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TimedText for Tooro

It seems that the Tooro language is not supported by TimedText, as the namespace for Tooro subtitles says "ttj subtitles for clip:" instead of "Tooro subtitles for clip:" (unlike related languages such as Nyoro, Nkore and Kiga) and the CC icon will not allow you to use Tooro subtitles. Thus, for Anthem of the Tooro Kingdom.oga, only the English subtitles can be used despite the Tooro subtitles also existing.

Tooro has been added to Names.php!

Tooro has also been added to Commons. Ahiise2 (talk) 16:11, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

@Ahiise2 i think you need to report on phab: to ask the developers to add ttj to the list of languages supported. RZuo (talk) 12:32, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Ahiise2 (talk) 15:55, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Update: Feature request created. Ahiise2 (talk) 17:26, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Update 2: Tooro and Nyoro are in the process of being added to Names.php. Ahiise2 (talk) 12:32, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Resolved

I think that this question was replied to adequately based on the supplied information. If you have anything to add or a follow-up question please feel free to replace this box with your comment. This section will be archived after two days. Ahiise2 (talk) 10:17, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Upload issues

on the talk page for WIKITONGUES- jan Tepo and jan Lakuse speaking Toki Pona.webm, I have included some of my issues with trying to upload/convert/compress the file required for this video, if someone would be willing to help, I would be very thankful. JnpoJuwan (talk) 23:48, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

@JnpoJuwan: I tried with COM:V2C, but had no luck. @Chicocvenancio: could you try, perhaps without "?dl=0"? https://www.dropbox.com/s/cbued08gyf8zei1/jan%20Lakuse%20en%20jan%20Tepo%20li%20toki%20pona%20tawa%20kulupu%20Wikton.mp4 is 912,128 KB.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:56, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

any luck so far, you two? JnpoJuwan (talk) 10:48, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

@JnpoJuwan: Did you try uploading it to YouTube (or Dailymotion / Vimeo)? Yann (talk) 11:36, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

I tried to convert it with Avidemux, but it failed. There is something definitely wrong with this video. Sorry. Yann (talk) 12:12, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

The Video was truncated. I did a quick fix, but I assume it was not supposed to be only 1m 16s? C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 13:41, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

It was truncated! not by choice, I tried using some commandline tools and it did and I didn't realise until after I uploaded it. JnpoJuwan (talk) 13:42, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

The dropbox version is 156KB. Do you want to upload a different version? C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 19:43, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

the Dropbox one is the full version, that I want. unless there's someway to compress it to fit into Wikimedia, I don't know what to do. JnpoJuwan (talk) 20:34, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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I think that this question was replied to adequately based on the supplied information. If you have anything to add or a follow-up question please feel free to replace this box with your comment. This section will be archived after two days. JnpoJuwan (talk) 23:21, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Manual transcode

Hello. Firstly, i need to say: The topic of this question is asked by me before.

I said like "how can i disable autotranscode?" and got an answer like "you can look at phabricator", but i cannot got some info about phab after some research.. I even don't know what is phab.. Can anyone give me more spesific help about how to manually upload transcodes (or at least disable autos)? RuzDD (talk) 23:04, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

@RuzDD: Could you please explain what you mean by "autotranscode"? I can't find that term used in any context related to mediawiki. - Jmabel ! talk 00:52, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

[1] You can look at the bottom of this page. I call them "auto" because they are created without human touch. RuzDD (talk) 01:32, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Are you saying you want to have something happen differently to your uploaded audio files, or to what you get when you navigate to a the file page of an audio file? In other words, what do you want to disable? Having the transcoded files created and linked, or you seeing them? - Jmabel ! talk 01:44, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

I want to manually create and upload transcodes, or disable transcodes for my files at all if the first cannot be done. Reason: The MW engine creates transcodes with wrong ways, and transcodes are being too big for very low quality (and also distorted/changed/wrong content). RuzDD (talk) 02:06, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

@RuzDD: With the proviso that I think this is a bad idea, you can indeed file a request on phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/. - Jmabel ! talk 03:41, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel and RuzDD: In the case of an audio file, a transcode is a MP3 or Ogg Vorbis file with free compression and thus a smaller filesize with lower bitrate than the original audio, created to optimally serve one of our audio files to web browsers by mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler. After each audio file is uploaded, that extension creates a "Transcode status" section on the audio file's file description page, which contains a link to "Update transcode status" (which will purge the page) and then a table which details the following statistics for each transcode: "Format" (sorted by audio format in decreasing order); "Bitrate" (in kbps); "Download" (a link to download that particular transcode); "Actions" (a link to "Reset transcode" for that particular transcode, in case the transcoding failed); "Status" (what happened last to that transcode and when (UTC)); and "Encode time" (how long it took a backend server to finish the transcoding process). There appears to be no provision to disable transcoding or provide your own transcodes. RuzDD, what exactly do you mean by "transcodes with wrong ways" and "transcodes are being too big for very low quality (and also distorted/changed/wrong content)"?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 07:24, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

MP3 must be 22050Hz 64kbps, but it's 44100Hz 106akbps. OGG must be 22050Hz ~48-64akbps but it's 44100Hz. This status wastes the storage for just a very low quality audio that very different&slow than the original. RuzDD (talk) 14:57, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G. Can anyone disable this extension or set the extension to manually enable/disable for spesific files? Humans can create very higher quality transcodes in very low filesizes. RuzDD (talk) 14:58, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Also, @Jmabel how can i put a request on phab, and what exactly is phab? RuzDD (talk) 15:25, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

phab is shoort for phabricator. It is the database used by MediaWiki to track bugs and feature requests. Your requst would be a feature request. To actully file one, you need an account at phabricator. That is easy: you go on the registration page of phab and select Wikipedia OAUTH, then your wiki account will be linked to a phab account of the same name. Once that is done, you can click on "create task" und choose "feature request" in the Phab GUI.

However: Do you really need that? The transcodes are automagically created for all audio and video files. They are needed by the wiki software to play media in a web browser. But if you need the original you can always link to the original uploaded file. It does not get changed and is available for download. So if you have an app that needs the 48k/s orignial, you can simply enter the download url into that app and will get the original file.

Mayby @TheDJ can explain the rationale of the transcodes that the mediawiki software uses (why they are 44k/s, not 48k/s for example) C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 15:57, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Transcodes those created by MW are sooo bad, they are giving the poorest quality of the world by a very huge filesize. Audios are getting slowed down, distorted, and destroyed during creation of automatic transcodes and these are resulting in a very large file size. I can create much more high quality transcodes in just very smaller file sizes in the same formats. I will write that to phab. RuzDD (talk) 17:04, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

The transcodes are the way they are because of standardisation and to allow for maximum compatibility with a large range of devices. If there are specific files that get incorrect results, then likely there is a small error in the pipeline that needs to be corrected. And provided examples of such will be analysed and fixed (eventually). —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:13, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

To my experience, all transcodes are having that very huge problems. RuzDD (talk) 15:31, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

I don't consider it a "huge problem". The transcodes are used for the media player. May be you can upload a single of your "better" manual transcodes of a video already existing on commons, so that people can look, if your manual transcode works at least as good as the existing transcodes with the media player. If that is the case, it may be worth considering if it does make sense to consider changes to the transcoding.

What I do consider as a problem, is the case that one or more transcodes of a video smaller than 4GiB is/are larger than 4GiB. In such a case the transcode fails completely, even so the size limit of 4GiB for files does not need to apply to transcodes. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 07:52, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

@C.Suthorn I don't believe that our current filesystem would be able to store a transcode larger than 4GiB. Pinging @TheDJ for comment.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:35, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

The maximum limit right now is 4GB, which hopefully soon can be raised to 5GB. After that our MW storage api needs to be adapted to store in chunks of 4GB. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:01, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

There's not need to upload the maximum filesize, i think a limit of 4MB (MegaBytes, not Giga) will be nice enough (and also prevents users from uploading a very large file without compressing it as another advantage). My last uploaded file is even smaller than 2MB (i'm uploading it as wav because i'm not an autopatrol, i will upload new files as maximum 64kbps MP3 when i'm an autopatrol so filesizes will be even very smaller) so a limit of 4MB is very enough in my opinion. And, to your info: I'm putted a task about that at phab. RuzDD (talk) 12:30, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

@RuzDD: We are talking here about feature films in high resolution, which often get near or over the 4 GB limit. If one wants to view it in good quality, they obviously need transcodes which are also big files. Yann (talk) 12:48, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Assume the bitrate is 1MBPS (i think that's a very high quality for the standard 576 lines), the maximum video length is about 32 secs. That's much longer than most videos to my experience. For videos on a more efficient quality (for example, 256kbps on 288 lines), a length of 2:08 is available. So, i think that's very enough for videos. I think audio and video must be considered as the same in the filesizes.

