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Unknown parameter name

I have been getting this message a lot when adding infobox templates: 'Error in template * unknown parameter name (Template:Information): 'class; 1; 3; 2; 5; 4; 7; 6; 9; 8; 10'

Does anyone know what this means and how to fix it? Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 12:59, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

@NeoMeesje: Eg. File:145 40.png, the table markup inside the Description has to be escaped with things like {{!}} so they don't get interpreted as template parameter separators. MediaWiki's own wikitext parser is sometimes just not smart enough. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 13:14, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
@Zhuyifei1999: Thanks, but is there anything I can edit to fix it, or should I just leave it? Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 13:22, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
NeoMeesje, you should not "just leave it" as it breaks the template and is unreadable to people of tools. The wikicode:
{{Information
|Description = https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/145_40.php {| class="wikitable" |- ! {{int:filehist-datetime}} !! {{int:filehist-dimensions}} !! {{int:filehist-user}} !! {{int:filehist-comment}} |- | {{ISOdate|2011-03-11 07:09:26}} || 439 × 499 (27641 bytes) || {{User|Tpemg2}} || ''<nowiki>{{usgs}}
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/145_40.php</nowiki>'' |}
|Source      = 
|Date        = 2011-03-11
|Author      = 
|Permission  = 
|other_versions = 
}}
is just wrong, as you should not use Wikitable inside a template like {{Information}}. The content of your Description field should have been copied to source, date, and author fields. Please read documentation of {{Information}} if you are not sure how to use it. --Jarekt (talk) 17:05, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
  • I was using add-information tool for years and it is only slightly better than useless. Each suggested edit of the tool is just wrong and it takes a lot of manual work to make those pages right. The script does not do any edits by itself, so you have to review it's suggestions and save the page under your name. It is bad, but it is faster than going to {{Information}} template and copying and pasting empty table. It is one of the ancient User:Magnus Manske tools and he is trying to keep so many of his tools running in ever changing environment, I do not have high hopes he would want to work on improvements of some of his older tools. See here for his take on the subject. So I doubt the script will be ever improved and the broken pages are responsibility of people pressing the save button. They should be the ones fixing it. My guess is that the main improvement would be to add warning that the tool is not (nor ever was) working correctly, and is for experienced users only. --Jarekt (talk) 01:32, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
  • I totally agree that the add-information tool should be marked for experienced users only. That said, it’s ideed simpler than grabbing the wikitext at {{Information}} and filling out manually, and indeed the user has an opportunity to clean up its messes. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 02:14, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
maybe we should add a infrogmation-tool refresh to m:Wishlists for some UX design. WMF needs to onboard some tools, as a part of metadata improvement. the community needs to fix its problem, including onboarding good faith editors. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 16:45, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

March 29

Creator:Gabriel von Max

Hello, the text on the creator template reads: Image depicting the creator. Self-portraits are preferable. Not for artworks by the creators. Is there a specific reason why this portrait is in the template instead of File:Gabriel von Max - Selbstbildnis mit Affen - 1910.jpg? If not, I prefer to change the image. Thank you for your time. :) Lotje (talk) 13:26, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Lotje, Selbstbildnis means exactly self-portrait, so I do not fully understand. What’s wrong? The monkey? Apart from painting he also engaged in scientifical studies about apes. But on another side: Formerly this image has been used: Gabriel von Max - Maler.jpg, but Jarekt or better his bot has removed this later, reason: remove redundant fields already defined at Wikidata. So the image has to be changed in Wikidata: 'Gabriel von Max' (Q655778). — Speravir – 02:14, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
Oops, sorry, apparently I misread your question, but then I do understand it even less. — Speravir – 02:21, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
I think this is all solved now. Right? --Jarekt (talk) 04:03, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
@Jarekt: , indeed it is solved!
The question is: if an image in a creator template is to be replaced by a self-portrait, are we supposed to discuss the subject on commons prior to changing the image in Wikidata? Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 04:29, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
The self portrait is a suggestion, as you show depiction of the artist and style of his work. However some self portraits might not be much a a depiction. Sometimes photograph is better. You should discuss the change on the talk page where you are going to change it. I often find that not many people want to discuss such small changes, so I often subscribe to "be bold" philosophy and just change it and have discussion if somebody objects. --Jarekt (talk) 01:21, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
I was confused because I’ve seen several creator templates with artwork before. Don’t forget that photography (including precessors) is only available since the early 19th century. And I didn’t notice that you’ve changed the image just before your question here. — Speravir – 21:38, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Misleading introduction for the Wikimedia Commons Android application

I just downloaded the Wikimedia Commons Android application on my wife's BlackBerry to see how it works ans looks, and immediately ir introduces itself as if #1 selfies aren't allowed on Wikimedia Commons, though I do agree that uploading a lot of selfies would be bad having a single picture for your user page or as part of a Wikimedia (Outernet) event is acceptable, it claims that anything found on the internet shouldn't be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, but a lot of valuable educational images on Wikimedia Commons are PD-scans and other freely licensed works from the internet, there are plenty of amazing useful educational images from websites like Verizon's Flickr that are not only uploaded to Wikimedia Commons but have made it to "Featured picture" status. The introduction to the Android application programme basically tells people that they are only allowed to upload their own photographs, and though I encourage that photographers should be encouraged it is kind of misleading and might discourage people from importing useful public domain images in the future. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (Talk 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:26, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

The problem is that a majority of images found in Internet are copyrighted and can not be uploaded. Uploading those from a minority of free images requires some understanding of basics of the copyright law, which a majority of new users lack. So, the safest advise for them is just to upload their own images. Ruslik (talk) 19:31, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
the leap from "most" to "don't use any", is lazy. if you cannot give accurate guidance to newbies, then stop. there is no safety or future in false information. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 16:35, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
I do not understand what do you mean by you answer. What am I supposed to stop? What exactly is false information here? If you are not lazy, you can give any advice to new users but then it will be your responsibility to tag everything that they upload up for deletion. Ruslik (talk) 20:10, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Aarhus historic categories

I recently added the Category:2016 in Aarhus. When I to add the other years I see that other categories are with the 'Århus' name. This complicates things as the template in Category:1971 in tram transport in Århus points to '1971 in Århus' (Does not exist). This is a mess.Smiley.toerist (talk) 10:03, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

  • Since 2011 the official name of the city is spelled Aarhus. It also was that before 1948. But from 1948 to 2010 it was spelled Århus. Some old categories from that time still has to be renamed. And some times people from other countries may not be aware of the change in name. But yes, I suppose I should spend some time with renaming categories. --Dannebrog Spy (talk) 10:52, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
  • No need to rename the template, and it’s easy to edit it to respell proper Danish into some silly «oh computers cannot do those strange letters» argument. (Meanwhile: done.) Templates transcluding categories is something that works very well, by the way, no need to agitate against that (too). Please have everybody’s favourite vaporware doing at least the same before dismaling categorizing templates. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 21:54, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
  • It’s useful to have a centralized category set containing photos (and other media) showing the Århus trams sorted by year, regardless of their location. I’d have used Århus trams in year instead (which would be subcats of the respective year in tram transport in Århus only up to 1971), but I was stopped by the tram cat police. Maybe I was right all along? -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 21:54, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
OK, I finished of. Createde a lot of missing caegories: 19xx in Aarhus, 19xx rail transport in Denmark, etc. You could use Aarhus trams in year but I keep to the same scheme used in a lot of countries. In some cities tram subcategories trams in cityxxx are used, further subdivided in the type of trams, but not in year categories. Example Category:Trams in Saint-Étienne. The year category is on the national level. If the year categories get to bigg or someone feels like it, it gets subdivided as in Germany: Category:2017 in tram transport in Germany Smiley.toerist (talk) 23:13, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
  • (Thanks, I do know a thing or three about tram cats in Commons.) You keep to a scheme that’s flawed, as mentioned above: Århus trams after 1971 are not in Århus anymore. Also: You might want to move/rename existing "Århus" cats to "Aarhus", instead of creating “new” ones. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 00:36, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

en-gb broken

The text below the "Global file usage" section while using the "British English" setting has been replaced with "Šie sekantys projektai naudoja šią rinkmeną:". Is TranslateWiki being vandalized? Lojbanist (talk) 20:06, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Files tagged CC-by-sa-old

In Category:Files tagged CC-by-sa-old, it says 'Files in this category should receive a proper versioned license template', but how do I find out which license template I should put on the page? And what are the codes for those templates? Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 18:00, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

If there is a source website given in the file description, the version number should be stated at the original source and you can pick a template from Category:CC license tags – e.g. {{Cc-by-sa-2.5}}. If the file is "own work" by the uploader, you might want to ask the uploader which version they intended to grant, but especially for older uploads of inactive users that might be futile. De728631 (talk) 18:04, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
For files with an OTRS tag, you may also ask for details at the Commons:OTRS/Noticeboard. The ticket number shown in the file's OTRS notice box should be mentioned there to speed things up. De728631 (talk) 18:08, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Files tagged {{Own}} can usually be assumed to be {{Cc-by-sa-1.0}}, since the template referred to version 1.0 when the files were uploaded. Sebari – aka Srittau (talk) 23:13, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

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April 03

Original Upload Log: Expertise needed

Hello, the Technical Wishes team from Wikimedia Germany is asking for your expertise on the Original Upload Log:

As you may know, one wish on our wish list asks for a functionality for importing files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons while keeping all data complete and intact: the file’s history, the file page’s version history, the person who originally uploaded the file and the person who moved it to Commons. While several tools for importing to Commons already exist, they do not import the complete and intact data. Working on this wish, we realized that all existing tools add a section “Original Upload Log” to the file page, where the version history can then be filled in.

So our question is: Considering that the MediaWiki feature we’re working on will import the version history properly, do you consider it necessary to still provide the Original Upload Log? If so, could you elaborate a bit why?

Thanks a lot for your time, -- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 09:47, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Unless you decide to import all previously-imported (and locally deleted) files retroactively (that will be a huge work), it should stay for old uploads. For new uploads, I think it's too early to make a comment without being able to see anything. Without even any alpha version, I'd rather wait for alpha. — regards, Revi 10:51, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Revi, that’s understandable. I will post a link to an alpha version soon and give all of you a ping. -- Best, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 14:36, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello again, Revi. I just wanted to let you know that we're currently working on a bugfix. Once that's done we'll post a link to an alpha version in the Village Pump to hear the thoughts of the Commons contributors, and of course I'll also give you a ping. -- Best, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 15:47, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
I think if that new feature actually imports everything properly, there's really no need to have a second log in the wikitext. That "Original Upload Log" has always been a crutch that was necessary because proper imports were not possible. I don't think anybody would miss it. --El Grafo (talk) 11:57, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
+1. And, yes, stress on properly. — Speravir – 18:38, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

DB Regio railway coaches

Hi, while I was categorising train images, I noticed that Category:Halberstädter Mitteleinstiegswagen and Category:N-class coaches of Deutsche Bahn contain similar railway coaches. Does anyone here know what differences to look for between the two? --HyperGaruda (talk) 15:55, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

The major difference is the origin. While Halberstädter Mitteleinstiegswagen were built in Halberstadt for Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR), the N-class, also known as Silberlinge, was one of the major classes of regional coaches of Deutsche Bundesbahn (West Germany). See also de:n-Wagen vs de:Halberstädter Mitteleinstiegswagen. De728631 (talk) 17:47, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, but I was hoping for something more visible so I can properly categorise the images. --HyperGaruda (talk) 17:51, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
The standard Halberstädter has 11 (3+5+3) passenger windows per side. The most common (second class) N-class coach has 12 (3+6+3). Careful: semi-first class N-class coaches also have 11 windows, but a distinctive yellow line above the 5 first-class compartment windows. --Tau (talk) 17:26, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
@Den man tau: ah that's more like what I had in mind. Vielen Dank! --HyperGaruda (talk) 17:19, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

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April 04

Possible improvement of the mapping tools

This category https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_with_geo-coordinates_needing_categories contains thousands of images, which would be much easier to categorize if users could choose a region they know. However, the osm4wiki mapping tools do not work, possibly because they can't handle too many images (see also this https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=288533408#Category:Media_with_geo-coordinates_needing_categories and this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Media_with_geo-coordinates_needing_categories#Maps_with_locations discussion. On the other hand, there is the wiwosm tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/commons-on-osm.php that is able to display a self-limited number of images in a chosen map. The markers change dynamically upon zooming, so that they always stay at a manageable number. Can the same logic be added to the osm4wiki tool? JiriMatejicek (talk) 07:10, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Comilla to Cumilla file rename needed

Bangladesh has changed the english spelling of some of its cities [16]. The city of Comilla has been changed to Cumilla. All the images in Category:Comilla containing the name will need changing.--Auric (talk) 12:32, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Deleting a file redirect?

