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2005 which is when the image was added to the article and it has been there since the machine is apparently in germany which may help explain the choice of image fourth we have french locomobile automotrice apparently translates as self propelled locomotive which would explain why the lead image is a steamroller although it was described as a traction engine on commons until i fixed it i think it is a film scan and the quality is certainly ok for 2006 when it was uploaded however the rear view is an unusual choice for a lead image although it does show a lot of the working parts better and facing right it faces out of the article like the german one it could probably do with updating fifth is indonesian it is a traction engine apparently at a show in stuttgart its somewhat blurred due to camera movement 1 8 of second exposure and faces right out of the page other than that its fairly well isolated the view isn t obstructed and the background isn t overly messy what i don t understand is why they swapped out the previous photo of a very similar engine yes the front wheel is slightly obstructed but its less blurry sixth is cornish the composition is decent with a nice action shot and the engine which is a traction engine facing into the article however its rather low res and the back of the engine blends with the background my guess is the author decided they didn t like the then lead in the english language article and chose this from what they could find on commons seventh is dutch this is a portable engine since its labelled locomobiel the person who added it may not have known the difference it is however a very good image of a portable engine its sharp and well isolated any improvement is going to be mostly stylistic for example a preference for engines that are running rather than the funnel being in the stowed position eighth is japanese it does show a traction engine a showman s engine its facing left into the page however beyond that i m not a fan the obstruction by the fence is fairly minor but i feel its overwhelmed by the structure around it the colours also look like they have been pushed a bit hard and may have been over sharpened a combination of these factors and the existance of better options was why i removed it from the english wikipedia the engine is in japan which may explain the choice here finally we have finnish if you wanted an action shot of road locomotives then you couldn t do much better yes it faces out of the page great dorset steam fair going clockwise strikes again but its a well composed photo showing some serious heavy haulage conventionally it might be better if the engines were a bit lower down to follow the rule of thirds but i think it still works personaly i prefer a single isolated example for the lead but in shorter articles that may mean losing the ability to show the range of designs wikidata uses a perfectly decent film scan image although not perhaps as isolated from the background as it could be i m not arguing that all the articles should be changed to use the english image asside from the obvious conflict of interest different language communities will have different priorities and i don t speak any of the languages in question so there may well be things that i m missing posted in wikipedia photography tagged photography wikipedia leave a comment how bad is chia going to get posted on may 6 2021 by geniice for those less interested in hard drive prices chia is a newish cryptocurrency that is mined on hard drives similar to the old burst coin given what traditional cryptocurrency did to gpus the question is what is it going to do to hard drive prices exact numbers are impossible since they depend on the ongoing price of chia and behaviour of the miners headline figure is that at current prices chia can be expected to use about 100 exabytes of storage over the next year or about 10 of annual hard drive production at current prices its going to get pretty bad i can t predict how bad but i really doubt there is anywhere close to 10 slack in the hard drive production market that figure does ignore the cost of electricity which would take us to about 95 exabytes and more significantly ignores the fact that that much buying would case the price of storage to rise but i have no way to calculate that the calculation the calculation is based on the fact that chia mints 9216 new coins per day in pairs for some reason current price is 600 per coin resulting in 5529600 total per day or 2 019 billion per year a year seems a reasonable upper limit for miners to get a return on their initial investment hard drives don t hold their second hand value well prior to chia storage was around the 20 per tb mark and at that price 2 019 billion pays for around 100 exabytes electricity for storage appears to be in the region of 10kwh per tb per year at a price of 0 12 per kwh that bumps the price of storage up to 21 2 per tb which reduces the amount to 95 exabytes the impact of the cost of motherboards nvme drives to write to the drives and land to store the whole thing is beyond my ability to estimate if instead of looking for return of initial costs in under 1 year miners focus purely on electricity costs then chia maxes out around 1 6 zettabyte higher depending on the price of electricity and the amount stolen global annual hard drive production is only around 1 zettabyte current growth rate according to this chart chia is currently taking about a day to add 500 pebibyte in units we are more use to that amounts to 562950 terabytes or nearly two wikimedia commons at that rate we will be reaching the 100 exabyte mark in around 180 days how much it needs to fall not to be a problem using the above calculation 64 per coin would result in a 10 exabyte pool or about 1 of global hard drive production which might not be too bad posted in uncategorized leave a comment handbreak now supports webm posted on january 17 2021 by geniice handbrake has long been the best option for those that want to transcode files to a commons friendly format while not messing around with the command line unfortunately it output files in the matroska container mkv and the easiest way to get them into a format that commons supported involved messing around in the command line with ffmpeg however with version 1 3 0 handbrake now supports webm directly simplifying transcoding posted in uncategorized leave a comment an image for pinchbeck from commons posted on june 30 2020 by geniice i ve been aware of pinchbeck for some years after seeing an example of a pinchbeck hairband at bristol museum art gallery the wikipedia article on the alloy has needed a pic since 2005 unfortunately my pictures from bristol sucked due to missing focus and simply not holding the camera still in my defence i was running on about 2 hours sleep and trying to visit all the museums in bristol getting a photo of pinchbeck suffers from a problem of being sure what you are photographing is actual pinchbeck the term seems to be used to label 3 different things you have true kvlt pinchbeck from the original pinchbeck family approximately contemporary imitations and then a random collection of vintage brass to be on the safe side i wanted a photo of the first option this rules out simply buying some since the well provenanced stuff is expensive and for the rest i don t have the expertise to dig through museum materials seem a better option but being somewhat reflective it tends to photograph