Neveselbert (mobile)

Neveselbert is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Commons soon.

Valued Image Promoted

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Gordon Brown, portrait photography.
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review

•  Best in Scope. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:11, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:03, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

--VICBot2 (talk) 00:20, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Valued Image Promoted

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Albert Reynolds, portrait photography.
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review

•  Best in Scope --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:13, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:03, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

--VICBot2 (talk) 00:21, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Valued Image Promoted

★ Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted ★
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Enda Kenny in 2012, portrait photography.
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review

•  Comment Must connect the scope to the category that contains the image --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:32, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

  @Archaeodontosaurus:  Done ᴀlbanɢeller (talk) 18:20, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

•  Support Useful & Used --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 19:16, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
•  Question Please pardon me, but to my understanding, scopes need to be visually distinguishable, and I don't think adults are usually distinguishable from one year to the next, so why is the scope OK? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:55, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:08, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

--VICBot2 (talk) 00:21, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Valued Image Promoted

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Peter Sutherland, 1985, portrait photography.
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review

•  Comment The image is from 1985 its appearance has changed a little since ... it would be good to give the date in the scope. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:37, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

  @Archaeodontosaurus: is it really necessary? ᴀlbanɢeller (talk) 18:15, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

•  Comment Simple; for the initial scope you chose this image: Peter-Sutherland-2011.jpg is better. If you want to defend the other then focus the scope with the date. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 19:22, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

•  Comment But a single year is arbitrary because we would normally not be able to recognize the difference between a picture of someone in 2011 and 2012. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:53, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

•  Comment I agree but in this case the two images are too different. Each case is a special case. It is difficult to choose if we slightly modify the scope by adding the year the two images can be promoted and VI. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:03, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

•  Comment Understood. But a single year is too short a span to be recognizable. Should we do it by decade? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:20, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Result: 0 support, 0 oppose =>
undecided. A1Cafel (talk) 02:17, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

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Scope changed from Peter Sutherland, portrait photography to Peter Sutherland, 1985, portrait photography ᴀlbanɢeller (talk) 17:29, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

• Please notify previous voters of this change. Remember: "A support vote that was made before a change of scope is not counted unless it is reconfirmed afterwards; an oppose vote is counted unless it is changed or withdrawn".

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•  Support Ok for me --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:48, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 20:12, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

--VICBot2 (talk) 00:22, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

File:Neville-Chamberlain.jpg

File:Neville-Chamberlain.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

—‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 20:45, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

File:Robert Knight Barney.jpg

Please explain why you have tagged File:Robert Knight Barney.jpg for deletion. I have read Commons:But it's my own work! and will e-mail permission from myself. Flibirigit (talk) 01:04, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi Flibirigit. Sorry, but I couldn't tell whether it really was your own work given the lack of metadata. ᴀlbanɢeller (talk) 03:56, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

I am unsure why there is no metadata, and have no idea how it works. I took the photo with my phone, cropped it via Paint 3D, then uploaded it. Flibirigit (talk) 04:01, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Oh OK, that's what probably removed the metadata. ᴀlbanɢeller (talk) 04:42, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

How does we resolve this concern? Is there a way to keep metadata when cropping an image? I still have the original uncropped version of Mr. Barney, and I assume the metadata would be intact. I have no idea how to find the data. I notice that this uncropped photo taken with the same phone has the metadata. Flibirigit (talk) 13:18, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

When you crop a photo in some image editing software, it can sometimes remove or alter the metadata. This depends on the specific software and how it handles metadata. Paint 3D may not preserve the metadata by default. ᴀlbanɢeller (talk) 22:27, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Valued Image Promoted

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Jacques Delors, 1993, portrait photography.
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review

•  Support useful. Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:09, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 06:29, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

--VICBot2 (talk) 00:21, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-48

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
• The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [1]
• Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.

Updates for technical contributors

• The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion".
• Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [2]
• The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [3]

Meetings and events

• A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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Tech News: 2024-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
• Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [4]
• Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [5]
• This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [6]

Updates for technical contributors

• In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.

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Tech News: 2024-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature

• Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
• The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [7]
• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [8]
• The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [9]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [10]
• Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [11]
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [12][13]

Updates for technical contributors

• Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [14]
• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
• The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [15]

Meetings and events

• The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.

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