User talk:PKM/Archive 2

Honorary Elf

Thanks for your work on getting Derby Museums Wright .... I mean right. I'm sure tyouve come across this effect but it its like the elves have been busy in the night. The whole idea of the Derby project came from work with the British Museum. We did a lot of good work, but when we had finished it was just as impressive as it was when we arrived. So what effect can we have on a smaller museum? Thanks for helping with the experiment. Victuallers (talk) 09:16, 14 March 2011 (UTC) and the elves keep going... Im talking to the museum about releasing more images including (I hope) costume from Pickford House Victuallers (talk) 08:48, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

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COM:NARA

Hey Paula. We are going to be soon starting a major batch upload of NARA files to Commons. To coordinate I think it would be nice to have a spiffy project page along the lines of w:WP:NARA and s:WS:NARA, though it doesn't necessarily need to be that sophisticated. If you'd like to help and have any ideas, please go for it. ;-) I've cut down COM:NARA into a basic introduction, with the idea that each of the three (currently red-linked) efforts would go in the tabs across the top. If you want to build the infrastructure again, we can fill in those pages as we go. Thanks. Dominic (talk) 21:45, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Category:The National Archives (United Kingdom)

Hi, I notice you recently created this category and wondered why. The National Archives are unique in being called "The National Archives" and we make no special country suffix for the French or US categories for their National Archives. Was there a consensus that the UK was a special case? Thanks Fæ (talk) 17:15, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

It's a big assumption to take the Wikipedia name (which has been multiply contested and changed back and forth, see en:Talk:The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)#Requested_move) and use this as a category name. The name is inaccurate as The National Archives is not for the United Kingdom. The name "The National Archives" is actually unique in phrasing as other National Archives drop the "The" from their official name. I will raise the question of the name changes on the Wikipedia article by email with our point of contact at TNA and see what his recommendation is as to the best Wikipedia article title wording, we can then reflect on what this might mean for future Commons categorization. Cheers Fæ (talk) 09:12, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

TNA got back to me, they don't really care much about the Wikipedia article and are happy to leave as is. Similarly, I think the category name is technically and politically incorrect (as the TNA is not representing the United Kingdom) but will let it ride unless a discussion starts up here on Commons. --Fæ (talk) 15:42, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion; I did assume that the commonscat link (to an empty category, at the time) was TNA's preferred choice. I'm happy to undo my changes if needed. Just let me know. It's small enough now that reversing things by hand wouldn't take more than a few hours. - PKM (talk) 17:01, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

File:Dorothy Latimer, wife of Thomas Cecil by British artist, active between 1537 - 1599.jpg

Hi, I removed your edits based on Philip Mould, because it is not the same painting. One is a copy of the other. The info is now based on the source of the iamge. Kind Regards, Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 13:49, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Thank you to always use the relevant creator/artist templates and to put always the right public domain license. The precision in your work is kindly appreciated. Dereckson (talk) 09:47, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:Paintings in Kenwood House

Paintings in Kenwood House has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

--Ham (talk) 21:31, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

File:Frank Earle Schoonover.jpg

File:Frank Earle Schoonover.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. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 18:01, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Category:Bizarre_silk

Category:Bizarre_silk has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:14, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2012! Dear PKM, Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2012, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 350,000 pictures of cultural heritage objects from 36 countries around the world, becoming the largest photography competition to have ever taken place. You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help. To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey in your own language, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2012. Kind regards, the Wiki Loves Monuments team

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A barnstar for you!

The Photographer's Barnstar

Bonjour, PKM i' m writing a book (160 pages, 300 pictures) in France about agriculture… Is it possible to illustrate it with the picture of : Repas de noce Histoire de Renaud de Montauban, Bruges, 1468-1470 Paris, BnF, Arsenal, manuscrit 5073 fol. 148 'The Marriage of Renaud of Montauban and Clarisse'. A 15th century illuminated manuscript of Renaud de Montauban by Loyset Liedet (1420 - 1479  i've found it on the page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renaud_de_montauban_banquet.jpg Is this picture in the public domain ? Or can i have your authorisation to use it…  if i want to thanks you under this photo, which name do you want... Thank you for your help… ----- (talk) 22:19, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Gentleman giving Alms image

hi!