Taichi tagged redirect File:Flag of Embera-Wounaan.png for speedy deletion on the grounds that it is misleading: "I kindly ask you to please eliminate the redirection because it's connecting two regions of two different countries. It is as if a redirection of the United States flag redirects to that of France. Simply the redirection shows a false information, a lie." I do agree that it is a potentially misleading redirect, but my understanding is that file redirects should not be deleted. Thoughts? Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:45, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

  • Do I understand correctly that what happened here is that someone confused the Emberá-Wounaan people in Panama (formerly called the Chocó people) with a place in Colombia called Chocó? - Jmabel ! talk 23:52, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
  • This is the reason while I nearly always change speedy deletion requests of redirects to regular DRs. I do agree that we should be much more conservative with deleting file redirects, deleting them serves no real purpose. Sebari – aka Srittau (talk) 00:16, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

April 05

Category:Media with geo-coordinates needing categories 2

Why some files stay in https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Media_with_geo-coordinates_needing_categories despite already having a category? Example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Sylt&searchfilter=incategory%3A%22Media+with+geo-coordinates+needing+categories%22&ns6=1&fulltext=Search+by+keyword&fulltext=Search&searchToken=9yk5i0nx6vwjes76g31itxyyc Normally, the tag disappears automatically when a category is added. I have noticed some files having more 'needing categories' tags, which have to be manually removed, but this seems not the case. JiriMatejicek (talk) 06:46, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

It looks like a caching issue.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:36, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Sorting search results

The files displayed in categories are normally sorted alphabetically. However, the search results seem to be displayed randomly. Is there any way to sort them alphabetically, too? JiriMatejicek (talk) 06:48, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Search results are sorted by relevance. And no, there is no way the modify the sort order currently (there are tickets about it). —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:43, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
An easy way is to use Petscan, it has several options for sort order. Here's an example category of my uploaded videos sorted alphabetically. It shows the thumbnails as an option too, if that is what you prefer. --Fæ (talk) 12:23, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

{{User:Rama/Catdef}} userspace template

hastemplate:"User:Rama/Catdef"

7,483 results. In categories these should probably be replaced with {{Wikidata infobox}}. On file pages either this template needs to move to regular template space or be replaced with something else.

Example: File:Naked woman-Louvre-E27429.jpg includes {{Object photo}} which inserts Category:Naked woman E27429 into the page which contains {{User:Rama/Catdef|Q47439944}}. Which is also annoying: where Wikidata infobox just "knows" the Wikidata item, this template requires entering it manually.

What is seriously strange is that this template was created by administrators @Rama: and @Ruthven: , so you can't say "user didn't know any better". Strange. I am first putting this here before making any bot work request as this will probably require some discussion. - Alexis Jazz 13:44, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

User:Rama/Catdef, {{Object photo}} and {{Category definition: Object}} are extremely confusing constructions that transclude categories as templates. I would love to seen them replaced by a more straightforward approach based on Wikidata. @Zolo: you started this path, want to help to get it into the Wikidata direction? Multichill (talk) 18:48, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Categorizing photographs along specific highways

There seems to be a somewhat prevalent theme of putting photos taken along specific highways for which categories exist (i.e. a specific route) into those categories. In other words, some users will put photos taken along I-95 in the I-95 category, even if the photo shows no part of I-95 and is otherwise completely unrelated to I-95. This is not something everyone does but it happens enough to be an issue. By the rules of overcat, it would seem totally pointless to do this, especially since no one looking in said category is expecting pictures of something other than the highway. I've tried to impose some sort of order to this by creating "locations along route xx" categories for the placement of images taken along, but otherwise unrelated, to specific roads, but recently an admin has blocked this because he wants his photos in the main road category.

Thoughts? Famartin (talk) 21:52, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

@Famartin: Who blocked it? Do you have diffs?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 22:24, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Jeff, the admin's user name is Nyttend. Famartin (talk) 22:28, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
This happens for all kinds of roads, classifying buildings etc., by the street of their street address. Do we really want to create a "locations" subcategory for them all? Example: Category:4th_Street_(Manhattan). --ghouston (talk) 22:33, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Surely --ghouston, we can perhaps make a distinction between significant state highways versus city streets?Famartin (talk) 22:57, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
I really doubt we can find a "one size fits all" solution, but if someone really decides to take this on: most categories about hiking trails include photos of what you see while hiking the trail; many of these photos do not show the footpath itself. - Jmabel ! talk 23:50, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
go to wikidata and put the qualifer on it. query is better than a category search. admins here are not able to block activity there. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 00:06, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
This should fit somewhere below Category:Views by viewpoint. E.g. we have Category:Views from trains, and the national categories are subdivided by specific railway lines, e. g. Category:Views from the Schwarzwaldbahn (Baden). We also have Category:Views from automobiles, why shouldn't we subdivide it by roads and create something like Category:Views from Interstate 95? --Sitacuisses (talk) 02:14, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
I agree: note we already have Views from roads, whose creation edit-summary says “according to COM:VP discussion.” That must refer to this May 2009 discussion. Does it need revisiting?—Odysseus1479 (talk) 02:35, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
They aren't necessarily views from the road though. The subcategories of Category:4th Street (Manhattan), buildings located on the street, don't seem to belong in a views subcategory, and the same could happen on a highway. --ghouston (talk) 02:40, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
That does makes it harder. Another example with some tricky content is Icefields Parkway, which has a few shots of the road itself and many more views from the road, along with a number of photos from nearby that are neither, seeming to treat it as a destination more than a road per se. However, I don’t think these are quite the same as buildings whose address is on the street; their visibility from that street is not nearly as relevant.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 02:59, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
I don't know about the others, but I think a specific example would help me understand this situation. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:17, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

April 02

Ghettoization, again

Why on earth do we have Category:African American educators distinct from Category:Educators from the United States? No other American educators are broken out by race or ethnicity. The result, of course, is that there are few or no African American educators directly in Category:Educators from the United States. - Jmabel ! talk 04:36, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

I always found intersections of per-race or per-gender categories with other categories strange. --Jarekt (talk) 15:02, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Yup. And offensive. - 15:17, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
It's one thing when this is done as an additional piece of information on something that is already broken down along a different axis (e.g. gathering together African American musicians where they are separately broken down by instrument) but ridiculous when this becomes the only breakdown and removes them from what is effectively a main category. - Jmabel ! talk 15:19, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
I really wish we had a good filter system so that we don't need those arbitrary divisions. "Show me all photos taken between 1955 and 1965 taken in the state of Oklahoma showing female jazz musicians". And the photo just having the category "Name of Musician" (a sub-cat of jazz musicians and a sub-cat of "women" and date and location as meta data). Well, maybe with structured data. Sebari – aka Srittau (talk) 17:49, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
I love to see a variety of categories. But taking out one subcategory is simply wrong. The solution in this case looks quite simple: all categories and files with a Category:African American educators should also have a Category:Educators from the United States. Vysotsky (talk) 20:54, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
@Vysotsky: That would be COM:OVERCAT unless Category:African American educators were removed from Category:Educators from the United States and given its cats.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 21:07, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
I don't think that would be overcategorisation. Similar example: if there is no Category:Male painters from Argentina, it is no overcategorization to add the Category:Painters from Argentina to all names and images in Category:Female painters from Argentina. Vysotsky (talk) 21:14, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Yes, it would be overcategorization because Category:African American educators is a subset of Category:Educators from the United States. Category:Female painters from Argentina, however, is not (yet) part of Category:Painters from Argentina (why not?), so that would not be overcategorisation. Overcategorisation occurs when two or more categories higher up in the direct line of hierarchy are assigned to a subcategory. De728631 (talk) 21:22, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
I really can't see why Category:African American educators is a subset of Category:Educators from the United States. It could be a subcategory of Category:Educators by ethnic group, but then that should be the designed subset. (See also Category:People_by_ethnicity). Vysotsky (talk) 21:39, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Cf. Category:Jewish educators. Vysotsky (talk) 21:41, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
@Vysotsky: You can't be African American without being American, but you can be Jewish without being American, hence the different category relations. But, as I said above, I feel this has a pernicious effect. - Jmabel ! talk 21:57, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
It is currently a subset of Category:Educators from the United States because someone put it into that very parent category. Have a look at the bottom of the page Category:African American educators and you will find the parent categories of this particular subcategory. De728631 (talk) 21:59, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
@De728631: English Wikipedia has sort-of resolved this problem with Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality. Specifically, they allow "over-categorization" in such cases, as otherwise it causes ghettoization. Kaldari (talk) 17:33, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Also though, English Wikipedia would never allow an "African American educators" category, per "Do not create categories that are a cross-section of a topic with an ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexual orientation, unless these characteristics are relevant to the topic." Kaldari (talk) 17:38, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
It's just a part of Category:African Americans by occupation, which is probably inevitable given the existence of Category:African Americans. I think there would be a way to fix it that would involve flat categories as well as intersection categories, with bots keeping them in sync. However, at this stage we may as well wait to find out if Structured Data provides something useful. (en:Intersectionality is actually a concept in academia). --ghouston (talk) 23:34, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Most popular pages

Hello, everyone! I have collected the most popular pages of Commons in 2017 by namespace:

--Emaus (talk) 01:04, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

I count 4 non-sexual categories within the top 200... - Themightyquill (talk) 12:23, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
I count at least 15, but that's still pretty sad … --El Grafo (talk) 12:38, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Massive overload of watermarks

I have seen that contributions of GMIIUPLDRas for example this one contains a massive overload of watermarks. I nominated a few for deletion and I have seen from the discussion page of the user that also others have nominated files for deletion (and the files have been deleted). Before I nominate more files I would like the opinion of others about the nomination for deletion. Wouter (talk) 13:09, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Well, according to some people from Google Research, this kind of watermark (transparent, applied to a lot of images in a regular pattern) should be relatively easy to remove automatically (paper, supplement). Too bad they didn't publish their Matlab code … --El Grafo (talk) 16:04, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Please don't nominate these when they are in the public domain. And yes, those WMs can be removed in a number of ways. The example has been cleared. - Alexis Jazz 16:36, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: How can the watermarks be removed? Kaldari (talk) 16:54, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
@Kaldari: Many ways.. fixing the color (for transparent watermarks) is the best, next best is replacing those areas with the same area from worse quality image, finally you can remove them by looking at the surrounding area. I'm sure the internet is full of guides on this. - Alexis Jazz 17:01, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
@Wouterhagens: Also, take a look at COM:VisualFileChange.js because all these identical DRs are quite annoying. - Alexis Jazz 16:42, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

 Comment: Removal of watermark(s) from PD images might be justified. However, when considering to remove a watermark from a still copyrighted (though freely licensed) image, please first read Commons:Watermarks#Legal_issues_with_the_removal_of_watermarks. Therefore, with visibly watermarked images that are keep-worthy, we should first try to convince the uploader/author to re-upload it without visible watermark (invisible watermarks are no problem). --Túrelio (talk) 07:40, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

April 07

Images from Vine House Farm

A company, Vine House Farm, have released almost 200 images into PD, tagging them as such on Flickr and posting: https://www.vinehousefarm.co.uk/blog/2017/12/12/royalty-free-wild-bird-photos/ on their website.

I have uploaded them using Flickr-to-Commons, but they have been tagged {{Remove this line and insert a public domain copyright tag instead}}{{No license since|month=March|day=29|year=2018}}{{flickrreview}}.

Is this the best way to re-tag them, and if not, what is? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:51, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

i see the war against PD mark continues. and you are unwilling to stop your sword of damocles, rather than use maintenance categories. "i'm not making the adversive culture here, it's the only way of interacting i know?" you do not have evidence that it is not a CC0: that is your ideology of license purity. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 02:11, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
Has a judge ruled on PDM vs. CC-0 yet?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 02:20, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
no, not a prospect in sight. only the precautionary commons admins care. maybe they could scrape up $10000 for a trial in federal court. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 16:39, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

It seems that there is no consensus on what to do :-( Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:22, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Nonetheless, it appears that most of these images have now been deleted. Good work! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:53, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Surfacing broken files

I've been working on media thumbnailing at the WMF for a while with Filippo Giunchedi, who came up with the suggestion of surfacing broken files in a more user-friendly way: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191525 The idea being that sometimes the source file can be fixed by the uploader.

Currently when a file can't be thumbnailed because it's broken, or open source software just can't handle it, you just end up with a 500 response for the image and visually it's just a blank space, or your browser displaying a broken image icon, where the thumbnail should be.

I'd like to probe the Commons wisdom of the crowd on whether it would be useful to have a clear message on the file page when the file at hand cannot be thumbnailed due to intrinsic issues with the file. If so, would a bot adding a category be best? And/or a template in the file description?

Feel free to reply here or on the Phabricator task. Thanks!

