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I am very telling to see that we can discuss between us. I am suffering from a disease I'm a collector of minerals but especially ... dinosaur. This piece of Apatite come from the « Ecole des Mines de Paris » in which I traded there for… 25 years.
I want to get what's best in earth sciences on WK. But as private collectors are very reserved, I began to seek the museums. This month we will sign a Memorandum between « Wikimedia France » and the Museum of Toulouse for photographing the collection of prehistory of this museum ; is the richest in the world but who are not exposed.
If I as errors, it's because of the enthusiasm, our adventure is particularly exciting.
--Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 13:15, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Archaeodontosaurus,
Thank you for telling me about your enthusiasm for minerals and dinosaurs. Enthusiasm in a project like this is great and I think it is an exiting memorandum Wikimedia France is establishing with the Museum of Touluse.
I think it would be relevant to add this sourcing information to the file page, as that is where it belongs. If you do that I will be happy to support the nomination. PS, if you write to me again, it would be interesting if you wrote to me in French as I am taking an introductory course in preparation for a trip to a nice overseas department of France and it would be a nice opportunity to practise the language from a practical point of view. --Slaunger (talk) 20:46, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Game of Life
Thanks. And if you're interested in experimenting with Conway's Game of Life (and other cellular automata) then you should download Golly. It's shareware and includes a hashlife algorithm for superfast calculations. --SimsContPics (talk) 13:23, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Wow, did not know about golly. That is such a cool game-of-life animated logo they have on their project page. I noticed a prime calculator was shown as an example. Cool! Maybe I should suggest it to mila (mbz1) for solving Project Euler problems as an alternative to BASIC, see previous thread on my talk page . --Slaunger (talk) 14:28, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! The image has also been featured in Turkey too, which is kind of cool. I'm working on a new super-deep zoom (hopefully with a final diameter between 10^-40 and 10^-50) which will freeze on every satellite it passes (similar to how the M-set was shown recently on the BBC program the Secret Life of Chaos). That animation, which will require emulated floating point numbers, will probably take months to make though. Or maybe just weeks if I'm lucky. --SimsContPics (talk) 10:22, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Nouvelles en français
Bonsoir Slaunger,
J’ai plaisir à t’écrire en français, car j’ai beaucoup de difficultés avec les langues. Je crois avoir compris que tu viendras à Nice. Si tu passes à Toulouse je serais heureux de te recevoir, et tu rencontrera beaucoup de Wikipédiens (Toulouse est la ville de France où il ya le plus de wikipédiens).
Je vais mettre au vote une photo d’anatase. Spécimen qui est du XVIIIe siècle et qui est du gisement topotype de l’espèce. Je ne présente toujours qu’une photographie à la fois. Je l’ai déjà mis sur de nombreux Wiki en minéralogie. Pour la suite je pense changer de stratégie. Je mettrais d’abord la photographie au vote VI avant de la mettre sur les différents wiki. Elle tirera sa légitimité du label VI. Bien Amicalement.
--Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 20:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for the first purely French message on my talk page.
As mentioned I am hoping to improve my French (from near zero level) over the coming period and getting messages in French is a nice occasion to practise. Actually, I have never had French in school, and my first lesson in my French class is later today. Therefore, as an experiment, I will try to translate, what you have just written to me to English, and then you can evaluate the quality and tell me which level of French I should put on the babelbox, on my user page. I will not use any autotranslation, dictionaries etc, just guessing. When I have finished my course we could perhaps try again and see if I have improved my understanding. OK, so here goes (probably laughable, and it is after a lot of thinking, I can assure you).
Now in French.
Hello Slaunger,
I am pleased to write to you in French as I find writing in other languages difficult. I think you should come to Nice. If you pass Touluse, I would be happy to receive you, and you could meet with many Wikipedians (Toulouse is the city in France which has the highest number of Wikipedians). I will tell you about the photo you voted on. The sample is from the 18th century and is considered the topotype(?) amongst samples of this mineral. I am not just nominating some arbitrary photo. I contribute to several Wikipedias within the domian of mineraology. For the future I think I will change the strategy. First I will nominate a photo for VI, and, if it is promoted, then will I replace photos on the various Wikis. Best regards, Archaeodontosaurus
Now, assuming this is just approximately correct, I would like to thank you for directing (inviting?) me to some interesting places in France. The "only" planned trip I have to France is to the Carribean islands of Guadeloupe for two weeks late March - early April this year. For me that is quite something I am looking forward to. Besides that I am very much an ignorant concerning France. I've only ever stayed one night, and that was in the suburbs of Paris two months ago in relation to a business trip. But maybe Nice and/or Toulouse at some later stage.
Thank you for telling a bit more of the sample. Could some of this informationmation be added to the file page (not the VIC nomination page), as I think a bit of sourcing adds value to the image? I think the new strategy you are proposing with first nominating a photo for VI, and then only mass-replace it in Wikis if it gets promoted is very fine way to do it. It seems more justified to mass-replace existing photos of minerals with new ones, if it has been evaluated independently by others, that it is the most valuable available.
