User talk:Andrew Gray

Falcon 1[edit]

See Image:Falcon 1 compare.gif, the source page is a BBC one, I don't know more. Yug (talk) 19:18, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Overwriting images[edit]

Hey. When you upload an image over an existing image, anything you put in the text box will showup next to the newer version upload information near the bottom of the page. For example, if you look at Image:12th Royal Scots Lewis gunners in gas masks 25-06-1918.jpg, you'll see the 3 images you uploaded after it say nothing. But, if you put something like "cropped image" in the text, it would say "cropped image" instead of nothing. It's kinda like the edit summary, but for images. Just a little tid-bit, not a mandatory thing, but helpful for folks looking at those things. MECU≈talk 21:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image Tagging Image:St_Anne's_Limehouse_2.jpg[edit]

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Thanks for uploading Image:St_Anne's_Limehouse_2.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the content is a derivative of a copyrighted work, you need to supply the names and a licence of the original authors as well.

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File:M10 Wolverine of 628th TDs in Dreux.jpg[edit]

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--Teofilo (talk) 07:31, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File source is not properly indicated: File:MA-8_capsule_being_recovered.jpg[edit]

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This media may be deleted.

A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:MA-8_capsule_being_recovered.jpg, is missing information about where it comes from or who created it, which is needed to verify its copyright status. Please edit the file description and add the missing information, or the file may be deleted.

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Please add the required information for this and other files you have uploaded before adding more files. If you need assistance, please ask at the help desk. Thank you!

High Contrast (talk) 19:32, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tip: Categorizing images[edit]

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Hello, Andrew Gray!

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.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

BotMultichillT 06:14, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Percentage of IP edits on de.wp by date.svg was uncategorized on 26 August 2009.
Image:Battle of San Marino context labelled.jpg was uncategorized on 9 September 2009.
Image:Nuneham Courtenay.jpg was uncategorized on 21 August 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 12:12, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:Good Article nominations graph 2010.svg[edit]

Shimgray, if it's possible you can get us one more update of that graph for the end of en.wiki's GAN backlog elimination drive, that would be outstanding (especially given the slope of the graph looks like The Price is Right pricing game Cliff Hangers). MuZemike (talk) 19:29, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Assessments/wmf/blog[edit]

Let me know if you want more work on this. -- とある白い猫 ^ちぃ？ 21:04, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Files featured on Wikimedia Foundation blog[edit]

Hi, may I also suggest updating the gallery along with the tagging. :) -- とある白い猫 ^ちぃ？ 22:57, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

spaces with pywikipediabot[edit]

This is what I have in my script to upload a file with the linebreaks preserved:



python ../../../pywikipedia/upload.py -keep -noverify ABS-3401.0-OverseasArrivalsDeparturesAustralia-ShorttermMovementResidentDepartures_IntendedLengthStayMainReasonForJourney-Original-NumberMovements-1Under2Weeks-A1830821W.svg "== {{int:filedesc}} ==
{{Information
|Description={{en|3401.0 Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia<br/>Table 10: Short-term Movement, Resident Departures - Intended Length of Stay and Main Reason for Journey: Original<br/>Number of movements ;  1 and under 2 weeks ; {{AustralianBureauStatistics-header| 1=Number| 2=Original| 3=Flow| 4=Month| 5=1| 6=Jan-1991}}.<br/>The graph was plotted with [[w:gnuplot|gnuplot]], and shows both the raw data (black points), and a trend constructed from a weighted cubic spline with a weighting of 1e-22 (red line).}}
|Source={{own}}
{{AustralianBureauStatistics|1=A1830821W|2=3|3=3401010|4=3401.0|5=abs@archive.nsf}}
|Date=2012-06-01
|Author=[[User:99of9|Toby Hudson]]
|Permission=
|other_versions=
}}
== {{int:license}} ==
{{self|cc-by-sa-3.0-au}}
{{User:99of9/ABS-graph}}
[[Category:Statistics about short-term departures from Australia]]"

--99of9 (talk) 11:17, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. I'm currently feeding the text in via cat, which probably explains the linebreaks issue! I'll have a work on updating this today. Andrew Gray (talk) 11:19, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

...and it seems to be working a bit weirdly for me; still not quite right. I'll have a think about this over the next couple of days! Other than formatting, is it looking okay? Andrew Gray (talk) 11:37, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How's this? Andrew Gray (talk) 11:53, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good on the whitespace. I couldn't find the license info on the source page. Can you link to it and put a {{License Review}} tag on in-copyright pics. --99of9 (talk) 12:16, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The license information isn't on the source pages as yet (it's a known issue with all BL-hosted released content), but I'm sitting next to the IDP image manager, who's providing me with the material. I'll get an OTRS ticket sorted out to verify this if needed. Andrew Gray (talk) 12:18, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Quick update - image copyright labels are on the IDP "to resolve" list. I've not normally worried with BL material before, but that was my personal account and the linkage was clear. Hmm. Andrew Gray (talk) 12:22, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That one will definitely need OTRS, because there's no clue who John Falconer is, or what his relationship with the BL/DP is. In the file exif the copyright holder=Macintosh!-99of9 (talk) 12:30, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll file one of these (it may not get sorted out immediately) and add the tag to the new uploads + retroactively to the others. It may even be possible to cascade it through the template... Andrew Gray (talk) 12:55, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

User:LibraryBot[edit]

Congratulations! It has bot status now. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 13:41, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Aurel Stein photos[edit]

Hi Andrew, I've noticed that your bot has uploaded a number of photos by Aurel Stein, e.g those in Category:Kharakhoto. As Stein died in 1943 his photos are still in copyright until 2014, so unless I'm missing something I think they need to be deleted from commons. BabelStone (talk) 12:42, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Have you had any more thoughts about these? Your bot has uploaded quite a large number of photos by Stein that are probably still in copyright, including some or all of the following. I think it best to delete them if we cannot be sure that IDP owns their copyright (if they do own their copyright then they are wrongly licensed), and reupload them in January 2014. BabelStone (talk) 23:14, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've finally managed to track down an answer to this. The IDP believe themselves to be the copyright holders of Stein's works, and are happy to release them as public domain-equivalent (which they're going to hit in thirteen months anyway). I think the best solution here is to relabel them {{CC-0}}, and leave a note to switch it come Jan 2014; I'll try to get this done before I go away at the weekend.

Thanks again for chasing me up on these! Andrew Gray (talk) 11:39, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for following up on this. BabelStone (talk) 19:02, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open[edit]

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Possible copyright issue?[edit]

File:HMS GLOWWORM makes smoke as she attempts to attack the German heavy cruiser ADMIRAL HIPPER during the Norwegian campaign, 8 April 1940. The destroyer was sunk when she rammed the German ship. FL1973.jpg is almost certainly not Crown Copyright expired... something to look into. I'm not sure the best way to flag it up other than to let you know! Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 16:45, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply! Fae thinks otherwise, see Commons:Deletion requests/File:HMS GLOWWORM makes smoke as she attempts to attack the German heavy cruiser ADMIRAL HIPPER during the Norwegian campaign, 8 April 1940. The destroyer was sunk when she rammed the German ship. FL1973.jpg. Would be good if we could keep it! Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 15:11, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Moving files[edit]

Hi, you may want to ask for Commons:Requests_for_rights#Filemover. It's handy, saves time by doing it yourself, and you have well over the minimum sort of contributions that are needed. Cheers --Fæ (talk) 05:54, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, Dear Filemover![edit]

العربيَّة ∙ Deutsch ∙ español ∙ English ∙ français ∙ português ∙ русский ∙ українська ∙ বাংলা ∙ മലയാളം ∙ 한국어 ∙ 日本語 ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文（中国大陆）‎ ∙ 中文（台灣）‎ ∙ 中文（简体）‎ ∙ 中文（繁體）‎ ∙ +/−

Hi Andrew Gray, you're now a filemover. When moving files please respect the following advice:

Use the CommonsDelinker link in the {{Rename}} template to order a bot to replace all ocurrences of the old title with the new one. Or, if there was no rename-request, please use the Move & Replace-tab.
Please leave a redirect behind unless you have a valid reason not to do so. Other projects, including those using InstantCommons, might be using the file even though they don't show up in the global usage. Deleting the redirects would break their file references. Please see this section of the file rename guideline for more information.
Please know and follow the file rename guidelines.

--Didym (talk) 12:59, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

BL mass import[edit]

Hi Andrew,

In cas you would miss it, please see User talk:Andrew Gray/Canada.

Cheers, Jean-Fred (talk) 10:00, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the pointer - hadn't seen that trick before. I've updated it. Andrew Gray (talk) 10:01, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Andrew,

Kudos fot the music manuscripts uplaod, these are beautiful.

Just so you know: {{PD-old}} is not a good template to use. It is the least precise template we have around and he is to be deprecated (well, someday).

{{PD-old-100-1923}} is a far better choice for your case here.

