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@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@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 in situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable open-source contributions are very high.
What's making you happy this week?
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