C'est bon de savoir que tu a commencé à étudier le Français. Je pourrai pratiquer avec toi! Mais ou est la boîte avec le niveau 2? J'espère revenir bien vite à Commons (et aux photos), mon long travail est presque terminé. Salut, Alvesgaspar (talk) 13:31, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Boa noite et bonsoir Joaquim!
Quelle joie. Mon bon ami portugais de Commons offre d'aidier a practiquer le Français avec moi. Merci beaucoup! Salut, --Slaunger (talk) 20:57, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
The English open their museums to Wikipedia!
Bonjour Slaunger
Désolé c’est encore en français. Nous ne sommes pas les seuls a y avoir pensé.
Hi, Slaunger, I just saw that you helped to delete some superfluous things on my user page, thank you very much! By the way: I just created an article in the German Wikipedia about Karl Ewald, the Danish writer. It is difficult to find something about him here and as I can't speak Danish, I'm not able to translate the text in the Danish Wikipedia Carl Ewald. It would be fine if you could do this for me, but as I know that you are very busy in real life, I don't expect it, of course. I found some biographical data in a book and also in a journal, but maybe there could something else be found in Denmark. As a child I loved his stories very much and I told them to my pupils when I was a teacher. Regards, --Schnobby (talk) 09:01, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Schnobby, Only glad I could be of assistance. I have to confess something sehr peinlich. I did not know about Carl Ewald, nor do the titles of any of his stories mentioned ring a bell. I see that Poul Henningsen is a son of his. I am much more familiar with him. Litterature has never been my strong side (nor interest), I'm a natural sciences person. I would have liked to help you with translating if I could, but I am afraid that I am not a good enough translator for these kinds of articles as I simply do not know the correct terms in English (nor German). I guess you will get just as accurate info by using an autotranslator like http://translate.google.com and there you could even go directly from Danish to German. But anyways, thank you for taking your time to write about this Danish author on the German Wikipedia. (Your photos are outstanding btw). --Slaunger (talk) 10:24, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you are not to blame if you don't know Carl Ewald. In Germany he is almost forgotten; there are some books from him in internet antiques bookshops, that's all. This is why I wanted to give him an article and I am glad that in the Danish and Swedish Wikipedia he has one too. Many thanks for your hint of the google translate; I'll try that. The photos you like were taken by my husband (we are a very old couple of about 70 years); I am the painter in the family. Now, it was great to meet you here, cheers! -- Schnobby (talk) 14:27, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Hallo Ingeborg (lovely name in Danish, by the way). I am glad that I could direct you in a helpful direction. Be careful with the autotranslations though. They can be very erroneous, but they usually make a good starting point for a decent translation.
Come, on you are not old! Just experienced seniors! Well, a bit older (or should we say wizer) than me, but younger than my parents... I think it is fantastic that we also have some senior users on Commons. I would never had guessed that age from your editing patterns and contributions alone. I saw the etch and sketch you have created, Ingeborg. I like them as well, especially the etch of the Spanish mountain. Grüsse aus Dänemark, --Slaunger (talk) 22:19, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Slaunger, yes, I was careful with the autotranslation; there were really funny expressions in it, but I learned that Carl Ewald had 12 brothers and sisters (which is not relevant for the article); I only added the fact that he translated the fairytales of the Grimm brothers into the Danish language and the names of his two sons, because both are well known in Denmark.
Well, we don't feel old, you can imagine. My mentor in the German Wikipedia calls me friendly "exotic foreigner" because of my age and I like it. We both are artists (my husband is a stained glass painter and photographer), but the computer had given us more possibilities and had shown us new worlds in the last years. What I like most is this international character in Commons - today I speak with a Danish man, yesterday I looked at the User page of a Canadian, tomorrow perhaps I'll see photos which were taken by an Australian... I often have a glance at the featured pictures. Many greetings from Munich, Ingeborg -- Schnobby (talk) 09:05, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Love to see that you are learning French. Also counting. But counting in Chinese is terrible, although very useful. Did you know that the Chinese can count up to 99 with only both hands (=10 fingers)? We learned this when we stayed in Shanghai 2009. Have a nice day! Schnobby (talk) 11:53, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
I can image counting in Chinese is hard. Interesting with the signs for numbers up to 99 using only two hands. I can easily image though that it is possible. For instance, if you just bend a finger, you have 210=1024 different finger combinations just using that. If you include palms pointing out or in, you end up with 2(10 + 2)=4048 combinations. Have a nice day in Munich as well. And if you meet Richard Bartz in a local supermarket down there, tell him to forget about his dogs and come back to Commons right now.
I enjoyed the pictures of Roxy, Spike, Noah, Nischka, Nanda and Yuki; I don't think Richard will forget about his dogs and come back to Commons (is he missing?), but I'll tell him so if I meet him in our supermarket. ;-)
Well, Richard is by far the best macro photographer Commons has ever had. Macro photography without Richard is just so dull here. Yes, he is missed.
