What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good scientific imagery that was openly licensed!
The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain. I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php (anyone interested in molluscs?) I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under CC by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of content: https://opentextbc.ca/ [1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/ [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/ On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 on this. > News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :) > > K. > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User Group >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group>. >> >> Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this): >> >> The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings for >> indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited experience, I >> concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I bought >> my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive to me >> as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop", the >> manual was written for someone who already had good technical knowledge of >> how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia has >> some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have >> helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer. After a >> few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more knowledgeable >> people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a >> variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers group >> will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider ways >> to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in >> situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable >> open-source contributions are very high. >> >> What's making you happy this week? >> >> Pine >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > -- > Kalliope Tsouroupidou > Community Advocate > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
