User talk:KeresH

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, KeresH, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} after the question on your talk page. Again, welcome!  Hesperian 11:55, 28 March 2007 (UTC) P.S. nice photo!

Hello Hesperian,
Thank you for your very prompt welcome and for putting my image where it belongs. After seeing your changes to the code I should be able to do it correctly next time. I do have a question. I have a much larger version of the nothofagus image, and I wondered what is the best size to submit as a full-sized image? {{helpme}}
Also, I gather from your userpage that you are interested in Australian flora. I'm an American photographer recently relocated to Tasmania (about four years ago, now), and I'm very interested in learning about my new home. My (Australian) partner is an environmental scientists, who aids me in this regard. At this point, I have a fairly extensive collection of photos of Tasmanian and Western Australian plants and would be more than happy to add them where needed.
Thanks again for your help.
KeresH 21:30, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi again KeresH. It is recommended that images be uploaded at the very highest resolution possible... but on the other hand it is recommended that images not be bigger than 10MB unless absolutely necessary. Usually this is not a problem if you upload in a compressed format such as jpeg. Uploading at the highest resolution available is not a problem, because the software can shrink it down on the fly. For example, the code "[[Image:Example.jpg|250px]]" will insert the Example.jpg image at 250px resolution, regardless of how big the full image is. You can upload in any format, but jpeg is recommended for photos. There's heaps more information of this kind at m:Help:Images and other uploaded files.
You're welcome to upload your images here, but you should know that images uploaded here can only be used here i.e. on the English Wikipedia. If you want to make your images available for use here and also in other language Wikipedias, other sister projects, etc, then it would be worth your while to create an account at the Wikimedia Commons]. You upload your images there, then include them in articles here in exactly the same way as you've already done. All the different Wikimedia projects are set up to look for images in their own project first, and then the Commons, so any images uploaded to Commons are available everywhere. Hope that makes sense.
If you're the sociable type who prefers to work alongside like-minded contributors rather than on your own, you might like to join WikiProject Tasmania, "an attempt to fill in, organize, and standardize articles about the state of Tasmania". It's simply a matter of adding your name to the list of members (optional), and putting the project page on your watchlist so that you can follow the discussions (optional). It's pretty informal. There's also WP:PLANTS if plants are your thing.
You might also be interested in keeping an eye on Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Tasmania - a category for articles where an editor has requested a photograph in Tasmania.
That's probably enough information for now. If you need any help, any question answered, any images deleted, etc, drop me a message on my talk page - I might not notice it if you only post it here.
Hesperian 03:04, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] G'day

Hi Hesperian alerted me to your starting - I used to live on the west coast (tassie that is) in the past - as well as being one of the group of people who started the wilderness society - it would be interesting to keep up a talk from time to time.SatuSuro 04:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Scuse the gender misunderstanding. As for the specifics and the particular - one of my best recollection of the very local specifics of the west coast was of a pub in queenstown (where I lived in the 1970's for a while) where a visiting Tas Symph orchestra violinist acccompanied a local singing Danny Boy - the pub still stands but is long long closed.... SatuSuro 13:12, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh, and as for the chinese curse (not taken as such of course) - may you live in uninteresting times (the blessing!) - as for Lonnie - if you havent been told regional rivalries in tas are ferocious at times - for a brief time (about a 100 years ago) for about 10 years) the west coast held the balance of three way power between lonnie, west coast and hobart - then the north south thing has been strong for a very long time since... anyways I am somewhat too free with historic info... SatuSuro 13:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
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