User talk:Darius Bauzys

Foto

man patinka Jūsų foto. Šaunu, kad Lietuvoje yra tiek daug geros valios žm. Jei dar daugiau prisijungtų iš Online Lithuanian macro photo - būtų tiesiog fantastiškai didelė parama ir pagalba non profit projektui, kuriam nėra ribų nei laiko, nei kalbos, nei teritorijos atžvilgiu. --Redagavimas (talk) 19:19, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello, Darius Baužys!

• You are upload lot of very nice photos. Try nominate it as Commons:Quality images candidates (2Mpx size needed). It is good candidates: File:P1130658_Sarcodon_imbricatus.jpg and File:P1130656_Sarcodon_imbricatus.jpg.
• Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your graphic abilities.

P.S. russian: Если Вы проживаете в Беларуси, то мы можем общаться по-русски. Ответ можете написать здесь же, на своей странице обсуждения. С уважением, Георгий.

With best regards, --George Chernilevsky (talk) 07:59, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Здрасте Георгий,
живу я в Литве, хотя часто бываю на Беларуси. Спасибо за хорошие слова, попробую одно из этих фото поместить на Quality images candidates.
С уважением, Дарюс.

Лучше сразу оба. Там где гриб растет - качество отличное без сомнений, а второй вариант тоже может получить поддержку. В Quality images нет ограничений на количество фотографий одного и того же объекта.

С уважением, Георгий -- 11:46, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

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Поздравляю! :)

Приветствую, Дарюс!

Поздравляю с первой награжденной фотографией!

В своей галерее Вы можете отмечать изображения с наградой:

• = {{FP star}}
• = {{QI seal}}
• = {{VI seal}}

И еще можете сделать номинацию зеленого клопа на QI.

С уважением, --George Chernilevsky (talk) 12:43, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Спосибо Вам огромное ! И за помощь, и за советы. Клопа обязательно выставлю на QI.

С низким поклоном Darius Bauzys (talk) 13:50, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

с поклоном - это перебор, достаточно с дружеским приветствием . Я сам не профессиональный фотограф и не профессиональный биолог. --George Chernilevsky (talk) 07:18, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

я не виноват, так меня родители выростили ... Вы подтолкнули меня и я за это Вам благодарен. Кстати, я тоже не профессионал, макрофотография- это мой хобби. Darius Bauzys (talk) 08:09, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

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/FPCBot (talk) 12:14, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

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Фото

Добрый день, Дарюс!

Ваше фото ужика очень понравилось. Однако не выставляйте его пока на FP. Там недавно был просто шикарный портрет этой змейки, так что сейчас поддержка будет не очень сильной.

И еще - относительно оценок калерны. Он практически всегда и всем ставит минусы, так что к этому уже все привыкли, не огорчайтесь и не обращайте внимание. Видимо, это его искреннее восприятие мира.

С уважением, Георгий -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 11:55, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Добрый день, Георгий

Про калерну я уже понял, встечал таких и на других веб-сайтах. А ужик я уже выставил - если и неподдержит, это же не конец света .

С уважением, Дарюс - Darius Baužys ^{→ talk} 12:14, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Ок. А где авторский  Support ? -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 12:46, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Ups, забыл. Добавил. Спасибо за переводы у фото. Darius Baužys ^{→ talk} 17:30, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Всегда пожалуйста. Я тоже ужиков этим летом фотографировал. Про другого ужа вспомнили, но все равно шансы на победу хорошие. Вам остается еще сделать номинацию на значимые изображения (VI), чтобы был полный комплект наград. Там качество не главное, надо только, чтобы не было альтернатив (редкая иллюстрация). --George Chernilevsky ^talk 11:25, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Надо подумать насчет VI ... может быть, что и найду что нибуть . А ужиков можете по эмайлу прислать - хотелось бы посмотреть. Darius Baužys ^{→ talk} 15:44, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Ужики:

• File:Natrix_Natrix_head_2009_G1.jpg
• File:Natrix_Natrix_head_2009_G2.jpg
• File:Natrix_Natrix_bog_2009_G1.jpg

-- George Chernilevsky ^talk 16:15, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

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:)

Доброго времени суток, Дарюс!

Поздравляю, ужик получил звезду, хотя про конкурента вспомнили.

Я нашёл еще значки, эти не скромного размера  :

•   = {{Is FI}}
•   = {{Is QI}}
• = {{Is FQI}}
•   = {{VI-tiny}}

У меня сейчас много проблем по работе.
Вероятно, я буду мало активным на Вики-сайте до декабря.
Досадно, осталась куча не отсортированных фото, более 3000.

