User talk:Adaptivity77
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Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2019! Please help with this survey.[edit]
Dear Adaptivity77,
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.
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the Wiki Loves Monuments team 12:33, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
Invitation to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 Participant Survey (Reminder)[edit]
Dear Adaptivity77,
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.
You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help.
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Kind regards,
the Wiki Loves Monuments team 03:42, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
Location?[edit]
Hi Adaptivity - thanks for adding File:Bronzy Jacamar.jpg to Commons! Could you add the location where you took it, please? This will help get it categorised fully ("Category:Birds of Xxxxx" or similar), and also make the photo much more valuable scientifically. Same for any others of your photos without location details. Thanks! - MPF (talk) 21:21, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
- Hi MPF. I added a location in the caption. It shows up when you open the file in Wikimedia Commons but it does no show up if you click the link on the Wikipedia page. Is there a better way of adding this info?Adaptivity77 (talk) 22:21, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
- Excellent, thanks! It is generally best to add it in the Description section (or in both) as the Description is more accessible than the Caption (e.g. shows when the pic is visited in wikipedia). Even better yet (unless the exact location is unknown, or sensitive), is to add the geo coordinates, which makes the file mappable; this is added in the format {{Location|55.185829|-1.511112}}, where 55.185829 is the decimal degrees latitude (positive for northern hemisphere, negative for southern) and -1.511112 is the decimal degrees longitude (positive for eastern hemisphere, negative for western). This location is for my photo File:2021-05-09 Mimus polyglottos, Newbiggin, Northumberland, UK 1.jpg; you can see the location as a link in the Summary, which takes you to a selection of map resources to see where the photo was taken. Also if you go to its species category (Category:Mimus polyglottos); at the top right you can click on Map of all coordinates on Open Street Map (or Bing if you prefer), which gives you a map of all the photos in the category which have full location data. Hope this helps! - MPF (talk) 00:06, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
- I don't generally have GPS enabled on my camera as it drains the battery, but going forward I will try and include map coordinates when available. Nice find on the Northern Mockingbird!Adaptivity77 (talk) 13:46, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks! Not my find, I just went to see it :-) I don't even have GPS on my camera, I just look up the coordinates on google maps (satellite view is best) - it doesn't matter if it's a few metres out (or even a kilometre or two, in many cases) - MPF (talk) 16:09, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
- Nice one on File:Páramo Pipit.jpg too - the first photo of the species on Commons! If you have any location info for this one too, that'd be great! Thanks - MPF (talk) 08:12, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
- I have added a location based on the eBird checklist but when I click through on the link on the description page I see it's about 3-400m off. The issue is that Google Maps doesn't have nearly as much fidelity for this area as the Open Street Map that Wikimedia uses, so I had to guess. Do you know if there is a way of accessing this particular view of Open Street Maps so I can adjust the coordinates? When I go to the Open Street Maps site all I can get is a very high level map. Adaptivity77 (talk) 15:49, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
- Excellent, thanks! A few hundred metres out doesn't matter, it's no further than the bird is probably flying on a daily basis :-) - MPF (talk) 16:33, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
- I have added a location based on the eBird checklist but when I click through on the link on the description page I see it's about 3-400m off. The issue is that Google Maps doesn't have nearly as much fidelity for this area as the Open Street Map that Wikimedia uses, so I had to guess. Do you know if there is a way of accessing this particular view of Open Street Maps so I can adjust the coordinates? When I go to the Open Street Maps site all I can get is a very high level map. Adaptivity77 (talk) 15:49, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