GDubuc (WMF) (talk) 07:54, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

A template or category could be useful in cases where the file is correct but can't be thumbnailed due to technical limitations (exceeds maximum size/pixel limits etc.). A bot could probably easily check file size and pixel limits, and could also re-check the files in the future when the limits might change.
A separate category could be used for files where the reason for missing thumbnail is something else or can't be easily determined (broken files). MKFI (talk) 07:36, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
@GDubuc (WMF): only case of this that I saw recently was File:Issa2.jpg and that turned out to be a YouTube/Google clip. - Alexis Jazz 10:11, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Placing templates

Does it matter where a template (for example: {{Low quality}}) is placed on a file's page? If so, where should it be placed? Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 11:29, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

  • Doesn't matter a lot. There are some obviously wrong places (somewhere in the middle of a long description, in the date field, etc.). By the way, that's a template I'm very hesitant to use, unless the quality is so low that deletion might be in order, or at least a strong caution against using it: it is definitely liable to be seen as an insult by the person who took the photo. I've seen it slapped on some perfectly decent photos that happened not to be to someone's taste. - Jmabel ! talk 15:13, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
  • @NeoMeesje: (removed old message, no longer applies) If there is a better quality version of the same image available you can use {{Superseded}}. - Alexis Jazz 16:50, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: --Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 11:12, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Free media sources

Are there any free media sources with pictures of the Netherlands? Ps. I know I can use Flickr, but I would like to see if there is another website. Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 11:14, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Most Anefo press photographs from Dutch National Archives have been transferred to Wikimedia Commons in the last months. More than 330,000 press photographs (made in the period 1945-1990) have been uploaded, from the Netherlands and abroad. Descriptions (in Dutch) have been transferred to Commons, categories need to be added. See Category:Images from Nationaal Archief (>350,000 photographs) and Category:Images from Anefo (>260,000). Thanks to User:Mr.Nostalgic for this gigantic upload and to Dutch National Archives for making all photographs available under CC-zero. Vysotsky (talk) 11:34, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Also {{Koninklijk Huis}}. - Alexis Jazz 20:14, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
BTW the Images from Nationaal Archief has been around for a while, so 355 different people have contributed to the uploads, of which 8 have uploaded more than 1,000 images. --Fæ (talk) 06:39, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: --Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 20:20, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Flickr Public Domain

Is {{PD-author}} a valid license tag to add to these photos? And is this enough to add? Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 20:10, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Depends on what you are talking about. If you are talking about the public domain mark then maybe. If you are talking about the actual CC0 license then {{CC0}}. The public domain mark is supposed to used for images that have otherwise fallen into the public domain by other means. It is not supposed to be used for people releasing their own photos into the public domain. That is what CC0 is for. Do you have an example? --Majora (talk) 20:12, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
@Majora: This is an example for what I mean: this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NeoMeesje (talk • contribs) 20:16, 20 April 2018‎ (UTC)
Generally, no. That would not be ok to upload here and doing so would end up with it marked with {{Flickr-public domain mark}}. However, in the description the photographer explicitly says "CCO" [sic] (they obviously meant CC0). That statement means you can use the CC0 template. --Majora (talk) 20:23, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
@Majora: Thanks, but when should I use {{PD-author}}? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NeoMeesje (talk • contribs) 20:28, 20 April 2018‎ ‎ (UTC)
First, please sign your posts. This can be done with four tildes ~~~~. Second, you would use that when the statement indicates a public domain type license but a more specific one does not apply. You would not use it for images that are explicitly released under CC0 for example since we have a more specific license. Just looking at the transclusions of PD-author a lot of them should really be {{PD-self}}. --Majora (talk) 20:40, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: --Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 20:20, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Flickr2Commons not working

Is https://tools.wmflabs.org/flickr2commons/#/ seems to not work anymore for me. Every time I try to upload a picture, the picture doesn't show up and I see this: '0 files currently selected and ready to transfer; 0 have a name issue.' Can someone help me? Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 11:54, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

@NeoMeesje: Commons:Help desk#Flickr2Commons issues - Alexis Jazz 12:14, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: --Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 20:20, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Category:Fire chiefs

I'm a bit amazed there is no Category:Fire chiefs. Is this under some different name that I'm not thinking of? - Jmabel ! talk 04:41, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

More surprising missing categories

Again, are these under some other name I'm not thinking to look for? Not readily finding anything. Also, Category:Recreation centers is a soft redirect to Category:Sports halls, which seems very much a young person's perspective. - Jmabel ! talk 00:17, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Looks like we could need a redirect for American vs British spelling: Category:Community centres exists with a number of subcategories. But, alas, senior citizens have not yet been considered. De728631 (talk) 00:39, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Category:Senior citizens exists, just not Category:Senior centers.
Another one I'm surprised not to find: Category:Interns and/or Category:Internships. - Jmabel ! talk 00:50, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Well, I guess I'll create them. Surprising that no one has yet done so. - Jmabel ! talk 03:33, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

To what degree is Category:Senior citizens simply a positive euphamism for "old people", and are we okay with that? I'm not sure of the best decision here. Note that Category:Old people has been under discussion at Commons:Categories for discussion/2015/12/Category:Old women by country for over two years. - Themightyquill (talk) 12:37, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Category:Senior citizens may be problematic, but I think Category:Senior centers is not.
In the U.S., "senior citizens" is at least moderately well-defined: https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Senior+Citizens. More objective than "old", anyway. To a teenager, a 40-year-old might be "old"; conversely, I think it would be very contentious for us to apply the term "old" to a 70-year-old politician. - Jmabel ! talk 16:06, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
I've now built Category:Interns & some subcategories (e.g. Category:Medical interns). I've put 600+ images directly in Category:Interns, and probably another couple of hundred in subcategories. Some of the images directly in Category:Interns should doubtless be consigned to further subcategories, a few of which are obvious once these have been brought together like this; I'll get there. I'm absolutely certain there are many pictures overtly identified as "interns" that I haven't gotten to, but I've literally put over 8 hours into this, and it's all I have time or patience for in terms of tracking down images.
If someone wants to help, please feel free to place more images in Category:Interns!
I've gone almost entirely after things that are captioned in English, partly because I'm unsure how words in other languages line up in this particular area. For example: I believe stagiaire is a bit broader than the English "intern"; is there some way to know which pictures of a person described as a stagiaire would belong in this category? And doubtless there are other words I don't know at all in other languages. - 07:03, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

April 05

Images from geo.hlipp.de

There is a large number of images from recently uploaded from geo.hlipp.de: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Geograph_Deutschland I have come across many of them while clearing https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_with_geo-coordinates_needing_categories, and generally they lack sharpness (typical example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A8_-_Kreuz_12_Nalbach_(500m)_-_geo.hlipp.de_-_28576.jpg ). Since it seems to me an omnipresent feature, I think that it is because of an overdone jpeg compression, with the effort to keep the file size small, rather than an individual photographer's issue. I'd like some opinions/discussion whether it's worth to keep them on Commons. I have already categorized a lot of them, but quite often they are photos of places having other and better photos, so I'm having some doubts whether it's worth the effort. JiriMatejicek (talk) 18:53, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

@Freddy2001: you should be flooding Commons with uncategorized files. You should add a category on upload or at least at a category like Category:Images from Geograph Deutschland to be categorized to sort out to not flood the general system.
Clicking through the uploads I see a lot of interesting things. Freddy2001 thought it was worth the effort so yes it's worth to keep them. Multichill (talk) 19:35, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
@Multichill: I'm a bit confused with this answer. Did you mean to say "you should _not_ be flooding Commons with uncategorized files"? Do I get it correctly that Freddy2001 initiated or executed this massive upload? JiriMatejicek (talk) 19:48, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Geograph is a project which has the aim to collect photos of many different places across germany as possible. This means: 1. We can get a lot of photos of objects or locations which we do not already have on commons. 2. All of this photos are geo-tagged which can be useful to link them to use them with reference to a specific place. Not all of this photos may have a good quality or are interesting, but thats not the primary point of the Geograph project. Unfortunately the Geograph project offers just those small, compressed 640 × 480 width files, but they have quality enough to insert them into an Article, if there is no better image available. -- Freddy2001 talk 20:01, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Freddy2001 appears to be batch uploading using pattypan. It's best practice to either add one or more categories at upload, or add a uncategorized category specific to the batch upload. That didn't happen here so a bot came along and added the uncategorized template. Can you please look into that Freddy2001? Multichill (talk) 20:05, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
The images are indeed all of pretty low quality, but I already went through a few hundreds of them to categorize them (and wanted to continue if I have time) and there are many showing subjects with no other images on commons yet making them although useful und valueable. I used[17] to add categories to one picture after another, which seemed to me the easiest way under this circumstances lacking a category. – KPFC 💬 20:08, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
I have categorized a lot of them, too, but pretty often they had subjects which already had other photos. I guess with this number, there would be plenty of both cases. I've been going through https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_with_geo-coordinates_needing_categories, where the images are sorted alphabetically - this makes it easier to categorize more of them at once. JiriMatejicek (talk) 07:43, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Multichill, BTW as side remark: There are some active edit requests for template {{Geograph-de}}. — Speravir – 21:30, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

April 06

Monet challenge

Le Grand Canal, Monet 1908. See here for free, or view the original for £22!

Several national newspapers in the UK have run sensationalist reports on the eye-watering £22 ticket price for the Monet & Architecture exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). The gallery is free, but charges for special exhibitions have been rapidly escalating. Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph

This raises the question of whether on Wikimedia Commons we could either match the exhibition with high resolution images of paintings on display, or use this as an opportunity to identify missing images of paintings in our collection :-). Though the NPG's description of the exhibition catalogue mentions 77 paintings, and an article in The Standard mentions 80 paintings, there is no list of the included paintings readily available (without buying the catalogue).

The NPG website video (link) has a page of credits towards the end for the images they use. Of itself this is interesting due to the number of misleading copyright claims over faithful photographs of the paintings (rather than copyright of the video animations), plus even in this short-list there are a few that appear missing from our images or we only have at very poor resolution:

  1. View of Bordighera (Vue de Bordighera), 1884 © Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  2. Houses on the Old Bridge at Vernon (Maisons sur Ie vieux pont de Vernon), 1883 © New Orleans Museum of Art
  3. The Church at Varengeville and the Gorge of Moutiers (Eglise de Varengeville et la gorge des Moutiers), 1882 © Columbus Museum of Art
  4. The Quai du Louvre (Le Quai du Louvre), 1867 © Collection Gemeentemuseum The Hague
  5. Gardener's House at Antibes (Maison de jardinier a Antibes), 1888 © The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
  6. Houses of Parliament, Sunset (Le Parlement, coucher de soleil), 1904 © Kunsthaus ZUrich. All rights reserved.
  7. Rouen Cathedral (Cathédrale de Rouen), 1894. Private collection © Photo courtesy of the owner
  8. Rouen Cathedral. The Portal and the Tour d'Albane at Dawn (Cathédrale de Rouen. Le Portail et la Tour d'Albane a I'aube), 1893-4, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  9. The Grand Canal (Le Grand Canal), 1908. Nahmad Collection, Monaco © Photo courtesy of the owner
  10. The Grand Canal (Le Grand Canal), 1908 © Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  11. File:Claude Monet-Waterlilies.jpg [18]
  12. File:The Thames below Westminster 1522133421-1774a.jpg
  13. File:The Saint-Lazare Railway Station 1522133478-43f10.jpg [19]
  14. File:Monet Snow at Argenteuil 1875.jpg
  15. File:The Museum at Le Havre 1522133526-07a8e.jpg
  16. File:Dolceacqua, la vieux pont sur la Nervia.jpg
  17. File:Claude Monet - The Coalmen - Google Art Project.jpg

Here's the challenge. Can someone find a definitive list of which paintings are in this notable exhibition, then can our community derive a short-list of Monet's paintings which are missing from Wikimedia Commons or for which we need better quality images? --Fæ (talk) 11:44, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

here is a vizquery for monet [20] adding a institution yields no results. we can start with cleaning all the metadata, and adding images Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 12:44, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. It would be interesting to add a property of "Architecture" for the subject of the painting where relevant. Producing our own list via Wikidata and comparing it to the exhibition catalogue would be a useful analysis to discover differences either way. --Fæ (talk) 12:47, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
sum of all painting has been working this, and works with willing institutions, but as you see in the File:Cluade monet, la casa del giardiniere ad antibes, 1888.jpg for cleveland, louvre, and NPG, they are also doing wikilovesart, which will be limited to camera resolution rather than scanner. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 13:36, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
  • I can't find a link, but wasn't there a case a couple of years ago where a CD track list was deemed to meet the threshold of originality for a collection in the United Kingdom so that you need permission from the author of the track list to distribute the same selection of songs in the same order? In that case, selecting a number of paintings and presenting them in a specific order maybe also meets the threshold of originality, meaning that we could only present a different selection of paintings in a different order. --Stefan2 (talk) 13:21, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
The potential-copyright-of-a-list does not apply in this case, because there is no subjective ranking and hence no creative work has gone into the list.
The list of "what was on public display in the exhibition" is a simple logical list and the list of "all Monet's paintings with Architectural themes" is purely logic, not a creative decision. In the case of this exhibition, these are not the best paintings or in order of some other human perceived value, but the exhibition itself claims to be all the Monet paintings that feature architecture and were available to the NPG.
My understanding of copyright in this area (UK, USA, India), came from long debates about the copyright of film box office estimated figures. This list does not meet the bar for any creative standard. --Fæ (talk) 13:44, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
i agree, however, courts have ruled in unreasonable ways before - apparently in Sweden the online listing of public art was infringing-transformative in a bad way. [21]. (i would proceed- very low risk but not zero) you could also group the painting in a gallery or "collection". Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 14:50, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
If the selection was based on a simple criterion (all available paintings focusing on architecture), then I agree that the selection doesn't meet the threshold of originality. It would be different if they decided to display the 50 best paintings or something, since 'best' is highly subjective. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:27, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
you are confusing marketing with selection criteria. the selection is based more on which institutions will lend, than "simple criteria"; and grouping enough items to make a blockbluster that interests the public.
made a gallery here Monet & Architecture. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 12:04, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Arxiv image

