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FPC
I should have probably talked to you about this, but I nominated two of your images at WP:FPC that are already FPs at commons.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:08, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I am the WP:CHICAGO director and noticed them at commons.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:12, 22 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, thanks Tony, those are the little things that make my day at Wikipedia :-). I haven't been in the city for quite a while now. As the weather is getting better I'll definetely have to drive up there soon(this weekend is supposed to be nice, but I have to tend my vegetable garden). So many photo opportunities! --Dschwen 12:54, 22 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I see you passed by FPC today. I have a lot of your work listed. Do you have any other quality Chicago images that I should be considering.  Is there a gallery somewhere of a trip.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:08, 25 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Uhm, gee, if you keep nominating more of my pics people will start thinking you are a sock puppet ;-). I've been to Chicago a bunch of times now, but I was too lazy to compile a gallery of my Chicago pictures. I probably still have a few i could upload (some panoramas to stitch). Let me see... --Dschwen 17:28, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I dropped a few here. --Dschwen 17:45, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't want to take over nominating all your pics unnecessarily. If you want to nominate some, we have to get them incorporated in WP articles.  I could suggest pages if you like.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:42, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

I have just learned at Featured picture candidates/Willis Tower upward pano that you are allowed to state support or oppose on each of your images that I have nominated. Please visit WP:FPC and WP:VPC and do so if you are in favor of any of the nominations.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:10, 26 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I saw that too. I admit I knew this beforehand, but I did not know if it was a good idea. However, it seems to be socially accepted ;-). --Dschwen 13:13, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I am sort of surprised that is the only one you support.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:38, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I just went out for my morning coffee :-). Back at the computer now. --Dschwen 14:20, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The Gary Sinise image I noticed too late, but my support wouldn't have made a difference. Somebody even called it a "snapshot".. :-( --Dschwen 14:26, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Annnnd this just killed the Willis Tower nomination. --Dschwen 14:28, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The Willis Tower is close at FPC. If it fails it will pass at VPC.  I am impressed with your Control tower photo and have added it to over a dozen articles on WP.  It is going to be among my next few nominations.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:01, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

If you are coming to Chicago this summer, let me know. I might want to tag along, especially if you are going to redo the skyline pano. I have never seen anyone do a pano. We could use one of the 2010 skyline.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:51, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Chicago skyline at sunrise


Ugh, time flies! Thanks a bunch :-) --Dschwen 13:08, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Chicago skyline image replacement
FYI, a discussion is going on at Featured picture candidates/delist/Chicago skyline image replacement.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:48, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Moral Relativism
I was about to undo your last edit, but I should try and understand it first. Did you just remove the header for "arguments for moral relativism" then? And if so, why? Tesseract2 (talk) 14:15, 2 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Per my editsummary. The section appeared twice in the article. There still is a section with the same heading left in the article. --Dschwen 14:27, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Willis Tower at WP:VPC
You recently participated in the discussion at Featured picture candidates/Willis Tower upward pano. You are now welcome to participate in the discussion of both Willis Tower images at WP:VPC.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:07, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Of course, you are encouraged to cast your vote for your work if you feel strongly about whether or not it should be promoted.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:12, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Review of closure process 2 results
Hi, because you contributed to FPC's recent review, I'm letting you know that the results of the poll have been posted. We appreciate your contributions to the first stage and hope you take part in this next step, here, to move towards implementing several changes to the process. Regards,  Mae din\ talk 18:30, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

El Castillo image
Just wanted to let you know that I one of your images at FPC. Makeemlighter (talk) 04:18, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Photo wishes
Off the top of my head here are a few:


 * 1) Updated skyline including One Museum Park and Shedd Aquarium to all the way past Navy Pier. (If you are going to do this one, I would like to tag along if possible)
 * 2) A quality full length shot of the John Hancock Center
 * 3) A quality full length shot of Chicago Water Tower
 * 4) Much less important, but interesting would be a shot that captures the original Pizzeria Uno and Pizzeria Due in one shot with good DOF.

As more pop into my head I will jot them here.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:01, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Also, who oversees WP:NRHP, always has a few wishes anywhere in the country.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:27, 9 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok, sure, let me send you an email. --Dschwen 16:52, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
 * There are some problems at Featured picture candidates/CTA Control Tower 18 and loop junction. Not sure if you want to reshoot. Also, there may be a Chicago Blackhawks victory parade to shoot while you are in town.  You may also want to do some night shooting in Grant Park.  I bet the buildings will be lit to celebrate the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals victory.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:11, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

One other thing
Not many people really seem to be voicing opinions at WP:VPC. I have several nominees, but I think two really deserve a closer look: (Chicago Avenue Pumping Station and Demetri McCamey Finger roll). I have not seen you comment on the work of others and don't know how you feel about critiquing the work of other photographers. If you have time look at some of the nominees and commment, especially the two I mentioned.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:23, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

New images
I hope you enjoyed Chicago. Let me know when you have a gallery up of images for me to start adding to WP:CHICAGO articles and to start nominating.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:06, 13 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I sure did. I have plenty of material to sort through and stitch together. It will take me a few days to process! --Dschwen 11:23, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Skyline pano
That is great work. I am a bit disappointed that only 3 of the six buildings that usually are lighted celebrated the victory. The Aon Center (Chicago) and One Prudential Plaza and Two Prudential Plaza have traditionally also been lit. Nonetheless, I will nominate this tonight at FPC.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:50, 13 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Hold on, please wait a bit with that. I might work a some more on that image, and I have a suspicion, that people might be a bit fed up with Chicago images for the time being ;-) --Dschwen 18:05, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I did not see your note. You can see it is already up.  Some suggested improvements have appeared.  Do you want me to suspend the nomination or do you want to get to these fairly quickly?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Treehugger article
Just thought you might like to know that some of your pictures have been used on this blog post. I'm afraid I don't have time to add the proper 'Published' template to the talk pages. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 17:09, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Chicago Blackhawks Grant Park pano

 * Also, could I encourage you to archive some of your old notices? I will not, in future, leave messages on pages that don't load for me, or take ages to do so. Cheers. Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 10:27, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Common collared lizard
Hi, just letting you know that I've nominated one of your images- I love it! I appreciate I may have come across as a little harsh on some images by you that have been nominated by others, so I apologise if I have. J Milburn (talk) 23:50, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Statue of Liberty image
Hi Dschwen!

My name is Seth Johnson, and I run a design firm in Minneapolis. I'm interested in licensing your for use in a client's print advertisement and would love to have a conversation (email? phone?) regarding just that.

I realize that while the image's use is governed by the GNU Free Documentation License, the layout of our ad doesn't really allow for us to include the full text of the license. That's why I'd be interested in having a conversation about entering into a paid licensing agreement with you, the author, directly.