poorly under museum light birmingham museums has some but the lighting in that section isn t the best although that can be countered to a fair extent finally i tried a commons search i don t usually do this because a lot of the time you don t get anything and the quality can be rather mixed the best commons search engine remains the english wikipedia on this occasion though after a lot of photos relating to the pumping station and the village in lincolnshire i found this clock made by the son of the original christopher pinchbeck definitely true kvlt pinchbeck posted in uncategorized leave a comment wikipedia right but on the blockchain round 2 posted on december 6 2017 by geniice well its more a re launch of everipedia which has been around for a while everipedia is essentially an attempt to make money by starting with a mirror of wikipedia and then going forward with no notability standards income attempts are by charging people for article writing services and adverts so far success seems to have been fairly limited low alexa rank and a fairly low rate of linking from reddit a fair number of which focuses on stuff of interest to reddit s nastier sub communities it also has the issues you would expect of something with no notability standards and has become a popular platform for the likes of 4chan to libel people still i ve seen worse so where does the block chain come in mostly in the form of what appears to be or what is at leasdt marketed as a relaunch which uses much the same language as lunyr decentralised censorship resistant and on the block chain in practice this seems to boil down to them thinking about hosting on the interplanetary file system so lunyr again one trick they have beaten lunyr on is hiring wikipedia co founder larry sanger who s name is apparently enough to get your press release read quite how a project that claims to be removing gatekeepers is meant to work with a guy who s previous project citizendium was effectively a nested pile of gatekeepers i m not sure what this is all in aid of is an initial coin offering called iq the coin s nominal use case appears to be buying the right to challenge edits on the wiki although things are at the unpublished draft stage how they plan to make that something people would want without completely breaking the wiki system is unclear but i personally doubt they will ever have enough traffic for it to matter if they get their coin out before the ico bubble bursts they might raise some cash after all they have the advantage of a product that actually sort of exists otherwise not so much everipedia is a project that has been trying to compete with wikipedia for 2 years now even as someone who keeps an eye on wikipedia competitors its barely on my radar i don t see anything in the relaunch that would change that as for lunyr they continue to update their advertising system but since everything is still a behind a closed alpha its hard to say what s going on they are though apparently having issues with spotting bugs in their software due to cryptokitties messing up the ethereum blockchain they ve also apparently been removed from the liqui cryptocurrency exchange but i really doubt that will matter to anyone beyond the unfortunate compulsive gamblers who trade the thing posted in uncategorized leave a comment monkey selfies and technollamas posted on november 21 2017 by geniice the monkey selfie is back thanks to a this american life program while it mostly deals with slater vs peta and gets that right its coverage of wikipedia s role is more questionable techdirt has the details of that https www techdirt com articles 20171113 00185238602 monkey selfie photographer says hes now going to sue wikipedia shtml from the copyright nerd pov the most interesting fallout is technollama s attempt to do an analysis of the case under uk law https www technollama co uk the monkey selfie strikes back while i broadly agree with their analysis although i think they underestimate the differences between civil and common law copyright a lot rests on the statement if we believe slater s own telling of the story the reality is slater s telling of the story has been inconsistent the initial version had the monkey picking up the camera and the whole thing being unplanned there are reasons to be sceptical of the camera on a tripod claim in particular one of the shots shows slater resting his left hand on a tripod i don t exactly travel light in photography terms but i don t carry more than one tripod unless i have a car with me and even then the second tripod is a mini one other photos in the series were taken at different heights which again suggests a tripod wasn t used technollama also argues for selected the lens aperture its possible with wide angle lenses its hard to judge the depth of field well enough to tell however the exposure checked the lighting jumps around a fair bit between pics depending on how much of the money is in shot most obvious by looking how light the leaves are in the background a fairly clear sign of the camera controlling the exposure a human would be more likely to under expose a touch to try and avoid blowing the highlights before trying to bring the shadow detail out in post post brings us to slater s actions after the picture was taken my feeling is that this is slater s strongest case none of the images are at the camera s native resolution or even the same ratio as the camera s native resolution suggesting some rotation and cropping its impossible to say if the colour balance has been changed does rotation and cropping qualify for copyright perhaps although the uk s intellectual property office it seems unlikely that what is merely a retouched digitised image of an older work can be considered as original does cropping and rotating count as merely retouching the older monkey produced image how would the courts rule i don t think there is any direct case law yet in the meantime we are getting a bunch of emails to otrs blaming wikipedia for mr slater s issues and financial position this is i d argue somewhat unfair the raising of the the issue of the image s copyright status started with techdirt not us more broadly the problem is due to the changing nature of the wildlife photography market we now live in a world where you have a bunch of people who can afford high end camera gear and actively enjoy taking it to strange places and taking pictures of wildlife with it it while these people have always existed in the past it wasn t easy for them to offer their images for sale now it is being in the right place with a decent camera and the ability and willingness to sell you photos isn t worth what it once was posted in uncategorized 3 comments older posts search for recent posts kendal museum for wikipedians bovington tank museum manchester museum for wikipedians museums for wikipedians the lead image in the traction engine article in various languages recent comments andres on monkey selfies and techno geniice on monkey selfies and techno andres on monkey selfies and techno geniice on canon eos 5d mark iii don chris butler on canon eos 5d mark iii don archives august 2023 july 2023 june 2023 october 2022 may 2021 january 2021 june 2020 december 2017 november 2017 march 2017 january 2017 october 2016 july 2016 april 2016 february 2016 december 2015 october 2015 may 2015 april 2015 august 2014 may 2014 february 2014 october 2013 july 2013 april 2013 february 2013 january 2013 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