Taking a photo for Wikipedia sometimes means you have to go back to a place multiple times. I shot the Bayliss Carnegie Library for the first time last year. It was early in the season and the weather wasn't particularly pleasing. In cases like that, I wait for the next opportunity. Last Sunday morning, I drove to the library and saw that the flowers were blooming and the lawn looked fresh and green. The resulting shot shows the building in all its beauty! #wikipedia #california #libraries
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WikipediaThe Museum of Northern #California Art is running an exhibit "Northern California on #Wikipedia", with photos taken by Frank Schulenburg aka @wikiphotographer (you should follow him!)
It's "believed to be the first-ever solo art museum exhibit of a Wikipedia photographer."
https://www.monca.org/posts/show-item/monca-exhibitions/
There's a good chance you've already seen Frank's work in major media outlets or even Air France's in-flight entertainment system!
It runs through May 14 in #Chico, CA.
Wiki Education"This assignment taught me how to synthesize pages of information concisely and taught me the importance of fully understanding what you're reading." Students from Christine Lattin's course at Lousiana State University share their reactions to writing for Wikipedia as an assignment. https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/03/31/a-literature-review-that-lives-way-beyond-the-classroom/
As an image creator for #Wikipedia, I find it extremely satisfying to be aware of the history of #photography. It helps me appreciate the art form better and learn from other photographers‘ techniques and styles. Studying the works of other photographers also inspires me to experiment with my own photography.
Motorcyclist in Midtown Manhattan, a shot reminiscent of Austrian-American photographer Ernst Haas (1921–1986), taken last Thursday in #NYC
WikiResearchRT @iramjohn
"Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust" (OA)
This article is likely to create ripples, if not waves
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply 
#Photographer Charles Brooks takes captivating photos from deep inside musical instruments. This is the inside of a cello imagined as a cavernous room of masterful #architecture.
Wikipedia's coverage of different photography genres is uneven. Take contemporary street photography as an example. We've only got images from a handful of cities:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Street_photography_in_the_United_States
Now, there must be street photographers in other cities who are willing to share their work under a free license…
Here's my contribution from last night. Let's get this going!
An easy way of improving #Wikipedia as a photographer is to take pictures of current events in your local area. Here's an image of the flooding in a Butte County walnut orchard after some back-to-back atmospheric rivers hit California over the course of the past couple of weeks. I took this image this morning near the Sacramento River southwest of Chico and it's already up on Wikipedia…
#buttecounty #flooding #wikimediacommons #wikiphotographer #walnutorchard
Medievalists.netA look at OpenAI’s ChatGPT and how teachers in medieval studies can prevent their students from using it.
https://www.medievalists.net/2023/01/chatgpt-medieval-history/
One of the best things about taking photos for #Wikipedia? Being able to share the beauty of nature with millions of people through your lens.
Image: The north face of the volcano Mount Shasta (Karuk: “Úytaahkoo”) as seen from Siskiyou County Route A12 at sunset, January 2022 (CC-BY SA)
#naturephotography #mountshasta #wikimediacommons #landscapephotography #northerncalifornia #wikiphotographer
