User talk:Remember the dot/Archive/2007

Welcome to the Commons, Remember the dot!

First steps tutorial Our first steps help file and our FAQ will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy. You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold contributing here and assume good faith for the intentions of others. This is a wiki - it is really easy. Getting help More information is available at the Community Portal. You may ask questions at the Help desk, Village Pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons. You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at Commons talk:Licensing.		Goodies, tips and tricks Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your Graphics abilities. All your uploads are stored in your personal Gallery Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~ Use the CommonSense tool to find good categories for your files (then other people can find them too!) To link to an image page, write this: [[:Image:Foo.jpg]], it makes this: Image:Foo.jpg If you're copying files from another project, be sure to use the CommonsHelper Made a mistake? Did you want to rename or move a file? Simply upload the file again and mark the old one like this: {{bad name|Correct name}} For more information read the full Deletion guidelines
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Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 03:13, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Re:Losslessly cropping images

Hi! I use the program JPEGcrop to crop images; it is relatively simple to use and is free. The only problem with lossless cropping is that in order to make the process lossless cropping must be done in blocks; this often means small portions of the image are lost. For very tiny images you often have to use a normal image editing program instead and just save at 100% quality with no compression to ensure the quality is as good as possible, as lossless cropping would mean you would end up with an image the size of your little fingernail or even nothing at all. In JPEGcrop there is an option to un-snap the bottom-right corners, so you can edit them freely; however the top and left sides always crop in blocks. You also have to be careful to ensure the image doesn't end up lop-sided if it was originally symmetrical (as with Image:Marseille Palais Longchamp 2 2005.jpg, where I had to crop an extra row of blocks off the right-hand side to make the arch evenly centered in the image). JPEGcrop also rotates images losslessly by 90° increments, but again, for non-standard rotations a normal image editing program must be used.

I hope that helped and wasn't too long-winded! If you have any questions or need help with the program if you download feel free to drop me a line. -- Editor at Large • talk 22:04, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Ittihad-jumhuriyat-arabiya.gif‎

That image was used for a special purpose in connection with Image:Flag_of_Egypt_1972.svg ; it has been vectorized in a different form as part of recent versions of Flag_of_Egypt_1972.svg, but it's not likely to be vectorized on its own. You can delete it if you want, since it's pretty much served its purpose... AnonMoos 11:47, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: Commons:Deletion requests/Copyright by Wikimedia

Possibly this is a incomplete list:

