User:Pigsonthewing

My preferred pic for speaker biographies, etc. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, and you must mention that and credit the photographer, Lionel Allorge if you use it. (Large version, 1.21 MB; you may crop this to suit your needs)

An alternative picture, kindly placed in the public domain by Christoph Braun. No credit is required if you use this. (Large version, 14.87MB; you may crop this to suit your needs)

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I am Andy Mabbett. I live in Birmingham, England. I am Wikimedian in Residence with ORCID. You can find more about me on my primary user page on the English Wikipedia (which includes my declaration of interests); and my website: http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

See where my images are used on Wikimedia projects (may be slow to load); some statistical data about my images is available; also here; as are recent changes to my images. I've started to categorise my images that are used elsewhere and I keep some bookmarks of external sites using my images. Organisations who have used them include:

• ITV
• Society of Wildlife Artists
• Nursing Times
• Time Out
• The Leverhulme Trust
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• GlassDoor
• Radio Prague International
• The Art Newspaper
• the National Academy of Sciences
• Imperial College London
• Church Times
• British Wildlife magazine (print, not online)

I have alternative account, User:PigsOTWing, used in training sessions.

Attribution

If you use my images outside Wikimedia projects, I request a credit, thus:

Online

Picture by & © Andy Mabbett, CC by-sa 4.0

In print

Picture by & © Andy Mabbett (pigsonthewing.org.uk), under a CC by-sa 4.0 licence

with the former example linking to the relevant image page on Commons, my website, and the relevant licence, each with no rel="nofollow" attribute.

Please double-check the spelling of my name, and make sure you have substituted (and link to) the appropriate licence.

Failure to give attribution without prior agreement voids any CC-BY licence.

File names

I am adopting a file name format along the lines of:

• Object - YYYY-MM-DD - Andy Mabbett - nn

where "nn" is an ordinal for series.

Web for all

I believe strongly in adherence to web standards, making web pages as accessible as possible, to everyone, and that it's important to communicate using the simplest language necessary, to convey ideas clearly.

Projects

I founded Wikipedia Project Microformats and have added microformats to Wikimedia Commons templates, and those on other Wikimedia projects.

I founded the Voice Intro Project (#WikiVIP), asking people who are the subject of a Wikipedia article to supply a short recording of their spoken voice.

I work with organisations to encourage them to open licence their media. Among my notable successes have been:

• West Midlands Police
• Birmingham City Council
• The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
• Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service
• Walsall Labour Party
• The BBC
• South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue
• Carl Zeiss Microscopy

Some favourites from my own images

• 
  Deckchairs
• 
  Carl Chinn
• 
  Chrysanthemum 'Enbee Wedding Golden' and 'Feeling Green'
• 
  Cannon Hill Park
• 
  Nigel Mazlyn Jones
• 
  Toby
• 
  Lilium 'Blackout'
• 
  Harlem Désir MEP
• 
  Papaver hybridum, Port de Pollença, Majorca
• 
  Norfolk House, Birmingham
• 
  John Madin
• 
  Selection of cultivated Alliums
• 
  Robert Gillmor
• 
  Stephen Cox & Son - makers plate
• 
  St. Giles Cripplegate
• 
  Arabian Spiny Mouse
• 
  Kyriacos Triantaphyllides MEP
• 
  Barbican
• 
  Boars Head by William Bloye
• 
  Our Lady of Coventry
• 
  Ask the Experts
• 
  Giorgos Koumoutsakos MEP
• 
  Barbican
• 
  Coventry Boy
• 
  Jean-Louis Cottigny MEP
• 
  Treak Cliff Cavern
• 
  David Gilmour's slide guitar
• 
  Birmingham Dental Hospital Coat of Arms, by Bloye
• 
  Castle Bromwich Hall and Gardens
• 
  Barbican
• 
  María Irigoyen Pérez MEP
• 
  Heuchera 'Berry Smoothie'
• 
  Institution of Civil Engineers
• 
  Kate Bunce blue plaque unveiling
• 
  Mitro Repo MEP
• 
  Library of Birmingham
• 
  María Muñiz de Urquiza MEP
• 
  Barbican
• 
  Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science
• 
  Vanley Burke
• 
  NCB Hamstead brick
• 
  Unidentified Narcissus cultivar
• 
  Malus 'Rudolph'
• 
  Penguin bauble

My favourites from media I've acquired

I often ask people or organisations to contribute images, or video, either individually, or in large batches. Some are artistic, some are historic, and some have news value.

