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A quick look in the not-so-reliable resource Wikipedia tells me that Farsari, born in Vicenza, was serving in the Italian armed forces while Vicenza was still Austrian. I wonder where in what-is-now-Italy he was at the time. -- Hoary 11:05, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Yes, exactly: and it shows that Vicenza was Austrian. My guess is that the Austrian army would have had few speakers of [any dialect of] Italian, and that somebody living in Vicenza could hardly have served in the Italian military. Had Farsari perhaps moved to somewhere within what was then Italy? -- Hoary 14:05, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
I would love to find and use a Farsari image of Fukiage (the Imperial Gardens (Tokyo), but though I searched far and wide, I could only find images attributed to Kusakabe or Tamamura - though these are undoubtedly actually Farsari images! If anyone can find a Fukiage photo identified as by Farsari, please add it to the article - or selected photos list. Pinkville 18:18, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Some notes cite "Banta". Did Banta perhaps write an accidentally unmentioned paper within "Banta and Taylor", or what else might this mean? -- MrNigglingPedant 03:54, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
However, Banta and Taylor are described as "eds"; their book is referenced by the bibliography entries for Handy, Iwasaki, and Robinson. So again, did Banta and Taylor write an accidentally unmentioned paper within "Banta and Taylor"? If this is just the introduction, then "Banta and Taylor, introduction, 12" or some similar solution. MrNigglingPedant 05:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
I've gone through the article a couple of times; there was little to change, and while an article on some old geezer who took snaps of old buildings and stuff and wymmyn with their clothes on can hardly compete with Really Important Stuff like Final Fantasy or Dragonquest, I sense that this article is now within reach of the big FA.
Some nits:
Well done so far; don't give up now! -- Hoary 01:49, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
The footnotes, previously just in irritatingly small lettering, are now (when viewed via a Gecko-based browser) in irritatingly small lettering that's prettily in two columns. As each line can be scanned with fewer saccades, the doublecolumnization is to the good (+); as doublecolumnization means one may have to scroll up in order to read the entirety of a single note, it brings an extra irritation (−).
So much for the columns. Now the lettering size.
"Wikipedia is not paper" is a mantra often chanted in support of the silliest causes. But these don't detract from the fact that yes, it's not paper. It's not toilet paper either, and extra megabytes cost server space -- but decreasing the size of footnotes brings no real saving whatever.
When the standard CSS was rewritten to automate this reduction in lettering size, I vigorously opposed the end as well as the means and won some support. I'll reiterate my objections here:
An additional benefit of rendering them in the default text size is that there'll be no need for columns and the irritating backscroll that's likely to be necessary to read one of the notes in its entirety. -- Hoary 08:27, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Hmmm... I hadn't noticed this discussion and went ahead in reinserting the 2-column format. I'll change it back again though to be honest I think it looks silly (on my nice little Firefox) as half of the space is now taken by the list of references and one has to scroll through them. Also, for all that's worth, the two-column/ridiculously small format is the de facto standard for recent FAs. I think it's nice to have some uniformity. But hey, it's only detail... Pascal.Tesson 07:43, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Originally posted on the FAC page:
Can anyone help with the gallery resizing request from SandyGeorgia? Thanks. Pinkville 16:03, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
The gallery takes the form of an HTML table of class "gallery". As an HTML table, it has a fixed division into rows each having a certain number of cells: no fiddling with monobook.css will change this.
Use of an HTML table for a purpose such as this is a bad idea. But there was a demand for a gallery, and thanks to the way MediaWiki is written, a gallery necessarily brings you an HTML table.
It needn't do so. This page explains a table-free alternative: the result looks pretty much like a WP gallery (if you care to color it that way) but it snakes: reduce the width of your browser window and the rightmost cell plops down to become the leftmost of the following row. (Thus it works just like text. You can see a simple example here.)
(SandyGeorgia, I'm assuming that your browser window is very narrow. If my assumption is mistaken, please correct me.) -- Hoary 08:02, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Sandy, any congratulations should go to Pinkville, not me. It's very much his article, as the page history will show you. And yours was just a "comment", not an "object".
Screen size shouldn't be an issue; browser window size might be. Your browser window might be almost as large as your screen but it might be much smaller. If you're interested I'm interested: Try maximizing your browser window on any of your computers (laptop included) and then see if the gallery still requires horizontal scrolling or is otherwise screwy. If so, what's your screen resolution and what browser are you using? -- Hoary 13:45, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Just for information. I recently added 47 photographs to the Commons category corresponding to Adolfo Farsari which are the content of one album I photographied. There were no names explicitely written on the album, but it is daten from 1886 by a note left by one my ancestor. The styles and the photographs, including the cover looks very much like the Farsari ones anyway. esby ( talk) 07:11, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be an info box for something like this? Just the basic info? Yash ( talk) 10:40, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
The article has many beautiful photographs taken by Farsari, but no image of Adolfo Farsari himself. Does any known image exist? -- MChew ( talk) 16:09, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
the Italian Royal Army was founded only in 1861 ( http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storia_dell%27Esercito_Italiano), therefore it is impossible he was enroled in it before.