Please feel free to contact me at your convenience—[mailto:seth@sethjohnson.org email] or phone: 612.825.4424

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

—Seth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.223.192 (talk) 22:19, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

National Register of Historic Places listings in Champaign County, Illinois
Hello,

I visited some old haunts in Shampoo-Banana and tried to get the above list fully illustrated. Well, the sun was baking my brain and there were a couple of tricky ones. Is there any chance you could take a couple of photos to complete the list? They are:
 * Elm Street Court	 1-8 Elm Street Court at Urbana.  Elm is between Springfield and Green, and Elm Street Court branches off Elm near Coler, about 3 blocks west of Lincoln.
 * Metal Shop	at 102 S. Burrill Ave. on the Engineering campus at, Urbana. I believe both Burrill Street and the Metal shop got eliminated during the re-building of the Engineering campus.  The usual thing to do in such a case is to take a photo of were the building WAS.  I think it was just south of the Engineering library.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. If I wasn't clear on something - please ask. Thanks in advance. Smallbones (talk) 21:02, 22 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Sure thing. But I just mailed my 24-105mm lens to Canon for repair today :-). It might be a few weeks until I get it back. I have a shoddy 50mm lens I could use in the meantime. Btw. i used to live damn close to Elm Street Court, and it is still almost on my way to work (on the Engineering campus!). So taking those pictures will be no problem at all. --Dschwen 21:19, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds great. I'd think the 50mm lens would do a reasonable job as far as the simple documentary content usually found in these lists (Don't look too closely at my photos there!) But higher level "artistic" content is up to you.  Thanks again.  Smallbones (talk) 23:00, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Chinatown Gate
How does this compare to your reshoot?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:30, 28 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Ugh, that was... not such a good quality edit to put it mildly. I just reverted it. --Dschwen 14:35, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

VPC
— raeky  T  11:07, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Chicago Theatre

 * By the way, would you consider adding the version with ghosts to What is a featured picture?/Examples of technical problems? It's a great example of that specific problem. I considered adding it myself, but I didn't want to put your picture up there without asking. Thanks. And sorry for the trouble with this nom. Makeemlighter (talk) 18:22, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure, that's a good idea. Feel free to use it, just dig it out of the history. --Dschwen 18:23, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

For you

 * Wow, thanks :-) --Dschwen 22:42, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Eisenhower Expressway (2nd nomination)
You may want to comment at Valued picture candidates/Eisenhower Expressway (2nd nomination).--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:50, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Chicago images
How are things coming along with some of the Chicago images like Lake Point Tower and Pizzeria Unos?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 04:23, 8 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, I haven't uploaded those? Let me check. --Dschwen 11:15, 8 September 2010 (UTC)



Your image now listed as Valued

 * Yaaaay! ;-) --Dschwen 03:23, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Signpost
Hi, any chance you would be in a position to be our guest judge this week for featured picture Choice of the week? It would mean writing a short para on Saturday (or by mid-Sunday) UTC. Tony  (talk)  12:42, 16 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Sure, I'd love to. --Dschwen 12:46, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, thank you. After midnight Friday, when the actual number of promotions is specified in the FP lead, you'll know the list is complete. Tony   (talk)  05:03, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, I saw it and I'm thinking about my choice. I'll write something this evening (CET). --Dschwen 20:14, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
 * That's lovely; perfect size too! Just checking, it's "detail shots", not "detailed shots", isn't it. I'm unused to the photographer's lingo. Tony   (talk)  03:33, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I think it the term is detail shots, because they show a particular detail (Google seems to agree FWIW). A detailed shot would be a picture with lots details (as far as I know, but don't take my word for it as I'm not a native speaker). --Dschwen 11:55, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

F and A
Hi, it's been suggested that since you've been around FLC since early days, you'd be well-placed to provided a few quotable sentences on this milestone of the 2,500th promotion. I see you've not been editing for a week, though ... :-( Tony   (talk)  03:27, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, been pretty busy lately. Have you asked anyone else? I feel this should be somewhat of a group effort (there is User:Diliff, who has been around for a long long time as well). What is the timeframe? --Dschwen 22:00, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The timeframe is rather too short. I can't even find anything previously written about the process, historically. Tony   (talk)  02:23, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Picture PR
Since you commented at Featured picture candidates/M-15 centerline 1917, you might want to comment at Picture peer review/M-15 centerline 1917.  Imzadi  1979   →  22:38, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikiminiatlas
Hi, I read that you are the maintainer of wikiminiatlas :) Can I please ask you to make some changes for ka.wikipedia.org ? We would like to change the letters W N E S to დ ჩ ა ს; W-დ; N-ჩ; E-ა; S-ს. Thank's in advance!--Gaeser (talk) 17:52, 9 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok, I assume you mean the regular expressions that parse the coordinates? I'm currently out of town, but I'll try to implement this as quickly as possible. Sholdn't be much work. --Dschwen 18:59, 9 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, thank's a lot!--Gaeser (talk) 19:44, 9 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm a little confused now. The geohack URLs on ka.wp contain NSEW and not the georgian(?) letters . The miniatlas already opens at the correct locations. There doesn't seem to be anything to change for me. I should add the labels though. --Dschwen 14:35, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Children's Museum backstage pass.
I wanted to confirm that you and your guest would be in attendance tomorrow at the Children's Museum backstage pass event. We have a great day planned and we're looking forward to having you! HstryQT (talk) 21:04, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, I'll be leaving for Indianapolis this evening. See you tomorrow. --Dschwen 21:05, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

TCMI project update
Hello! I just wanted to touch base here a couple weeks after the Backstage Pass event. You of course already know that we're adding pictures to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis category in Commons. Thanks so much for getting your images up so quickly! We also received a little press on both the Children's Museum blog: The Wikipedians are Coming! and the Wikipedia Signpost had the event as their lead story last week. I will be continuing to work on organizing TCMI research content and moving forward with the content donation in the coming months. I will probably have an announcement about the content donation sometime around February, and I could certainly use your help in spreading the word at that point. In the meantime, do let me know on the project requests page if you are working on a TCMI related article, or have any other questions regarding image captions, and I would be happy to keep you connected to the TCMI curators. Thanks again for your help! HstryQT (talk) 20:17, 18 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, you could give Tristine a little nudge ;-). But I'm very busy for the next two weeks. Conference talks. --Dschwen 21:04, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Need some help
Hi. I have a problem that I believe you solved for me once before. Please see this thread. Thanks. Makeemlighter (talk) 08:31, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * You're too clever for me. I was sure I could trick you into doing that for me! Seriously, though, I didn't really know how to do the renaming. I submitted a request, and it's been taken care of. So thanks for making me learn something rather than just doing it for me. :) Best, Makeemlighter (talk) 06:04, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Request review
Oh...super reptile photog, will pleeeeeeeeeze review my featured content? state reptile. Rip it to shreds but help it make FA (or FL, whatevz).TCO (talk) 21:51, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Children's Museum Update
Hello! I wanted to give you an update on the Children's Museum Wikipedia collaboration. You can check out my brief overview in the Children's Museum blog, which includes details on the |Museum Apprentice Program project to create five new Wikipedia articles as well as the image donation and use of the new Wikipedia Widget to link the museum's website to Wikipedia.