Can I upload this image I found at http://beyondearthlyskies.blogspot.com/2015/07/classifying-planets-brown-dwarfs-stars.html which was originally published here? The Arxiv license is here Just granpa (talk) 15:23, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

  • https://arxiv.org/help/license is not a license. It is a policy, including list of what licenses are acceptable on their site. Can you determine what license applies to this image? A "non-commercial" license would not be acceptable for Commons; the others that they list would be, and you'd need to upload with the same license used for this particular image on arxiv.org. - 16:46, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Just granpa: Yes you may. Regardless of the licensing of the paper as a whole, the a simple scatter plot would be {{PD-ineligible}}. —LX (talk, contribs) 07:28, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for taking the time to answer me. I uploaded it here. Just granpa (talk) 14:14, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

April 08

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

How can we have a category for the "Historical Society of Pennsylvania" in Philadelphia, PA, founded in 1824, as the source of many images in the Commons, and has a photograph of their building on English Wikipedia? --Dthomsen8 (talk) 16:43, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

I created Category:Historical Society of Pennsylvania for you and deleted the page Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The trick is the Category: prefix. De728631 (talk) 17:03, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

April 09

Uploading an image onto my article

Can I upload an image from an ebook onto my article, as long as I cite and give credit? If yes, why will it not upload? It says it's a mhtml, can that be changed? Jeseel99 (talk) 04:07, 11 April 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeseel99 (talk • contribs) 05:38, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

This is the book Galloway, Terry. Solar House: A Guide for the Solar Designer. Amsterdam: Architectural Press, 2004. Internet resource. I'm trying to use the image on page 10, for the article Environmental Impact design. Jeseel99 (talk) 04:07, 11 April 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeseel99 (talk • contribs) 05:43, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

  • Signing your posts on talk pages is required and it is a Commons guideline to sign your posts on deletion requests, undeletion requests, and noticeboards. To do so, simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. Your user name or IP address (if you are not logged in) and a timestamp will then automatically be added when you save your comment. Signing your comments helps people to find out who said something and provides them with a link to your user/talk page (for further discussion). Thank you.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:50, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
@Jeseel99: Exactly where on the Internet can we find this book and the image on page 10? How do the credits for that image read? What file format are you trying to upload? Where do you want to out the image, in which article?   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:50, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Assuming it is this book, the "all rights reserved" notice all the way in the front indicates it is a big no. --HyperGaruda (talk) 06:04, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Rivers and streams

As this could affect a large number of categories, watchers here may wish to comment at Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/04/Category:Rivers.--Jokulhlaup (talk) 13:53, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Thinking about the best ways to create photo essays for Wiki Loves competitions

Hi all

I'm looking at ways of creating photo essays for Wiki Loves competitions to make the process as simple and easy as possible for both organisers and new to Wikimedia contributors with no need for source editor. Wiki Loves Africa have done some great photo essays e.g Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017/photo_essay/Zanzibar_seaweeds and I would really like to offer them as an option for Wiki Loves Earth this year.

So far my thinking is that the user should upload their photos as normal, then the user creates the photo essay separately. There should be a FormWizard form where the user fills in a name and possibly the number of photos and then clicks a button which creates a new page with a set layout, perhaps something like this, at this point the new page is saved as a blank template. The user can then replace the placeholder photos with their photos and add descriptions and they're done. My main questions around this approach is:

  • Is it easy to ask to add new extensions to Commons? And how long does it take?
  • Is there a simple way to replace placeholder images with user images on Visual Editor?

Does anyone know of any other approaches that might work or variations on the current idea to make it easier to use or implement?

Thanks very much

John Cummings (talk) 14:12, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Nasty cat

This cat… /smh

Is there already a category for media about this nasty habit? -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 16:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

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

Recent changes

  • Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [22]
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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Weird JPEG rendering issue

Hey, I found a weird issue with MediaWiki's thumbnail generator. In the full-resolution version of File:Exitos939LAlogo.jpg, the image is black and red (at least on my computer). But in all of the low-resolution thumbnails, the black parts become yellow—here's an example. I notice the image's metadata includes the property "Color space: Uncalibrated", which I imagine might have something to do with the discrepancy, but I don't know enough about image encoding to be able to speculate any further than that. I've never seen MediaWiki have color issues with JPEGs (usually it's SVGs), so I figured I ought to report it. Should I report this on Phabricator or is it a known issue? Thanks, IagoQnsi (talk) (please {{Re}} me) 19:48, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

I do not see any yellow color. Ruslik (talk) 20:17, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
What I see—as in the thumbnails of most or all CMYK images here—is a negative image: instead of being (photo-)black & red on white, it’s greyish-green & blue on (hyper-)black. I’ve always assumed it was something to do with the thumbnailer and my antique browser (Safari v5) not being ‘on the same page’ WRT subtractive & additive colour models. I haven’t noticed it in TIFFs, but may not have come across any that were in CMYK. Of course PNGs and GIFs are always RGB.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 20:42, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Huh, weirdly enough, after User:Jeff G. uploaded a new version of the image using CropTool, most of the yellow images went away (even the link I posted above is now black). This thumbnail of the first revision of the file is the only one that still has yellow for me: [29]. Perhaps it's an old bug with rendering that has been fixed since these files were uploaded in 2010, and the thumbnails just hadn't been regenerated? –IagoQnsi (talk) 06:52, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

@IagoQnsi, Ruslik0, and Odysseus1479: Compared with fair use en:File:KXOS Exitos.png (in use at en:KXOS) and it's source http://web.archive.org/web/20120512105810/http://d1i6vahw24eb07.cloudfront.net/s26784q.png (a newer logo is on the live website now), I think this file may be a copyvio.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Pinging @Ruslik0 and Odysseus1479: .   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 10:24, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I don’t find the own-work claim very convincing, despite the uploader’s user name. That said, I’d be very surprised if the design is above the American TOO.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 16:38, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
I've fixed the license to {{PD-textlogo}}. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:29, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
@IagoQnsi: @Jeff G.: I think I fixed it by visiting https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exitos939LAlogo.jpg?action=purge. - Alexis Jazz 19:07, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Yes, only thumbnail of the first version has yellow color. Ruslik (talk) 20:16, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
FWIW they still look the same to me (the original thumbnail is darker than the other two, but nothing has changed since yesterday): mine is evidently a different problem from the original report.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 20:29, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
@Ruslik0: @Odysseus1479: have you guys emptied your browser cache? All the thumbnails are correct for me now, including [30]. - Alexis Jazz 21:32, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
All fine now for me now, the first version was still yellow some 10-15 hours ago. This kind of delayed reaction can happen with a huge job queue.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:33, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
All are fine now. Ruslik (talk) 20:03, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

April 11

SVG photos

File:Eskisehir Justice Department.svg appears to be a real photo taken with a camera, but it is stored in SVG format. I think that the user might not have been familiar with SVG format and their choice might have been a mistake. They might have wanted to crop the original image (File:Eskisehir Justice Department.jpg) and store it under the same name, thus inevitably with a different format, and they have chosen SVG format haphazardly. Another possibility is that I am completely wrong here, and SVG‌ photos are possible. I want to know your opinions. Thank you. 4nn1l2 (talk) 11:36, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

@4nn1l2: I tagged it {{BadSVG}} and notified the uploader for you.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:53, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Thank you. I am wondering if we should remove {{vector version available|File:Eskisehir Justice Department.svg}} from File:Eskisehir Justice Department.jpg. 4nn1l2 (talk) 12:47, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
✓ Done by Alexis Jazz.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:09, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: well this image yes, but I noticed it's not the only one.
So not completely done yet. - Alexis Jazz 13:35, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Ivan Demidov - what's this about?

The NSFW portrait at File:Иван-Демидов.jpg shows this chap, apparently with his balls out. The photograph is used on ru:Демидов, Иван Иванович in the infobox on his biography. Does anyone know the background of this photograph, just in case it is a fake? Thanks --Fæ (talk) 11:54, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

@Fæ: I marked http://www.flickr.com/photos/80728032@N00/270164277 for review, if that helps.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 12:46, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
My concern is whether this is a fake or not. If he's known for getting his junk out for a laugh, then it's probably okay to host on Commons, but I doubt whether it should be the main portrait photo for a Wikipedia article... but that's a matter for ru.wp... --Fæ (talk) 13:00, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
@Fæ: I don't know if it is fake. However, I cropped the original to File:Ivan Demidov 2.jpg, and now I am having trouble adding it to ru:Демидов, Иван Иванович because I don't know Russian.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 14:03, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
It would be better to point out the new image on the Russian embassy page, there may be local politics you would not want to poke. --Fæ (talk) 14:08, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
@Fæ: is that his junk?? Is he a horse or something? Seems more like this is part of a (broken?) chair or something. Or a massive tumor. - Alexis Jazz 15:10, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
This is why I raised it. The photo is odd and lacks an explanation of provenance, so whatever that is (a turnip, his balls, dumplings?) could also have been faked in, or maybe someone censored his penis by obscuring or smearing the photo in some way. --Fæ (talk) 15:14, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
http://www.newlookmedia.ru/IDNV/Fotoistoria/Stranic/1995_files/Media/DD3-8_2/DD3-8_2.jpg some sort of money belt I guess. - Alexis Jazz 15:15, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Good grief, what a thing to strap to your waist. BTW, I only came across this via my crop upscaling experiment, anyone interested in image processing on Commons can read about it at User:Fæ/upscale. --Fæ (talk) 15:17, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
It certainly looks like a money belt now that Alexis Jazz provided another link. But I would certainly not buy one that colour. Because of its controversial look, I think it would be better gone, especially if it's copyright status is being questioned. Looks like it was shot at the bar of a Bewley's Hotel either in Dublin or Manchester but I think they are now Clayton Hotels. Ww2censor (talk) 17:18, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

510 files in Category:JPEG files

I suppose I'm right to assume that the random collection of 510 files in Category:JPEG files doesn't make sense? Either we would have to add that category to all the millions of JPEG files on Commons, or remove it from most? Some, such as File:JPEG example JPG RIP 001.jpg, (examples of characteristics of JPEG files) rather belong to Category:JPEG file format. Gestumblindi (talk) 13:12, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

I agree. Let's remove the files from the category. Sebari – aka Srittau (talk) 14:33, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
I haven’t looked, but some may actually belong, if they could go into one of its children. (I can’t imagine any purpose for it other than as a container for those maintenance cats.) I expect the vast majority just to be inappropriately ‘keyworded‘, though, like most of the files that trickle through the JPG and JPEG disambiguation cats. Anything that actually illustrates the JPEG algorithm or its results belongs in JPEG file format.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 16:26, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Is a hidden category anyway. Completely meaningless. I'm dumping it. I do check the thumbnails before dumping, but nearly nothing belongs. File:Sunflower as JPEG.jpg maybe. Added to Category:JPEG file format, gets used for image compression articles around the web a lot. - Alexis Jazz 19:44, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
I created the category. I know it's meaningless, but it's technically correct and it cleared them out of Category:JPEG (which wasn't distinguished from Category:JPEG file format at that time). --ghouston (talk) 00:22, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
I don't know what the requirements were at the time, but it's better to have files being uncategorized than putting them in a meaningless category. But perhaps at the time it made sense. - Alexis Jazz 02:48, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
They were JPEG files in a JPEG category, it made sense to me. --ghouston (talk) 02:52, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
My goal was to try and lure people adding the "JPEG" category to use "JPEG files" instead, which is hidden and can be forgotten about. But it never really worked: they still preferred Category:JPEG. --ghouston (talk) 02:55, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Is this image uploadable?

Could someone advise me about this?

https://www.nps.gov/people/josiah-francis.htm

I have been to the British Museum's Web site but could not understand the permissions section, which seems complicated. Thank you. Deisenbe (talk) 13:43, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

yes, use the Template:PD-Art. in the upload wizard, it is "Faithful reproduction of a painting in the public domain because the artist died more than 70 years ago" if you had a British Museum url that would be good also. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 01:14, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

C-Span

Is this public domain?


Victorgrigas (talk) 14:33, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes, the CSPAN subtitles are below the threshold. It's worth noting the 3 stooges Zuckerberg has sitting behind him. They nod and try to look intelligent on every sentence, no matter how irrelevant the actual content. The comparison of Facebook's data misuse to the worthy #metoo campaign is an insult. Presumably they are all senior Facebook employees. Performance art, there's nothing real about it. --Fæ (talk) 15:05, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Do you speak Arabic? Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim - please check photo for import to commons

Maybe it is possible someone with knowledge in Arabic language would check this photo of Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim in Arabic wikipedia? Maybe it could import to commons? https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%81:FatimaRede5.jpg Thank you for check :-) --Tozina (talk) 19:08, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

@Tozina: No, it cannot be transferred to Wikimedia Commons, because it is a non-free file that has been uploaded to Arabic Wikipedia per WP:FAIR USE policy. You might know that Wikimedia Commons does not accept COM:FAIR USE media files. 4nn1l2 (talk) 22:02, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
Oh, what a shame! But thank you very much for reading and answering! :-) --Tozina (talk) 22:30, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

April 12

5,000 more birdsong mp3 files

Enjoy the soundscape of birds in the woods of Slovakia
Can you identify different Thrushes from their song?

