User talk:Dschwen

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Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (Feel free to reactivate conversations by pulling them from the archives)

{{GeoPolygon}}

Great ! How come it has not been used until now ? By the way, is it necessary to have longitude before latitude ? Other templates have it the other way round.--Zolo (talk) 10:26, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Hm, I guess I was used to the x,y convention rather than y,x. But since it is only used three times we could still change it. It is unfortunately a pretty tedious template to craft manually. So I would have to ass an editor tool. But there are efforts to link to the OpenStreetMap database, which already contains zillions of paths and polygons, which would make this effort redundant. --Dschwen (talk) 20:50, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes I think changing to lat-long would be better as it is still time to do it and Google provides data this way, so copy-paste is easier. Do you know what is on track with OpenStreetMap. As much as I like the idea, I hope we can have data hat are usable on other websites (sometimes it is just better to have satellite imagery than a street map for example).--Zolo (talk) 21:23, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Please change for lat-long. I can help if you want, but we must do it before its use widespread. And with the swisso-french team, it should widespread rapidly... Pleclown (talk) 19:05, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Changed! Funny story, in my code the variables are already labeled in lat-long order, but the KML file that is generated, uses long-lat order and not lat-long order as I assumed! --Dschwen (talk) 19:40, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

P.S.: existing polygons are cached and will only be reparsed if the are changed, so right now all polygons still will look right on the map despite having the wrong order now. --Dschwen (talk) 19:41, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Great thanks. Not really important since there are apparently some new stuff in preparation, but do you think it would be feasible adapt the zoom to the maximum length/height of the polygon, to make it look better for large things (say "0,0 0,180" title=equator :)--Zolo (talk) 20:20, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Aarg I should have looked at Wikipedia, that states very clearly that KML uses the long-lat order. And I have also just found a simple tool to get the coordinates in that order (I cant find how to get a polygon's coordinates directly from Google maps.). So isolated points are lat-long, Google map's blog is called "latlong", and KML is long-lat. Sighs...--Zolo (talk) 21:26, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

I could write a swap lat-long javascript tool... --Dschwen (talk) 15:17, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

It could be nice thanks. I dont like to say it now, but now that I know that KML is long-lat, I would be inclined to support your previous format, since it allow quicker copy paste and would certainly make more sens to those with experience in mapping. For those like me that are more familiar the more visible long-lat point format, we could have a flashy-ugly banner explaining why it is long-lat....Or maybe there are some other widely used formats that are lat-long ? --Zolo (talk) 15:59, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Please stop changing. The lat-long is the natural way to encode. It's the way Google Maps give a point, the way OSM places its points, the order used in GPX file format...It's the way it was teached in school (at least in France). Pleclown (talk) 18:27, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

QI-Bot arbeitet immer noch nicht einwandfrei

Hallo Dschwen,

kannst Du mal bitte schauen, wieso der QI-Bot die bereits fertigen Kandidaten im Consensual Review (da sind einige bereits überfällig) außer acht lässt? Grüße --Wladyslaw (talk) 13:08, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Irgendwer hat an der Seite rumgefummelt. Der Bot sucht nach einer markierung mit dieser codezeile:

 elif line == "New images go below this line.  -->" and inConsensual == 1 :

An der wurde ein Leerzeichen entfernt. Jetzt gehts wieder. --Dschwen (talk) 16:46, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

GeoPolygon and {{Institution}}

Hi, As a result of this discussion I added some of the functionality of {{GeoPolygon}} to {{Institution}}. It works fine, as far as I can tell, however I wanted to make sure with you that it is fine, since it is using your toolserver tools. --Jarekt (talk) 04:31, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Sure, why not? --Dschwen (talk) 13:06, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Kalibrierding

