Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day/Archive 1

message: Wikipedia:Picture of the day will finish next week since Wikipedia:Featured pictures has just run out. There are not enough nominations being supported to keep up with providing a new featured picture of the day. Should the frequency of this be changed to once a week until more pictures come in, or should non-featured pictures be used? Perhaps ones which were previously nominated by narrowly failed to get in could be included? Angela. 19:07, Aug 27, 2004 (UTC)
* I vote for non-featured pictures to be included. Chmouel 09:46, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  We're going to run out 

message: Uh, so who dropped the ball here? VeryVerily 00:28, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  ? 

message: Can we please have POTD in a plain white page, with no menus and no distractions, as a sidebar for browsers supporting it (like Opera and Mozilla)? I visit POTD daily, I think the sidebar arrangement would be ideal - KJK::Hyperion 17:49, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This one is not so easy. It might be possible, but we would probably need a template/script to manage three version. It is already a little tricky to manage the text and condensed version. More of a problem is that it is not generally possible to set up a specific link on clicking an image. As such an ultra-condensed POTD wouldn't lead anywhere except the related page in the Image: namespace. -- Solipsist 23:53, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sidebar-sized page 

message: How would I force the pic of the day (condensed) to align right... for example across a contents list. - RoyBoy [∞] 07:45, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I should try :-



although at the moment there seems to be a template bug that if you don't specify a width parameter, you will get 3 spurious brackets following the POTD. -- Solipsist 23:40, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alignment 

message: I changed the template to include an optional parameter for image size; it appears inside the image-markup in such a way that, if nothing is entered, the parameter is ignored; else if "150px" or some other width is entered, it overrides the "300px" default width.  Good for fitting POTD into small spots.  Caveat: the template used to generate the POTD should be updated to match today's template (Wikipedia:POTD/February 9, 2005). 
+sj + 11:20, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately the solution to the extra brackets a few months ago, seems to have effectively disabled the width parameter. If anyone can figure out the template syntax, it would be good to try and reinstate it. -- Solipsist 10:51, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Parameter for img size

message: Just so that there is a record somewhere, I've been managing the Picture of the Day selection using Solitude's mechanism above with a few amendments. If I should happen to be abducted by aliens or get run over by a bus, this is how it is done.
At the start of the month, fill out the new month's Picture of the day archive, such as this one from March 05. For a little while, Solitude had a PHP script to populate these pages (see above), but this seems to have gone away. In any case its simple enough to fill out a new monthly archive by copying the base text for a previous month's archive and replacing the month name using an external text editor (just make sure you copy from a month with 31 days and edit as appropriate).
At the top of the archive page is a template for navigation to previous and future archives of the form . This should also be updated for the appropriate Month&Year. For the current month, it includes link for next month's archive isn't much use as it will all be blank, but it all falls into place once the archive becomes a genuine historical archive. The FPArchiveBar templates have been written by hand up to the end of 2005. Again its easy enough to do with some cut-n-pasting - you only have to pay attention to the January and December templates where one of the links needs to wrap to the next/previous year.
Individual Picture of the Day entries are prepared a few days before they are needed. From the current [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/ }|Picture of the day archive]] follow the red edit link for the text version of the day in question. Then populate the page, either by copying an example from an earlier day or using the Template:Generate POTD T, for example
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Further instructions are available at Template talk:Generate POTD T.
Sometimes, the pictures don't quite fit the mould and you will have to do a bit more work on layout. In particular, very tall, thin images should be reduced from the default 300px wide. Wide panorama images might be better with the caption placed below. Sometimes the photo credit needs some extra thought when referring to external agencies. You can usually find examples to follow in the archive.
Next follow the red edit link for the condensed POTD version and fill out that page in the same way. If you use the template approach, you can feed an almost identical string into .
If the image was taken by a Wikipedian I usually drop a note on their talk page to let them know that their picture is coming up for POTD, and given them a chance to update or improve the caption.
At the moment, we are not getting enough new Featured Pictures coming through WP:FPC to only use each Featured Picture once, so we have to reuse earlier ones. When reusing an FP from a previous POTD check that it hasn't subsequently been delisted. You can usually reuse the previous caption, but watch out for any changes in the format and layout of boilerplate of the PictureOfTheDay page. -- Solipsist 20:11, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Generating POTD entries 