Last month we completed our first museum image content donation of 30 images. While this seems to be a low number, what makes the donation unique is the curatorial involvement in choosing and vetting the images for their appropriateness and usefulness within Wikimedia (many of the objects are copyrighted toys and other works that have copyright restrictions.) The curators in the collections department were very hands-on in their involvement, and we'll be outlining this process in an upcoming case study. If you would like to help further this process, I'd be happy for you to help disperse the images into useful Wikipedia articles, or let the appropriate WikiProjects know of the new images. Another 30 will be uploaded in the coming month.

In addition to the collaboration with the Museum Apprentice Program students and the curatorial department, another important collaboration was between User:Ealdgyth and the American Collections curators to significantly update the Broad Ripple Park Carousel article. After an impressive amount of time and work, the article has now received Featured Article status. The museum is absolutely thrilled and will now be adding a QR code to the carousel exhibit Carousel: Wishes and Dreams. In the future, more QR codes will be added to the objects that have had articles written by the MAP students. We're excited by the success of this collaboration & will also be writing a case study on the process.

There is now a recurring Indianapolis Update on the newly minted GLAM Newsletter. If you'd like to subscribe to the GLAM newsletter, you can do so here. Thanks! And let me know if you have any questions! HstryQT (talk) 17:39, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Next Children's Museum Backstage Pass
Hi Daniel! I wanted to personally invite you to The Children's Museum of Indianapolis' 2nd Backstage Pass and Edit-a-Thon, which will occur on Saturday, August 20. The Wikipedian in Residence project is coming up on one year and is going strong. While the first year focused on garnering institutional enthusiasm among staff, organizing multiple content donations, and guiding teens in research and article creation, the next year will focus on establishing an E-Volunteer program and more deliberately connecting with local Wikipedians and WikiProjects around the world. You can read a summary of our projects on the museum's blog, or visit the project page.

We hope you're able to attend the upcoming Backstage Pass! If you're not able to attend, but are interested in remaining involved and up to date on the museum's Wikipedia project, please sign up on our E-Volunteer page. There will also be an opportunity to participate in the Edit-a-Thon online, if you cannot attend on-site. If you'd like to make a request for images or research content from our curators, you can add to the Requests page. Let me know if you have any questions and I hope to be in touch! LoriLee (talk) 11:21, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Confirming Backstage Pass
Hello! The Children's Museum's Backstage Pass & Edit-a-Thon is this coming Saturday, August 20th. Please confirm, either here or on my talk page, that you will be attending. Kindly include if you will be bringing a guest.

We ask that you meet us outside of the Welcome Center Security Office between 9:45 and 10:00am. Park in the free garage and make your way across the skywalk (located between the 2nd and 3rd levels of the garage). Come down the ramp and make a sharp left towards the security office. You will be asked to check in prior to starting the day.

We're excited to have you return. Looking forward to seeing you! LoriLee (talk) 15:14, 13 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, we are still planning to come. I'll be comig with my family, although my wife and kids will probably tour the museum separately from us. --Dschwen 18:38, 13 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Will you perhaps be going through or by Bloomington, IN on your way to Indy? I need a ride to Indy. :) Awadewit (talk) 15:01, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Ugh, sorry. Even though I now have a minivan I also have two kids, a wife and a friend with her kid already in the car. Unfortunately this leaves no more room for further passengers :-(. And I've got to be honest, since we start in Central Time we already have to leave at 6:30 to make it in time, which is probably not going to happen with three little kids... And Bloomington would add 2 hours to our trip (yes, I couldn't believe it myself, but there are no mayor roads on the way), meaning we would have to leave at 4:30am... --Dschwen 19:38, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh, that's terrible. Never mind. I'm leaving at 6:30 am myself, as it turns out. The things we do.... Awadewit (talk) 22:59, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Unicode in IIPMooViewer?
Hi Daniel,

I noticed a bug in the IIPMooViewer while handling unicode filenames. I am only writing you since I noticed that you are the owner of the viewer in the toolserver. Should this bug be submitted to the original author on sf, or is it specific to the uploaded version on the toolserver?

--Banzoo (talk) 17:55, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Toolserver account
GeoTemplate is throwing an error (for places in France, at least), apparently because your toolserver account has expired. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 13:19, 15 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Frack! --Dschwen 14:49, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Email is sent. Hope this gets sorted out quickly. Thanks for making me aware of the problem! --Dschwen 14:52, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Children's Museum update
It's time again to share the latest news on the Children's Museum of Indianapolis Wikipedia project! In the last few months we have been busy with our third image donation, which was made up of 150 images that were professionally photographed specifically for this upload. We are asking for volunteers to categorize these images and distribute them into Wikipedia articles. Your help is appreciated! Check them out here.

We have also donated our first ' and a second ' to Commons. In September we were thrilled to welcome Jimmy Wales to the museum. Following our successful Edit-a-Thon and Translate-a-Thon in August, translations have continued with the help of the established QRpedia community, (particularly Russian translations thanks to Lvova!) We have begun to analyze our implementation of QRpedia codes and completed an extensive case study. In November we presented at the Museum Computer Network conference about how museums can effectively collaborate with Wikipedia. You can see more details on the Prezi.

In more general news, in addition to serving as the Children's Museum's Wikipedian-in-Residence, it was recently announced that I will be taking on the role of US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation. In this role I will be working to streamline the process of connecting interested US GLAMs with the Wikipedia community. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to let me know. Be sure to sign up for This Month in GLAM to keep up with the latest GLAM-Wiki news from around the world (subscribe).

We have a listing of High Need and Moderate Need requests on the Ways to Help section on the project page. I encourage you to lend a hand if you're able. While the Children's Museum partnership continues to truck along, we still are in desperate need of volunteers to help disperse our images and update and maintain content. Thank you for your time and help. Happy holidays! LoriLee (talk) 16:45, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:CTA red line rerouted.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 6, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-01-06.  howcheng  {chat} 19:55, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Proposal to shut down WP Geographic Coordinates & ban coordinates on wikipedia articles
This means you. --Tagishsimon (talk) 11:54, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Chichen Itza 3.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 20, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-01-20. — howcheng  {chat} 10:01, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Shapefiles and whatnot
I've noticed recently that if you Google a city, the Google map in the search results shows an outline of the city. Ideally, if the shapefile idea takes off and is workable, when you click the city center coordinate and look at it in WMA, an outline of the city would be drawn, in addition to the gray blob. Take Urbana for example (40.10972°N, -88.20417°W Google search result showing Urbana's outline). In WMA, you can't make out which part of the gray blob is Champaign and which is Urbana.

