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 | Es gibt Dinge, über die ich nicht mehr diskutieren möchte:
Zu meiner Vorgehensweise: Best practice (deutsch). Und es sei erwähnt, dass ich gleichartige und eher langweilige Änderungen mit einem Bot erledige. So manche in den Augen des Betrachters sinnlose Änderung einfacher Natur wird automatisch irgendwann wieder rückgängig gemacht, sinnvoll erscheinende oder immer wieder durch Dritte aus meiner Sicht eher unwichtige Änderungen werden von mir im Bot aufgenommen, so dass alle meine Bilder davon profitieren. |
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Quality Image Promotion (22 May 2026)
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Quality Image Promotion (23 May 2026)
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Commons Photographers: Our next meeting (05/2026)
Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,
I hope you’re well and enjoy your time as a photographer on Wikimedia Commons. In my role of the new chair of the user group, I have a couple of updates to share with you.
After the election, the new board met for the first time on March 21 and immediately got to work. We elected the organization’s officers and decided to move from quarterly to monthly board meetings. We believe meeting more frequently will create more opportunities to serve our members effectively and help move the group forward.
We also successfully applied for a pre-conference at the upcoming Wikimania in Paris (July 21–25). If you’re planning to attend the conference, please consider joining us on July 21th for a day full of conversations about photography and Commons. Please sign up here if you’re interested.
And finally, it’s my pleasure to invite you to our first online meeting, which will take place on May 31. Our member Wojciech, an experienced concert photographer, will give a talk on photographing orchestras during live performances. I’m especially excited that we’ll have the opportunity to meet online again and am very much looking forward to this event.
Please feel free to sign up for our first meeting in 2026 on this page: Online Meeting on May 31st.
In the meanwhile, I hope you're well and have a great time taking photos!
All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 14:09, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-22
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- Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in the first week of June. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session. The updated experience is designed to encourage account creation more clearly, while still allowing users to edit with temporary accounts. Results from the experiment showed a significant increase in account creation, with a 27% relative lift among users shown the updated message. As expected, as more people funnel into account creation, temporary accounts decreased by a relative 16%. The experiment did not show any significant changes in constructive edit rates or other monitored contributor metrics.
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- WMDE Technical Wishes will run an A/B test on 10 wikis, testing potential improvements for Reference Previews. The experiment will run for ~2 weeks at the end of May / beginning of June and will affect 10% of desktop readers on the participating wikis.
- After two successful experiments, the Reader Growth team is rolling out an Image Browsing beta feature for all Wikipedias on mobile on May 25. This means that anyone who has all beta features on by default will start to see this feature, and others can check the box to turn it on in their preferences. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article's images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article's carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
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Quality Image Promotion (27 May 2026)
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Tech News: 2026-23
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- The Reader Experience team is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.
- The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.
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Bildschärfe und QIC
Ich glaube, ich bin bald raus aus dem Spiel. Ist es denn dermaßen schwer verständlich, dass Schärfe, Tiefenschärfe und Sensorauflösung voneinander abhängig sind? Von unterschiedlicher "visueller Schärfe" durch unterschiedlichen Motivkontrast fange ich lieber gar nicht erst an. Die Leute nehmen hochauflösende Fotos, "zoomen hinein" und finden Unschärfen. Ja, wer hätte das gedacht!??!?? Sorry, dass ich dich auf deiner disk mit meinem Rant belästige, aber angesichts gebe ich langsam auf. Krasse crops auf ein Zehntel der Sensorfläche, ordentlich überschärft und im Kontrast hochgezogen hingegen werden akzeptiert. Telefonfotos mit offensichtlichen Entrauschungs- und Schärfungsartefakten auch. Smial (talk) 11:42, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
- Darf ich erwähnen, dass du nicht alleine bist. Ich bewerte schon gar keine offensichtlich mit Smartphones gemachte und unbearbeitete Fotos. Bei mir kam schon ein ungutes Gefühl auf, als ich angefangen habe, mal ein wenig über den Tellerrand zu schauen und Fotos zu nominieren, die nach fotografischen Gesichtspunkten wertvoll und qualitativ gut sind. Das passt vielen nicht, die im Wikipedia-Einheitsstil fotografieren und sich nie weiterentwickeln. Mit Schwarzweiß kollidiere ich auch ständig, weil manche nicht wissen, was man mit Schwarzweiß alles machen kann. Es ist nicht nur ein Klick auf einen Schwarzweißbutton. Jetzt habe ich mir eine neue Zweitausrüstung zugelegt, da mir auf Dauer meine Canon EOS 5D einfach zu schwer und zu unhandlich ist. Jetzt bekomme ich Abwertungen, weil - dank der höheren Auflösung - nur noch auf Pixelebene geschaut wird. Es ist diesen Leuten einfach nicht bewusst, dass ein zu so eine Auflösung passendes Objektiv entweder gar nicht existiert oder unendlich teuer ist. Die Aufnahme ist scharf genug für quasi jede beliebige Vergrößerung. Ein großes Foto betrachte ich auch nicht im Abstand von 30 cm. Ganz ehrlich: Ich schließe derzeit meine Arbeiten auf Wikimedia Commons ab und konzentriere mich stärker auf das Fotografieren. Mal schauen, was ich von den Fotos noch nominieren werde. Schade, aber besser für mich und meine Gesundheit. Danke auf jeden Fall für deine aufmunternden Worte - so verstehe ich sie. -- XRay 💬 11:52, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
Architectural photography?
Why is this photo (and, even more so, this photo) "architectural photography"? - Jmabel ! talk 14:29, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
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- No, that's not correct. I'm entering the values using a bot, and I've been working on finding and correcting errors for the past two weeks. It will take a few more days, but hopefully I'll have found most of them by then. I'll take the two photos you mentioned into account right away, but the value won't be updated until my bot's next visit. That might take a little while. -- XRay 💬 15:59, 4 June 2026 (UTC)