User talk:Fæ

Unavailable for various times in July and beginning of August 2016, though should be able to find a free internet connection to pick up email now and then. Long term Faebot jobs should continue uninterrupted unless the WMF API change breaks them.

Due to the WMF's forced use of https API requests, a number of my automated maintenance tasks may be interrupted over the next few weeks, and some may be abandoned as not worth the effort of spending time examining them/remembering how they work. Please drop me a note if you think a service should be prioritized for a fix because you find it useful. --Fæ (talk) 13:10, 3 June 2016 (UTC) As part of the temporary fixes, I have run Noaabot's update from my main account, as the way I hoped to configure it locally failed to work. When I have time to fiddle with it, I will hopefully get the config sorted out. --Fæ (talk) 10:13, 22 June 2016 (UTC) (Backlog task) After a recent village pump discussion on Biodiversity Heritage Library duplicate files, the batch upload will continue but I shall be spending some time researching how to map the BHL uploaded jpeg files to their zipped/archived JP2 equivalent pages. If this is possible, then lossless PNG equivalents can be generated or significantly higher quality jpeg versions created than are available from BHL. Keep an eye on User:Fæ/Project list/Biodiversity Heritage Library for the results of investigation in a few weeks. 11:57, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

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More photos for commons

For these three historical characters there are other photos for commons:

• Category:Makarij: missing photos from this Russian site;
• Category:Koyata Yamamoto: from this site, and a best photo with Mushanokoji and the painting;
• Category:Saneatsu Mushanokōji: more photos research. --79.40.4.238 16:02, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Then, can you edit this photos for me, please? --87.5.73.94 07:39, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

WMF request

I will look into it over the next couple of weeks. Note my clearing this with the WMF due to recent threats from WMF employees. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 18:23, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, after reading the bad faith allegations from User:Jalexander-WMF, I will put this on hold unless I get a statement from the WMF that is not an implied threat to block me were I to investigate the uploads. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 08:47, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

The discussion on meta with the WMF does not appear to have lifted the presumption of bad faith for your use of IP addresses. Thank you for the suggestion, but I am unhappy being placed under the direct threat of an unappealable WMF office block should I help you with these. If you wish to put a case that you are not a banned user, I suggest you take this up with any of the interested WMF employees behind this position, such as @Mdennis (WMF), Kalliope (WMF):. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 11:24, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

DoD / DVIDS PD release of images by non-military photographers

• Reference DR: Commons:Deletion requests/File:F-35C Lightning II at-sea trials 141104-N-ZZ999-017.jpg
• Correspondence with DVIDS: User:Fæ/email/DoD#DVIDS

The correspondence will be updated if and when emails come back. --Fæ (talk) 14:35, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Correspondence complete, reference added to the above email link. --Fæ (talk) 17:13, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

FP Promotion

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Category:Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith

given the news [1], would you consider a mass upload of Carol M. Highsmith at LOC? they say there are only 18000 files. cheers Slowking4 § Richard Arthur Norton's revenge 12:50, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

@Slowking4: I took a quick look but my existing way of uploading from the LoC does not work when there are gallery pages of photos within items. This can be added to my script, but due to urgent real life commitments, it will take a while for me to get to it. --Fæ (talk) 04:30, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

well, i think they have added a new gallery front-end. here is an old search result by "highsm" [2]. i will be cleaning up the flickr uploads first, but 31798 will take a while for my vicuna methods. Slowking4 § Richard Arthur Norton's revenge 11:20, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

@Slowking4: Looked at this for 30mins today, uploading by LoC search term rather than collection looks easier. I need to factor in my newer ways of doing chunked uploads and use a bit of parallel threading to make it efficient. I'm busy/travelling for a couple of days, but will probably get to trialling a 'upload from LoC using a search term' by the weekend. This will ignore 'groups of images', but I can return to those later on. --Fæ (talk) 10:45, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

thanks, let me know if i can help. Slowking4 § Richard Arthur Norton's revenge 11:27, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

File:The chairman of the Bombay Plague Committee interviewing jus Wellcome V0029922.jpg

File:The chairman of the Bombay Plague Committee interviewing jus Wellcome V0029922.jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
Commons:Deletion requests/File:The chairman of the Bombay Plague Committee interviewing jus Wellcome V0029922.jpg djr13 (talk) 06:24, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

File:Lucas Cranach I - Georg Spalatin (FR024).jpg

File:Lucas Cranach I - Georg Spalatin (FR024).jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Frze ^{> talk} 16:40, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Discussion about a bot/tool that transfers fair use uploads to other projects

Someone brought up User:Commons fair use upload bot, see this discussion: Commons:Village_pump#Commons:Moving_files_to_Wikipedia. Brightgalrs (talk) 15:29, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

File:Boeing 727-2B6(Adv), Royal Air Maroc (RAM) JP106646.jpg

File:Boeing 727-2B6(Adv), Royal Air Maroc (RAM) JP106646.jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Boeing 727-2B6(Adv), Royal Air Maroc (RAM) JP106646.jpg Anidaat (talk) 06:26, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

File:Boeing 727-2B6(Adv), Royal Air Maroc (RAM) JP5870447.jpg

File:Boeing 727-2B6(Adv), Royal Air Maroc (RAM) JP5870447.jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
Commons:Deletion requests/File:Boeing 727-2B6(Adv), Royal Air Maroc (RAM) JP5870447.jpg Anidaat (talk) 06:28, 18 August 2016 (UTC)