Showing posts with label Brunei. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brunei. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of #Brunei

The #Commonweath has a new repository of images. It includes many interesting images like the picture to the right of the 29th and current Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei.

There are many pictures available and partcularly when they are used for educational use, you should have a look. Sadly, for use in Wikipedia these pictures are off limit as they are not freely licensed.

The way it works is, 
  • you create yourself a profile
  • you select the pictures you are interested in
  • you indicate what you will use the pictures for
  • you wait for permission to use them
  • you download the picture
  • you add an attribution
Compare this with the pictures of Mr Hassanal Bolkiah on Commons; 
  • this is the category of pictures of the Sultan
  • you select one of the pictures like this one..
  • you download the picture
  • you add an attribution
Thanks,
     GerardM

Saturday, August 17, 2013

A challenge: 20.248 #Wikipedia articles with script errors

When you add references to #Wikidata of relevant images, by magic they will appear on the Occitan Wikipedia. I did that by adding a picture to the Wikidata entry for Ahmad Tajuddin, the 27th Sultan of Brunei.

It was a random selection of a person mentioned on a list with 20.248 articles with script errors. The number is big but it is probably only one template that is generating all those errors. The edit page says:
{{Infobox|tematica=|carta=}}{{Intro}}
I checked out a small number of other articles on this list and they all include this same template.

Some say that Wikidata is about big numbers and I am impressed that all these articles probably refer to Wikidata. The one thing I am curious about is how long it will take for the list to clear once the script has been fixed.

First things first; who is going to fix the script.
Thanks,
      GerardM