If I'm available, I'll bring along my Photoshoppery skills! Stevie On 11 February 2013 17:23, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk > Count me in, for a start! > > Richard Symonds > Wikimedia UK > 0207 065 0992 > > Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered > Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. > United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia > movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who > operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). > > *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control > over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* > > > On 11 February 2013 17:19, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> >> Hi all, >> >> As some of you may know, I've been working on a project part-funded by >> WMUK to digitise and release a collection of historic Canadian >> photographs. After some work, we are now at a state where the metadata >> is at a high level of quality, and the glorious high-resolution TIFFs >> are piling up - there's currently about 2,000 waiting to go, and more >> are going to roll in. It's all very exciting, and I'm really looking >> forward to a big announcement once we've got them all on Commons. >> >> Unfortunately, they all look like this: >> >> >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Mont… >> >> and in terms of being useful on Commons, it would be good if we could >> offer this: >> >> >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chef_de_Police,_D._Legault,_de_Mont… >> >> Rather than a couple of us spend hours every day for a month working >> on these, we thought we might try and do it in one go - I'm currently >> seeing if I can get a room at the British Library one afternoon, set >> up some laptops, bring in some coffee and sandwiches, and have a shot >> at breaking through the entire collection. Having a group of people >> look at the images also means we'll have more eyes looking out for >> interesting things, which can only be a bonus :-) >> >> We don't have a date yet, but tentatively we're thinking early/mid >> March. If anyone would be interested, in coming along, do let me know, >> and I'll be in touch once we've got fimer plans... >> >> -- >> - Andrew Gray >> andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*

+1 On Feb 11, 2013 5:23 PM, "Richard Symonds" <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

Fabulous! On 11 February 2013 20:06, Harry Burt <harryaburt(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk>wrote;wrote: Yes; well, it seems to only want to crop black borders from around the edges. But in any case, reorientation alone is going to save volunteers a lot of time; and there are good GUIs for batch cropping IIRC once you've taken out the need for reorientation. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250)

Install Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) on the visitor laptops and take them along? Thanks, Mike On 12 Feb 2013, at 13:52, Richard Nevell <richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

For Windows users, IrfanView (freeware) allows batch rotation and cropping (to specific sizes; it doesn't do edge detection, though I will raise a feature request). It's also useful for manual cropping, resizing, format conversion, etc. being small and lightweight. On 12 February 2013 14:01, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> wrote: -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

ImageMagick can mass-crop images, with adjustable tolerance. It can also deskew (turn to right angle) images: http://greyproc.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/batch-straighteningdeskewing-and.html On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>wrote;wrote: