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Botscura (talk) 13:01, 14 December 2015 (CST)

A Human Welcome

Hello,

Welcome here and thanks for the editing of that "Best Camera" page. Just made some minor changes so the image is now properly displayed.

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Best Regards,


Hanskerensky (talk) 00:35, 16 December 2015 (CST)


Another welcome, and a little advice on Flickr pictures

Hello, and welcome to Camera-wiki! Thanks for contributing your pictures!

I see in a couple of your recent edits, you tried to add a picture. At least on my computer, some of your pictures aren't displaying though. The problem is the URL you used in the '|image=' line of the flickr-image code. Using the Flickr-image template used to be easy when it was introduced, but Flickr changed the URL they used, and I suspect some of our Help pages are out of date. 

(Update: when I checked that, I was wrong: Help:Adding images gives better advice than mine about the URL! Dustin McAmera (talk) 14:22, 7 January 2016 (CST))

Now, if you get the URL for a displayed image at Flick (say by opening the Page Info for the image's page), you get a URL like https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/578/23697877781_9c6b346d18.jpg. Two things about this stop it displaying at Camera-wiki:

  1. First, the https://, which specifies a secure connection. We need the image to have an http: URL. (CW can link to a secure page, so it's ok for the '|image-source=' line to have an https: URL; in this case that's https://www.flickr.com/photos/136899738@N03/23697877781/in/pool-camerawiki).
  2. I don't know why, but images don't display if you give the URL at c1.staticflickr.com or c2.staticflickr.com. However, every image at Flickr can be accessed at a different URL, with something like 'farm4' instead of c1.
  • If you look at the image page given above (it's your picture of the Best Camera), there's a 'share photo' button (like a rounded arrow) below the picture and on the right.
  • If you click that arrow, an overlay appears over the whole page, that lets you choose the format for sharing; you need 'html embed'.
  • Next choose the size you want (whatever you choose; about 500 pixels as the larger dimension is normal, but use bigger or smaller if you think it looks better).
  • The code you need appears below, already selected; you just need to copy it, then paste it into the Camera-wiki edit screen. The copied code will include a different URL for the image itself: in this case it's https://farm1.staticflickr.com/578/23697877781_9c6b346d18.jpg; the number after 'farm' varies for toher images. Other than having 'farm1' instead of c1 or c2, the URL is the same. As mentioned above, this URL still won't work unless you delete the 's' from 'https'.

You don't need all of the copied code; just the URLs for the image page, and for the image itself. Move these into the right lines of the Flickr-image template, then delete what's left. We normally add 'in/pool-camerawiki' to the end of the image-page URL. Then fill in the '|image-by=' and '|image-rights=' lines.

The procedure above works for me, except where the Flickr user whose image it is has 'disabled downloading'; then you can't use the 'sharing' button. In some of those cases I have got some images to work by guessing 'farm1', then 'farm2', etc., until I found the one that worked.

Hope that's some help! Again, thanks for your pictures!

Cheers! Dustin McAmera (talk) 12:17, 5 January 2016 (CST)

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