User talk:RRvolcanica

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I think that there is an official process where website owners can give the wiki permission to use their copyrighted material on the wiki. I think that you may have to inform an administrator, but I am not entirely sure what is involved.

Please think carefully about what copyright you choose to release your images to the wiki. I think, that Copyright Left ensures that modifications of images are also freely available. I think that a Public Domain copyright image can be modified, but then the slightly modified image can be the newly copyrighted by someone else (which I guess is not what you want). You can ask an administrator who is interested in that sort of thing. Snowman (talk) 14:08, 10 May 2008 (UTC)


 * This seems to be the relevant section on wikipedia:

Granting us permission to copy material already online One simple way to grant permission to copy material already on line is to put that permission explicitly on the site where that material is posted. This is commonly known as a "copyleft" notice. This notice must state that your site (or portions of your site) are licensed under the GFDL or are in the public domain.

If you want to grant Wikipedia permission to use material from your site, but don't want to place a statement to that effect on your site, you can leave us a notice to that effect on the article's talk page (or on your user page if your site covers a number of topics). This does require that your site have a posted email contact, or some other similar means for us to verify that we really do have the relevant permission. Someone from Wikipedia will then contact that email address to confirm the permission, and we will be able to add your site to a list of those from which our editors may freely draw.

In either of the above scenarios, the relevant source should be added to one of the following:
 * Wikipedia:Free or semi-free non-Public-Domain information resources
 * Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License resources
 * Wikipedia:Public domain resources
 * Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
 * Wikipedia:Maps#Public domain and Free map resources

I will modify my user page now accordingly and maybe you could then add to the most relevant source area accordingly... 145.64.134.234 (talk) 07:23, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Please note that when you log onto the wiki, you then automatically sign your edits with your own name by using the four tilades. Snowman (talk) 09:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Name of website
I got the "Photo Volcanica" spelling version from here, and I used it because I thought that was its name. Snowman (talk) 18:17, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Photograph details
I would like to add the geographical location of the White-winged Penguin photo and also the approx date when the photo was taken to the wiki commons details. In the fullness of time I wonder if you could you fill in the details on this and perhaps other images added to the wiki from the volcanica website. You might like to get a wiki commons account too (link to commons on bottom of main wiki page). Snowman (talk) 18:26, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

White-flippered penguin image: Nov. 2007 Banks Peninsula (South Island, New Zealand), Pohatu Reserve. Suggest putting link to reserve on white-flippered penguin page (www.pohatu.co.nz) even though it doesnt have much useful text but it is THE place to see them and not run for profit. Reason i changed spelling (above comment) is because if people google it they find it together. You are right, it does look like two seperate words on the title page. Regarding your comment on referencing i guess you mean the penguin pages dont have enough (hardly any) scientific references. I will be addressing this over the next years (takes huge amount of work). The African penguin page which is in preparation is the first to be extensively referenced. The volcano pages are nearly all highly referenced already as there are no vague sources i could get the info and these are primarily addressed to the scientific community, so i had to do original literature research. For the penguins i initially just wanted some text background for the pictures, although that is only a temporary measure until i have time to research more. The website is still less than 1 year old and has been a huge effort to build up - that explains its current limitations.

RRvolcanica (talk) 07:21, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that you can choose a variety of google search words by adding something in html hidden on the page, but it does not have to appear visible on the page. Snowman (talk) 12:40, 15 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Date a geography now added to wiki commons image details. Snowman (talk) 12:56, 15 May 2008 (UTC)