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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