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# 💭 Title 💬 👥 🙋 Last editor 🕒 (UTC)
1 Long-term disputes on various wikis involving a cross-wiki IP author 22 4 Bertux 2024-12-14 14:14
2 New calendar templates 3 3 SirlupinwatsonIII 2024-12-08 01:09
3 iOS Commons app is no more 14 6 Nylki 2024-12-08 19:24
4 Tmbox improvments 8 5 Matrix 2024-12-12 21:45
5 Cooked food in supermarkets 8 6 RoyZuo 2024-12-08 11:20
6 Commons:What is this? (Get help with file categorization) 10 4 Prototyperspective 2024-12-10 18:13
7 Admin as supervoter 12 5 Multichill 2024-12-08 10:49
8 Unneeded bloated category tree 19 6 Triplec85 2024-12-13 13:19
9 Appeals of decisions in Commons:Categories for discussion 15 6 Laurel Lodged 2024-12-09 14:14
10 Opinion on mass request for deletion 10 5 Jmabel 2024-12-13 19:24
11 Peak editor activity 7 4 Jeff G. 2024-12-08 16:33
12 Copyright? 3 3 Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 2024-12-09 19:30
13 Combo cats 21 9 Omphalographer 2024-12-11 23:05
14 Template:Places by decade/main/doc 2 2 Jmabel 2024-12-08 18:58
15 "prove a license" 5 4 Jmabel 2024-12-10 19:57
16 All Rights Reserved statement in content published under CC-BY 3.0 license 6 4 Prototyperspective 2024-12-11 13:37
17 Reminder: upcoming Commons conversation about new media and new contributors on December 12 3 2 Sannita (WMF) 2024-12-10 18:00
18 Wikidata links to Commons 3 3 Multichill 2024-12-10 20:34
19 Syrian Flag discussions across the Wikipedias 4 2 Abzeronow 2024-12-11 00:27
20 OpenRefine - Commons upload validations 3 3 Jmabel 2024-12-11 19:24
21 White nose syndrome 2 2 Jmabel 2024-12-11 19:26
22 Russian tram specialist needed 1 1 Smiley.toerist 2024-12-11 22:25
23 WordPress Photo Directory 7 4 Jmabel 2024-12-13 19:27
24 Category "Glass sarcophagi" 7 3 ReneeWrites 2024-12-13 21:48
25 This message box is using an invalid "type=diffuse" parameter and needs fixing. 5 3 Well very well 2024-12-14 19:13
26 VRT question 2 2 PantheraLeo1359531 2024-12-13 08:50
27 Soon to come: 1 million People by name 3 3 Prototyperspective 2024-12-13 11:11
28 Please delete all files in Category:Claire Szilard 4 4 Prototyperspective 2024-12-13 12:19
29 Notification of DMCA takedown demand — Jarchi4 1 1 JSutherland (WMF) 2024-12-13 21:08
30 Notification of DMCA takedown demand — George Osborne ready for 2016 Budget 1 1 JSutherland (WMF) 2024-12-13 21:38
31 Please clear Category:Miscellaneous non-vector files with vector versions available. 1 1 OperationSakura6144 2024-12-14 04:46
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November 13

Long-term disputes on various wikis involving a cross-wiki IP author

There are numerous disputes involving an IP user indulging in cross-wiki spam, particularly articles on West Germanic varieties. I am hounded for a while.

The probable IP adresses indlude:

2003:de:3717:716f:e95b:e6c7:5bb:48f5
2003:DE:370C:38E4:4448:5249:EA82:E5FA
2003:DE:3717:718E:65C8:BEBB:58D6:1D36
2003:DE:3717:716F:5DCE:8967:6BA9:C376
2003:DE:3700:A013:B8D1:4127:BE29:FBC6



https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2003:DE:370C:38E4:4448:5249:EA82:E5FA has a current block. This probably is the same person. A particular hobby of this user is to revert me on wiktionary, if I write that Hollandic isn't part of Low German. What shoukl — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarcelles (talk • contribs) 17:46, 13 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

From what I can see, he's a user who upload much about mapping and cartography, for which is great, but to engage in further conversation with German Low, or etztes with or without a s, Low Saxon with Low German to Low German only, for me all this and the on-going conversation, does not contribute to anything positive. Germanic lang have much variation, as well as French or Latin, especially from those area. You could simply add a variant, or suggest that it might be spelled with a different phonetic sounds. I did review quite a few contribution he made, and this could be solve quickly. In my opinion he is contributing for which is great, if you are trying to bring post back from 2003... It seems like he is using the same account, and he will keep using it since he's in love with the appreciation of contribution... I suggest to close this topic for now and simply add a watch alert.

00:59, 8 December 2024 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SirlupinwatsonIII (talk • contribs) 00:59, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Sarcelles: Is this some sort of request for administrative action? If so, it belongs on the appropriate Administrators' noticeboard, not on the Village pump. Conversely, if it is something you are just bringing up for general discussion, I don't know what you want discussed. - Jmabel ! talk 18:37, 13 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
None of these accounts have edited in recent weeks, some not in as long as half a year, so it is hard to imagine what anyone can do about this at this point. - Jmabel ! talk 18:40, 13 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
2A01:599:30A:8340:4A39:F118:FF32:1257 is a recently used reincarnation. Sarcelles (talk) 18:45, 13 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2003:DE:371A:22A6:78F9:E411:9550:9ED4
the block log says:
8.11.2024, 21:12:36: Surjection blocked 2003:DE:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 (block log), expiring 8.12.2024, 21:12:36 (Abusing multiple accounts/block evasion: 2003:DE:371A:22A9:319A:E2C4:1B5A:C283)
5.11.2024, 06:03:47: Surjection blocked 2003:DE:3710:0:0:0:0:0/44 (block log), expiring 18.11.2024, 21:40:20 (Disruptive edits: xwiki povpushing: see w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Naramaru) Sarcelles (talk) 20:25, 13 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2003:DE:371A:22A9:319A:E2C4:1B5A:C283
8.11.2024, 21:12:36: Surjection blocked 2003:DE:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 (block log), expiring 8.12.2024, 21:12:36 (Abusing multiple accounts/block evasion: 2003:DE:371A:22A9:319A:E2C4:1B5A:C283)
5.11.2024, 06:03:47: Surjection blocked 2003:DE:3710:0:0:0:0:0/44 (block log), expiring 18.11.2024, 21:40:20 (Disruptive edits: xwiki povpushing: see w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Naramaru) Sarcelles (talk) 20:49, 13 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ADeutsche_Mundarten.png&diff=948595578&oldid=946447257 was a removal of the deletion message, probably by the same IP. Sarcelles (talk) 20:22, 14 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Whatta bunch of nonsense … -- MicBy67 (talk) 00:14, 17 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
File:Niederfränkisch.png is a file of this kind. It attempts to picture Low Franconian varieties in Europe. It has the following threefold-division:
  • A minor transitional area to Low Saxon, in the Netherlands
  • East Bergish running from near the city centre of Essen to Westphalia, also quite small#
  • A somehow larger area cutting through all of the following: an arrondissement bordering to Brussels, Antwerp province, Dutch Limburg, Belgian Limburg, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, German-speaking Belgium and French-speaking Belgium.
Sarcelles (talk) 19:17, 21 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
I missed the part covering most of the area. Sarcelles (talk) 11:36, 22 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
This is called Nordniederfränkisch (North Low Franconian) and running from France to Holland, Friesland province, Brussels and Westphalia. Sarcelles (talk) 11:45, 22 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nederfrankisch.png is a typical example. It includes the concept of South Guelderish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:South_Guelderish casts major doubt on the feasability of the concept. I have started to link this section on Wikipedia talk pages, the most recent example being https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Limburgish. Sarcelles (talk) 16:13, 28 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
I have mentioned this issue on https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overleg:Limburgs as well today. Sarcelles (talk) 12:08, 2 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
 