And, a fun fact: 4MB can contain ~20 complicated games or much more basic games. RuzDD (talk) 13:29, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

@RuzDD: We are talking about w:feature films, not 2 mn videos. Even a 22 mn film in 4K is 1.47 GB. I couldn't upload a 4K version of File:His Girl Friday (1940) by Howard Hawks.webm because of the size limit. Yann (talk) 14:53, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Why 4K? What's not enough at 288 or 576 lines? I'd played a lot of games and watched a lot of films at 288-lined 25FPS composite PAL and they were very nice. Also, why we are putting whole feature films? That's how being "can be used for educational purposes"? Excuse me, but i can't see any educational usage for whole feature films... RuzDD (talk) 15:05, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

If you want to show a film on a big screen, 4K is obviously better. And there are transcodes with an issue, i.e. File:Waxworks (1924) by Paul Leni.webm. You don't see "any educational usage for whole feature films"? Well, I can't help you. Yann (talk) 15:21, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Whole feature films are valuable for Wikisources, which transcribe them, if nothing else.--Prosfilaes (talk) 20:24, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

I understood now, thanks. RuzDD (talk) 21:00, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Weird (NSFW) request

The gallery of erect penises (File:Various size penises.jpg) only includes people with light skin. They seem to be of European and East Asian background, but this is really not a representative sample, as the goal seems to be showing diversity in what the penis looks like. There are no images of people with dark or even medium-toned skin, even though a very large number of people worldwide have dark skin. Can someone please update this to include some penises of people with dark skin? Kk.urban (talk) 19:05, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

@Kk.urban: This is just some user's work. You can create their own, including whatever degree of overlap (or not) you may wish with the content of that file. Just make sure you license correctly. - Jmabel ! talk 22:02, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

There is more to it. 3 of the files this imaage is a derivative work of, have since been deleted. Question: need they be undeleted for being inuse and/or better attribution. Or need the image be deleted if one of the files was a copyvio?

@Kk.urban Black penisses may be missing, because no free images were available. You can create images or look online for free licensed images, then a collage, that is more diverse, becomes possible. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 23:33, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

• File:A shaved penis.jpg was deleted as personal and out of scope, and probably should be reinstated. I'll start an undeletion request.
• File:Mycock5.jpg was deleted per Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mycock5.jpg; similar comments apply.
• File:Naked 19 years old boy in bathroom.jpg was deleted per Commons:Deletion requests/File:Naked 19 years old boy in bathroom.jpg. I think the title may be problematic, but otherwise similar comments apply. - Jmabel ! talk 04:21, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

• I have undeleted all three per requests, and I renamed the third. Abzeronow (talk) 20:54, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Image got flagged

Hello, my image got flagged by the bot for possible copyright violation. I have written authorization from the author. In this case it says that I should replace the "copyvio" tag with {{Permission pending|year=2024|month=January|day=12}}, but I can't seem to find where that tag is to replace it. TyranCometh (talk) 00:00, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

It seems like you have uploaded photos that have incompatible licenses with Commons. In particular, these have the "NC" clause. If you want, you can upload them to https://nccommons.org/, a site with a similar mission to this one but that is formally independent. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:56, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

The normal way to place a {{Permission pending}} tag is {{subst:PP}}. - Jmabel ! talk 04:34, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

@TyranCometh: See also COM:LJ.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:40, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Koavf thank you, do you know if nccommons is the right place to upload pictures of mushroom collections? I upload them to put them in the Wikipedia articles I write about mushroom species. Also I'm not sure to understand how I can be allowed to upload there, it says that I should ask for the privileges but I'm not sure to know how. TyranCometh (talk) 16:53, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@TyranCometh: it's a completely separate website, you'd have to communicate with them, not us.

Note that you cannot use content from there in Wikipedia. Like Commons, Wikipedia considers NC licenses insufficiently free (though, unlike Commons, some of the Wikipedias including the English-language Wikipedia make certain allowances for non-free use when no free image is available). - Jmabel ! talk 18:45, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@TyranCometh: Sorry if it's confusing. As Jmabel pointed out, it's a totally separate site, even if it looks similar to this one and has a similar mission. So 1.) yes, you can in principle upload those photos there, 2.) to get permission, you can request permission at w:en:User_talk:Doc_James, and 3.) images uploaded there cannot be used in Wikipedia articles. In the English-language Wikipedia, we can upload local files that are fair use, but that generally only happens in narrow circumstances (e.g. album cover art, but only for the article about that album). Please let me know if you have any other questions. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:48, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Andree Melly and Flook cartoon strip.jpg

The picture should be attributed as follows: Book is entitled, "I, Flook" by George Melly and illustrations by Trog; copyright: Associated Newspapers Ltd, 1962; picture appeared in the book "I Flook" as` described published by St. Martin's Press New York, 1962, page 24 --OMbod13 (talk) 17:10, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Then that is a copyright violation, unless St. Martin's Press somehow failed to renew their copyright. (This is one of the last years when someone would have had to do that in the U.S.) - Jmabel ! talk 18:54, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Did this sort of dual publication by two publishers in the UK and the US require a renewal for the US copyright? FWIW, nothing about the book title or author in the copyright renewals database of Stanford. PD-US-not renewed? Or does Commons give preference to the UK copyright in this case? -- Asclepias (talk) 20:18, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Commons follows the rule of the shorter term when determining the country of origin for a work simultaneously published in multiple countries, and yes, US copyright would have required renewal. That said, what is the proof of simultaneous publication? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 04:01, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

The book bears the name of both publishers: "London Macmillan & Co Ltd, New York St Martin's Press" [2]. Can it be assumed that it is proof that the publication was simultaneous? -- Asclepias (talk) 12:23, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

I'd say so. They were the same company, but they could not use the "Macmillan" name in the U.S. because of the American publisher of the same name (and shared origin) that later became part of Crowell Collier Macmillan. So for most other publishers you'd see something like "Harper & Roe (New York, London)" but they couldn'tdo that. - Jmabel ! talk 18:47, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

The uploader of the file wrote a long text about the book in the article Andrée Melly on en.wikipedia [3]. After reading it, it is not clear if they are saying that this particular drawing was original to the book or that it had been previously published as part of the Daily Mail's Flook comic strips. It sounds more like previous publication. The uploader has still not placed a status tag for the file. Given the uncertainty, it is probably prudent to delete the file. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:17, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

How to post country like articles

The question is the title Jeffy Marvin Jeffy (talk) 20:51, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jeffy Marvin Jeffy: Hi,

Wikimedia Commons is not for articles, but for multimedia content. Please read COM:SCOPE. For articles, please see Wikipedia in the language you want to write articles. Thanks, Yann (talk) 20:55, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Photograms of the Year 1922 - copyright question

I have a copy of the Photograms of the Year 1922, and uploaded a few images some time ago, for images where I could ascertain year of death of the photographer, and it was more than 70 years ago. However I have just been reading info that implies the entire book might be out of copyright (https://publicdomainimagelibrary.com/copyright-rules/). There are some portraits of/photographs by notable people, but I thought I'd check with the experts before I go and upload a bunch of copyright violations!

