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Picture of the Year 2013 R1 Announcement

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Picture of the Year 2013 R2 Announcement

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Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open!

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2012 Picture of the Year: A pair of European Bee-eaters in Ariège, France.

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2013) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category have continued to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 2 will end on 7 March 2014. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2013/Introduction/en Click here to learn more and vote »]

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

You are receiving this message because you voted in the 2013 Picture of the Year contest.

This Picture of the Year vote notification was delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:22, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of the Year 2013 Results Announcement

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Picture of the Year 2013 Results

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The 2013 Picture of the Year. View all results »

Dear ProfReader,

The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).

  • In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
  • In the second round, 2919 people voted for the 50 finalists (the top 30 overall and top 2 in each category)

We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:

  1. 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
  2. In second place, 155 people voted for an image of "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains) National Park in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
  3. In third place, 131 people voted for an image of a swallow flying and drinking.

Click here to view the top images »

We also sincerely thank to all 4070 voters for participating and we hope you will return for next year's contest in early 2015. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work.

Thanks,
the Picture of the Year committee

You are receiving this message because you voted in the 2013 Picture of the Year contest.

Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:59, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Images of houses and their locations

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Your tremendous uploads of entire streets of houses are potentially beneficial to the community, but they would increase their worth if they had coordinates attached to them–whether in the EXIF or using the {{Location}} tag. The addresses are useful, but for the sake of Commons, I believe better precision is needed for these images: geocoding all of your pictures will allow them to be pinpointed more readily in other environments that do not rely on extracting metadata from descriptions, such as interactive maps or webs. Mahir256 (talk) 01:14, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Autopatrol given

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Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files, overwriting files uploaded by others and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you. JurgenNL (talk) 08:33, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Philadelphia

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Hi - I see that you've uploaded a heck of a lot of photos, which is great. Your latest batch, the ones from Philadelphia, were a bit under-categorized -- I have now gone through them all and added (and subtracted, were necessary) categories. For a building that is fairly well known, you should check to see if a category has already been created for it. If there is one, then there's no need to add sub-categories to your picture which will almost certainly be in the main category already. Even if there isn't a category for the specific building, a check into a street category, for instance, might show there's already a picture that's been uploaded of it, and then the two pictures (yours and the already existing one) can be put together into a new category. (As I said, I've done all that for the Philadelpha pictures.)

I haven't touched your Charleston photos - not only are there a lot of them, but I'm only passingly familiar with the city (I've been there twice, very beautiful place) so I don't think I'd be of much help. Perhaps Charleston isn't as fully categorized as Philadelphia, New York, Boston and some other cities are?

Anyway, thanks for all your good work. It's a pleasure to see someone contributing to the extent you have. Best, Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:33, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I'd like to second what was said in a previous comment - location information in the form of GPS coordinates would be great! Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:34, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yep. The problem is that I use an actual camera to snap pictures so I don't have embedded GPS data like with my phone. Instead, I have to look it up by hand later. Still, I wouldn't mind (too much) doing that except that Wikimedia makes it hard to enter the data. The template for uploads allows you to enter the CAMERA location but not the OBJECT location. For sweeping vistas and undifferentiated shots of crowds and things like that, the CAMERA location makes sense. But, when the image shows a specific thing (like a building), the far more important information is the location of the actual OBJECT. So, to add that helpful info, I have to separately open each item and type it in. What a chore! Or, I could just fake it and enter the OBJECT location in the template, but I'd still have to go through the process of opening each one and fixing the code to convert it to OBJECT location instead of CAMERA location. For pictures in Charleston, I've tried to be better about tagging them with both the camera and object locations, but for things I snap while just walking around on vacation or something, I don't bother as long as the description of the photo includes an actual address users can consult. If I'm missing an easier way of doing this, I'd love to know, however.ProfReader (talk) 17:21, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'm in the same position as you, my camera doesn't have GPS. I use Google Maps to determine the location I took the picture from. Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:39, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, incidentally, there is an object location template, Template:Object location. You use it just like the camera location template, just leave out the direction. Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:41, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Victoria Cathedral

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I noticed you have recently taken and uploaded pictures from Victoria, Texas. Assuming you live in the vicinity I was wondering if you could take and upload a photo of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Victory in Victoria? Thanks for giving this your consideration. Farragutful (talk) 16:57, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but I can't help with that. I'm just on vacation in Texas and drove about an hour over there the other day to see some historic buildings. While I was there, I walked around and snapped shots of National Register sites to help with the "Summer of Momuments" Wikimedia project. I didn't quite get to all of them. Alas. I was really surprised to see that of 100 or so National Register spots in the city, only about four had ever had photos taken. So, I'm assuming that there aren't a lot of contributors in the immediate area. Maybe just an email to the church asking for a photo you can use?ProfReader (talk) 17:03, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That's okay. In addition to historical sites this is another one of my interests. When I see someone taking pictures in an area where we need one, I pounce. Enjoy your trip! Farragutful (talk) 17:12, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming of images of Streets

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Hi, when you request such renaming, would youplease alway add the name of the town?! There are nearl always more than one town with a street with these names. Marcus Cyron (talk) 23:51, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. Thanks for helping get those photos sorted out.ProfReader (talk)

File:J.D. Houston House.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!

