User talk:Lupo

I'm extremely busy off-Wikipedia these days. I may or may not answer promptly, or I may not answer at all. Lupo

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Kuntaw

I've added a Kuntaw page which is a simple redirection to the Kuntao article. I'm just mentioning it here because I see you had deleted a same-named page for copyright violations and wanted to reassure you that this is different. I've sent this note to RedWolf as well since he made a similar deletion. HarmonicSphere (talk 8:00, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Picture of Bush Dog

I want to publishing your public domain picture of the bush dog in a book. It is a book about all wild dogs of the earth. How you wish, I hereby tell you about using of that image. Thank you, Thomas Riepe thomas.riepe @ t-online.de —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.225.142.145 (talk) 16:28, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

commons:Image:Speothos_venaticus_001.jpg is not "my" picture. It was moved to the Commons by someone else, who completely botched the image description. The photographer was R. Schmode. I am not Mr. Schmode. Please see commons:Commons:Deletion_requests/Archive/2007/03#Image:Bushdog002.jpg and commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Speothos venaticus 001.jpg about possible problems with this image. (The Zoo complained.) We've deleted this image before, and we'll delete it again now. Lupo 21:56, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Patry's Blog

Have you been following this? Brrrrr --BirgitteSB 22:28, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Brr indeed. I am very happy that Patry regularly speaks out against the machinations of the RIAA. The contract law problem (ProCD v. Zeidenberg, decided 1996, enforcability of shrink-wrap licenses, court's opinion (see in particular section III, the LEXIS example made by the court!)) is indeed chilling... for contributors, less so for the projects like WS or the Commons, or (I think) its operator, the WMF, since neither is party to any such contract. (A point of view also confirmed by the ProCD court opinion.)

I am no lawyer, but I wonder what that means for Bridgeman v. Corel (decided 1999)? What if Bridgeman had put a shrink-wrap license on its CD saying that one mustn't redistribute the files on the CD? (I haven't found any mention of that in the court opinion of Bridgeman.) Would Corel have lost under the ProCD ruling? Would the contract have trumped copyright law?

commons:User:Micheletb once claimed something similar: he said that the creator of a file (even if it's an image that is a plain reproduction of a PD work) had ownership rights on the file, and could impose conditions about its re-use, even if he published the file on the Web. So, only self-taken {{PD-Art}} files should be accepted according to him. (He didn't mention ProCD, he argued in terms of French contract law.) At the time, I don't think anybody (me included) understood what he meant. The implications of this 7th circuit decision make this look less far-fetched... even if ProCD would (in my spontaneous layman reaction) be applicable to files on the Web only if the conditions were clearly stated right next to the image (or within the file), or the file was accessible only through a click-through license, but not if the conditions were placed in some linked "terms of use" statement at the botto m of the page. And anyway, the contract would be enforceable only against the uploader (I think). Still brrr. Lupo 11:02, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Contract law seems to have overrode copyright law in ProCD, in my lay opinion. So I imagine a wider acknowledgment of Bridgeman v. Corel will go hand and hand with more restrictive "Terms of Service" to mitigate the "weakness" of copyright law in that area. I agree that this will only applicable where the conditions are stated in the file (or more likely a click through TOS to access a database of files). I also agree that this is not a going to concern WMF or the projects but rather contributor (especially those in the US). More later . . . --BirgitteSB 12:10, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

All the same I would personally be upset to see uploaders taken to court (God forbid criminal court) over the fact that they did not bother to read the TOS and thought PD is PD is PD, as so many people do. I think that there large lack of awareness about this issue with uploaders. I asked about it on IRC last night and no one seemed to have heard of this issue. The other concern is that if Chapter 12 can be used to ignore the normal working of Copyright law (including the fair use defense). This makes me worry that it could be used to restrict the use of anything were access is only availble after "agreeing" to some sort of contract, even if the contractee would otherwise have a license to reuse the material. If that concern is valid, then WMF needs raise ensuring future "Accessibilty" a bit higher on their list of goals.--BirgitteSB 13:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm afraid that indeed this concern might be valid. I remember now the issue (without reference to ProCD, though) having been discussed when the New York Public Library put its collection on-line. Their TOS still makes it clear that they claim physical rights and are trying to use them to restrict uses of the items put online. (Though I must admit that their notice is the most honest one I've seen in a long while. They even acknowledge that most of these items are PD.) The fear then was that they'd make the images accessibly only through a click-through license, which would, in the opinion of the laypeople discussing it, probably have given them the means to potentially go after people who downloaded their images and published them elsewhere for commercial purposes. (Or uploaded them on a WMF project...) That click-through license didn't happen yet... Lupo 13:41, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Its very honesty makes it wonderfully incongruous. They admit right off the bat that they don't hold the copyright and then go right ahead and claim that things still work exactly as if they did hold the copyright. Haukur (talk) 23:56, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

You are missing the point that Chapter 12 of Title 17 is not really copyright law but contract law. If the contract in those TOS is found to be a valid one; the copyright is likely irrelevant. The ProCD case was over material that was uncopyrightable per Feist; therefore it doesn't seem to matter that they don't own the copyright so long as you enter into a contract with them to obtain access. There are many, many public domain works which are not available at all because the owner (i.e. Vactican) of every physical copy refuses to allow people access to them in order to make a copy. Don't conflate access issues with copyright; they are completely separate and you need both in order reuse a work.--BirgitteSB 02:12, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

I do follow what you're talking about. I still think this is quite amusing. Haukur (talk) 09:04, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

The NYPL TOS is just the sort I am afraid of being enforced. Although some people may game the system by cherry-picking jurisdictions or using untraceable technical means, it remains a trap for the unwary. Those that will get in trouble over this are the ones that will have never understood it could illegal to copy a PD work in the first place. I find it very frustrating that these "anti-piracy" laws can be used against works which are not protected by copyright. Hopefully RIAA will get squashed across the board in their lawsuits and dragging small fry into court will go out of style. I think the best we can hope in these restrictive TOS's will be only enforced when someone draws attention to themselves by making too much money off of breaking the agreements. I don't see much chance of them going away unless Bridgeman is overturned or something else earth-shattering happens. --BirgitteSB 23:35, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

What annoys me is that, as far as Web images are concerned, the whole "physical rights" issue is just not necessary. If the physical owner of some work wants to make money off that work, he has plenty of ways to do so without recourse to such a TOS. The NYPL, for instance, only puts rather low-quality (well, call it medium quality) images on the web. If you want a high-quality version, you need to order a print, and I'd bet it comes with a license that says you mustn't republish that print. So, they wouldn't need that "physical rights" TOS at all, since the quality of the images available on the Web is such that commercial use (say, printing posters or even postcards from them) is not really possible. Still, the quality is sufficient for most other uses, and in fact, they can only profit from their images being reused elsewhere: it's free advertisement (at least, if properly attributed). And they are protected against someone ripping off substantial parts of their on-line database anyway by copyright law (in the EU, by the sui generis database protection, in the U.S., because the database as a whole is protected as a collection—the selection, arrangement, and presentation thing).

For text databases like LEXIS, the contract issue may make more sense. It's not for nothing that LEXIS is a subscription service; I guess they'd have a hard time enforcing any "contract" if they made the PD texts in their database accessible to anyone. If a U.S. governmental authority should ever decide to put up a similar database of legal cases online as a service for the general public instead of publishing the court documents only in rather obscure other sources, some of which are not even online, LEXIS couldn't do anything against it. Luckily for us, most of the important stuff is available elsewhere (Findlaw and others).

Google books has another way of protecting its PD assets: when you download a PDF of a PD book from Google, you do get the whole thing all right, but it's not OCRed. For just about anyone, OCRing a PDF containing only graphics showing the text is beyond their capabilities. Maybe doable for a single file (but you'd need to have a good OCR software first), but hardly en masse. If you want to search for a text in such a book, you'll need to go back to Google... Lupo 08:15, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Lots of books contain prominent claims on one of the first pages along the lines of "any reproduction of this book blah blah blah is prohibited", often this is found even on books in the public domain. Am I entering into a binding contract by continuing to read the book? Haukur (talk) 18:54, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

From ProCD :

We think that the place to start is sec. 2-204(1): "A contract for sale of goods may be made in any manner sufficient to show agreement, including conduct by both parties which recognizes the existence of such a contract." A vendor, as master of the offer, may invite acceptance by conduct, and may propose limitations on the kind of conduct that constitutes acceptance. A buyer may accept by performing the acts the vendor proposes to treat as acceptance. And that is what happened. ProCD proposed a contract that a buyer would accept by using the software after having an opportunity to read the license at leisure. This Zeidenberg did. He had no choice, because the software splashed the license on the screen and would not let him proceed without indicating acceptance. . . . the UCC permits contracts to be formed in other ways. ProCD proposed such a different way, and without protest Zeidenberg agreed.