Anyway, my point is, if we figure out how Google does it, it might make the task of bringing it to WMA easier. –Fredddie™ 16:33, 22 January 2012 (UTC)


 * How difficult would it be to create a "type:road" for WMA? My idea is that type:road would tell the software to draw a line between neighboring type:road points.  We may have to implement something where we specify a beginning and ending point and maybe the order of points, so that the points don't try to complete a circle or look something like this.  –Fredddie™ 21:28, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, type:road could be used to tell the WMA to look for a list of ordered coordinates in a previously defined place (a subpage, a hidden element in the article etc). Just connecting adjacent points is a non-trivial task! --Dschwen 22:36, 22 January 2012 (UTC)


 * P.S.: I'm working on something awesome for the WMA right now. Geared at the highway project. --Dschwen 17:45, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Awesome! Hopefully it can be used similarly for rivers. –Fredddie™ 23:08, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

If you ever need inspiration to improve WMA, check out the map on this article. –Fredddie™ 17:46, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Current development version of WikiMiniAtlas: http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/wma/index_dev.html --Dschwen 03:02, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, I haven't responded recently because I really don't know what I'm looking for with the development version. Where do you get data about the roads?  I scrolled the map over to Des Moines and I was dismayed to see the roads and streets were not recognizable. –Fredddie™ 18:57, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Zoom in further. The new material is only visible at the two highest zoomlevels (and only in the development version linked above!). --Dschwen 02:15, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I see it now. Very nice! –Fredddie™ 00:38, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

With the deployment of KML on a few pages now, I can't help but notice that WMA doesn't display it correctly. I can see the KML layer initially, but when the map layer loads, the KML layer is hidden. Zooming in will briefly show the line again, but it disappears soon enough. I'm sorry if this has already been mentioned on other pages, but I had to stop watching the WT:HWY "discussion" because of all the dick waving going on there. I hope you understand. –Fredddie™ 00:34, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * What browser and operating system are you using? I tried it in Google Chrome and Firefox, and it works. Dick wagging has pretty much stopped and productive discussion is going on at the Geocoding project page. --Dschwen 04:45, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Chrome on OS X.6. I'll check out the discussion there. –Fredddie™ 06:08, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Have you enabled hardware acceleration for canvas content? If so, could you try disabling it? I don't see why it would work in Chrome on Linux and Firefox, but not on Mac OS. The code is straight forward, the canvas is repainted during the moving of the map. --Dschwen 16:49, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't even know how to do that, so I doubt that I have done it. I believe another roads editor who has a similar setup as I do was having the same issues.  I'll ask him when I see him pop up on IRC. –Fredddie™ 18:14, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Community input required: lowering delist bar at FPC
You are receiving this because of your current or past association with the Featured Pictures project. Following on from several cases where closers did not observe the prescribed minimum votes required for a delisting, there is now a motion to entirely dismiss the requirement for a minimum. Please participate in the discussion as wide-ranging changes may arise.

Link: Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 14:26, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Everest from Drukair
Hi, I've uploaded a tilt-corrected version of the nominated image File:Mount Everest as seen from Drukair2.jpg. As you have already voted at the nomination (linked above), could you please give some feedback or show a preference between the original file and the new file? Thanks. Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:54, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Collared Lizard 2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 16, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-02-16. — howcheng  {chat} 17:31, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiMiniAtlas Installtion Problems
Are there any pages out there that give a detailed description on how to install WikiMiniAtlas properly? I've checked every single piece of documentation on Wikipedia and about a half dozen other websites I could find, and none of them can tell me how to 1) make the globe icon show up properly and 2) have the coordinates appear in the upper right hand corner of the title. I've installed dozens of templates and made numerous tweaks as per any and all instructions I've been given without success. Any help would be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.110.213 (talk) 21:19, 15 February 2012 (UTC)


 * All you need is to include the line

mw.loader.load('//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&smaxage=21600&maxage=86400');
 * In your Mediawiki:Common.js file. The globe will get added to all geo-links (those are external links pointing to the geoack page on the toolserver). The bigger deal is copying the coord template group (it uses a zillion subtemplates!). Which website dou you want to use the WMA on? --Dschwen 05:15, 16 February 2012 (UTC)


 * That worked wonderfully! Thanks! As for what I'm working on, I'm creating an in-universe Wiki for an anime series, but I decided to use your program to provide links to maps indicating the real-life locations they're based on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.111.220 (talk) 03:33, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

KML extraction code
See User:The Anome/code/nhpn_to_kml.py and User:The Anome/code/nhpn_values.py for the NHPN file decoder. You can get the files at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/nhpn/. This version has been tested only on the whole-U.S. file: you need to unzip the file into its component files before using it. I run the program in the data files directory at the moment, to avoid file path problems. The mappings of enumerated values in nhpn_values.py were made by munching the metadata text at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/nhpn/docs/metadata.txt and some FIPS code reference material I pulled off the web.

Note that this is quick-hack prototyping code: I've not yet had time to check things like the coordinate system transforms, so it currently just makes the assumption that the input data uses the WGS84 datum, and the code is very inefficient -- it makes a single pass over the entire NHPN file to extract just one road's data at the moment -- and does not have any of the cross-checking that a production version of the code would have. -- The Anome (talk) 14:00, 25 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Ha thanks, in the meantime here is what I hacked up:


 * Not pretty, but getting there. I'll take a look at your code to see if I can steal some improvements. I [Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/DschwenBot|applied for a bot flag] on en (just operated on commons until now). We'll see how that goes. --Dschwen 14:25, 25 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi -- that's a much nicer shapefile parser interface than the OGR one I was using. Can you tell me where you got that from? -- The Anome (talk) 15:27, 25 February 2012 (UTC)


 * It is http://code.google.com/p/pyshp/ . The interface is actually even nicer, I just found in the docs that you can iterate over records and shapes in one combined object (without that ugly n index I used). --Dschwen 18:31, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Chicago sunrise 1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 4, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-03-04. — howcheng  {chat} 20:43, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * File:Alamo pano.jpg follows soon after on March 6. — howcheng  {chat} 21:09, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

WMA and visual features of German map tool
Hi. Just to clarify things, my comments were not intended to be a denigration of your work. Please see my further comments on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. -- The Anome (talk) 15:39, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Documentation for gadget authors
I saw you had done some work on gadgets. We're trying to start a library for gadget authors to use. Please check it out and post any questions or comments there — ☠ MarkAHershberger ☢ (talk) ☣ 19:15, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

FPC
I'm planning on nominating this if you need to upload it separately or whatever for the tool. Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:13, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Go ahead, the ZoomView seems to be working fie, but thanks for letting me know. --Dschwen 04:37, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Just following your suggestion at WT:FPC. Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:37, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to events in June and July: bot, script, template, and Gadget makers wanted
I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June. Registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, then please register by May 1st and mention it in the registration form.

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, teaching, and socialising, primarily talking about ResourceLoader and Gadgets (extending functionality with JavaScript), the switch to Lua for templates, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs.

We want to bring 100-150 people together, including lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!

I also thought you might want to know about other upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.

Check out the the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC and our other events.

Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator. Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 23:27, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:CTA loop junction.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 15, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-04-15. — howcheng  {chat} 16:32, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Inform you
I just wanted to inform you about this discussion, just in case they try to invoke legal issues on-wiki. I thought you should know ahead of time. Silver seren C 21:18, 14 April 2012 (UTC)


 * What kind of bullshit forum is that?! Well thanks for notifying, but crap like Does Commons have ironclad releases for ANYTHING they host? from a "global moderator" tells me what to think of that site. --Dschwen 21:49, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * It's essentially the new version of Wikipedia Review, with all the same users, if you know what that site is. Silver  seren C 21:55, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The same disgruntled, self righteous people, still lacking a clue. Great, just whet we need. --Dschwen 22:04, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Tobacco Hornworm 1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 14, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-05-14. — howcheng  {chat} 20:16, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

File:Ggb by night.jpg for removal of featured status
Hello -- I just wanted to inform you that I have nominated File:Ggb by night.jpg, which you uploaded and took, to be delisted as a featured picture. See Featured picture candidates/delist/Golden Gate Bridge. --  tariq abjotu  18:12, 27 May 2012 (UTC)


 * You evil, evil person! --Dschwen 03:29, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Attached KML and WikiMiniAtlas
Just a ping to see if you were aware of something. I was doing the review of U.S. Route 161 for GAN earlier today. Because there are no external links, the Attached KML is set to title not inline,title. The Google and Bing links appear as intended, but no WMA. Now some New York articles, like New York State Route 17 are using inline, which I would have thought would have meant nothing in the upper righthand corner, but the WMA globe appears there alone. (Also related to that, I have User:Pyrospirit/metadata in use with the projectbanners.js component, and the "[show]" link overlaps the globe when there aren't the Google/Bing links. When the title links are present, there isn't any overlap.)  Imzadi 1979  →   01:16, 22 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Hm, no I wasn't aware of this. Unfortunately I have a big conference next week and a workshop over the weekend. Little time to fix this right away. But thanks for notifying me, I'll work on it as soon as I can. --Dschwen 02:17, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, no worries. At least you know now so it can be worked on when the time is available.  Imzadi 1979  →   02:18, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Wow, June. Time flies. Anyhow. I have fixed the WMA to show a globe in articles such as U.S. Route 161. --Dschwen 01:49, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Credo Reference Update & Survey (your opinion requested)
Credo Reference, who generously donated 400 free Credo 250 research accounts to Wikipedia editors over the past two years, has offered to expand the program to include 100 additional reference resources. Credo wants Wikipedia editors to select which resources they want most. So, we put together a quick survey to do that:


 * Link to Survey (should take between 5-10 minutes): http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N8FQ6MM

It also asks some basic questions about what you like about the Credo program and what you might want to improve.

At this time only the initial 400 editors have accounts, but even if you do not have an account, you still might want to weigh in on which resources would be most valuable for the community (for example, through WikiProject Resource Exchange).

Also, if you have an account but no longer want to use it, please leave me a note so another editor can take your spot.

If you have any other questions or comments, drop by my talk page or email me at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com. Cheers! Ocaasit &#124; c 17:14, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

WikiMiniAtlas No. 2
Didn't realise that you'd moved; hope New Mexico goes well but that you'll remember Illinois well also.

Could you please weigh in at WP:VP/T, section "WMA button2b.png displaying oddly"? I raised a question about the image that links to WikiMiniAtlas, and the only response so far has been "what you guessed isn't it; it's likely the result of Dschwen making some changes". Nyttend (talk) 01:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Systematic error in List_of_mountains_on_Mars
Hi again, seems there is an systematic error in List_of_mountains_on_Mars. There is a link to db at the end of List: and this DB is in North/West coordinate system. But list itself is in North/East coordinates by default.

Just fixed Libya Montes in list (they should be antipodal to Echus Montes). And added Warning to the link "it uses West coordinates, and table should be in East coordinates". May I ask you to recheck Mars features lists which was generated from this db (this link is also present in List_of_terrae_on_Mars) and fix this West/East controversy? `a5b (talk) 00:12, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * PS: User_talk:Bryan_Derksen/Archive_15 `a5b (talk) 00:16, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm not even sure the error is systematic. I tried to swap the sign on the EW part of the coordinates

var m,r=/^(.*)\{\{Coord\|([^|]*)\|([^|]*)\|(.*)/,i,nt='',l=$('#wpTextbox1').text.split(/\n/); for(i=0;i<l.length;i++) { m=r.exec(l[i]); if(m) { nt+=m[1]+"{{Coord|"+m[2]+"|"+(-m[3])+"|"+m[4]; } else { nt+=l[i]; } nt+="\n"; }; $('#wpTextbox1').text(nt)
 * Though some mons were at their correct positions, most of the features were still badly positioned. This lis will have to be re-generated. --Dschwen 03:56, 13 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I just updated the list and coords in linked articles according to two lists by USGS: * USGS: Mars nomenclature: mountains, USGS: Mars nomenclature: tholus. Both are in "planetocentric" coordinates with "east longitude". Could you reextracte coordinates for Mars? `a5b (talk) 00:04, 4 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Ok, I'll start the extraction tomorrow, to be sure that the toolserver db has caught up, and that the intermediate daily extraction step has finished. --Dschwen 04:58, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Coordinate update is running now. It will take an hour or two. --Dschwen 15:23, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

WikiMiniAtlas
Please see my note here. Thanks. Kaldari (talk) 19:56, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Hello
I hope you consider coming to Wikipedia Takes America/Chicago. I finally upgraded from a point and shoot to a Canon EOS Rebel T3i. In addition to a Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens, the kit lens, I have picked up a EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens and a Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM lens. At some point, I hope to get a EF 50mm f/1.8 II.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:46, 11 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Hey Tony, grrrreat to hear from you ;-). Unfortunately I won't make it to Chicago. I have moved to New Mexico half a year ago. Nice change of scenery, though I miss the big city. Hope you have a fun a successful event! --Dschwen 17:01, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Blue globe (WMA) - why does it not show in running text?
Hi, please comment at Template talk:Coord. -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:17, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

WMA in the News
See User talk:Dispenser. — Dispenser 05:07, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Chicago Theatre blend.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 26, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-10-26. — howcheng  {chat} 21:55, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

wikiminiatlas
FYI, I have proposed some changes here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.js#Performance_improvements_to_wikiminiatlas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamw (talk • contribs) 01:22, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

WikiMiniAtlas performance impact
Hi Daniel,

it looks like loading a resource from meta.wikimedia.org like you did with WikiMiniAtlas performs very poorly right now. In our monitoring we're seeing requests sometimes take an extra few seconds just to pull the WikiMiniAtlas script. We're investigating why this is happening, but I've commented out the script for now.--Eloquence* 21:01, 25 October 2012 (UTC)


 * The fix proposed in the comment above would be a solution. I don't know why the performance is suddenly impacted. The script should stay in cache after the first load. Were there some Mediawiki changes in this department? --Dschwen 22:24, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Foot binding shoes 1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 10, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-12-10. — howcheng  {chat} 17:26, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Script
Thanks for your megapixel script. See my comments back there about 1024 vs 1000, though. I wonder, would it be possible to write a script that adds a link to Jeffrey's Exif viewer for the underlying full-size JPG the page description is for.