message: Here are the relevant templates. Please note that all are intended to be used with subst. Please see their repsective talk pages for more details, although they are meant to be used in tandem to allow for easy copy-pasting.
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--howcheng  {chat} 22:59, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Updated April 2006

message: Can we have a daily mailing for POTD, just like the one we have featured article of the day? - Mahadevan Subramanian 10:37, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
:It would seem feasible, but I'm not sure what would be involved. -- Solipsist 11:43, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It also seems quite feasible to me, but the email list should be seperate from daily-article-l, since many will not want large files filling their inboxes.  With the featured article list, a script is used to generate the emails, but the actual email is sent and approved by hand.  I wouldn't mind doing it along with the featured article, but anybody can do it if they'd like.  The source for the script is available here (java).  The script would probably have to be modified to scrape the URL of the image, and download it to the sender's computer.  Alternatively, the URL could just be noted at the top of the output and it could be left to the sender to attach the image.  You could try asking Kate to help you out with that.  About the list, I'm not sure of the procedure to create a new mailing list, but you'll probably either have to do something on meta or contact the foundation.  Hope that helps! -Frazzydee|✍ 15:58, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we have a POTD by email? 

message: I commend those who have created useful images for Wikipedia. However, the names of such individuals should not be posted on the Main Page. Image and photo credits should not be included in the Pictures of the day. Within Talk pages users can be given credit for their writing and their image creation, but published areas should NOT give individuals credit. I realize there is little collaboration in image create; nevertheless, Wikipedia is not a place for acknowledging individual efforts. 
It offends me to see names of individuals on the Main Page. That goes against the collaborative ideals of Wikipedia.
Please refrain from crediting individuals in such a public manner. Please remove all previous credits from old Pictures of the day. Kingturtle 18:45, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Be bold is good, but as Pic of the Day has always had credits, this is one where you probably need to gain consensus before making a change. I suggest discussing the issue, either here, or at Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates where there tends to be more activity. -- Solipsist 22:34, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image/photo credits 

message: It seems as though plenty of pictures are being nominated as FPs. Why do I so rarely see a PotD on the main page? Check out the September archives to see several new FPs. Semiconscious (talk · home) 07:20, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: POTD only appears on the main page at weekends.  There is noly so much information that can fit there, and the POTD slot is shared with the Did you know? section, which appears on weekdays.  Those who love the pics more (like me!) have to settle for putting   on our user pages. ~ ~ Veledan • Talk + new 11:57, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: New PotDs?

message: Can this be done? I'd assume so, but my knowledge of the html/wiki is not enough to write the code. What do you think about writing such a code? It may be use to popularize wiki by making some friendly Websites display our PotD... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 22:16, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: PotD on html webpage?

message: The page states that
:Featured images are currently selected in the order they were promoted.
How come that the October 31st picture is not in the correct order (after the bee picture, it should be :Image:Red panda.jpg, see here)? Thelb4 14:39, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order of images 

message: The short excerpt from the article is fine for POTD as used on userpages, but when it appears on the main page, it clashes with the Featured article - they both contain almost the same elements. What I think would be better is if the blurb was about the picture itself, i.e. caption and some rudimentary data about how it was taken. Zocky 11:57, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  The blurb 

message: The picture of the day has been changing sometimes as much as 3 times a day, what's up with this? I can only presume that some people are changing the picture/skipping the "current" one when they don't like it, or something like that... --Chaosfeary 01:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Has it? Most of the POTD pages are on my watchlist, and I haven't noticed them changing. On the other hand, there can be subtler ways of changing the picture. Can you point me to any examples of when the picture has changed after the start of a new day? -- Solipsist 09:23, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing 2/3/4 times a day 

message: My userpage show today's POTD as 'pollen.' It didn't do this yesterday. Rmpfu89 21:44, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure why this should be. It ought to have been a picture of a Bald Eagle as shown at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 12, 2005. -- Solipsist 06:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  12/2-I have picture issues