The book was published in the UK by Iliffe and Sons, and then lists many other publishers in other countries (for instance, US: Boston, American Photographic Publishing Co; Canada: Toronto, The Musson Book Co, Ltd; Australasia: Melbourne, Kodak (Australasia) Ltd etc). Advice appreciated! DrThneed (talk) 11:04, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

There was a similar question two sections above about publication in multiple jurisdictions. It seems that the main point for the internal policy or practice of Commons is to determine if the book can be considered published in the United States at least simultaneously with (which means, according to US law, not more than 30 days after) its publication in another jurisdiction. The US publisher on the title page can reasonably be taken as prima facie evidence of such simultaneous publication, in the absence of contradicting evidence that the US publication was delayed for more than 30 days. This book does not seem to have a copyright notice, which means that, if it is indeed considered a US publication, it might have always been in the public domain in the US (PD-US-no notice). Or, as a pre-1929 publication, it is certainly in the US public domain anyway now (PD-US-expired). If you upload files, make sure to mention the US publisher in the description pages. It would be interesting to have more of those Photograms of the year books on Commons. -- Asclepias (talk) 14:20, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @Asclepias, I'll definitely upload although it won't be soon as I don't currently have an operating scanner! Cheers. DrThneed (talk) 04:29, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Immediate deletion on new article?

Hello, I have been working on an article regarding our media platform. It is a genuine Australian business and I took care to make the article informative, factual and closely resemble other Australian media company pages. As soon as I pressed publish, it was marked as spam by a user called lemonaka who is apparently inactive and mostly works in Chinese. What is wrong here??? This is my first ever attempt tom use wikipedia and I am finding this extremely confusing. RegionMediaACT (talk) 01:06, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

This isn't Wikipedia. We don't have articles here. However you've used your userpage here to write what is basically a promotional business advert. I'm not surprised that @Lemonaka: treated it as spam.

Over at Wikipedia, your draft article on the same topic: en:User:RegionMediaACT/sandbox has received similar treatment.

Anticipate your account simply being blocked before long.

The problem is that this is not what Wikipedia is here for. As your actions here have been to use WP entirely for self-promotion, without even any attempt to learn some of the ground rules of editing first, then things have not gone well for you. Andy Dingley (talk) 01:44, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello Andy, I was actually hoping for some help. This is a very aggressive answer to someone who is completely new to this. I am struggling to understand any of this. Is there someone, somewhere who could help me sort out why articles on other local media have been current for a long time, but mine is inappropriate or unusable? I totally don’t understand the aggression here. 14.201.161.178 01:48, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Actually, it’s OK. Someone did respond with helpful practical advice I can use. Maybe rethink your approach to people asking for assistance? 14.201.161.178 01:53, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@RegionMediaACT: I wrote on your enwiki user talk page. Please stay logged in.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:32, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

I won't apology for what I did since your userpage is really a spam, or something promoting your own business. Mostly working in Chinese is not my fault, and if you look a little bit more, you will find I previously worked with English community. Lemonaka (talk) 07:08, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Did you even look at it? Did you read anything I wrote or follow any link? This has been a horrible experience for someone completely new to Wikipedia. Really, really distressing, ugly and confusing. A very very nasty day fir someone just trying to write about an interesting development in my industry. Wow, you people have left me speechless. 2001:8004:C40:F4E1:B81D:E161:D541:33C1 07:12, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@RegionMediaACT I assume it is you, even though you are logged out and write as an IP. You say, you are new to Wikipedia, which sounds strange, as Wikipedia exists for 23 years now and it is unlikely, that in this 23 years you never looked up something in Wikipedia. However you seem to have missed, that Wikipedia is an Encyclopedia, or you have missed, what an Encyclpedia is. An Encyclopeida is a number of articles about notable subjects. Your business is either not notable (for an Encyclopedia), or you described it in a way, that does not show that it is notable, or in an other way as articles in an Encyclopedia are made. In the english-language Wikipedia you will find millions of examples of encyclopedia articles about notable subjects. And there I am at the beginning again: You write as if you have never looked at a Wikipedia article in the last 23 years. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 09:43, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Some of the above is quite unnecessarily harsh but, @RegionMediaACT: you should definitely read the English-language Wikipedia's policy on conflicts of interest. You've definitely been violating policy, and if you don't want to end up with your account blocked on en-wiki (though probably not here on Commons), you need to understand this policy. Basically, writing in en-wiki about yourself or something in which you are directly involved is against policy. - Jmabel ! talk 21:40, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for a courteous response. When I say I am new to wikipedia, I mean I am new to making a contribution. I've been an author and journalist for 35 years, but I won't be coming back.

I feel actively bullied by a community where I simply tried to post an article without fully understanding what the issues were. I've also moderated social media content on news sites for years and would have considered banning or demoting some of the above commenters for their level of aggression.

Is this what you all want wikipedia to be? Are any of you thinking about either your language or your attitude? Or is protecting how the group thinks the primary aim?

I will, however, be writing about this for the Australian Conversation site where I'm a regular contributor, now that I understand significantly more about the dynamics of the group. And no, I won't be hitting that button that urges contributions ever again, or suggesting anyone else should do so. RegionMediaACT (talk) 22:50, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@RegionMediaACT: do keep in mind, this is Wikimedia Commons, not the English-language Wikipedia. So, among other things, you started out by complaining about issues on one Wikimedia Foundation project on the site of another, which may not excuse the tone of some of the above, but may go a ways to explain it. Also: when you complain around here that someone's primary language is different than your own, you really aren't going to get mileage from that. We have contributors from all over the world, and we want it that way.

Andy Dingley, in particular, started out by letting you know why your actions on another site (the English-language Wikipedia) were likely to get you in trouble there. He did so reasonably politely, but you seem to have taken offense, and from there it deterioriated.

When you write to the help desk of one project to complain about what is happening on another project, what can you really expect? Andy told you that you were in the wrong place and could have left it at that, but took a look at what was going on and added (correctly) that what you were doing on the English-language Wikipedia wasn't appropriate there (about which he was almost certainly correct) and was likely to get you in trouble there (ditto). He probably should have cited en:WP:COI, like I did, but he was just trying quickly to get back to you, not an admin on either project (I'm an admin on both). - Jmabel ! talk 23:50, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

counter proposal: Blocking OP

As I reconsider the case, OP is clearly touching the line, e.g. using log-out sock puppets for disruption, clearly COI, trolling or cast aspersions against us. That validates a block against OP themselves.--Lemonaka (talk) 06:54, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

@Lemonaka: Right, they are indeffed on enwiki for spamming, and their spammy user page and drafts there have been deleted.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:55, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

@Lemonaka and Jeff G.: are there specific diffs of problematic behavior here on Commons? I would not block based on the conversation above. Frankly, the way it looks to me, people were piling on them in an unhelpful way (on the help desk) and I don't blame them particularly for lashing out at that. - Jmabel ! talk 04:41, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: Please see User:RegionMediaACT, as deleted by Wutsje, and all of the abuse filter hits.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:07, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

None of this looks great, but it still doesn't look to me like a reason for a block. I won't object if another admin disagrees and blocks. - Jmabel ! talk 00:53, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Remove a image file created and uploaded by me

Hi Wikimedia, please help to remove a image file created and uploaded by me: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E5%90%89%E7%A5%A5%E9%99%A2%E8%AC%99%E4%BF%A1%E5%85%89%E5%AE%9A.jpg Thanks. RetaMotome (talk) 03:41, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@RetaMotome: You uploaded File:吉祥院謙信光定.jpg in 2020. It is in use on three of your user pages. Why do you want it deleted now? Please use internal links.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 03:57, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Remove it from all of your pages you use it on, then list it at Commons:Deletion requests. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 04:05, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Definitely needs to be removed from your Wikidata user page before you can ask for deletion. At that point, you can ask for it to be deleted as an unused personal photo. - Jmabel ! talk 21:42, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Image from facebook

I have uploaded a freely downloadable image from facebook, and I have clearly identified its origin and author: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vouga-ponte-mf.jpg. Is this ok and enough or is there something more that should still be done? Lslopes (talk) 14:51, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@Lslopes No free licence is discernible at the stated source. Please send permission to COM:VRT 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 18:00, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. How should this permission look like? Lslopes (talk) 20:29, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@Lslopes: Permission should "look like" it was given by the person who owned the copyright. In this case that did not happen, so the image doesn't belong here on Commons. Commons accepts only images that are either in the {{Public domain}} (this isn't) or where the copyright-holder has granted a free license (they didn't). - Jmabel ! talk 21:45, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

If, indeed, the copyright-holder wants to grant a license, then they can follow the instructions at COM:VRT, which describes what permission is needed. - Jmabel ! talk 21:47, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel: So, is it enough that the copyright-holder declares that it is ok for the image to be uploaded in Commons, and also included in Wikipedia pages, or should it be a more general permission? Lslopes (talk) 23:34, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

I can't really imagine the scenario in which Wikipedia (in any language) would accept that image if it is not considered "free" enough for Commons.