Dialects of Dutch and German
This is a typical German map of some of the dialects from Italy to Denmark. The author is MicBy67, User:Postmann Michael (The discussion creator's blatant and deliberate lie has been corrected! The map creator was not the Commons accounts mentioned, but the account User:Et Mikkel~commonswiki! Let's stick to the truth for once! --MicBy67 (talk) 02:34, 7 December 2024 (UTC)). There should be a further discussion of this issue. Sarcelles (talk) 20:07, 5 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Yawn!
Cook up a fresh idea! ;)
Hey, did you happen to catch the latest post on the discussion page? Just checking!
I'm a bit shocked your mentor hasn't swooped in to save the day yet… -- MicBy67 (talk) 01:03, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@MicBy67: consider yourself formally warned that the wording of your posts here has been unnecessarily uncivil, and continuing in this vein will probably result in me (or someone else) blocking you. - Jmabel ! talk 17:53, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Jmabel: I take note of that. And I'm aware that the discussion creator (or his mentor) will bring up the old story again with the original account (Postmann Michael) was blocked on the German-speaking Wikipedia because of POV from dubious sources, trivialization of National Socialism. Harmful to Wikipedia on the one hand, and with the successor account (Et Mikkel) was permanently blocked on the German-speaking Wikipedia as a way to circumvent the blocking on the other hand.
Nobody really cares about the past two decades anymore!
What is striking, however, is the fact that the discussion creator is trying to construct a connection between the IP's and me. And is cross-wiki hounding actually allowed on Wikimedia Commons? I am asking now for an interested friend … --MicBy67 (talk) 02:55, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
On German-language Wikipedia, there are frequent attacks related to those issues against users of non-German origin. Sarcelles (talk) 12:10, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  1. Another lie from the discussion creator.
  2. Are the accounts I allegedly attacked just one that launched a smear campaign against me, to which I responded sarcastically? By the way, this is irrelevant to Wikimedia Commons!
  3. I doubt the identity of the account stated. And that is my right.
  4. You were for yourself banned from the German-speaking Wikipedia for years because of “pointless article work,” right?
  5. Do you haven't anything better to do than try to link my account to the Paderborn IPs in all Wikimedia/Wikipedia projects?
  6. I am now withdrawing from this “discussion.” My time is too valuable to waste on childish nonsense!--MicBy67 (talk) 00:14, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
    Sarcelles has a history at Dutch Wikipedia of dropping questions about dialects and languages and their boundaries, aimed at construing one opinion as being the truth and falling silent when objections arise. Even so one day before arrival of the archive bot he used to add a random remark to avoid archiving so I took to manually archiving his messages or scrapping them altogether. Also I often alert unsuspecting users to this behavior implying that answering is pointless.
    Although Sarcelles poses no acute threat to the wikis, I would be relieved if he could be banned for good from all projects. These tedious and time-consuming discussions lead nowhere, least of all to our prime objective. His minor contributions in the main space do not in any way compensate for the inconvenience.
    Btw I got here as Sarcelles canvassed this discussion at Dutch Wikipedia → bertux 14:14, 14 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

November 26

New calendar templates

I made 2 new templates Template:Monthly archive table Template:Monthly calendar which can be customised to automatically make calendar-like tables of contents. Monthly archive table is partly inspired by https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Village_pump_archives&oldid=908053133 .

I hope these templates are more mobile friendly than text based TOC, which often is not auto adjusted to page width. The TOC should also be new on top and old on bottom, since more recent archives are more relevant for current users.

You can see their effect on com:motd (as long as the new design is kept).--RoyZuo (talk) 17:22, 26 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Nice work ! Thank you for doing this. —TheDJ (talkcontribs) 12:32, 30 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Agree, nice work! SirlupinwatsonIII (talk) 01:09, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

November 28

iOS Commons app is no more

Dear ALL it seems that since few days ago (independent) iOS Commons app Wiki Uploader is no more (has not been maintained since a while, but now gone from Apple's App Store).

As F/L/OSS advocate I am always favoring open hardware/software/services/standards (understand communal preference to focus on Android as platform), but this is second time that we do not have any mobile app for iPhone (in the time when iPhone is literary celebrated by professionals for its lens quality and software).

Is there a way to do something about cross-plaform portability of the Commons App code so that iOS can have at least basic app supported by WMF or establish a minimal support for indy developers to have one maintained in sustainable way?

--Zblace (talk) 16:52, 28 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

There is a current wish at m:Community Wishlist/Wishes/IOS Commons App that you could support. Commander Keane (talk) 21:26, 29 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Commander Keane how exactly can I support it? It does not look like and active process. Zblace (talk) 15:45, 30 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
As a former app developer (and one of the developers working on the first versions of mobile Wikipedia)... Cross platform development is not really a golden ticket. Or rather.. that is what the web is for.
If you want a cross platform app, there are some solutions, but it should not be underestimated how much time you will still have to spend working on very platform specific things, that now have to fit into a multiplatform straightjacket.
What you are seeing here is the cost of quality. Development (esp mobile) is expensive. And the few very good floss mobile apps you see, are essentially built on the backs of a lot of available time and dedication by singular very skilled developers. These are the exceptions, most apps lack either the time, the skill or the interest of people. The point here being, that i would not focus on the technology too much. The right people tend to be a bigger differentiator here (or money, but that isn't going to happen). —TheDJ (talkcontribs) 12:28, 30 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
@TheDJ not sure I understand your arguments. We had several unofficial but non-terrible iOS apps for Commons photo uploads, but it seems none were given any support in any way. Zblace (talk) 15:48, 30 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
The best solution might be to make file uploading an add-on for the official Wikipedia app. GPSLeo (talk) 17:22, 30 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Zblace I will reply down here if you don't mind. Regarding supporting the wish, I would recommend adding a {{Support}} to the talk page and a comment on why you think it is important. I am pretty sure the WMF looks at activity on the wishlist. Commander Keane (talk) 21:53, 30 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Commander Keane really? Is there an example of wishlist item being taken on based on this (sorry if I sound cynical but historically it was not the case AFAIK) Zblace (talk) 11:00, 1 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@GPSLeo easy to agree to extend Wikipedia app with photo upload, but I kind of doubt that will be done unless there is huge preassure from contributing and developer communities to extend the app in that direction. Zblace (talk) 10:58, 1 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Zblace, perhaps adding {{Support}} for the wish was a bit misleading (WMF employees don't want that action for some unknown reason) but still I think the wishlist is the main way to get attention for an iOS app, with adding a love token on Phabricator and directly approaching WMF board members the only other ways I can think of. Anecdotally I have noticed a WMF product manager participating, hence my assumption that the WMF is watching the wishlist. Take a look at the status column at m:Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Results to see examples of wishes from a previous year that were taken on. Dark mode would be another example of something implemented. Having said all that I am also cynical about the situation, but you can only try and stranger things have happened. Commander Keane (talk) 05:30, 2 December 2024 (UTC)Reply


Agree with what you said Keane. As for adding things to the Wikipedia app (which has an iOS version) I don't know if it's feasible to make the WP app extendable – one could install a plugin for iOS Commons features or even Commons to the much better known more popular iOS-compatible Wikipedia app (but it would require a lot of development to match the Commons app functionality so I think it's probably easier to convert the app to iOS which may be readily possible with some effort despite that it's not been developed with some cross-platform framework with which it would have been very easy.) Prototyperspective (talk) 11:45, 2 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Heya, I cannot answering your question about cross-platform portability of the Android App. But regarding the topic of an iOS Commons App in general, I am currently developing a new native iOS app for Commons, to make uploads and search/explore images and categories. It will be open source and licensed under A FOSS license. There is currently no public test version though, but I plan to have a first semi-public test version around March, 2025. Nylki (talk) 15:30, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
That sounds great! Would be good to get let people at Commons:Mobile app know then so any interested devs if there are any can help out with it as soon as possible when the code is public. Prototyperspective (talk) 18:36, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Already done :) Nylki (talk) 19:24, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

November 29

Tmbox improvments

Hello, so I wanted to share some proposed changes to Tmbox that would harmonise it with mbox. This would be useful when we decide to migrate Mbox to Module:Message box. Due to the unfortunate way templatestlyes works, I can't show changes side-by-side, but here's the changes with old Tmbox and my version. With the old version, there is quite a bad contrast with mbox since one has an inline border but one doesn't, which is especially noticed on talk pages, but my version fixes that. Also, it synchronises the colours with mbox with design tokens. —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 19:17, 29 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

For me this looks fine but with this I would also change all colors to use the codex colors. GPSLeo (talk) 10:52, 30 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
I did, however some of the border colours can't be codex since codex doesn't have a good equivalent. See Module:Message box/sandbox/tmbox.css. —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 12:04, 30 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Acroterion: Why did you unarchive this section?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 06:21, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I must have misclicked. Acroterion (talk) 14:52, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Matrix you should test with text, so that their look in dark mode can be checked.
is Category:Wikipedia message box parameter needs fixing related to your tests? RoyZuo (talk) 21:36, 12 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@RoyZuo: I tested above with dark mode. The category should have been Category:Message box parameter needs fixing, thanks for pointing that out, they should update in a few hours. —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 21:41, 12 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Also that category is supposed to be a maintenance category. For example Template:Categorise/layout was using "type=diffuse" which caused errors. —Matrix(!) ping onewhen replying {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 21:45, 12 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

December 03

Cooked food in supermarkets

Category:Cooked food in supermarkets is now used for a concept in Chinese supermarkets. I'm not sure how applicable this is for other countries.