Are you aware of any scripts/gadgets that make browsing categories on Commons any more pleasant? I find the random list of tiny thumbnails to be quite unhelpful, and you've only the image size as a rough gauge as to whether the underlying image is half decent. Or something to help flatten/explore deeply nested categories? Colin°Talk 19:36, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

WP Geographical Coordinates in the Signpost
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Geographical Coordinates for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. –Mabeenot (talk) 02:07, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata
You might want to see my comments at the geographic coordinates wikiproject talk page in reply to your comment. I take your point, and withdraw my initial proposal. However, I have a new proposal which I hope might allow the functionality I think we need, while address your concerns about data integrity and freshness.

In particular, regarding Wikidata property P402: you might want to take this up with the people at Wikidata who created it, and are adding these data points, and find out how far they've got. If this is a thing that needs to stop, and be replaced by something better, we should enlist their help to do so. I've made a comment at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Property_P402_and_OpenStreetMap to get the conversation started there. -- The Anome (talk) 10:52, 3 May 2013 (UTC)


 * P402 survived one deletion request. The arguments were very weak. Three ID examples supposedly prove that OSM IDs are stable. --Dschwen 00:22, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Question
Hi Dschwen. I am from the Hebrew Wikivoyage. We in the Hebrew Wikivoyage community are currently wondering whether it is possible to embed automatically expanded WikiMiniAtlas maps at the bottom part of our articles in the same way the interactive OpenStreetMap currently is displayed on the bottom of this page. Is that possible? ויקיג&#39;אנקי (talk) 19:51, 3 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi! In principle yes. Would you want it to fill a small frame like the OSM map? I can easily add some code to instantiate the WMA in given DIV element. --Dschwen 21:59, 3 June 2013 (UTC)


 * sorry for initially typing a bad url address - the original example I wanted to show you appears at the bottom of this page. The biggest disadvantage of using the OSM embedded maps is that they only show the Hebrew captions for the places that exist in Israel, while maps of places elsewhere in the world appear mostly in the native language spoken at those places (as you can see in the OSM map we have at the bottom of the New York article). This may become very confusing for our readers if for example they would want to see an interactive map for China or Jordan and would encounter captions in a foreign language they can not decipher. What I especially like about the OSM maps is that I can define the width and height of the maps I embed, as well as the zoom level - these options allow our readers to immediately examine interactive maps that already show the areas which are most relevant to the travelers while they can continue to zoom in or out in order to explore the map. Would you also be able to include the option to define the height, width and zoom level for each map? Would it be possible to make all the interactive WikiMiniAtlas maps embedded in the Hebrew Wikivoyage include only Hebrew captions? ויקיג&#39;אנקי (talk) 03:26, 4 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Would you still be able to help create the option which would allow us to embed automatically expanded WikiMiniAtlas maps at the bottom part of the Wikivoyage articles? ויקיג&#39;אנקי (talk) 05:58, 12 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, that would be possible. Give me a few days though. I'm a bit busy IRL right now. --Dschwen 14:52, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

KML
While I was thinking about it, what would be your view on making something similar to GeoHack for KML files? I'm not the best at web programming, but I figure it shouldn't be too hard to take the KML file in as a GET request and insert it into a link, and I do have labs access... --Rschen7754 07:32, 9 June 2013 (UTC)


 * It'd be better if some KML support would be added to the geohack itself. What do you have in mind? We can already generate a direct link to the KML data just by using action=raw on the KML data page. That is how the data is passed to GoogleMaps/Bing and the WikiMiniAtlas (more or less). --Dschwen 21:14, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
 * It's been brought up that the Google and the Bing at the top look a bit strange, and there's been efforts to get OSM integrated somehow as well. --Rschen7754 21:28, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Question about WikiMiniAtlas and Coord tags
Hi Daniel, I want to add geographic coordinates to my wiki page so that it shows geo-coordinates like the top right corner of this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wall_Centre but I want my locations to be specific locations from my wiki page not from my Wikipedia, is this possible?

Also I'm curious how I get the globe and map on my own website? I believe this requires WikiMiniAtlas but I'm not sure if I can just pull the maps from Wikimedia's main WikiMiniAtlas server or if I have to host the wikiminiatlas and OSM tiles on my own server. Can I pull the data from Wikipedia and then the maps from Open Street Map?

And for this to work on my own Wiki page, I also need to use a template called Template:Coord and install the Scribunto extension right? Sorry for all the questions, but I did a lot of searches online and tried mediawiki support desk and IRC, but I'm not getting any good answers. There aren't any good documentation about how implement the drop down map along with { { coord } } tags. Thanks for your help.

Peter in Canada — Preceding unsigned comment added by Backto1992 (talk • contribs) 17:29, 18 June 2013 (UTC)


 * You can copy the Wikiminiatlas.js from meta.wikimedia.org to your wiki and it will display the WMA map with tiles from the toolserver (right now you cannot just replace those with OSM tiles). Getting the coord labels from your wiki displayed on the map is not straight forward. This requires setting up a database with the coordinate data. And so far I've only done that for wikipedias in various languages. --Dschwen 04:39, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your suggestion. This isn't working on our wiki. Our wiki is a private domain and it is not a .wikipedia.org site.

I added the wikiminiatlas code from (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikiminiatlas.js) and pasted it into my MediaWiki:Common.js page. I then enabled js by using $wgUseSiteJs = true; and then tried this coordinate on one of our wiki page, { { #coordinates:40.744924|-74.006943 } } but I don't see a globe.

I do not have Lua/Scribunto extension enabled because Scribunto is not running in my Windows environment. Do I need to enable Scribunto before the map will show up? So the wikiminiatlas.js file needs Scribunto in order to work? Please advise.

Thanks again.

Peter


 * You won't need Scribunto for the WMA to work, but it is probably needed for the coordinates to render in a way tat the WMA can attach to them. If you don't mind sharing the URL to your site I can take a look. --Dschwen 18:13, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Early halftoning
File:The_Story_of_the_Mikado_-_Frontispiece.png is a good example. File:N._M._Price_-_Sir_Walter_Scott_-_Guy_Mannering_-_At_the_Kaim_of_Derncleugh_original_scan.png is another. Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:46, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Presentation slides
Hi Daniel, I would love to see slides for your and Ralf's Wikimania presentation. Do you have any you can publish? Thanks, Erik Zachte (talk) 01:46, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
 * It was a white board presentation. I had a handful of slides introducing hugin, but we were unable to show them (a pin on the VGA cable to the projector broke off). --Dschwen 18:10, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

WMA
Hi Dschwen,

how can I know where is the Attached KML for a route displayed in WMA?. If we open the WMA of Puerto Natales or Villa Puerto Edén, and zoom it, we see a ships route between them. I have created Template:Attached KML/Fjords and channels of Chile, called from Fjords and channels of Chile and would like to use the coords of the Puerto Natales-Eden route. Are these routes accesible for WPs or are delivered with the ground map?. Thanks in advance, --Best regards, Keysanger (what?) 10:00, 12 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Hello Keysanger. The ship route is taken from OpenStreetMap (which provides the data from which my map is rendered). It should be rather straight forward to export the OSM object that represents the route as KML. Let me check... --Dschwen 18:30, 12 September 2013 (UTC)


