User:Pigsonthewing

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My preferred pic for speaker biographies, etc. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, and you must mention that and credit the photographer, Lionel Allorge if you use it. (Large version, 1.21 MB; you may crop this to suit your needs)
An alternative picture, kindly placed in the public domain by Christoph Braun. No credit is required if you use this. (Large version, 14.87MB; you may crop this to suit your needs)
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I am Andy Mabbett. I live in Birmingham, England. Please see my primary user page on the English Wikipedia (which includes my declaration of interests); and my website: http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

See where my images are used on Wikimedia projects (may be slow to load); some statistical data about my images is available; also here. I also keep some bookmarks of external sites using my images.

I have alternative account, User:Pigsonthewing-bot, to perform bulk uploads of others' images, using tools like Flickr2Commons.

Attribution[edit]

If you use my images outside Wikimedia projects, I request a credit, thus:

Online
Picture by & © Andy Mabbett, CC by-sa 3.0
In print
Picture by & © Andy Mabbett (pigsonthewing.org.uk), under a CC by-sa 3.0 licence

with the former linking to the relevant image page on Commons, my website, and the relevant licence, each with no rel="nofollow" attribute.

Please double-check the spelling of my name, and make sure you have substituted (and link to) the appropriate licence.

Failure to give attribution without prior agreement voids any CC-BY licence.

File names[edit]

I am adopting a file name format along the lines of:

  • Object - YYYY-MM-DD - Andy Mabbett - nn

where "nn" is an ordinal for series.

Web for all[edit]

I believe strongly in adherence to web standards, making web pages as accessible as possible, to everyone, and that it's important to communicate using the simplest language necessary, to convey ideas clearly.

Projects[edit]

I founded Wikipedia Project Microformats and have added microformats to Wikimedia Commons templates, and those on other Wikimedia projects.

I founded the Voice Intro Project (#WikiVIP), asking people who are the subject of a Wikipedia article to supply a short recording of their spoken voice.

I work with organisations to encourage them to open licence their media. Among my notable successes have been:

Some favourites from my own images[edit]

  • Deckchairs

  • Chrysanthemum 'Enbee Wedding Golden' and 'Feeling Green'

  • Cannon Hill Park

  • Toby

  • Lilium 'Blackout'

  • Harlem Désir MEP

  • Majorcan poppy

  • Norfolk House, Birmingham

  • Selection of cultivated Alliums

  • Stephen Cox & Son - makers plate

  • St. Giles Cripplegate

  • Arabian Spiny Mouse

  • Kyriacos Triantaphyllides MEP

  • Barbican

  • Boars Head by William Bloye

  • Our Lady of Coventry

  • Ask the Experts

  • Giorgos Koumoutsakos MEP

  • Barbican

  • Coventry Boy

  • Jean-Louis Cottigny MEP

  • David Gilmour's slide guitar

  • Birmingham Dental Hospital Coat of Arms, by Bloye

  • Barbican

  • María Irigoyen Pérez MEP

  • Heuchera 'Berry Smoothie'

  • Kate Bunce blue plaque unveiling

  • Mitro Repo MEP

  • María Muñiz de Urquiza MEP

  • Barbican

  • Royal Society of Chemistry - Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science

My favourites from media I've acquired[edit]

I often ask people or organisations to contribute images, or video, either individually, or in large batches. Some are artistic, some are historic, and some have news value.

  • Bull Ring, Birmingham (by West Midlands Police Helicopter crew)

  • Smethwick fire, 2013, caused by a "Chinese" lantern

  • Palais du sans-soucis, Haiti

  • Southern hawker ovipositing

  • Vincent van Gogh - Sorrow (as a high-res Tiff); featured picture

  • Perry Barr Stadium poster

  • Binocular compound microscope, Carl Zeiss, 1914; featured picture

  • Lantern Slide - Tangyes Ltd, Beam Steam Pumping Engine, circa 1910

  • Hazelnut (male flower), overlay of 7 channel autofluorescence microscopy; featured picture

  • King Kong statue in Leeds

  • Rat primary cortical neuron culture, deconvolved z-stack overlay; featured picture

  • Mouse Kidney; featured picture

  • Tuberolachnus salignus

  • Police and media on Hagley Road, Birmingham

  • Turkmenistan Airlines Boeing 737-700 EZ-A007.jpg [1]

  • Calamity Jane

  • Multi Storey in Blue.jpg

  • Lynsey Sharp in Women's 800m

  • Univ-of-bham-library-stone-effigy-removal.jpg

  • dotted-line pen

Professionals[edit]

Some professionals, who kindly donate some of their work under an open licence:

Useful[edit]

Sources[edit]

Metadata[edit]

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