The concept is, food that is sold like those sold in food shops/restaurants. They are ready for consumption. They can be consumed on site; or within a few days, usually not more than a week. Factory-packaged cooked food like canned food, frozen pizzas, frozen nuggets, biscuits, chips, tiramisu, ice cream etc. is not the scope of this category. For cooked food for sale similar to this concept but in other countries, I've only seen "siu mei" and roast chicken sold in Singapore NTUC fairprice, and sushi and baked goods sold in German supermarkets. In very rare cases I saw a German supermarket with a few food shops inside selling sandwiches, pastry and drinks.

There's the potential ambiguity of the current cat title (which can refer to all packaged non-raw food). What's your suggestion? Should we keep this title, or do you have an alternative proposal? RoyZuo (talk) 22:52, 3 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

PS: these counters are behind the cashiers, like raw meat/seafood/cheese counters commonly found in western supermarkets. Not the shops that share the same building with the supermarket but outside its cashiers.--RoyZuo (talk) 11:20, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
A lot of US supermarkets have onsite delis with cooked food like this. Actual seating is more rare, but I recall seeing it. Complicating it some is places like Walmart and Target often have Subways or McDonalds or Pizza Huts or Starbucks inside them.--Prosfilaes (talk) — Preceding undated comment was added at 00:04, 4 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Onsite seating is more common in co-op markets than the big U.S. chains, but not that unusual. I think pretty much every Whole Foods has it.
Prepared food is pretty standard in any larger UK supermarket as well. - Jmabel ! talk 06:52, 4 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
In Germany this concept is called Mittagstisch as it is mostly used for lunch. If in other regions this is also primarily for lunch and not for dinner „Lunch in supermarkets“ could be a good and not that ambiguous category name. GPSLeo (talk) 07:09, 4 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I don't see any connection in the delis I've been familiar with. I'm sure there's a lot of lunch, but there's some breakfast foods in the morning, and they sell a lot of rotisserie chicken for dinners. When I worked the job 20 years ago, we sold a decent amount of dinner food.--Prosfilaes (talk) 20:36, 4 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Prosfilaes: I have seen US supermarkets with seating, hot rotisserie chickens (available in preparation for dinnertime, with the remains resold the next day cold and packaged at a discount), and a hot chicken wing bar (available around lunchtime) that doesn't just serve wings (again, with the remains resold the next day cold and packaged at a discount). The ready-to-eat food is very popular with employees who have very short breaks.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:04, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Commonly used terms for this in US supermarkets are "ready-to-eat" or "grab and go". Sometimes also "prepared meals", although that's ambiguous with packaged items that need to be heated before consumption. Omphalographer (talk) 03:59, 4 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

December 04

Commons:What is this? (Get help with file categorization)

This is a new page intended to become a place where users can ask about what is shown in an image/video so that fitting categories can be added or for people knowledgable about a subject to add requested fitting categories:

Commons:Expert identification or categorization requests

I created it due to recurring posts on this page asking about what individual pictures show where having a separate page could make this page here more focused on project-wide issues and all of the remaining discussions. It could become more overseeable (shorter) as well as to enable users (only or especially) interested in such requests to have a separate dedicated page they can watch.

Requests that for some time remain unsolved there could be asked about here in a brief post that bundles several requests. These could look like the photo challenge results posts.

If you're interested in these kinds of requests, please watch that page. It probably won't work well early on for some time but that may change over time. If you have any media files where you think a category is missing and you'd like to know which, just create a new section on that page. There also probably is a better name for that page, I'll try to think of a better one and if you have any suggestions please name them. Prototyperspective (talk) 09:59, 4 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

What problem are you trying to solve?
 ∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 10:54, 4 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
1 The lack of such a place. 2 This place being overcrowded. 3 Insufficient resources for the large backlog & open VP issues/discussions. 4 Files missing categories and missing categories for files. Prototyperspective (talk) 10:57, 4 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Seems to me the main effect of this is that it is less likely that someone with expertise is likely to see the requests. - Jmabel ! talk 19:57, 4 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Nor is Village pump really "overcrowded".
The main problem of Village Pump, as I see it is that Proto closes threads they don't seem to fully understand while hiding in edit summaries that they are closing such threads and then complain when knowledgeable people reopen them, bloating these threads with meta discussions about the threads.
 ∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 08:23, 5 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Than if one was to post here. Yes, that is obviously true and also clarified in my post above as well as on the page. Moreover, imagine if everybody who had put a file into Category:Unidentified subjects had posted about it on VillagePump. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:40, 5 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
If there was so much interest in that, the category would probably be empty.
 ∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 11:50, 5 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I didn't create this page because there is so much interest of people to find fitting categories. And I also never said there was "so much interest". Prototyperspective (talk) 11:52, 5 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  • I like the idea, but it needs to be properly advertised. Perhaps the MediaWiki Upload Wizard could include a line like "If you don't know what categories you should use you can ask experienced users" or something like that. The main issue is that a lot of power users don't even know where things are, for example I know a good map maker who didn't know about the Maps Workshop. Another example is how the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) "hides" are their projects and places by not putting it in a highly visible navigational template. For this page to be successful, it should be advertised in the help desk, community navigational templates, and the MediaWiki Upload Wizard. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:04, 4 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
    Makes sense but linking it anywhere at the Upload Wizard would be a wrong place for this. It's meant for experienced editors who would like to find out a fitting category for some media, particularly:
    • if they think it's too important to identify what is shown and categorize it than to just dump it somewhere into Category:Unidentified subjects
    • It's best to describe what is unidentified as that there may not be an unindentifed xyz category for it or because it's briefly described somewhat unclear what is unidentified
    • It's best to describe what is unidentified as one can use multiple examples and can use some text to describe it
    for example I know a good map maker who didn't know about the Maps Workshop I find aggreggating everything into a category useful for such purposes (at best also an overview page using that) and I've created Category:Wikimedia projects and maps regarding that example.
    It would be great if this page was advertised more widely but I think it first should be improved, be watched more, and become more active. Prototyperspective (talk) 18:13, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

December 05

Admin as supervoter


December 06

Unneeded bloated category tree

We have a nice category:Forests by country category tree, but one person also created this horrible category tree for only one city - Berlin (category:Forests by city). I propose to delete this entire category structure. MBH 11:59, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

  •   Support I don't know why, but from what I've seen there's some pretty obtuse category trees on here having to do with Germany. Way more so then with other countries for some reason. This category structure being an especially horrible example of the wider problem. So I say delete it. --Adamant1 (talk) 12:10, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  • Unfortunately this happens not only for forests, but for any object that may be categorized by several variables. For example, in football matches we have at least something like this for only THREE variables (one of which is a "children" (club of country) of another, so closer to 2.5). It is even worse in reality, as e.g. cities or stadiums aren't counted here.

    Matches by year by country
    Matches by country by year
    Matches by year by club
    Matches by club by year
    Matches by club by country
    Matches in N [year]
    Matches in N [year] by country
    Matches in N [year] by club
    Matches in N [year] by date ("shallow" category — i.e. one that is used to view all of recursive items of a category)
    Matches in N [country]
    Matches in N [country] by year
    Matches in N [country] by club
    Matches in N [country] by date ("shallow")
    Matches in N [country] in N [year]
    Matches in N [country] in N [year] by club
    Matches in N [country] in N [year] by date ("shallow")
    Matches of N club
    Matches of N club by year
    Matches of N club by date ("shallow")
    Matches of N club in N year
    Matches of N club in N year by date ("shallow")

    (Another user more experienced at Commons, though, told me that here shallow categories aren't used to be used — but in my opinion that is also problematic because make it significantly harder, for example, to list all football matches in Ukraine in 2015 — here I solved it by making that same category shallow, but that results in requiring to place a file simultaneously in a category and its parent — e.g. FC Shakhtar Donetsk vs Fenerbahçe S.K.Matches of FC Shakhtar Donetsk in 2015Association football matches in Ukraine in 2015.) Well very well (talk) 12:12, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
That's largely due to the whole "Double meta categories" thing. Although like everything on here there's a right way and a wrong way to go about it. This being an example of the wrong way. but ultimately "Double meta categories" should just be axed if people don't want weird category trees like these ones to be created in the first place. --Adamant1 (talk) 12:15, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Do you mean by the "double meta categories" the first 5 categories from this list? 16 remain though. Well very well (talk) 12:18, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Category:Double meta categories or "three subject categories" I guess. If I'm correct all the categories you listed would be double meta cats. The same goes for something like Category:Forests by city by season and it's subcats. Forests=subject 1, city=subject 2, season=subject 3. Or one main category and 2 meta cats? I don't know but I'm sure you get it. Either way cross sectional categories should only have two subjects at most. Really, even that can be over kill sometimes. --Adamant1 (talk) 12:24, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
So, do you think it should ideally be closer to something like this?

