User talk:Eric Pokorny

Welcome, Eric! --Larry Sanger 02:30, 1 November 2006 (CST)

Franklin image

Eric, thanks for adding the picture -- how did you do that? None of my attempts to add pictured has worked.

But I don't think we can use the one you have added -- it's owned by either the Scott Polar Research Institute or the National Maritime Museum -- there are only two in the world -- and they are vigilant about licensing.

I totally agree with you, though, about adding pictures the WP doesn't have. I wanted to add an image from my own collection, pub-domain and copyleft-suitable, which I uploaded as johnfranklin1.jpg, and tried again as franklin3.jpg, but it never displayed; all I get is the picure's filename in red. Can you replace the one there with that one, or tell me how you do it?

Many thanks,

Russell Potter 07:34, 1 November 2006 (CST)

Franklin image

Eric,

A quick follow-up: it's true that the Scott Polar Research People and the National Maritime Museum own only the daguerreotype itself. They never purchased rights, and all copyright is extinct. And yet, like art museums, they claim continuing proprietary rights in "derivative" images presumably made from those they physically own. It's very frustrating, I agree! A good friend of mine is a curator at the National Maritime Museum and I will ask him if we can get permission -- I hope we can, it is an amazing early image!

cheers,

Russell Potter 19:56, 2 November 2006 (CST)

Need Help with Images in Biology

Eric, You seem to be the maven here. Can you help out with Biology images? Take a look at article, and its Talk:Biology talk page, please. Perhaps you can either fix it up or instruct us in how to do it. Gratefully, Nancy Sculerati MD 21:11, 17 November 2006 (CST)

Still having image trouble

Hi Eric -- hate to bug you again about something I thought I'd figured out, but my latest attempt to add an image is again encountering trouble; in the article I'm editing, The Frozen Deep, instead of the image I get the message "Error creating thumbnail: convert: no decode delegate for this image format `/czdata/pilot/html/images/a/aa/Frozdeep_sm.jpg'. convert: missing an image filename `/czdata/pilot/html/images/thumb/a/aa/Frozdeep_sm.jpg/250px-Frozdeep_sm.jpg'. frozdeep_sm.jpg". Can you have a look and see what I'm doing wrong? I used the same syntax that worked on the Franklin page ...

Many thanks!

Russell Potter 10:38, 19 November 2006 (CST)

Update

Well, looks as though we will all have to "wait and see" about this issue -- it's a bug, apparently related to some support software not implemented on the CZ wiki; this is bug #48 on the Caesar GForge -- I hope someone will address it soon!

Russell Potter 12:06, 19 November 2006 (CST)

Thanks!!

Eric, thanks so much for finding an elegant way out of this. I do hope we regain the ability to use thumbnails linked to larger images, though! The current form is ideal for the article itself, but I would like the interested viewer to be able to retrieve a larger, better one (just *slightly* better -- my original color scan of this image is about 90 MB in size!).

Also, how did you add the caption? I tried what looks like the same thing you did, but though the caption appeared when the image was rolled over, it did not appear under the image.

Thanks also for the tip about IrfanView - since I'm a Mac user it won't work for me, but it looks great for Windows folk. I use PhotoShop (expensive, but it can handle anything), which has a module called "ImageReady" which does much the same.

Russell Potter 07:52, 20 November 2006 (CST)