 * What you want is OSM ways 139745378,141450496,141450314, and 139744451 :-). I'll ry to figure out a way to export those as KML --Dschwen 23:37, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Here http://www.schwen.de/wikisource/shiproute.gpx as GPX. --Dschwen 23:45, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I suppose gpx is a usable format, but I don't know how to use it. I filtered the lats and longs and added it to the Template:Attached KML/Fjords and channels of Chile. It is very annoying to correct my typos in the data because google, bing and WMA didn't update the data continuosly. At this moment I believe I have fixed all errors but the route shows still two straight lines.
 * Another question. In the case of Chile, with thousends of islands and channels is advisable to use an id nummer for every feature. I used nga numbers instead of geonames.org numbers but I noted now that geonames.org has a lot of services in the net. Is whithin en:wikipedia some preference for geonmames numbers or nga nummbers?. --Best regards, Keysanger (what?) 15:00, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The KML should be updated immediately by all services. What you experienced is most likely a cache issue (your browser remembered an out of date version of the KML data). --Dschwen 17:37, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Just now I opened the three maps in Fjords and channels of Chile and I get three different versions of the map. WMA shows a natales-eden route with some "go back" straight lines all in blue, google shows all routes and channels correctly with thick lines in blue, and bing shows narrow lines in blue and red, what I mean is the current version of the paths. --Best regards, Keysanger (what?) 20:23, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter
Books and Bytes Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013 by , Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved... New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted. New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis?? New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration Read the full newsletter ''Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 20:57, 27 October 2013 (UTC)''

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 * Thanks, but the contest is long over and now I don't need the bot flag anymore. --Dschwen 06:30, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

ZoomViewer at wmflabs?
Hello, Dschwen! I heard that toolserver is going to be closed soon. Any progress about moving the ZoomViewer to http://tools.wmflabs.org? I see that it has a process in, but I don't know which is the new URL (which will replace ). Razvan Socol (talk) 17:32, 11 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeah, working on that. I had a few other projects that were a bit more urgent. But I'll take up the ZV soon. Had some problems getting fastcgi stuff to work properly. --Dschwen 01:06, 12 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Would it be possible to let us know on the Romanian Village pump when that happens? This tool is the most used tool from the toolserver in ro.wp articles and we would like to make sure we replace the URL in time. Thanks.--Strainu (talk) 10:07, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Re: Tool labs
Hello. I don't know exactly what I've done and caused this problem. At this moment, I run my bot normally at the Arabic Wikipedia, and run a lot of tasks in my crontab. I deleted most of my crontab tasks, I wish this fix the issue. I'm so sorry for problems I caused. Best regards.--Avocato (talk)  06:40, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

@Dschwen: sent you an irc memo about this. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 08:36, 24 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Hey Avocato, things like this happen. Check out this section of the tool labs docs please. --Dschwen 16:50, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library Survey
As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasit &#124; c 15:21, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Template maps
Hi, I've seen this: replacing the map for another one of another municipality. I don't know if this is a single case or not, but it would be good if you could verify this. Regards, --Eleassar my talk 21:41, 11 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I've tried to undo your edit but can't find a map for the Municipality of Miklavž na Dravskem Polju. Also, the map of Municipality of Mirna is missing. --Eleassar my talk 21:44, 11 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I've found a png map. --Eleassar my talk 21:50, 11 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Huh? What happened here, Eleassar? I performed a duplicate replacement of a byte-identical file. How could that have gone wrong? --Dschwen 00:09, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Image Permission
Hello - I would like to get permission to use a couple of your images in a foreign language vocabulary acquisition project I am working on. Can you let me know how I might do that? Thanks, Miles Becker jmbecker46@mac.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmbecker1946 (talk • contribs) 20:13, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons - Usurpation of Username
Hello Dschwen! I would like to create a unified login in Wikipedia Project with my username Cabana. But this username has been already taken in Wikimedia Commons. Could you please help me as a bureaucrat to usurp the username Cabana in Wikimedia Commons? Thank You. Best regards, Cabana (talk) 11:42, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi Cabana, please file a request at commons:Commons:USURP. I'll have a look at it there. --Dschwen 22:07, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank You, Dschwen! --Cabana (talk) 20:07, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Odd MiniAtlas behavior
The article Steinway & Sons contains two sets of coordinates in the infobox, for the company's two headquarters, in New York City and in Hamburg. As someone has pointed out on the article's talk page, if you click on the Hamburg coordinates (which are correct), the GeoHack page that one is taken to contains a WikiMiniAtlas map showing the New York location rather than the Hamburg one. What's going on there? Deor (talk) 18:22, 31 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Hey Deor! That is indeed odd behavior, but it is not unexpected (at least to me :-)). The WMA centers on the OSM shape data that is connected to the article (and which happens to be the NYC location). I'm currently busy porting the WMA to Wikimedia Labs, so there is no quick fix I can do. But I should rework the logic that decides where to center the map. --Dschwen

How to use wikiminiatlas with OpenLayers ?
Hi Dschwen. First of all, congratulation for Wikiminiatlas. Your maps are very accurate. This is a useful tool. I would like to use wikiminatlas as a base layer with OpenLayers on my website (am I allowed by the way?). So what URL should I write in my code to display wikiminiatlas tiles on my OpenLayers project. For example it's http://a.tile.opencyclemap.org/cycle/${z}/${x}/${y}.png to display Opencyclemap tiles. --Barracuda1983 (talk) 14:47, 8 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Hello Barracuda! My tile schema is probably not quite compatible with OpenLayers (unless you tweak some of the code). I have 128px tiles rather than 256px tiles, I'm using platte caree projection rather than web mercator, and my zoom level 0 has 6 by 3 tiles (rather than 1 by one). I've been working on an Openlayers compatible version of the WMA, but it is not ready to be deployed. --Dschwen 15:48, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Question
Hi, I see your bot on commons has taken over some of the functions of (the now dead) BotMultichillIT - any hope that it could also be programmed to re-start this very useful list on en-Wiki - User:Multichill/Free uploads? - basically all the "free" image uploads. Using Special:NewFiles is a poor substitute due to the large percentage of non-free images. I "think" the main part of the old bot that made the pages was https://fisheye.toolserver.org/browse/multichill/bot/free_uploads_enwp.py?r=301  Ron h jones (Talk) 20:25, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

UserGogo212121 Hello Dchwen Why does not this page http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=RMS_Lusitania&params=51_25_N_8_33_W_type:landmark_scale:3000000 403: User account expired

The page you requested is hosted by the Toolserver user dschwen, whose account has expired. Toolserver user accounts are automatically expired if the user is inactive for over six months. To prevent stale pages remaining accessible, we automatically block requests to expired content.

If you think you are receiving this page in error, or you have a question, please contact the owner of this document: dschwen [at] toolserver [dot] org. (Please do not contact Toolserver administrators about this problem, as we cannot fix it—only the Toolserver account owner may renew their account.)

