Wishing.

[reddragdiva]

Can't sleep for coughing, so arkady and I are up geeking. I just tripped over these pages:

• Wikipedia:Requested pictures
• Category:Wikipedia requested images
• Commons:Picture requests
• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs
• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Australia
• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the United Kingdom

I can hardly believe we don't have a good photo of deep-fried pizza.

The first list is worth a look over by all of you. e.g. the Anne Frank Tree in Amsterdam, which is due to be cut down soon.

With-permission images are deprecated (much to secretlondon's past annoyance); we need actual free-content images that anyone can reuse without asking. That is: you take the photo and licence it to the world suitably. (I tend to use PD-self for stuff I really don't give a hoot about [e.g. pictures of technical things] and copyleft-self with GFDL and CC-by-sa for stuff that has some creativity involved. Of course, there's the Uncyclopedia Have A Fucking Field Day licence.) If that seems stupidly complicated, please ask in a comment.

Comments

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

no pics of a snot block ?!

next time i have one ill grab a shot for ya ;p

[http://users.livejournal.com/raven_/]

Okay, so ah took me some photahs of firescreens. Now what do I do?

:-p

[reddragdiva]

If ya gotta Wikipedia login, upload 'em and pick a licence and there you go. If that's too much like work (yet another bloody login?) email 'em to me with what licence you want 'em under (GFDL, CC-by-sa, PD, combinations thereof or whatever) and I'll upload 'em.

[http://users.livejournal.com/raven_/]

I got a login, but I lost it somewhere from there. :-p

I'm a wikivirgin.

What's yer email address. Here, you get the special icon, with my thanks ;-)

PD license is just fine, it's a firescreen, for fuck's sake. Two, in fact.

[http://users.livejournal.com/raven_/]

Okay, I uploaded one of them. Now what.

[reddragdiva]

Put 'em in the article it's requested for! Or list it on that page. Or tell me where it is.

[http://users.livejournal.com/raven_/]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_screen

I am teh n3rd0r.

I'll upload the other in a sec.

I put a note on the page requesting to say that I was going to upload, but it didn't log my username... or does it do that, just not for me? I don't want to phuck up some freaky nerd protocol :-p

[reddragdiva]

You sign stuff by putting ~~~~ which automatically turns into your username and the time.

Wikipedia is made of nerd protocol. It's like a huge Asperger's inducing field.

[http://users.livejournal.com/raven_/]

Indeed. Thanks though, I've added my whatsit.

Virgin no more, me.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

So what's the procedure for naming pages for people, their names vs. their famous nicknames? Pelé vs. Edson Arantes do Nascimento is a gimme, but the one i ran into recently was Zaza Pachulia vs Zaur Pachulia. The latter didn't exist, so i moved Zaza to Zaur, which left behind a redirect. I found in my box a message from a young Georgian fan of Zaza's asking me to move it back. I told him he could do it himself.

[reddragdiva]

What they're most commonly called in English-speaking media. (The Ukranian government has declared their capital should be spelt "Kyiv" in English; the article is at [[Kiev]] because that's what everyone who commonly speaks English calls it.) All reasonable spellings of the name should be in bold in the first paragraph anyway.

There's endless anality around naming conventions. Assume it'll end up somewhere it probably belongs and leave it to someone much more pedantic than yourself with much less of a life to fix.

As for names of photos, no restrictions, although leaving it at the name out the camera will get your name cursed by millions - I usually use something like subject and date.jpg.

[reddragdiva]

Oh, people - their actual name is preferred in almost all cases. Though Edson Arantes do Nascimento is under [[Pelé]]. Whatevuh.

[yaruar.livejournal.com]

not from what i've seen from a very brief check. chosen or given names should always be the convention where it is the better known of the names.

[reddragdiva]

As I said, there's endless nerdery and if there's a small forest of redirects to the article so it's easily findable by the casual reader, I'm inclined not to care too much ;-)

[yady.livejournal.com]

I have a silver Gameboy Advance SP - not the white one requested (I think). I can still take a picture of it when I run into it (it's somewhere in the mess from moving currently). I can also poke people I know in Amsterdam about the Anne Frank Tree.

There's a non-Wikipedia related picture I've been meaning to take for you for years (and should have done before I moved as it's near where I used to live). One day I'll manage, honestly!

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

[snork] They want a picture of a Silver Ring Thing ring.

I wonder where I put mine...

[reddragdiva]

Somewhere down your top, as the icon suggests?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I can do a couple of those. I'll ask Churchill for their coat of arms and Earth Sciences if they mind me taking a photo of some greenockite.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

Richard found one or two of his own photos of old computers up on wikipedia without his knowledge or consent a while ago, but he might be up for trying to get a shot of Deep Fried Pizza if he's not too annoyed about it lately.

[redcountess]

Yeah, there's a lot of users on Wikipedia that think any old photo is fair game - I once had a run in with somebody using images of Keith Richards from his own website, FFS!

Please tell Richard it would be very much appreciated by the community if he would reconsider giving licence to the offending photos.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

i think he did that, actually. :) commented it and said - "those are mine, and it's polite to ask, but please go ahead" or something to that effect.

[reddragdiva]

If he wants to get into giving away his second-best shots, there's more than a few photographers who use Commons as a promotional mechanism for themselves - licensing the photo to the world under GFDL but noting that they may be willing to license it commercially under other terms for those who find the GFDL a pain in the arse (which it is for photos in print, though easy on the Web).

Copyright violation is a perennial pain in the arse on Wikipedia/Wikimedia, but we do prefer to make damn sure things are done properly. Which is why the apparent nerdy bureaucracy and the strong preference for a proper free-content licence and so forth. Which is why I tend to go for a simple "use my stuff" ;-)

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

deep-fried pizza

I am aghast. And yet strangely intrigued. And left wondering if there is anything edible that is not deep-fried in Scotland?

[ihcoyc.livejournal.com]

When, thanks to the miracle of Usenet, I heard about the Scottish invention of the deep fried Mars bar, I decided to try to create the confection, mostly out of curiosity as to how it worked.

The miracle of Usenet neglected to inform me that the Scots battered their candy bars before deep frying them. I spoiled more than a quart of cooking oil by my experiment, and it took several days to get all of the melted chocolate off the fry basket.

[reddragdiva]

You have brightened many people's evening.