Matches by year by country
Matches by country by year
Matches by year by club
Matches by club by year
Matches by club by country
Matches in N [year] (functioning as both normal category and shallow)
Matches in N [year] by country
Matches in N [year] by club
Matches in N [country] (normal & shallow)
Matches in N [country] by year
Matches in N [country] by club
Matches in N [country] in N [year] (normal & shallow)
Matches of N club (normal & shallow)
Matches of N club by year
Matches of N club in N year (normal & shallow)

Well very well (talk) 12:34, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I don't know. It depends on the category, but if it were me I'd probably just axe them outright. There isn't enough sub-categorise to justify these types of categories in a lot of instances anyway. There's just a weird obsession on here with making every category only contain a single sub-category no matter how pedantic the whole thing is. Ergo things like Category:Association football matches by club by country ---> Category:Association football matches by club in Hungary ---> Category:Matches of association football clubs in Hungary in 2016 ----> Category:Matches of association football clubs in Hungary in 2016 ---> Then ending with Category:Beitar Jerusalem FC vs. MTK Budapest FC 2016-06-18 before someone can find an image. There's no reason most or all of the intermediate categories need to exist though. Let alone Category:Association football matches by club by country. Categories aren't Russian nesting dolls. --Adamant1 (talk) 12:49, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Myself I don't really see a difference between "Association football matches by club" and "Matches of association football clubs" so I'd remove the second in favor of the first (and the unification). I agree though that there is no need of a category when there is just one item and categorization by club is in most cases an example of this. So maybe something like this?

Matches by year by country
Matches by country by year
Matches by year by club
Matches by club by year
Matches by club by country
Matches in N [year] (functioning as both normal category and shallow)
Matches in N [year] by country
Matches in N [year] by club
Matches in N [country] (normal & shallow)
Matches in N [country] by year
Matches in N [country] by club
Matches in N [country] in N [year] (normal & shallow)
Matches of N club

I think that I could theoretically justify use for all of these remaining categories. Well very well (talk) 13:04, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
And some of the responsible users are:
@AnRo0002 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Forests_in_Berlin_in_autumn&action=history
@Well-Informed Optimist https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Forests_in_Berlin_in_winter&action=history
@Triplec85 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Forests_in_Germany_in_autumn_by_city&action=history . RoyZuo (talk) 11:32, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
They created 17 Matryoshka dolls https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?sort=create_timestamp_desc&search=deepcategory%3A%22Forests_by_city%22&ns14=1
for 9 files https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?sort=create_timestamp_desc&search=deepcategory%3A%22Forests_by_city%22&ns6=1 . ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ RoyZuo (talk) 11:37, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Looks like Triplec85 is the only villain here, almost entire this category tree was created by him. MBH 02:33, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@MBH: The category-tree Foresty by season "by city" (few entries so far) can be deleted. I am fine with that. Keep just "by country" (common). Greets -- Triple C 85 | User talk | 07:03, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@1234qwer1234qwer4, по этому обсуждению удалите, пожалуйста, всё дерево категорий category:Forests by city. Лежащие в его листьях файлы уже имеют и нормальные категории. MBH 13:16, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I'm not sure why I am being pinged here; I am not involved nor interested in this, and the creator who agreed above is an administrator themself, so I don't think there would be an issue for them to delete their own creations if there is consensus for that. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 10:49, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
He wasn't an admin while discussing, and you're pinged because of you can delete pages. OK, User:Triplec85, please, delete this entire tree. MBH 02:59, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@MBH, Adamant1, and 1234qwer1234qwer4: I deleted Category:Forests by season by city and Category:Forests by city by season with spring, summer, autumn, winter. Then I recognized Category:Forests in Russia by city (3 cities), Category:Forests in Germany by city (16 cities), Category:Forests in Taiwan by city (5 cities), ... So it is not only Berlin! (Berlin was the only city with "Forests by city by season", but "Forests by city", we have at least for 24 cities). So should Category:Forests by city stay for these cases? and only delete Forests by season by city and Forests by city by season? Greets -- Triple C 85 | User talk | 09:02, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Looks like their supercategory should be "Forests by city by country". MBH 10:53, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@MBH: See: Category:Forests by city by country. -- Triple C 85 | User talk | 13:19, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Appeals of decisions in Commons:Categories for discussion

What is the process to follow if one wishes to appeal the outcome of category discussions? Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:47, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

We don't have a formal process, but here's how I see it. First, communicate with the closing admin. If that doesn't yield satisfaction, bring it here. (In some cases it may be appropriate to start another CfD, but that's a judgement call.) And, please, if there was a strong consensus that you just don't like, let go. - Jmabel ! talk 18:03, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Jmabel: Would COM:UDR be more appropriate than here or starting another CfD?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 20:26, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Not in this case, I think. The categories in question have not been deleted. It was a discussion about renaming categories. The closing admin concluded to not rename the categories. Nakonana (talk) 21:52, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, I'll follow the process that you've outlined. I really don't hold out much hope of obtaining a different decision though. Do Admins often self-revert their decisions after such an intervention? I doubt it. But I'll give it a whirl. And no, I don't think that I'm guilty of failing to drop the stick; I think that I have reasonable grounds for requesting an investigation into, and the overturning of, a bad decision. It would be remiss of me not to do so. Laurel Lodged (talk) 14:39, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
It looks like gaming with system. No one user support your request but you disagree with this desicion. It may be discussed if 50/50 opinions but here is 100% oppose, so there may not be other decision.--Anatoliy 🇺🇦 (talk) 14:50, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Well you would say that, wouldn't you? Laurel Lodged (talk) 16:44, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Given the above comment by the closing Admin @Ahonc: , may I take it that the first part of the process ("communicate with the closing admin") has failed and proceed to the second part of the process (bringing it back to the pump)? Laurel Lodged (talk) 16:46, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Laurel Lodged: Yes. When you do that, please include links to relevant discussions, including a permalink to this one, which I hope is now concluded. - Jmabel ! talk 18:05, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

FYI, I've created a disambigation page for the various entities that share the name of "Ivano-Frankivsk": Category:Ivano-Frankivsk (disambiguation). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laurel Lodged (talk • contribs)

@Laurel Lodged: that is a lot more complicated than we normally make a disambiguation page. In particular, it has an awful lot of links (apparently into en-wiki) esides the links to the categories someone might have meant, which distracts from the purpose of a disambiguation page. - Jmabel ! talk 06:38, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Jmabel, @Laurel Lodged: I have formatted that disambiguation category. I removed it from the subcategory, because the subcat was actually one of the dab entries. -- Auntof6 (talk) 07:55, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Why are things like Category:Church of Virgin Mary, Ivano-Frankivsk or Category:National Technical University of Oil and Gas, Ivano-Frankivsk on that disambiguation page? Neither of those entities has "Ivano-Frankivsk" in its name. What are they being disambiguated from? Nakonana (talk) 08:49, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
In wiki, their names begin with I-F Laurel Lodged (talk) 08:24, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
They are just located in the city. The city name serves as a disambiguator here because there are several churches of Virgin Mary in Ukraine (and other countries). The church belongs in Category:Virgin Mary churches, but not on the I-F disambiguation page, I'd say. Nakonana (talk) 13:05, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
OK Laurel Lodged (talk) 14:14, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Opinion on mass request for deletion

