User talk:Fæ

I am regularly travelling, so may be slow to respond to questions. It helps if you remember to {{ping}} me on discussions that are not kept on this page. Sometimes I am available on IRC #wikimedia-commons, but my connection is flakey, so private messages easily get lost each time a connection drops. Email or become a contact on Telegram or Twitter where messages are persistent, for a more reliable off-wiki discussion. --Fæ (talk) 11:56, 8 August 2018 (UTC) Faebot lives in different places, so some tasks running on Labs have proven stability and carry on regardless of my existence. However tasks running from my local desktop will routinely be off when I'm not about, though a small number will run on a local Raspberry Pi which should be more resilient depending on my home broadband not being disrupted. --Fæ (talk) 09:28, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

If you want to see Python source code that supports some of my projects, go to Github and help yourself. The code is not written with reuse in mind... --Fæ (talk) 15:57, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

2017 2018

Thank you!

Dear Fæ,

I just wanted to say ‘Thank you!’ for your incredible restless work, which saves millions of images, many of them very valuable, for the benefit of all of us and maybe even for the benefit of future generations.

Thank you very much! --Aristeas (talk) 14:58, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback! --Fæ (talk) 09:04, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Congratulations 🎉, again

I just saw that you had passed the six million edit mark, I think that probably almost half free files on Wikimedia Commons were uploaded by you. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (Talk 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 11:55, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar

Hello Fæ! I recently found the large and very important collections of artworks you've uploaded by George Cruikshank and Gustave Doré. I had to buy books of their works when I was studying illustration, satirical art, and life art in college, and what you've uploaded for free use is much more extensive and larger with more detail. As an artist, being able to download and examine these works is really priceless! I put Cruikshank on the high level of William Hogarth, and Doré really has no equal, especially in the beautiful, painstaking detail of his backgrounds. His London series alone is so full of detail I'll probably spend months on them. You uploaded some works by Hablot K. Browne too, the illustrator of several Dickens novels, and a very interesting and talented artist in his own right. I also downloaded the Hogarth and Bruegel collections. I'll be poring over these for years, and it's only a 5 gig collection all told. Thanks so much for these hugely valuable artworks. Anyone who says Commons is crap has to be an absolute philistine... Jenny 04:45, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback! It's encouraging to read of how some of the images I upload are so useful for research, and enjoyed. --Fæ (talk) 09:14, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

File:Noah Silliman 2016-11-02 (Unsplash).jpg

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File:Noah Silliman 2016-11-02 (Unsplash).jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) Stombari7 (talk) 21:56, 25 May 2018 (UTC)Stombari7

Request: John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive from LoC

Hi, and thanks for adding so many images from the Library of Congress! When you are free, would it be possible to add a script to pull in the items from the LoC for the John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive, which were digitized in 2016? I have pulled some into a new category by the same name, but I imagine the script would be much more efficient and consistent. I created an article for Margolies last week and was quailing at the thought of going through his photographs and trying to upload them one-by-one.

Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 15:15, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Additional stray thought: since the curators have been very good about adding the city and state to the title of these scans, would it be possible to automatically add a category of something like "Buildings in ___, ___" by searching the title text string for the second comma from the right? Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 15:29, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

I'll take a look, though if I fail to spend much time on this in the next few days, the window for doing these things may slip by several weeks. --Fæ (talk) 10:41, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

@Mliu92: I started drafting a test, but for several days the LOC servers are not working properly for iiif services (the stuff that renders images on request). This could be worked around, but I don't want to re-invent the wheel for a third time unless the service is permanently broken. I'll probably try analysing this again in a couple of weeks. --Fæ (talk) 16:24, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

@Fæ: No rush; I appreciate your help with this. The entire subject of vernacular architecture is fascinating, and there is enough in there (along with the flickr album which has been previously partially transferred to Commons [it appears the flickr account manager added to the album after the initial transfer]) to adequately illustrate the concepts. Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 17:19, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

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@Mliu92: Upload run started, it will be a slow run of perhaps 1 per minute, so no need to panic about flooding. Slowness is partly a regular bounce issue where the WMF Commons API appears to not see the uploaded file for a few seconds, so upload verification keeps trying; this might be down to the old code I'm recycling and was later fixed, but I'm saving on my volunteer time by leaving it because it still works. There is a small bug causing the adapted old routine I'm using to skip the first gallery page (100 images), hopefully I'll return to it. Duplicates will be skipped. As I am not attempting to add any automated date or location categories, I'm guessing you will be interested in working on these using catalot later as part of your interest in curating the collection.

This search will list new files as part of the batch upload.

I have re-examined the geographic data available, and the MODS data has entries in the format:

<hierarchicalGeographic>
<country>United States</country>
<state>New York (State)</state>
<city>Franklin</city>
</hierarchicalGeographic>

However putting 500 or 1000 photographs in the top level State category would be considered flooding, and to match "Franklin, New York" to the nearest category of Category:Franklin County, New York, would be a difficult and inconsistent mapping process as our categories on Commons are not consistent. For these reasons I've skipped investing time in it. Where I have done this in the past, such as at Category:Sanborn maps, we had the freedom to create new categories which could be automatically named in a fully logical fashion. Again, the best option is probably to run searches for county/state in the source text within the bucket category and then manually sort them out with catalot in large batches.

