User talk:Mstudt

Welcome to the Commons, Mstudt!

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Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Mstudt!

Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

Siebrand 18:18, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

cuneiform

thanks for all the cuneiform images. I'll try to insert them to en:list of cuneiform signs. I understand their shape is taken directly from Borger (2003)? How would you characterize the ductus, is it Old Assyrian throughout? Or Neo-Assyrian? Dbachmann 10:26, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Answer to dbachmann

the shape of our cuneiform signs is Neo-Assyrian. The signs are from Friedrich Ellermeier - Margret Studt, Handbuch Assur (2003). They are our own design and were inspired by the signs in Friedrich Elermeier, Sumerisches Glossar Band 1, Lieferung 1+2(1979/1980). Only the sign numbers are after Rykle Borger, Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon. We are working on a sign list for Wikipedia with Numbers (MesZL), Numbers (Deimel/Ellermeier), Unicode Numbers, Sign Names and all sumerian and akkadian transliterations. I know your en:list of cuneiform signs. We find it very helpful, but we think, it would be good to have a cuneiform sign list, in which everybody can see the signs. For this purpose we are uploding the signs as PNG-Bitmaps, thoug we use them as TrueType in our publications. By the way, which Unicode-font with cuneiform signs do you use? Mstudt 22:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

this is excellent, thanks. I'll insert a "png" column into the sign list as you upload more images. The main purpose of my list was to map the new Unicode encoding to existing catalogues, to facilitate the conversion of existing fonts to Unicode. I have assembled a Unicode font recently, see en:Unicode_cuneiform#External_links, but it includes only the 400 or so glyphs of the HZL (en:Hittite orthography), and the glyph shapes are oriented towards Hittite, not Neo-Assyrian. Since you release your pngs under a CC licence, it should be possible to generate a Free Unicode font from them. But you could consider dual-licensing them under GFDL, so that the resulting font's licence would be compatible with other free Unicode fonts. I am not entirely sure about copyright in this case anyway, since your images do appear to be faithful reproductions of Borgers'; they may not be copyrightable at all for being unoriginal reproductions of a design that was "published" some 3,000 years ago. (IANAL) Dbachmann 09:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

btw, per en:Unicode_cuneiform#Missing_signs, I am at a loss to explain the absence of Unicode codepoints for US and UL, and also the lack of NIN, IA, MAN, MEŠ, ḪUL, DIR, MUD and others is difficult to accept, although a truetype font could account for these as ligatures. Dbachmann 09:32, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Gallery page

Files by user Mstudt is not really appropriately named, or with appropriate content, to be where it is. If you wanted to establish a gallery of all your uploaded sign images with an impersonal name like Cuneiform or Cuneiform signs, then that would be better. Something which is personally named after you should be under your user page. AnonMoos 13:00, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I moved it to User:Mstudt/Files ... AnonMoos 13:01, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:B022vellst.png

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:B022vellst.png. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the content is a derivative of a copyrighted work, you need to supply the names and a licence of the original authors as well.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag, then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{self|cc-by-sa-2.5}} to release it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license or {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find all your uploads using the Gallery tool. Thank you. —xyzzy_n 01:53, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Answer to xyzzy_n. This image is a variant, which is not necessary for the List of cuneiform signs. It can be deleted. By the way: how can I add or modify a license tag to an uploaded file? Or do I have to upload it again with the correct tag? --Mstudt 05:55, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

If, as in this case, the image is entirely your own work, you just have to decide on a licence, then find the corresponding tag (code that {{looks like this}}) in Commons:Copyright tags; go to the image description page, click on the ‘edit’ link at the top and add the tag to the existing code (usually below the summary or {{Information}} template but above the categories; you can also add a heading, such as ==Licence==, directly above the tag).

If the work is not or not entirely your own, you should also explain on the image description page which restrictions apply and who else contributed to the work and pick a licence tag that is appropriate for the entire work.

Most people here licence their work under the GNU Free Documentation Licence ({{GFDL}}, the same licence as all the text on this site), the Creative Commons–Attribution licence ({{Cc-by-2.5}}, anything permitted as long as the author is credited) or the Creative Commons–Attribution–ShareAlike licence ({{Cc-by-sa-2.5}}, as before, but copies and derivative works must be under the same licence) or simply release all rights to the work ({{PD-self}}).

It is up to you to choose what is appropriate for your work, but feel free to ask if you have more questions. —xyzzy_n 12:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:B470ellst.png

You nominated Image:B470ellst.png for deletion, but as the deletion request was incomplete, it was never deleted. Can you fix the request (give a reason and create the subpage), or is it the request no longer needed and can it be taken off? Thanks and regards, Deadstar 10:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Same for Image:B468ellst.png and Image:B467ellst.png Deadstar 10:16, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Mstudt!

Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

BotMultichillT 21:01, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

• Image:B031ellst.png was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:B031vellst.png was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:B150v2ellst.png was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:B027ellst.png was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.