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Well, I'm really not the best person to ask about that. It is possible in theory, but I've never tried, and I have no idea how it would work out. It would be particularly complicated if the person who misused an image is not in the same country as you. I'm not sure if you were aware, but Apple used the image of mine of the Colosseum in Rome (and another image from wikipedia) in a very prominent advertisement for the latest version of their operating system a bit over a year ago. I was quite angry because a company like Apple should know better than that. I asked User:Spikebrennan, who is a lawyer in the US and is sometimes active in FPC what he thought about suing Apple. I don't remember his exact response but he essentially said he didn't think that there was much of a case. I was quite surprised as it seemed quite a simple case and Apple potentially made a LOT of money from the advertisement, but I was quite busy at the time and never pursued it any further than that. All I know is, the law doesn't always work in the way that is fair and right, and sometimes it probably isn't worth pursuing unless you are rich and there is lots of money at stake. Unfortunately it probably doesn't apply to you or I! That said, I don't mean to pry into your personal life but you must be fairly well off by Tanzanian standards, if you can afford a good digital camera and you obviously have been well educated. :-) I assume you studied English at school? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 23:50, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
So I finally got around to commenting on this. :-) -- jjron ( talk) 16:12, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, good news up your alley. It looks like Cirt is working on a featured portal drive on a subject that interests you. One of your recent FPs is already among the selected pictures there. Would you like to review and suggest more? Best regards, Durova Charge! 19:23, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
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Congratulations! You have been selected as one of Wikipedia's Masters of Photography for your outstanding contributions to the project. Please place this award somewhere on your userpage! Also be sure to visit the Photographic Masters' Guild Homepage. There you can find out more about project and utilize the forums etc. As a recipient I would request that you create yourself a profile and add five of your very best images (not necessarily 5 FP's - just five photos you think are your best) to the Guild Gallery. If you don't do this within 14 days of recieving this award I'll assume you'd rather I do it on your behalf. |
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Yes. It's not much of a secret that I edit on commons under my real name, but I don't want the drama-fest of en-wiki to show up on searches of my real name. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 18:26, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey there! I had a thought - why not write an article about VPC and get it in an issue of the Wikipedia Signpost to draw more attention to the project!? So, if it's possible, could you answer a few questions with as many details as possible (I think I might have some of the facts wrong)?
What do you think of the current Valued Pictures system?
What do you see the main purpose of VPC to be?
Are you happy with the success that VPC has experienced so far?
Where do you see VPC in 6 months? 1 year? 5 years?
At 8 VP nominations, you're one of the greatest contributors to the project so far. Any comment?
Any more thoughts/tidbits/ideas?
Thanks a bunch! Intothewoods29 ( talk) 10:05, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
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Hi and apologies for the delay. Attempting to catch up with backlog today. Here's the link to the Mali maniscripts collection. [1] Reviewing it again, it appears that most of the visual files in this group are significantly lower resolution than the Persian manuscripts group. So it might not be possible to get an FP here, but if you do find anything worth working on please let me know. Best regards, Durova Charge! 22:41, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hello Muhammad! I'm just getting started doing macro photography and I was wondering if you had any pointers. Particularly I'm running into the problem of either not getting good enough DOF or not getting a sharp image (depending on how small my aperture is set). When you're shooting insect pictures, do you use a tripod or rest your camera on the ground or do you go handheld? Do you shoot at Aperture priority? Do you have a particular aperture you try to hit for small insects or do you just set it depending on the situation? Do you boost the ISO at all or leave it low to minimize noise? Just curious :) Kaldari ( talk) 17:56, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Muhammad,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Mikumi panorama.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 5, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-03-05. howcheng { chat} 19:37, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
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Wa alaikum assalam, I am not Palestinian, I am from Yemen. I know user:Tiamut and user:Al Ameer son are Palestinians. Your project sounds interesting, I would love to read your article when it is completed. Please send me the link! Awesome gallery btw, you got talent masha'Allah. -- Falastine fee Qalby ( talk) 20:21, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
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For consistently excellent work Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates contributing quality nominees, countering systemic bias, and setting the standard for congenial reviews and discourse. You've long since earned this barnstar. Durova Charge! 04:08, 26 February 2009 (UTC) |
I do not live in Palestine, nor have I ever lived there. My parents were born and raised there, and I make sure to visit every summer. Therefore, I cannot fully answer on behalf of the Palestinians. I could tell you that when I go there, the only music I find that young people listen to modern Arabic pop music (not a fan myself), while generally older folk listen to the hall of famers like Umm Kulthum, Sabah Fakhri, Fairuz, and others. Dancing is also generic, but the dabka is still popular, and people are always clapping in a rhythmic unison when they dance. In general, other recreation that I've seen, includes playing cards (mostly a game called "Rumey" or "14") and a backgammon game called jaish baish. Over there, everyone knows the people in their neighborhood and the vicinity, and friends (usually lifelong buddies and cousins) gather to smoke hookah, play billiards, crack jokes, talk about events going on in their area, or tell funny stories. My family lives close to the coast, so we frequent the beaches often. We're from the Galilee not the West Bank or Gaza, so conflict in our parts is rare (except during the 2006 War). Because of where I'm from in Palestine specifically, I cannot give you a personal take on how the Israeli-Arab conflict affected our ways of entertainment. However, through