I created a mass deletion request but I haven't submitted it yet. I feel bad for the author and their efforts. I'd appreciate any feedback. -Slevinski (talk) 19:21, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Slevinski: You intend to nominate 37,423 files? @PantheraLeo1359531: FYI.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 20:23, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Yes. It's a large number, but I don't see the benefit and I see actual harm. In the least, the facial diacritic section needs fixed for characters U+1DA00 to U+1DA6C. I provided feedback on one of the facial diacritic images talk page. Either include the head anchor character U+1D9FF, or include the dotted head placeholder in the image. The Noto SignWriting font is still in development and not production ready. The images in the category are not final, but a work in progress that will need to be updated later or left in a unfinished state. The shaping reports from GitHub shows 50% for Noto SignWriting. Why use static images of a development snapshot?
A specific example is U+1D9C7 for certain fills and rotations. See Noto SignWriting project issue #9. Rather than document a development release, you can use an online tool to view the Noto SignWriting glyphs for a character string. The Noto SignWriting font did a good job on the facial diacritics section. Consider this example of a facial diacritic without a foundational U+1D9FF character. Notice the head placeholder as a dotted line.
If you wanted to document the International SignWriting Alphabet 2010 with static files, I would understand. These glyphs and their arrangement are approved of by Valerie Sutton. These SVG are final and their development is complete. -Slevinski (talk) 05:40, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Slevinski: I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. Are you simply saying that this isn't a good enough font, and we shouldn't document it? Or that these files do not accurately document the font? Or something else? - Jmabel ! talk 22:17, 6 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I am saying that the Noto SignWriting font isn't good enough to accurately document the official Unicode standard for SignWriting in Unicode 8 (uni8) character strings. It will be a large job to update these files as the Noto SignWriting font improves. It is a job that may never get done.. I'm also saying that the naming of the file in the diacritic range is not accurately reflected in the svg file images. Consider the facial diacritic U+1DA00. Without U+1D9FF you should see the dotted line for the head placeholder. With U+1D9FF, you should see the appropriate glyph found in the International SignWriting Alphabet 2010.-Slevinski (talk) 06:01, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks Jeff for pinging. I see notability in the following two reasons: 1. The Noto font family is a widely used one created by Google. It is notable because of the huge amount of glyphs and the goal to provide a glyph for every Unicode character. 2. The Sign Writing language is one of the main communication techniques, especially in the non-verbal purposes. The SVG file makes it freely scalable and the extraction easier to only get the desired sign. I wonder if the glyphs are that wrong in total. In case the glyphs here get outdated, we either have the option to import the newer ones and delete the old ones or move the old ones in a cat for deprecated glyphs. But I think at least the fact it is part of the Noto font family which has its own Wikipedia article should be relevant. If we have really big problems in accuracy or other issues, then this could be put in a broader discussion. Generally I try to cover fonts that are significant enough to have its own article or illustrate a special art of style like ornamented fonts, isometric fonts or 3D style fonts to illustrate the possible amount of variants that can be put into the styling. Greetings --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 10:38, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Slevinski - this is an issue you should raise with the developers of the font. Deleting these files on Commons isn't going to improve the font. Omphalographer (talk) 20:51, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the responses. I won't submit the deletion request. -Slevinski (talk) 22:12, 7 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
 
Impossible handshape U+1D86F with two thumbs

Noto SignWriting is a useful font, and I support using it with CSS and the font file for flexibility and accuracy. However, I have concerns about creating new static files documenting its glyphs due to ongoing issues. The font remains unfinished, with about 200 new errors identified this past week. These errors affect around 200 files on platforms like Commons and Wikipedia, causing inconsistencies. There is no clear way to notify users about these problems. Recent discussions are available on Gitter, and the issues will be tracked on the Noto SignWriting GitHub issues list.

A few examples of problematic files on Wikipedia and Commons:

  • U+1D835: 90 files use an incorrect glyph, displaying a thumb handshape instead of the correct glyph.
  • U+1D86F: 96 files on Commons and Wikipedia display an impossible handshape with two thumbs, contradicting the correct glyph with a single thumb on the outside.

Additionally, the 108 characters in the range U+1DA00 to U+1DA6C are facial diacritics, and over 1,000 files on Wikimedia Commons fail to follow the Unicode standard for these characters. This issue affects both the names and the images of these files. Correcting these files to follow the facial diacritic rules for SignWriting in Unicode 8 (uni8) characters is possible, but it would require significant effort and understanding the complexities involved.

In summary:

  1. The unresolved inaccuracies of the font are propagating errors across Wikimedia projects.
  2. Extensive maintenance is required to address existing issues, update files, and manage future changes.

While I agree that the Noto SignWriting font is notable, I do not consider it educational or a good idea to document with static files given the font's ongoing issues. -Slevinski (talk) 19:21, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

December 08

Peak editor activity

I noticed these last days a substantial editor activity on my watchlist (26,186 entries). Maybe it the dark season where many people are at home and closing the year with to do list. Are there any statistics of editor activity?Smiley.toerist (talk) 10:35, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/ReportCardTopWikis.htm#lang_commons --тнояsтеn 11:05, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
These are not current statistics. They all stop at 2018 or 2019, none up to 2024.Smiley.toerist (talk) 11:16, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
But it gives an impression of editor activity over the course of a year. --тнояsтеn 11:37, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
It could be different from 5 years ago (these trends can move fast) and it would be interesting to know what happened during the coronayears? Smiley.toerist (talk) 11:54, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/commons.wikimedia.org/contributing/active-editors/normal%7Cline%7C2019-01-01~2025-01-01%7Cpage_type~content*non-content%7Cmonthly . RoyZuo (talk) 12:01, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Smiley.toerist and @RoyZuo: The ten-year trend is consistent with what I've been hearing anecdotally: "Everything's online now." Not everyone, though; some older folks eschew computers, smartphones, even "dumb" flip-phones. One couple didn't even have a touch-tone landline phone. However, pretending not to have a touch-tone phone can in some cases get one around an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system (the key being "don't touch anything").   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:33, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Copyright?

I wanted to load the work on the left side of this page. It dates to the 10th to 11th centuries A.D., and I would tag it PD-Art|PD-old-100. However, the Vatican Library has stamped it with a copyright watermark.

My two questions are:

Does the addition of the watermark change it to a copyrighted status?
Does the watermark make it undesirable for Wikipedia. It is an image used in books about musicology and useful in discussing history of early harps in Europe, but not indispensable.

At this point, I haven't hit the final upload. What do you think? Jacqke (talk) 16:03, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Jacqke: Please see COM:WATERMARK.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:19, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  • I hate when archives add obtrusive watermarks, at least when Google scans the watermarks are unobtrusive. This is an example of copyfraud, where you stamp everything as copyrighted, the New York Times does the same thing. --RAN (talk) 19:30, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Combo cats

Or as commons users usually call them, intersection cats.

As I was checking some users' contributions, it seems to me that in recent years some users are creating more complicated cat trees. In the past if a photo of a tree is uploaded, it would go straight into the tree species cat and a few rather generic cats like "trees in london", "december 2011 in london".

But now it would be thrown into things like "Category:Trees in autumn 2023 in Berlin", which is then nested under many layers of parent cats.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?sort=create_timestamp_desc&search=deepcategory%3A%22Nature_by_month_by_country%22&ns14=1

Then here're photos showing any bit of clouds https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MediaSearch&search=deepcategory%3A%22Clouds_in_Germany_in_May_by_city%22&type=image

Category:24 men with 9 other adult humans

Category:Blue, brown, green, orange, red, white, yellow flags

...

just... why?

Will users probably start applying things like "photos of 3 cisgender women with 2 adolescent girls in munich on a sunny morning in summer 2022" soon?

Just sharing an observation from today. RoyZuo (talk) 17:54, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