I would like to use this image in an online video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodcut_Giving_Alms_to_a_Beggar.jpg

Could you please provide copyright/licensing information?

Please respond to info@soulseedmedia.pl

Best!

The licensing information is on the image page. It's public domain in the US, but may not be in your location. - PKM (talk) 16:56, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I know, but if you uploaded it to Wikipedia, what is the source then?

File:The National Archives logo.png

File:The National Archives logo.png 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. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Cube00 (talk) 12:17, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Hi PKM, Your Houndstooth_check_weave image is terrific. How did you create it? I would like to create some of my own. Thank you. Ejt (talk) 21:14, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Frans Pourbus the Elder Prodigal Son.jpg

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No required license templates were detected at this file page. Please correct it, or if you have any questions please contact me on my talk page. Yours sincerely, Jarekt (talk) 03:08, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

fixed, thanks. -- PKM (talk) 02:29, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Pieter Pourbus Anna van Renoy.jpg

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And also:

• File:Pieter Pourbus Christian van der Goes.jpg

No required license templates were detected at this file page. Please correct it, or if you have any questions please contact me on my talk page. Yours sincerely, Jarekt (talk) 18:01, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Christie's

Hi, I see that you uploaded a number of old portrait paintings from Christie's auction house website. As you can see in my recent upload history I increaded the resolution to some of them. I did this using Dezoomify. This lets you save-as to a PNG file in Firefox. It's a bit of a nuisance to convert them to JPEG before uploading, but the result is quite nice. Other tools that do sort of the same can be found at Help:Zoomable_images#Zoomify --Vera (talk) 21:07, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! - PKM (talk) 22:13, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Isaac Claesz. Van Swanenburg Fulling and Dyeing.jpg

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And also:

• File:Isaac Claesz. Van Swanenburg Washing the Fleeces and Sorting the Wool.jpg

No required license templates were detected at this file page. Please correct it, or if you have any questions please contact me on my talk page. Yours sincerely, Jarekt (talk) 23:56, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Deleted content

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Hello PKM/Archive 2, the following content you uploaded violates one or more of our policies and therefore has been or will soon be deleted:

File:Isaac Claesz. Van Swanenburg Washing the Fleeces and Sorting the Wool.jpg

The Wikimedia Commons (this website) only hosts media files with a realistic educational purpose and that can be used for any purpose, including:

• use in any work, regardless of content
• creation of derivative works
• commercial use
• free distribution

See Commons:Licensing for the copyright policy on Wikimedia Commons, and Commons:Image casebook for some specific examples. Some other Wikimedia projects have different licensing policies. For example, the English Wikipedia allows fair use of sounds and photographs. This is not the case on Wikimedia Commons; "fair use" materials are not acceptable here.

Please make sure that you only upload educational content you have created yourself, those which are out of copyright, or those for which you have the required permission for the work to be used in all the ways described above. Please note that derivative works of copyrighted material are also considered copyrighted. Again, please read through Commons:Licensing, which is quite crucial, to understanding how Wikimedia Commons works. Thanks for your contribution, and please do leave me a message if you have further questions.

No license since 2014-06-02. Please read the intro of COM:L, about essential information and about Internet images. Yours sincerely, Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 03:19, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

The Structured Data Bee, vol. 1, issue 1

Greetings, thank you for signing up for the Structured Data newsletter and its first edition. With this newsletter, the Structured data team plans on keeping you informed of technical progress, events, and communications to talk about the project, and continued information on how you can participate. This newsletter will be sent approximately every two weeks, and future editions will be translatable prior to publication. If you're new to Wikidata and want more information about how it works in relation to Wikimedia Commons, you can read an introduction to Wikidata for Commons being drafted.