WikiProject Palestine's efforts, Wikipedia has some decent articles on Palestinian culture; take a look at Cinema in Palestine, Dabka, Palestinian costumes, Palestinian cuisine. If you want to know more on Entertainment though, I truly recommend you visit This Week in Palestine]. Scroll through the articles in the "Dance", "Songs", "Palestinian Customs and Traditions". -- Al Ameer son ( talk) 04:43, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Muhammad, I was looking at some of your excellent macro shots and I noticed that most of your images are licensed under GFDL 1.2-only. I was wondering if you were aware of the impending migration of Wikipedia from the GFDL license to Creative Commons-Attribution-Share Alike? Specifically, there has been talk that this may affect the use of GFDL 1.2-only media on Wikimedia projects. I'm not really sure I understand the issue myself, but I was wondering why you choose GFDL 1.2-only? Is that a better license for images than the Creative Commons licenses? I'm not trying to suggest that you change your licensing, I was just hoping maybe you could enlighten me on the issues. Kaldari ( talk) 17:33, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Hmmm. You really stirred up the hornet's nest in FPC talk... :-) And perhaps I'm the hornet... I do feel strongly about it though. It is such a ridiculous licensing system, and now the revelation that CC-BY-SA might not even be compatible with GFDL because GFDL swallows up anything it comes into contact with makes it even worse. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 17:54, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
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I like how your statement in the license template of your images informs about the license. I was hoping you wouldn't mind if I use the same statement in my photographs template :=) Zoo Fari 02:23, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
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I was away when you posed your question and just got back into the swing of things today. I'm sorry I could not be of any help. If you still need such information, do let me know, though I suspect the time has probably passed. I hope you found what you needed. Anyway, nice to meet you and let me know if I can ever be of any help in the future. Salamat. Tiamut talk 14:59, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Okay then, here goes: 1. Are you currently living in Palestine?
I am a Palestinian who lives in Nazareth and carries Israeli citizenship. We call the land we live in Palestine, even though an administrative body named Israel controls its borders and other stuff in between.
2. What do Palestinians do for entertainment? Do you have any cultural dances, songs, plays?
Palestinians my age in Nazareth spend a lot of time visiting one another at each others homes. When we do go out, it's usually to eat (my favourite being mezze and fish in Acre). There are no nightclubs here or in other Arab towns and we do not go to nightclubs in Jewish areas, so the only time we dance is at weddings. There, we dance to popular Arabic music and usually do the traditional debke. At weddings, particularly when we go to pick up the bride, we do sing traditional songs like Jina we jina we jina, jibnal aroos wa jina and do the Awiha improvisations. There are a couple of theaters in Nazareth where we can watch plays written by local Palestinians. There is also one in Haifa (Masrah al-Midain) where original Palestinian productions are also put forth. Lately, film production, usually joint Palestinian-international productions, have been working in Nazareth a lot. I work a bit in the film industry myself these days and am proud to be a part of the new Nasrawood. :)
3. How have the activities in 2 above decreased due to the Israeli-Arab conflict?
I am not sure how to answer that question. The conflict has been ongoing for about a century now. No one I know has any recollection of how festive we were before it started. I can say that I used to worry a lot that we were losing knowledge of our traditional songs and dances, but there is a revival of sorts from among the younger generations to preserve those traditions. (See the article on Rim Banna for example).
Nazareth has never been much of a dancing town. People here are a little conservative with expressions of happiness. (I've nicknamed it "Happy grumpy town": people seem happy being grumpy.) Song does remain an important element of cultural expression. We can see traditional oud performances in town at local restaurants, as well as Arabic-Jazz fusion groups, and sometimes even Arabic hip hop.
Anyway, if you have any followup questions, don't hesitate. Salamat. Tiamut talk 15:32, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Muhammad, I noticed you're adding some copyright info to your images, which is fine and dandy (many of us do it), but you're adding it as raw wikicode on the image page, which take up a lot of unnecessary space. I was a bit bold and used the code from one of your images to create commons:User:Muhammad Mahdi Karim/licensing. Now you don't have to copy+paste all the code and you can just place {{User:Muhammad Mahdi Karim/licensing}} on the image page to call this template. Feel free to revert my edits; I only did it to this image so far. But I feel it's much more efficient and a lot cleaner (I'm working to clean up all our FP image pages, and this is an easy fix). Thanks, Muhammad! ~ ωαdεstεr16 ♣T C♣ 06:31, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
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I'd recommend the kenko autofocus set (totalling to 68mm or so). I have heard of people using 2-3 sets on a macro lens without trouble. They don't really affect image quality (the results I get with my 70-200 are as sharp as without them). They do however affect the effective aperture of the lens, so you have to watch out a bit for diffraction softening. I wouldn't worry about damage, I have used all three of my tubes on my 400 (2-3x the weight of the 150mm) without issue and my 70-200 is of comparable weight. There is a formula (magnification = lens mag + tube length/focal length), which would suggest that the 150mm is capable of 1.45:1 with a full kenko set. However, internally focusing macro lenses change focal length a bit with focusing, so apparently you can achieve 1.68:1 (nearly double) magnification with a set. The main downside is reduced working distance. Noodle snacks ( talk) 21:46, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Muhammad,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Aeshna cyanea freshly slipped with time.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 20, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-03-20. Yes, that's tomorrow. Sorry for the late notice. howcheng { chat} 19:02, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
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I thought you might want to know that the svg-version of the steroidogenesis image now is for nomination on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Steroidogenesis as well, if you want to add a vote or comment. Cheers. Mikael Häggström ( talk) 15:23, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
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