User:Rama

This user is an administrator and oversighter on Wikimedia Commons. (verify)

This user has uploaded 45734 files to Wikimedia Commons.

This user has uploaded 12 featured pictures to Wikimedia Commons.

This user has uploaded 344 quality images to Wikimedia Commons.

This user has uploaded 21 valued images to Wikimedia Commons.

Greetings.

I have been a sysop on commons: from the 29th of August 2005 [1], and Oversight on Commons since the 5th of January 2009 [2].

There is a small page to explain how to use my images. Nevertheless, do not hesitate to contact me should you have any question.

Contact[edit]

You can contact me through my talk page (add a new discussion) or write me an e-mail. I will usually answer within 24 hours.

I might also be available on IRC on the #wikimedia-commons ^webchat and #wikipedia-fr ^webchat channels (Freenode network).

Points to consider[edit]

Archives and personal archives[edit]

“

Through photography, [seminarian Stanislas Hutin] attempts to constitute a third group where he would not be alone: those who have seen. With handy and lightweight cameras, conscripted soldiers take numerous photographs of their activities in Algeria. (...) In addition to these photographs that were meant as proofs, how many are still lying in French attics with other war souvenirs of the veterans of the Algeria War?

”

— La torture et l'armée pendant la guerre d'Algérie, Raphaëlle Branche, Gallimard.

Many valuable documents are probably sitting in attics. We should ask elderly people to review their personal archives and consider publishing them under Free licences.

Orphan works[edit]

Orphan works are not in the public domain. Prosecution can happen.
Corollary: images whose author is unknown are not anonymous, and most certainly not in the public domain 70 years after publication.

Achievements[edit]

Scientific papers[edit]

Images used in scientific papers

- Michele Cammarosano, Katja Weirauch, Feline Maruhn, Gert Jendritzki, Patrick Kohl, “They Wrote on Wax. Wax Boards in the Ancient Near East”, Mesopotamia LIV (2019), 121-180.
  * Gert Jendritzki, Matthias Streckfuss, Michele Cammarosano, “Technische und materialgerechte Rekonstruktion einer Elfenbein–Klapptafel aus Aššur”, MDOG 151 (2019), 201-218
Guillaume Parage, "Le chemin de la reconnaissance : Exposer les musées de province à Paris sous la IIIe République (1875-1939), Association des Professeurs d’Archéologie et d’Histoire de l’Art des Universités, revue Histoire de l’art, no 84-85

Images[edit]

Microscopes · People

I have contributed 12 Featured pictures, 344 Quality Images and 21 Valued pictures as photographs. I also draw and I am competent with SVG graphics.

I am interested in portrait photography, and have thus documented several Nobel laureates and other notable figures (see User:Rama/people). I do a fair amount of technical photography in museums, sometimes with accreditation obtained directly, through Wikimédia France or through Wikimedia CH.

Associative activities[edit]

I take part in activities supported and organised by Wikimédia France and Wikimedia CH. I occasionally lend professional photographic equipment to fellow Wikipedians, and benefit from press accreditations and specialised equipment procured notably by Wikimedia CH.

I notably organised or was involved in the following events (for instance):

I took part in Projet Phoebus (image samples)
I organised the Paris Photo Workshop of 2010
I introduced Commons to User:Evstafiev. See his photographs and weep.
I organised a partnership with the Bolo computer museum (image samples)
I obtained accreditations to photograph the Army museum of Morges castle (image samples)
I obtained accreditations to photograph the Lausanne historical museum (image samples)
I obtained accreditations to photograph the Lausanne Roman museum (image samples)
Wikimedia France provided me with accreditations to photograph the Eurockéennes de Belfort in 2007 (image samples)
I obtained accreditations to photograph the Eurockéennes de Belfort in 2011 (images)
I obtained accreditations to photograph Balélec in 2011 (images)
I obtained accreditations to photograph Lyon fine Arts museum (image samples)
I obtained permission to photograph Paul Regnier's personnal weapon collection (image samples)
I obtained permission to photograph the 2011 Geneva book fair (image samples)
Wikimedia-CH provided me with permission to photograph the cryptography collection of the Swiss Army headquarters (images)
Using Wikimedia-CH credentials, I obtained a press accreditation for the 6th World Water Forum (images)

Featured pictures[edit]

Rosemary Standley, of Moriarty, on stage at the Eurockéennes de Belfort 2011. (17 July 2011‎)
Mumified male head, face partially covered with gold or electrum. (17 May 2011‎)
Foundation nail dedicated by Gudea to Ningirsu. (7 May 2011‎)
Naked woman, Ivory, c. 1300 BC, le Louvre. (6 December 2010‎ )
Amiga 1000 computer. (27 November 2010‎)
Cuirassier's armour in Savoyard style, ca. 1600-1610. (16 November 2010‎)
Smaky 100 computer. (14 November 2010‎)
Neolithic necklace of calibrated discoid talc pearls. (26 October 2010‎)
Apple II computer. (20 October 2010‎)
Smaky 100 computer. (10 October 2010‎)
Creation of Eve, sandstone from Montbenon (Lausanne), circa 1515. (12 September 2010‎)
Paul Simonon at the Eurockéennes of 2007. (20 August 2007‎)

Technical[edit]

Focus stacking
Video commands (command line instructions to convert media to OGG on Un*x)
EXIF tools
Naval library
Commons:Oversighters/Handbook
User:Rama/IRC
User:Rama/printing signatures

Quelques notes rapides sur la photo:

User:Rama/ships

Ships to detour

Lena's Commons gallery generator
User:Rama/WikidataArtwork (for single files)
User:Rama/Catdef (for categories)
Uselang for language display (german, etc.)

Catalogue CnAM
Atlas (Louvre)
GPFrance
- Name-GPFrance_2018-Men_FS-IMG
- Name-GPFrance_2018-Ladies_FS-IMG
- Name-GPFrance_2018-Pairs_FS-IMG
- Name-GPFrance_2018-Ice_dance_FD-IMG
- Name-GPFrance_2018-Gala-IMG

File:Phelps DR1.png, File:Rama arbcom-Timeline2.png, File:Rama arbcom-Timeline1.png, File:Rama arbcom-Nb users commenting.png

User:Rama/kits