Hallo, weißt du, wo sich das Kalibriergerät gerade herumtreibt? --Ralf Roleček 19:34, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Oh oh... --Dschwen (talk) 15:29, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Es gibt da so ne Seite: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fototechnik ... ;) ist es noch auffindbar? --Ralf Roleček 20:35, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Es ist noch bei mir. Wenn Du jemanden weisst, der es moechte, dann schocke ich es gerne los. Dorova ist hier wohl nicht mehr aktiv, und sie hatte sich als naechste bei mir gemeldet. --Dschwen (talk) 23:07, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Jetzt kann ich es gebrauchen, hab nen neuen Laptop. --Ralf Roleček 15:46, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Ok, schick mir einfach Deine Postanschrift, dann schick ich es ab. --Dschwen (talk) 04:00, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Schicke es bitte bei Gelegenheit an meine Dienstadresse:

Twoonix Software GmbH

Uhlandstraße 137

10717 Berlin

Ich bin zu selten zu Hause und kann da nur selten (wenn überhaupt) zur Post gehen. Kannst du bitte noch dieses Bild auf dem kurzen Dienstweg löschen? Bitte der dargestellten Person... Danke. --Ralf Roleček 17:43, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Danke, es ist heil angekommen. --Ralf Roleček 13:38, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Prima. Sorry, dass es etwas laenger gedauert hat. Ich bin hier gerade am umziehen (letzter Tag in Illinois heute). War alles etwas chaotisch. --Dschwen (talk) 14:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Kein Problem! Falls das Ding mal wieder irgendwo gebrasucht wird, laß es mich wissen. Oder das Lichtzelt oder...? de:Wikipedia:Fototechnik. --Ralf Roleček 15:23, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Eine Idee, ob und wie das umsetzbar ist?

Hallo Daniel,

mein nunmehr zwei Jahre dauerndes, selbst auferlegtes Projekt, alle Kirchen des Landkreises Lörrach enzyklopädisch in Artikel und Bild zu erfassen neigt sich dem Ende. Im Zuge dieses Projektes ist auch diese Karte File:Karte Kirchen im Landkreis Lörrach.svg entstanden. Jetzt habe ich mir überlegt, dass es nett wäre besagte Karte durch die tatsächlichen Standorte der Kirchen anzureichen. Um das bei über 120 Kirchen nicht von Hand zu machen frage ich mich, ob das irgendwie automatisiert möglich ist. Grundsätzlich kann man der Karte ja eine Geokoordinate als Ankerpunkt zuweisen und Anhand der Liste allen Kirchenstandorten ein Symbol auf der Karte zuweisen. Dieses Tool macht das ja auch z.B. mit den bisher online gestellten Artikeln, die georeferenziert sind. Da ich aber programmiertechnisch zu unbedarft bin wüsste ich nicht, wie man die Idee ohne viel Aufwand technisch umsetzen kann. Frage: hättest Du dafür eine Lösung und wenn ja würdest Du diese umsetzen wenn sie nicht zu viel Aufwand für Dich bedeutet? Viele Grüße --Wladyslaw (talk) 09:33, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Hm, ich muesste erstmal die Projektion und Lage des Kartenausschnitts in dem Bild kennen. Wie hast Du das erstellt? --Dschwen (talk) 15:29, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Die Karte basiert auf File:Municipalities in LÖ.svg, welche wieder auf die Baden-Württemberg-Karte File:Baden-Württemberg HD (district).svg basiert. Welche Projektion dafür verwendet wird steht leider nicht da. Aber soweit ich weiß dürfte bei kleinen Kartenausschnitten die Projektion nicht so ins Gewicht fallen, es muss auch nicht 100 % exakt sein. Ich würde es erst mal mit Mercator-Projektion versuchen. --Wladyslaw (talk) 11:25, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

QICbot

Dear Dschwen, the bot is extracting images much later than it is supposed to, and even when it does, it ignores some promoted images and leaves them behind. Can you please fix these problems? Thank you. Gidip (talk) 10:50, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Geopolygon

Hi!

I've used your code on fr:wiki to create a template. it is used in this article: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_L%C3%A9man (Contour in the infobox). It works nicely, and I want to thank you for this template.

I also have a request. Could it be possible to change the z parameter of the google maps url ? maybe via a parameter? If you look at my example, the perfect z parameter would be 10 and not 14.

