User talk:Joe Quick/Archive 5

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Upload dropdowns

To Stephen Ewen:

With the drop down menus, is it possible to code them so that when a person chooses an option, a second drop down appears with options for refining their choice. I know this is common elsewhere, but I don't know if it is possible with wikimedia.

• A person might choose Public Domain and then be prompted to specify the details.
• Or maybe that person chooses CC-BY-SA and is then prompted to choose the version.
• Or chooses Bypermission and then specifies whether the permission allows or does not allow reuse.

This should reduce the clutter significantly if it is possible.

If this process is automated, I think we can combine the several versions of each CC license into a single template, similar to what I did with the PD template. We could do this even without a sophisticated drop down system, of course.

BTW, the drop down menu in its current state forces me to scroll over to use it. That's probably not a good thing. --Joe Quick (Talk) 01:45, 5 May 2007 (CDT)

I am going to forward this to a tech who may know. It'd be plum sharp if possible. I do know that they are doing NO new custom coding now until after the new version of MediaWiki (in release candidate 2 status) comes out. Stephen Ewen 01:51, 5 May 2007 (CDT)

Sounds good. Happy Cinco de Mayo. --Joe Quick (Talk) 01:56, 5 May 2007 (CDT)

Y tu! Stephen Ewen 02:10, 5 May 2007 (CDT)

I have not followed this discussion but the checklist badly needs drop down functionality too. Let me know how this progresses from a mediawiki perspective. Is this even possible or a pipe dream? Chris Day (talk) 15:36, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

It looks like it is at least possible: http://jspwiki.org/wiki/BrushedTemplateDropDownMenu but I can't follow that stuff well enough to know how much work it would take to modify that system for implementation here. --Joe Quick (Talk) 17:11, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

Image_talk:FranzBoas-Eskimo.jpg/Permission

Just have me unlock it when you need to add more. Stephen Ewen 14:03, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

Thanks. Do you think it makes any sense to start collecting hard copies of these official permission pages in some central location, or are scanned versions enough? --Joe Quick (Talk) 14:32, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

Scanned images for CZ. I'd keep the hardcopies for your records as the uploader. Stephen Ewen 19:05, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

Okay. Maybe we should at least make it a practice to categorize the scanned images so that there aren't legal documents spread out all over the place? I think we're doing a good job of following the rules on these but should someone disagree, we're going to want to be able to say, "Look here." --Joe Quick (Talk) 19:15, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

Reply

User_talk:Stephen_Ewen#Yet_another_image_question --- Stephen Ewen 11:45, 12 May 2007 (CDT)

Reply #2 Stephen Ewen 12:41, 12 May 2007 (CDT)

Hi Joe: Just a copy of a message I left on Stephen's Talk page: You are safe to use this image. Joel Emmons Whitley died circa 1870 according to Craig's Daguerreian Registry, which is an excellent, documented, research site for collectors of daguerrotypes and early photography. By the by, the image is from CDV (Carte de Visite), which was produced in multiple copies, so the LOC and other images may indeed derive from completely different originals (both copies). Cheers! Russell Potter 20:01, 12 May 2007 (CDT)

Greetings from DH

Joe, thanks for your kind note. No, I don't know anything about Little Crow, sorry. Found the dates via google, you should confirm with bona fide sources. For what it's worth, I would say that your article (i.e., from an encyclopedia standpoint) seems to be broader than the subject of Little Crow alone. Maybe you'll decide to turn some of it into a piece about the tribe, history, practices, whatever. Just a thought. Take care, David Hoffman 21:19, 12 May 2007 (CDT)

Category:All media

Check it out. ---Stephen Ewen 04:26, 20 May 2007 (CDT)

Information template

Hi Joe! Thanks for the template -- it sure looks a lot less cumbersome. I will experience with it for my next uploads and will let you know what I think. Thanks again! Hayford Peirce 15:40, 21 May 2007 (CDT)

The template works v. nicely -- I have copied it onto my User page and can copy it from there as needed. Thanks! Hayford Peirce 17:49, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

Image "Department

I was thinking about the "Permissions Department" idea and thought, what about just a Media "Department"? It would help with all things media related, even requests for finding media, not just securing permissions. Stephen Ewen 17:46, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

Good idea. That's what I had in mind. Have we come to any consensus (or at least a decision) on the issue of asking permission for copyright-expired images from archives? --Joe Quick (Talk) 20:15, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

I'd like to negotiate agreements with them. ;-) ---Stephen Ewen 21:07, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

Media Assets Workgroup

See CZ:Media Assets Workgroup. Stephen Ewen 05:11, 26 May 2007 (CDT)

Cool. My last class is on Tuesday afternoon, so I'll get to work on this in the coming week. --Joe Quick (Talk) 13:03, 26 May 2007 (CDT)

Tecum Umam

Hi Joe,

I've been looking around for articles which are at the stage when they might be ready to be nominated for Approval. Your entry on Tecum Umam looks close to me! If you agree, would you let me know? I'll try to help locate an Editor who might nominate it. Cheers, Russell Potter 13:14, 15 June 2007 (CDT)

Wiki Research

Thanks for your completed survey. James Sutton 08:46, 26 June 2007 (CDT)

Thanks

It was nice to see some appreciation, especially as I have had to read copious quantities of science articles to get a grip on the topic. It was too important to leave to authors, though: we saw the results previously. I just accept it as one of the trials of life! Do comment on the Talk page: constructive debate is always welcome. --Martin Baldwin-Edwards 19:28, 10 August 2007 (CDT)

Pant(r)ies and butts

..at butler Oh, I can't believe I did that! Holy psychological typos, Batman! LMAO when I saw your note! Aleta Curry 06:23, 12 August 2007 (CDT)

adding to the workgroup page

When you get a moment, could you add any additional "to do" headings to the anthro workgroup page - particularly in sociology/classical anthropology? I want to get this list in order - format it and make a decent welcome page (unless of course you find the time to do that...............)!

Many thanks in advance!

Lee R. Berger 14:55, 12 September 2007 (CDT)

Many thanks

Many thanks Joe - Anthro is a lonely place right now - I intend to change that soon - I have written every editor and author and am enlisting colleagues and students and hopefully we'll get going soon. My strategy now is to work on creating all developed articles in the critical list. I'm going to rely on the wiki format/theory/philosophy to bring these to "approved" status.

Lee R. Berger 15:57, 12 September 2007 (CDT)

Cool. I think we got off to a pretty good start on Anthropology but progress got bogged down and then ground to a halt when we had to deal with the history of anthropology. My memory wasn't fresh enough and I had to divert my attention to my undergraduate thesis. With some fresh blood, I think we can get that one to approved status pretty quickly. And if we can get one article approved, then I think others will follow quickly.

I doubt I'll be able to help you very much with articles related to physical or biological anthro but I've been working on recruiting people to help me with the archaeology and ethnography of Mesoamerica, which is what I know best. I feel like our workgroup is finally starting to get going after a couple of false starts. Let's hope the trend continues!--Joe Quick (Talk) 16:09, 12 September 2007 (CDT)