User talk:Fæ

Had some tragic news of a death in the family, at a time when it's not sure we can even safely have a funeral. Taking it quietly for a while because everything seems stupid right now. --Fæ (talk) 13:32, 7 October 2020 (UTC) I may be slow to respond to questions due to spending more time in the garden. Despite automatic trimming, my watchlist hovers above 900,000 items, so it really helps if you remember to {{ping}} me on discussions that are not kept on this page. Feel free to email or for LGBT+ user group discussion become a contact on Telegram or Twitter where messages are persistent, for a more reliable off-wiki discussion. Keep in mind I lose track of emails too, especially complex ones I think I'll get back to. Faebot is alive in different places, not tied to any specific kit, so some tasks running on Labs have proven stability and carry on regardless of whether human me is still around. However tasks running from my local desktop may pause when my home machine is off for safety reasons. A few tasks run on two headless Raspberry Pis, which should be more resilient as they can continue unattended, and in fact in the current pandemic, one will remain so for the foreseeable future so if it falls over, it stays that way. --Fæ (talk) 11:09, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

If you want to see Python source code that supports some of my projects, go to Github and help yourself. The code is not written with reuse in mind... --Fæ (talk) 15:57, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

If you are concerned that a category gets flooded with automated uploads, check that a template like {{Disambig}}, {{Photographs}}, {{Categorise}}, {{CatDiffuse}} or {{CatCat}} has been applied before complaining. In the case of my batch upload projects, any category marked this way will not be added to new photographs. --Fæ (talk) 16:32, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

2017 2018 2019 2020

Silverton

Recatagorized all images in the Category:Silverton to Category:Silverton, New South Wales.

Thanks~Cessna_208_Caravan#/media/File:Cessna_208_Caravan_I,_Seawings_(Jet-Ops)_AN1347237.jpg

It is helping young students learn that the cockpit is not really that complicated ~ and all those fancy buttons and such do have a purpose and are very easy to learn ~ Mitchellhobbs (talk) 21:25, 13 April 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mitchellhobbs (talk • contribs) 21:30, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Prośba

Bardzo proszę o napisanie do mnie po polsku, bo niestety, ale nie znam angielskiego i nie wiem w czym jest problem. Pozdrawiam:) Keres 40 (dyskusja) 16:01, 12 gru 2019 (CEST)

Official United Kingdom Parliamentary photographs

Hi Fæ. Just to let you know that there's been another photography session (both in the Commons and Lords) since February, so I was just wondering whether you could scrape the new portraits? Thanks. AlbanGeller (talk) 03:23, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

@AlbanGeller: Could you do a little analysis and work out if the photography session has photos with 2020 in the EXIF data, one example would be useful? Running a short test, they look like 2019. To run a refresh, it would be easiest if this were limited only to 2020 shots and this was then in the filename, and the new photographs are also separate files from the older versions where they exist.

The reason is to know if it's worth revisiting the upload script to make this format a default, presuming that no house member will have more than one official photo in each calendar year.

BTW your signature is full of unsubstituted conditional if statements, which increases the load on talk page display. Do you need to do that?

--Fæ (talk) 12:41, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Fixed signature, thanks Fæ. The portraits of Lord Waldegrave of North Hill (which are yet to exist as Official portrait of Lord Waldegrave of North Hill.jpg etc.) include only "Creator: ROGER HARRIS" and "Copyright Notice: ROGER HARRIS PHOTOGRAPHY" in the metadata. AlbanGeller (talk) 16:02, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. The coding needs a proper rewrite. I'll be forcing it to only upload 2020 titled files, with checks of the EXIF data, it seems a better consistency. --Fæ (talk) 18:32, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Bundle DR:
Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Documents from the US Naval Postgraduate School Library for license review

Affected:

• File:Adaptive node capability metric to assess the value of networking in a general command and control wireless communication topology (IA adaptivenodecapa109455558).pdf

And also:

Yours sincerely, De728631 (talk) 18:33, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi Fæ. FYI, I have also speedily deleted File:Analysis of the failure mechanism of shipboard structural members exposed to fire. (IA analysisoffailur00hidd).pdf which had a clear copyright notice from the MIT. De728631 (talk) 13:22, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

If you do see a way of spotting these by filtering the metadata from IA, do waive a flag. Having to rely on volunteers reading each document is undesirable, to say the least. --Fæ (talk) 13:26, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Hrm, I don't see a way to do this through the metatada. If you could somehow do a text scan of the "full text" .txt before uploading the file though, the © symbol or (c) would be a filter option. On the other hand, the ASCII rendition may sometimes be botched, cf. "(cj Massachusetts Institute of Technology". De728631 (talk) 13:36, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Briefly looked at text searching yesterday, using the IA's API. The IA search engine does have TXT searches under the advanced search. Had difficulties getting an exemplar working in a way that looked useful. This may turn out to be practical given critical snippets that were, say, 95% accurate at identifying a significant number of copyvios (100+?). Will try not to forget to return to it to play around with samples. --Fæ (talk) 07:27, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

IA search engine

Here's a more useful exemplar: https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22all+rights+reserved%22&sin=TXT&and[]=collection%3A%22navalpostgraduateschoollibrary%22

This searches the NPS collection for all matches in the scanned texts for "all rights reserved" which matches regardless of upper or lower case. This matches 417/34,368, which is pretty obviously an interesting check list.