Not all efforts to prevent reproduction are binding contracts but binding contract can contain enforcable efforts to prevent reproduction; regardless of the copyright status.--BirgitteSB 19:21, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

A few links:

• Peter Hirtle's take on public.resource.org republishing Smitshsonian images.
• commons:Commons:Village pump/Archive/2007May#Should we careful with Flickr CC-BY photos made by the Smithsonian?: Commons discussion about this. Incidentally, that's also where Micheltb brought forward his argument.
• Mazzone's Copyfraud paper, p.33ff, especially the footnotes. (That paper was, back in 2006, available for free download. I cannot manage to download it again today from SSRN (might also be a problem at my end), but I still have a copy I downloaded back then. If anyone is interested, I can send it to you by e-mail. Just send me a Wiki-Email.)
• Can't find the NYPL discussion, though. I think it was on commons, but maybe I misremembered...

Lupo 09:46, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

(undent)If the physical owner of some work wants to make money off that work, he has plenty of ways to do so without recourse to such a TOS. The NYPL, for instance, only puts rather low-quality (well, call it medium quality) images on the web. If you want a high-quality version, you need to order a print, and I'd bet it comes with a license that says you mustn't republish that print The crazy thing, which is pointed out by Peter Hirtle, is the license that comes with the print is basically worthless for protecting NYPL's asserts. Let's say I buy a dozen high-quality prints from them. Then I mail the physical prints to WMF as a donation. The works are PD and the license would only bind me from making a copy of the physical print they provided. So with organized individuals shelling out a one-time fee (perhaps imagining it as a donation to a worthwhile institution) they could easily and legally have these "assets" plundered and put on Commons. It is a really flimsy protection for those whose mission includes public access to the collection for reproductions. Do you have any idea whatever happed with the Smithsonian and PublicReasource.org?--BirgitteSB 20:12, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

You're right. And no, I don't know if a lawsuit is brewing between the Smithsonian and public.resource.org. All I know is that the images are still online. Unless I'm mistaken, many of them have also found their way onto Commons. Lupo 20:31, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Patricianship

A couple of us are trying to improve this, and would welcome anything you could add on the Swiss patrician classes, especially concrete details - where, when , how many families, monopolies of which rights and powers etc. Thanks Johnbod (talk) 20:58, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Urheberrecht bei Wappen...

Hallo Lupo, folgend Kopie meines Schreibens auf .de.

Könntest du dir diese Diskussion bitte anschauen und gegebenenfalls antworten? Ich glaube du kennst dich ja da aus.--Caranorn (talk) 13:14, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Habe auf Commons geantwortet. Lupo 09:15, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Didier Daeninckx

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{{prod}} removed. See Didier Daeninckx. Someone should just expand our stub. Lupo 09:15, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

'someone' has had 2 years to do so. FelisLeo^Talk! 10:15, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

So what. Not a reason for deletion. Just one for improvement. Lupo 15:07, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry didn't want to anger you. I see your point, as I didn't notice the French article, I'll see what I can do translating some bits from the French one. Cheers! FelisLeo^Talk! 16:50, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Image:Tony Buzan.jpg

Did this image have any licensing anywhere in the version history? If not, then http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Buzan_smoking.jpg and http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afbeelding:Tony_Buzan.jpg might have to be deleted. -Nard 21:20, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

The original uploader, User:Oliver Y, claimed to have taken this photo himself. The problem is that this image exists (presumably since 2003) at [1]. The self-made claim was added half a year after the image was originally uploaded. We'd need at the very least an OTRS release to keep it. Commons and nl-WP images nominated for deletion. Lupo 09:46, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Krill fishery

Ahh, I was going to rework that myself, but you got in ahead and have done a good job. It was not really a copy violation since it was entered by the owner of the web site. He's a bit raw, but I welcomed him, removed the vandalism templates on his user page, and reinstated his stuff and encouraged him. He responded by creating this useful article. --Geronimo20 (talk) 10:21, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm still working on it. Lupo 10:31, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Wuu.wiki image problems

Hey Lupo,

I am now a temp. sysop there so please report any problems or requests to my talk there and I will handle it.

Thanks, Mww113 (talk) 13:28, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, Hector apparently got sidetracked or went on vacation. Well, remove those copyvios from Carla/Carka now. Cheers, Lupo 20:42, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:Fritjof_Capra.jpg

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your von manstein article review (jan 2006)

i have just tried to work through the 'demoted' article on v.manstein. what comes over is that the author and contributors have little or no academic background. the undertones of bias are not a credit to wikipedia and and the writing does not meet even mediochre standards. you were entirely correct to organise its demotion. however, the article is still there with no 'bias' or 'inexpert' or 'unacceptable' tabs at the top of the and it is only now, on the third reading, that i have found that it is 'demoted' but not 'removed'.

is there a wiki academic review/editorial board which can do something about this? the article is not up to standard and affects the whole image of wiki. i am a published military historian (Truppenfuhrung, Boulder Co. 2001, q.v. wikipage) with a biography of v.manstein in preparation. do have a suggestion? best wishes, thanks.Miletus (talk) 18:48, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

At Talk:Erich_von_Manstein, you appear to have used the account User:Bruce Condell... Nwinther has given you excellent advice. How about starting with an in-depth article on the Hamburg von Manstein trial? But be careful not to produce "original research". Working from primary sources, such as the trial transcripts, is bound to be seen as "original research". Trial proceedings are acceptable sources only for basic facts (such as "In the trial, X claimed Y. The judges considered this claim to be whatever"). Are there any publications about the trial that could be used to back such an article?

I've abandoned the Erich von Manstein article. Back when the article became a "featured article", I tried to avoid or neutralize heavy pro-Manstein bias. When I found a fabricated quote (at the very least it was an extremely poorly paraphrase, not a quote), I found my earlier suspicions confirmed and got the article demoted. Subsequently, I just watched it from time to time, and saw that it had become a battlefield, with bias changing back and forth from "good general" to "bad general" and from pro-Manstein to anti-Manstein. I have no intention at all to get involved there again.

If you decide to touch that article, go slow, rewrite it piecewise, not in one big bang, and be prepared that your being a professional military historian may mean nothing here. It's not always easy for professionals to collaborate with amateurs on difficult topics. Points need to be argued and sourced, people may not always accept something just because a professional says so. But if done with patience, and if you don't run into a persistent crooky "edit warrior", it may be a rewarding process for both sides, and the article can only get better. If you should get into troubles with someone immune to reason, ask other experienced editors for help, for instance at the Administrators' noticeboard, or at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history.

Good luck! Lupo 15:52, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

hi! many thanks for your indications above, and for taking the time to offer much appreciated advice. your comment ref reported speech/sourcing is noted. you are correct, i had the account 'bruce condell' but it stopped working (i do not understand why) so i adopted the new wikiname miletus (no secret about it). what surprises and disturbs me is the extent of the aggressively asserted, but totally misinformed, opinions that can be found. as you indicate, it is a battlefield. what comes out of my own research is that v.manstein was not actively political. he had little time (available) for it and it did not correspond to the old prussian tradition that military officers took no role in politics. (national socialist era , younger, officers did not observe this principle, in general) his wife, however, was a senior member of the party and very influential which may have helped him (in the background) in his frequent, professionally based, abrasive arguments with hitler and assured his survival, rather than being placed on the retired list. grateful for your advice and many thanksMiletus (talk) 20:11, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:ImageUpload

Hi Lupo,

You have protected the same template on Commons. Will you consider protecting it here as well, as it is transcluded onto pages copied to en.wiki for use on the main page, and to prevent errors/error messages being shown on those images' description pages. G.A.S 16:32, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Done. Seems I goofed with this template; should've been a simple HTML comment. Well, now the damage is already done, but I'll change the upload script at Commons to not use this template anymore right away. Lupo 09:59, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Thrill of the hunt

I'm doing a round of image sleuthing at Talk:Urðarbrunnr and User:Haukurth/Sander's Edda. Some 50 images to be matched up with 24 artists and five xylographers. Funny time when books couldn't be bothered to tell you what artist made what picture. Haukur (talk) 10:04, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Date links