Cheers, Jean-Fred (talk) 22:48, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

One problem is that I don't know for sure these were all published in some form before 1923... Andrew Gray (talk) 10:02, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Philip Timms[edit]

Thanks for creating the Category:Philip T. Timms sub-cat. Do you have any more images by him in your archives? Our GLAM Canada user at en:wp is wondering how to approach the Vancouver Archives to see if they want to participate. User:The Interior is he, and probably easier to contact on his talk page at en:wp. I started a GLAM section there if you want to use that.--Canoe1967 (talk) 18:15, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for adding those. I am still trying to get my head around public domain copyright in Canada vs. USA copyright laws. I found a bunch of pictures on the net of w:Joe Fortes who died in 1922. Do images need to be created before 1923 to be public domain or published before 1923?--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:03, 12 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That is what I feared. We need to prove publication date or wait 120 years from date of creation, if unknown, or 70 pma if the author is known.--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:25, 12 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's certainly a bit of a mess. I do have at least one Fortes picture in the collection (IIRC) but it's not been uploaded yet - I'll do a little digging and see if we can find it. Andrew Gray (talk) 11:46, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Canada has more lax dates for public domain and I think someone mentioned that the US law is not being read correctly. One says that the US law makes works public domain in the US at the same time they become public domain in Canada. SeeTemplate:PD-Canada. I may email copyright.usa.gov and ask them. I have emailed my Canadian copyright minister a few times with no results. We did get results with the Canadian Space Agency when we emailed them they released all photos by our Canadians in space to the public domain the same as NASA does. Would you be interested in emailing copyright.ca and copyright.us if I can find their emails? My email address may seem odd to them and they may just dump them all in spam folders. I will ask at vp/copyright here and at en:wp first in case they may have a link to a discussion that settled it somewhere.--Canoe1967 (talk) 15:21, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

British Library - WiR and Labs[edit]

Greetings -

Congratulations on your productive year at the BL! Also, the project page at w:WP:GLAM/BL is a wonderful model for our smaller project at w:WP:GLAM/GFPLM.

I am organizing an application and a team for the BL Labs Competition and was hoping you might be willing to answer a few questions about the feasibility of my project proposal (which is centered around the BL image collections and Wikimedia Commons). And yes, even though I'm in the US, I can still apply! Thanks for your time. Bdcousineau (talk) 02:28, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WLM in the UK[edit]

Thanks for your interest in this. I'd like to get some proper teams in place now, so we can decide who will be doing what, and I wonder if you could go to Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom/People and move your signature to the correct heading? Many thanks, MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:42, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Girdwood[edit]

Re: Category:British Library Photo 24 (Girdwood Collection)

My 2p of feedback is that I like the idea of having a Commons project page that explains the context of a collection. It might be an idea to add a couple of sentences to the catalogue page which currently is the parent of the project subpage and ensure that people are encouraged to follow the link to find out more. A tip from an experience I had with some Boston library collections of multiple prints, is to add these as other_versions of each other, and again ensure that the introduction to the category explains that some images in the category may be prints of the same negative, but have value in the future digital reconstruction or clean-up of images, so for these reasons it is helpful to retain multiple prints - an example being File:9th Gurkhas drawing rations at a French farm house St Floris, France (Photo 24-57).jpg and File:9th Gurkhas drawing rations at a French farm house St Floris, France (Photo 24-56).jpg. --Fæ (talk) 22:36, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

region categories for British Columbia[edit]

As I commented elsewhere, I've long been a critic of using regional districts for classifying topics and images from British Columbia. They are only one kind of governmental subdivision used in the province and their use in describing/classifying where something is is often not directly citable, and is in fact original research in many cases. Their names are often composed of the traditional/geographic regions laid out in here in Wikipedia, and in some cases, such as those in the Okanagan region, where there are three regional districts, it's clumsy to break such regions up that way; and in at least one of those cases, other areas not in the Okanagan (the Boundary and Similkameen regions) are included; the regional district names and origins are all political in nature; the region commonly called the West Kootenay is mostly the REgional District of Central Kootenay, for example; before that RDs naming the term "Central Kootenay" did not exist, and if used at all refers only to the operations and board of the regional district. Geographic studies and botanical and so on are often classified/cited by forest district, for example. Hospitals by Health Region and so on; BC Names uses Land Districts, which are the cadastral land-survey system's regions. All this by way of asking how to make categories within the Commons; many of the images I've been adding categories for I've pointedly not using the available regional district category, partly because of the research it would take to find out which one they're in......is there any way to bot-o-mate adding/creating categories by analyzing/parsing what wikipedia pages/categories given images are used on?Skookum1 (talk) 10:31, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not easily (you'd have to write one). Is it simpler to stick to town-based classification? Andrew Gray (talk) 10:34, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No, because of the vast expanses of non-municipal land.....and also Indian Reserves are outside regional district governance, though in their cases there's an existing series of names which can be used for their territories/articles, some of which are already here I think. I think the mountain range categories are already in place, maybe not, and that includes plateaus and highlands and such, the parent of that is the Landforms category. Items like teh Mount Cheam image are relatively easy; Category:Chilliwack, British Columbia and Category:Cascade Mountains apply (or Category:North Cascades if it exists, it's actually in the Category:Skagit Range which is a subcat of that..... but for other mountains and localities, they're not anywhere near municipalities; ghost towns nearly all disappeared before regional districts were even created in 1966-67 by the way.....very awkward to say "in such-and-so a regional district" in those cases.....their available citations will be, as noted, by Land District (those can be as large as several US states, or on Vancouver Island a good dozen will fit in one US county, it's a very out of date system but the basis of legal land regulation...). So I can just create categories then, as in Wikipedia?Skookum1 (talk) 10:42, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just created Category:Canadian Cascades, see Category talk:Cascade Range re the redundancy of Category:Cascade Mountains, which I'm about to depopulate and should be a redirect to "Cascade Range".Skookum1 (talk) 06:01, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think "create the most reasonable category" is a good bet, but make sure they're subsets of the existing BC cats in some way and crosslink to the new areas where appropriate. Andrew Gray (talk) 22:48, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File:2nd Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force, 21st Battalion, Kingston, Nov. 21, 1914. In quarter column formation (HS85-10-29775).jpg[edit]

The original .tif version is missing, please upload or delete the link to it. --Denniss (talk) 21:24, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think this may be one of the ones with an original tiff over 100MB (which failed). I'll comment it out for now and fix by hand later. Andrew Gray (talk) 22:33, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just tried Commons:Up! for a very large file and it worked well. I just thought I would let you know in case you weren't aware of it. File:Altmer High Elf three point defense.png is the file.--Canoe1967 (talk) 20:41, 21 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Some more missing .tif files:

--Denniss (talk) 11:43, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - these ones should definitely be there! A little worrying; will check tonight. Andrew Gray (talk) 12:09, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've now figured out (after a lot of work) what went wrong with these; seems that some .tif uploads fail without my script realising. This is annoying, to put it mildly. Fixing them by hand, now... Andrew Gray (talk) 21:15, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tracking category for broken file links

Votre participation à Wiki Loves Monuments[edit]

Bonjour, (for an english translation, scroll down)

Merci pour votre participation au concours Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 sur Wikimedia Commons. Je me permets de vous laisser ce message pour vous informer, au cas où vous ne l'auriez pas vu, que la participation au concours n'est pas limitée à une seule contribution. Si vous souhaitez soumettre d'autres images dans le cadre de WLM 2013, il vous reste donc jusqu'au 30 septembre.

Si vous avez besoin de précisions sur ce concours n'hésitez pas à revenir vers moi.

English translation : Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 on Wikimedia Commons. I send you this email to inform you, in case you didn't notice, that the contest is not limited to a single contribution. If you have other images of historical monuments then you have until September 30 to contribute to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013. If you need information on this contest feel free to contact me. Sincerely.

Symac, WLM2013 - France.

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Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013! Please help with this survey.

Dear Andrew Gray,
Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time.

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Editor @ ar.wiki[edit]

Hello. I would like to inform you that I have granted you editor flag at the Arabic Wikipedia, all your edits there will be automatically marked as patrolled. Best regards.--Avocato (talk) 06:58, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File:Panoramic photograph of Powell River (HS85-10-30390) original.tif[edit]

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Andrew Gray (talk) 21:20, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File:Panoramic photograph of Powell River (HS85-10-30390).jpg[edit]

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Andrew Gray (talk) 21:20, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking part in the Wiki Loves Monuments participants' survey!

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Holiday wishes[edit]

Happy Holidays!

Vera (talk) 13:41, 24 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File:Picking strawberries Mr Pyiiuui's orchard, Kelow-na, British Columbia (HS85-10-21212) original.tif[edit]

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Yann (talk) 11:48, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose you uploaded this. This file is broken. Any reason to keep it? Best regards, Yann (talk) 13:02, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for the delay - I've been travelling and wasn't able to reply sooner. I can reupload it, but before I do - do you remember what the problem with this file was? You noted "404 error" but I'm not sure what that means. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:23, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of the Year 2013 R1 Announcement[edit]

BL Mechanical Curator image script[edit]

Hi Andrew!

I've made a suggestion at Commons_talk:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection#Templates to change the {{British Library image}} template added by the Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/script in favour of a new template, more specific to the BL 1million image collection.