We have just finished refreshing Category:Xeno-canto with new CC-BY licensed files from the open knowledge bird enthusiast's project [31]. The first uploads in 2013 (Pigsonthewing request) released around a tenth of the number of recordings we host today, plus we have the recent bonus of being able to upload mp3 files which are much easier for reusers to handle, and listen to on their mobile phones, compared to the ogg versions. As well as being a great reference resource, the recordings have location details from rainforests to city back gardens and the background soundscapes instantly transport you there.

Today's upload was requested by Aa77zz, a Wikipedian keen to use more of the files to populate bird species infoboxes.

This got me to thinking, the collection we now have is definitive, and an excellent example of how volunteers from different projects can create cutting edge audio content. Would anyone like to review how Wikidata has the bird species records populated with the audio files, and knock out a report on Wikipedia (infobox) usage in all languages? This may be useful to share with Wikipedians, and provide a hit list of bird articles missing available audio illustration. Thanks :-) --Fæ (talk) 08:38, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

copyright discussion
CC-BY.. Should we credit the birds? You know what I'm talking about. - Alexis Jazz 15:47, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Unlike the monkey, I don't think these birds handled the microphone themselves... --HyperGaruda (talk) 17:22, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Audio copyright can be more complicated than that of still images: in addition to the recording & production, there are separate composition, arrangement, and performance rights to consider. ;)—Odysseus1479 (talk) 17:37, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Composition? And who is the en:composer? Ruslik (talk) 20:14, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
That's of course en:Traditional folk music, too old for the composer to be known, and easily old enough to be in the Public Domain anyway. :-P --El Grafo (talk) 07:19, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Ruslik: God! - Alexis Jazz 21:59, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
HyperGaruda, that's kind of interesting. If I sneak a microphone in the dressing room of Adele (also a beautiful bird) and record her practicing a new unreleased song, do I get the copyright for that? - Alexis Jazz 21:59, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
You might get the copyright for the recording and production, but obviously not for the lyrics, composition or performance. --El Grafo (talk) 07:19, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
For me, not even cc-by
In this examples, is only the bird singing, press the button or not, do not matter, no one could have rights with nature work...
-- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 21:53, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
This discussion is not about copyright.
Fæ he should do that via Wikidata, obviously.
Today I had a meeting with the top reference of bird research in Brazil. And we will start a work by the end of May (unfortunately WMF didn't gave me the support to this project)
So this is also important to me.
Did you know about that: Commons:WikiProject Birds/lists?
As you can see by the first list, Wikidata seems to not have many articles with audio files. Jura1 could give a more light on this subject, as creator of the lists.
-- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 21:53, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
I've begun to categorise some of these files which includes creating subcategories for large batches of files from the same species or genus. If anyone else is interested in this job, I recommend using the {{AudioBiology}} template. This may or may not serve as background music. De728631 (talk) 14:21, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Appropriate renames

Is it appropriate to request a rename to removed a lengthy description from a File name? Example: "File:Hairpin Banksia, Banksia spinulosa, a member of the Proteaceae thatoccurs in Eastern Australia from the Cairns area to southern New South Wales on the coast an in the mountain ranges. (17080824066).jpg". The same generic text may be used in multiple file names. What would be the rename category? I understand the need for long names for bulk uploads from archived literature but I believe the example was the result of a Flickr upload.User-duck (talk) 21:42, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Copying old maps in pre-1923 books

All of a sudden, when I right click and copy, the image comes up in Microsoft paint as a negative. Any idea why and how to remedy? Regards Keith-264 (talk) 23:50, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

@Keith-264: try adding more words. - Alexis Jazz 04:05, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
I've copied lots of maps from Archive org book pdfs into Commons under the US pre-1923 copyright rule. but all of a sudden, when I highlight the map, right click and copy, then click "paste" in microsoft Paint, the image appears as a negative rather than a positive image like the pic on the book. Are there any aficionados reading this who can advise me on ways to get the positive image like in the old days? (Any better Alex?). Regards Keith-264 (talk) 14:54, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Did you try using another pdf reader to see if it works? A link to a sample pdf file would also be helpful. De728631 (talk) 15:01, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
The war history of the 4th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914-1919 map following p. 296 "The third Battle of Ypres, 1917 (1/4th Battalion)". Keith-264 (talk) 15:37, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
@Keith-264: I'm not sure how/where you are reading this book/doing this. When I go to https://archive.org/details/warhistoryof4thb00grim and look up page 296, right click and "open image in new tab" I just see the map at https://ia800201.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/7/items/warhistoryof4thb00grim/warhistoryof4thb00grim_jp2.zip&file=warhistoryof4thb00grim_jp2/warhistoryof4thb00grim_0349.jp2&scale=4&rotate=0. By changing scale to 0 and rotate to 90 I get https://ia800201.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/7/items/warhistoryof4thb00grim/warhistoryof4thb00grim_jp2.zip&file=warhistoryof4thb00grim_jp2/warhistoryof4thb00grim_0349.jp2&scale=0&rotate=90 which seems usable to me. (if I were planning to invade Ypres. I'm not.) - Alexis Jazz 18:56, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
I see, I have it downloaded on my laptop as a pdf. Keith-264 (talk) 20:39, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
@Keith-264: please provide links in the source for your uploads. - Alexis Jazz 23:38, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

April 13

The criteria to be a 'woman of the 20th century'

There is an administrator, Blackcat, who alleges people who were born in 1994 shouldn't be considered as people of the 20th century. And it's not only words. He removes 20th-century women of Canada from categories of female Canadians who were born in the 1990s, see an example.

Could someone explain the 'reasons' behind Blackcat's actions? It's strange that people who were born in the 20th century are not considered as people of the 20th century. --Russian Rocky (talk) 15:40, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

I don't know if any such criteria have been discussed before, but I would agree with Blackcat that you would have to live more than some six or ten years in a period that spans 100 years to be considered a contemporary person. De728631 (talk) 15:52, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Do you understand that we also have categories of famous children who died before their puberty? Corporate ethics is not good in this case, you should discuss it with the whole community.--Russian Rocky (talk) 15:56, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Why so aggressive? You've come here to discuss the matter and so was the first to reply. Of course there are categories of children, but these can be treated differently from adult categories if there is a need for it. By the way, why didn't you ask Blackcat about his edits in the first place? De728631 (talk) 17:11, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
I just said that it shouldn't be decided 'behind closed doors', but by the whole community. I'm sorry, if you interpretate it as aggression, but it was an appeal. Actually, Blackcat started this topic on my page. He considers the second category as a mistake and I have a different view. I think the community should decide this kind of question.--Russian Rocky (talk) 17:35, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Ok, that's alright then. Thanks for clarifying this. De728631 (talk) 17:43, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Why only "20" or only "21"? How about "20-21" ("20/21")? UPD: so, we have 3 sets: 1) "20", 2) "20-21", 3) "21". --Fractaler (talk) 16:35, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Fractaler, only Blackcat can answer to this question. There were both "20th" and "21st" categories in the above-mentioned example, but Blackcat removed the "20th" category. I assume, he doesn't consider those who were born in the 1990s as people of the 20th century.
I also don't know why there can't be both of them. As I said earlier, there are a lot of famous people who died before their puberty, see for example en:Category:Christian child saints. So the argument "live more than six or ten years..." is invalid.--Russian Rocky (talk) 17:11, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Every person alive in a particular period of time should be considered to be "of" that particular period of time. As for "women" vs "girls" or the more inclusive "females" for their status in their local communities, that can be debated.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:55, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
The time period is not a problem and can easily be agreed upon by consensus but we shouldn't descend into the territory of adulthood by standards of a local community. I think defining such diverse criteria and adhering to them would do more harm than good to categorisation. De728631 (talk) 17:11, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

August Ames was born in 1994. She was 7 in 2001 when the 21st century came. She became adult in 2012. We consider on Commons "Women" or "Men" people in their adulthood (equal or past 18). She cannot be a "20th century woman" because in the 20th century she was a girl. And she wasn't relevant or notable as girl- -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 19:34, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Rename category to Category:Females who were alive in the 20th century. (or something like that) Problem solved. Strictly speaking, August Ames wasn't an adult (woman) in the 20th century. The renaming suggesting is not a joke: if we don't do it we will endlessly squabble over who was or wasn't an adult or notable during some period. - Alexis Jazz 20:14, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: also Female people by century so to cut it short.
PS @Russian Rocky: , to answer to your question before, if a notable American boy has died before puberty, there's the category "Children of the United States", for example
These are arbitrary lines; the 20th century is just numbers, which is why there's talk of the w:Long nineteenth century (1789-1914) and w:Short twentieth century (1914-1991). I could argue that being 7 in 2001 means they've already been stamped with 20th century attitudes and understandings that no person born in 2001 would have, but that's putting too much on the arbitrary lines. Why is "Died after 1900 and born before 1982" a better category than "died after 1900 and born before 2001"? It's more confusing, and conveys no more value.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:08, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
I suppose, @Prosfilaes: , that the ratio of NNth-century men/women from XXXXX is adult male/female people (+18) thus leaving little or no room to discretionality or ambiguity. -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat)
Ratio is a false cognate here. A man born in Ireland in 1983 who left Ireland never to return in 2000 is still shaped and formed by 20th century Ireland, and is thus a 20th-century man from Ireland. Also Category:21st-century people of Canada does not have Category:21st-century children of Canada as a subcategory, only men of Canada and women of Canada, therefore inferring that children are not to be categorized in there seems unwarranted.--Prosfilaes (talk) 22:01, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

PS that apart @Prosfilaes: , I agree with the arbitrariety of the subdivisions by centuries or decades. Whereas under the chronological aspect the 1970s start with 1971 and ends in 1980 scholars and historian of history of Italy agree, for example, that the decade started in 1968 and ended in 1978 with the assassination of Aldo Moro, and that the 1980s starded since and ended in 1991....

@Blackcat: Who're "we consider on Commons"? Could you please give a link on Commons where it has been decided?
Adulthood can be defined biologically or legally. Biologically, an adult is a "human or other organism that has reached sexual maturity", sexual maturity is "the capability of an organism to reproduce". According to this list, the youngest confirmed mother was 5 years old.
I know your words "equal or past 18" indicate you are talking about the age of majority, but again, it doesn't mean "18 and above" by default. In Saudi Arabia, for instance, "age of majority is based on physical signs of puberty (bulugh), with age 15 as the upper limit."
If you like to be 'strict' in terms (it's difficult because of the above-mentioned reasons), why don't you create Category:20th-century females of Canada and Category:20th-century males of Canada?--Russian Rocky (talk) 22:19, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
But we are not in Saudi Arabia, period. -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 22:21, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Who're "we, period"? Talk for yourself please. If it's the servers location, it still doesn't mean we should categorize everything according to U.S. standards.--Russian Rocky (talk) 22:56, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
@Blackcat: Statistically, some of us probably ARE in Saudi Arabia.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:03, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Back to basics here: The purpose of these categories is to help users find images and subcategories they are looking for. If a person did nothing notable in the 20th Century, and we have no pictures of them in the 20th Century, then putting that person in Category:20th-century women of Canada serves no useful purpose. It might not be harmful, but it's certainly not useful. - Jmabel ! talk 23:41, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