Hi Lupo. Regarding this edit, I just was wondering if you had noticed Tony's comment on the talk page. I believe there are some valid reasons to unlink dates. Best, Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 15:18, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer. No, indeed I hadn't. I've left a comment over there. I disagree with it. Lupo 15:38, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I also notice that it was a discussion confined mainly to the regulars of MOS, and announced for a wider audience only on August 9, 2008 (four days ago).[2] Don't know why I didn't see Tony's message at Talk:Paul Kane, though... Lupo 15:46, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

your comments/discussion page ref truppenfuhrung

hi, The page was written with english speakers in mind. For this reason, it was decided that the convention of not using the umlaut or other accents would be followed and no compensatory germanising dipthongs would be used. For german speakers, we felt that it would not be an effort for them to 'read through' standard spellings which did not use accents. The page was prepared by german linguists, including myself, and the same convention was also used in the preparation of the original Truppenfuhrung book text and by the pre-publication Academic Review Board (U.Co.). Sometime after the page was posted, a well-meaning editor added umlauts and made some small accent additions/changes to some of the german expressions. I assumed good intentions and, as there was no serious change to the text, the additions were left intact as a courtesy. The text of the page is complete in itself but it needs to be brought up to wiki-standard, for layout and cross-referencing. If you would be interested, please let me know. thanks for your manstein suggestions Miletus (talk) 16:58, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Bruce, Wikipedia does thing differently than book publishers or academic review boards. On the umlaut question, I guess views are divided, but for article names, we usually use the native name (if that uses Latin script at all), c.f. the article Zürich, which resides at the "with-Umlaut" name, with Zurich being a redirect. Of course, the spelling should be consistent, so having the article at "Zürich", we then use this with-Umlaut spelling throughout. The same applies to the article Truppenführung. Readers who don't know German at all have no problem at all ignoring the diacritics, and those who know at least a little German will know how it is really pronounced.

Your comment about "the additions were left intact as a courtesy" sounds a bit strange to me. Maybe you should read WP:OWN? Lupo 17:51, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Lupo. yes, I am familiar with the page WP:OWN my remark above relates to those editors/visitors to the page who have clear expertise on the subject (above their own opinions) and who are capable of making a useful contribution. In such cases, there is nothing for me to say. There are others who fail in this regard and it is these who are an irritant. best wishes Miletus (talk) 13:25, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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Guy de Pourtalès

Hi, Lupo, I'm going to drop a line to Mme Jakubec regarding the mystery Pourtalés photo, unless you'd rather do it... (Nice work, btw, on the article!) - Nunh-huh 01:28, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm actually about to send the missive off, so no need for you to do likewise! - Nunh-huh 01:46, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

The Fondation Guy de Pourtalès has confirmed that the picture is that of Guy's brother Raymond, so I will move it on English. I will try on Commons, but I'm not sure I have that privilege. - Nunh-huh 23:34, 26 August 2008 (UTC) - Actually, I guess it all has to happen on Commons. Can you rename the picture there? - Nunh-huh 23:47, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

I'll let a bot handle this. :-) Did they say who the photographer was? Or when the picture was taken? And they wouldn't have an image of Guy that they could release, would they? Lupo 07:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

No, they didn't identify the photographer or date, but they did mention that they did have images of Guy, "if that would help". I haven't yet written back to see if they're willing to release them under our somewhat draconian requirements :) - Nunh-huh 00:49, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

If they're reluctant to release an image under CC-BY or CC-BY-SA, propose to them to release an image under the GFDL. The requirement that republications must be accompanied by the full license text makes stand-alone commercial re-use unlikely. If they release an image, we also need to know who took the image. If it's a Swiss photographer who died 1943 or later, they themselves may not own the copyright! In that case, we'd need an OTRS confirmation in which they confirm that they do own the copyrights, and thus can release the image. (If the Swiss photographer died before 1943, the photo would be PD in Switzerland anyway.) Lupo 07:28, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Image:Nornorna vid Urdarbrunnen.jpg

Thought this unholy monster of an image description page might amuse you. Haukur (talk) 10:26, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

:-) Interesting though: commons:Image:Nornorna spinner ödets trådar vid Yggdrasil.jpg should go—looks like Project Runeberg made an error. Lupo 13:26, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

I don't think they made an error, as such. I think they just decided to digitize the book and let the pieces fall where they may.

As for W. Meyer I've now found out that he had a whole company - the "XA" that comes after "W. Meyer" stands for "xylografiska anstalt". I still don't know what the squiggle after that means. But I think it wasn't necessarily Meyer himself that made the engraving.

If you look at my first upload of the image you can see some sort of signature in the lower left corner; I just can't make it out. Haukur (talk) 15:39, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I just had something of a eureka moment. The squiggle after "XA" is a ligature of L, B and H. This has to be the L. B. Hansen that the book gives as one of its xylographers but whose work I hadn't actually found anywhere. Now, unfortunately I haven't been able to find his dates. Haukur (talk) 15:55, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

I've updated the image description page. The image may or may not be in the public domain in Sweden. Haukur (talk) 17:22, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Hm, maybe Johannesson, Lena: Xylografi och pressbild, Stockholm 1982; ISBN 9171082093, has something on L. B. Hansen (and more on "Meyers xylografiska anstalt"). It's available here for SEk 100.—. I wasn't able to figure out on their website what the shipping costs would be, otherwise, I would have ordered it right away. But maybe your university library has it. Lupo 19:29, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Wow, yes! My university library does have it.[3] Can't wait to snatch it when it opens on Monday. Meanwhile, I've found that there's a 2001 article on the guy: L.B. Hansen - xylografen fra Grorud [4] I'm sort of mulling whether to buy the issue or to try for an interlibrary loan. Haukur (talk) 19:46, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Ok, so I'll let you get it in the library. I have a hard time deciphering Swedish anyway. Wikipedia sometimes pushes me to do crazy things (like (almost) ordering a book in a language I don't really speak!). Lupo 20:06, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

I know what you mean :) I read an article in Dutch the other day, something I had no idea I could do until I really wanted to know what that text said :p Haukur (talk) 20:18, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Exactly. Same experience here with Portuguese or Dutch. I did do Danish for Gunni. I can make sense of Swedish texts, but it takes a lot of effort, and whether I would have succeeded in understanding even a little bit from Johannesson's academic publication is doubtful. Lupo 20:23, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

• L. B. Hansen is mentioned in Johan Bojer's En Pilgrimsgang:[5] Lupo 06:52, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

  Yes, a very puzzling reference and the only one in the book (I got a full-view version through an American proxy). Haukur (talk) 07:23, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Eduard Spelterini

On 7 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Eduard Spelterini, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

I really enjoyed reading the article to review it. Royalbroil 06:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Heh, cool! I didn't really think it was up to par for the main page, so I didn't nominate it, but if others think it's good enough for DYK, all the better! Lupo 21:54, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

But he was not a hot air balloon pilot! His balloons were filled with gas. I really should improve this little article... Lupo 21:58, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

FA review

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Now Commons update FYI

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Thanks for the notice. IMO, the image qualifies for {{attribution}}, though. See the linked discussion. Lupo 11:14, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

commons:File:Kompsat-2.jpg

Hello Lupo

I am new on Wikipedia, I am a french geographer and I want contribute about geographie and satellite imageries.

I created one page about the satellite Kompsat-2 on Wikipedia France and I want to create the same page in English and in spanish. I integrated an image Kompsat-2.jpg to illustrate this page and you have cleared off it. I make sure the copyright on this image about KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute), owner of the satellite Kompsat-2 because I am in discuss with them.

During the first intégration, I have not writed the licence. Now I choose "Attribution-Share Alike 3.0". May I integrate again with the licence mark ? Perhaps is it you who can change the licence mark ?

I want soon to contribuate on Wiki with images from this satellite on several pages. It is very important for me that we discuss about my contributions on Commons.

Regards PMichelSI —Preceding unsigned comment added by PMichelSI (talk • contribs) 14:40, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Quoi? Je n'ai rien fait avec cet image. Je ne l'ai ni rapporté comme violation des droits d'auteur, ni l'effacée. Si vous avez une permission de KARI d'importer l'image sous une license libre, enovyez-la a OTRS permissions-commons AT wikimedia.org, mentionnant l'image é laquelle s'applique. Une fois que c'est fait, on pourrait alors restaurer commons:File:Kompsat-2.jpg. Lupo 21:50, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

according the delete message we recieved!

hello!

here is our web site, where our logo can be seen - http://www.gerb.bg/bg/mgerb we are the youth organization of a bulgarian political party and we want to create a wiki article. hope that this evidence is good enough to not make you delete our logo picture, neither our article. thank you in advance!