Thank you for your time.

Pleclown (talk) 20:23, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Using Hugin

Hi Daniel,

I've been strugling with Hugin to do something it is not supposed to do: putting together an image which was scanned in parts. It should be the easiest thing in the world since no perspective corrections are to be made. Still the application doesn't seem to be able to deal with it. I have done the obvious thing, which is to enter a very large focal distance (should be infinite), with no success. Can you please help? I'm asking the question here because the answer might be useful for other editors. All best, Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:38, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Sure Hugin is able to deal with it. There is a proper way, by just optimizing rotation and translation (there is no preset for that combination, so you have to manually check those parameters)! Do not screw around with the focal distance. --Dschwen (talk) 12:17, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Select the custom parameters below and select only rotation, x shift, and y shift, for images 1 and up (do not select image 0). --Dschwen (talk) 12:33, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Daniel but I can't find any "custom parameters" section. Also, when the images are loaded, we have to fill a template with some information for each of them: focal distance, field of view and multiplier. I have a 2011 version, btw. Alvesgaspar (talk) 14:05, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I think I got it now. I suppose the only rotation that matters is "roll" and projection must be "rectilinear". Alvesgaspar (talk) 14:29, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes, rotation means roll, the other rotationlike elements are called yaw and pitch. And yes, the projection must be recitlinear. --Dschwen (talk) 18:34, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Using Commons Photos

Hi,

I would like to use some of your commons photos for resale. What are your attribution requirements etc? You can contact me at roman.banfield@gmail.com

Thanks!

--Romanbanfield (talk) 03:39, 16 December 2011 (UTC)Romanbanfield

Google Maps position icons vs. Wikimedia position icons

Hi Dschwen,
maybe you can help me.
Some of my pics get now the Google Maps position icons instead of the Wikimedia position icons, e.g.:

Maybe you can help me. --Lord Koxinga (talk) 16:19, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Valued images candidates

Hi Dschwen, just letting you know - there's a backlog for VICbot to sort out on the VIC page, including some files promoted in October which haven't been dealt with yet. Thanks. --Claritas (talk) 21:02, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Bug in DschwenBot?

Hi! User:Strainu noticed a problem with the coordinates of this file File:Alba Carolina Fortress 2011 - Francisc De Paola Ravelin Sign-1.jpg, from a location in Romania, and which I uploaded. They are incorrect, and looking deeper, it seems to me that the bot which extracted the coordinates from the EXIF has a problem. This is the data from the EXIF:

GPSLatitudeRef - N
GPSLatitude - 46 4 2.99 (46.067497)
GPSLongitudeRef - E
GPSLongitude - 23 34 24.65 (23.573514)

I looked at a few other files from the same category which I uploaded (the ones who have names starting with Alba Carolina Fortress 2011) and they seem ok. But I haven't checked them all. Not sure if relevant, but I can tell you that I added the coordinates with Picasa. Also, I found a bug related to Picasa-generated EXIF parsing on Commons. Happy holidays! --Codrin.B (talk) 17:26, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

This comes from a faulty run, where multiple instances of the bot were running at once, and they shared a critical cache file. This is not related to the mediawiki bug you mentioned, I'm using my own exif extraction. --Dschwen (talk) 14:33, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Good to know. Thanks for clarifying. Do you know which images were affected and can you rerun?--Codrin.B (talk) 15:47, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Finding that out would be a major pain in the behind. I'll probably have to rerun a few thousand images around October 1st. My estimate is that about 100 images are affected. --Dschwen (talk) 02:19, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Question

Hi Daniel, Happy holidays!