The cause for this is that we do not have an integrated tool to search for the intersection of two or more categories. Then one person generates one for a case with many photos and later someone else comes and is scared of the category having so much files in it. So they start splitting the category even more. Then there is a scheme for a category which was useful for one case and is then used to place all photos from the parent categories in the subcategories created in these scheme which creates many categories with only one file. GPSLeo (talk) 18:14, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
There could actually be another way.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory:%22Self-published+work%22+deepcategory:%22CC-BY-SA-4.0%22
this is a search checking for intersection of 2 of the Special:MostLinkedCategories, but results come in fast.
so instead of building things like "Trees in autumn 2023 in Berlin", a file could have just been in 4 cats: trees, autumn, 2023-11-11, berlin, and then do a search "incategory:trees incategory:autumn deepcategory:2023 incategory:berlin".
actually, even "autumn" is not needed, because users could go with "incategory:trees insource:/2023\-[01][01289]/ incategory:berlin". this is a bit complicated, but tools can be made to simplify setting a duration range, which is a rather common and essential feature on other image sites like flickr. RoyZuo (talk) 10:27, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
example https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory:Self-published_work+deepcategory:CC-BY-SA-4.0+deepcategory:Trees_in_Thailand+insource:2023 . results are fast even with 2 deepcategory and 1 insource filters, and 2 categories searched contain 30-40 million files each. RoyZuo (talk) 10:40, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I also think this would probably be the best option for many of these cases (except for cats where many are looking for exactly that intersection etc or when sorting could be used instead). However,
  • it doesn't work if the category trees are many layers deep and cat-trees trees and autumn may be that long. (Maybe there is a phab issue about increasing the limit for many cases or in some way or even overall.)
  • manually intersecting categories like that using deepcategory and incategory (or alternatively petscan) is not intuitive and not accessible to users including users new to the site. It would need to be made more accessible, e.g. via some button "Combine/intersect with other categories" on category pages.
  • There are many categories that contain miscategorizations somewhere so include lots of false results. The problem also exists for Wikipedia. This is really really needed: Proposal for a way to see the cat-path why a file is in cat.
Prototyperspective (talk) 10:41, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
There is a constant battle here between lumpers and splitters. I'm a lumper, myself. It might be a bias because of that, but I think the field is tilted toward the splitters. Why? Because anyone can come along and split up a category without consulting anyone else, but to put them back together and get rid of the more specific intersection category generally requires a CfD or even a Village pump discussion. - Jmabel ! talk 18:55, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Not to mention the outcomes of CfDs or Village Pump discussions can always just be ignored since people are usually to busy policing minor non-issues instead of stuff that actually matters. but it's impossible to follow and deal with the creation of new categories anyway. Like with categories for "historical images." There was a CfD a year ago with a clear consensus to delete the categories, yet people are still creating them at a much faster rate then they are being deleted. And at least in my experience anyone who's told not to create the categories anymore will just ignore the message outright or obfuscate and continue doing it.
There's really nothing that can be done about it outside of admitting that CfDs are totally worthless and no one cares about enforcing any kind of standards on here. It's way more important to pander to the whims of a bunch neurotics so they aren't discouraged from contributing to the project then it is to have a system that actually allows people to find images. Screw that I have to click through 25 increasingly obtuse empty categories just to find a single image of a car. The more important thing is that the person who categorized the image that way isn't turned off from contributing to the project by someone asking them to use some standards. Adamant1 (talk) 02:30, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
To try to steer this to a more productive direction: I think part of what you're complaining about here could be summed up as "categories which focus on trivial properties of images like what colors, words, or letters appear in them, what objects incidentally appear in them, the number of those objects they contain, etc". I'm inclined to agree. Category systems like Category:Categories by quantity provide little value relative to the effort that's put into them, and frequently devolve into absurdities like Category:1 bridge in Australia (there are no categories for other numbers of bridges in Australia) or Category:Text with 34 letters (containing exactly one category for a phrase which appears in a single image). Extensive branches of these systems get created by individual users with no discussion, but removing them takes much more effort and tends to be a bureaucratic hassle. I don't know how to fix this, but something needs to change. Omphalographer (talk) 06:54, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
That reminds me of an investigation i did: Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2023/07#c-RoyZuo-20230708082400-Ymblanter-20230706095200.
Users were quick to raise questions over a new cat tree.
But before anything could be done (cfd takes yearssssss), the tree has grown to thousands, or hundreds of thousands. RoyZuo (talk) 11:12, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hundreds of thousands may still be an underestimate. There are 41k subcategories of Category:Photographs by day alone; many of the recent dates have 50+ subcategories for specific countries or cities. Omphalographer (talk) 11:52, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
How much do you want to bet the dates for a lot of those photographs aren't accurate anyway? Like is anyone seriously going to argue that most of the dates for photographs taken in the 1800s are actually correct? Maybe years or months, but I find it extremely hard to believe exact days would be. --Adamant1 (talk) 12:15, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Most of the 1800s dates are a misused template - they're scans of old letters tagged with {{Photograph}}. Someone ought to go through those and update the template to something more appropriate - possibly {{Information}}? Note that some of the template parameters will need to be updated. Omphalographer (talk) 22:45, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I dont understand these people's mindsets. Isnt it beautiful to see a collage of photos of a place in a month/year together? But instead they are broken down into date categories, which often contain only a handful of photos. Then how do they have an overview of everything???
But I dont give a fuck about that, coz after all, i seem to be the 1st user inventing MediaWiki:Gadget-DeepcatSearch.js Template:DeepcatSearch my own magic wands to make my own day easier. RoyZuo (talk) 13:24, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@RoyZuo: or @Omphalographer: Either one of you have an opinion about Category:Photographers by genre or type? I'm not really sure what a "type" of photographer is or if the child categories should just be up merged somewhere, but it seems like a pointless intersectional category regardless. Apparently there's Category:People categories by type though so... --Adamant1 (talk) 04:03, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
This category seems hopelessly confused. Some of the subcats are about what technology the photographer used (e.g. Category:Daguerreotypists, Category:Ambrotypists), some are about who the photographer was employed by (e.g. Category:Photojournalists, Category:Official photographers), others are about their subject matter (e.g. Category:Aerial photographers, Category:Portrait photographers). All of these need to be diffused to more specific metacategories. Omphalographer (talk) 05:36, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Might as well call it "Photographers by adjective". XD RoyZuo (talk) 08:26, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
That's quite fine. The worst thing I have ever seen at Commons are subcats of Australian demographics, look at subcats here, "Demographic maps of 65-74 year old males with a personal weekly income in the range $600-$799 in Inner Sydney" or "Demographic maps of males who arrived in Australia before 1996 who speak another language and speak English not well or not at all in Queensland", these are just insane. — Draceane talkcontrib. 08:57, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Jesus. The top parent category is pretty hilarious. --Adamant1 (talk) 09:14, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Pinging @99of9 as creator of that category via bot, 10.5 years ago. See also Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/02/Category:Demographic maps of Australia.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 09:43, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the ping. It was an attempt to help navigate a big corpus. Done by bot so it would be self contained and wouldn't require much maintenance. But now we have structured data, so there may be a much better solution available. I'm travelling at the moment, so may not be attentive to the discussion. 99of9 (talk) 00:03, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
When you're back from your travels, is there any chance you can upload a list of these images, and what data sets they were based on, somewhere? I'd like to brainstorm better ways to organize these graphics than the current category structure, and knowing how they're structured would help. Omphalographer (talk) 23:05, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Template:Places by decade/main/doc

Hi, This doesn't seem to be used anywhere, but Template:Places by decade is used. And there is also Template:Places by decade/faq. Do we need to keep this doc and this faq? Yann (talk) 18:02, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'm out the door right now, so no time to check, but I would guess Template:Places by decade/main/doc provides the documentation when you look at the page Template:Places by decade. - Jmabel ! talk 18:58, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

December 10

"prove a license"

Hi, swetrails.com has many images uploaded by a particular user with CC-BY 4.0 (example)- so far so nice and good. On the page, the license is shown as a text overlay on each image but not embedded in the image. I uploaded several of those images with appropriate license information etc. to wikimedia commons. Per chance, over last weekend, the swetrails.com server was not accessible, which made me think, what actually would happend if the server were taken down for good and the copyright owner then denied they ever granted the CC-BY 4.0 license? There is also no contact information anywhere on the site, neither as Imprint nor for the particular contributor. Since nothing is embedded in the original image, it would not be possible to prove that the license was indeed granted at some point in time. How would Wikimedia handle such a case? --Uli@wiki (talk) 12:10, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

It's not really clear to me how you could do it on swetrails.com, but sometimes people will save a copy of the page to the Wayback Machine and use it as the source. Otherwise you can just ignore it since they don't really care about dead links on here to begin with. We aren't as dependent on external sources as a project like Wikipedia would be and their pretty lax about them to. So it's probably a none issue as long as you provide a source to begin with. --Adamant1 (talk) 12:19, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Sounds good, thanks for the instant answer! --Uli@wiki (talk) 12:49, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
In addition, there is Template:LicenseReview to invite a witness for confirmation. Rudolph Buch (talk) 13:21, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
+1 to Rudolph Buch. Always a good idea if you think there might be a later challenge and the evidence might no longer be available. - Jmabel ! talk 19:57, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

All Rights Reserved statement in content published under CC-BY 3.0 license

Hello, I have a question regarding a video published on Youtube as CC-BY 3.0, but which contains an "all rights reserved" statement in the description. Given that "all rights reserved" is a statement of copyright (a statement which remains true even under CC-BY 3.0, since the license states that THE WORK IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT AND/OR OTHER APPLICABLE LAW.) and not a license, and given that CC licenses are irrevocable, is uploading screenshots from that video permissible? To my understanding, choosing to publish as CC-BY instead of the standard Youtube agreement constitutes a legally binding agreement and would override a statement like "all rights reserved" (which is, anyway, fully compatible with CC-BY 3.0). Thanks! --Sarah fides (talk) 13:48, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