MGERB team —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mgerb.gerb (talk • contribs) 22:21, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

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you deleted my page

Lupo

just wondering why you deleted my page "Ethan Gilsdorf" --- do I know you?

thanks

Frodslig (talk) 03:09, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Heh! I don't know if you know me. I deleted the page with the reason "copyvio pasted together from http://graycrane.net/Ethan/biography.html". See its deletion log entry. Lupo 08:10, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Addendum: if you are Gilsdorf, read WP:AUTO. Also, you'd need to confirm the GFDL release of this previously published text by sending a confirmation e-mail from the e-mail address given at http://graycrane.net/Ethan/ to permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org. State in the e-mail which Wikipedia page this relates to. Lupo 10:38, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

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PD-old and PD-US

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MIT Brass Rat image edit

Hello, My name is Mitch Westwood, and I'm the Chair of the MIT 2011 Ring Committee. I know this issue is a little old, so I'm sorry for getting to you so after-the-fact. The MIT Class Ring page on Wikipedia has the images of all the recent Brass Rats, our class ring. For my class, the Class of 2011, our design was unveiled on February 6th of this year. Soon after, we went to add the images to the Wikipedia page, but they were quickly taken down. I chair the committee that designed the ring, and my committee and I were hoping to find out why the images were taken down and if there is a way we can put them back up. We spent the entirety of the fall semester working on our design, and it would be great if we could find a way to have it online. Thanks so much. Best, Mitch 18.240.6.120 (talk) 22:28, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

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Stamp file

Quadell suggested in my review of fair use stamps that you would have an opinion about File:EBOccupStamps1.jpg which I suspect is questionable or improperly licenced stamps. It was removed in August 2006 and then reinstated in October 2006. What do you think? TIA ww2censor (talk) 21:07, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Any chance of a comment on this one, one way or another? ww2censor (talk) 14:35, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Gosh, I don't even know what jurisdiction the Channel Islands belong to. In any case, the given rationale for PD strikes me as probably mistaken. I would guess that UK law applies, but I don't know what that says about stamps. Crown Copyright would be 50 years since publication.

I have no idea whether the file might be OK under "fair use"—I try to stay as far away from that muddy area as I can.

Lupo 08:40, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks ww2censor (talk) 14:28, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

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I took the liberty of looking into this. The specified author and source were URLs, which are now broken. The person who tagged it apparently didn't think to check archive.org to see what the pages looked like and just slapped a misleading tag on it (especially the "If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information." as that's what it already had). I updated the links to the archived pages. DreamGuy (talk) 01:23, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I didn't do anything about this image because, frankly said, I wouldn't upload such an image today. The site's terms are actually rather ambiguous, and the author of the photo is completely unknown. But I guess we may keep it. Lupo 08:41, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Buildings: example for review

Back to my FOP-related inquiry: can you review validity of image usage in Vesnin brothers? As I understand the situation,

• File:Vesnin family ca.1890.jpg is PD, falling out of protection scope (country of origin ceased to exist);
• File:Moscow,_Prospect_Mira,_20.jpg and File:Moscow, Mantashev Stables.jpg - derivative photos tagged with free licence: primary works fell out of protection scope;
• All artwork scans are protected in the country of origin since 2008. Prior to 1/1/2008 they were PD. No grandfather clause in national legislation. So it's a question of NFCC compliance alone;
• File:Kr Presnya 48-2 01.JPG and File:Library wing - DK Zil.jpg - derivative photos, primary subjects are protected to 70 years p.m.a. (1959+70). They shouldn't be on Commons but can they be uploaded to en-wiki? if yes, what licence? TIA,

NVO (talk) 09:22, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Ok, here goes my take on it:

1. No problem. Would also be fine under PD-RusEmpire.
2. Disagree, the last of the Vesnin brothers died 1959, so the works will go out of copyright on January 1, 2010, unless you can show that Alexander had no hand in these two buildings (which seems unlikely according to the article). Not OK at the Commons since Russia has no FOP, but would be OK here at the English Wikipedia, since only U.S. law is relevant here. Maybe additionally tag as FOP to warn re-users.
3. Where's that artwork scan clause?? Please point me to the precise article in FL-230. As I understand it, articles 1337ff apply only to works not previously disclosed to the public and that moreover are out of copyright or were never copyrighted. This publication right does not apply to works previously disclosed. (Where "disclosure" is much more permissive than "publication"; it includes any form of making the work available to the public, even ephemeral forms such a speeches, recitals, or performances, or even just agreeing that someone else may use the work. See articles 1259 and 1268.)
4. That Benetton building is from 1927?? Can't say anything on these two since we don't know the architects. In any case they'd be fine here at the English Wikipedia. Use the free license of your choice, and tag as FOP to warn re-users.

Lupo 09:52, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Can you clarify why #4 (original work 1926-1927) is acceptable (and why is it possible to bend the free licence term) but #2 is not although they are not protected in Russia (original works 1912-1914)? (p.s. I went to great lengths with polarizer filters to find a sweet spot where the two-story-high Benetton ad is nearly invisible through sun glare :)). NVO (talk) 10:22, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Also, please clarify relevance of #3 (identity of publicator - why does it matter?) As I understand, chapter 71.6 (articles 1337... etc.) are irrelevant in this case and we should refer to basic definition of author (1257-1258), protected object (1259), exclusive rights (1270) and terms of expiry and inheritance (1281-1283). NVO (talk) 10:32, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

• Hm, articles 1283 and 1151 indicate that if estate of deceased author was not duly inherited then author's rights become PD (unlike tangible property that goes to the state). But none of us is qualified for a full-blown police investigation of something that happened 50 years ago... Skip, it can't be generalized. NVO (talk) 10:36, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

All images of buildings are OK in all countries that have FOP. (If taken from a public place, and the building is on or visible from a public place.) All such images are not OK in all countries that don't have FOP, if the building is copyrighted. Since the U.S. does have FOP for buildings and the English Wikipedia regards only U.S. law, all such images are OK here if freely licensed by the photographer. But you're right, we might tag them in some way to make re-users aware of this problem.

On #2: I overlooked that the buildings are from 1912-1914 and looked only at the death year of the architect. If they'd be PD in Russia per PD-RusEmpire, fine.

On #3: You wrote "artwork scans are protected since 2008". What exactly do you mean here? Do you mean scans of copyrighted artwork? Of course these would be subject to the copyright of the artwork, as always (and as before 2008). Do you mean scans of PD artwork? I don't see anything in FL-230 that would say so. In fact, article 1259(7) limits copyright to works that are the result of the creative labor of the author. Scanning is not creative and does not result in a new work. 1225 is in the same vein in saying that intellectual property rights (amongst them copyrights) are granted only on results of intellectual activity.

Lupo 11:33, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

"are protected since 2008" I meant that before 1/1/2008 the underlying original artwork, produced in 1920s, was not protected (or, at the very least, was freely reproduced). Then suddenly they became protected to 70 years PMA. NVO (talk) 02:43, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Ah, OK. Yes, the rules for the underlying works have changed on 2008-01-01. Rather unfortunate for us. Whether something is PD in the U.S., however, is hardly affected by this change, because for the copyright status in the U.S., the most interesting part is the copyright status in Russia on 1996-01-01 (see URAA), and on that date, the rules in Russia were those of the 1993 law with its 50-year term. Later changes in the Russian law do not affect the copyright status of Russian works in the U.S. It is of importance on the Commons, though, because the Commons also regards the copyright status in the source country. Lupo 09:28, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

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Zoomable images/de-tile.scm

So I created all the tiles I want to de-tile.scm and put them in one folder... 600,000 file total (most of them blank jpgs.)

can this script de-tile 600,000 jpg images? if they're named properly?

i'm about to let her rip... i'll report any updates—Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.73.64.158 (talk) 04:05, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

I've never tried that. Since this simple script tries to load all tiles into individual layers before combining them, the GIMP may run out of memory. But it shouldn't be too hard to change the script to load one tile, combine it with the already existing part of the image, and then discard that tile before loading the next tile. That should take care of the memory problem, but it may still take quite a while. Alternatively, try to organize the tiles in hierarchical subgroups, merge each subgroup separately, then name the resulting per-subgroup-files and merge those. Also note that there are other tools to de-tile images, for instance unzoomify. Haven't used it myself, though, so I don't know how well it performs. Lupo 08:05, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Cartoons in public domain

Correct me if I'm wrong—but as far as I can figure out, Lupo, you're the one who added the segment on "Animated movies (Cartoons)" to the Public Domain article back in 2006. There you argue that a cartoon can't slip into the public domain if its characters are still under copyright. In other words, if Daffy Duck himself is still copyrighted, then no Daffy Duck cartoon can be PD—indeed, Warner Bros (the Daffy Duck owner) needn't even bother to copyright any Daffy Duck cartoons ever; for as long as Warner can keep Daffy himself copyrighted, then no one can touch the cartoons regardless. This argument is infamous as being the one used by large studios' lawyers to threaten small-scale video firms when the firms are trying to reissue the studios' cartoons. But I've done a lot of reading and I've never seen an example of a lawsuit in which the judge actually upheld this argument. In fact, the work you cite as the source for the argument does not include it. Where did you get it? On a related note, you refer to cartoon characters being "copyrighted" at first and "trademarked" later, with ambiguity as to whether the two registration processes hold the same weight. In my research, I've seen many cartoon characters trademarked as stand-alone entities, but very few of them copyrighted. What would you say this means? 76.117.255.159 (talk) 07:18, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

I cite two works in that paragraph. Gorman's Copyright Law, 2nd ed. from the Federal Judicial Center, as a source for the statement that cartoon characters are objects of copyright. If a character is copyrighted, Gorman points out that this copyright may cover more than just the precise shape, but also "the manner in which it moves, acts and portrays a combination of characteristics." It seems clear to me that such a copyright would make subsequent animated cartoons derivative works of that character copyright. If so, in analogy to the cases mentioned just above (Pygmalion, Hoppalong Cassidy), it is unfortunately also clear that a cartoon can enter the public domain only once the copyright on the character has expired.