Commons, as I said above, accepts only images that are either in the {{Public domain}} (this isn't) or where the copyright-holder has granted a free license. So we would need them to grant such a license.

The simplest way for Manuel Ferreira to grant a license would simply be to state in a comment on the thread at https://www.facebook.com/skyviewmf/photos/a.113469703519886/262372808629574/ what license he is offering (or he can go through COM:VRT, as I first suggested above, but now that I've looked more closely that would probably be overkill in this case). Do note that per COM:L it must be a license that allows derivative works and commercial use. He can require attribution. Typically, the simplest licenses for this are {{CC-BY-4.0}} or {{CC-BY-SA-4.0}}; the latter license is "viral", in that requires that any derivative works also carry that same license.

If you reach out to him, though, do make sure that he understands that if he grants such a license, it cannot be revoked later. We've had a few people not understand that, and been quite angry later. - Jmabel ! talk 23:59, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Give me 2 or 3 days to check this with Manuel Ferreira. Lslopes (talk) 10:35, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello; so is it enough for Manuel Ferreira do add a response in https://www.facebook.com/skyviewmf/photos/a.113469703519886/262372808629574/ saying something like this:

"I, as author of the above image, authorize that the image is uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and used in Wikipedia under the licence CC-BY-4.0. You are free to share and to to remix under the following conditions: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use." ? Lslopes (talk) 15:24, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@Lslopes: that would be great. (No specific reason for him to name Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons, but no harm, either.) The only thing I'd change is to ask him also to link https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (so more like "under the license CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)") Then bring it to COM:Undeletion requests, and it will certainly be restored. - Jmabel ! talk 21:31, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

I want to upload an image from a paper for which my group members are authors.

I want to upload an image from a paper for which my group members are authors. Can you explain how to properly do this? Nittany XRD (talk) 14:52, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@Nittany XRD: that's a bit vague (especially "my group members"). Is the paper published under a COM:L free license? If so, you can just cite the paper itself as a source, use that license, and upload. If not, then because this was previously published, you'll probably have to go through the process described at COM:VRT to grant a license for the image. If there are multiple copyright-holders, then all would need to sign off, so you'd want to cc everybody on the email described at COM:VRT and expect that there might be some back-and-forth correspondence to confirm that everyone agrees. - Jmabel ! talk 21:51, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

"This no copyright nasheed can be used in your content only if your content(topic and shown content) is not against Islam religion!"

Is this compatible with our Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license?--Trade (talk) 16:07, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@Trade: No.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 12:58, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Photo

Hello! what should be done to upload the missing photo of a non existing person whose biography has been put up in Wikipedia.

Thanks for your guidance. Dr.Mayukhjee (talk) 16:51, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@Dr.Mayukhjee The person does not exist? Should this not give you a hint? 🇺🇦 Timtrent 🇺🇦 talk to me 🇺🇦 17:56, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Do you mean the person is deceased or the person is fictional? Also you can reply in whichever language you natively speak if it makes things easier to understand your meaning (I can use google translate on it if necessary). Abzeronow (talk) 18:38, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Okay. Let me explain. A person who is an eminent film artist, about whom an biography is already is in our respected Wikipedia, but his photo is not there. So it is not possible to get his photo by our camera. So how can we put his photo in Wikipedia? Thanks for your Guidance. :) Dr.Mayukhjee (talk) 19:10, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

OK, so this is a living person. You can go about this in two ways: 1. Take a photograph of this film artist or find a photograph with an explicit free license such as Creative Commons-Attribution. 2. Check m:Non-free content if the Wikipedia in your language allows non-free content and follow the guidelines on your language's Wikipedia if they allow non-free content. Abzeronow (talk) 19:18, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Or a third way: you personally don't have to take the photo; someone else can take it and either (a) create an account of their own and upload it or (b) email the photo and grant a license as described at COM:VRT. You can ask them to cc you on that email so you will be in the loop. Or someone can do the same with an existing unpublished photo (or, using VRT again, a published photo). But the permission has to come from the copyright-holder, which would almost certainly mean the photographer. - Jmabel ! talk 22:04, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Options for a derivative work photo to stay in Commons?

Hello, over at eswiki I've been writing a page for a video game character. However, it's been challenging to find a photo for the infobox since there aren't many cosplayers or photos available of this character that don't infringe copyright. Here in Commons, I found a photo of merchandise sold back in 2018 that featured this character and used CropTool to get a potential infobox photo. Unfortunately, it seems the photo violates COM:DW so it's been labeled for deletion.

If I understand correctly, the only way for this photo to stay up would be for the rights holder (Koei Tecmo) to grant permission via email to use this photo? Otherwise, are there other options to perhaps keep a lower res version for the infobox over at eswiki? Jotamide (talk) 19:15, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

As far as Commons is concerned, yes, the only way to keep it is permission from the original artist. As for es-wiki policies, you'd have to take that up on es-wiki. - Jmabel ! talk 22:05, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jotamide: Hi, and welcome. es:Tamaki (Dead or Alive) can use es:Plantilla:Recortar imagen (the local version of {{CSS image crop}}) with syntax {{Recortar imagen|Image=DSC 9116 (29943538647).jpg|Image=DSC 9116 (29943538647).jpg|bSize=6016|cWidth=657|cHeight=2198|oTop=453|oLeft=1528}} as seen in this revision.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:33, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G. Thank you so much for letting me know of this template! Unfortunately, it seems that these types of crops don't play nice with infoboxes since it forces a full-sized image. I tried setting a 220px max width in this revision (Tamaki (Dead or Alive)) but it would still display at full size. Do you perhaps have any pointers in what was I doing wrong?

Also, from what I'm reading in the eswiki documentation this won't save a copy locally right? So if File:DSC 9116 (29943538647).jpg is deleted here at Commons it would still eventually disappear from eswiki? Jotamide (talk) 17:45, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jotamide: Right on both counts. Sadly, I don't have a solution for reducing the CSS image crop. I have a solution, scaling down all the numbers to fit the desired width; see es:special:diff/157278115.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 18:42, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Uploading a new version of a file gives duplicate error.

Trying to upload a new version ([4]https://svgshare.com/i/11z2.svg) to this file. It gives me Upload error "The upload is an exact duplicate of the current version of File:Periodic table modification.svg." Doesn't wikipedia check hashes of file uploads?ǃ Pls help me out. Or if you can, just upload the new version to this file. Thnx in advance ː) Seeker220 (talk) 21:13, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

• @Seeker200: yes, a hash is exactly how it detects duplicates. What exactly did you change? I see no visual difference. - Jmabel ! talk 22:07, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

對於掃描舊照片，以「版權與來源都不明」為由提名刪除，台灣人是否能接受？若否，你們有何辦法避免此事再發生？

我看到有人對舊照片以掃描方式上傳提名刪除，僅僅是因為他認為版權與來源都不明，但是我發現一個問題，這些照片看起來像是1980、1990年代那種底片相機才拍得出來的畫面質感，依照台灣當時的科技環境，底片相機算是數位相機的前一代科技產物，智慧型手機更是2010年代普及起來，相較於底片相機，年輕人自然是熟悉數位相機、智慧型手機，因為他們可能不知道底片相機拍出來的照片會是沒有EXIF這種東西，所以我猜想所謂「版權與來源都不明」可能是來自於提名人是僅憑沒有EXIF而做出的判斷結果。如果真是如此，那種這種判斷是太大有問題，而且提名人還是一次對 154 張照片刪除。既然數量是如此龐大，那麼在提名之前是理應更加謹慎，而非直接提名，然後就丟給別人討論，提名人自己就不管了，因此我認為此風是不可長。為此，我想請各位指教看看，你們是否接受提名人此番作為與提名刪除的理由？如果不接受，你們有何辦法可以避免這種事未來再發生？ 125.230.89.15 03:25, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