Удачи!

С уважением, Георгий

-- George Chernilevsky ^talk 19:44, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Доброе утро !

спосибо за поздравления, стараюсь .

Удачи Вам на работе, и буду ждать новых фото.

С уважением, Дарюс

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Файл

Добрый день, Дарюс!

От себя я письмо отправил. Размер вложений в одно письмо до 8Мб, архиватор любой.

С уважением, Георгий

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review

 Support Good photo of rare butterfly. Fulfils all criteria. -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 16:08, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

 Support Kersti (talk) 02:13, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Result: 2 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Yann (talk) 19:44, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

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review

•  Oppose If the purple form is rare, I'm afraid it cannot be representative of the scope. --Eusebius (talk) 23:08, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Now it's good? - Darius Baužys ^{→ talk} 06:36, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
•  Comment very good for scope about purple form --George Chernilevsky ^talk 14:52, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
•  Info - Changed scope. - Darius Baužys ^{→ talk} 06:34, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
•  Comment I'm not convinced that the purple form should have its own scope. --Eusebius (talk) 07:54, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
•  Support I agree with new scope. It is correct for this plant. See promoted scope for other plants, like: "ripe fruit", "flower" etc... Overall photo in high quality and well descripion. --George Chernilevsky ^talk 09:13, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Eusebius (talk) 14:33, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Happy new Year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New year!

Я поздравляю Вас с Рождеством и Новым годом!

George Chernilevsky ^talk 15:18, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

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review

•  Support It is a bit difficult to choose, but I think that this one is the best, too. Moreover, it is geocoded whereas the others are not. Walter Siegmund (talk) 17:12, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. George Chernilevsky ^talk 14:43, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

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Изображение дня

Здравствуйте, Дарюс!
Я поставил Вашу работу File:P1160808 Palomena prasina.jpg в качестве Изображения дня на 3 мая.
С уважением, Георгий --George Chernilevsky ^talk 12:12, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Здравствуйте, Георгий !
Спасибо большое! А как это делается? Я читал, но так и не все понял ... - Darius Baužys ^{→ talk} 19:28, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Изображение дня выбирается случайно из числа FP, которые раньше не были изображением дня. На практике получается, что обычно участники сами свои работы выдвигают. Порядок действий такой:

• 1) смотрим Template:Potd/2010-05 (или другой нужный год/месяц), шаблон месяца уже должен быть создан кем-то раньше.
• 2) выбираем пустой день, при этом желательно не попасть на какой-то особый день, годовщину особого события.
• 3) Если день пустой, то нажимаем справа под цифрой дня красную ссылку "change image" (лучше правой кнопкой мышки - открыть в новой вкладке или в новом окне).
• 4) Заносим информацию в формате
  {{Potd filename|Example_My_file.jpg|2010|05|03}} (имя файла и год|месяц|день указываем правильно) и сохраняем.
• 5) Открываем описание файла и записываем туда вверху
  {{picture of the day|year=2010|month=05|day=03}} . Рядом туда же же звезду FP переносим и всё сохраняем.
• 6) Возвращаемся к пунктам 1) и 2) для того же дня, только уже создаем описание для каждого языка отдельно (лучше правой кнопкой мышки - открыть в новой вкладке или в новом окне). Образец такой:
  {{Potd description|1=Green shield bug|2=en|3=2010|4=05|5=03}} . Параметр 2= должен соответствовать языку в имени ссылки и фактическому описанию. В этом сообщении чтобы тэги не работали, я их заблокировал с помощью nowiki.

Вот и всё. Заморочно, но вполне по силам. В качестве образца можно смотреть уже созданный вариант на 3 мая.
--George Chernilevsky ^talk 20:37, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Heath fritillary

Just wanted to let you know that one of your images has been promoted to featured status at the English Wikipedia. Thank you for your contribution! Jujutacular ^T · C 05:19, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Featured in English Wikipedia

Приветствую, Дарюс!
Ваша работа File:P1160778_Melitaea_athalia.jpg получила награду:
en:Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Heath_fritillary
Поздравляю!
--George Chernilevsky ^talk 09:49, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

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VI

Здравствуйте, Дарюс!
Я исправил формат области (scope) в соответствии с принятыми стандартами.
С уважением, Георгий --George Chernilevsky ^talk 08:11, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

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review

•  Comment A scope is unique. You should use subscopes for this and the next nomination (e.g. caterpillar and pupa). Lycaon (talk) 09:13, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
  • Now OK? Darius Baužys ^{→ talk} 11:25, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
    • Scopes for organisms are quite particular (complicated?). I fixed it for you. Lycaon (talk) 12:20, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
      • Thank You Darius Baužys ^{→ talk} 17:35, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
•  Support All criteria meet --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 13:26, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. George Chernilevsky ^talk 05:44, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Award :)