I wanted to ask you about your image that was requested for the documentary to be shown at National Geographic Channel. Have you watched this documentary, and, if so what is its name? I would like to watch it. Cheers.--Mbz1 (talk) 02:46, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Hey Mila, happy holidays to you too! Actually I don't remember that request. Are you sure it was one of my images? --Dschwen (talk) 15:32, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

I am sure, but if you do not remember, I guess you've never watched it :(--Mbz1 (talk) 15:44, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

HNY

--Nevit Dilmen (talk) 13:38, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you Nevit! Happy new year to you, too! --Dschwen (talk) 15:32, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

VICBot arbeitet nicht

Hallo, der VICBot arbeitet anscheinend nicht, evtl. findest du Zeit danach zu sehen. --Berthold Werner (talk) 18:27, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi Daniel, Is there anything I can do to help or take some maintenance load of your should wrt to VICBot? Is it some bug that needs to be found, some toolserver downtime og database changes, which are causing the problems? I am thinking about that I could wake up User:SlaungerBot from its sleep and implement VIC closure logic to run "on demand" and manually without using a database dump to have more stability in the process and less dependence on personal availability. Currently, the project is practically stalled as there are too many nominations on the nomination page for the templates to render them (too many template arguments). --Slaunger (talk) 21:06, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, sorry, I'm pretty busy IRL due to an upcoming move. I have not diagnosed the problem. Only did one manual run, which spat out an Erreur. I remember I fixed something a few months ago by just adding SLOW_OK to one of the db queries. This would be my first try (as well as outputting a more verbose error message). --Dschwen (talk) 21:38, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

And me sorry too, because, naturally you should spend your time on your IRL move. I do not think I have the priviledges (and knowledge) to try and fix the issue. I have only tried pywikipedia w/o db access and on my own machine. --Slaunger (talk) 21:45, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Actually, I think I just found the error. --Dschwen (talk) 22:47, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Hurray! What a relief. It is like cutting a boil to release pressure. Thanks a lot, Daniel! --Slaunger (talk) 22:50, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

May I add my congratulations, as well? Thank you. --Walter Siegmund (talk) 23:08, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Image guidelines - downsampling

Hello. I saw that you participated in the discussions about image guidelines. I started a new discussion on the matter of downsampling, if you would like to share your view. Thank you. Gidip (talk) 17:39, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

The camera used for File:CTA red line rerouted.jpg?

Hallo and well done for getting File:CTA red line rerouted.jpg featured on English Wikiepedia. I'd like to enquire as to what camera you used to take that photo as I am considering upgrading my camera to improve File:A62 Stock 5163 at Chorleywood.jpg as well as other photos on Flickr (my username is Trowbridge Estate). Thank you! --Marianian (talk) 13:25, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

It was taken with a Canon EOS 5D and a Sigma 150mm lens (the macro lens - it focuses up till infinity). This particular picture was composed from two or three shots side by side (panoramic). But that won't be an option for a moving train. --Dschwen (talk) 13:33, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

On the organization of highlighted (FP/QI/VI) media in Commons main category structure

Hi Daniel, I have started a discussion regarding some thoughts about getting a better integration and display of FP/QI/VIs in the main category structure at Commons:Village pump#Highlighted content in main category structure. I gave to think of you in this respect, because you know the circuitry on FP/QI/VI very well, and you are also very knowledgable regarding the technical possibilities we have for organizing media. --Slaunger (talk) 22:41, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

QI post bug

Hi Dschwen,

It seems there is a bug with your bot: [2]. The second image is not displayed, and it is not mine. In addition, the QI template was not added to the description page. The confusion comes probably from [3]. Regards, Yann (talk) 13:02, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, to be honest, this looks more like a bug with the nomination. The QI page should mention that the notification always goes to the first user mentioned in the nom, and that was you. How did this nomination ever work without the File: prefix? How could people have judged it? Does MW now allow for this syntax? The I should update my bot (or at least trap such mistakes). But for now I'd ask you to fix the screwed up nomination, please. I'll deal with the bot. --Dschwen (talk) 19:41, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Gadget-GoogleTranslate.js

Does this still work? Since Google is claiming it is a paid service now. -- RE rillke questions? 18:08, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Daily Limit Exceeded

That sucks. I'll see what I can do. --Dschwen (talk) 19:52, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Unassessed Quality Images

Hello, Dschwen! I found a lot of images (almost 300) which are both in the category Unassessed QI candidates and have the {{QualityImage}} tag (for example File:11-07-31-helsinki-by-RalfR-096.jpg). I think User:QICbot should remove the Unassessed QI candidates category when adding the {{QualityImage}} tag. I can fix them using AWB, but I guess it's better if they are fixed by User:QICbot. Razvan Socol (talk) 05:58, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, thanks for pointing that out to me. Those are renominated images and I totally forgot about this case. --Dschwen (talk) 20:10, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

VICbot function?