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Via Google translate: I saw someone nominated old photos uploaded by scanning for deletion simply because he thought the copyright and source were unclear, but I found a problem, these photos look like It is the picture quality that can only be captured by film cameras in the 1980s and 1990s. According to Taiwan's technological environment at that time, film cameras are the previous generation of digital cameras. Smartphones became popular in the 2010s. Compared with film cameras, , young people are naturally familiar with digital cameras and smart phones, because they may not know that photos taken by film cameras will not have EXIF, so I guess the so-called "unknown copyright and source" may come from the fact that the nominee is Judgment results based solely on the absence of EXIF. If so, that judgment is too big and questionable, and the nominator still deleted 154 photos at once. Since the number is so huge, we should be more cautious before nominating, rather than nominating directly and then leaving it to others to discuss, and the nominator will not care about it. Therefore, I think this trend will not last long. To this end, I would like to ask you for your advice. Do you accept this as the reason for deletion of the nomination? If not, what can you do to prevent this from happening in the future? 125.230.89.15 03:25, 16 January 2024 (UTC) Google translate posted by Jmabel ! talk 04:45, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Given that this happened years ago and these were kept, I don't see why this needs further discussion. Yes, sometimes someone makes a bad DR nomination. - Jmabel ! talk 04:47, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Because I'm asking this question to Taiwanese people.--125.230.89.15 06:13, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Trying to upload picture but get the message that something goes wrong.

I do own the picture and it is in *.jpg format. Paulen1964 (talk) 07:27, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

@Paulen1964: Hi, and welcome. I am sorry to inform you that you have triggered Special:AbuseFilter/153 by trying to cross-wiki upload a smaller (<50,000 bytes or <2,000,000 pixels) jpg photo as a new user. The photo you tried to upload is smaller, and you indicated it's your own work. Usually when someone uploads a smaller photo, it is a copyright violation taken from the web. If you took the photo yourself, please upload the full-size original of it per COM:HR, including EXIF metadata. If you did not take the photo, please see Commons:Licensing for why we can't accept it, and have the photographer post permission on their official website or social media or send the photo and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the photo may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here. If you use our Upload Wizard instead, you should be able to avoid that filter.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:41, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Uploading a Non commercial image but with agreement of the author

Hello, can I upload the non-commercial image of an author which gave it's written and explicit consent for the image to be used in Wikipedia ? If no is there a way to do it considering that the author gave its consent but the image is non commercial ? TyranCometh (talk) 15:10, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

• 1) Note that this is Wikimedia Commons, not English language Wikipedia, and rules are not the same. 2)Wikimedia Commons is for free licensed images only, see COM:LICENSE for details. 3)"Non commercial" license are not free enough to be on Commons, so no, a non commercial image cannot be here. Author consent to be used in one place is not a general free license - the author would need to allow a general free license, which would include allowing commercial reuse. Hope this helps. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 15:16, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

  @Infrogmation Thank you for the information. By chance do you know if there is a way I could upload it directly to Wikipedia or something similar that would make it okay to be used in a page as a non-commercial image with author consent to be uploaded on wikipedia? TyranCometh (talk) 15:20, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

  @TyranCometh: Hi, and welcome. Please read en:WP:F and m:nfc.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 15:39, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

uploads

how to remove uploads CadenTheWeirdo (talk) 20:30, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

@CadenTheWeirdo: , if it's your own, you can use {{My bad upload}} on the file within 7 days of upload. Abzeronow (talk) 20:35, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Best used as {{subst:my bad upload}} - Jmabel ! talk 23:09, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

How do I upload large (2 GB) PDF files?

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T355433

Using Upload Wizard I get error: The file mwstore://local-swift-codfw/local-temp/d/dd/1an8dgb0q6ow.gr4vk6.12187057.pdf.0 does not exist. MikhasikRV (talk) 20:45, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

@MikhasikRV: Hi, and welcome. What is in the files you have been uploading that makes them so large? Also, why do they have such weird names? Please see COM:FN.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 23:30, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Those are metric books (church records) from archives, you can see examples here: https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B2:%D0%94%D0%90%D0%96%D0%9E/1/74

A book can have 1000-2000 pages.

I have no idea why Upload Wizard changes the name of the file. Before uploading names make sense.

Anyway, how do I upload large (2 GB) PDF files? MikhasikRV (talk) 07:45, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

@MikhasikRV: Please see User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js, doc at User talk:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js, and help at Help:Chunked upload.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 13:11, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, but I get error:

01240: 363/367> Chunk uploaded

01240: 364/367> in progress Upload: 100%

01243: 364/367> Chunk uploaded

01243: 365/367> in progress Upload: 100%

01246: 365/367> Chunk uploaded

01246: 366/367> in progress Upload: 100%

01250: 366/367> Chunk uploaded

01250: 367/367> in progress Upload: 94%

01316: 367/367> Server error 504 after uploading chunk: Response: upstream request timeout

01316: 367/367> upload in progress Upload: 95%

01333: FAILED: internal_api_error_DBQueryError: [063644c9-e756-4e1d-a740-8f8e1be769e4] Caught exception of type Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError

[5]https://imgur.com/a/Uytnrt6 MikhasikRV (talk) 16:38, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

@MikhasikRV: That is sad. Please keep trying.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 16:47, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Should I just try the same again and again? Or do something else? MikhasikRV (talk) 19:54, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

This is known bug, unfortunately. Yann (talk) 20:04, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Is there a workaround maybe? MikhasikRV (talk) 20:49, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Is there a sensible way to split the PDFs into multiple smaller files? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 21:47, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

I guess, I could split them in half, but it makes it less convenient for readers... The other way is to use less resolution of images inside, but again, less resolution - less details.

I thought maybe there's a workaround to upload large PDFs as they are. MikhasikRV (talk) 08:48, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

If you have trouble uploading a 2 MB file, readers will have trouble downloading it. Break your file down into manageable chunks (say 10 to 20 MB chunks. Remember that the Internet usually restricts e-mail messages (including attachments) to 20 MB. Martinvl (talk) 09:18, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@MikhasikRV UploadWizard will only upload files 600MB or smaller reliably and nearly never a file of more than 1.2GB. You can however upload files up to 4GiB (4.27GB) with other tools. chunkedupload by Rillke (mentioned above) is most easy, as you can use it without installing any software.

At the moment I have the same error that you get but with a webm file. It seems a new error was introduced to the Wikimedia-Server software that makes it impossible to upload some large files. I asked @TheDJ about it on their user talk page but have no answer or fix until now.

You can keep trying to upload the file. You can file a bug report at phab:. You can wait between a minute and 10 years. The last one seems the most successful approach. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 09:37, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Pinging @Sannita (WMF) as well.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:18, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Please remember I'm a volunteer with not responsibilities and no dedicated schedule. Problems (when confirmed to be problems) should be filed in Phabricator, where I may or may not participate in analysing and/or solving them, but where it also becomes visible to people OTHER than me. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:42, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

OK, I will try to upload later and file a bug report too. Thank you. MikhasikRV (talk) 12:16, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@Martinvl nobody needs to download the full file. MediaWiki breaks it down into individual pages that can be selected on the file desription page (this also works for tiff and djvu. Audio and Video files get transcoded by MediaWiki software into smaller versions). There is never a need to break down a file for upload. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 09:40, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@Martinvl: 2 GB, not 2 MB.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:11, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@CalendulaAsteraceae there is no need to split a file of 2GB and there is no guarantee that splitting the file is a workaround. May be some of the splitted files will upload but others will not. The MediaWiki software is supposed to handle every allowed (free format, free license) of up to 4GiB. If it does not, it is not the error of the user, but the error of the software and developers need to fix it. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 09:45, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

 Comment For what it is worth, my experience is that uploading a big file (>500 MB) works better with a fast connection. There are probably time-outs on the server side (yes, these shouldn't happen), but less time-outs make the probability to complete greater. Yann (talk) 12:28, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

I have 100 MBit/sec connection. Isn't it fast enough? MikhasikRV (talk) 12:36, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Yes, it is. But Mbit or Mbyte? Yann (talk) 13:00, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

100 megabits/sec, which is 12 megabytes/sec.