Far less clear is the question which characters are copyrighted. I don't know whether studios would need to file a separate copyright claim for the character, or whether its first appearance in a copyrighted cartoon would suffice. I haven't dealt with such issues recently, but IIRC, Walt Disney asserts copyright over Mickey Mouse on the base of its first appearance. (Though some people—again IIRC—contest that claim, I think we may safely treat Mickey as copyrighted.) I don't know off-hand whether Donald (again Disney) and Daffy (Warner) are copyrighted as characters, though I strongly suspect so. On Superman, there were court actions, and IIRC, it is copyrighted. Unless we have some indication that a particular character is not copyrighted after all, I think we'll have to assume that it is, and calculate the copyright from the character's first appearance in a published work. (Maybe I should re-read the stuff about Mickey. Right now I don't remember anymore how Walt Disney did the renewal of the copyright on the character... )

The trademark issue is less important for us here. It's not a question of which holds more weight: the two relate to different fields. Though there may be overlaps, and that's what the second reference (Moaffat) is about. But we're rather unlikely to have any use we might make of such images to be considered a trademark infringement.

Lupo 23:12, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Air Pirates might be an interesting article in this context. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 23:33, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

christoph meili article

Christoph Meili.. nice work.

HUGE ACCIDENT with my image upload

Lupo, this --Jackie ohlsen (talk) 08:01, 30 August 2009 (UTC) and I was trying to add an image - mct.JPG - and somehow I managed to add someone's photo of a building and parking lot onto it. I do not have ANY idea how I did it. I was NOT trying to hack someone's parking lot photo and need to know how to fix it as I can't figure out how. I have tried to reload and rename, but it is forozen as the WIKI FBI must think I am a parking lot photo thief. CAN YOU HELP ME!!!!!! I am new here and have managed to screw up more times than you could POSSIBLY imagine. Thanks for any help you can extend. I need a tranquillizer :-S --Jackie ohlsen (talk) 08:01, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

You uploaded commons:File:mct.JPG. The only problem is that here at the English Wikipedia, there exists a local image File:Mct.JPG. So, here at en-WP, you'll see a view of some unidentified Arab city instead of your painting. Lupo 08:24, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

email contact?

Lupo could you contact me via email?... ( mdale _at_ wikimedia.org ) ..I wanted to discuss your projects a bit in relation to the multimedia usability grant. mdale (talk) 16:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Graboid

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• Excellent reading, thanks for the tip! Needs more references but a well-done curiosity otherwise. I recommend an AFD to get more opinions. NVO (talk) 04:32, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

• Huh? Back in 2004 I created that as a redirect to Tremors after I had deleted it as a copyvio as per Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Graboid. And now, some five years later, I'm notified of a {{prod}}? Wikipedia never forgets anything! Lupo 13:46, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

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Documentation of partnership with German Federal Archives

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hallo Lupo from Uwe Kils

can you please vote again on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Uwe_Kils_(3rd_nomination). Best wishes Uwe Kils 13:37, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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Admin

You are not an administrator, are you ? YellowPops (talk) 13:17, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

you cannot remove this template if you are not an amdinistrator ! YellowPops (talk) 13:20, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes I am. Removed the {{db-nopermission}} and {{db-f6}} templates again from File:Execution in China.jpg, left a comment explaining why on your talk page, and left a lengthy comment at the discussion page of the file. Lupo 13:36, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Sunwar

sunuwar is a Indigenous peoples of Nepal. They live in Wallo kirat area, likhu, Khimti and sunkosi river bank. they have own mother tongue, Koinch lo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.70.82.40 (talk) 17:19, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Above comment probably by User:Ukusu, c.f. my edit at his talk page. Lupo 20:11, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Ukusu, I was just pointing you to the little information that we do have about the Sunwar (or Sunuwar), so that when you write something about them, you'd know where to write your text. About their language, see Sunuwar language. Lupo 20:11, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations Lupo! Your image Image:Short Horned Lizard.jpg was the Random Picture of the Day! It looked like this:

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A Horned toad, state reptile of Wyoming

Image credit: [[User:Lupo (talk)|Lupo (talk)]] ([[User talk:Lupo (talk)|talk]] · [[Special:Contribs/Lupo (talk)|contribs]])

. - Talk to you later, Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 21:58, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, thanks, that's nice. But the credit line is wrong; I only uploaded that image. It's from an NPS website. I have now updated the description page at the Commons. Lupo 22:31, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Writing new Uploader for Commons

Hey, I don't know if you have heard, but the WMF is funding a "Multimedia Usability" project, and I'm the programmer.

Generally we're taking a clean slate approach because we're doing everything in jQuery, but I don't want to reintroduce bugs.

I'm relatively new to MediaWiki development, and there is definitely a long history of hacks with regards to the Upload Form. I want to make sure I can eliminate things that really ought to die and things that might have to stay on.

Might you be available for an IRC chat, or otherwise by email from time to time?

NeilK (talk) 20:04, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

I don't do IRC, but I'm available by e-mail. I'd love to see in what direction you guys are going. (Also to get some reassurance that the new design doesn't throw out the baby with the bathwater :-) It's a pity that my regular day-time job keeps me too busy to get deeply involved in this re-design.

Most of the stuff that is currently being done client-side in JavaScript should actually be done by the server in php, so I'd expect a re-design to also cover the server-side (/include/upload). BTW, contrary to the sentiments expressed at the Paris meeting, especially newbies seem to like the big form with single input fields; at least they complain if for some reason they get shown the plain unadorned form. The features most liked by regular contributors seem to be the preview and the client-side input validation (license checking, verifying that all the needed bits are indeed filled out), and also the HotCat integration. I don't know how helpful the help system really is, but at least nobody ever complained about it. OTOH, nobody piped up when the help popups didn't work due to a programming error for quite some time, so maybe nobody uses it. Lupo 07:23, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

I think I failed to keep up with you here -- we're getting close to releasing and doing usability testing, so again I find myself wondering what if anything I've failed to understand about the existing Commons form. The whole QuickMod concept seems a bit confusing, for instance.

I'll enumerate some questions here sometime this week, or perhaps if you don't mind you can get in touch with me at neilk, at the mail server wikimedia.org. NeilK (talk) 21:29, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

QuickMod? I don't think that is used for any upload form stuff. But for uploads of "fromflickr" works, check out commons:User:Lupo/f.js. It's experimental: disables all fields except source, once that has been given (as a Flickr URL), fetches all the info by itself and automatically fills in the other fields, including the license, and only then enables the fields and the submit buttons. There's even going to be a new flinfo implementation that accepts urls instead of plain image IDs, does most of the consistency checking and that will have a json interface. Once that's deployed, this little script can be simplified quite a bit more. Flinfo code is available upon request to commons:User:Flominator; I really think your new stuff should incorporate some such functionality.

If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me; my Wikipedia e-mail is enabled. Lupo 06:45, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Mnb2

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History of electromagnetism, Ellicott

I cited another source on the Ellicott thing on the talk page, but I haven't added it to the main article yet. It identifies him as John Ellicott of Chester (as opposed to F.R.S.) but also indicates 1746 as opposed to the 1741 date mentioned on the actual page. Sxoa (talk) 11:49, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Answer at Talk:History of electromagnetism‎. Lupo 15:47, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Royal Society

In that context, "read" would normally mean "a paper or lecture delivered before the Society", particularly because the Philosophical Transactions exclusively contained theories and ideas presented by Fellows. So I'd suggest the likely translation is that Ellicott presented a paper of his own ideas to the Society on March 6 1745-6. It would be incredibly rare for a scientist to present somebody else's theory or paper; read does not simply mean "read", but delivered. Hope that helps. Thanks, Ironholds (talk) 19:50, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Ahh! In that case it was a paper read by Ellicott but written by X, whoever X is. I don't think even the customary English reserve would cover sending yourself a letter :P. Ironholds (talk) 21:06, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Colorado 2004 ?

