Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook, Fae is there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot?
James On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz <marielle.v...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > <ktsouroupi...@wikimedia.org> 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 <wiki.p...@gmail.com> 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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine _______________________________________________ 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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>