You're the expert in this area (and it's your script and your template!), so your thoughts would be invaluable. All best, Jheald (talk) 13:26, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Advice on British Library classmarks[edit]

Hi Andrew. I've been wrangling metadata with a view to trying to use the new GWtoolset system for an automated upload of the set of 430 BL Images Online images recently released to Flickr,

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/sets/72157640831988343/

I've got the following shelfmarks. For the {{British Library image}} template, can you tell me which ones I should be recognising as needing the ms-shelfmark parameter, as opposed to the ordinary shelfmark ? Are there patterns? I know the numeric ones are likely to be standard books, but I'm not sure how to distinguish the rest. Also, is there anything in the classmarks that jumps out at you as needing cleanup, in order for them to go smoothly with the template? (Some of the titles I know have a problem, but that I can deal with separately)

Shelfmarks, titles and dates

-- [Hastings albums]. -- 1818 - 1820

  -- The Tapling Collection. -- 1851
 10.Tab.40 -- New illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus: comprehending an elucidation of the several parts of the fructification; a prize dissertation on the sexes of plants; a full explanation of the classes, and orders, of the sexual system; and the Temple of Flora, or Garden of nature, being picturesque, botanical, coloured plates, of select plants, illustrative of the same, with descriptions. -- 1807
 10.Tab.41. -- Pomona Britannica -- 1812
 10055.aa.12 -- A Digest of the different castes of India -- 1837
 10290.f.2 volume 2 -- Travels in Southern Russia, and the Crimea -- 1853
 1042.k.34.(1) -- An analysis of Country Dancing: wherein are displayed all the figures ever used in country dances, etc. -- 1811
 10666.aa.35 -- Trial of Marshal Ney for high treason -- 1816
 10816.d.20 -- The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow -- 1892 [1891]
 10817.bbb.7 -- The remarkable life, adventures, and discoveries o -- 1869
 11660.e.39 -- Tales of terror; with an introductory dialogue ... -- 1808
 1210.e.28 -- The Chronicle of the Valiant Feats ... of Jack the -- 1845
 1266.k.26 -- Views of the Crystal Palace and Park, Sydenham -- 1854
 12807.s.80 -- The Tricks of Naughty Boys. (A series of amusing transformation scenes.) -- 1900
 143.g.1 -- The costume of Yorkshire -- 1814
 1489.g.50 -- The interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano -- 1789
 16033.e.6 -- Kai ('Vocabulary Of Flowers'). -- 1750-1765
 1607/3028 -- The Modern Bicycle -- 1877
 167.c.26 -- Begin. [fol. 2 recto:] wHan that Apprill with his -- 1478?]
 1786.c.9 -- Ten Views in the Island of Antigua -- 1823
 1786.c.9 -- Ten Views in the Island of Antigua ... -- 1823
 1786.c.9 -- Ten Views in the Island of Antigua, in which are r -- 1823
 1823.d.12 -- L'Art de Créer les Jardins, etc. -- 1835
 1876.e.18 -- In Fairy Land A series of pictures from the elf-world by Richard Doyle With a poem by W Allingham -- 1870
 1899.r.41 -- The Illuminated Books of the middle ages; an account of the development and progress of the art of illumination ... from the IVth to the XVIIth centuries ... Illustrated by a series of examples ... executed on stone and printed in colours by Owen Jones.  -- 1844-49
 190.e.1 -- The Microcosm of London -- 1808 - 1811
 192.f.8 volume 1 -- An history of the principal rivers of Great Britain -- 1796
 215.c.15 -- America.- Part V.- Latin. -- 1595 (1617 ?)
 2270.cc.8 -- The Modern Practical Angler. A complete guide to fly-fishing, bottom-fishing, and trolling. Illustrated, etc. -- 1875
 276.i.4 -- A General History of the Pyrates -- 1725
 458.f.12 -- Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium. -- 1758
 458.f.8 -- Lords entire new System of ornithology, or cumenical history of British Birds; with a brief account of their characters. -- 1791
 458.h.14 part 1 -- A collection of plates illustrative of African sce -- 1804
 458.h.14 part 2 -- A collection of plates illustrative of African sce -- 1804
 458.h.14 part 2 -- A collection of plates illustrative of African scenery and animals -- 1804
 459.g.1 -- The British Zoology. -- 1766
 462*.e.1 -- The Birds of Great Britain. -- 1873
 533.k.8.(2) -- Introductio geographica Petri Apiani in Verneri an -- 1533
 548.k.13 -- Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris -- 1699
 649.c.26 -- Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium -- 1705
 649.c.26 -- Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium. -- 1705
 7108.cc.18 -- The World before the Deluge -- 1865
 747.f.3 -- The History of the Royal Residences ... -- 1819
 7742.de.8 -- Fashion in Paris -- 1898
 838.m.7 -- The wars of Wellington, a narrative poem ... -- 1819
 838.m.7 -- The wars of Wellington, a narrative poem. -- 1819
 838.m.7 -- The Wars of Wellington, a narrative poem. -- 1819
 9080.m.3 -- Historic, military, and naval anecdotes of ... par -- 1819
 Add 15297(1) -- Ramayana, Yuddha Kanda. -- 1652
 Add 15504A -- Album of Vaishnava paintings. -- 1800
 Add 37955 A --  -- circa 1400-1425
 Add. 10294 -- La Mort le Roi Artus -- circa 1316
 Add. 10302 -- The Ordinal of Alchemy -- circa 1477
 Add. 11060 --  -- 1804
 Add. 11616 -- Das Schachzabelbuch -- 15th century
 Add. 11695 -- Silos Apocalypse -- 1109
 Add. 12228 -- Roman du Roy Meliadus de Leonnoys -- circa 1352
 Add. 12531 -- The Portuguese Genealogy / Genealogia dos Reis de Portugal. -- 1530-1534
 Add. 14761 -- Barcelona Haggadah. -- 14th century
 Add. 15217 -- Memoirs, biographical notes and poems, etc., of the Coeler family -- 1560-1632
 Add. 15268 -- Li livre des ansienes estoires -- Circa 1285
 Add. 15295 -- Ramayana, Bala Kanda. -- 1712
 Add. 15297(1) -- Ramayana, Yuddha Kanda. -- 1652
 Add. 15508 -- Drawings illustrative of Captain Cook's First Voya -- 1769
 Add. 15508 -- Drawings illustrative of Captain Cook's First Voyage -- 1769
 Add. 15508 -- Drawings illustrative of Captain Cook's First Voyage -- circa 1770-1771
 Add. 15512 -- Drawings from Sir Joseph Bank's Voyage to the Hebrrides, Orkneys, and Iceland. -- 1772
 Add. 15760 -- Account of the Islands of the Mediterranean. -- 1489
 Add. 16175 -- Gradual -- 1570
 Add. 16936 -- Drawings and sketches illustrating the scenery of the interior of British Guiana. -- 1842-1843
 Add. 17025 -- Album Amicorum of Gervasius Fabricius -- 1603-1637
 Add. 17280 -- So-called Hours of Philip the Fair -- circa 1495
 Add. 18724 -- Passover Haggadah -- 1740
 Add. 18804 -- Shahnama. -- 1719
 Add. 18850 -- Bedford Hours -- 1414-1423
 Add. 18855 -- Book of Hours -- detached calendar leave
 Add. 18972 -- Historia Scholastica -- circa 1451
 Add. 19720 -- Livre des profits ruraux -- late 15th century
 Add. 19954 -- Drawings and Sketches in New Zealand -- circa 1848-1853
 Add. 21577 B --  -- 1762
 Add. 22047 -- Roll of the Galleys of Henry VIII -- 1546
 Add. 22557 -- Lo Libro de Multi Belli Miraculi -- 14th century
 Add. 22689 -- A Keepsake from the Cloud Gallery/Yuntai Xianrui. -- 18th century
 Add. 22797 -- Etymologies -- early 13th century
 Add. 23770 -- Introductorius ad Judicia Astrologiae -- 
 Add. 23920 --  -- circa 1776-1777
 Add. 23920 -- A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage -- [2] 1773
 Add. 23920 -- A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage -- 1769
 Add. 23920 -- A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage -- 1770
 Add. 23920 -- A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage. 1768-1771. -- 1769
 Add. 23920 -- A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage. 1768-1771. -- circa 1773
 Add. 24065 --  -- 1550
 Add. 24098 -- The Golf Book -- 1520-1530
 Add. 24098 -- The Golf Book. -- 1520-1530
 Add. 24189 -- Picture book of Sir John Mandeville's Travels -- circa 1410
 Add. 24200 -- The State of the Fortes of Ireland in 1624 -- 1624
 Add. 24675 -- Antiphonal -- 1545
 Add. 24945 -- De re militari -- 15th century
 Add. 27254 -- Tazkirat al-umara, written for Col. James Skinner. Historical notices of some princely families of Rajasthan and the Panjab, chiefly of those near to Hissar where Colonel Skinner was stationed. Thirty-eight portraits. -- 1830
 Add. 27255 -- Tashrih al-aqvam, an account of origins and occupations of some of the sects, castes and tribes of India. -- 1825
 Add. 27566 --  -- 836 AH/1433 AD
 Add. 27695 -- Treatise on the Vices -- late 14th century
 Add. 28330 -- Description of Great Britain and Ireland -- circa 1574
 Add. 28681 -- Latin Psalter, with canticles, litany, etc -- 13th century-15th century
 Add. 29433 -- Book of Hours -- circa 1407
 Add. 29822 -- Egyptian Collections, Vol. XI -- between 1826 and 1838
 Add. 34113 -- Della providentia della chuera -- Early 16th century
 Add. 34186 --  -- 2nd century?
 Add. 34294 -- Sforza Hours -- 1517-1520
 Add. 35254 F --  -- circa 1500
 Add. 35254 V -- Hours of Henry VII -- circa 1500
 Add. 35318 -- Book of Hours -- 16th century
 Add. 37177 --  -- 16th century
 Add. 37421 -- Hours of Etienne Chevalier -- circa 1452-1460
 Add. 37763 -- Six Quartetts dedicated to Haydn [Op.10] -- 1785
 Add. 37765 -- Three Quartetts dedicated to the King of Prussia -- 1789
 Add. 37768 -- Lothaire Psalter -- 9th century
 Add. 38122 -- Flemish Bible History -- mid 15th century
 Add. 38126 -- Huth Hours -- 1485-1490
 Add. 39249 --  -- 1569
 Add. 42130 -- Luttrell Psalter -- circa 1325-1335
 Add. 46700 -- Alice's Adventures Under Ground [in Wonderland] -- 1862-1864
 Add. 47682 -- The Holkham Bible Picture Book -- circa 1320-1330
 Add. 48027 -- Papers and correspondance relating to Mary, Queen of Scots -- 1586
 Add. 4838 --  -- 1215
 Add. 49598 -- Benedictional of St. Aethelwold -- 971-984
 Add. 50000 -- Oscott Psalter -- circa 1265-1270
 Add. 5141 -- Portrait and Life of Chaucer -- 16th century
 Add. 5256 -- Drawings of Hungarian and Saxon Dresses -- 
 Add. 5415 A -- Queen Mary Atlas -- 1558
 Add. 54782 -- Hastings Hours -- circa 1480
 Add. 57653 --  -- 
 Add.Or.1239 --  -- 1816-1820
 Add.Or.1262 --  -- 1820-1830
 Add.Or.1385 --  -- 1838-1839
 Add.Or.1875 --  -- c.1865
 Add.Or.1879 --  -- c.1880
 Add.Or.2 --  -- c.1820
 Add.Or.2127 --  -- 1800-1805
 Add.Or.2659 --  -- c.1780-1790
 Add.Or.3853 --  -- c.1650
 Add.Or.4973 -- [Hastings albums]. -- 1818 - 1820
 Add.Or.4988 --  -- c.1820
 Add.Or.741 --  -- c.1847
 Add.Or.948 --  -- 1780-1790
 Arundel 83 -- Psalter of Robert de Lisle -- circa 1310
 Ashley 5022 --  -- 19th century
 Burney 97 -- De animalium proprietate -- 18th century
 C.119.f.1 volume 3 -- The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics -- 1809-1829
 C.175.n.3 -- Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth, ecclesiasticall and civill -- 1651
 C.58.b.7 -- A Christmas Carol in prose -- 1843
 C.58.b.7 -- A Christmas Carol in prose. -- 1843
 C.58.cc.1.(2) -- Rowlandson's characteristic Sketches of the Lower Orders, intended as a companion to the New Picture of London: consisting of fifty-four plates ... coloured.  -- 1820
 Cotton Augustus I. i. 35 --  -- circa 1539
 Cotton Augustus II.106 -- Magna Carta -- 1215
 Cotton Augustus III --  -- early 16th century
 Cotton Augustus V -- Le Tresor des Histoires -- 15th century
 Cotton Claudius D. II --  -- 14th century
