User:HelenOnline

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"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." – Dorothea Lange

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This user comes from South Africa. This user is autopatrolled on Wikimedia Commons. (verify) This user has a page on the English Wikipedia. This user has an account on Flickr. This user owns and uses a Canon PowerShot A70 camera. This user owns and uses a Canon EOS 650D camera. This user participated in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013. This user participated in Wiki Loves Monuments 2014.

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en This user is a native English speaker. af-2 Hierdie gebruiker het 'n gemiddelde begrip van Afrikaans. it-1 Questo utente può contribuire con un italiano di livello semplice. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. fr-1 Cette personne peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.
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“Writing what to many people will be the definitive text on something is a heady experience. But more appealing is the grand, utopic vision the founders have for Wikipedia: a vast melting pot of knowledge, contributed to by people from everywhere, accessible to everyone. 'We're organization-obsessive, and knowledge-obsessive', says Alex Stinson.”

—Love and Drama at the Wikipedia Conference, Jessica Pressler, New York Magazine (June 2014)

I live in Stellenbosch and my photos are taken in the Western Cape.

Useful links for Commons:

• Commons:For Wikipedians
• Commons:Editor's index to Commons
• Commons:Image guidelines
• Commons:Freedom of Panorama#South Africa
• Commons:DM
• {{PD-South-Africa}}
• {{PD-1996}}
• {{PD-South-Africa-exempt}}
• Commons:Photographs of identifiable people
• {{Personality rights}}
• {{RetouchedPicture}}
• {{Extracted from}}
• {{Image extracted}}
• Polling templates
• {{Smiley}}
• Help:Gadget-HotCat
• Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot

Useful links for WLM:

• Cultural heritage monuments in Stellenbosch on Commons
• List of heritage sites in Stellenbosch on Wikipedia
• Heritage Western Cape on Wikipedia
• Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation database
• Historic Buildings of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch Virtual Town

I also make use of:

• Historical Stellenbosch on Foot issued by Stellenbosch Tourism and Information Bureau (see online version of their map)
• Footloose in Stellenbosch by Hannes Meiring and Ters van Huyssteen
• Stellenbosch, University Town on the Banks of the Eerste River by Hérine Fourie and Philip Crouse
• Eikestad by Cora Coetzee
• Stellenbosch by Alice Mertens
• Stellenbosch Revisited by Joy Collier
• Candid Cape Town: A Discreet Guide to the Cape Peninsula by G. G. Michaelides
• Cape Town Don't Tell: The Mother City's (hush-hush) must-do list by Sheryl Ozinsky and Sam Woulidge
• A Cape Camera by Hans Fransen
• Guide to Cultural Tourism in South Africa by Sue Derwent
• Google Search (it helps to also search Afrikaans terms)
• South African Multi-Language Dictionary and Phrase Book by Reader's Digest
• The English Afrikaans Xhosa Zulu Aid by Isabel Uys

Notes and links for me

• User:HelenOnline/sandbox
• Flickr-to-Commons
• GLAMorous
• Parameters for transferring eligible images from Wikipedia (PD example)
• Parameters for transferring eligible images from Wikipedia (CC example)