From Talk:Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California:

The area began to subdivide the ranches after acquiring water from Colorado — can somebody explain this, please? Certainly they didn't pipe water from Colorado to California! I know that (part of) L.A.'s water supply comes from Mono Lake (with quite devastating effects on the lake's ecosystem), but from Colorado? Shouldn't that be Colorado River? And if so, when was the aequaduct or pipe to L.A. built? Lupo 13:03, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

==Colorado ?==---FYI 6 years later.........

Re: 2004 question at top; The 1919 annexation of Owensmouth to L.A. City (the town delayed, most other Valley cities joined in 1913 when aqueduct first opened) brought access to the city's 'Owens Valley -Los Angeles Aqueduct water.' Later (1930s) that source was no longer enough for the whole city, so a new Colorado River Aqueduct was built through Coachella Valley to bring Colorado River water in from near Parker Dam above Blythe, California. Believe it was part of overall Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) project for flood control and water distribution to serve Nevada, Arizona, & California.---Look2See1 (talk) 22:16, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Hey, thanks! Wikipedia never forgets :-) So it was the Colorado river allright. Lupo 08:06, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

FAR notice

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Fair use rationale for File:Born2Fly.jpg

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FAR for article Krill

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WikiProject Orienteering

Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia articles related to orienteering. If you are interested in orienteering, you might want do discover WikiProject Orienteering, a collaboration area and open group of editors. --Kslotte (talk) 21:04, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:PD-Russia

Template:PD-Russia has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:06, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

File:Deutscher Bund.svg

Please take a look there, same problem as in august 2008. Thanx a lot. (user de:ziegelbrenner) 79.253.44.123 (talk) 13:19, 30 August 2010 (UTC) [[6]] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.253.44.123 (talk) 13:21, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

I've answered at commons:User_talk:Ziegelbrenner. Lupo 15:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Justice Case Testimonial.jpg

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Added {{information}}. Lupo 07:00, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Copyvio by User:Rohith goura

Hello there. I noticed that you are an admin on Commons. I recently noticed that you had tagged copyvio to this image uploaded by User:Rohith goura. I'd tagged another image uploaded by this user here sometime ago. I've warned the user on en-wiki about image-related vandalism, and hope that he'll stop with this. I'll monitor Saina Nehwal for a while - this is where the user is linking the copyvio images. I've no previous experience with Commons-linked issues, and hence I hope to come back to you for assistance if the user continues in this fashion. Thanks in advance. Mspraveen (talk) 15:53, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you; image deleted. If you notice such things, just tag them as copyvio at the Commons, and some admin will delete them, usually even within a day or two. If it's really urgent, or a mass-uploader, just holler at commons:COM:AN, commons:COM:VP, or tell me here or at the Commons. If I'm around, I'll take care of it; otherwise feel free to contact any other Commons admin. Lupo 17:00, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for doing the needful, Lupo, and also for suggesting what one could do in extreme cases. Much appreciated. Mspraveen (talk) 02:58, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Pictures of The Office

Hi Lupo: you've just blocked me and deleted all the pictures I uploaded in some of The Office episodes here in Wikipedia. I just want to know if you can un-block me and I promise I will upload the pictures without breaking any of the copy rights. Sorry for my incompetence, I'm new here. Greetings!! Tecona07

No. You really should read up on copyright and licensing. Screen grabs from TV productions are copyrighted; you must not upload them to the Commons. You might perhaps upload them locally here at the English Wikipedia under a "fair use" claim, but only if you can make good and complete fair use cases for each screenshot. Simply using the screenshots as illustrations doesn't suffice; see WP:NFC.

The block at the Commons was just to get you to stop uploading these sceenshots, which you continued to do even after you were warned. The block will expire in three days anyway. Please use the timeout and do read commons:Commons:Image casebook, commons:Commons:Licensing, and commons:Commons:Fair use. Lupo 21:40, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Isaiah Jennings

Someone ate my edit from yesterday, so this is a repeat...

I've been working on the superposed load article, and in it I mention Jennings' multi-shot flintlock. I grabbed the auction house flyer mentioning the sale of the rifle from your to-do list, and I've got a reference originating in the New York Evening Post from 1822 that mentions some specifics about it, such as the powder magazine for automatically charging the pan upon cocking, and the two-seconds-per-shot rate of fire. Apparently he's also third from the right in the painting "Men of Progress." scot (talk) 21:00, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Interesting. I knew he was on that painting; that's how I stumbled on him. Lupo 14:26, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

File:Sand Skink Habitats.png needs authorship information.

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about images

on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Vg_colt there is album art, i have a permission from Trancept records? and OTRS form was sent? verification will be in a few days? do not delete please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vg colt (talk • contribs) 15:12, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Then put "{{OTRS pending}}" on these images. Lupo 07:59, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

File:Bluetail Mole Skink Habitats.png needs authorship information.

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If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 17:11, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

If you've got other maps like this, I would suggest updating them en-masse. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 17:11, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, but I'm too lazy to go through my ancient uploads. I'll tackle them one by one when they're reported here. Lupo 08:01, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Besides, I just discovered that my upload log goes back only to December 2004; earlier uploads are not reported. So there isn't even a way to easily find my earlier uploads. Maybe it might be possible with a direct SQL query on the servers. Lupo 08:08, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

{{ImageNote}}

Hi ! I tried to add {{ImageNote}} to eo WP, but it doesn't work. What should I do to make it work? I noticed class="image_annotation": where has it to be defined ? Arno Lagrange ✉ 10:36, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

ImageAnnotator is not installed at eo-WP, AFAIK, so copying over the template won't do anything. And if you do install the gadget, you must not change the name of the template. The gadget won't know what to do with a template "BildNoto"; it only knows a template "ImageNote". Lupo 12:12, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

I tried to install ImageAnnotator and I renamed templates BildoNoto to ImageNote: however it still doesn't work. I wonder you suggest the gadget needs specific template names. I suppose in whatever language is the template name, what matters is the code it puts in a page < div id="..." class="..." >

See eo:Dosiera_diskuto:Ecozones.svg and all I did eo:Speciala:Kontribuoj/ArnoLagrange (importing templates and system messages, creating the gadget, etc).

I activated the gadget in en:WP and eo.WP and see notes in File:Ecozones.svg and none on eo:Dosiero:Ecozones.svg Arno Lagrange ✉ 14:47, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

eo:MediaWiki:Gadget-ImageAnnotator.js is empty/non-existing. Looks like you forgot to copy the core part? Lupo 11:37, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Du bist recht. Ich hatte dieses Datei vergessen. Jetzt habe ich es kopiert. Das funktioniert aber immer noch nicht. Arno Lagrange ✉ 21:13, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Jetzt ist es in Ordnung. Ich habe mein Fehler gefunden und korrigiert: ich hatte ImageAnnotator|ImageAnnotatorConfig.js anstatt ImageAnnotator|ImageAnnotator.js in eo:MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition gestellen. Entschuldige die Störung. Arno Lagrange ✉ 07:22, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

ImageAnnotator funktionniert jetzt in eo:WP wie im en:WP. {{ImageNote}} funktionniert aber nicht weder hier noch dort (außerdem im Datei-namespace), nur im Commons. Weißt Du warum ? Arno Lagrange ✉ 07:41, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

In eo:MediaWiki:ImageAnnotatorConfig.js, you have enabled the gadget only in namespaces 6 and 4. That's the "File" and the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespaces. I guess you'd like to use a configuration similar to the one at commons:MediaWiki:ImageAnnotatorConfig.js.

The configuration here at en-WP is rather restricted; it's an evaluation-only installation. See Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator. Lupo 08:48, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

I made some changes to eo:MediaWiki:ImageAnnotatorConfig.js and tests in eo:Vikipedio:Bildoj kun notoj and eo:Marianne von Weizsäcker. Notes appear on one picture when in project namepace not in other picture file:Ecozones.svg nor in article namespace. I don't understand what happens. Arno Lagrange ✉ 12:56, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

I deleted the page eo:Dosiero:Ecozones.svg (a picture with annotations srored on commons) and now its annotations are shown on eo:Vikipedio:Bildoj kun notoj. eo:MediaWiki:ImageAnnotatorConfig.js looks as commons:MediaWiki:ImageAnnotatorConfig.js but annotations are not shown in article namespace there while they are here. I don't undersatand why. Arno Lagrange ✉ 14:12, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Hm. Maybe reload your browser's cache? I see the image notes at eo:Vikipedio:Bildoj kun notoj (except for the thumbnail) and also at eo:Marianne von Weizsäcker. For thumbnails, eo:MediaWiki:ImageAnnotatorConfig.js explicitly switches off image note display (function thumbsEnabled() returns false).