Long term project page at User:Fæ/LOC#John_Margolies_Roadside_America_Photograph_Archive_(mrg). --Fæ (talk) 12:17, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

File:Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series (1996) (20306856148).jpg

File:Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series (1996) (20306856148).jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bulletin of the Natural Histort Museum. Geology series (1996) (20306856148).jpg FunkMonk (talk) 17:18, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

publishers and their ways

I uploaded an image yesterday and found it again while searching out the category for it. I found it interesting. Maybe you will also.

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  1877

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  1873

I was surprised to see the differences in the images, today when it had annoyed me enough to look again for it. And surprised to see that the dates. Especially because the book I am working on shows evidence of being a cut and paste job (two page numbers on the same page).

This would fail the software image matching searches also? --RaboKarbakian (talk) 17:39, 26 August 2018 (UTC) (and, the boilers do not have the same lids) --RaboKarbakian (talk) 17:54, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

So, apparently, I had to paste these pics on your talk page to see the differences, which are a lot more than my memory of the thumbnail gave me while I was thinking about them. It is like brain snot? Sorry to puddle your talk page with this except, it is kind of interesting. -- RaboKarbakian (talk) 18:00, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

@RaboKarbakian: The two images are not direct derivatives, but a redrawing with slightly different projections and different lines in the drawing. If an automated pattern match were to be set at a low enough level to call these a match, then it would be unlikely to be able to differentiate quite dissimilar drawings of different objects. In general matching very close derivatives and crops from large image samples can be usefully automated, but not things like breeds of cat or alternative sketches of the same cartoon character. --Fæ (talk) 15:24, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Source of derivative work is not properly indicated: File:Nobody's Listening (15829520831).jpg

File:Nobody's Listening (15829520831).jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Yours sincerely, BevinKacon (talk) 19:55, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

File:Lonely sunrise (Unsplash).jpg

File:Lonely sunrise (Unsplash).jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Lonely sunrise (Unsplash).jpg Xocolatl (talk) 20:34, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

File:Down with Miserablism.jpg

File:Down with Miserablism.jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Down with Miserablism.jpg B dash (talk) 04:16, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Bundle DR:
Commons:Deletion requests/Pictures of set designs at Seebühne Bregenz

Reinhard Müller (talk) 20:40, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

PAS updates

Hi Fæ,

Since your massive, and very useful, Portable Antiquities Scheme bulk upload, have you (or anyone else you're aware of) been making updates? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:57, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

No. Updates appeared to fail on a rerun a few months ago. I have yet to get around to investigating. I did ask about these problems in a meeting with the British Museum, and they thought the issue was probably on my side... frankly, I remain unsure, though a long delay before I try experimenting again is good, just in case this was a difference between the API server cache vs. the BM's internal view of the data. --Fæ (talk) 09:31, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. When you do get around to this, please let me know, and I'll assist with categorisation, and using the images in Wikipedias. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:21, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

File:Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland LOC 87694453.jpg

File:Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland LOC 87694453.jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland LOC 87694453.jpg PoliceSheep99 (talk) 03:21, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Source of derivative work is not properly indicated: File:Description needed. (27272984745).jpg

File:Description needed. (27272984745).jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Yours sincerely, BevinKacon (talk) 15:02, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Bundle DR:
Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Douthat State Park

Affected:

• File:DO Apple Day 2013 (15167172098).jpg

And also:

Yours sincerely, Sebari – aka Srittau (talk) 17:55, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

File:Belgian Canal Boat Fund for the relief of the civil population behind the firing lines. Send them something LCCN2003675384.jpg

File:Belgian Canal Boat Fund for the relief of the civil population behind the firing lines. Send them something LCCN2003675384.jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Belgian Canal Boat Fund for the relief of the civil population behind the firing lines. Send them something LCCN2003675384.jpg Goesseln (talk) 20:44, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

File:CREATE MORE (Unsplash).jpg

File:CREATE MORE (Unsplash).jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
Commons:Deletion requests/File:CREATE MORE (Unsplash).jpg Nyttend (talk) 11:57, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

I herd u liek mudkips stats

User:Alexis Jazz/De-adminship analysis

10/15 de-adminship requests were just a formality, another 4/15 could have been aborted/blocked by a crat for not complying with the rules. That even includes the de-adminship of INC: this is clearly no consensus to start a de-adminship request. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 12:54, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Useful summary, thanks. --Fæ (talk) 12:56, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

preventing dupes.

Hi Fæ, if you have some usefull tips for User:Tyler de Noche how to prevent duplicate uploads using flickr2commons please give some comments at User_talk:Tyler_de_Noche#duplicate_images_again. Thx. --JuTa 08:52, 7 September 2018 (UTC)