Tech and design

• The software development for this process is still in the planning phases. The idea is to have some functional prototyping done for experimentation and feedback by the end of the year.
• The initial roadmap for development has been posted on Commons. The roadmap is a rough outline and is open to iterations as the team learns where and when to focus its energies.
• There is a page set up for design ideas about what structured data could potentially look like.
• There are forthcoming requests for comment about the particulars of technical architecture on mediawiki.org. Keep an eye on the Commons:Structured data/Get involved page for notification of when the RfCs are posted.

Events and chats

• There was a week-long meeting between the Wikimedia Foundation's Multimedia team, the Wikidata team, and community members, held in Berlin, Germany, at the office of Wikimedia Deutchland on October 6-10. You can read an overview of the event in on this page on Commons. There are also plenty of pictures available on Wikimedia Commons.

• If you would like to read more detail about what was discussed, there are etherpads of notes taken for each day of the event.

• The next IRC office hour to discuss the structured data project will be held on November 20, from 19:30 to 20:30 UTC.

• The second IRC office hour (logs) was held on October 16, and the first (logs) on September 3.

Getting involved

• Sign up for this newsletter!
• While working prototypes are being developed, there is a drive to make all files contain machine-readable data on Wikimedia projects.

• The information and sign-up page is located on Meta, at File metadata cleanup drive.
• The MrMetadata tool on labs that will identify files on your wiki(s) that need information templates added.

• A hub has been launched to facilitate communication and documentation for this work.

• There is a frequently-asked questions page that is finishing drafting and will need translated. Keep an eye out for when it is ready if you are interested in translating.
• There will be active organization of the Get involved page as community participation is further organized. There will be work groups, similar to specific Wikiprojects, dedicated to particular aspects of structured data like licensing presentation, design, API performance, and even helping out with this newsletter and other community communications.

There will be much more information and activities around the proposal to develop structured data on Wikimedia Commons. This project is a major undertaking and an important step as the chief provider, repository, and curator of media for Wikimedia projects.

Thank you for your participation in such an extensive project, let me know if you're interested in participating in this newsletter. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 04:43, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

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An update on the File metadata cleanup drive

Hello PKM,

I wanted to thank you for offering to help with the File metadata cleanup drive on Commons. We now have numbers to measure the amount of Commons files missing machine-readable information. Most of the files here have a license template, but there still about 500,000 remaining files (out of 24 million) missing an {{Information}} template, and that's where your help would be invaluable.

We're currently trying to find groups of files whose description pages are alike, so that we can use bots to automatically take that information and put it into an information template. If you still want to help, it would be great if you could look at the list of files and see if you can find such groups. You can also use the no_information tool to limit the results by uploader, or the first characters of the file name; this can help identify batch uploads.

Once you find groups of files with information in the same order or format, you can add a section to the bot requests page, so that a bot can go through them and fix them all automatically (or you can do it yourself if you have a bot, or with VisualFileChange).

In 10 days, we've already managed to add information templates to over 10% of the 500,000 remaining files. I'm hoping you can help us keep this momentum and get through the rest so we can get rid of this backlog once and for all :)

Thank you, and I wish you happy end-of-year holidays if you celebrate them! Guillaume (WMF) (talk) 19:12, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Structured Data on Commons update

Greetings,

After a delay in updates to the Structured data on Commons project, I wanted to catch you up with what has been going on over the past three months. In short: The project is on hold, but that doesn't mean nothing is happening.

The meeting in Berlin in October provided the engineering teams with a lot to start on. Unfortunately the Structured Data on Commons project was put on hold not too long after this meeting. Development of the actual Structured data system for Commons will not begin until more resources can be allocated to it.

The Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Germany have been working to improve the Wikidata query process on the back-end. This is designed to be a production-grade replacement of WikidataQuery integrated with search. The full project is described at Mediawiki.org.This will benefit the structured data project greatly since developing a high-level search for Commons is a desired goal of this project.