 Cotton Nero A. X, art.3 -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- c
 Cotton Nero C. IV -- Winchester Psalter [Psalter of Henry of Blois; Psa -- 
 Cotton Nero C. IV -- Winchester Psalter [Psalter of Henry of Blois; Psalter of St Swithun]. -- between 1121 and 1161
 Cotton Nero D. IV -- Lindisfarne Gospels -- 710-721
 Cotton Nero D. IX -- The Romance of Jean de Saintré -- circa 1470
 Cotton Nero D. VI --  -- 1386-1399
 Cotton Nero E. II pt.2 -- Grandes Chroniques de France -- Circa 1415
 Cotton Tiberius B. V, Part 1 -- Cicero's Aratus -- second quarter of 11th cent
 Cotton Titus A. XXVI --  -- circa 1447-1449
 Cotton Vitellius A. XIII -- Miscellaneous chronicles -- circa 1280-1300
 Cotton Vitellius A. XV -- Beowulf -- circa 1000
 Cup.410.g.74 -- The Nursery Alice -- 1890
 Cup.652.c.33 volume 2 -- Dickinson's comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition -- 1854
 Egerton 1139 -- Psalter of Queen Melisende -- between 1131 and 1143
 Egerton 1614 --  -- 1801
 Egerton 1787 -- Blackfriars mortgage-deed -- 1613
 Egerton 2020 -- Carrara Herbal -- circa 1400
 Egerton 3028 -- Verse Chronicle of 'Roman de Brut' [abridgement] -- mid 14th century
 Egerton 768 -- Gospels of St Luke and St John -- second half of 9th century
 EVAN.2580 -- A collection of pamphlets, handbills, and miscellaneous printed matter -- 1892
 EVAN.2582 -- A collection of pamphlets, handbills, and miscellaneous printed matter -- 1883
 EVAN.2584 -- A collection of pamphlets, handbills, and miscellaneous printed matter -- c. 1880
 EVAN.2590 -- A collection of pamphlets, handbills, and miscellaneous printed matter -- 1886
 EVAN.2689 -- A collection of pamphlets, handbills, and miscella -- c. 1882
 Foster 245 --  -- 1778
 Foster 396 --  -- 1782
 Foster 597 --  -- 1785
 Foster 905 --  -- c.1730
 Foster 994 --  -- 1865
 G.11429 -- [Mischeefes mysterie ... London 1617.] -- 1641
 G.11631 -- First Folio. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Hi -- 1623
 G.12188 -- 'The holi bible'. The Bishops Bible. -- 1569
 G.16019 -- A voyage to Hudson's-Bay, ... in ... 1746 and 1747 -- 1748
 G.2555 volume 2 -- Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty' -- 1839
 G.6103 -- Warhafftige ... Beschreibung der ... Verrätherey s -- 1606
 h.1485.q.(7.) -- The Gunpowder Plot galop. -- 1866
 Harley 1766 -- The Fall of Princes -- circa 1460
 Harley 2788 -- Harley Golden Gospels. Four Gospels (the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels'; 'Codex Aureus'), with canon tables. -- (Aachen?) 1st quarter of the 9th century
 Harley 3448 -- Flore de virtu e de costumi (Flowers of Virtue and of Custom) -- 2nd quarter of the 15th century
 Harley 3469 -- Splendor Solis -- 1582
 Harley 3696 -- Survey of the Lordships of Bromfield and Yale, co. -- 
 Harley 4379 -- Froissart's Chronicles (Volume IV, part 1) -- 1470-1475
 Harley 4380 -- Froissart's Chronicles (Volume IV, part 2) -- 1470-1475
 Harley 4425 -- Roman de la Rose. -- circa 1490-1500
 Harley 4431 -- Collected Works of Christine de Pisan -- 1410-1411
 Harley 4751 -- Bestiary -- 1230-1240
 Harley 5102 -- Psalter -- circa 1220
 Harley 647 -- Harley Aratus -- circa 820-840
 Harley 6563 -- Book of Hours -- circa 1320-1330
 Harley 978 -- Summer Canon [Reading Rota] -- mid 13th cent
 HS.74/1630 -- The Political drama. [A series of caricatures.] -- [1834-1835]
 I.O. ISLAMIC 1138 -- Majalis al-'Ushshaq of Sultan Husayn Mirza. -- 1590-1600
 I.O. ISLAMIC 1256 -- Shahnama. -- 1630-1640
 I.O. ISLAMIC 3540 -- Shahnama of Firdawsi, with 56 miniatures -- 1580 - 1600
 I.O. ISLAMIC 387 -- Khamsa. -- c.1505
 J.67.4 -- [Johnson Collection] -- c.1610
 K.T.C.28.b.20 -- Great Expectations. By Charles Dickens. [Twenty-one engraved plates, including a titlepage, after etchings by F. W. Pailthorpe.]  -- 1885
 Kings 156 -- Dogal Commission of Hieronymus Zane -- 1568
 Lansdowne 451 -- Pontifical -- circa 1400
 LR.410.pp.24 -- Scraps and sketches, etc. -- [29]
 Maps.*1180.(20) -- A delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland; exhibiting the Collieries and Mines, the Marshes and Fen Lands originally overflowed by the sea, and the varieties of Soil ... By W. Smith. (Geological Table of British Organized Fossils.--Memoir. pp. 51.) British statute miles, 30[ = 155 mm]  -- 1815
 Maps.15.e.26 -- Eighteen Views taken at & near Rangoon ... By Jose -- 1825
 Maps.183.q.1.(13) -- The India & Colonial Exhibition, London, 1886. Map -- [1886]
 Maps.188.v.12 -- Europe divided into its kingdoms &c. by J. Spilsbu -- 1766
 Maps.31885.(1) -- Plan du Champ Bataille de Waterloo dit de la Belle -- 1816
 Maps.6.Tab.24 -- Twenty-four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia, and Egypt, by Henry Salt; engraved by Havell, Bluck, and Hill. With Descriptions.  -- 1809
 Maps.C.26.f.2 -- Atlas Nouus Coelestis in quo mundus spectabilis -- 1742
 Maps.C.6.c.2 -- Atlas Coelestis -- 1660
 Maps.C.6.c.2 -- Atlas Coelestis. Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis et novus, totius universi creati Cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens Studio et labore Andreae Cellarii, etc.  -- 1660
 Maps.C.6.c.3 -- Atlas Coelestis. -- 1660
 Maps.C.6.c.4 -- Totius Neobelgii Nova et Accuratissima Tabula -- 1710
 Maps.C.7.c.1 -- Promontorium hoc ... Cornubia dicitur ... 1576. C. -- 1579
 Maps.C.9.d.1 -- Leo Belgicus. Artificiosa et geographica tabula su -- 1600-1750
 Maps.K.Top.121.35 -- Plan of New York or New Amsterdam (as in Sep' 1661) -- 1664
 Maps.K.Top.18.76.d -- Three Views of Liverpool. -- 1797
 Maps.K.Top.27.22 --  -- 1809
 MSS JAV 89 -- Serat Damar Wulan. ('The Romance of Damar Wulan'). -- 1770-1795
 N.Tab.2004/11 -- Album Vilmorin. [68 Coloured plates of vegetables and flowers, printed by E. Champin and Mlle. Coutance.] -- [1850]
 N/A -- The Pictorial Times -- 10th October 1846
 NHD 1/19 -- History of Sumatra -- 
 NHD 47/33 --  -- c.1824
 NHD 47/34 --  -- 1824
 NHD 47/44 --  -- c.1824
 NHD 47/45 --  -- c.1824
 NHD 48/19 --  -- c.1824
 NHD 48/20 -- From an album of 40 drawings of plants -- c. 1824
 NHD 48/23 --  -- c.1824
 NHD 48/26 --  -- c.1824
 NHD 49/32 --  -- 1818-c.1830
 Or. 12208 -- Khamsa. ('Five Poems'). -- 1595
 Or. 13895 -- The Four Gospels. -- 1755-1756
 Or. 14344 -- Album of 100 genre scenes. -- late 19th century
 Or. 14839 -- The Four Gospels. -- 1669
 Or. 14915 -- Kharosthi Buddhist text. -- 
 Or. 2780 -- Collection of epic poems -- 1397-1398
 Or. 2784 -- Kitab Na't al-hayawan wa-manafi'ihi (Animals and their Uses). -- 13th century
 Or. 6317 -- Anvar-i Suhayli, a version of the Kalila va Dimna fables. -- 1600-1601
 Or. 7377 -- Avatamsaka sutra -- c.1400
 Or. 7694 --  -- C
 Or. 8210/P.2 -- The Diamond Sutra. -- 868
 Or.2933 -- An abridged version of Khusrau u Shirin by Nizami. Sixty-three miniatures. -- 1726
 P.P.5270 -- Punch, or the London charivari -- 1882
 P.P.5270 -- Punch, or the London Charivari -- 19th century
 P.P.5270 -- Punch, or the London Charivari. -- 1885
 P.P.5270.ah -- Punch, or the London charivari -- 1914
 P.P.5270.ah -- Punch, or the London Charivari. -- 1888
 P.P.6890.b -- The Oriental Annual, etc. [1834-1838] -- 1834-40
 P428 --  -- 1800
 P522 --  -- 1802
 P779 --  -- 1802
 Papyrus 131 -- Constitution of Athens ( Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία ) -- 78-c 100
 Papyrus 1531 -- The Gospel of Thomas -- latter part of 3rd century
 Photo 21 -- 'India Office Official Record of the Great War'. -- 22 April 1921
 RB.23.a.34787 -- Cruikshank's sketches -- 19th Century
 Royal 1 D. IX -- Gospels -- circa 1020
 Royal 10 E. IV -- Smithfield Decretals [Decretals of Gregory IX] -- circ
 Royal 13 B. VIII -- Topographia Hibernica -- circa 1220
 Royal 14 C. VII -- Historia Anglorum -- 1250-1259
 Royal 14 E. IV -- Chronique d' Angleterre (Volume III) -- late 15th century
 Royal 14 E. VI -- Rustican, du cultivement des terres / Commoda Rura -- 1473-1483?
 Royal 15 D. I -- Bible Historiale of Edward IV -- circa 1479
 Royal 15 E. I -- Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier -- late 15th century
 Royal 15 E. III -- Des Proprietez des Choses (Volume II) -- 1482
 Royal 16 F. II -- Poems of Charles, Duke of Orleans -- circa 1500
 Royal 16 G. VIII -- Les Commentaires de Cesar -- between 1473 and 1476
 Royal 18 D. II -- Troy Book -- circa 1455-1462
 Royal 18 D. III -- Lord Burghley's Atlas -- 1579
 Royal 18 E. I -- Chroniques de France et d`Angleterre, Book II -- circa 1460-1480
 Royal 18 E. I -- Chroniques de France et d'Angleterre, Book II -- circa 1460-1480
 Royal 18 E. I -- Jehan Froissart, Chroniques -- Netherlands
 Royal 19 B. XV -- Apocalypse -- early 14th century
 Royal 19 D. III -- Bible Historiale, vol. 1 -- circa 1411
 Royal 19 E. V -- Romuléon -- 1480
 Royal 2 A. XVI -- Psalter of Henry VIII -- 1530-1547
 Royal 2 A. XXII -- Westminster Psalter -- circa 1250
 Royal 2 B. VII -- The Queen Mary Psalter -- between 1310 and 1320
 Royal 20 A. II -- Chronicle of England -- c. 1307 - c. 1327
 Royal 20 B. XX -- La Vraye Histoire du Bon Roy Alixandre (The Alexan -- early 15th century
 Royal 20 B. XX -- La Vraye Histoire du Bon Roy Alixandre (The Alexander Romance in Old French prose). -- early 15th century
 Royal 20 C. VII -- Chroniques de France ou de St. Denis -- End of 14th century
 Royal 7 D. X -- Prayers and Meditations of Queen Katherine Parr -- 1545
 Seal CLVIII.1 --  -- before 1806
 Seal XLVII.5 --  -- circa 1112
 Sloane 1622 -- Travels through Virginia. [ From Theodor de Bry's 'America', Vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White]. -- 1618
 Sloane 1622 -- Travels through Virginia. [From Theodor de Bry's 'America', Vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White]. -- 1618
 Sloane 1622 -- Travels through Virginia. [From Theodor de Bry's 'America', Vol. I, 1590]. -- 1618
 Sloane 1622 -- Travels through Virginia. From Theodor de Bry's 'America', Vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White -- 1618
 Sloane 1622 -- Travels through Virginia. From Theodor de Bry's 'America', Vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White Image taken from Travels through Virginia. -- 1618
 Sloane 2435 -- Li Livres dou Santé -- late 13th century
 Sloane 2560 -- Opusculum Alchemicum -- second half 15th century
 Sloane 46 B -- Journal of a South Sea Voyage -- 1683
 Sloane 5246 -- Drawings of Human Prodigies -- early 18th century
 Stowe 594 -- William Bruges's Garter Book -- circa 1440-1450
 Stowe 956 -- The Penitential and other Psalms -- between 1509 and 1546
 Stowe Charter 617 --  -- 1508
 T.12646 -- Shampooing -- 1826
 Tab.435.a.1-8 -- Political Sketches of H. B. [i.e. John Doyle. A series of coloured lithographic prints.] no. 1-757. -- 1829-43
 V 10555 -- Tom Raw, the griffin: a burlesque poem -- 1828
 W 4162 -- The history of the Indian Mutiny. -- London Printing & Publishing Co
 WD 1264 --  -- 1834
 WD 2904 --  -- 1863
 WD 3279 -- [Oldfield Collection] -- 1850 - 1863
 WD 3318 -- [Oldfield collection]. -- 1852
 WD 543 --  -- c.1826
 X 546 -- Portraits Of The Princes & People Of India. -- 1844
 Y.A.1986.a.9592 -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. -- 1899
 Yates Thompson 26 -- Life of St. Cuthbert -- last quarter of 12th century
 Yates Thompson 31 -- Breviari d'Amour -- last quarter of 14th century
 Yates Thompson 33 -- Chronique de Normandie -- 2nd half of 15th century
 Yates Thompson 5 -- Tilliot Hours -- circa 1500

