User talk:Lou.gruber
Hello - thank you for providing images to the wikimedia commons. Please keep in mind that images uploaded to the commons should be useful to all users of wikimedia projects - this is possible only if the images can be found by other people. To allow others to find the images you uploaded here, the images should be in some place that can be found by navigating the category structure. This means that you should either place the images on topic pages (galleries), or put the images directly into a category, or do both. Which of those possibilities is preferred is however a matter of debate, see here.
The important point is that the images should be placed in the general structure somewhere. There is a large number of completely unsorted images on the commons right now, see Commons:Really unused. If you would like to help to place some of those images where they can be found, please do! Thank you. -- Duesentrieb 23:51, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
GIF to PNG compression
[edit]In general, it's better to convert a GIF to an 8-bit PNG (indexed color, or in specific circumstances, greyscale), rather than to a 24-bit PNG. I was able to squeeze a lot of bytes out of Image:Wappen Döhlau.png with a few simple PNG rewriting tools... AnonMoos 20:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for your hint .... --Lou.gruber 20:22, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Tip: Categorizing images
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Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.
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- Image:Schafhof in Freising.jpg is uncategorized since 24 January 2009. BotMultichillT 05:56, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Wappen Freistaat Braunschweig.png is uncategorized since 1 March 2009. BotMultichillT 06:09, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
- Image:Wappen Fürstprobstei Berchtesgaden.svg is uncategorized since 14 June 2009.
Protectorate
[edit]thanks for uploading a newer version of Protectorate coa, it is really better quality, but now is fake, not true. Look here j_a1 arvedui 07:40, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2012!Dear Lou.gruber, Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 350,000 pictures of cultural heritage objects from 36 countries around the world, becoming the largest photography competition to have ever taken place. You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help. To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey in your own language, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2012. Kind regards, |
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Solved! --Lou.gruber (talk) 19:27, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
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Denniss (talk) 00:54, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Corrected!--Lou.gruber (talk) 10:26, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
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Jarekt (talk) 18:52, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Naturschutzgebiet […]
[edit]Is there a reason you use the term Naturschutzgebiet instead of nature reserve when creating WLE categories? Generally category names should be in English. FDMS 4 17:48, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, there is a reason. Naturschutzgebiet is a term that has a legal background and is also mentioned in the english Wikipedia. It is a category of protected area within German Federal Conservation Law and can not easily translated with nature preserve or similar wordings. Regards --Lou.gruber (talk) 18:29, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
- Indeed, thanks for your reply! FDMS 4 18:35, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 startet in Kürze
[edit]Hallo Lou.gruber,
in Kürze ist es wieder soweit. Der nun schon traditionelle Fotowettbewerb Wiki Loves Monuments wird im September zum vierten Mal stattfinden. In ähnlicher Form hatte unlängst der Wettbewerb "Wiki Loves Earth" eine erfolgreiche Premiere. Zu allen bisherigen vier Wettbewerben haben seit 2011 gut 3000 unterschiedliche Teilnehmer (User) ihren Beitrag geleistet. Du warst dabei, und bist auch herzlich eingeladen, am bevorstehenden WLM-Wettbewerb wieder dabei zu sein.
Allein in Deutschland wurden in den letzten drei Jahren im Rahmen von WLM rund 100.000 Fotos zu den insgesamt ca. 850.000 Kulturdenkmalen bundesweit hochgeladen. Jährlich haben sich mehrere Hundert Wiki-Fotographen daran beteiligt. Auch im kommenden Denkmalmonat wird dies gewiss wieder der Fall sein. Der Tag des offenen Denkmals am 14. September bietet bundesweit vielfältige Möglichkeiten, Denkmale nicht nur von außen, sondern auch von innen zu fotografieren. Denkmallisten sind dabei ein wichtiger Orientierungspunkt und zugleich auch Ziel der Einbindung der Fotos. Auch in diesem Jahr sind wieder neue Denkmallisten hinzugekommen, die hilfreich bei der Planung von individuellen oder Gruppen-Fototouren sind und auf eine Bebilderung warten, wie z.B. zu Görlitz oder Zittau. Unter den Landeshauptstädten fehlt nur noch Stuttgart. Aber auch hier ist Licht in Sicht.
In der Mitte Deutschlands hat die Denkmallandschaft der thüringischen Landeshauptstadt Erfurt nun das Licht der Wikipedia-Welt entdeckt. Mehr als 50 Tabellen enthalten 3.700 Denkmale. Allein die wunderschön restaurierte Altstadt umfasst 1.800 Denkmale. Eine von WMDE geförderte WLM-Fototour nach Erfurt am Wochenende vom 29. – 31. August lädt herzlich ein, diese einzigartige Kulturlandschaft zu dokumentieren. Mehr Informationen findest Du auf der Projektseite.
Wir freuen uns auf Deine weiteren Beiträge für Wikimedia-Projekte.
Viel Spaß beim größten Fotowettbewerb der Wiki(m/p)edia wünscht Dir das Orga-Team.
( Bernd Gross, 16. August 2014)
Der WLM-Countdown hat begonnen
[edit]Hallo Lou.gruber,
nun ist es wieder soweit. Vom 1. bis zum 30. September findet zum fünften Mal der internationale Wettbewerb Wiki Loves Monuments statt. Im Mittelpunkt steht bekanntlich das Fotografieren von Kulturdenkmalen. Du hast an einem der letzten Fotowettbewerbe teilgenommen und wir freuen uns auf weitere Bildbeiträge von Dir.
Viele interessante Motive, nicht nur Burgen und Schlösser, sondern auch Fachwerkhäuser, Brücken und Brunnen, technische und Industriedenkmale und vieles mehr gibt es noch zu fotografieren, damit sie in der Wikipedia dokumentiert werden können. Nützliche Tipps findest du auf unserer WLM-Projektseite. Du kannst gerne individuell Fototouren durchführen oder aber Dich auch Gruppentouren anschließen. Besonders freuen wir uns auf Fotos, die Lücken in den Denkmallisten der Wikipedia ausfüllen.
Darüber hinaus kannst Du auch an der Arbeit der Jury teilnehmen, die Mitte Oktober die Fotos bewerten und die Gewinner ermitteln wird. Bis zum 15. August kannst du hier Deine Bewerbung einreichen.
Viel Erfolg und Spaß beim größten Fotowettbewerb der Wiki(m/p)edia in den bevorstehenden Wettbewerbswochen wünscht Dir das Orga-Team. Wir freuen uns auf Deine Fotos.
( Bernd Gross, 6. August 2015)
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