There are flaws to it. In this case, people notable for only one event and people known only as child actors should have only one category according to you. Bear in mind that there could be no image of a person in his/her prime.--Russian Rocky (talk) 00:38, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
the typical punk behavior from blackflag. edit warring worth of a trout, and civility warning. continue with your childish category pseudo-intellectualism, the adults will be over at wikidata where they can query by DOB and sex without all the dramaz. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 02:51, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Russian Rocky@ According to me? I didn't say anything of the sort. Obviously, like anyone else, they should have multiple categories; e.g., presuming they went to university, they'd get an alumni category, just like anyone else. Year of birth, gender, where they are from, etc. As for century categories: part of what I said above was "and we have no pictures of them in the 20th Century". If someone was born in 1990, was only famous as a young child (the opposite of the case I was considering), obviously they belong in a "20th Century" category, and if we have 21st-century images of them, then it is reasonable to put them in a "21st Century" catalog. But in the much more common case where someone was born in 1990, did nothing notable before, say, 2010, and we don't have pictures of them as a young child, as I say, putting them in a 20th-century category may be harmless, but it isn't of use to anyone. - 15:42, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
It would be hard to maintain it this way, because every time when a 20th-century photo is removed (via copyvio or other problems), we should remove a "20th century" category as well. I tend to think the "20th century" and similar categories should be added as per a person's birth/death dates instead of his/her 'notable time' (that is too vague).--Russian Rocky (talk) 18:14, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Notability is disputable. Birth dates are easy. The categories on a category should not depend on its contents, which can vary as photos get added or deleted. They're a person from Canada from the 20th century; why is putting them in that category any more or less useful than putting any other 20th century Canadian in that category?--Prosfilaes (talk) 06:53, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Yes perhaps. But my point was not that. @Russian Rocky: places a 1994-born Canadian porn star in a category that suggests that she is alas WAS a woman of the 20th- century just because a Saudi Arabian bordering pedo- custom grants adulthood to a child at her first menstruation. You see by yourself that the whole argument is flawed. -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 08:50, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
@Blackcat: Again, why do you remove Category:20th-century women of Canada instead of adding Category:20th-century people of Canada? As it was mentioned earlier, there is no category as Category:20th-century children of Canada or Category:20th-century females of Canada in Category:20th-century people of Canada. Go ahead and create those subcategories.
Also, we are not here to discuss pedophilia in Saudi Arabia. This example just makes your definition of the age of majority ("equal or past 18") invalid, because it clearly varies from country to country. Take a note, there are also categories about former countries (Category:People of the Ottoman Empire, etc).--Russian Rocky (talk) 09:42, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
The plain fact is that you're wrong and you're trying to twist the debate using flawed arguments, since you cannot demonstrate 1. that a 1994 born is a "woman" in the 20th-century and that 2. was so notable as a six-year old child to deserve to be classified amongst "20th-century people". -- SERGIO (aka the Blackcat) 13:38, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
The plain fact is there is no consensus to say what is rightful in this case. You are not "we" to say for everyone, the whole community should decide how to categorize it. I wonder, what would you do if a user from Saudi Arabia started to add 5-7 year-old females who were born in the 1990s to "Category:20th-century women of Saudi Arabia"? The criteria shouldn't be defined by you in each case, but by consensus.
1. You ignore that the problem is not only "X century women/men of Y country" categories, but also your subsequent removals without adding at least "X century people of Y country" categories. In other words, you make search more inconvenient: If I need to find a person who is Canadian / was born in the 20th century, I open Category:People of Canada, then Category:20th-century people of Canada. There are only two categories by gender, so I suppose I can find it in one of them but that's a dead end.
Literally, each time I need to know the exact time of a person's adulthood before starting the search. That's ridiculous.
2. Again. In this case administrators have to decide constantly when each single person was notable (see ONEEVENT above). It's not a variant.
I think it would be better to refrain from "men/women" categories at all and rename them to "males/females", because of the people like you.--Russian Rocky (talk) 15:36, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
She was a woman of the 20th century because no matter how long she lived, that's where she started from. You can never escape your past. And again, because your way doesn't make it simpler or more useful.--Prosfilaes (talk) 03:26, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

April 14

A Picture of Dry Shampoo Cans is needed

Hello! If anybody has a can of dry shampoo or has a local store selling it, would you take a picture of the can/cans please then upload to Commons? No picture of that on Commons. Thanks in advance :) --Reem Al-Kashif (talk) 15:13, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello Reem. Would this do? Rehman 15:37, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello man. I think because of my connection, I can rarely view a picture of Flickr. It takes a super long time to load and most of the time it doesn't load in the end. If it is a picture of a dry shampoo can to be used here, then great. But how to import it to Commons?--Reem Al-Kashif (talk) 15:55, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
@Reem: Maybe this link would work for you? Although it is PD, I'm not too sure if this can be uploaded due to the picture being a close-up of a commercial product. Most part of the designs are PD-text IMO, but I'm not entirely sure about the rest. Perhaps someone else reading this can guide? Rehman 01:55, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

April 15

LyricWiki logo; new vs old

File:LyricWiki.png has two versions. The newer logo should have been uploaded as a separate file, not as a new version. However, quite a few pages link to the file, so I'm not sure if it is okay to revert. What should we do? FalsePaul (talk) 03:01, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

I think that you should leave it as is — it was re-uploaded long ago. You can also upload the old version as a separate file. Ruslik (talk) 18:19, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Previews loading slowly

Preview images on file description pages are currently loading quite slowly for me, though my Internet connection is otherwise fine and fast. A known current issue? Gestumblindi (talk) 13:45, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Hmmm, I thought it was my internet connection. Looks more like something wiki-specific then. --HyperGaruda (talk) 18:21, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Dutch translations

Hello, I was wondering if there were any pages that needed Dutch translation. If so, I would be happy to translate them! Please tell me if there are. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 14:37, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

@NeoMeesje: for example, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Commons%3AProject+scope&language=nl&action=page Incnis Mrsi (talk) 14:45, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Template:taken on (again)

@Robert Weemeyer: Do we have a clear policy about using Template:taken on? If not, can we form one? I'm really tired of continually getting notifications as various people do different things with this template, often reversing one another.

My understanding is that the category added by this template is intended as a flat category, and that it is pretty much always acceptable to use this template. I was not originally using it, but started doing so because people we adding it to my photos. Then (presumably other) people started removing it from my photos. Now a variant I've never seen before: keeping the template but preventing it from categorizing, presumably because the intersection category Category:United States photographs taken on 2016-07-17 was added to the the photo by someone else.

It seems to me that if we want categories like Category:United States photographs taken on 2016-07-17, we really ought to be adding country to Template:taken on as a parameter. "cat=no" seems to me like the worst of both worlds. But in any case: is there some sort of policy here? I'm more than willing to follow a consensus, but not happy about the file pages of my images becoming battlegrounds over trivia. - Jmabel ! talk 14:59, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Unlikely there is any kind of policy on its use, but considering it is a very widely used template, it should likely be locked down. I do like the idea of adding a country parameter, though. It should probably include an auto-detection feature so that non-existent country categories won't be red-linked, but will function if created in the future (I presume this is possible?). — Huntster (t @ c) 16:20, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

April 16

Image from The Project Gutenberg

Question: Is it correct to Upload to Commons an image from a book in The Project Gutenberg, like in this one: [32]?

Thank you. Greetings, GualdimG (talk) 13:38, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

@GualdimG: I believe so. Images from the original English version would also be welcome.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 13:55, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
In most of cases, yes. Here the images are by Gustave Doré, so no problem. Regards, Yann (talk) 13:56, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Ok, thank you! Saudações, GualdimG (talk) 14:04, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
You need to be careful; most Project Gutenberg files are in the public domain in the US, but they don't concern themselves with the source nation like Commons does.--Prosfilaes (talk) 08:54, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

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April 17

April 18

Wikidata Infoboxes disrupt sorting

Apologies if this has been brought up here in the past, but I regularly notice that the addition of Wikidata infoboxes in Commons disrupts sorting, see Category:Female economists (see under C, J and Y). It seems that adding a familyname to a Wikidata item helps to restore this. (Problem is that one can only choose family names from a list, and the correct names aren't always available.) So I guess having a family name in Wikidata is a prerequisite for adding Wikidata infoboxes to Commons? And then: who will repair already added items? Vysotsky (talk) 09:37, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

@Vysotsky: The infobox code auto-adds DEFAULTSORT if family name (P734) and given name (P735) are both defined; if not, then it doesn't have enough info to define a decent DEFAULTSORT, so it doesn't try to do so. You can add DEFAULTSORT outside of the infobox as usual (and you can set "defaultsort=no" as a parameter for the infobox to disable its auto-generated one if needed). These examples were new categories created by @NeverDoING; it shouldn't be an issue for adding the infobox to existing categories since they'll already have the sort keys, and I assume new categories will continue to be maintained/repaired as usual, just with a bit more auto-help from the infobox? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:02, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Sounds fine -in theory. But what I actually see is that sorting is sometimes disrupted in existing categories (when adding Wikidata infoboxes), and wrongly applied in new categories when a family name is missing in Wikidata. I see no coordinated action to improve these mistakes. Vysotsky (talk) 11:09, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
@Vysotsky: can you elaborate, please? The only one I'm aware of is when the infobox defines a new DEFAULTSORT that conflicts with another one, which ends up with the category being added to Category:Pages with DEFAULTSORT conflicts - those then either need to be resolved manually, or I could write some code to check through there every so often and add the "defaultsort=no" parameter to the infobox if that's what is causing the conflict. Other than that, I could create some new maintenance categories that are used for people categories where family or given names aren't on Wikidata, if that would be useful to editors here to look through. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:15, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
See this category. Brendan Nelson was correctly sorted under N, until the Wikidata infobox came along. And I could give hundreds of similar cases. (7 in that same Category!) Vysotsky (talk) 11:25, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the proposal to create a new maintenance category ("Categories with defaultsort ruined by Wikidata infobox"), but I think the existence of such a category should be avoided, not created and then left for others to clean up. Vysotsky (talk) 11:28, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
@Vysotsky: That one seems to have happened with this edit by @Bidgee: , which removed {{PeopleByName}} that was using local info to define the DEFAULTSORT. I've fixed it with this edit on Wikidata, and the infobox now sets the DEFAULTSORT. These are issues that shouldn't happen during the bot deployment of the infobox. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:35, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Does the same apply to the 9 other wrongly sorted categories within this category - 8 out of 9 with a Wikidata infobox? Vysotsky (talk) 11:37, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Looking through a few more, the answer seems to be 'yes'. There are others in that category where the infobox is correctly sorting them, e.g. Category:James Robert Dickson. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 11:42, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
But I see dozens of other wrongly sorted categories due to the wikidata infobox: Louw de Graaf was and should be under G, not under L in this category. Vysotsky (talk) 11:45, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
That's because NeverDoING removed DEFAULTSORT at the same time as adding {{Wikidata Infobox}}. Had they only added the infobox, there would have been no change to the sorting. --bjh21 (talk) 12:08, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
@Vysotsky: I quickly ran the bot code through that category (with manual approval of each edit), and it added the infobox to 6 more categories. [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43]. Please let me know if that caused any problems - as far as I can see it worked fine. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 13:35, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
@Mike Peel: Thanks. Looks good. Vysotsky (talk) 13:41, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Following up on my earlier comment, Category:Uses of Wikidata Infobox with no family name and Category:Uses of Wikidata Infobox with no given name now exist, and will be populated when I next update the main version from the sandbox, along with some DEFAULTSORT fixes described at Template_talk:Wikidata_Infobox#Q-values_leaking_into_DEFAULTSORT. I've also written the bot code to fix Wikidata infobox cases in Category:Pages with DEFAULTSORT conflicts, and will follow that up at Commons:Bots/Requests/Pi bot 1. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 22:35, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Conclusion (if I understand the matter correctly): when people add a Wikidata Infobox to an existing category, they should leave the DEFAULTSORT untouched. (And make sure sorting is OK if they create a new category.) Vysotsky (talk) 14:41, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Or make sure that there's sufficient info on Wikidata that the infobox can auto-generate the DEFAULTSORT correctly. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:44, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

I think it's worth having a list of the problems mentioned in this thread and what directly caused them:

Please update this list if new causes come to light. --bjh21 (talk) 12:33, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Sneak Peek: Importing local files to Commons with the extensions FileExporter and FileImporter

There are many files on local wikis that should be in Commons. But importing a file with all of its information, including its original uploader and complete history, is currently not easily possible. That’s why the Technical Wishes team from Wikimedia Germany is working on a feature that will allow importing files from local wikis to Commons while keeping all data complete and intact.

Our plan is to make this feature accessible for the first wikis within the next few weeks. We are still actively developing on it, but we wanted to show it to you know to make sure we are heading in the right direction.

How the feature will work

  1. A link “Import to Commons” will appear on local file pages for logged in users. This link leads to an import page on Commons.
  2. On the import page, the user gets a preview of the import. File title, templates, categories and other info can be edited.
  3. After the import, the file has a proper file page on Commons, including all information from the local file page plus info about all changes that were made during the import.

A more detailed description of the planned feature as well as testing instructions can be found on the page of the wish (Meta). Please tell us what you think!

Best, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 11:04, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Sidebar and other translations for Serbian

Could someone translate main sidebar items for sr i.e. sr-ec: "Welcome" → "Добро дошли" (Commons:Добро дошли), "Village pump" → "Трг" (Commons:Трг) and "Nominate for deletion" → "Номиновање за брисање" [or "Номинација за брисање"]. For example, in German "Village pump" is translated as "Forum für Fragen" or "Nominate for deletion" as "Löschung vorschlagen" so it is possible to have this important part of page that is displayed everywhere translated completely.

Nominate-for-deletion-form needs translation too: "Why should this file be deleted?" → "Зашто би ова датотека требало да се обрише?", "Preview:" → "Претпреглед:", "More information" → "Више информација"; "Proceed" → "Настави", "Cancel" → "Откажи"; "Proceed [Enter] in single-line text fields" → "Настави [Enter] у једноредним пољима за текст", "Close this dialogue [Esc]" → "Затвори овај дијалог [Esc]", "Expand to textarea" → "Прошири на подручје текста".