Sanfranman59 (talk) 22:35, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:291 Sumter St.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!

2601:740:8002:D0F0:50AA:A7F4:31BD:74B3 06:05, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:291 Sumter.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!

Nthep (talk) 17:02, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

French Quarter

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Hello. If you think a category for French Quarter, Charleston would be useful, please create such. Don't add them to the current Category:French Quarter, which is about the one in New Orleans, matching en:Wikipedia. Cheers, -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 00:01, 14 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Community Insights Survey

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RMaung (WMF) 01:14, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder: Community Insights Survey

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RMaung (WMF) 15:23, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder: Community Insights Survey

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RMaung (WMF) 20:04, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Postcards

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Hello ProfReader, thanks for uploading so many postcards. Did you know the COM:WPPC. You are welcome. - You create also the Category:Real photo postcards. Thanks for this. If you upload new postcards can you also add categories like Category:Postcards of California and so on to your postcards? This would very usefull. Best regards. --sk (talk) 09:01, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

File:1067 King - mural.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!

howdy.carabao 🌱🐃🌱 (talk) 17:07, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Removed category

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Hi! I noticed the category "Three-story buildings in the United States" was replaced with "3-story buildings" from this and other similar files: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_East_Battery.png. I'm curious about the reason behind this change. Could you please explain? Ivanbranco (talk) 09:20, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Using numerals improves readability for non-English speakers using the English site. It also makes ranking lists easier. I can’t say if that is a system wide convention, but I’ve added a bunch of images of historic buildings and try to be consistent. When I started, I was using “three” but later switched and have tried to “correct” earlier images. 206.74.217.90 18:08, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • You are expected to discuss this kind of massive reform with other users. Not only you are renaming the categories on a pretty bizarre basis (changing "three" to "3" would not help non-English speakers if they don't know what do "buildings" and "store" mean, and if they do, then quite probably they also don't have anuy difficulties with the word "three"). You are also killing classification of these building by country while sorting by country is for sure a general convention here in Commons. Andrei Romanenko (talk) 23:38, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I did discuss it. See above. Ivanbranco asked a question (but offered no reason he might disagree), and I replied. Then, more than a week later, without any further discussion (or explanation of this concern whatsoever), he unilaterally changed 10,000 images of historic buildings in Charleston, South Carolina. Note that he did NOT just ADD a category for "Three-story buildings in the United States." He REMOVED the category that I (the creator of more than 99.9% of the images) had assigned to it. He replaced the general category with one which will not be as useful by limiting it to one specific country. Now, anyone wanting to search for "Blue buildings" or something else will have to separately add every nation to the search parameters. Moreover, had he even offered ANY justification for his actions of any kind whatsoever, I might have replied by explaining further that, as the source of the photos, there is (now, was) a consistent system. Not only were numerals used for the stories, that same convention was used for the porches (a character-defining trait of historic Charleston houses). And not only that, his poorly conceived and unannounced change doesn't work because there are NOT any text-named categories for many images in the set. For example, there is NO category for "Two-and-one-half-story buildings in the United States." There ARE on the other hand, categories for "2.5-story buildings" and "1.5-story buildings." And had he (or you) bothered to ask, you would also have learned that the naming conventions are actually USED. For example, students at the Clemson University architecture program actually USE the search feature as part of their research and know (because I have taught at the program) to search for thing like this: incategory:"3-story buildings" incategory:"gable roofs" incategory:"Charleston single house." And lastly, please note that I did not create the category "3-story buildings." Or any other than many, many other like-named categories. Whether YOU prefer one convention or something else, there is very clearly a population of users who disagree. 2601:740:8100:41E0:101F:B026:761F:FF63 01:56, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    "He replaced the general category with one which will not be as useful by limiting it to one specific country."
    what you did (leaving files in the general category) was not helpful for commons maintenance. files clog up the categories. it's routine maintenance to move files to a more specific location-based subcategory. it can be as specific as down to county-level, which is one more level down from the US state.
    see Commons:Categories#Over-categorization. RZuo (talk) 18:00, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]