Thanks, Jheald (talk) 17:50, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hope you don't mind me flooding your talk page with the above. A bit more digging suggests I may be in trouble -- especially, the "Add." items appear to be utterly mixed between items in the main catalogue and items in the manuscript catalogue (which I believe really ought to be shelfmarked "Add. MS". I may need to sort by date, and try to fix it by hand from there.

The BL search engines also seem to be rather picky -- especially if the search term is in quotes, which the template does automatically. For example, Add. 23920 works, but "Add. 23920" (with quotes) doesn't. There also seems to be no particular way to specify a search by classmark -- I'm guessing it's doing a very literal text search.

What appears to be needed is "Add.23,920", but then that pulls up all the contents, which the top level container item then gets lost in. (In any case there seems to be no scope for hierarchical browsing, so if one did happen to be at the container item, e.g. by putting in the new BL system number for it, there seems to be no way to get to its content, even though that content is in the system). So I'm not even sure what the right answer is, that I ought to be putting in to the template, even having done all the discovery. And I'm not looking forward to having to do a similar process, for all 430 objects. Any advice as to what in your view is going to be the best way forward? Jheald (talk) 20:48, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

... while Add. 27254 or Add.Or.4973 I can't seem to find in any of the catalogues. Jheald (talk) 20:53, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, lots of answers follow!

First of all, it's important to remember that a lot of this is really old data. As in, transcribed onto computer in the early nineties, verbatim from slips in the old central index, and with very little standardisation - it was intended for human lookup. So "Additional MS 23920" might be "Add. MS. 23920", "Add. 23920", "Additional 23920" - or any of the above with commas in the thousands place. Ultimately, we're working against a pretty variable record which is fine for a competent human user but problematic for automated matching like we want to do.

