -> Copy View Location OR Press Control + Shift + C on your keyboard, Copy-Paste the Coordinates on the GeoLocator, http://bit.ly/GeoLocWiki
--Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
On 26 April 2011 20:51, Naveen Francis naveenpf@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
By geo tagging the articles we can use wikiminiatlas. Check the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Canada by clicking on the any globe
Some of the indic wiki are not enabled with wikiminiatlas.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas
Following wiki has enabled wikiminiatlas :- Marathi,Malayalam,Tamil,Odhisa
Following wiki has not enabled :- Hindi,Bengali
How to enable WikiMiniAtlas on a wiki ? <snip copied from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas > I am from *xx*.wikipedia.org and would like to enable the WikiMiniAtlas on our project!Great, this is easy and should work out of the box, just add code to include MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.jshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.jsin your local *MediaWiki:Common.js* file. Please do not copy the whole javascript code to your project as you will not get automatic updates, and the interaction protocol between the client javascript and the server may change any time.If you'd like clickable links in your project language on the map your project should have an active geocoding effort going on and must be supported by Wikipedia-Worldhttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en . </snip>
Thanks, Naveen Francis
On 26 April 2011 11:47, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikanth05@gmail.comwrote:
Subhashish, You're most welcome. Do bookmark the page, it is hard to find.: ) Or use the short code. http://bit.ly/GeoLocWiki ---Regards,
On 26 April 2011 00:08, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhashish@gmail.comwrote:
Amazing Tool, I tried to upload and find the approximate location as the exact was not known to me. But this is really healpful. Thanks Srikanth again. :) _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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-- Naveen Francis
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Hey here is a nice site which can also be used for finding exact Geo Codes. http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm
Hi,
*hjl_getCoor* is gives {{coor d}}, {{coor dms}} templates which are suitable for articles. For Images, it is better to use {{location}} or {{location dec}} to point camera location. For that, I think GeoLocator ( http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html) is easy. By using GeoLocator it is possible to add camera direction also (eg: http://goo.gl/7L5cv).
Thank you Praveen P
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi < psubhashish@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey here is a nice site which can also be used for finding exact Geo Codes. http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm
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Subhashish, Thanks for the link. I still scratch my head over adding coordinates to articles. Praveen, thank you very much. I never managed to find out about Camera Directions. I'm sure this will be of immense help to programs like Malayalam loves Wikipedia. --Regards,
On 12 May 2011 14:35, Praveen Prakash me.praveen@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
*hjl_getCoor* is gives {{coor d}}, {{coor dms}} templates which are suitable for articles. For Images, it is better to use {{location}} or {{location dec}} to point camera location. For that, I think GeoLocator ( http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html) is easy. By using GeoLocator it is possible to add camera direction also (eg: http://goo.gl/7L5cv).
Thank you Praveen P
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi < psubhashish@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey here is a nice site which can also be used for finding exact Geo Codes. http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm
Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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Hi Srikanth
Many thanks for this. It's very useful.
Appreciate your initiative!
Also, just read Achal's comments on his interactions with you.
Inspiring stuff!
Hisham Mundol India Programs - Wikimedia Foundation
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs skype: hisham.wikimedia gtalk: hmundol@wikimedia.org twitter: @mundol
On Apr 11, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:
Heya all, Yesterday, at the 32nd Bangalore Meetup, Shubhashish, Ralph, Aniruddh and I had a talk, and I decided to send this mail across. Not all people know about geocoding images, or adding multilingual descriptions. I thought I would give a brief introduction to these two concepts. Please NOTE : All examples used below are images uploaded by me.
1> Multilingual Descriptions: While uploading a file, it is best recommended, to add a brief description. By default, the language setting is English. However you cann add as many as you want, and in the order of your preference. I use Hindi first, and then English. EG: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central-Silk-Board-Flyover.jpg I suggest adding descriptions in your local language and/or mother tongue apart from English. It is irrelevant whether the language in which you type has any connection the the picture. I have uploaded pictures of Tamil Nadu with Hindi descriptions. You can type in Indian languages using http://www.Quillpad.in or http://www.google.com/transliterate/ Alternatively, you can use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keymanweb/Keymanweb on Wikipedia itself.
2> Geocoding images Geocoding is a relatively easy process. You can use http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html to generate geolocation tags. The process is simple, open Google Maps/Wikimapia/Open Street Maps, locate the place in question, and copy the link, in Wikimapia, from the address bar, Google maps, click on link, copy the first link, in OSM, click on permalink, copy from address bar and paste it in the box on the link given above. Click on Apply, it'll show the location in the map. Zoom in and give final adjustments, if any to the location and copy the tags below. I suggest {{location}} over {{coord}} as the latter is being depreciated. Among the two {{location}} tags, I use the longer one. Add the location tags to the additional info box while uploading.
Note: i] For some images, getting a location is easy. Eg: In http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RCC-Magic-Box-Hosur-Road.jpg it was easy as the picture's location is an important junction on a major road. Locating it on the maps was an easy task. ii] For some pictures, it wasn't so easy, like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NH-209-Dimbam_Ghat.jpg I didn't know where to place the exact marker, so I chose a hairpin bend from the map that seemed most likely or close to the one I photographed. [ For those who have GPS enabled devices with you: Try saving the location, or like I discovered later on, tweet out the something with locations enabled and favourite that tweet for easy access later on. ]
I bookmarked, the Commons Upload Form, GeoLocator, and the Indic Text tool on my browser bookmarks toolbar so it can be opened as and when I take a photograph.
If anybody has any problems or issues with the above matter, please let me know. I'll be happy to help you out in any event you haven't understood what I mentioned.
Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan User:Rsrikanth05 @rsrikanth05
-- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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