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 also 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[edit]

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

Online: Picture by & © Andy Mabbett, CC by-sa 3.0
In print: Picture by & © Andy Mabbett (pigsonthewing.org.uk), under a CC by-sa 3.0 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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

Professionals[edit]

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

Useful[edit]

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TGRT Testcard - 4×3

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Roman numeral converter
flickr2commons
geograph2commons
video2commons
Commons Video Convert
ClipConverter
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- User:Fæ/dezoomify
PDF aid (extracts images)
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Free OCR Online
Online OCR
EZ GIF maker
Remove EXIF
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Sources[edit]

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/

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Metadata[edit]

This user has uploaded 7528 images to Wikimedia Commons.

This user has uploaded 115 sounds to Wikimedia Commons.

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