Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Digital Preservation/Userbox

"True Binary Clock (Anthony Liekens)"

Why is a photo of someone's product used as the image for this WikiProject? It is in this userbox, the Project page, and the Project template, yet has nothing to do with digital preservation. Arlo James Barnes 01:09, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Arlo Barnes: Good question! Do you know of another image that fits the WikiProject that's already on Commons or which you could get on there (which implies that it's openly licensed or that the author is willing to license it so, e.g. if you email him)? --Fixuture (talk) 03:42, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am glad you asked, @Fixuture:. Well, the image he used is a binary tree rather similar to the discs used in rotary encoders, so something from commons:Category:Encoder_discs would be a start, since it would help with the image freeness and commercial endorsement issues although not with the relevance one. For that, I will keep working on ideas, including seeing if I can verify the license of an photo I have seen of a pile'o'hard-drives in the Archive.org offices. Arlo James Barnes 04:37, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Arlo Barnes: I really would love an Internet Archive-related image as project-image. The hard part is that the image has to look well in the small size it's displayed in the templates and also be representative of the project at the same time. I would guess that while a pile'o'hard-drives in the Archive.org offices would be pretty representative it wouldn't look so good at the small size (that might be different if it's an icon / sketch of hard drives or so). I suggest involving other WikiProject participants so that we can collaboratively find (and decide on) a good image for the project. As I don't think many of them watch this page you probably should create a new talk page entry at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Digital Preservation or simply move this discussion there (simple copy/paste). --Fixuture (talk) 12:25, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Fixuture: — Done. Good point about the scrutability at small sizes. Arlo James Barnes 19:14, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]