1. Image:Wv import 1.png
2. Image:Wv import 2.png
3. Image:Wv import 3.png
4. Image:Wv import 4.png
5. Image:Wv import 5.png
6. Image:Wv import 6.png
7. Image:Wv import 7.png
8. Image:Wv import 8.png
9. Image:Wiktionary Logo Proposal Psy guy.PNG
10. Image:Wiktionary logo Diego UFCG without text.png
11. Image:Wiktionary logo Diego UFCG.png
12. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 01b.svg
13. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 01c.svg
14. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 01d.PNG
15. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 01d.SVG
16. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 01f.svg
17. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 01f2.svg
18. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 02.svg
19. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 03.svg
20. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 04.svg
21. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 05.svg
22. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 06.svg
23. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 07.svg
24. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 08.svg
25. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 09.svg
26. Image:Wiktionary logo Stephane8888 10.svg
27. Image:Wiktionary logo orange YoungStyle! 2.png
28. Image:Wiktionary logo orange YoungStyle! 3.png
29. Image:Wiktionary logo orange YoungStyle! 4.png
30. Image:Wiktionary logo orange YoungStyle!.png
31. Image:Wiktionary proposed Japanese-smurrayinchester.png
32. Image:Wiktilogo-worldmap-1.png
33. Image:Wiktilogo-worldmap-2.png
34. Image:Wiktilogo-worldmap-2a.png
35. Image:Wikt rei-artur1.svg
36. Image:Wikt rei-artur10.svg
37. Image:Wikt rei-artur11.svg
38. Image:Wikt rei-artur16.svg
39. Image:Wikt rei-artur2.svg
40. Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg
41. Image:Wikt rei-artur4.svg
42. Image:Wikt rei-artur5.svg
43. Image:Wikt rei-artur6.svg
44. Image:Wikt rei-artur7.svg
45. Image:Wikt rei-artur8.svg
46. Image:Wikt rei-artur9.svg
47. Image:Wikt calligraface logo color.svg
48. Image:Wikt calligraface2 logo color.svg
49. Image:Wikt calligraphy logo bw blue.png
50. Image:Wikt calligraphy logo bw green.png
51. Image:Wikt calligraphy logo bw red.png
52. Image:Wikt calligraphy logo bw.png
53. Image:Wikt calligraphy logo color clean.svg
54. Image:Wikt calligraphy logo color globe.png
55. Image:Wikt calligraphy logo color.svg
56. Image:Wikt calligraphy logo color2.1.svg
57. Image:Wikt calligraphy logo color2.svg
58. Image:Wikt calligraphy logo nb globe blue.png
59. Image:Wikt calligraphy logo nb globe green.png
60. Image:Wikt calligraphy logo nb globe red.png
61. Image:Wikt calligraphy logo.JPG
62. Image:Wikiversity-albertsab.PNG
63. Image:Wikiversity-logo byrei-artur.svg
64. Image:Wikiversity-logo byrei-artur10.svg
65. Image:Wikiversity-logo byrei-artur11.svg
66. Image:Wikiversity-logo byrei-artur12.svg
67. Image:Wikiversity-logo byrei-artur2.svg
68. Image:Wikiversity-logo byrei-artur3.svg
69. Image:Wikiversity-logo byrei-artur3invsubtle.svg
70. Image:Wikiversity-logo byrei-artur3sansaxis.svg
71. Image:Wikiversity-logo byrei-artur3sansaxisinv.svg
72. Image:Wikiversity-logo byrei-artur6.svg
73. Image:Wikiversity-logo byrei-artur7.svg
74. Image:Wikiversity-logo byrei-artur8.svg
75. Image:Wikiversity-logo byrei-artur9.svg

(sorry for listing without links to the images, I've just copied-and-pasted from the deletion discussion)

Your worry about keeping these images is valid, but simple listing for deletion may create more problems than solutions. These images are used on hundreds of wikis, simple deleting without providing a alternative 1) broke thousands of pages containing interwiki link templates; 2) broke thousands of project docs, policies and guidelines pages; 3) may result on more users hating Wikimedia Commons instead of choosing to share theirs works between Wikimedia projects.

Please, join to the discussion on commons-l about this. And please, next time add {{Tfd}} or {{Delete}} to the affected images and pages, to make possible to CommonsTicker warn the affected projects :-)

Best, Lugusto • ※ 02:32, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

copyright Wikimedia, without logo

Ok, thank you.

I was wondering if there was any other reason (than logo). The template states "the official logos or designs", so maybe the design? (Maybe standard Mediawiki graphics is GPL, other designs -used in WMF projects- are not? ) --ChemicalBit 07:57, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Only images that contain Wikimedia logos should be tagged with {{Copyright by Wikimedia}}. The Mediawiki software is GPL. User-contributed text is GFDL. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 16:28, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

If so, {{Copyright by Wikimedia}} text is a bit misleading,as it aslo states "... or designs". --ChemicalBit 16:55, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Firefox 1.0.6 sk.jpg

Hello,

I'm not the author of this picture Image:Firefox 1.0.6 sk.jpg. You have to warn the first author or the first uploader before to delete the picture. Thx.--Patricia.fidi 18:19, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Merge-arrows.svg

Hey Dot, I had to revert your new version of Image:Merge-arrows.svg. Somehow the MediaWiki software can't generate any kind of preview or thumbnail of your image version. Even though it seems to be a valid svg I didn't find the problem. Regards --Alcibiades 01:26, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

It looks like the solution was to purge the server cache of that image. Please try that next time before jumping to revert. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 15:43, 15 September 2007 (UTC)