In cases where an image nominator is not the uploader, would it be possible to have VICbot also notify the uploader? It seems like it would be a nice courtesy to let the uploader know. Thanks, cmadler (talk) 13:44, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Ignorierte Files

Hi. Mag eine FAQ sein, aber gibt es einen bestimmten Grund, warum DschwenBot manche Dateien mit {{GPS EXIF}} auslässt? Ich habe da gerade ein paar, die bisher nicht verarbeitet wurden. Von 6 Dateien, die ich Sonntag hochgeladen habe, wurde nur eine vorgestern umgestellt. Ich sehe aber nicht, was mit den anderen nicht stimmt. RalfHuels (talk) 08:43, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Warte mal ab. Das setzen des Templates ist eigentlich ohnehin nicht noetig, weil der bot alle neuen Uploads analysiert. Ich vermute, dass die Dantenbankkopie auf dem toolserver (wo der bot laeuft) gerade haengt. Gib den Bildern nochmal ein zwei Tage. Ich schaue nachher mal manuell nach. --Dschwen (talk) 13:00, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Die Templates setze ich gewohnheitsmäßig, seit im Herbst mal eine ganze Reihe von Files anscheinend dauerhaft vergessen wurden. Aber das war IIRC im Aftermath dieser mehrtägigen Downtime des Bots Anfang November. Vielleicht war ich auch da nur zu ungeduldig. RalfHuels (talk) 15:40, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Das Problem war ein anderes: Dieses Bild enthaelt ein Blockade-Template, welches den Bot aus der Fassung gebracht hat (es ist das erste Mal, das ich sowas sehe). Sollte erstmal gehen jetzt, habe gerade manuel neugestartet. --Dschwen (talk) 16:18, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Doppeltes Template mit "Location"

Hallo Dschwen! Weil ich mich an diese Diskussion erinnere, frage ich mal hier an. Gerade habe ich festgestellt, dass eines meiner Fotos, dass ich vor ca. zwei Wochen hochgeladen und in der Beschreibung mit einem manuell befüllten Template "Location" ausgestattet habe, nun per Bot ein weiteres (übrigens präziser platziert, als ich es konnte...) bekam. Es sollte doch möglich sein, so etwas zu verhindern, oder? Danke & Gruß --Sir James (talk) 18:18, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Das ist ueberaus komisch. Der bot verucht das zu verhindern, und subtrahiert alle Bilder, die in der DB einen Verweis aufs Location template haben. Und eigentlich auch die,die einen Verweis auf location dec haben. Ich schaue mir das nochmal genauer an. --Dschwen (talk) 18:35, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

De-adminship warning

Dear Dschwen. I am writing to you to inform you that you are in danger of losing your adminship on Commons because of inactivity.

If you want to keep your adminship, you need both to sign at Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section within 30 days of today's date, and also to make at least five further admin actions in the following six months. Anyone who does not do so will automatically lose administrator rights.

You can read the de-admin policy at Commons:Administrators/De-adminship.

Thank you Trijnstel (talk) 21:47, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Requesting Permission to Publish Photo

Mr. Schwen:

I am currently working on a textbook, Energy and Agriculture. We would like to use a photo of yours in the book. Please respond to me at darcy.scelsi@cengage.com with contact information so that I may send you our formal permissions request form for use of the image. The image we are interested in is of a gas bubble from the La Brea tar pits.

Thank you for your time and attention to this request.

Darcy Scelsi Senior Product Manager Cengage Learning