A possibility: he was enroled in the Sardinian Royal Army (aka: Piedmont Army ). Otherwise it is possible he was enroled among the Garibaldi's militia. Some of them in 1860 left italy to fight in US army (one of them was in little big horn battle).
The users above who wonder how comes he was an austrian empire subject and an italian soldier: well, it was not common but possible. Even during the IWW many italians living in (then)austrian cities (i.e.: Trento and Trieste) get out the border and enroled with the italian army. (among my ancestors I have people serving both armies). tonii (it.WP-- 79.45.174.8 ( talk) 19:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC))
ok, I have it! the Vicenza public library "Bertoliana" says here: [ [1]] that he was enroled in the military academy in Modena. [ [2]] says that in 1859 it was established under the name of Scuola Militare dell’Italia Centrale by [ [3]]. Therefore our man was in the Sardinian Army, that later, in 1861, became the Regio esercito, the italian royal army. tonii -- 79.50.175.76 ( talk) 21:03, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Let's put it in another way: before 1776 America did exist, but it is difficult to imagine an "american military" before that time. The state that did the unification was Piedmont, that had the name "Sardinian Kingdom".
It is well possible that I misunderstood you. I just hope having been somewhat useful. tonii it.WP -- 79.50.175.76 ( talk) 23:57, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not a collection of images. Image collection is Wikimedia Commons.-- KANE SUE 22:13, 25 January 2009 (UTC) My English may be inappropriate, because I am Japanese. If you discover a mistake, I want you to correct it.
Any particular reason it has to be one huge block? I broke it down, but along the way someone merged it together. Not that I mind that much - just think it looks too big for the lead. John Smith's ( talk) 19:55, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi all, I've been sorting some of the cracking images from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art over on Commons and there's one group of hand-coloured images of Japan - The Feldman Collection - that lack a photographer credit on the official records ( Museums Online Collection). They all seem to be from one album and the set includes the cover. A bit of googling and Tineye took me to this blog post which attributes some of the images to Farsari and this ebay listing which attributes an image to Uchida Kuichi. I'm tempted to trust the blog post but have no firm leads. Any ideas? I plan to email the guys at LACMA next week. PatHadley ( talk) 19:40, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
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A quick look in the not-so-reliable resource Wikipedia tells me that Farsari, born in Vicenza, was serving in the Italian armed forces while Vicenza was still Austrian. I wonder where in what-is-now-Italy he was at the time. -- Hoary 11:05, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Yes, exactly: and it shows that Vicenza was Austrian. My guess is that the Austrian army would have had few speakers of [any dialect of] Italian, and that somebody living in Vicenza could hardly have served in the Italian military. Had Farsari perhaps moved to somewhere within what was then Italy? -- Hoary 14:05, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
I would love to find and use a Farsari image of Fukiage (the Imperial Gardens (Tokyo), but though I searched far and wide, I could only find images attributed to Kusakabe or Tamamura - though these are undoubtedly actually Farsari images! If anyone can find a Fukiage photo identified as by Farsari, please add it to the article - or selected photos list. Pinkville 18:18, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Some notes cite "Banta". Did Banta perhaps write an accidentally unmentioned paper within "Banta and Taylor", or what else might this mean? -- MrNigglingPedant 03:54, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
However, Banta and Taylor are described as "eds"; their book is referenced by the bibliography entries for Handy, Iwasaki, and Robinson. So again, did Banta and Taylor write an accidentally unmentioned paper within "Banta and Taylor"? If this is just the introduction, then "Banta and Taylor, introduction, 12" or some similar solution. MrNigglingPedant 05:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
I've gone through the article a couple of times; there was little to change, and while an article on some old geezer who took snaps of old buildings and stuff and wymmyn with their clothes on can hardly compete with Really Important Stuff like Final Fantasy or Dragonquest, I sense that this article is now within reach of the big FA.
Some nits:
Well done so far; don't give up now! -- Hoary 01:49, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
The footnotes, previously just in irritatingly small lettering, are now (when viewed via a Gecko-based browser) in irritatingly small lettering that's prettily in two columns. As each line can be scanned with fewer saccades, the doublecolumnization is to the good (+); as doublecolumnization means one may have to scroll up in order to read the entirety of a single note, it brings an extra irritation (−).
So much for the columns. Now the lettering size.
"Wikipedia is not paper" is a mantra often chanted in support of the silliest causes. But these don't detract from the fact that yes, it's not paper. It's not toilet paper either, and extra megabytes cost server space -- but decreasing the size of footnotes brings no real saving whatever.
