User talk:Jmabel/Archive 8

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Captions in January

The previous message from today says captions will be released in November in the text. January is the correct month. My apologies for the potential confusion. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Structured Data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)

My apologies if this is a duplicate message for you, it is being sent to multiple lists which you may be signed up for.

Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...

Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:

  1. Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons.
  2. Test out using captions on Beta Commons.
  3. Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have anything you'd like to say prior to release.

Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a link to join, are on Meta.

Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to the IRC office hour on Thursday. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:09, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by TwinsofSedona

Judging by the file names, I'm sure a number of files deleted at Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by TwinsofSedona are actually in scope, but since I'm not an admin, I can't tell which would be worth requesting at COM:UDR. Since you commented on the DR, would you be willing to take a look? Thanks. clpo13(talk) 17:53, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Undelivered email

Hi, my email to you at your usual domain "wasn't delivered [...] because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail." I have forwarded the original message to your gmail account. Peaceray (talk) 20:44, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

File:Victoria, BC - Fan Tan Alley 01 - sign on Fisgard Street for Chinatown Trading Co., Ltd. at number 17 (20337634348).jpg

File:Victoria, BC - Fan Tan Alley 01 - sign on Fisgard Street for Chinatown Trading Co., Ltd. at number 17 (20337634348).jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

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World's Lamest Critic (talk) 23:11, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Category:Smokestacks

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Geo Swan (talk) 15:59, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Exif time offset bot

I seem to remember a couple VP discussions that you started or were involved in regarding how to deal with the situation of camera clocks at known offsets to local time. I have been mulling over creating a bot and template pair, something like Rotatebot that would modify the Exif time by an offset. Do you think this would be a worthwhile endeavor? For various reasons, I think it would need to be limited to considering requests only from the uploader. Thoughts appreciated. Storkk (talk) 11:22, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Category:Alaskan_Way_Viaduct_-_October_22,_2011

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Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:30, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Where to place announcement

Hi, is it okay for me to place this announcement at the Village pump, or should I move the announcement to somewhere else? Thank you, --Pine✉ 05:55, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

  • @Pine: I guess that's OK, although at this point, the relevance to Commons seems small. Commons doesn't use references; the tutorial itself being on Commons is, like almost any file on Commons, mostly a matter of indifference to most Commons users as such; the prospect of a tutorial related in any way to Commons is, as far as I can see, in the indefinite future. I wouldn't have posted it there, but there's nothing actively wrong with doing so. - Jmabel ! talk 07:06, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the extension of this project is speculative at this point in time, but I thought that it would be best to place a notification on Commons because I previously notified Commons regarding the predecessor project which included Commons tutorials within its scope, and because if this pilot project is successful than I think that there is a fairly high likelihood that future tutorials will cover Commons topics, so Commons contributors might be interested in signing up for the newsletter. :) --Pine✉ 20:40, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Email address

Hi, I sent you an email but it bounced. If you are no longer getting email at that address then would you please email me your new email address using the "email this user" feature? Thanks! --Pine✉ 04:04, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for your many (many!) pictures of the Chinatown-International District. As an ethnically Chinese kid growing up in eastern Washington, our family spent a surprisingly high amount of time in CID. Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 03:38, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

@Mliu92: You're very welcome. Definitely one of the most interesting parts of Seattle.
Have you been back since they expanded Hing Hay Park? Probably the most positive thing that has happened to the neighborhood in years. - Jmabel ! talk 05:43, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
I moved to California in 1992 and haven't spent significant (>1 week) in Washington since then, unfortunately. I'm impressed that so much of the CID has remained how I remembered it, although it's kinda weird to see pictures of the micropolis that Uwajimaya has become (it was the most accessible store in terms of fun stuff and toys for kids). I've updated the Hing Hay Park page because I wasn't even aware it had been expanded, and the prior edit made it sound like it hadn't completed yet. In my reading, at some point, I have read about docile pigeons murmuring in city squares and plazas, and every single time I've remembered shuffling my feet through Hing Hay Park.
I've also started a page for the Donnie Chin International Childrens Park on Wikipedia; if you're in the neighborhood again, it would be nice to have a picture or two added to the new page, if you have a chance. Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 14:03, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Sure; the trick is I have to be there in daylight. I'll be there this evening for dinner, but probably after dark. - Jmabel ! talk 15:10, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
@Mliu92: Here you go:Category:Donnie Chin International Children's Park. - Jmabel ! talk 07:17, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Reminder to self

Reminder to self to follow up at User talk:2A02:908:D83:E460:216:CBFF:FEAD:FF9. - Jmabel ! talk 15:32, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Note to self

Need to check contributions for 97.126.23.84, who are adding probably well-intentioned but rather often under-informed captions. - Jmabel ! talk 16:02, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Category:Dipinti

Hello, you created some time ago the category Category:Dipinti; do you remember what if was for? In Italian, "Dipinti" means "paintings", and a lot of users used this category by mistake. In fact, it would be better to transform it in a redirect. Cheers --Ruthven (msg) 09:06, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

@Ruthven: Please feel free. It was for a set of mutually similar miniatures that were described in otherwise-English captions as dipinti; I presumed (apparently incorrectly) that it was a technical term for this particular type of miniature. - Jmabel ! talk 15:33, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Quality image candidates

Hello! I just recently nominated a couple images for Quality image status here at Commons, and found the process to be quite easy. I am curious, have you attempted to promote any of your images, or do you have any favorites you think might qualify? I'd be happy to nominate them on your behalf, if you're not interested in jumping through the hoops yourself. -Another Believer (talk) 22:04, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll take a look. In the meantime, you should consider quality noms over featured noms. See Commons:Quality images candidates. I just nominated 2 images by others earlier today (see May 22) and they've already received positive feedback. Super easy. Something to keep in mind! -Another Believer (talk) 23:57, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

I've submitted 3 for review. I hope you don't mind. Let's see what happens! -Another Believer (talk) 00:07, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Unfortunately, File:Victoria, BC - Swans Hotel (Scott Building) pano 01 (20396318108).jpg was not promoted (see here). The other two are still being reviewed at Commons:Quality_images_candidates#May_22,_2019. -Another Believer (talk) 19:49, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

List Wholesale Fish

Yes, Category:Seattle and the Orient is the proper place to have Category:1900 in Seattle, rather than the individual pages. Sorry I missed that. Thanks. Moreau1 (talk) 12:55, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Check a POTD description

Hello, Joe, could you kindly check the Spanish description in Potd/2019-08-25 (es)? I used machine translation for this. Compare it with Potd/2019-08-25 (en). If there are mistakes in this, feel free to improve this, as well. (And because I created the MOTD before and used it partly as blueprint, see also Motd/2019-08-25 (en)). — Speravir – 00:46, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

@Speravir: I took a shot at it. Nothing in the Spanish before really conveyed "locomotive shop". Also, I chose a simpler verb tense in both the English and the Spanish. Keep in mind, I'm not a native Spanish speaker, and someone who is should probably still review that. - Jmabel ! talk 01:02, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Thank you nonetheless! — Speravir – 01:07, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Photo walk in Stockholm

It's only a few weeks until Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. I'd like to invite you to the Commons Photographer's photo walk. If you're planning on going to Stockholm in August, please consider joining this event. This is an opportunity to connect with other photographers, have fun together, and explore the beauty of an iconic Scandinavian city… All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:50, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

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