The Wikidata development team is working on the arbitrary access feature. Currently it's only possible to access items that are connected to the current page. So for example on Vincent van Gogh you can access the statements on Q5582, but you can't access these statements on Category:Vincent van Gogh or Creator:Vincent van Gogh. With arbitrary access enabled on Commons we no longer have this limitation. This opens up the possibility to use Wikidata data on Creator, Institution, Authority control and other templates instead of duplicating the data (what we do now). This will greatly enhance the usefulness of Wikidata for Commons.

To use the full potential of arbitrary access the Commons community needs to reimplement several templates in LUA. In LUA it's possible to use the local fields and fallback to Wikidata if it's not locally available. Help with this conversion is greatly appreciated. The different tasks are tracked in phabricator, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89594 .

Volunteers are continuing to add data about artworks to Wikidata. Sometimes an institution website is used and sometimes data is being transfered from Commons to Wikidata. Wikidata now has almost 35.000 items about paintings. This is done as part of the WikiProject sum of all paintings. This helps us to learn how to d:Wikidata:WikiProject Visual arts/Item structuremodel and refine metadata about artworks. Experience that will of course be very useful for Commons too.

Additionally, the metadata cleanup drive continues to produce results. The drive, which is intended to identify files missing {{Information}} or the like structured data fields and to add such fields when absent, has reduced the number of files missing information by almost 100,000 on Commons. You can help by looking for files with similarly-formatted description pages, and listing them at Commons:Bots/Work requests so that a bot can add the {{Information}} template on them.

At the Amsterdam Hackathon in November 2014, a couple of different models were developed about how artwork can be viewed on the web using structured data from Wikidata. You can browse two examples here and here. These examples can give you an idea of the kind of data that file pages have the potential to display on-wiki in the future.

The Structured Data project is a long-term one, and the volunteers and staff will continue working together to provide the structure and support in the back-end toward front-end development. There are still many things to do to help advance the project, and I hope to have more news for you in the near future. Contact me any time with questions, comments, concerns.

-- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:46, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Anthonis Mor Margaret of Parma c 1559.jpg

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No required license templates were detected at this file page. Please correct it, or if you have any questions please check my FAQ or contact me on my talk page. Yours sincerely, Jarekt (talk) 18:49, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Your Christie's image uploads

Hallo PKM, why you upload your Christie's images not in the maximum size? greetings --Trzęsacz (talk) 00:49, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

I upload the largest file I can find - ending in 'q' for recent files, 'x' or 'a' for older files. Is there another trick that I don't know about? - PKM (talk) 20:05, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

I know, but it is not the largest formats. Here an exemple with the general link: https://tools.wmflabs.org/zoomable-images/zoomify.php?path=http://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/d58683/d5868368&zoom=4 These d58683/d5868368 are the two numbers in the image URL. The zoom is most by recent files "4". This zoomed image you must scanned with the addon tool Pearl Crescent Page Saver Basic 2.8. Lot of fun and greetings --Trzęsacz (talk) 20:48, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

nice trick! Thanks for the info. - PKM (talk) 00:30, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

For more information see here (in German). (: --Trzęsacz (talk) 21:11, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Very helpful! Thanks again. - PKM (talk) 02:59, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Pieter Pietersz. Old Man with a Niddy Noddy.jpg

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Yours sincerely, Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 11:51, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Permission to Use Images

Hi PKM

Images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boucle_fabric.jpg Boucle fabric https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn#/media/File:Yarn_twist_S-Left_Z-Right.png Diagram of S and Z Twist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Machine_chain_stitch.jpg Machine embroidery chain stitch https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kette_und_Schu%C3%9F.jpg Weaving structure

I have found the above images you have uploaded onto Wikipedia and would like to include them in a textile text book that I am self publishing after years of teaching textiles to school students and am seeking your permission to do so.

as much as the licence implies they are free to be used my publisher is insisting that I have written permission for these images from the author.

I look forward to hearing from you. Regards Bev Ashford — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bev's Book (talk • contribs) 16:10, 09 October 2015 (UTC)