Longer text part:

Clicking "proceed" will
add the {{Delete}} template to the file description page
create the Deletion Request discussion page
add the discussion page to the daily log
notify the uploader with a message in their preferred language using your signature, which is your IP address if you are not logged-in.
These are the steps, which must be done for an ordinary deletion request.
Please be sure your request is in accordance with our deletion policy.

→

Клик на „Настави” ће
додати шаблон {{Delete}} на страницу описа датотеке
направити Deletion Request страницу за разговор
додати страницу за разговор на дневни дневник
обавестити отпремаоца поруком на његовом преферираном језику коришћењем вашег потписа, који је ваша IP адреса ако нисте пријављени.
Ово су кораци, који морају да се ураде за обични захтев за брисање.
Будите сигурни да је ваш захтев у складу с нашом политиком брисања.

Also, "Shortcut: COM:VP" in the top right corner of this (Commons:Village pump) page: "Пречица: COM:VP".

Thanks.

--Obsuser (talk) 13:30, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

April 19

Swat, Pakistan

There seems to be some confusion with Swat District in Pakistan:
1) In its category https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Swat_District it is said it's divided into two tehsils: Mardan tehsil and Swat tehsil. However, the wikipage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swat_District lists none of them, but seven others. Moreover, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mardan_tehsil is listed under Mardan District.
2) There is a subcategory https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Swat with no clear distinction from Swat District, while the wikipage does not mention any subdivision or populated place of this name within the Swat District.
Could someone with sufficient knowledge of that region please clarify this? JiriMatejicek (talk) 09:45, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

April 20

Number of files in categories

Is there a way to find out how many files are in a given category, including its sub-categories? JiriMatejicek (talk) 13:51, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Category:Photographs by Fritz Basch

Hi, anybody around who is willing to add all these files in one go the the categrory I created? Thank you for your time. :) Lotje (talk) 15:25, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

File:Perkonkrusta karogs.svg

A German court has fined somebody for wearing a Pērkonkrusts tattoo. Since the Latvian party was anti-Semitic, I think that Category:Flags with non-Nazi swastikas should be changed to Category:Flags with swastikas. --84.61.221.211 16:04, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

According to w:Pērkonkrusts, it was an anti-Semitic, fascist party that arose in 1933 (ten years after Hitler's party) and was initially mildly opposed to the German Nazi party. I'm not sure where those fine lines should be cut.--Prosfilaes (talk) 22:31, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
I added {{Swastika}} to the file page. That way there is at least a disclaimer not to use this image were it might become a legal problem. De728631 (talk) 00:08, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Adding a Picture

How do I add a picture? I already asked about this in Wikipedia, and it said that I had to go to Wikimedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UnbeatableFlame154 (talk • contribs) 03:00, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

@UnbeatableFlame154: Your question was already answered at w:en:Wikipedia:Teahouse#Adding a Picture by Nick Moyes. You can search for existing pictures here (we have many) or upload a new file. However, be aware of Commons:Licensing. We don't accept fair use images for example. - Alexis Jazz 03:11, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

reversed images from negatives

Photograph of Andrew Carnegie, 1910?, showing both mirror and forward text in the margins.

I just noticed File:Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith.jpg, a picture of two famous barrel busters from the Prohibition Era, is a reversed image (see the labels on the booze bottles). So I uploaded a 'reversed ' version here, which is technically the 'correct' version. So I was thinking, 1): How big of an issue is this from Library of Congress images? I know many (most?) of the photographs are generated from negatives, but in the absence of text in a photograph, it's hard to be sure. And 2): is there a best-practice method for denoting the original and reverse of an image, or suggesting it should be flipped? Like maybe a template that says "this photograph is backwards, consider using this other one". --Animalparty (talk) 01:36, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

That's a good question. I know it happens, and not just old negatives, many of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photographs got flipped by rehosting sites, no idea why. If any of the collections at User:Fæ/LOC contain flipped images I would love to know, as these are direct from the library archives. The ones with writing directly on the negative may be misleading, it's possible that when the positive is created correctly, the writing should be backwards. If there are lots, I could add a lossless jpeg flip request task to Faebot, using similar methods to User:Fæ/upscale with a maintenance category. --Fæ (talk) 01:49, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
I don’t know about photographic film, but when I worked with negative litho film for offset printing, it was quite common for assembly technicians to scratch notes into the margins. These would always be reversed WRT the image on the film, because the emulsion is on the side that contacts the plate during exposure. Large-format photographic negs for contact printing are probably the same, scratchable only on the reverse side. Of course it would be possible for someone to use mirror-writing so as to match the image in orientation.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 04:10, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

It was already discussed on this same venue not a long time ago. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 07:55, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

A note on Flickr's acquisition by SmugHub

[44]

I came by way of hearing of this on a video game-related forum I'm at, and in that, one of the employees at SmugHub (a long time user of this forum, and SmugHub's CEO also used to participate on it as he used to be into video games) assuring that they would be improving Flickr's service as photography fans. I asked this user about CC licenses and how important that is to Wikipedia and he assured they want to keep and improve CC support. (I'm pretty confident on whom these people say they are for this forum). Link to the thread in question [45]. --Masem (talk) 13:31, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Verizon was pretty keen to get rid of Flickr. Who knows what it's financial position is, but it's possible SmugHub didn't have to pay that much to take it off Verizon's hands. No doubt SmugHub will see what it can try to do, but I hope that Flickr isn't losing so much money that it becomes unsustainable. Jheald (talk) 18:04, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
It's "SmugMug" ... odd name either way. It's fortunate somebody was willing to take it off Verizon's hands, the corporate thing to do would be to shut it down. --ghouston (talk) 23:07, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Commons categories with no image link on Wikidata

I've just created Category:Uses of Wikidata Infobox with no image, which tracks categories here that use {{Wikidata Infobox}} that do not have image (P18) set on Wikidata. There are around a thousand cases so far, with more to come. It's low-hanging fruit to add images to Wikidata in those cases, but it's not something that can easily be done by a bot since choosing the best image to use isn't something that can be automated. If this interests you, then happy editing! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:10, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

What about organisations and municipalities that do have a logo image (P154) or coat of arms image (P94)? Would they still need a P18 image? De728631 (talk) 23:44, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
@De728631: Ideally, yes - it's great to have the logos and coats of arms, but images help illustrate the organisation/area. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:51, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Alright. I've now added a few images but most categories I've come across so far are really small with just a handful of images in them. Many of them have only just a single image, so I'm questioning the use of images in the infoboxes there. It would only repeat what can readily be seen in the category page anyway. An illustrated infobox is great for larger categories but I don't think every category with an infobox needs to have an image in the box. Another option would be an infobox parameter to hide the image that has been added to Wikidata. That way there would at least be a representative image in the Wikidata set. De728631 (talk) 00:03, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
Useless in Commons, but other projects may have templates that retrieve the Wikidata images. In some cases, the Commons category only has files that are related to the topic and not of the topic itself, like the buildings where a person lived. --ghouston (talk) 02:32, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
I agree with User:Ghouston, we might have dozens of pictures on Commons related to the subject but not depicting the subject, which is required by image (P18) property. For example: Category:Willi Ahrem or Category:Guillaume Berggren. That said I fi=und bunch of items where I added images. --Jarekt (talk) 03:02, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

April 21

Submission Guidelines

I have recently submitted and article for review on a woman who has had a remarkable life. I met her when writing an article for United Religions Initiative on "Outstanding Women".

This woman move to the US from India and went on to get several degrees, and started working in Biotech filed for cancer research. She and her husband then started a company that is listed in medical journals for cancer research as well.

In addition to that she has started a philanthropic endeavor to help under-privileged women in children in India. She has written 15 books on personal empowerment and finding personal peace, and she gives lectures and workshops all over the world.

My problem? Her article has been declined, because she hasn't had enough written ABOUT her. She and her husband help others with no desire for accolades or fame...and she can't even be recognized here. I find that heartbreaking.

I'm just venting...but seriously, there should be some thought about people like this...who never get recognized until they DIE! — Preceding unsigned comment added by ResearcherRobyn (talk • contribs) 00:05, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

  • This is Wikimedia Commons. We don't have articles (unless you count help pages, policy pages, etc.). If the article was actually on this site, then the deletion was not for the reasons you state but simply because we don't host articles.
  • I'm guessing your issues are about the English-language Wikipedia; if it is about something else, then the next comment may not apply.
  • Wikipedia is a "tertiary source". By its nature, it is not the place where one publishes about things that are not already at least reasonably extensively documented; further, in general they should be reasonably extensively documented by secondary sources. Primary sources can sometimes be cited for specific facts or quotations, but not as the general basis for the article. Wikipedia articles are intended to be a good summary/introductory overview of that existing literature, which has already been published in places that would generally qualify as reliable sources.
  • So, if you want to be the first to write about something, Wikipedia is not where you write it, just like if you want to write about 14th-century architecture you don't put it in the newspaper, or if you want to write about popular music, you don't submit to the telephone book. It doesn't mean these things are unimportant. It just means you are in the wrong venue. - Jmabel ! talk 02:33, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Collecting the text in Basque and Spanish of the captions of images in Commons

Hi, I am a researcher on machine translation (MT) and Natural Language processing. In order to develop some experiments to create an MT systems to translate captions of images in Commons from Spanish to Basque and from Basque to Spanish. For that, I need to collect all the image captions in Basque and/or in Spanish available in Wikimedia Commons.

As well to improve translation quality, I would like to collect at the same time the Commons' categories and the Wikipedia pages (urls) where the images are used. If successful, this experiment could create new tools to help to supply Commons content in more languages.

Please, could anyone help me to find the simplest automatic way to get that information? How could I know which are the images in Commons with captions in Basque and/or in Spanish?

  • Should I have to download the whole 23.1 GB file (commonswiki-20180401-image.sql.gz 2018-04-02 14:41:49)including Metadata on current version of uploaded media/files?
  • Is there any other way to get a list of the images in Commons? Using categories?

Thanks, Ksarasola (talk) 15:41, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

@Ksarasola: You could start with Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Es and Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Eu.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:14, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
You may use petscan: to get a list of files with both these templates − see eg petscan:4187554. This will likely have some false positives (since these templates may be used for other things than the captions).
From there the MediaWiki API will be able to return categories and globalusage. Not sure whether you can do the intersection part (files with both languages) using the API.
Jean-Fred (talk) 20:59, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks to both of you,@Jeff G.: and @Jean-Frédéric: I am very happy, now thanks to your advices I have a list with 6893 images with captions in Spanish and Basque, a list with 19.971 images with caption in Basque but not in Spanish, and more than one million images with captions in Spanish but not in Basque. If I need more sentences I could include the sentences used in transclusions and Commons categories. Thanks! Ksarasola (talk) 16:05, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
@Ksarasola: You're welcome, but please note that: descriptions here are not usually full sentences; and captions accompany usages on projects such as Basque and Spanish Wikipedia, and also are not usually full sentences and may only use the family name if on a biography.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 17:13, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks again @Jeff G.: Of course The size of text I am collecting is not enough to train an automatic translator. I would use those translation to complete a previously built big parallel corpus with ~30 millions words in Spanish and Basque. Will a system trained with the big corpus "plus the 6.893 bilingual captions" be better to translate image captions in Commons? That is my experiment! Ksarasola (talk) 07:06, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Ksarasola, using the internal search I get over 39000 files with both templates: file: hastemplate:es hastemplate:eu, but I didn't check for reliability. For example, in File:Franzensfeste, Sperre. (BildID 15580091).jpg and apparently all other files of this category (incl. subcats) the templates are used für notes. Search links for template {{Es}} without {{Eu}}: file: hastemplate:es -hastemplate:eu, viceversa: file: hastemplate:eu -hastemplate:es. — Speravir – 23:17, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks @Speravir: . You are right we get over 39000 files with both templates: file: hastemplate:es hastemplate:eu but 32.000 of them are images of the First World War, and all of them have the same note (not a description) in Basque ("Lehen Mundu Gerra", that means "First World War"). I discarded those images with including two "Negative Categories" (Images uploaded by Fæ and PD-old-80-1923) in the query. Other minor negative categories with only notes in Basque are "Persepolis" and "WorldPride Madrid 2017 Parade". So my final query is PSID is 4220815 and now I get 6.876 results. Ksarasola (talk) 07:06, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
There is another template {{Multilingual description}} (more often used with the redirect {{Mld}}) which also is used sometimes. With the following quite complex search query I found 29 uses in file namespace: file: hastemplate:"multilingual description" insource:es insource:eu insource:/(\| *es *=.+\| *eu *=)|(\| *eu *=.+\| *es *=)/. — Speravir – 23:49, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

April 22

Safed Baradari, Lucknow

Residents of Lucknow are requested to please click the shots of above monuments at gtheir ease and upload to Commons. ThanksAshish Bhatnagar  Talk  14:17, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Broken artwork template