It just means the uploader has the rights to license the video under CCBY basically. Of course you can upload screenshots of it if you credit the uploader / video. Prototyperspective (talk) 13:53, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, I just wanted it clarified so I don't mess up. I am assuming that making collages / panoramas based on frames from the footage is also allowed etc. Sarah fides (talk) 13:58, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
"All rights reserved" is like a always used phrase. Microsoft uses it even for its free software, which is technically not true (it's rather like some rights reserved). --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 09:45, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  • CC material is still copyrighted. However they have licensed some rights to you (and thus to others) to do certain things with it, despite this copyright remaining in place. In particular it's still theirs, they still retain certain rights to it (such as being identified as its author, i.e. the moral rights).
Can you screenshot it? Well that's generally regarded as making a derivative work from it. CC can either permit or deny that, and there is the specific CC-nd clause for this denial. If they didn't use then, then you're good. Also there are many jurisdictions where screenshotting video will either fall under basic use of the video (a '0th freedom' right in the GPL sense, seen as part of the process of watching it, assumed implicit in them having made a video and distributed it for people to 'watch the video'); or else it may even fall under the trivial technical processes viewpoint, where screenshotting is such a simple rote task that it doesn't attract any additional issues.
TL;DR - you're good. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:32, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
The user specified CC-BY 3.0 and CC-BY-ND is not allowed on Commons. Prototyperspective (talk) 13:37, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reminder: upcoming Commons conversation about new media and new contributors on December 12

Hello everyone! The Wikimedia Foundation will be hosting the second round of a series of community calls to help prioritize support efforts from Wikimedia Foundation for the 2025-2026 Fiscal Year.

The purpose of these calls is to support community members in hearing more from one another - across uploaders, moderators, GLAM enthusiasts, tool and bot makers, etc. - about the future of Commons. There is so much to discuss about the general direction of the project, and we hope that people from different perspectives can think through some of the tradeoffs that will shape Commons going forward.

Our second call will focus on new media and new contributors. More specifically the questions will be:

  1. There are periodic requests from the community for more support to contribute and edit audio and video files. At the same time, the community seems to be struggling under the current weight of uncategorized images and various patrolling backlogs. Does the community have the capacity to respond to substantially increased uploads of this media?
  2. What is the right level of friction for new content uploads? Should we prioritize support for easier contribution or continue to introduce friction that reduces moderator burden?

The call will take place at two different time slots:

If you cannot attend the meeting, you are invited to express your point of view at any time you want on the Commons community calls talk page. We will also post the notes of the meeting on the project page, to give the possibility to read what was discussed also to those who couldn’t attend it.

If you want, you are invited to share this invitation with all the people you think might be interested in this call.

We hope to see you and/or read you very soon! Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:15, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Can I advise people to NOT plan every single thing on a Thursday ? Thursdays are already very busy workdays, as well as busy extra curricular evenings for me (for the same reason as Commons/WMF people, other people ALSO plan everything on Thursdays and Tuesdays). At the very least VARY the days you plan stuff on, to give people a chance to participate every now and then. —TheDJ (talkcontribs) 16:04, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@TheDJ The next two meetings will be on a Wednesday. Sorry the first two happened in a rather busy week. We'll take into consideration also varying more the days. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 18:00, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, There was a discussion recently (I can't find it back) about links in Wikidata to Commons categories. In the huge majority of cases, Wikidata links the Commons category. But in some cases, when there is a WD item for a category somewhere, Wikidata links instead the Commons category to this item (e.g. Joseph Bonaparte (Q7726) and Category:Joseph Bonaparte (Q31993664)). IMO this WD item is a dead end, and doesn't serve Commons. The categories being the main namespace for describing content here, they should be linked to the main WD item. It seems that this could be changed in Wikidata if there is a consensus on Commons for that. Opinions? Yann (talk) 19:23, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Normally, if there is both a WD item and a corresponding WS "category item" it is because there are corresponding categories on some sister project other than Commons. (That's the case for what you link.) So I'm not actually sure this is a bad thing.
Do note that Joseph Bonaparte (Q7726) has Commons category (P373) equal to "Joseph Bonaparte", which will link to Category:Joseph Bonaparte. This means that an article such as br:Giuseppe_Buonaparte correctly knows that Category:Joseph Bonaparte is its corresponding Commons category. And, similarly, Category:Joseph Bonaparte appears to provide a full appropriate set of interwiki links in its left nav. So what exactly is the user-visible problem you are trying to solve? - Jmabel ! talk 20:10, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
 
Practice for many years
The discussion was in the Wikidata Village Pump. The Wikidata item is no dead-end, both Commons category (P373) and topic's main category (P910) will get you to the category here on Commons. Wikipedia articles like fr:Joseph Bonaparte have no problems finding the category and Category:Joseph Bonaparte shows the information about the person quite well. Current system works just fine (so   Oppose). Multichill (talk) 20:34, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

December 11

Syrian Flag discussions across the Wikipedias

Rather than try to ping a bunch of users to ask about how the various big Wikipedias are deciding the issue of changing the flag of Syria due to recent regime change, I've opened a thread here. I know on English Wikipedia that the discussion is ongoing at en:Talk:Syria#RfC: Flag? but it looks like the revolutionary flag is gaining momentum. I'd like to know what discussions at Arabic, French, German and Spanish Wikipedias among others is looking like. Abzeronow (talk) 00:11, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

I just checked French Wikipedia and there's no discussion on either the Syria talk page or the Flag of Syria talk page. Bastique ☎ let's talk! 00:20, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Actually, someone changed it to the revolutionary flag and there was no argument at all Bastique ☎ let's talk! 00:21, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, revolutionary flag is at d:Q45136 now so Wikidata has it as the flag of Syria. Abzeronow (talk) 00:27, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

OpenRefine - Commons upload validations

As you may know, OpenRefine lets users upload media files to Commons in batch. Because some of the uploads done in this way add too little metadata to the uploaded files, we are considering introducing more pre-upload checks to prevent that. We need your help to determine which metadata fields should be required for any file uploaded via OpenRefine. Are these guidelines still up to date and accurate? Based on this information, we would require the users to provide:

We would not require copyright license (P275) as this statement is not required for works in the public domain, and we don't anticipate being able to be able to express this conditional dependency.

We also looked into adding constraints on the wikitext associated to the media files but this is likely too complicated to implement reliably, as some required parts could be added via different sorts of templates, which OpenRefine isn't able to expand before upload.

What do you think of this plan? Can you think of any case where it would be fine to upload a file without one of the 5 fields mentioned above? Do you think OpenRefine should only warn the user about those missing fields, or even prevent the upload entirely if those fields are not provided? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SunilNOpenRefine (talk • contribs) 04:33, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'm not so sure requiring a date of inception is a good idea. Most of the time people don't have that information anyway and it wouldn't be good if the date of upload or some other random date was used instead. We already have that issue a lot with scans and its just causes extra work on our end end to deal with. Plus "inception" is kind of meant for real world objects. I wouldn't consider the date someone took a photograph to be the inception date and how would know if its the data for the photo and not what's being depicted in it anyway? Is there not a better property? --Adamant1 (talk) 08:59, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I personally don't think inception and caption are required. Sure it would be good if all media had that, but to gate uploads on that seems harsh. I do however think that there is often a pattern where available information is not ingested, often due to uninformed, bad or lazy data prep. Simply giving suggestions and examples during the setup, might already help to combat that particular issue. —TheDJ (talkcontribs) 09:00, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I agree with TheDJ that inception and caption should not be required. - Jmabel ! talk 19:24, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

White nose syndrome

White nose syndrome scientifically Pseudogymnoascus destructans previously geomyces destructans is still under Category:Geomyces destructans but the infobox is up to date with the current naming. The English Wikipedia pages are also up to date. Should it be renamed or should it remain a redirect. It caused me some confusion in my researchCyberwolf (talk) 15:12, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

This would seem more a question for COM:CFD (and pinging people who've worked in the area) than for the Village pump. I'll leave it here for now but, @Cyberwolf, you should ping the people you think are likely to have worked in this area, because the chance that one of them is a VP regular is slim. - Jmabel ! talk 19:26, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Russian tram specialist needed

Category:Smolensk tram №227 should be in the Category:KTM-8M in Smolensk series going by the numbers. However the tram has folding doors and all other KTM-8M in Smolensk have external sliding doors. If this a one off case?Smiley.toerist (talk) 22:25, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