When using either Explore catalogue, it's often a lot more reliable to give a system number than the shelfmark - eg/ File:A Description of Fonthill Abbey and Desmene - John Rutter (1822).pdf or File:South East View of Whitby Abbey, Wardale, 1812 (Maps K. Top. 44.53.d).jpg. This is not desirable, since we have to look them up by hand, but it's at least predictable in its results. I may be able to get system numbers for these for you - if you drop me an email I'll put you in touch with someone at the BL digital curator team.

The standard catalogue cannot search against shelfmark - it has to do a keyword search against the whole record to see this field. However, the MS one can by doing a field search on "reference code", but I never figured out how to construct a search string for it.

Most Add. MS. material should (as the name suggests) be in the MS catalogue, but for Reasons there are bits in both. I believe in the case of Add. 23920 it's because it's grouped with the cartographic items - note that you can find the same record in both. One additional complication is that the MS catalogue does not contain all manuscript/artwork items (yet) - some is not yet electronic, such as the Oriental Collections (your Add.Or.4973) and some of the older material is mainly covered by the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts - definitely the case for the Royal MS, generally speaking. It is quite possible that some of these items just will not have a catalogue entry to point to.

Again, drop me an email and I'll put you in touch. I actually owe them an email about this collection anyway :-) Andrew Gray (talk) 21:46, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, one last thing. Identifying - it's not incredibly easy to pattern-match, but generally speaking anything that is solely numeric or just numbers and single letters (eg 1786.c.9 or C.58.cc.1.(2)) is a book. Cup. is "cupboard" - large books. "I.O." is India Office and probably on MS catalogue but may not be there at all. Maps unexpectedly includes a lot of "illustrations of places", sketches and photographs, rather than just maps - but should be on the MS catalogue. P.P. is periodicals (?) - not sure where. Almost everything else, especially if it has a word in there (eg Royal, Yates Thompson, etc) is MS. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:55, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Replied by email; but my email's been playing up, so could you let me know whether you got it? Jheald (talk) 13:16, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing, sorry! Andrew Gray (talk) 13:44, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Problem seems to have been trying to send an XML file -- email with it seemed to be blocked, either as an attachment, or in plaintext. I've tried again with it attached as a zip file, and this time it seems to have gone through. Jheald (talk) 14:51, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not seeing it... Which address did you send it to? Andrew Gray (talk) 15:37, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sent to [omitted], split over three separate emails -- cover email / detailed to-do file / xml of the metadata. 14:41, 14:42, 14:48 Jheald (talk) 15:42, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Aha, didn't think to check the work account :-). I'll take a quick look at it tomorrow (webmail is a bit iffy) & put you in touch with Ben if needed. Andrew Gray (talk) 15:53, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Weird - looks like this didn't have any metadata. Will fix it just now (upload glitch, presumably). Andrew Gray (talk) 13:43, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Missing original files[edit]

the .TIF files of these JPGs got lost somehow. --Denniss (talk) 19:26, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some additions to the British Library image template[edit]

Hi! I've been tinkering with the {{British Library image}} template. I hope you don't mind. I wanted to check in with you before I start uploaded.

I've added a few more fields and a bit more plumbing (so far not documented, and only in the English version). Please let me know if you think it's okay, or whether there are better ways to call things and better ways to do things.

They can be seen in action at User:Jheald/sandbox/test2, or rather its various subpages

Fields added:

cim-msid, cim-coll, cim-nstart
-- used to specify parameters for the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, which appears as " - Illustrated catalogue" when available. cim-msid is used preferentially, otherwise cim-coll and cim-nstart
ios-record-id, ios-shelfmark
-- attempts to send people to a details page of the India Office Special Material catalogue. However, this currently mostly fails at the moment with a 404, unless a search for the item has recently been made through the catalogue. So it may be necessary just to dump people at the search screen. (I wasn't sure what the existing ios did, or was intended to do, so I've left it alone).

Plumbing added:

dips
-- now pulls up the corresponding page in the online manuscript viewer

Fields added:

ms-digi
-- variant of ms-shelfmark with underscores, to link to the Digitised Manuscript project's information page for the MS. Usually specified with dips, in which case it produces "(info)". Otherwise produces " - Digitised manuscript"
hasLicense
-- to shut off the licensing nag message

I have only used ms-shelfmark when I have verified that the item does have an entry in the Archives & Manuscripts catalogue, rather than let people come up with nothing; which is why I've added the ios-shelfmark and ms-digi, which otherwise could perhaps have been constructed from ms-shelfmark. But not sure whether this is the best strategy -- should I have put up a link to the Archives & Manuscripts search anyway, because one day it might lead to something (and the parametrisation would have been more unified). Or is this way better, because more flexible, and only showing what actually exists. (And presumably there is a chance the present web urls and presentation etc may get changed completely, before much more gets added to any of the catalogues).

Anyhow, wanted to let you know what I'd been up to, before I uploaded any pic descriptions with these parameters, in case there is a Much Better Way to Do it. Cheers, Jheald (talk) 21:11, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And one more:

ios-photo-coll
-- collection ID for India Office Select Materials photographs, eg 117 for Photo 21/.

I could have linked to catalogue entries for individual photographs, but the ones I looked at weren't very informative, and gave no way to step back up the hierarchy. Linking to the collection level allows the set to be browsed, with the possibility to step down to the specific entry. Jheald (talk) 12:27, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

These look awesome - well done, and please do feel free to overwrite! My ios is unused because I could never get that to work properly. How are you using the CIM entries? IIRC, those all have to be looked up by hand, which is a bit irritating. Andrew Gray (talk) 22:12, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The files are now slowly uploading to Category:Images_released_by_British_Library_Images_Online. Unfortunately for my carefully constructed filenames, the uploader doesn't like any of my commas, brackets or apostrophes -- looks like I picked the right week to get the file renaming bit set. It also produces rather messy upload page code; but I guess that's the kind of thing one has just to deal with, if one is going to use v0.1 software. I also should have made the 'defaultsort' a bit more cunning within each volume. But never mind; it's not a bad start, I think.

The nice thing about the CIM entries is that the catalogue is fairly tolerant -- you don't usually need all three. Usually it's enough to specify the coll and the nstart, the coll being fixed for each collection, and the nstart being the numerical part of each reference (with the exception of the Royal MSS, which are coded in a fairly straightforward way; and the Cotton MSS, which haven't been done yet. It's only if you get an MS with lots of different suffices that you really need the msid parameter, which I only had one of.

Having looked at the Girdwood Collection, I now realise that Photo 21 could have been pointed to the Manuscripts search instead, which would have saved some trouble. In truth, I haven't really got IOS to work properly either -- my additions to the template unfortunately just give 404s -- so as noted above I will probably just dump people at the search screen instead. But it's all a start. Jheald (talk) 01:29, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Girdwood photographs[edit]

I've now begun going through Category:Images released by British Library Images Online, starting at the back with the 5 Girdwood images now in Category:British Library Photo 21 (India Office Official Record of the Great War)

A couple of questions:

The descriptions in the online catalogue at Photo 21/ date each of these to 1915. But this clearly isn't correct -- for instance the wrecked Zeppelin is from September 1916, and both the tank and the Sopwith Camel weren't introduced until 1917. So all of the 1915 dates appear questionable (as your Commons Girdwood page suggests). Are there any good places to look for clues for the correct dates, so I can correct the misleading filenames that I made?

What's the copyright status? Clearly the images are PD in the United States. But Girdwood was a commercial photographer, and lived until 1964; so one would have thought the images might be still under copyright in the EU until January 1st 2035. Are there any grounds for thinking they may not be in copyright -- eg that they might be Crown Copyright that has expired? Or that Girdwood or his heirs and assigns may have sold or given up the copyright? Just thought I should check. Jheald (talk) 13:44, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It seems from the "Great War in Stereoviews" site [1] that many of the photographs were issued as "Crown Copyright". This would make sense if Girdwood was at this time an employee of the Crown, and the images were created as part of his work as an employee. Crown copyright would (on current rules) have expired after 50 years; i.e. on 1 January 1966 for photographs taken in 1915.

On the other hand, Google Books turned up one of the 1916 United States copyright registers, which show a number of pictures in that year being registered by Girdwood's company "Realistic Travels". [2] (pages 305-306 / frames 317-318 of the PDF). The Australian National Library also turns up a set of views of Palestine, again with copyright registered by Realistic Travels [3] (now expired under Australian law).

I suppose it also might be possible that Girdwood was acting as a freelance on commission to the Crown, who was then allowed to license back his own photographs. If I understand the law correctly in that scenario, the pictures would be subject to copyright for life + 70, ie until 2035; but the copyright would belong to the Crown, so it could be released CC0 if the appropriate department decided to do so.

I see from your page on Girdwood that there was a lengthy wrangle about copyright which seriously held up the release of his cine films. But AFAICS you don't record what the outcome was, or what the position was for his still pictures.

I'm particularly interested in eg the picture of the wrecked Zeppelin, India Office frame / stereopair, which on the face of it Girdwood would not have needed to be a Crown employee to gain access to. On the other hand, if he was a Crown employee, on the payroll to produce morale-boosting photographs, this would be just such a photograph. Is any more known? Jheald (talk) 20:52, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think the answer is "Girdwood is really, really, awfully complicated", and it's not helped by a lot of deliberate murkiness around the man and his business. :-)

Anything after September 1915 is probably private work not as a government employee - I think they'd more or less sacked him by then. He definitely wanted marketable propaganda pictures, but for the purposes of selling them himself.