Nice to hear that I could have 4048 different finger combinations, but if I know them all (in about three oder four years) I should have a partner who knows them too. Would you like to be this partner, my husband already told me he will not. ;-D
Nah I do not think so, I just came to think about if the 99 was close or far from a simple theoretical limit. But I think the number indicated could be representative of the number of signs known for a deaf person, albeit these involve motions and change in finger, hand position, facial expressions etc., which makes memorizing them much simple I guess as they do not look as similar as simply bending some fingers and turning a face palm.
Hi Slaunger, I just uploaded some new photos and will do so in the next days. Here is one example from our own Ginkgo tree. I like the shadows of the leaves. I hope you are fine, have a nice day! (I still didn't meet Richard, but I had a look at his gallery. Impressive! My husband likes macro photographs as well; I hope to upload more pictures soon.) Greetings from Ingeborg! -- Schnobby (talk) 15:48, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
La catégorie Valued Image n’est pas très animée, penses-tu que l’on puisse mettre deux images d’un même auteur pour une même cession ?
Félicitation pour ta volonté d’apprendre le français, c’est une belle langue. Un peu compliquée par sa richesse, au point que tous les français font des fautes… N’oubli pas que tu seras toujours bienvenu, à Paris, Nice ou Toulouse. Si tu veux Connaitre une ville c’est Paris qui concentre l’Esprit français.
The class Valued Image is not verybusy, do you think we can put two images of a single author for the same assignment?
Congratulations on your desire to learn French is a beautiful language. Slightly complicated by his wealth so that all the French make mistakes ... do not forget that you will always be welcome in Paris, Nice or Toulouse. If you want to know a city is Paris, which concentrates the French Spirit.
I am sorry but I did honestly not understand the first item in your list. Two images by the same author? Yes, what about them? Are you referring to the relatively low number of reviewers at the valued image program and the (lack) of diversity in the reviews?
Merci beaucoup. Luckily it is my impression that where I am going next (Guadeloupe) the inhabitants do not emphasize correct French that much in the spoken language. As I understand, Créole guadeloupéen is also a prevalent spoken language there. After G. I better visit mainland France afterwards, it seems. Salut, --Slaunger (talk) 21:12, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
I would like to thank you for taking the time to review my request for checkuser rights. I hope one more CU will make a difference, at least for the other CUs' workload! Regards, --Eusebius (talk) 16:30, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
Pudelek
Hi Slaunger!
For club Meet our photographers all featured photos in all Wiki-projects are considered, or only featured on Commons? User:Pudelek has 11 FP in the Polish Wiki and few in other projects and 7 on Commons.
You referred to my VIS nomination in our discussion about activity on Valued Image Set nominations. On a more personal note, I'd like to have your opinion on how, if at all, such a collection of pictures could be useful. Obviously, in the corresponding category, all the images on this subject would be included. A special gallery page with only selected images isn't something I've encountered on the Commons before, and I'm not sure that somethink like that would be useful as a general policy.
Hi Michael, You've caught me at an unfortunate time as I'm awfully busy the next few days - until Thursday probably. Concerning galleries: Do you know Commons:Galleries? Galleries makes sense for much of the stuff a valued image set is about. To show a set of images in a specific order with captions, because the images as a set in that order has a special meaning, which is valuable. The difference between a Commons gallery and a VIS is that the latter is static. It is not meant to evolve because it is considered complete for illustrating its scope. For a VIS it would not make sense for another image to be squeezed in the sequence. For instance, Valued image set: Oviposition among ichneumon wasps is a good example thereof. It is a complete set and it should never be modified concerning the order or the images in it. But this distinction is really hard to grasp for the community, nominators and reviewes and I think the time has come to realize that we should just stick to galleries. --Slaunger (talk) 08:54, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Hey Slaunger! Actually, I wasn't aware of Galleries. I remembered them as just "pages" with an unclear purpose. For what I nominated as a Valued Image Set (and have now withdrawn as such), this really appears to be the right thing. There doesn't appear to be a system for evaluating the quality of Galleries, but maybe one will emerge sometime. Thank you! --MichaelBueker (talk) 13:38, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Lovely image however there is clipping on the bergs. Can be quite easily fixed but not sure if you (or Noodle snacks) wish to deal with it (I can obviously - within "recovery" bounds). I'll support it for sure then :) --Herbytalk thyme10:44, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Herby, Thanks for your observation. Just to be sure - are you referring to exposure clipping? I would not know how to fix that myself. If you find it easy to fix, I would be grateful if you would give it a try (I can also ask Noodle). I'd prefer that you use another filename though in that case as the same image is up for voting on WP:FPC. --Slaunger (talk) 11:30, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Here - only a moments work :). I feel it maybe should be offered on FP as folk can be rather precise on such issues...
Thanks Herby. I appreciate that edit. It has especially helped a lot on the distant Greenland ice sheet. It is still pretty bad on some of the larger icebergs but I suppose it is beyond recovery. I agree the edit should be offered as well. --Slaunger (talk) 11:45, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
There is no further clipping showing on my program? Do you still see some - if so where? I looked at it 1:1 and found nothing else. Regards --Herbytalk thyme11:48, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
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