However using the advanced search of https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=text%3A(all+rights+reserved)+collection%3A(navalpostgraduateschoollibrary)&fl[]=identifier&sort[]=&sort[]=&sort[]=&rows=50&page=1&output=json&callback=callback only returns 7 results, albeit in a useful JSON format of and identifier list. Upping this to FEDLINK, still only shows 14 matches, so there's something missing here. --Fæ (talk) 09:31, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

I just found something in a deletion request. There is a metadata field called "Rights" which your routine put into the "Permission" parameter of the Commons Information template, or into "Notes" elsewhere. See this document where it says "Rights / Copyright is reserved by the copyright owner." De728631 (talk) 21:24, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I was not checking the 'rights' text as it can also say things like all rights reserved on copyright expired documents and it is an open field, i.e. not any predictable strings.

However I have added:

rights = g(meta, 'rights')
if re.search("Copyright is reserved by the copyright owner", rights) and year > 1925:

This will skip future examples.

In the meantime we can process incategory:Scans_from_the_Internet_Archive insource:/permission . Copyright is reserved/ (1,458 files) en mass. --Fæ (talk) 08:35, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

HABS uploads?

"Negro" flood refugee, Arkansas, 1937. Example TIFF uploaded during LoC search for LOT+457.

Hi, I was looking to upload some LOC HABS images without yak shaving or reinventing the wheel. Can I simply request you do it? I saw your /LOC userpage and tried searching for parts of the title of an image and nothing came back, so I assume HABS, as a whole, hasn't been uploaded. Here's the main page I've been working on; it's simply a rabbit-hole that I can't find the end of. Tedder (talk) 22:41, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Seems reasonable if "LOT 457" is the collection to upload, and the rights advisory can be validated as U.S. Farm Sec Admin. It's a relatively small collection at 377.

These would not have been included in HABS as they are a separate collection. I do have an 'upload by search' for LoC that's very generic, but it needs adapting for post-1924 dated photographs so we can add the right license.

I'm interested in doing this, but it may sit in the backlog for a while. --Fæ (talk) 11:57, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

@Tedder: Letting this run without adapting much old code. The search is a little 'loose' for LOT 457, but the license is being verified against the 'accessCondition' at LoC. There are a lot of duplicates being attempted and rejected, see https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=17113494. There is no attempt to categorize these, so it would be super if you could chip with with that housekeeping once the run is finished; I'll update here when it's completed the attempts. --Fæ (talk) 15:48, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll absolutely help. And thanks for the ping. These were take in the WPA programs, so I'm 99.9% confident the public license is correct. Tedder (talk) 16:03, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

BTW, you may want to look through incategory:"PD US FSA/OWI" insource:"Sugar". There are an awful lot of FSA images, and as said, this batch run is showing lots of duplicates which will get skipped. Picking the best categories is not great on Commons, and for large historical collections there may be no guiding mind to do the curation work. --Fæ (talk) 16:11, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

@Tedder:  Done 239 new TIFFs uploaded.

For housekeeping purposes they have been listed at User:Faebot/SandboxR and appear in the uncreated temporary category Category:LOC LOT 457. --Fæ (talk) 21:02, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

I'm working through them, do you know what to do about this vs this? I don't know how the wikimedia merges and moves and such go. Tedder (talk) 05:33, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

As the LoC makes different sizes and formats available, and may update old scans with higher resolution versions, this is not an uncommon issue. We keep both TIFF and jpeg versions even when identical, and as I have done in the example tend to cross-link them to help reusers find the alternates. The reason for keeping the different formats is that jpegs render thumbnails differently (better) than the TIFF thumbnails due to an issue with mediawiki software.