I am guessing the confident release of these came from the fact that the album is titled "Official Record", suggesting they're all government photographs. However, even if it was licensed to the India Office at life+70 (I'm a little hazy on whether that would indeed be the case), the responsible body - bizarrely - may actually be the British Library - they hold the archives. The matter is further complicated by the fact that some of this may have been first published in the US; and by the fact that RT marketed a lot of material taken by other contributors (there's photographs from Gallipoli in their sets, for example) and some of these got attributed to him. For example, the Snipe photo - if actually taken in France in 1918 - is definitely not Girdwood; there's no way they would have allowed him back, and in any case he was probably in America by then. I am tempted to call these de minimis and not look too closely ;-) Andrew Gray (talk) 21:11, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looking closely at the others, the tank photo is strangely familiar (though he could of course have taken an iconic photo!) but either way, I suspect it's not his own work - reason as above. The zeppelin photo could well be his (note the mysterious film in 1916) but it's definitely an "outsider" photo - if you look closely, the photographer is unambiguously on the far side of the security cordon, and being watched carefully by the guards in the foreground. I can't imagine a photographer with official access and authority wouldn't have gone around to the side or shooed them away... Andrew Gray (talk) 23:16, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Hutton, William Holden - Hampton Court (1897).djvu[edit]

This appears to have some "missing page scans". If you are still in touch with the BL people, you might ask them to confirm these are absences in the original work held by them. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:24, 16 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Which pages are missing, and are they in the PDF version? It might be an artefact of the conversion. Andrew Gray (talk) 22:42, 16 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm in the process of making a list, I'll get back to you on this ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:57, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK it seems what I thought were 'missing' scans aren't. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:20, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

About to transclude Scotland[edit]

Warning: I'm about to transclude Scotland and Ireland to separate sub-pages, as just done for Germany and France. Should improve edit responsiveness. Jheald (talk) 12:22, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea. I was actually wondering whether I should suggest something similar :-)

Linking (and making sure they show up seperately on the to-do list) might be better than transcluding, though - with transclusion, you still need to re-render the full page each time it's edited, which makes for a big delay. Andrew Gray (talk) 12:27, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That depends which of the pages you're editing. If you're editing Scotland, it will only re-render Scotland. If you're editing England, you're right at the moment it will still have to re-render the whole thing. But devolution to the English regions is coming! Jheald (talk) 12:42, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, of course - I forgot that editing from the master page will mean you end up on the subpage after saving. Andrew Gray (talk) 12:45, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Transclusions are all in place now. Hit this effect though, which just seems weird. Breaking things up ought to make things quicker, because it should be possible to detect that 90% is unedited, and therefore clean, so ought to be possible just to pull from cache.

Is it anything that you've ever run across, or looked into? Jheald (talk) 15:47, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Barmstar[edit]

Hi and Thanks for the Barnstar, it makes me really pleasure every day to prepare so many interesting and often unknown images in the books. There is also a fitting adage A picture is worth a thousand words ... Regards --Metilsteiner (talk) 08:09, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you[edit]

		The Commons Barnstar
		Thanks for all your help tagging maps in the Mechanical Curator collection, and getting and keeping the whole show on the road. 10,700 tagged and 49.4% still to go! Jheald (talk) 11:30, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Seasons bleatings ...[edit]

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--Brian McNeil / ^talk 17:42, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for scanning old books[edit]

Hello Andrew, We are on the process of a GLAM project here in Calcutta, India. There are several old books/periodicals need to be digitised. Unfortunately, they are in a pretty bad shape. Can you suggest a good scanner for this kind of project ? We are very much interested to hear from you about the procedure you have taken.So, if you can share your experience, it would be great. Thanks, Schwiki (talk) 18:50, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Schwiki - sorry about the delay in replying, I've been travelling. Unfortunately I haven't done a great deal of archival digitisation myself and so can't say much about the details. I know that the BL's equipment was very high end (& accordingly expensive!).

Generally speaking, if you have fragile bound material, you probably want an overhead scanner (a camera held above the item) rather than a standard flat-bed scanner (where you place it face down on the glass). This works better with bound volumes, avoids stressing the spine, and reduces the amount of wear on the paper. It's the approach the large-scale book-scanning projects use.

I use a small Fujitsu SV-600 at work for scanning journal articles; the software is pretty bad and will only produce PDFs, but the idea is sound and you might be able to find something similar which produces TIFFs or JPEGs.

An alternative is to build one - an overhead scanner is really not much more complex than a digital camera on a stick plus some software to deskew the pictures. There are some kits to build book scanners yourself and I've heard good things about them (see eg this article) - if you already have access to suitable cameras and are willing to do some construction work, this might be a good approach. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:24, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Argentina has some experience with DIY scanners: see http://www.wikimedia.org.ar/proyectos/promocion-de-instituciones-culturales/digitalizacion/ and mailarchive:wikisource-l/2014-September/002068.html. However, it might be easier to work with Internet Archive, which has a big scanning centre in China: https://blog.archive.org/2015/04/15/internet-archive-and-cadal-partner-to-digitize-500000-academic-texts/ --Nemo 21:16, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Schwiki The Internet Archive is well known for its scribe station, which can be seen in action on youtube. AIP Engineering, the creators of the scribe station, have some information on their website. The beauty of the design is that it uses regular DSLR cameras. A multi-use and budget-friendly solution. Other than that there's a scan project run by Austrian Wikipedian Hubertl (German project page). He uses a Bookeye4 scanner for the scans which can be found at Category:BDA-Scan. I also recommend having a look at diybookscanner.org. Your collection's condition will effectively determine the degree of automatisation. Torn, burnt, water-damaged, etc. pages will require more care and slow down the process. For large collections, commercial solutions like Treventus' ScanRobot 2.0 MDS might be more interesting. Would be great if you have any additional information on your collection's condition, size and budget. Regards, Christoph Braun (talk) 23:55, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Could somebody with experience in this area write all this up as a help page? Andy Mabbett (talk) 09:14, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much Andrew Gray, Nemo and Christoph Braun for your valuable suggestions. Yes, Andy Mabbett, I am aligned with your thought process. A help page would do a lot for us to begin. Actually, we are also thinking of getting a Overhead scanner. Can you please specify the optimum dpi specification for this kind of scanned document (like 72dpi or 300dpi), most suitable for OCR purpose and djvu-conversion for wikisource ? Thanks in advance. With best regards, Schwiki (talk) 18:51, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Andrew Gray, Nemo , Christoph Braun and Andy Mabbett,

We are working on the GLAM project in "Kolikata Little Magazine Library o Gabeshana Kendra". I mentioned few months back that we are in search of a good scanner for scanning old books. Now we are quite satisfied with the FUJITSU Image Scanner ScanSnap SV600 . This overhead scanner provides a very high quality scan and you can check the quality of scanned books in the following link. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Scanned_periodicals_from_Kolikata_Little_Magazine_Library_o_Gabeshana_Kendra I recommend this scanner for the GLAM projects for digitising old books.Currently we are woking with the books published in 1881-82. Would like to get your feedback ! Thanks in advance. --Schwiki (talk) 12:11, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in the United States - Thank You![edit]

Hi there! Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in the United States. We're excited to see people uploading thousands of photos from all over the country! You and others have collectively uploaded 4,929 photos so far, all of which are viewable at Category:Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in the United States (sorted by state).

We encourage you to continue contributing through the rest of the month. Uploading your photos of monuments isn't the only way to contribute, however. If you're interested, we have compiled a list of auxiliary ways to contribute - which include improving Wikipedia's coverage of historic and cultural sites, as well as finding existing free photos that can be shared on the Commons. While these contributions don't count towards the contest, we are still keeping track of them and they are great ways to contribute to the spirit of the project.

If you are interesting in contributing to Wikipedia, WikiProject National Register of Historic Places is also great place to start. The WikiProject showcases the work that has been done so far in covering NRHP sites, and can also help you find articles that need improving.

If you're on Twitter, give us a follow @WLMUnitedStates for updates, news, and more.

If you have any questions between now or the end of the month, feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Thank you! ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 09:28, 21 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in the United States – Results![edit]

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Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in the United States during the month of October! The United States contest saw over 1,700 people contribute over 11,000 great photos of cultural and historic sites from all over the United States and its territories. In addition to National Register of Historic Places sites, we welcomed uploads of sites designated by state- and local-level historical institutions and societies. Hundreds of these photos are already being used to illustrate Wikipedia articles!

We're excited to announce that our national judging process has concluded, and that we have selected the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in the United States! We were amazed by all of the uploads, and regret having to narrow it down to just 10. That being said – congratulations to our national winners and their amazing shots! Our 10 winners will be sent to the international Wiki Loves Monuments jury, who will then select the winners of the international contest. If you're interested in seeing the winners of the other various national contests as they are announced, you may do so at Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 winners.

Finally, we have also created a feedback form for all participants in the United States to fill out. The survey is optional and anonymous, and only takes a minute or two – we hope to use the feedback to organize better events in the future!

Once again, thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2016, and we hope to see you again for future Commons photography events! ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 06:29, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your VFC installation method is deprecated[edit]

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Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States – Back for 2017![edit]

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Hi there! My name is Kevin, one of the organizers of Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States. Last year, you contributed to our 2016 event. It was a great success thanks to you and many others, with over 1,700 people contributing over 11,000 great photos of cultural and historic sites from all over the United States. Over 1,000 of these photos now help illustrate Wikipedia articles, making our open knowledge about United States history and heritage all the better.

