User talk:Loopy30/Archive 2021

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C1K98V ^{(💬 ✒️ 📂)} 10:24, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Source updated. iNaturalist image review template reset and review passed. Loopy30 (talk) 15:30, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

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C1K98V ^{(💬 ✒️ 📂)} 12:33, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Source updated. iNaturalist image review template reset and review passed. Loopy30 (talk) 14:06, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

location

Hi Loopy - thanks for adding photos from inaturalist! Just a small tip: it helps if you include the location in the filename and image description, as I've done here; it makes the images more accessible and easier to check. Thanks! - MPF (talk) 14:01, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi MPF, the location data is already included with every file. Is there no other way to search for images by location? Loopy30 (talk) 23:11, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

I know that ;-) but this is not visible in the thumbnails in the categories, so you have to open the page to see it, which is slow and tedious. Adding the location in the filename makes file selection for e.g. category sorting, or choice for a wikipedia page (say, if someone from Swedish Wikipedia wants a photo of the species taken in Sweden), so much quicker and easier: try opening each one of 200 files to find the one you want! - MPF (talk) 00:05, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Sounds like what is really needed is the ability to easily search by location, either by using categories (which takes more work to populate), or by entering a location or bounding box and having a search engine return the results. Loopy30 (talk) 00:26, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Perhaps, yes; but it remains, including the location in the filename (and also in the file description) is easy, and a very good thing to do. MPF (talk) 10:52, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

@MPF, this functionality already exists, for those who would need it, by combining category searches within the WikiMap created by OSM. Examples and further explanation can be found here. Loopy30 (talk) 16:09, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Yes, again, I know that - I've been on Commons for over 16 years ;-) It's still a lot slower than using filenames, where you can use cat-a-lot to categorise hundreds of files at a glance using location information in the filename without having to open a single one of them. I just can't see why you object so strenuously to including the location in the filename. Informative filenames are just so much more useful. Go ahead and try it! - MPF (talk) 16:23, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Searching by text (placename) will never be as accurate or as inclusive as searching by actual map locations provided (either looking visually on a map, or by bounding box in a search). And what would be the "correct" level of geographic entity (city/county/province/region/country/or higher) that a user should choose? Political boundaries or biogeographic? And which language spelling? Abbreviations? With diacritics and accents, or not? Where categories exist, they can at least combine some of these levels as nested subcategories.

I certainly do not object to you including such information in your filenames. While it may be redundant to the more precise information that is already included in the location field, if you like to add it as a means to assist your workflow, then great. Are these efforts all so that you can add mass categorization using cat-a-lot? Or do you wish to view thumbnails of all images in a given location? Also, the WikiMap associated with the image file does not require you to open each individual image to view it either. You can scroll over each entry and scan the associated image (Go ahead and try it!). Loopy30 (talk) 18:01, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

For Inat images, I generally use the language used by the Inat contributor (to make a simple copy-n-paste from the Inat page; see e.g. my recent uploads like File:Larus canus heinei, Пермский край, Россия 2.jpg and File:Larus canus kamtschatschensis, Nemuro, Hokkaido, Japan 1.jpg), or else English, but language doesn't matter too much. Cat-a-lot doesn't work on the wikimap, so you do have to open each file for recategorisation. A typical example if what I do is recategorising images by their location (e.g. whether native or invasive alien, or by country). If you think of a common species say, native to Europe and invasive non-native in North America, there might be 300 files in the species category, roughly half of which I'd want to move from Category:Genus_species into Category:Genus_species_(non-native); those where the filename includes a US state, Canadian province, 'USA', or 'Canada', are very quick and easy with Cat-a-lot (20 seconds to move 100 files), but those with no location in the filename, each has to be opened to look for location clues, or opened from the map to access the categories (30-40 minutes or more to move the remaining 50 images). It really makes a massive difference to workload if the filename include or don't include location information. - MPF (talk) 22:10, 18 April 2021 (UTC)