Got Pictures? Please help me complete a Wikipedia page

[bondolo]

I have been working slowing for more than a year filling in species and photos on the monstrous huge but oh so helpful List of marine aquarium fish species wikipedia page. There are still many unrepresented species and species without images.

Do you have photos of species missing from this page (or any other wikipedia page)? Have you got photos you're proud of and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia?

If you are interested in helping out, upload your photos (and they must be your photos or photos you have unrestricted rights to) via Wikimedia Commons Image Upload Wizard or Wikimedia Commons Image Uploader.

Once you have uploaded images PM me with the image page links and I will be happy to do all the wiki-editing to add it to the big list page and to species or genus pages if they exist.

I've been in the reef keeping hobby for about two years and Wikipedia has been a great resource for learning more about individual species and families. I'm not much of a photographer but I have contributed a few images, Wikimedia: Bondolo's image uploads. I have made hundreds of edits to articles. I believe that contributing images and editing articles is a great way for reefing hobbyists to contribute back to the hobby and to share information for all our benefit.

Having a purpose in taking great pictures and the pride of seeing one of your pictures on a wikipedia page is pretty rewarding too. To know that it's my picture people see when they visit Wikipedia : Open Brain Coral is pretty darn cool.

Cheers!

 

[SushiGirl]

The list is missing Sphaeramia orbicularis under Cardinalfish.
I'm glad to see that the Wikimedia Commons doesn't treat all pics submitted as Public Domain, that's refreshing!
I have a few I can contribute, including one that Aquacon stole from me a long time ago without permission :lol:. I see one that's missing that I owned before but only have crappy pics, too LOL.

Edit: The Valenciennea sexguttata isn't very representative, they're actually white with just blue face spots. I have pics of one of those as well.

 

[bondolo]

I've been able to update a half dozen images already on the list and various species pages. Very Cool! Keep 'em coming!

Adapted from Wikipedia Aquarium Fishes Project instructions:

Image should ideally picture a single fish, facing left, in a horizontal orientation, cropped to 20 percent of the fish's length around the fish's body. For articles long enough to warrant inclusion of additional images, these ideally showing the fish in its native environment (or with commensal species). Note that images of fishes which do not possess right-left symmetry should never be flipped to obtain a left-facing fish; doing so would, for example, convert a righteye flounder into a lefteye flounder.

Elsewhere I've seen requests to never do any left/right or top/bottom flipping. Rotations are OK, but flipping presents something that doesn't truly exist.

 

[SushiGirl]

Interesting, didn't know there were rules.

 

[StephLionfish]

Sorry if I'm being rude, but I'd just like to say that the picture for the Dendrochirus zebra (lionfish) is wrong. The image pictured is a P. volitans. D. zebras look like this-

DSCN0116 by Tree_Roots, on Flickr


DSCN0216 by Tree_Roots, on Flickr

Id gladly help out with pics if I had any good enough for ID'ing purposes. I don't think those two^ are that good for Wiki. I have a friend who has a really good pic of a D. zebra, though.

 

[bondolo]

Interesting, didn't know there were rules.

I don't think they are really rules, just suggestions to improve the consistency of the images. I notice that even academic journals don't have perfect conforming images on a regular basis. I wouldn't get too worried about it or at all.

Sorry if I'm being rude, but I'd just like to say that the picture for the Dendrochirus zebra (lionfish) is wrong.

Thank you for the correction and it is not rude at all. Only about 25-30% of the entries on the big list page were made by me. Even if it was my entry I would prefer that it was correct.