I'm pleased to say that we're back this year with Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 in the United States, and I'd like to welcome you to participate once again in the event. Check out our updated event page for more information, including updated tips, lists, and prizes. Like last year, you'll be able to upload your new photos of any registered historical site in the United States through the end of September (even if the photos were taken before this month).

Once again, thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2016, and we hope to see you in this year's event! If you'd like to respond to this message directly, please do so on my talk page. ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 08:05, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Eight days into Wiki Loves Monuments[edit]

Thank you for taking part in Wiki Loves Monuments UK

Thank you for submitting your photos to the competition, it really helps improve our coverage of historic sites. Photos from this year are already being used on Wikipedia - though it may take a while for the monuments map to catch up so don't be disheartened if some pins haven't turned blue yet.

WLM runs until the end of the month, so please add more and invite other people to take part. We are within touching distance of 1,000 photos for the UK, putting us just behind the United States in 14th place out of 49 countries taking part. Let's see if we can jump a few places! If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message here or contact me directly at richard.nevell@wikimedia.org.uk.

Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 13:26, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

An update from Wiki Loves Monuments UK[edit]

Thank you for taking part in Wiki Loves Monuments UK

More than 300 people have contributed a total of 4,000 photos to this year's competition and we wanted to say thank you for helping us get this far. The competition runs until the end of September, and you can upload as many images as you want - so feel free to document some more sites. Or why not go through your old images to see if you have any others that could be submitted?

Since you've already submitted some pictures to the competition, you might be interested in the banner mini-contest; to take part you crop your images to a 7:1 and upload a new version. You can find out more about how to do that here. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the competition and share it with others! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:24, 22 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's Wiki Loves Monuments time again![edit]

Hi Andrew Gray!

You are receiving this message because you have previously contributed to the annual Wiki Loves Monuments contest in India. We would be very delighted if you would do so again this year, help record our monuments for future generations and win exciting prizes.

You can find more details in this page. Or, if you have images taken in other countries, you can check the international options. This year's contest runs until 30 September 2019.

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(on behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 in India team)--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:14, 10 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Loves Monuments France 2019[edit]

Bonjour,

Le concours Wiki Loves Monuments France est de retour et ouvert jusqu'à 31 septembre ! Déjà 8310 photos ont été importés cette année, vous aussi rejoignez le concours !

Le concours concerne tous les monuments présents dans la base Mérimée (qu'ils soient classés, inscrits ou simplement classés). De l'imposant château aux ruines industrielles, de la chapelle au coin de la rue aux mégalithes en forêt, c'est un impressionnant patrimoine qui attend d'être photographié et documenté. Où que vous soyez il y a des monuments autour de chez vous. Enfin, vous pouvez mettre en ligne autant de photos que vous le souhaitez de ces monuments. Pour information, le règlement est disponible sur le site du concours. Nous attendons vos photos avec impatience !

Les plus belles photos seront sélectionnées par un jury national composé d'amateurs et de professionnels, de contributeurs à Wikimedia Commons et d'acteurs du patrimoine. Un jury international sélectionnera ensuite des meilleures photographies mondiales.

Si vous avez des questions, l'équipe organisatrice se fera un plaisir d'y répondre.

P.S. : vous recevez ce message parce que vous avez participé au concours Wiki Loves Monuments en France les années précédentes. Si vous avez déjà ou si ne pouvez pas participer au concours cette année, faites passer le message autour de vous pour que de nouveaux et nouvelles photographes rejoignent l'aventure !

Bonne journée,

Sarah Krichen WMFr et Nicolas Vigneron, pour l'équipe de Wiki Loves Monuments France, 14:50, 12 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments UK 2019![edit]

Hi

Thank you so much for contributing to the UK section of this year's Wiki Loves Monuments contest, which finished yesterday. We really do appreciate the time and effort you've put in to record the UK's built cultural heritage for future generations.

Your contribution has been been added to our collections here on Wikimedia Commons, and is already available for editors to make use of on Wikipedia and elsewhere. It has also been entered into this year's contest. If you'd like to see your own images, just click on the uploads link at the top right of this page (if you don't see it, click on the Log in option first).

We've received over 10,000 UK entries this year, and it will take a few weeks for our volunteers and professional judges to decide on the final top 10. The winners will be announced by the end of this month, both here on Wikimedia Commons and also on the competition website.

The top 10 UK images will go forward to the international section where they will compete against winners from some 50 other countries. The international winners should be announced here in December.

Don't forget, by the way, that if you're hoping to win a prize in the contest it's essential that you have enabled email in your Wikimedia preferences. If you haven't, you're not eligible to win. If you're unsure, please check here.

Once again, many thanks for your help! MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:58, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Important message for file movers[edit]

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File:Official portrait of Grahame Morris.jpg[edit]

Hi Andrew, from now you have 10 min to compare the problem-image with the good one. --Túrelio (talk) 20:28, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2019! Please help with this survey.[edit]

Wiki Loves Monuments logo

Dear Andrew Gray,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.

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, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2019.

Kind regards,
the Wiki Loves Monuments team MediaWiki message delivery 12:09, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Invitation to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 Participant Survey (Reminder)[edit]

Wiki Loves Monuments logo

Dear Andrew Gray,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 210K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 40 countries around the world.

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, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2019.

Kind regards,
the Wiki Loves Monuments team MediaWiki message delivery 03:20, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's Wiki Loves Monuments time again![edit]

Welcome to

Wiki Loves Monuments 2020
India

Hello Andrew Gray!

From September 1 to September 30, 2020, Wiki Loves Monuments, the largest photography competition of the world, will take place for the tenth time. And guess what! India is going to participate in the event again this year. You might remember this event as you had participated in one of the previous editions. We will be very delighted to see you take part in the competition again, help record our monuments for future generations and win exciting prizes! You can find more details in this page.

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(on behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 in India team)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:28, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2020! Please help with this survey[edit]

Wiki Loves Monuments logo

Dear Andrew Gray,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2020, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again for a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 200K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 50 countries around the world.

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). 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, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2020.

Kind regards,
the Wiki Loves Monuments team, 08:28, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

It's Wiki Loves Food time![edit]

Wiki Loves Food 2021
India

Hello Andrew Gray!

Do you roam around in search of delicious mouth-watering foods and take photographs of them before you put them into your mouth? Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India photo-competition is then waiting for you! Participate in the competition from March 15 to April 14 this year, photograph and upload all kinds of foods and beverages originated from or found in Indian sub-continent and get a chance to win exciting prizes!

-- Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India team
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It's Wiki Loves Monuments time again![edit]

Welcome to

Wiki Loves Monuments 2021
India

Hello Andrew Gray!

We are excited again to let you know that, Wiki Loves Monuments, the largest photography competition of the world, will take place for the 12th time this year. And guess what! India is going to participate in the event again this year from September 1 to September 30, 2021. You might remember this competition as you had participated in one of its previous editions. We would be very delighted to see you take part in the competition again, help record and digitally document our monuments for future generations and get a chance to win exciting prizes! You can find more details about the Indian part of the competition in this page. See you in action in few hours!!

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(on behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in India team)
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Bonjour,

Le concours Wiki Loves Monuments France est ouvert pour une semaine encore, jusqu'au 30 septembre. Déjà plus de 6 000 photos ont été importées cette année alors vous aussi rejoignez le concours ! Cette campagne de contribution concerne tous les monuments et objets mobiliers présents dans la base Mérimée et dans la base Palissy. De l'imposant château aux ruines industrielles, de la verrière décorative au reliquaire, c'est un impressionnant patrimoine qui attend d'être photographié et documenté. Vous pouvez dès à présent mettre en ligne autant de photos que vous le souhaitez de ces monuments et objets du patrimoine français. Nous attendons vos photos avec impatience !

Les plus belles photos seront sélectionnées par un jury national composé d'amateurs et de professionnels, de contributeurs à Wikimedia Commons et d'acteurs du patrimoine. Un jury international constituera ensuite une sélection des meilleures photographies mondiales.

Si vous avez des questions, l'équipe organisatrice se fera un plaisir d'y répondre.

P.S. : vous recevez ce message parce que vous avez participé au concours Wiki Loves Monuments en France

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:35, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome to

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India

Hello Andrew Gray!

We are excited again to let you know that, Wiki Loves Monuments, the largest photography competition of the world, will take place for the 13th time this year. And guess what! India is going to participate in the event again this year from September 1 to September 30, 2022. You might remember this competition as you had participated in one of its previous editions. We would be very delighted to see you take part in the competition again, help record and digitally document our monuments for future generations and get a chance to win exciting prizes!!!

You can find more details about the Indian edition of the competition in this event page. See you in action in few hours!!

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(on behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 in India team)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:01, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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It's Wiki Loves Monuments time again![edit]

Welcome to

Wiki Loves Monuments 2023

India

Hello Andrew Gray!

We are excited again to let you know that, Wiki Loves Monuments, the largest photography competition of the world, will take place for the 14th time this year. And guess what! India is going to participate in the event again this year from September 1 to September 30, 2023. You might remember this competition as you had participated in one of its previous editions. We would be very delighted to see you take part in the competition again, help record and digitally document our monuments for future generations and get a chance to win exciting prizes!!!

You can find more details about the Indian edition of the competition in this event page. See you in action soon!!

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(on behalf of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in India team)
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:24, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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