I don't see the notes on eo:Dosiero:Ecozones.svg in the article eo:Ecozono, but that's not because of a problem with the gadget. It's due to a bug in your eo:MediaWiki:Common.js. Function aliajProjektoj() crashes on the line reading

insertAfter(document.getElementById(Column_Id),interProject,document.getElementById('p-tb'));

with the error mesage "insertAfter is not defined". Since this function runs as an onload-hook before ImageAnnotator, ImageAnnotator is never run at all on that page. Lupo 21:32, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

If I switch off this buggy feature (see eo:User:Lupo/vector.js), ImageAnnotator works and does show the notes even in the article eo:Ecozono. Lupo 21:35, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Policy on Classification by Ethnicity, Gender, Religion and Sexuality

Hi, I have a problem with the article White Argentine. In the article I mentioned many people who are Argentine by birth and by option (they immigrated when they were children and stayed in Argetnina until their death, or they are now living there). All those people mentioned in the article are perfectly Caucasian by phenotype, and all have European/Middle Eastern ancestry. To see the names, check this older version of the article, for they are now removed. This is because some users appeared criticizing the article and alleging that mentioning all those persons without a source that explicitly define them as "White Argentine/Argentinian" was a breach to Wikipedia's BLP policy. Is that true? Because I read the article of WP policy on categorization by ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality, and the topic "Race" is still under dispute. Besides, one of the users that criticizes the article is also involved in the proposal/discussion/RfC of the policy itself. If the matter isn't still resolved, can they apply a rule that it is not fully valid yet? If I provide sources that every living Argentine mentioned in the article is of predominantly European ancestry, isn't that enough to define him/her as White? Please, help me clarify this doubt.--Pablozeta (talk) 12:29, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Schiller crater.jpg

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Nomination for deletion of Template:PD-Russia

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Follow-up

I am contacting you because of your edit here at Commons: Category:Heinrich Hoffmann.

The AfD about File:E-tripartite-pact.jpg prompted my further research. I thought it would be seen as helpful to add more specific data from the image description at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) web site:

Source = http://www.reformation.org/e-tripartite-pact.jpg, original watermark now removed stated "Imperial War Museum"

• IWM catalogue number: HU 75995
• IWM name: The Tipartite Act, September 1940 (Grossdeutschland Im Weltgeschehen: Tages Bildberichte, United Germany in world affairs)
• IWM Production date: 27 September 1940
• IWM maker: Heinrich Hoffmann
• IWM object type: Official photograph

Also, I added: This is a digitization of an official photograph made by Adolph Hitler's personal photographer; and seized Nazi property is considered to be in the public domain in the UK and US.

• See -- David Culbert (1997). "The Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Archive: Price vs United States (United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 20 November, 1995)". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 17 (2).
  
• See also -- According to a note at Commons: Category:Heinrich Hoffmann, all Hoffman's photos which were confiscated have been released into the public domain under the laws of the UK and US, but possibly not public domain under the laws of Germany.

As nearly as I can tell, this investment in collaborative editing was irrelevant. The effort was ignored, unnoticed or rejected:

• diff 22:25, 10 January 2011 J Milburn (2,593 bytes) (What kind of law is that? If that is the law in the US, can we please have some kind of evidence? Until evidence is forthcoming, this needs to be considered non-free.)

Perhaps there is a constructive contribution you can make in this context or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan#File:E-tripartite-pact.jpg?

I hope your participation will help me understand better. --Tenmei (talk) 00:29, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

See also WP:PD#German World War II images. It's unclear to me whether this actually was "seized enemy property", or what its status in the U.S. would be even if it qualified as such in the UK. Lupo 07:02, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Luigi Colani.jpg

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Sheesh. Ever heard of AGF? In 2004, there was no OTRS yet. I've converted your tagging at the commons into a regular deletion request; see commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Luigicolani.jpg. Lupo 08:50, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

P.S.: I've replaced the sole use here in Luigi Colani with the Commons image and have deleted this file as an exact (and unused) duplicate. At least we can have a discussion in one place that way. Lupo 08:54, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Eumeces tetragrammus.jpg

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DYK for Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Jr.

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 06:03, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

HotCat

Hey, you helped me before - I'm having trouble with HotCat again. Same problem as before, where the buttons to edit categories don't appear. I cleared my cache, but this time it didn't help. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 03:43, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Somebody broke the ResourceLoader (see bugzilla:28215), and thus HotCat fails to load properly or to load at all. Just reload your browser's cache, and it should work again. Lupo 08:06, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Hmm. Was it only just fixed? Because I've been clearing my cache repeatedly since I noticed the problem, and only now is it working again. Thanks. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 09:02, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I fixed it (by bypassing the ResourceLoader) with this edit at 08:04, 24 March 2011 (UTC). Lupo 09:06, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

If this happens again, should I check to see if that has been inserted, and remove it? Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 09:22, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

No, please don't just blindly undo that change. If it happens again, tell me again, and I'll have to evaluate carefully why it happens again. There's no guarantee that that will always be the reason. Lupo 11:37, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

nuremburg trial template

nice work Decora (talk) 15:06, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. Lupo 06:49, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:PD-Russia

Category:PD-Russia, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 14:35, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

File:USFWS Logo.jpg listed for deletion

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Since when is "unused" a reason for deletion? Lupo 07:33, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Permission for File:Portland-Zement Blaubeuren Gebrüder Spohn AG.jpg

The permission for File:Portland-Zement Blaubeuren Gebrüder Spohn AG.jpg has been sent to "permissions-commons-de@wikimedia.org". Here is a copy:

Einverständniserklärung (Rechte-Inhaber) Ich erkläre in Bezug auf das Bild zementspohn.jpg}{{{http://stracks-gerhausen.de/Kalk-&-Zement-in-Gerhausen-/1,000000406577,8,1}}}, dass ich Ich bin b) Inhaber/in des vollumfänglichen Nutzungsrechts oder c) die Inhaberin / den Inhaber eines vollumfänglichen Nutzungsrechtes rechtmäßig vertrete.

Ich erlaube hiermit jedermann die Weiternutzung des Bildes unter der freien Lizenz „Creative Commons Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Deutschland“ (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/legalcode).

Mir ist bekannt, dass damit in urheberrechtlicher Hinsicht Dritte das Recht haben, das Bild (auch gewerblich) zu nutzen und zu verändern, sofern sie die Lizenzbedingungen wahren. Mir ist bekannt, dass ich diese Einwilligung üblicherweise nicht widerrufen kann.

Mir ist bekannt, dass sich die Unterstellung unter eine freie Lizenz nur auf das Urheberrecht bezieht und es mir daher unbenommen ist, aufgrund anderer Gesetze (Persönlichkeitsrecht, Markenrecht usw.) gegen Dritte vorzugehen, die das Bild im Rahmen der freien Lizenz rechtmäßig, auf Grund der anderen Gesetze aber unrechtmäßig nutzen.

Gleichwohl besteht kein Anspruch darauf, dass das Bild dauerhaft auf der Wikipedia eingestellt wird.

22-11-2011 Dietmar Strack

SDoderer (talk) 10:51, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

I don't need a copy of this e-mail; thank you. The OTRS team will process this on their own. Lupo 11:09, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

New Page Patrol survey

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Ronald Ronald ask you a little help

I just received a notification that my posted photo (User: Ronaldronald - Issue: Oyapock River) has been blocked since it does not show any copyright. It's true, and I apologize so much I couldn't improve knowledge on Wiki. Sorry, sorry. Please, I ask you to delete that irregular material. I don't know how to do this. Thank you. Ronald Ronald. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronaldronald (talk • contribs) 00:19, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Cockchafer Or Mitchamador

Dear Lupo. I have not vandalised the Cockchafer page. I have even included a reference. Please check this if you do not believe me. I am not so good at editing, but this is a valid edit and just a valid a name as Billy witch and the other colloquial names.

