Roger W Haworth http://rhaworth.me/rhaworth.htm Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:42:03 GMT uCoz Web-Service This baby booms back Graduation day 1967 This is a response to Wikipedia is a poor substitute. Frozen copy as at 2012 April 9.
 
Here is a typical example of what Wikipedia editors think about the use of award-winning and you are recommended to not use "click here" as link text.
 
"No editorial or academic experience". I wonder how many more edits I will have to do to Wikipedia before David Henderson will consider me experienced - apparently 40,000 is not quite enough yet. The photo on the left was taken on 1967 June 15 and shows me flanked by my doting parents when I was awarded the degree of MA (Cantab). Incidentally two images earlier in that set is this photo that I took of Susan Jocelyn Bell (as she was then) at the same graduation ceremony. Now, she is somebody who can be described as award-winning.
Wikipe-tan mopping  
Two important fundamental principles of Wikipedia:
  • All information must be verifiable from published sources. The academic qualifications of the editors are therefore irrelevant.
  • Editorial decisions are made by consensus among all editors not just admins. Two reasons I use the twee image on the right as a symbol of my adminship: a) she looks totally unlike me and b) it emphasises the fact that administrator rights are merely janitorial rights. Our job is just to clear up messes.
It had never occurred to me before that Wikipedia might put Encyclopedia Britannica out of business. Perhaps I assumed it had already gone, certainly when one puts any encyclopedic query into Google, Wikipedia is usually there as the first result and Britannica is nowhere to be seen.
 
David, if you are in DC in July, I hope you will come to Wikimania 2012. You will, I hope, be impressed by the seriousness, dedication, etc. with which the people who are building Wikipedia approach the task.]]> http://rhaworth.me/blog/this_baby_booms_back/2012-04-08-15 RHaworth http://rhaworth.me/blog/2012-04-08-15 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:42:03 GMT Images at 110MB 110MB which is where RHaworth.com is hosted, has some very restrictive ideas on the use of images remotely. It does not allow hot-linking, ie. embedding (there ought to be an image here: ) which is fair enough. But it does not even allow you to link to an image: 106125.jpg.
 
This is rather silly since, if you have phpthumb, you can easily hot-link - as per the thumb left or link thus: 106125.jpg. In both cases, this makes more work for the 110MB server than if they allowed linking.
 
phpthumb user guide.   More RWH photo notes.]]> http://rhaworth.me/blog/2010-06-10-14 RHaworth http://rhaworth.me/blog/2010-06-10-14 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:04:50 GMT Fotopic originals
  • Assuming you are looking at a page in a collection for one image, eg. this one
  • check the image properties (usually via a right click on the image) and get its name: http://newimages.fotopic.net/?iid=yixhr3&outx=800&quality=70 or
  • click on the image, go to the "noresize" version and note the URL
  • in both cases, look for the "iid=" which is followed by a six character image id, in this case yixhr3
  • use this id to fetch images.fotopic.net/original/<imageid>.jpg
    • See also these notes.]]>     http://rhaworth.me/blog/2009-01-28-13 RHaworth http://rhaworth.me/blog/2009-01-28-13 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:33:47 GMT     Wikipedia outtake - Hieromonster Heiroglyphs sample British Museum
    Found as Image:Heiroglyphs sample British Museum.jpg on Wikimedia Commons. Now deleted. Source of the non-photoshopped version and its licence are unknown.
    (If it is treated as a two-dimensional work of art, then it is old enough for a licence tag of {{PD-Art}}!)
    Another view of the real thing
    Derived from this image on flickr by nrares.
    AttributionNoncommercialSome rights reserved
    Part of the sarcophagus of Ankhnesneferibre in the British Museum.
     
    Someone apparently working in the Ford Motor Company offices in Dearborn near Chicago and obviously with time on their hands uploaded the image on the left to Wikipedia. A very sharp-eyed person noted: "second column from the left, five down. Is that a real animal or a photo-shopped monster?" After a bit of searching I found the image on the right with a curious space where the monster has been inserted.]]>     http://rhaworth.me/blog/2008-09-30-10 RHaworth http://rhaworth.me/blog/2008-09-30-10 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:59:29 GMT     CCC Coulsdon Carriage - 020 8660 6666
     
    Coulsdon Carriage Company is the premier private hire (minicab) company for Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon and for Gatwick Airport.  
    Liberty 24-7 - 07701 24 7 365
     
    Liberty 24-7 is a long established minicab company in Surrey now expanding to serve more of Kingswood and surrounding areas.
    ]]>     http://rhaworth.me/blog/2008-05-10-8 RHaworth http://rhaworth.me/blog/2008-05-10-8 Fri, 09 May 2008 20:38:33 GMT     Wikipedia outtakes A few more files which were deleted from Wikipedia for copyright reasons.
    This "Destinations" board is on display at Blackpool International Airport. I was amused and puzzled to see Sorrento marked because I had been there recently and I knew that it does not have an airport - it is on a steep peninsula - there is no room for an airport! The nearest airport is Napoli.
    They are not airports but package holiday titles. As in these offerings from Newmarket Travel. Either Newmarket have now dropped Sorrento or it was being offered by a different company.
    Destinations board at Blackpool Airport
    ]]>     http://rhaworth.me/blog/2008-04-09-5 RHaworth http://rhaworth.me/blog/2008-04-09-5 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:00:08 GMT     London Manston Airport Despite the fact that the airport at Manston in Kent is 124 km (77 miles) from London, it insisted on calling itself London Manston Airport as can be seen on this "2½ inch" OS map (1:25,000 on paper or 625 pixels/km in the full size version) from 2005.


    It now calls itself by the more realistic title of Kent International Airport. Same map in 2008:

    The current state of the map can be seen here.

    Images produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service and reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey.
    ]]>     http://rhaworth.me/blog/2008-03-27-4 RHaworth http://rhaworth.me/blog/2008-03-27-4 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:39:16 GMT     Where is Ucoz? this press release giving a Moscow address.
     
    However other sources suggest that the servers at least are in Chicago.]]>     http://rhaworth.me/blog/2007-11-28-3 RHaworth http://rhaworth.me/blog/2007-11-28-3 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:45:51 GMT