WordPress Photo Directory

Leaving a note in case anyone is interested. WordPress.org now has a photo directory of CC0 1.0 licensed images that anyone can contribute to. It might be worth importing those images here for reuse within our projects. Ckoerner (talk) 23:02, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Very interesting, thanks for letting people know. Seems like they have many files and also lots of metadata per file. Thus, I think some kind of importer tool or import-programme would be best similar to the bots that import from flickr. Would be good if somebody could set it up, it would need to check whether the file has already been uploaded here. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:40, 12 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Sadly, though, usually no geographic data, which makes it more a "stock photo" site than one that can be used to illustrate specific subjects. Also, makes Freedom of Panorama issues very thorny. - Jmabel ! talk 20:55, 12 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
If the photo is showing a place – and not all of the images are photos that show places – the info where it is is usually in the file description. They do contain exif data but I couldn't find any image with location exif data so maybe that's not included. They can still be used to illustrate all sorts of subjects, I think usually photos of places is the kind of files there already is a lot of on WMC so there it would be more unlikely that the file would fill any gaps which is not the case for various objects and abstract subjects. Prototyperspective (talk) 22:01, 12 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Still: out of the first few dozen photos there right now, here are a few that would be problematic on that basis: [1], [2], [3], [4]; a few more could imaginably have similar issues. So if we do bot-import the lot, someone had better plan on doing some checking. - Jmabel ! talk 22:40, 12 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
No. 3 would be de minimis and 4 is a plain engineering construction without creative elements. Herbert Ortner (talk) 13:23, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Disagree. No. 3 might be de minimis, but it doesn't look to me like an open-and-shut case. In many countries the structure in No. 4 would be eligible for copyright, just like a bridge. - Jmabel ! talk 19:27, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

December 12

Category "Glass sarcophagi"

Some time ago I created the Glass sarcophagi category, but it doesn't seem very correct to me. Perhaps one of the terms is more correct, like: "reliquary tombs", "funerary urns", "Christ's tombs" "encased effigies", all under the category "glass coffins". Of course, it can be differentiate depending on content, namely:

  1. Contains Incorruptible bodies.
  2. Contains relics.
  3. Contains statues of people or saints.
  4. Contains statues of Jesus Christ.

Any help is welcome --JotaCartas (talk) 10:20, 12 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

I believe it is not a "sarcophagus" if it doesn't contain lime to dissolve the body. - Jmabel ! talk 20:57, 12 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
That's the etymological origin of the word, but that doesn't seem to be a defining trait. ReneeWrites (talk) 00:04, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Not that it's relevant to the discussion at hand, but out of curiosity: what would then be the defining trait? I assume we wouldn't call a wooden coffin a "sarcophagus". - Jmabel ! talk 05:49, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I'm not entirely sure, but it seems to be a coffin that's displayed above-ground. To be honest though prior to yesterday I only ever heard the phrase used in the context of ancient Egypt. I didn't know it was a type of coffin that's used in other cultures and that's still in use today. ReneeWrites (talk) 21:48, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
"Glass coffins" seems to be the broader and more accurate category for all these images (and it's odd to me that that parent category doesn't exist, but this one does). I would move the images up and subcategorize from there as you start getting more images of a specific type, but currently I don't think this category is so full that it's in high need of further subcategorizing. ReneeWrites (talk) 00:13, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
OK, I moved Category:Glass sarcophagi to Category:Glass coffins, and got Categories and Files from Category:Bodily relics, Category:Statues of Jesus at the tomb and Category:Incorruptible bodies. I also categorized "Glass coffins" in Category:Coffins and Category:Religious items, please correct if needed. Maybe in the future we can subcategorize the images in Category:Glass coffins of bodily relics, Category:Glass coffins of statues of Jesus and Category:Glass coffins of incorruptible bodies or in more correct categories. Thanks everybody for the help. JotaCartas (talk) 06:23, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

This message box is using an invalid "type=diffuse" parameter and needs fixing.

So this message starting showing up today in Category:Mountains (it's also showing up in other cats I've checked). It is also adding this category to a non-existent tracking category. This category is using {{Diffuseat}} but as far as I can tell it is being used correctly (unless someone changed something else wheres and didn't update the relevant documentation). RedWolf (talk) 20:02, 12 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

I think it's fixed by https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:CatDiffuse/layout&diff=prev&oldid=969707798 .
  This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. --RoyZuo (talk) 13:29, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
RoyZuo (talk) 13:29, 14 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

VRT question

Do we accept VRTs for Roblox screenshots? Or does their terms of service get in the way of that? Trade (talk) 21:09, 12 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

The VRT is a voluntary team that handles emails with copyright issues but also permissions. If the team gets permission for the use of Roblox screenshots here, then it would be possible --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 08:50, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

December 13

Soon to come: 1 million People by name

Just saying in case someone hasn´t noticed yet and wants to throw a party: We´re at 998,000 subcategories in Category:People by name, so probably within the next week we´ll pass the one million mark. Rudolph Buch (talk) 08:15, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

This is almost equal to the population in Odessa in Ukraine --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 08:48, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
It contains many empty categories so those are misleading numbers. Somebody should delete these but manually it would take too much time. Also there's categories like "!PAUS3" which aren't the name of the person. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:11, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please delete all files in Category:Claire Szilard

Files in Category:Claire Szilard have been accidentally batch-uploaded, even though they are all under copyright. Apologies. Magnus Manske (talk) 09:38, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Magnus Manske: Most of them would have been better without the white borders. Such requests belong at COM:AN.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 11:24, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  Done Artist died in 2017. These won't be in the public domain before 2088. Yann (talk) 12:12, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:19, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Notification of DMCA takedown demand — Jarchi4

In compliance with the provisions of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and at the instruction of the Wikimedia Foundation's legal counsel, one or more files have been deleted from Commons. Please note that this is an official action of the Wikimedia Foundation office which should not be undone. If you have valid grounds for a counter-claim under the DMCA, please contact me.

The takedown can be read here.

Affected file(s):

To discuss this DMCA takedown, please go to COM:DMCA#Jarchi4. Thank you! Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) 21:08, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Notification of DMCA takedown demand — George Osborne ready for 2016 Budget

In compliance with the provisions of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and at the instruction of the Wikimedia Foundation's legal counsel, one or more files have been deleted from Commons. Please note that this is an official action of the Wikimedia Foundation office which should not be undone. If you have valid grounds for a counter-claim under the DMCA, please contact me.

The takedown can be read here.

Affected file(s):

To discuss this DMCA takedown, please go to COM:DMCA#George Osborne ready for 2016 Budget. Thank you! Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) 21:38, 13 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

December 14

Please clear Category:Miscellaneous non-vector files with vector versions available.

Hi, I'm User:OperationSakura6144. I've been working for a while on clearing Category:Miscellaneous non-vector files with vector versions available, which is a category I've created to keep some non-vector files, other than the Japanese municipal flags/emblems, which is my main expertise and interest, that need to be replaced by their available vector versions. The work I'm doing there is tedious and impossible for me to complete, and I also need to focus on my studies and school assignments. So, I'm leaving the work of maintaining and clearing the category to you. I'll come back to see the status of the category after my school work. Until then, I'm taking a temporary break from Commons. Hope I see you later. OperationSakura6144 (talk) 04:46, 14 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

File:Wroxham.png

This file was uploaded by a user who has uploaded several football logos while claiming to be their original author, a highly unlikely claim that has led to all of them going up for deletion. However, this one should be able to stay as it is mere shapes and letters. How do I change the licencing from the false claims of authorship by the original uploader? Every time I try to change it, I get blocked by an edit filter. Unknown Temptation (talk) 18:20, 14 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Done I changed the license to {{PD-textlogo}}. ReneeWrites (talk) 20:57, 14 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Unrelated images in photo challenges

 

A user maintains that this image is to be added to the photo challenge called "Footprints" about footprints, hoofprint, pawprint, etc. It shows marks in sand by a dry blade of grass. Do you think this image is within the scope of this challenge and should not be removed? Please also consider other challenges and the other participants / submissions, thank you. --Prototyperspective (talk) 20:17, 14 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

It's not something I would submit myself to this challenge (the specific term for this is a scratch circle or pseudotrace, see Category:Partial scratch circles (pseudotraces) in sand) but whether I would have it removed depends on other factors as well, like the general consensus among participants or the broader goal of the challenge itself. I don't see much harm in people thinking a bit further outside of the box than I would for a competition with comparatively low stakes as the monthly photography challenge here on Commons. ReneeWrites (talk) 21:11, 14 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I think thinking outside the box and submitting things to challenges that are at the fringes of its scope are great things. I think neither of this is the case here. I don't see much harm in Just to note, I didn't say that I would think it's harmful if these challenges don't remain ontopic and not get frequently flooded with unrelated images. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:37, 14 December 2024 (UTC)Reply