For truly digital identical duplicates, which may occur for changes like EXIF data being amended so the files don't have the same checksum, we can apply {{duplicate}} to have the least good version redirected to the better one. For other instances like possibly unnecessary crops, then deletion requests should be used if necessary. If in doubt, we tend to keep the different versions, in this case one is a perfect original archive version and the other a crop, and reusers might have good reason for the cropped version for illustration, though TBH, it could do with being remade from the improved higher resolution scan. --Fæ (talk) 09:40, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Recent 'genetics' related DRs

Category:Sockpuppets of WorldCreaterFighter

1. 2020-08-26 File:Dravidian theory of korean and Japanese.png
2. 2020-08-26 File:Historisches deutsches Sprachgebiet.PNG
3. 2020-08-26 File:Haplogroup R (Y-DNA).PNG
4. 2020-08-26 File:Haplogrupo N (ADN-Y).PNG
5. 2020-08-26 File:Migraciones humanas en haplogrupos de ADN-Y.PNG

--Fæ (talk) 19:57, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Greetings! I do not plan to spend my time cleaning out material like that or trying to preserve it. But for your info I made a note at Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard#Category:Scientific_racism_deletion_requests so admins know that there are some DR's that may be difficult. Personally I think we should treat all files in the same way. Some think we should delete all files if they do not have a clear source even if they are 10-15 years old. Other think that we should not treat old files as hard because they are from another time. I can follow both views. But I think we should apply whatever standard we chose to all files and not judge some files harder just because we do not like what is on the files. --MGA73 (talk) 15:57, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Your actions today are making it harder to clean up the deliberate disruption that this sock farm has created.

Please take some time to review the background and read up on the decade long history for these LTAs before running interference across noticeboards and across deletion discussions.

It is particularly worrying that your comments confuse content that is demonstrably scientific racism with claims about being a racist. I do understand the distinction perfectly well, and handling scientific racism content is not a question of being uncivil, or of making claims about racists.

Your attention should be on stopping the sock farm, not stopping those of us doing something about it.

Thanks --Fæ (talk) 16:04, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

No, no, no. I'm staying out of it. I commented because I thought it was about deleting old files with no good source. We have many files where there is not a good source and we have {{Own assumed}}. I was afraid that it was the beginning of a mass cleanup where we would have to delete thousands of files. In the old days someone uploaded photos with just a text and a license and often it was assumed that if User X uploaded a photo then User X was the photographer unless there was any reason to suspect that it was not the case. As you probably know I usually argue that we should not be extreme when it comes to copyright and delete everything just because there is a slightly chance that we may violate some copyright. That is why I commented in the first place. --MGA73 (talk) 16:54, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Talioring manuals...

http://victorianpatterns.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=Patterns

With the exception of the French language work, it is my view that these are compatible with Commons.

IA also has - https://archive.org/details/b1108865/mode/2up from 1903.

I'd like a second view though. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:00, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

pbworks looks a bit unreliable and the number of files is quite small. As they would need individual review, it's not a big enough project to justify a custom process.

File:Vincent's systems of cutting all kinds of tailor-made garments - part 1 - dealing with the cutting of various styles of trousers, breeches, knickers, pantaloons, leggings and gaiters, and waistcoats (IA b1108865).pdf

--Fæ (talk) 08:18, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, after I'd posted the above I'd also uploaded the Vincent work as a DJVU from the JP2 scans, using IA-Upload :) Which I am now working through at English Wikisource :-) If you want to attempt diagram/figure extraction from either version it would be appreciated. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:47, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Keep in mind that "page=" can be used in galleries/thumbs so it's not always necessary to extract individual figures from a book. --Fæ (talk) 08:50, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Hecklinger%2C%20Charles. - 11 or so works.. Doesn't need a special process but these came recommended by someone that does Historical pattern drafting. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 12:58, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

All from LoC are already uploaded. The outlier will eventually appear, probably, in University of Michigan Books. --Fæ (talk) 13:13, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

COM:AN/U

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--A1Cafel (talk) 08:53, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

User:Fæ/BLP overwrites

Hello. User:Fæ/BLP overwrites has not been updated since March 2020 2019. Do you have any intentions to bring it back to use? Moreover, any chance to expand the scope of code to other wikis? Thanks 4nn1l2 (talk) 15:06, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

May respond when feeling more positive about these issues. --Fæ (talk) 12:39, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Bundle DR:
Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with insource:reserved by the copyright owner incategory:FEDLINK_-_United_States_Federal_Collection

Affected:

• File:Improving risk management and resiliency- a plan for a proactive national policy on insurance practices in FEMA's public assistance program (IA improvingriskman1094538920).pdf

And also:

Yours sincerely, ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:47, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

File:U.S. Navy Senior Chief Machinist's Mate Leonardo Josef uses a wrench to prepare a hose for the transfer of potable water during an underway replenishment aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Stockdale 130727-N-HN991-015.jpg

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File(s) appeared in Category:Pages using Artwork template with incorrect parameter

Hello Fæ, it seems that your latest changes or uploads of the file(s) Transfiguration (SM 5609z).png broke a template. This assumption has been made because the file(s) appeared in the maintenance Category:Pages using Artwork template with incorrect parameter. To fix this issue please check this category for further information. If the file(s) is/are not contained in the maintenance category anymore someone else already did the work and you can ignore this message. Thank you for your cooperation. --ArndBot (talk) 18:00, 7 October 2020 (UTC)