• 
  King Kong Statue
• 
  Bull Ring, Birmingham (by West Midlands Police Helicopter crew)
• 
  Smethwick fire, 2013, caused by a "Chinese" lantern
• 
  Perry Mill
• 
  Twitter Joke Trial - Paul Clarke
• 
  Palais du sans-soucis, Haiti
• 
  Southern hawker ovipositing
• 
  Vincent van Gogh - Sorrow (as a high-res Tiff); featured picture
• 
  Perry Barr Stadium poster
• 
  Binocular compound microscope, Carl Zeiss, 1914; featured picture
• 
  Lantern Slide - Tangyes Ltd, Beam Steam Pumping Engine, circa 1910
• 
  Hazelnut (male flower), overlay of 7 channel autofluorescence microscopy; featured picture
• 
  King Kong statue in Leeds
• 
  Rat primary cortical neuron culture, deconvolved z-stack overlay; featured picture
• 
  Mouse Kidney; featured picture
• 
  Tuberolachnus salignus
• 
  Leekfrith Torcs
• 
  Police and media on Hagley Road, Birmingham
• 
  Turkmenistan Airlines Boeing 737-700 EZ-A007.jpg [1]
• 
  Calamity Jane
• 
• 
  Lynsey Sharp in Women's 800m
• 
  Boxford Roman mosaic
• 
• dotted-line pen
• 
  Wyndham's Oak
• 
  early to mid-19th century rosewood and brass inlaid tea caddy
• 
  Horse rescue

Bad deletions

• File:Parian ware model of Queen Mary’s doll house.jpg
• File:Parian ware model of Queen Mary’s doll house (back).jpg
• File:Parian ware model of Queen Mary’s doll house (stamp).jpg
• File:Parian ware model of Queen Mary’s doll house (retouched).jpg

not copyright violations, and were uploaded by the Etsy seller after I sent a request to do so via their Etsy store.

Professionals

Some professionals, who kindly donate some of their work under an open licence:

• Paul Clarke
• Iconem - AUV company
• Fabrice Lévêque
• Allan Warren
• User:Ancientcoincollector - coin dealer
• Ed Gold

Useful

Structured data example

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TGRT Testcard - 4×3

• User:Pigsonthewing/common.js
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• {{speedydelete|1=Non-free image uploaded in error, as part of large batch}}
• {{PD-UK-unknown}} - {{PD-UKGov}} - {{PD-1923}} - {{PD-anon-70-EU}}
• {{Non-free frame revdel}}
• {{what was removed}}
• {{Non-free embedded revdel}}
• {{Published}}
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• {{WMUK equipment|Zoom|year=2018}}
• Commons:VideoCutTool
• Commons:Media help
• complex search
• http://www.flickr.com/groups/public_art_in_public_transport_wm/
• Roman numeral converter
• flickr2commons
• geograph2commons
• video2commons
• Commons Video Convert
• ClipConverter
• De-zoomify
  • User:Fæ/dezoomify
• PDF aid (extracts images)
• Remove PDF pages
• Free OCR Online
• Online OCR
• EZ GIF maker
• Remove EXIF
• GLAMourous = https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=Historical+handcuffs&use_globalusage=1&ns0=1&show_details=1&show_details_limited=1&projects[wikipedia]=1&projects[wikimedia]=1&projects[wikisource]=1&projects[wikibooks]=1&projects[wikiquote]=1&projects[wiktionary]=1&projects[wikinews]=1&projects[wikivoyage]=1&projects[wikispecies]=1&projects[mediawiki]=1&projects[wikidata]=1&projects[wikiversity]=1
• ArtUK bookmarklet
• Random image in category: [[File:Button Icon Blue.svg|{{{size|100px}}}|center|link=Special:RandomInCategory/Images by Andy Mabbett]]
• Search incategory:"Great Barr" insource:pigsonthewing

Sources

• https://www.instagram.com/abbottandholder
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/ - mwichary
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldtravelandtourismcouncil/ - worldtravelandtourismcouncil - 78618717@N07
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/zeissmicro/ - zeissmicro
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/131104726@N02/ = Category:Insects Unlocked - 131104726@N02
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/pikerslanefarm/ - pikerslanefarm
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/vinehousefarm/ - Vine House Farm
• https://www.postcardtree.com/

Future

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/36844288@N00/albums/72157623726339748/ d. 1954
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/36844288@N00/albums/72157631665791235/ d. 1963
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/36844288@N00/sets/72157641232091985/ - PD-UK-anon

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This user has uploaded 8098 images to Wikimedia Commons.

This user has uploaded 116 sounds to Wikimedia Commons.