HTTP server at toolserver.org - ts-admins [at] toolserver [dot] org

--Gogo212121 (talk) 12:06, 9 June 2014 (UTC)


 * The meta:WikiMiniAtlas which is supposed to appear in that box, has been moved to Wikimedia Labs. I have left messages at the geohack talk page but noone has made the change yet :-( --Dschwen 17:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I think I found the correct place to request that change now: MediaWiki talk:GeoHack.js. Hope that this helps resolve it. --Dschwen 17:46, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

UserGogo212121 Hello Dschwen what happened to the German submarine SM U-69 from World War II Fate: 	disappeared after 11 July 1917 how can a submarine disappear

Is it open --Gogo212121 (talk) 18:38, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * "U-69's fate is officially unknown". Not a magic trick ;-). --Dschwen 22:52, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

UserGogo21221 Hello Dschwen I think that the Russians found it and hide it German submarine U69

How do you know that there is a missing submarine U69 Is there likely to find this boat

I think that this submarine was abducted by a UFO --Gogo212121 (talk) 17:56, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Ha, ok :-). I'm not the one who wrote that article though. You might want to take that discussion to its talk page. --Dschwen 20:51, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

UserGogo212121 Hello Dschwen what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 find you Did you find him

and in which region is missing planes

why in the Bermuda Triangle disappear aircraft and submarines --Gogo212121 (talk) 12:04, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Error "403: User account expired" at http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/wma/
Hello,

To know what areas are not yet covered by Commons, I was using http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/wma/

But now it returns an error. Can this be fixed?

There are so many pictures to take, so I don't want to waste time on things that already have pictures on Commons, I prefer to concentrate on not-yet-covered areas. That's why such a tool is very much needed.

You might also bring useful tool ideas here: http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/2628/map-of-wikimedia-commons-pictures

Thanks a lot! Nicolas1981 (talk) 05:13, 18 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Dschwen, I believe you can still request your account to be renewed. — Dispenser 17:00, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Right to create that redirect. Nicolas1981, in the mean time check out http://wma.wmflabs.org/ --Dschwen 19:52, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, and I don't have a stackexchange account and it doesn't let me comment with the one I just created. So if you could add that link there it would be great. --Dschwen 19:56, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) Media Viewer RfC
You are being notified because you have participated in previous discussions on the same topic. Alsee (talk) 16:46, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiMiniAtlas
Hi Could you point me to where those tooltips are stored that pop up when you first open a WMA? (They have a red border, white background and black font.) I thought the wording on one of them could be tweaked a bit, but didn't get to look at it properly in time. Cheers!  It Is Me Here  t /  c  13:50, 25 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi User:It Is Me Here, those are maintained at commons:Commons:WikiMiniAtlas/Translations. Thanks for helping out! --Dschwen 21:33, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Request highlightredirects
Hello Dschwen, it's an absolutely petty request :), but could you change the tab label of this tool from "redirects" to "Redirects" please (similar to Move and Purge)? Thank you for providing that nice tool. GermanJoe (talk) 05:47, 26 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Totally valid request! Done. --Dschwen 22:24, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Delist and Replace nomination for CH cow 2
FYI: Featured picture candidates Kaldari (talk) 18:27, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Daniel,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Chicago Grant Park night pano.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 9, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-06-09. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:58, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Help decide the future of Wikimania


The Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a consultation on the value and planning process of Wikimania, and is open until 18 January 2016. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and evaluation, and (2) gather broad community input on what new form(s) Wikimania could take (starting in 2018).

After reviewing the consultation, we'd like to hear your feedback on on this survey.

In addition, feel free to share any personal experiences you have had at at a Wikimedia movement conference, including Wikimania. We plan to compile and share back outcomes from this consultation in February.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk), from Community Resources 22:01, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Towards a New Wikimania results
Last December, I invited you to share your views on the value of Wikimedia conferences and the planning process of Wikimania. We have completed analysis of these results and have prepared this report summarizing your feedback and important changes for Wikimania starting in 2018 as an experiment. Feedback and comments are welcome at the discussion page. Thank you so much for your participation. I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, 22:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Illinois topics
I take care of the featured picture section of Portal:Illinois, but I did not realize until today just how many of the photos there come from you. The least you deserve is this barnstar


 * Ha, thank you. Now it's been four years since I moved away from Illinois :-(. I'll be in Chicago next week. I probably won't have much time for photos though. --Dschwen 16:15, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Panorama viewer
Hi Dschwen,

Thanks for showing your impressive hi-res viewer at the Hackathon presentation. I've taken several spherical panoramas at

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=wikimania2016+photosphere

and would like to create a page to show them with your viewer. Could you please tell me how I can make them publicly viewable?

Thanks in advance, cm&#610;&#671;ee&#9094;&#964;a&#671;&#954; 09:57, 26 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Hello cmglee! I actually saw you taking one of those near the city hall yesterday. Then I attended your talk, which I enjoyed, and later I saw your panosphere uploaded on commons and tested it using the viewer. You could just make a gallery and put links to the viewer into the caption. Example:


 * have fun! --Dschwen 10:40, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Many thanks, and thanks too for your kind words. I'll add a gallery when I return home. Meanwhile, I submitted my "Tiny Planet" of the Last Supper sculpture in Esino Lario for Featured Picture on the English Wikipedia. If you think it qualifies, could you please support my nomination?

cm&#610;&#671;ee&#9094;&#964;a&#671;&#954; 22:38, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks in advance,


 * Hi again! FYI, I've uploaded and linked my panoramas to your Panoviewer on http://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Panoramas . Cheers, cm&#610;&#671;ee&#9094;&#964;a&#671;&#954; 19:22, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

WikiMiniAtlas
Hi Dschwen, looks like you've gone inactive - if you are still around and can do anything about WMA being down due to T185795 then (a)Welcome Back and (b)thanks! — xaosflux  Talk 15:43, 27 January 2018 (UTC)


 * not entirely inactive but demotivated for sure. Fixing this will be quite hard. --Dschwen 20:38, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply, someone rebuild the server and got it back up - the primary suggestion for go-forward is to convert to the Kartographer extension. — xaosflux  Talk 20:50, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, Kartographer is nice, but will only solve 2% of my problems. --Dschwen 22:41, 29 January 2018 (UTC)


 * This has been fixed in early 2021. --Dschwen 15:07, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

dschwenbot broken?
Hi. I got an error when clicking a link and I was directed to report the error to you. has a link that says Open this image as an overlay in Google Earth (Google Maps, Bing). Clicking on that leads to, which says No webservice etc. Just FYI. Thanks. Terrorist96 (talk) 01:07, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Coord-doc-name
Template:Coord-doc-name has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:56, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

PanoViewer error
Hello Dschwen,

I have a problem with PanoViewer and unfortunately I don't know who to ask. It's about this picture:

The error message is: "Database error (found 0 results; should be 1). No pannellum config return"

Is the error known? What can I do or what am I doing wrong? Who can I contact?

Many thanks in advance for your answer --Joachim Köhler (talk) 10:59, 18 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Uh, oh. I'll look into it. --Dschwen 21:19, 24 October 2022 (UTC)