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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 15:55:17 JST Eugen Rochko

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   You know, I'm still a bit mad about the picture they put on my Wikipedia article. Back at FOSDEM 2023, some guy walks up to me, asks if he can take a picture. I've been taking selfies with folks all day so I say yes. People are happy to meet me and I don't mind. He takes the picture and leaves. Then months later I find out that blurry, low light, bad hair, bad composition picture is how I will be remembered in the world's most popular encyclopedia.

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     Christian Langner (christianlangner@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 15:55:17 JST Christian Langner

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     @Gargron provide Wikipedia with another one.

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     Drahreg01 (drahreg01@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 16:01:06 JST Drahreg01

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     @Gargron

     Ich helfe gerne.

     Problematisch ist die Lizenzfrage. Sie könnten nur ein Bild bei der Wikipedia hochladen und unter eine freie Lizenz stellen, dass Sie selber aufgenommen haben. Das Urheberrecht bleibt immer beim Photographen. (Anders als etwaige Nutzungsrechte.) Aber eine Ihnen nehestehende Person könnte ein Bild machen, das Ihnen gefällt und bei der Wikipedia hochladen.

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     Antifascist Atha Ahuluheluw (martranslations@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 16:38:36 JST Antifascist Atha Ahuluheluw

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     @Gargron I actually like the picture. You come across as a friendly human being.

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     Henrik Fossan☦️ (chiryo@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 16:55:22 JST Henrik Fossan☦️

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     @Gargron feel ya, brother 🤪👩

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     Cindy (trueblue4three@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 17:05:49 JST Cindy

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     @Gargron

     Your loyal followers at Mastodon know that you're a Rock😎Star, even when you have a bad hair day (we all have them)😉 Still, some people's actions and intentions are highly questionable & you've every right to be upset.

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     Megan Marie Hart (meganmariehart@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 17:19:46 JST Megan Marie Hart

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     @Gargron Don’t know if this will help, but you can try to just post a selfie and put "CC-By-Sa 4.0" in the Alt. I did that on some photos, and they got added to commons.wikimedia. (But only the selfies, the ones that my husband took are not there, even tough they are also have the CC-By-Sa thing.)

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     millennial fulcrum (falcennial@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 19:34:06 JST millennial fulcrum

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     @Gargron 😂 yo but at least you're in there though!

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     xs4me2 (xs4me2@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 20:05:05 JST xs4me2

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     @Gargron

     Well the great thing about Wikipedia is that actually you can change that picture!
     You know how it works, I guess ;)

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     Lego Frog (totalelipse@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 20:15:02 JST Lego Frog

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     Post a better picture and declare that's it CC.

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     Victoria Walberg (vickyjo@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 20:52:01 JST Victoria Walberg

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     • Tom Morris

     @Gargron Tagging @tommorris as someone who can likely help with this, or point you in the right direction.

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     Tipiak75 :kirby: (tipiak75@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 21:29:53 JST Tipiak75 :kirby:

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     @Gargron It could be a lot worse imho. And you could provide another picture, should you wish to.

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     NOTxNSANE (notxnsane@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 01:57:18 JST NOTxNSANE

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     @Gargron there are some articles about how awful photos on Wikipedia are, because they need to put photos without copyright, normally they are from random events. Celebrities are particularly affected by this, it's kind of funny.

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     Ffrancois (ffrancois@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 06:01:47 JST Ffrancois

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     @Gargron
     reading your post my thoughts went back to the late 1970s , early 80s when garage hook teams founded personal computing.
     Questioning "bill gates garage" against images through the web delivered blurry, low lightened and live composed results of them two. Not that bad.,ain't it?