As far as I see, it takes barely 10 megaBITS / sec when uploading something to wiki. MikhasikRV (talk) 15:25, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

A fast and reliable internet connection will ofcourse make uploading easyier and a more friendly experience. But there is a class of failed (large) uploads that fail because of a time-out at the change from the assembling stage to the publishing stage (and it has nothing to do with upload speed or reliability of the internet connection). Rillke's bigchunkeduploads will mostly avoid this class of error; my own (private) upload tool and the Android "Offroader" upload app are specifically designed to circumvent this type of upload error. However the error experienced by @MikhasikRV and me at the moment is a completetly different one (the already uploaded and assembled file on the server is not found by the server software in the server's file system) and can only be resolved by developers. It can also only be analyzed by people with access to the server logs (like @TheDJ or @Sannita (WMF)). So if someone who has this access and wants to work on it: I can offer a file that is affected by the error and that i could only upload in part, so a developer can try to upload it with Rillke's tool until them succeeds and the problem is identified and hopefully resolved. C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 15:15, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Just FYI, I don't have access to server logs. I can ask around to understand who has access, and check, but I don't guarantee anything. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 20:08, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@MikhasikRV: As C.Suthorn already suggested, please open a Phabricator ticket about it. If you need help for it, please let me know (with a {{Ping}} here or on my talk page) and I'll draft a ticket for you so that you can revisit it. As for the solution, I cannot guarantee you anything unfortunately. I don't think it's gonna be a priority for the next ~ 6 months, but at least we can put it on the radar of our developers. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:22, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

I will try to open a ticket, thank you. I have no experience in this, so if you can draft it, I would highly appreciate it. MikhasikRV (talk) 14:03, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@MikhasikRV Ok, I can give you a hand with that. Can you please describe me in detail what is the problem? I'm not sure I got it right from the discussion. Is it only a problem of dimensions of the file or something is not working with the UploadWizard? Sannita (WMF) (talk) 17:15, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

From the provided error message: "Using Upload Wizard I get error: The file mwstore://local-swift-codfw/local-temp/d/dd/1an8dgb0q6ow.gr4vk6.12187057.pdf.0 does not exist": That is not a problem with the file, its size or the upload tool (client side) the file was successfully uploaded to the upload stash. The upload was ready. But then there was an error server side: The server wanted to do somethings with the file that was uploaded but not yet published. But the file was lost on the server. You can search the logs of the server for "1an8dgb0q6ow.gr4vk6.12187057.pdf" and work from there. I don't know how long these logs are kept, they may already have been deleted? C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 17:32, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

When I try to upload PDF files bigger than 1.5 GB (I cannot tell you the exact maximum size, maybe it's 1.4 GB, but definitely everything bigger than 1.5 GB) using Upload Wizard, it gives me an error "The file mwstore://local-swift-codfw/local-temp/d/dd/1an8dgb0q6ow.gr4vk6.12187057.pdf.0 does not exist." - obviously the name of the file is given randomly by server and it changes each time I upload a file.

When I use User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js to upload same file, it gives error "01203: FAILED: internal_api_error_DBQueryError: [e7d19154-c94b-4562-98d6-40be70bf6b79] Caught exception of type Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError" MikhasikRV (talk) 18:03, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@MikhasikRV I opened a bug at phab:T355433. I can't guarantee anything about when it will be seen by the dev team, but I'll try to get it on their radar. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:14, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much! MikhasikRV (talk) 07:35, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

I can confirm that I have the same problem uploading FLAC files > 2GB Wilfredor (talk) 10:49, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Advanced search with filemime

In Help:Searching, it suggests I can use "filemime:" to append to a search on a file type, but can I remove specific file mimes from my search? For instance, the search `stars -filemime:jpg" (similar to the example, but with a negation) does not appear to work (as there are jpgs in the results): search. Any suggestions here? --Engineerchange (talk) 00:57, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

@Engineerchange: possibly because "jpeg" rather than "jpg" is the name of the MIME type. - Jmabel ! talk 08:33, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

jpg is not a valid mime media type or subtype (Media type). So stars -filemime:image/jpeg or stars -filemime:jpeg. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:58, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jmabel and @TheDJ: thank you both! --Engineerchange (talk) 16:22, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Copyright help regarding File:Byggmax.jpg

Can you delete this file, it didnæt work as wanted?

--Valflo (talk) 18:12, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

@Valflo: I tagged it for you.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 18:21, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

So it will be deleted soon? Valflo (talk) 18:25, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

• Deleted. Non commercial licenses not allowed on Commons. See COM:LICENSE for details. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 18:37, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

  @Infrogmation: Thanks!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:12, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

User pages shown in "Category:Interest user templates"

Some user pages (including mine) are being shown on "Category:Interest user templates", where it reads: It should not contain media files or pages outside the template namespace.. It must be due to something in the userbox templates we included in our user pages, but I have no idea about what can be. Can please somebody figure out what's happening and how can be fixed? Thanks in advance. MGeog2022 (talk) 13:36, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@MGeog2022: {{User all animals}} has a link to Category:Interest user templates that isn't protected by <noinclude>. I found this by comparing the list of templates in Category:Interest user templates with the list of templates found on your user page (visible when editing it). {{User all animals}} is the only template that appears in both. --bjh21 (talk) 15:36, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@Bjh21, I'm not using "User all animals", but "User cartography" and "User space exploration". That last one has no visible reference to "Interest user templates" when reading its code. "User cartography" was created by me. I edited it to put the link to the category inside <noinclude>, and the same for User all animals. Then, I reloaded the category with ?action=purge, but nothing has changed. It isn't a big problem, and, for what I can see, isn't a new one either, but it would be fine to be able to fix it. MGeog2022 (talk) 19:50, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@Bjh21, it's fully fixed now. I don't know if someone did anything else later (I see nothing at the templates or category's history, though), or if what I did hadn't immediate effect but worked with some delay, but the category shows no user pages now. Thanks for your help. MGeog2022 (talk) 10:29, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

@MGeog2022: I'm very sorry: apparently I was looking at entirely the wrong user page! I think I must have found a user page in Category:Interest user templates and just assumed it was the one in question, which it wasn't at all. Regarding the slow updates, category changes through templates do indeed take a while to happen. When I changed {{Geograph}} to update the name of Category:Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland it took months for all the files to change categories. --bjh21 (talk) 11:00, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

@Bjh21, no problem, we all make mistakes :-) MGeog2022 (talk) 13:22, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

I want to put up a file made by another person (specifically the favicon of said person's site) and when I asked them if I can do that they responded with the following

technically all rights reserved i think? whatever the default that you get just by publishing work is. I'm OK with you putting that fav.gif asset up though

does this mean I can upload it? should I ask them for the "permission for anyone to use, copy, modify and sell it" (as written in the upload wizard)? Pandaqwanda (talk) 16:56, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

“does this mean I can upload it” No, it does not. We require a LICENSE that gives us permission to do just about anything we want with it, including using it outside of wikipedia wherever we want.l, while making money of it. Please read Commons:Licensing. This answer is also given in the FAQ which is listed in the box of things to read at the top of this page. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 19:17, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@Pandaqwanda: just to expand a bit, we can’t infer from the above informal statement that the person understands the implications of such consent. A specific free licence makes clear the rights & obligations involved. See COM:VRT#If you are NOT the copyright holder for how you can arrange with the owner, if willing of course, to get permission in an acceptable form.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 01:32, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Can someone help me on how to upload an image asset to Wikimedia Commons?

I dont even know how to upload a asset to Wikimedia. Can someone tell me how to upload a image asset to Wikimedia Commons? Poggersyaaaatechnical1283 (talk) 21:12, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

@Poggersyaaaatechnical1283: Not sure what you mean by an "asset," but assuming you just mean an image file, start with Commons:First steps. - Jmabel ! talk 22:02, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Is this image public domain?