		The Barnstar of Biology
		The award for very lovely macro photos of wildlife and other Your tireless contributions. Well done, Darius! Keep going! -- George Chernilevsky talk 08:48, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

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review

•  Support All criteria met, very good --George Chernilevsky ^talk 08:09, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks, George ;-). Lycaon (talk) 08:40, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
• Thank You. Darius Baužys ^{→ talk} 17:36, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Myrabella (talk) 11:50, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

FP Promotion

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--George Chernilevsky ^talk 20:38, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

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I hope you saw last week's Signpost

On WP. =) --IdLoveOne (talk) 01:52, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Грибы

Здравствуйте, Дарюс!
User:Quartl попросил у меня помощь в идентификации грибов. В меру своих знаний я частично я это сделал. Галерея для идентификации здесь: User:Quartl/Mushrooms. По возможности, помогите ему тоже. Ответ можете написать на его странице обсуждения.
С уважением, Георгий --George Chernilevsky ^talk 14:36, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

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Hi

Hi Darius:

Thank you for your resent comments on my FPCs. I’m so glad to see another person using a similar camera here. I viewed your works and amazed by the sharpness of them. So I would like to know more about your tricks and techniques that may help me in future. Also, could you please review some of my works and give me a feedback?

Thanks, Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 08:02, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

• Hi Jee,

Your last picture in FP has some problems: too much of green color in the photo, noise and too dark shadows.
All Panasonics cameras take too much green colour and noise in photos. I use Topaz noise filter. There should not be any dark objects in the background.
Regards -- Darius Baužys ^{→ talk} 14:59, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks, Darius. Yes; the last one is very noisy and taken in low lights of early morning. Further spot metered due to the white color. I just nominated it know the opinion.
• What about jpeg artifacts in files by Panasonic cameras? Is it a known issue or it is due to the use of extended zoom facility of the camera? Or due to my processing in NeatImage to remove the noise. I don't know much Photoshop techniques; so I use NeatImage.
• Thanks again; hope to learn more from the people around here. Regards, Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 06:15, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

• I downloaded the Topaz noise filter and checking now. Thanks, -- Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 07:58, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

I use some of your photos

Hi Darius!

I have use a photo of Zygaena lonicerae from wikimedia in my free software educational proyect "Animalandia" (http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia)

You can see directly in the follow link and click over "Siguiente" ("Next") several times:

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/imagen.php?id=34624

If you wish, you can send me some letters or/and a photo for your "contributor profile" in Animalandia:

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/autor.php?nombre=Darius%20Bauzys

This is my "contributor card", for example:

http://herramientas.educa.madrid.org/animalandia/autor.php?nombre=Fernando%20Lis%F3n%20Mart%EDn

In the future, I use more of your photos, I sure!

Thank you for the licence and, of course, for your splendid photos!! Regards! Fernando Lisón

--Fernando.lison (talk)

2013!

		* * * 2013 !!! * * *
		Дарюс! Счастливого Рождества! С Новым годом! С уважением, Георгий -- George Chernilevsky talk 21:21, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
2. This user account must have more than 75 edits on any single Wikimedia project before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool.
3. Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL).

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

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Delivered by Orbot1 (talk) at 09:04, 19 January 2013 (UTC) - you are receiving this message because you voted last year

Happy holidays! 2015!

		* * * Happy Holidays 2015 ! * * *
		* Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! * Joyeux Noël ! Bonne année! * Frohes Weihnachten! Frohes Neues Jahr! * Счастливого Рождества! С Новым годом! -- George Chernilevsky talk 20:39, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Akmenes cherbas akmeny.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Poco a poco 22:08, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:15, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Happy holidays! 2017! ;)

		* * * * * * * Happy Holidays 2017 ! * * * * * * *
		* Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! * Joyeux Noël ! Bonne année! * Frohes Weihnachten! Frohes Neues Jahr! * Счастливого Рождества! С Новым годом! * ¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo! * Щасливого Різдва! З Новим роком! -- George Chernilevsky talk 19:11, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy holidays! 2018! ;)

			* Happy Holidays 2018, Darius Bauzys! *
			Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Joyeux Noël ! Bonne année! Frohes Weihnachten! Frohes Neues Jahr! Счастливого Рождества! С Новым годом! ¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo! Щасливого Різдва! З Новим роком! -- George Chernilevsky talk 17:42, 25 December 2017 (UTC)