User talk:Animalparty

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Digital commonwealth and other GLAM files to Commons upload tool(s)[edit]

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Is there a way to mass upload files (such as the one you uploaded above) from digitalcommonwealth.org or other similar websites. I have used the flickr to commons tool. Is there a similar tool for GLAM websites?

Thank you, --Ooligan (talk) 20:31, 7 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Ooligan: Aside from Flickr2Commons I'm not very handy with mass uploading. Commons:GLAMwiki Toolset and Commons:Pattypan might prove helpful. You can also propose bot assisted mass uploads at Commons:Batch uploading, where the community can evaluate feasibility and determine some best practices (e.g. which template and license to use, how best to transfer metadata, etc.) before implementation. And lastly, anecdotally, it appears that the Boston Public Library Flickr stream adds a needless, more restrictive CC license to public domain media (e.g. here), even though they state "no known copyright restrictions," in what resembles Copyfraud. Requiring attribution, and/or a link to a CC license, is not a requirement for faithful scans of public domain images, especially in the US where "sweat of the brow" doctrine doesn't confer any additional copyright authorship to the person scanning or uploading a work (see {{PD-Scan}} and Commons:Threshold of originality). Cheers, --Animalparty (talk) 22:17, 7 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for the reply.

In "faithful scans of public domain images"- Is a download or screenshot on a PC of a PD-expired image a faithful scan? Or do I need to do I need to use scanner equipment?

Also, can I take a photo of an original PD photo and release for use it as PD? Similarly, Can I take a photo of a PD-expired photo that has been published in a book and release it as PD?

Thanks, --Ooligan (talk) 00:43, 8 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Downloads and screenshots would be faithful replicas, yes, although screenshots are typically of lowered resolution and thus non-optimal (as would photos of photos). Attribution, while not required, is helpful in tracking provenance. DS (talk) 19:53, 20 November 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Library of Congress images[edit]

Are you taking over from User:Fae the loading of LOC images? I just saw that you are loading the hires images from the LOC website to overwrite my lowres Flickr Commons versions. Thank you! Occasionally I find a few that did not load and are missing, when comparing Flickr Commons to Wikimedia Commons. Flickr Commons has a project to add context and date the images. I was wondering if your process will find those few missing images from the Bain Collection. RAN (talk) 18:22, 27 July 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): , No, I am not doing anything as methodical as Fae's work. Much more random and piecemeal. If I'm working on an article that has a low resolution LOC image, or notice a category containing several low resolution images, I'll upload full res (and sometimes crops/touch ups). I don't have the programming knowledge or computer power to do what Fae or massive bot uploaders do. --Animalparty (talk) 20:32, 27 July 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

That was the problem, he never showed anyone how he did it before he retired from the WikiUniverse. I sent him several emails asking if he would make a short YouTube video to show what tools he used, but he never responded, he may have died. Same for my contact at LCCN, he would make changes in their database after I mailed him a list of errors and conflations, then one day he never wrote back, I am assuming he retired, since I never found an obit for him. --RAN (talk) 21:09, 27 July 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Tone[edit]

Hi, while I appreciate your input on the Wikidata Infobox, I've reverted this simply because of the tone. It seems to be a repeating pattern. I'm happy for you to add the topic back for discussion, but please could you just raise the issue, and drop the hyperbole and attacking? That's particularly important at the moment since we have a GSoC student working on the development. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 06:28, 5 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

File:Ping pong balls (15779205799).jpg[edit]

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Mztourist (talk) 09:06, 6 October 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks again[edit]

I had the opportunity to use the crop tool today. It is soooooooooooo much easier than the technique I was using.

Mildred Rackley - Jumping Jives, c. 1940 (cropped)

Thanks again. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:20, 14 October 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Methodologies[edit]

Wanted to be sure you were aware of the methodology described here, which you may find useful. DS (talk) 19:44, 20 November 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]