Moved to Commons:Village pump/Copyright

private Metadata on a File

after a google search of my name i found out that my real name appears in the metadata. I am not the author. I would like to have this changed. I cannot Override, can someone help me? File:Schirmmütze Heer.jpg FrankGrau (talk) 20:00, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

If you are saying that your account name is present as uploader: that's simply how things work. This is why the screen to create an account says, "Your username is public and cannot be made private later." Or are you saying that there is some other sort of metadata with your name? - Jmabel ! talk 04:48, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

I think they are referring to the Author field in the Metadata table of the image's page. You should be able to see it if you visit the file. BhamBoi (talk) 07:25, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

My Accountname is not the problem, in the metadata tab the author is it. I would like to override the picture with one, where I delete all

the personal metadata. But it doesn’t work. FrankGrau (talk) 07:38, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Do you mean "upload a new version of the file" does not work? That could be because you have not enough contributions to get the overwriting user right? C.Suthorn (@Life_is@no-pony.farm - p7.ee/p) (talk) 08:31, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Yes, i think i got it. Upload und replicate the file and nominate the old file for delete. FrankGrau (talk) 08:34, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Question about a constructive file

Hi, I dont know if it is constructive publish a organ version played by me of song Auld Lang Syne. PConductor279 (talk) 23:21, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

That sounds constructive to me! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 23:32, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

@CalendulaAsteraceae: See also Commons talk:Abuse filter#Just publishing a music played by me and i saw this.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:42, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, that's helpful context! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 02:49, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

@CalendulaAsteraceae: You're welcome!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 03:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Copyright status of photographs taken by or for Navy Athletics? PD-USNavy or Copyrighted?

My question is whether images taken for Navy Athletics the team for the United States Naval Academy (Twitter, Official website) would be considered Public Domain or copyrighted material? In particular there are some images hosted on the website of the recently deceased Al Cantello that are better quality then the current image. Thanks - Caddyshack01 (talk) 12:51, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Correct phrasing for attribution of inherited copyright

See File:Sugar cane plantation near Murwillumbah, November 1961.jpg for an example. My father took this photo, and I'm now the owner. I used {{Cc-by-sa-4.0-heirs |1=I am Donald Christie's son and heir.}} as the licence, which I think I was advised to when I started uploading these, but I just noticed that leads to "Attribution: I am Donald Christie's son and heir" in the licence displayed. That doesn't seem to make any sense. And for the info template it shows "Source: I own it". Is there a better way for me to do the layout for these? I expect to upload maybe a hundred or two of his photos eventually and it would be nice to get the formatting right. Mike Christie (talk) 16:46, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

You should use {{Heirs-license}} template. Ruslik (talk) 20:15, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

I can switch, but is there anything wrong with the one I'm using? Mike Christie (talk) 21:08, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Nothing wrong at all. If you're happy with Cc-by-sa-4.0-heirs, it's good to use it rather than creating something else. -- Asclepias (talk) 21:18, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

@Mike Christie: What you write in the parameter of the license template is the wording you want reusers to write as the attribution when they use the image. Presumably, you might choose it to be "Don Christie". (Or, as owner of the copyright, you can choose an attribution to yourself or choose any other attribution you like.) For the source, assuming you scanned the image from the original, you can write something like, for example, "{{Self-scanned}} from original print" or "{{Self-scanned}} from slide" or whatever else factually describes where the image comes from. -- Asclepias (talk) 20:44, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, that makes things clear. Mike Christie (talk) 21:09, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Translate.

Hello, respected. I will ask you to translate only one side of a Macedonian famous poet and doctor who has completed medicine in Bucharest. will be honored to have a Romanian version of his Macedonian page or in other language. Shviki (talk) 15:12, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

• @Shviki: I believe you are asking this on the wrong site. This is Wikimedia Commons. Perhaps you meant to ask this either on the Macedonian Wikipedia or the Romanian Wikipedia? Also, you would need to link the Macedonian-language article you are talking about! Even then, I don't imagine there are a large number of people who read Macedonian and write Romanian. - Jmabel ! talk 17:42, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Can I upload a photo of a public school

I was wondering if it would violate Wikimedia Commons rules to upload a picture that I took of the outside of a public school in the United States. Skipidibodadob7 (talk) 16:26, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

@Skipidibodadob7: Typically, yes. Offhand I can't think of any exceptions. - Jmabel ! talk 17:43, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

@Skipidibodadob7: Hi, and welcome. It depends on the expiration of the architect's copyright; see COM:US.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 18:50, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G.: I think you are simply wrong here. U.S. effectively has F.O.P. for buildings, just not for works of art. I can't think of any situation where the copyright on a U.S. building would limit publishing photos of it. Can you spell out a scenario where this would be an issue? - 00:05, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

• You took the photo and are willing to share it under a free license (COM:LICENSE)? Sure, sounds good, upload. Please be sure to include information about where the school (eg city, town, state) in the description. Cheers, -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 00:11, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

My page was deleted

My page about Diana Elizabeth Martinovich was deleted for strange reason :a suspicious that I wanted to create an encyclopedia page. I want to create a page with the name of this women becasue she is top best seller authro in the USA and all over the world,and I do not see the reason why I am not allowed to create a page about her. woudl you please be so kind to explain this,please. Thank you. JamesKonrad (talk) 21:42, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

@JamesKonrad: Here you are on Wikimedia Commons, a project which is only concerned by multimedia content. For articles, please ask on the relevant language Wikipedia. But with only 2.640 results for "Diana Elizabeth Martinovich", there is very little chance that she is notable enough for an article. There are 10 times more hits with my name, and I am certainly not worthy of an article. Yann (talk) 21:46, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

@JamesKonrad: Welcome to Wikimedia Commons. This is a site for media files. Articles like the one you want to create would be at English Wikipedia. See en:Help:Your first article for further information. Abzeronow (talk) 21:48, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

@JamesKonrad: Hi, and welcome. Evidently, article Diana Elizabeth Martinovich was found to be so promotional and oos as to be unfit for our site. See COM:CSD#GA2. Your uploads have also been promotional. You came close to getting blocked per Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems/Archive 95#JamesKonrad posting several copyrighted images. Please stop, and see also COM:L and en:WP:MFA.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 22:33, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Uploading book cover

I am trying to upload a book cover under fair use. Could you please tell me what Creative Commons license I should select in Upload Wizard? NicolasJz (talk) 00:30, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@NicolasJz: Hi, and welcome. Sorry, but we cannot accept it because we don't allow Fair Use here. It may be uploaded to English Wikipedia given an existing article on the book in compliance with en:WP:F.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:49, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Using pictures owned by someone else and I have his permission to use them.

I am adding pictures to an existing page of a live person. I personally asked him for pictures to use. He sent me pictures that he owns.

His instructions: He gives me permission to use, but he does not want the pictures used on any other page without his permission.

Questions: How do I say I do not own the pictures, but I have the owner's permission? What licensing do I use, if any, to prevent anyone else from using them without his permission?

Thank you Jimmyhtz (talk) 00:32, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jimmyhtz: Hi, and welcome. Please have the copyright owner (the photographer, not generally the subject) send permission via VRT.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 00:43, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

I should point out, however - "he does not want the pictures used on any other page without his permission" - sorry, that's not an option. If he doesn't want the pictures used anywhere else, then don't put them on Commons. DS (talk) 21:41, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

And, assuming you are talking about English-language Wikipedia, for pictures of a living person you will run into more or less the same issues there. Commons simply doesn't accept non-free images, and en-wiki generally doesn't accept such images for living people. (en-wiki have been known to make limited exceptions for images that are historically important in their own right; Commons does not.) - Jmabel ! talk 21:47, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Unofficial Logo Deletion Request

Unofficial Logo Deletion Request The logo at the address below has been retired and should be deleted immediately to prevent incorrect logo use. (https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosya:In%C3%B6n%C3%BC_%C3%BCniversitesi_logo.gif) UFUKLIVE (talk) 08:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@UFUKLIVE: Hi, and welcome. We don't delete historical logos like File:Inönü üniversitesi logo.gif, we keep them for use in historical logo sections of Wikipedia articles. Please use internal links and upload a replacement or replacements for use in such sections and current infoboxes in such articles, and link them together via "other_versions". If you can't upload such replacements, please at least link them in the descriptions or upload to Wikipedias like English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:34, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Historic England

Is it just me or does the listed building England template redirect to the Historic England website instead of the individual list entry? example here No Swan So Fine (talk) 11:25, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@No Swan So Fine: It looks like URLs beginning "www." now redirect to the root of the site. I'll update the templates. --bjh21 (talk) 11:43, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@No Swan So Fine: (ec) Hi. The link in File:Frampton Cotterell War Memorial.jpg is to https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1426468, but that is converted by the site to https://historicengland.org.uk/; perhaps if you could point us to the correct listing format, {{Listed building England}} could be updated. Please use internal links. Pinging @Multichill as template author.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:45, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@Jeff G., @No Swan So Fine: All fixed, I think. --bjh21 (talk) 11:47, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@Bjh21: Thanks!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 11:48, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

A document adding to the article of Selim Herkmen

Selim Herkmen is my grandfather and I have his photos and a document which shows his duties along his life as a state clerk/officer. Would you mind explaining me how I can add photos and document into his article?