Rick — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rickbhatt (talk • contribs) 18:12, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

When I reverted you back in July, you did not include a reference. And I never claimed it was vandalism, I just said it was unsourced. Now, with a source, it appears fine. Lupo 20:41, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Simplifying installation of ImageAnnotator on non-WMF MediaWikis

I went through the instructions for installing ImageAnnotator at Commons, but was disappointed by the note at the end that said basically that it wouldn't work, and I'm on my own to fix the code to work outside commons. ImageAnnotator is good enough to be widely used if it were simpler to install. The user interface is incredibly simple, so why not work on simplifying the installation? If you like this idea, for starters I would suggest packaging up an ready-made Special:Export file, or maybe just simply linking to the necessary Special:Export commands via API or something similar. Even providing a simple list that can be copied and pasted would be an improvement. I didn't get much further than that, since there is a huge quantity of code to study, and I'm not familiar with javascript. What do you think? Badon (talk) 09:10, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

The best would be to package it as a MediaWiki extension. However, I do not have the time to do so, or to package it in any other way. If your Wiki is publicly accessible, e-mail me, and I'll go take a look and see whether I can help installing it on your Wiki. Lupo 09:24, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

That's a great idea! Maybe someday you will have some spare time for converting it into an extension. Until then, if I get it working, I can update the documentation with the small improvements I know how to make. I have sent you an email. Thank you very much for your ImageAnnotator. It will make the world a more educational place :) Badon (talk) 10:12, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Should be working now at your wiki. It was mainly a question of setting LAPI_file_store correctly. Once that was done, it worked. Lupo 12:52, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Wow, thank you so much for helping me with ImageAnnotator! If someone were interested in porting ImageAnnotator into an extension, do you have any important tips or suggestions? An Extension:ImageAnnotator would be an important thing for wikis around the world. If there were also an Extension:Semantic_ImageAnnotator, Semantic Forms could be used to simplify the editing process even more in cases where some image annotation data can be semi-automated with simple checkboxes and other form fields. I think ImageAnnotator has the potential to greatly improve the way the world views images, especially if combined with Semantic MediaWiki. Badon (talk) 22:15, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

File:Locator Map CH Apples Vaud.png listed for deletion

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File copyright problem with File:Eagle Horst 1.jpg

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Hello from kk-wiki

Hello from kk-wiki, I have a problem at copying your HotCat to my wiki, if not difficult can take a look: МедиаУики:Gadget-HotCat.js. Please help us fix it. Thank you in advance! --Bolatbek (talk) 23:30, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, what is the problem? Lupo 19:09, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

It does not work, may be conflict with the main script: Mediawiki:common.js? Sorry if I'm wrong I'm not a programmer =) --Bolatbek (talk) 20:20, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

All right; I've found the problem. The latest version from the Commons at commons:MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js fixes the problem. If you copy that, you should be fine. Lupo 23:28, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Now it works. Thank you for developing such a wonderful program. Best regards, --Bolatbek (talk) 15:13, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Carl Jung Photo

Greetings,

We are working on a series of online education videos covering the subject of Psychology. In the videos we will be referencing some of Carl Jung's groundbreaking contributions to the field and would like to accompany the material with his image.

I wish to inquire about the photo you uploaded to your profile page depicting Mr. Jung. Is it public domain? If the rights belong to you, how would we go about seeking your permission.

I understand you may want to know more about the project and our company so please feel free to email or call me with any questions.

Email me at stuart@ketchumlabs.com I look forward to hearing from you.

Best, Stu

Stuart Arbury Ketchum Labs 533 S. Los Angeles St., #405 Los Angeles, CA 90013 O: (213) 612-0370 C: (301) 980-2275 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarbury1 (talk • contribs) 01:25, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

I have no idea which photo you mean. Can you give me a link? Lupo 19:08, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Eagle Horst 1.jpg

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MediaWiki:Gadget-GalleryDetails.js on Commons

Could you look at upgrading the ajax code in MediaWiki:Gadget-GalleryDetails.js. With the release of 1.19 in a couple of weeks, sajax_object_init() isn't loaded without an explicit dependency. The replacement is jQuery's AJAX functions. (Also notified User:DieBuche.) -- ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 19:38, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Yuck. I'm getting tired of running after the interface-breaking changes you guys continually make. I'll take care of this case this time, but in general I'm a firm believer in "if you break it, you fix it". Lupo 20:56, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

I created beta.wmflabs.org just to find these sort of problems. I agree, that we should maintain some sort of backward compatibility but I can't always do that. Thankfully we found this change now and you were able to fix it before any was broken on the live site. -- ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 19:24, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

I have posted a clarification with regards to backwards compatibility to wikitech-l, and after reading this I added mw.legacy.ajax to the list of modules we're providing in early-loading mode for backwards compatibility. That means that Mark's message is now a false alarm. sajax_*() functions will continue to work normally, at least for now. In the short-to-medium term, Gadgets using sajax should add mediawiki.legacy.ajax as a dependency, and in the long term they should probably be migrated to use jQuery.ajax if feasible.

My apologies for all the confusion; this was simply an oversight on our part, we hadn't realized sajax didn't have proper backwards compatibility until someone pointed me to this talk page post, and I fixed the problem 48 hours after reading about it. I hope that clears things up. --Catrope (talk) 14:30, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi Roan. Thanks. The problem is not so much that sajax_init_object doesn't have a 1-to-1 jQuery replacement (well, there is $.ajaxSettings.xhr()). But I fail to see why these legacy functions (and wg*-Globals) should be removed at all. I see no pressing need to do so at all. The pre-MW-1.17 Javascript library of MediaWiki consisted of wikibits.js and ajax.js. Both are small and cost next to nothing to serve. So why remove them at all? It's great to see that MediaWiki is growing a real support JS library, but that doesn't mean one must remove the old one.

In fact, keeping the old interface is especially important for user scripts that are supposed to run on both MW <= 1.16 and MW >= 1.17. Otherwise, such scripts will have each to write their own backwards-compatibility layer. Better keep the ajax.js and wikibits.js interfaces and wg*-Globals around.

Lupo 22:02, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

ImageAnnotator extension

Lupo, would it help if I contributed a modest amount of funding for the conversion of the ImageAnnotator to an extension? That would surely bring wider usage of it, and probably would bring others to help in maintaining it. Badon (talk) 21:41, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

That's nice, but I don't think it'd help. The main limiting factor that prevented me from trying to do just that is that I just don't have the time. If I had the time, I'd do it for free. All the devs seem to be very busy with more important things.

Doing it right would mean more than just packaging the various JS files and serving them from an extension; it would mean writing a new API and completely rewriting the whole JS stuff, doing more on the server side. Maybe one would even like to store the annotations in their own database table (which then might need additional (wiki) functionality to view or edit them raw, or to generate edit histories, and whatnot). It's a lot of work. Another point is that the MediaWiki software underwent some pretty drastic changes between MW1.16 (when ImageAnnotator was written) and MW1.19, so it seemed a bad time to start packaging it as an extension, as one would have had to program against a fast moving target.

Lupo 07:59, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

I would be against having it do database changes, since the information in normal wiki text is accessible even when something goes wrong (incompatible upgrades, blind user, etc). Also, I would like to make ImageAnnotator compatible with Semantic Forms. As a guess, I think it would take me about 2 years to learn PHP, JavaScript, MediaWiki extensions, and Semantic Forms well enough to make a productive effort at doing all that. There are ways that I might be able to achieve it faster than that, with help. If it doesn't get done during that time frame, I'm interested in it enough that I would probably be willing to go through all that studying just to get it repackaged as an extension, if I can clear my other responsibilities for that long. We'll see if I can strategize my time to lead me in the direction of being able to do that. I'm starting with smaller projects that can be achieved faster, of course. I've been doing a lot of bug testing for WMF things (which took me a year of study), but I'm not yet comfortable with the decision to become a programmer...We shall see. I love the ImageAnnotator, and I hope someday everyone has it on their wikis. Maybe Google would have to accommodate the ImageAnnotator in their Google Images product. I dream big :) Badon (talk) 04:48, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Lupo,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 03:57, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

KS Brooks page

The Actress section was just for her to take a screenshot of to scare her hubby. However the changes made prior by the bot were incorrect. The accurate version of the page would be just before I added the silly "Actress" section. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Parry58 (talk • contribs) 23:19, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

I figured that much by now. You could've saved me work by simply not playing that prank. BTW, the lead photo will need OTRS confirmation. Lupo 23:26, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

HotCat

		The Original Barnstar
		For the diligent maintenance of HotCat, without which I'd be much less productive. — Robert Greer (talk) 16:27, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Hey, thank you! Lupo 07:15, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Documentation for gadget authors

I saw you had done some work on gadgets. We're trying to start a library for gadget authors to use. Please check it out and post any questions or comments there — ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 19:08, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks!

		MediaWiki Bug Squad Barnstar
		Thanks for your help in confirming this and other bugs! —☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 14:56, 16 March 2012 (UTC)