When the standard CSS was rewritten to automate this reduction in lettering size, I vigorously opposed the end as well as the means and won some support. I'll reiterate my objections here:
An additional benefit of rendering them in the default text size is that there'll be no need for columns and the irritating backscroll that's likely to be necessary to read one of the notes in its entirety. -- Hoary 08:27, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Hmmm... I hadn't noticed this discussion and went ahead in reinserting the 2-column format. I'll change it back again though to be honest I think it looks silly (on my nice little Firefox) as half of the space is now taken by the list of references and one has to scroll through them. Also, for all that's worth, the two-column/ridiculously small format is the de facto standard for recent FAs. I think it's nice to have some uniformity. But hey, it's only detail... Pascal.Tesson 07:43, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Originally posted on the FAC page:
Can anyone help with the gallery resizing request from SandyGeorgia? Thanks. Pinkville 16:03, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
The gallery takes the form of an HTML table of class "gallery". As an HTML table, it has a fixed division into rows each having a certain number of cells: no fiddling with monobook.css will change this.
Use of an HTML table for a purpose such as this is a bad idea. But there was a demand for a gallery, and thanks to the way MediaWiki is written, a gallery necessarily brings you an HTML table.
It needn't do so. This page explains a table-free alternative: the result looks pretty much like a WP gallery (if you care to color it that way) but it snakes: reduce the width of your browser window and the rightmost cell plops down to become the leftmost of the following row. (Thus it works just like text. You can see a simple example here.)
(SandyGeorgia, I'm assuming that your browser window is very narrow. If my assumption is mistaken, please correct me.) -- Hoary 08:02, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Sandy, any congratulations should go to Pinkville, not me. It's very much his article, as the page history will show you. And yours was just a "comment", not an "object".
Screen size shouldn't be an issue; browser window size might be. Your browser window might be almost as large as your screen but it might be much smaller. If you're interested I'm interested: Try maximizing your browser window on any of your computers (laptop included) and then see if the gallery still requires horizontal scrolling or is otherwise screwy. If so, what's your screen resolution and what browser are you using? -- Hoary 13:45, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Just for information. I recently added 47 photographs to the Commons category corresponding to Adolfo Farsari which are the content of one album I photographied. There were no names explicitely written on the album, but it is daten from 1886 by a note left by one my ancestor. The styles and the photographs, including the cover looks very much like the Farsari ones anyway. esby ( talk) 07:11, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be an info box for something like this? Just the basic info? Yash ( talk) 10:40, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
The article has many beautiful photographs taken by Farsari, but no image of Adolfo Farsari himself. Does any known image exist? -- MChew ( talk) 16:09, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
the Italian Royal Army was founded only in 1861 ( http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storia_dell%27Esercito_Italiano), therefore it is impossible he was enroled in it before.
A possibility: he was enroled in the Sardinian Royal Army (aka: Piedmont Army ). Otherwise it is possible he was enroled among the Garibaldi's militia. Some of them in 1860 left italy to fight in US army (one of them was in little big horn battle).
The users above who wonder how comes he was an austrian empire subject and an italian soldier: well, it was not common but possible. Even during the IWW many italians living in (then)austrian cities (i.e.: Trento and Trieste) get out the border and enroled with the italian army. (among my ancestors I have people serving both armies). tonii (it.WP-- 79.45.174.8 ( talk) 19:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC))
ok, I have it! the Vicenza public library "Bertoliana" says here: [ [1]] that he was enroled in the military academy in Modena. [ [2]] says that in 1859 it was established under the name of Scuola Militare dell’Italia Centrale by [ [3]]. Therefore our man was in the Sardinian Army, that later, in 1861, became the Regio esercito, the italian royal army. tonii -- 79.50.175.76 ( talk) 21:03, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Let's put it in another way: before 1776 America did exist, but it is difficult to imagine an "american military" before that time. The state that did the unification was Piedmont, that had the name "Sardinian Kingdom".
It is well possible that I misunderstood you. I just hope having been somewhat useful. tonii it.WP -- 79.50.175.76 ( talk) 23:57, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not a collection of images. Image collection is Wikimedia Commons.-- KANE SUE 22:13, 25 January 2009 (UTC) My English may be inappropriate, because I am Japanese. If you discover a mistake, I want you to correct it.
Any particular reason it has to be one huge block? I broke it down, but along the way someone merged it together. Not that I mind that much - just think it looks too big for the lead. John Smith's ( talk) 19:55, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi all, I've been sorting some of the cracking images from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art over on Commons and there's one group of hand-coloured images of Japan - The Feldman Collection - that lack a photographer credit on the official records ( Museums Online Collection). They all seem to be from one album and the set includes the cover. A bit of googling and Tineye took me to this blog post which attributes some of the images to Farsari and this ebay listing which attributes an image to Uchida Kuichi. I'm tempted to trust the blog post but have no firm leads. Any ideas? I plan to email the guys at LACMA next week. PatHadley ( talk) 19:40, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
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