Best regards,

Dim Herkmen Herkmed (talk) 15:21, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@Herkmed: To answer this we would need to know:

What country?

When were the photos taken?

When, if ever, were the photos first published?

Who took the photos? (In particular, are you the heir to the intellectual property of the photographer?)

(Similar questions for the document)

Also (this will matter in certain scenarios), what language Wikipedia are you concerned with?

Further remark: if you are writing in Wikipedia about your own grandfather then you probably need to declare a conflict of interest. See en:WP:COI for the English-language Wikipedia's policies on how to do this; there are analogous (but not necessarily identical) policies in the other Wikipedias. - Jmabel ! talk 21:53, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Здравствуйте. Хотел бы загрузить фото с картины автора, он разрешил и сообщил что неск. лет назад разрешил википедии использовать фото это свободно по лицензии. находящееся здесь на вики складе, название произведения: Вид_на_Воскресенский_храм_в_Воронеже,_2009_г.jpg ‎(580 × 439 пкс, размер файла: 86 Кб, MIME-тип: image/jpeg)

Здравствуйте. Хотел бы загрузить фото с картины автора Пыльнева А. Н., к тексту в статью Воронеж-википедия "Вклад в культуру" он разрешил и сообщил что неск. лет назад разрешил википедии использовать фото это свободно по лицензии, находящееся здесь на вики складе, название произведения: Вид_на_Воскресенский_храм_в_Воронеже,_2009_г.jpg ‎(580 × 439 пкс, размер файла: 86 Кб, MIME-тип: image/jpeg) Ивсем (talk) 15:46, 22 January 2024 (UTC) С ув.

Hello. I would like to upload a photo from the author’s painting, he allowed it and said that several. years ago I allowed Wikipedia to use the photo freely under a license. located here on the wiki warehouse, title of the work: View_of_the_Resurrection_Church_in_Voronezh,_2009_.jpg ‎(580 × 439 px, file size: 86 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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Hello. I would like to upload a photo from the painting by the author A. N. Pylnev, to the text in the Voronezh-Wikipedia article “Contribution to Culture”, he allowed it and said that several. years ago I allowed Wikipedia to use the photo freely under a license, located here in the wiki warehouse, title of the work: View_of_the_Resurrection_Church_in_Voronezh,_2009_g.jpg ‎(580 × 439 px, file size: 86 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:09, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

@Ивсем: Привет и добро пожаловать. Я вижу File:Вид на Воскресенский храм в Воронеже, 2009 г.jpg. Чтобы использовать его в статье, перейдите по ссылке en:H:PIC или ru:ВП:И. Пожалуйста, используйте внутренние ссылки.

Hi, and welcome. I see File:Вид на Воскресенский храм в Воронеже, 2009 г.jpg. To use it in an article, please follow en:H:PIC or ru:ВП:И. Please use internal links.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 02:09, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

add photo in commons to a page in English Wikipedia

I have in Wikipedia Commons a photo that I took of the Mathew Henson statue that I would like to add to his page where it is referenced. not sure how to do this? Thanks Camdenship (talk) 16:56, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Please, see en:Help:Introduction_to_images_with_Wiki_Markup/3. Ruslik (talk) 19:34, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Bob Cools

I have copy from the %th May when Bob Cools decided to giove permission https://scontent-jnb1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/414048236_7373632669324759_7880185449745014862_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=3635dc&_nc_eui2=AeF1rBE11KWxijyaN1SpRuG7WG8A3_uTmr9YbwDf-5Oav2YbN3fl7vAO1Sbczx4im9wGPWCC0rRLUzMD28hgn-R3&_nc_ohc=yZv3or1zHb0AX-9oQjE&_nc_oc=AQkf3Iogq7hGa8K4JsKlpBwHNznXiZK02-aG-yGn7ZAgXnojrDmKzDdxfPpM9Q6q5fI&_nc_ht=scontent-jnb1-1.xx&oh=00_AfC42Q7mAgudAAdqBDt993-fF0hbF4YePf0ShKlw8_4b_A&oe=65B434C6 Marc Vogels (talk) 18:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@Marc Vogels: Please have that person send permission via VRT.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 01:56, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

@Marc Vogels: I intended for you to click on that link VRT, read that page, and comply with the instructions there.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 10:09, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

interactive map of all photo uploads?

I am having trouble finding the link to this, it is an interactive map which you can search by zip code/city/image type etc that shows where photos were uploaded from geographically. send me the link if you can find it, thx! Andyneuuu (talk) 19:27, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@Andyneuuu: Hi, and welcome. You may be looking for https://wikimap.toolforge.org/ or https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php .   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 01:54, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Duplicate image of a salade niçoise?

These two images of a salade niçoise are clearly the same photograph, even though the actual images are different because of different image sizes, compositions and white balances. They have been uploaded by different users at different times and neither of them mentions the other. Is this a case of a derivative work or something? JIP (talk) 23:46, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@JIP: From some digging into the histories on Commons, on Wikipedia and on flickr, this is apparently what happened:

• A Commons user, not the author, uploaded to Commons from flickr in 2006 the file "File:Salade niçoise ingredients.jpg", which was the version of the photo that was on flickr at that point in time in 2006. The uploader correctly attributed it to the flickr user Paul Goyette and tagged it with the free license and it was flickr reviewed.
• Probably still in 2006, the photographer, the flickr user Paul Goyette, noticed that the file was used in Wikipedia, as he mentioned in the comments on the flickr page.
• On 31 January 2008, the photographer replaced on flickr the older version with the new better version, as he mentioned in the description on the flickr page "(1/31/08 -- improved white balance and replaced)". And the next day, 1 February 2008, he, the photographer, uploaded to Commons the file "File:Salade nicoise.jpg", which is the improved version, with his own Wikimedia account, User:Canterel. He correctly described it as his own work and he multi-licensed it with "self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all".
• N.B.: We can know that the flickr user Paul Goyette and the Commons user Canterel is the same person, the photographer, from the comments by Paul Goyette on the flickr page photos/joshmt/339896457, together with this edit by Canterel on Wikipedia (which was the addition of the file "File:Half smoke with chips.jpg", correctly attributed to a flickr colleague and tagged). That requires some exploration but the conclusion seems certain.
• So, Commons has the two versions and, although the information is different between the two files, the information on each file is legitimate and accurate.

-- Asclepias (talk) 02:37, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

CropTool is down?

It seems that the CropTool (https://croptool.toolforge.org) is down? Is this temporary or has it been like this a while...? - Blue.painting (talk) 01:07, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

@Blue.painting: The latest news is at Commons talk:CropTool#Not working!   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 01:50, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

See how many articles are using images you've uploaded

The title speaks for itself. I recall using a Wikitool or site of some kind a while back which showed a list of all images I had uploaded in order of most used on Wikipedia articles. I cannot find this anymore. Would anyone happen to know what it is? Any leads are appreciated. PascalHD (talk) 05:32, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

@PascalHD: Hi, and welcome. Please see Glamorous and the details checkboxes there.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 09:57, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

iTunes screenshot upload

Hello..

How do I upload iTunes screenshot image to common. I want to use it as a reference to a song that top the iTunes chart Princeisrael2728 (talk) 09:35, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

@Princeisrael2728: Hi, and welcome. Please see Commons:Licensing for why we can't accept it, and have the image photographer / designer and iTunes license it on their official website or social media, or send the image and permission via VRT with a carbon copy to you. If you can't get a compliant license, the image may still be uploaded to English Wikipedia in compliance with en:WP:F because we don't allow Fair Use here.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 09:55, 23 January 2024 (UTC)