Does anybody have an idea why Category:Images without source is suddenly flooded with 10.000s of files? E.g. File:Quai des Orfèvres et pont Saint-Michel by Jean-Baptiste Corot (Carnavalet P 1378) 02.jpg. Looks like something broke in the artwork template, but I can't find it. Jcb (talk) 17:10, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Jcb, That was because of Template:Category definition: Object. It was always almost identical to {{Artwork}} with the only difference being existence of "image" parameter and turned off "strict" flag which disables the template that adds Category:Images without source. I added "image" parameter to {{Artwork}} and turned off "strict" flag in Category namespace where Template:Category definition: Object is used, so that I could merge that template with {{Artwork}}. However as user:Zolo pointed out, in here there was still an issue that categories using Template:Category definition: Object are often transcluded, as if they were templates, which turned the "strict" flag back off. It is fixed now. --Jarekt (talk) 17:53, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick fix! Jcb (talk) 19:34, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

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18:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Lua version of {{Artwork}} is now live

I just deployed Lua version of {{Artwork}} template. Like {{Creator}} and {{Institution}} templates before, the new {{Artwork}} template is able to pull a lot of artwork information from Wikidata if wikidata parameter is provided; however, values stored on Commons take precedent. Templates without wikidata parameter should remain unchanged. Please report any issues at Template talk:Artwork. --Jarekt (talk) 13:11, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks. Could you please show an example where this works? Regards, Yann (talk) 13:54, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
This is very cool - nice work! Here's an example for Mona Lisa, just providing the Wikidata ID:
Village pump/Archive/2018/04
Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa  wikidata:Q12418 reasonator:Q12418 q:en:Mona Lisa
Artist
Leonardo da Vinci  (1452–1519)  wikidata:Q762 s:en:Author:Leonardo da Vinci q:en:Leonardo da Vinci
 
Leonardo da Vinci
Alternative names
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, Leonardo
Description Italian painter, engineer, astronomer, philosopher, anatomist and mathematician
Date of birth/death 15 April 1452 / 1452 Edit this at Wikidata 2 May 1519 / 1519 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Anchiano Amboise
Work period from 1466 until 1519
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1466-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1519-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Florence (1466–1482), Milan (1483–1499), Mantua (1499), Venice (1500), Florence (1500–1506), Milan (1506–1513), Florence (1507–1508), Rome (1513–1516), Amboise (1513–1518)
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q762
 Edit this at Wikidata
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Japanese:
『モナ・リザ Edit this at Wikidata』

Mona Lisa
title QS:P1476,ja:"モナ・リザ Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lja,"モナ・リザ Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Les,"La Gioconda"
label QS:Lszl,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lis,"Móna Lísa"
label QS:Lms,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Len-gb,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lps,"مونالیزا"
label QS:Ltr,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lur,"مونا لیزہ"
label QS:Lsk,"Mona Líza"
label QS:Luk,"Мона Ліза"
label QS:Lzh-cn,"蒙娜丽莎"
label QS:Luz,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Las,"মনালিছা"
label QS:Lmk,"Мона Лиза"
label QS:Lbs,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lfr,"La Joconde"
label QS:Lhr,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lcbk-zam,"Monalisa"
label QS:Lmr,"मोनालिसा"
label QS:Lglk,"ژؤکؤند"
label QS:Lor,"ମୋନା ଲିସା"
label QS:Lsr,"Мона Лиза"
label QS:Lzu,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Llb,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lnb,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lsu,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lhif,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lgor,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lar,"موناليزا"
label QS:Lbr,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lmy,"မိုနာလီဆာ"
label QS:Lyue,"蒙娜麗莎"
label QS:Last,"La Gioconda"
label QS:Lca,"La Gioconda"
label QS:Lba,"Мона Лиза"
label QS:Lcy,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lsq,"Mona Liza"
label QS:Lfa,"مونالیزا"
label QS:Lzh,"蒙娜丽莎"
label QS:Lfy,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lka,"მონა ლიზა"
label QS:Larz,"موناليزا"
label QS:Lsi,"මොනාලිසා"
label QS:Lszy,"Mong-na-li-sa"
label QS:Lhi,"मॉना लिसा"
label QS:Lwuu,"蒙娜丽莎"
label QS:Lfi,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lhyw,"Լիզա տէլ Ճոքոնտօ"
label QS:Len-ca,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lta,"மோனா லிசா"
label QS:Lbe-tarask,"Мона Ліза"
label QS:Lscn,"Gioconda"
label QS:Lth,"โมนาลิซา"
label QS:Lsh,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lrue,"Мона Ліза"
label QS:Lvec,"Ła Joconda"
label QS:Lrki,"မိုနာလီဆာ"
label QS:Lco,"Giuconda"
label QS:Lbcl,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lpih,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lbg,"Мона Лиза"
label QS:Lro,"Gioconda"
label QS:Lzh-hk,"蒙娜麗莎"
label QS:Lso,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lsv,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lig,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lzh-hant,"蒙娜麗莎"
label QS:Llo,"ລາໂຊກົງ"
label QS:Lko,"모나리자"
label QS:Lfo,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Leo,"La Gioconda"
label QS:Lbn,"মোনা লিসা"
label QS:Ljv,"Monalisa"
label QS:Lcv,"Мона Лиза"
label QS:Lzh-my,"蒙娜丽莎"
label QS:Lyi,"מאנא ליסע"
label QS:Lvi,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Llv,"Mona Liza"
label QS:Lilo,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lpt-br,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lsco,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lmn,"Мона Лиза"
label QS:Lnn,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lkn,"ಮೋನ ಲೀಸ"
label QS:Lckb,"مۆنالیزا"
label QS:Len,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lhu,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lam,"ሞና ሊዛ"
label QS:Leu,"Gioconda"
label QS:Lzh-hans,"蒙娜丽莎"
label QS:Lru,"Мона Лиза"
label QS:Lla,"Iucunda"
label QS:Lde,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lda,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lbe,"Мона Ліза"
label QS:Lfrr,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lhy,"Մոնա Լիզա"
label QS:Lku,"Mona Lîza"
label QS:Lne,"मोना लिजा"
label QS:Lga,"An Mona Lisa"
label QS:Laz,"Mona Liza"
label QS:Lkab,"Monna Liza"
label QS:Lgcr,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lsw,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lhe,"מונה ליזה"
label QS:Ltt,"Мона Лиза"
label QS:Lid,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lkm,"ម៉ូណាលីសា"
label QS:Lte,"మోనాలిసా"
label QS:Lse,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lkaa,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Loc,"La Joconda"
label QS:Lkk,"Мона Лиза"
label QS:Lsr-ec,"Мона Лиза"
label QS:Lit,"La Gioconda"
label QS:Lksh,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lcs,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lnov,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Let,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lzh-tw,"蒙娜麗莎"
label QS:Lzh-mo,"蒙娜麗莎"
label QS:Laf,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lbo,"མོ་ན་ལི་ས།"
label QS:Lsr-el,"Mona Liza"
label QS:Lpa,"ਮੋਨਾ ਲੀਜ਼ਾ"
label QS:Lpt,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lmt,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lzh-sg,"蒙娜丽莎"
label QS:Lbjn,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Llt,"Mona Liza"
label QS:Lsl,"Mona Liza"
label QS:Ltl,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lpnb,"مونا لیزا"
label QS:Lwar,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lpl,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lml,"മോണാലിസ"
label QS:Lnl,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lli,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lsd,"مونا ليزا"
label QS:Lnan,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lgl,"Mona Lisa"
label QS:Lsat,"ᱢᱚᱱᱟᱞᱤᱥᱟ"
label QS:Lel,"Μόνα Λίζα"
label QS:Lmai,"मोना लिजा"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Lisa del Giocondo Edit this at Wikidata
Date between circa 1503 and circa 1506
date QS:P,+1503-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1503-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1506-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on poplar panel Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 77 cm (30.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 53 cm (20.8 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+77U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+53U174728
institution QS:P195,Q19675
Current location

Department of Paintings of the Louvre

Salle des États
Accession number
INV 779 and MR 316 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre) Edit this at Wikidata
Object location
0° 00′ 00″ N, 0° 00′ 00″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapinfo
Place of creation Florence Edit this at Wikidata
Object history
Exhibition history
References
Authority file
Other versions
  • image 
    image Edit this at Wikidata
  • image 
    image Edit this at Wikidata
  • image with frame 
    image with frame Edit this at Wikidata
Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 14:10, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Yann, my main concern at this stage is to make sure that images using Artwork template do not show any errors, so a roll out where nobody notices any change would be great. In case of images with Wikidata item ID, you should see changes. Just pick any image from Category:Artworks with Wikidata item. You should see, artist, title and wikidata link in the top row and image of the artwork on the right. The image is similar to what {{Category definition: Object}} uses and it should help verifying that we link to the correct wikidata item. Also fields not filled by the template will be filled based on Wikidata, although, custom made templates might still be better. --Jarekt (talk) 14:51, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
@Jarekt: Amazing! For those of us who work with GLAM initiatives --and have to go through the pain of uploading as different steps on Commons and Wikidata-- this is really cool. GiFontenelle and I are about to make an upload of 226 paintings from Museu Paulista in the context of a GLAM initiative with this museum. We normally use Pattypan or GLAMpipe for uploads to the Commons, and QS for data. What would be the best strategy to make this upload and take advantage of this new deployment? Thanks. --Joalpe (talk) 17:09, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
I did not think that far ahead. If you already create Wikidata items for the objects, than you do not have to add fields which are pulled from Wikidata. I am not familiar with the Pattypan or GLAMpipe, (I know they exist but did not used them yet). I mostly work with d:Help:QuickStatements for the metadata uploads. I imagine that some GLAM upload protocols might change to take advantage of this. --Jarekt (talk) 17:26, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, How long does it take to update a category when the information comes from Wikidata? I added some information to Wikidata to fix these issues Category:Artworks with Wikidata item without image and Category:Creator templates with Wikidata link: item missing linkback, but the categories didn't change even after several purges. Regards, Yann (talk) 07:05, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Yann As I reported in Phabricator:T173339 Changes on Wikidata do not trigger page removal from tracking category on Commons. While working with subcategories of Category:Wikidata related maintenance, I always keep AutoWikiBrowser handy. To refresh a category you just need to add an empty line to every page and save. The edit does not show up in the edit history, but the page is permanently refreshed. Purge does not fix those issues. --Jarekt (talk) 12:26, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Sorry, that means it's not usable yet. Considering how Artwork is a core template for Commons, in use on 1,826,398 images, of which at least 360,000 are my uses, it would have been sensible to do some testing and gain a consensus on the prerequisite criteria for turning Artwork into a Lua + Wikidata significant dependency and risk for Wikimedia Commons.
At the current time, especially with this bug, I would have voted against.  Oppose, if I had a voice in this, which apparently, I do not. --Fæ (talk) 13:19, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Fæ, as far as I understand, the old behaviour still works. There are things we can't test without starting the implementation. So, we should wait before a mass deployment, but this should not prevent working on it. Regards, Yann (talk) 13:28, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
A test would have been as simple as deploying on {{Artwork-lua}} for 1,000 images rather than the main template on 1.8m images. A fix to T173339 would be as simple as creating a bot to assist users with nop refreshes, automatically.
Breaking stuff that work perfectly well, is not improving Wikimedia Commons. It is called breaking Wikimedia Commons and being too lazy or chaotic to be bothered with testing or gaining a consensus for major changes. --Fæ (talk) 13:36, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
I understand that you propose another way to test thing, which is fine. But saying that Jarekt's work breaks Commons is just false, and rethoric. Nothing is broken. Regards, Yann (talk) 14:08, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
(edit conflict) Fæ, if you feel strongly about Phabricator:T173339 "bug" than please leave comment on the phabricator page. I considered it more of a "feature" than "bug" but some developers at Wikimania thought that it might be something that should be fixed eventually. The maintenance categories which are affected were added by User:Multichill a year ago, and I just recreated them in Lua. They affect only people who work on updating Wikdata based on Commons metadata, so if you are affected than just do not work on that task or use the workaround of applying "touch" operation to the pages you want to work on. --Jarekt (talk) 14:09, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
The issue is that you have instantly gone live on a template affecting 1.8m images. Where is your consensus or test strategy? What risks did you identify in advance and plan for? Making major changes then reacting to bugs is not a strategy. Neither is shifting the problem to other volunteers who point this out. "If you are affected then [go away and fix if for me for free, it's not my problem]" is not working collegiately.
As we have seen in this discussion, by rolling this out on Artwork and showing super duper examples, we are ramping up GLAM expectations that this is an improvement to their objective of donating images to Commons. However there is literally zero user friendly infrastructure to support a serious sized donation, the best workflow is to go ahead and use a tool like GWT to upload without worrying about Wikidata at all, and hope to do this later through partial housekeeping as appropriate. At this time a workflow that pushes their datasets to Wikidata will be complex, probably need good programming skills, and there are a series of issues around mapping object, person, category and so on, to existing Wikidata structures that would make this an arduous project rather than something done over a weekend. --Fæ (talk) 14:41, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Fæ, I am not sure what gave you the idea that anybody "instantly gone live" on this template. Module:Artwork/sandbox went through about 60 iterations with about half based on testing on actual images. Testing is usually done by picking an interesting image and changing {{Artwork}} to {{Artwork/sandbox}} and using preview (without saving) to see the output of the new code. As for the charge of "ramping up GLAM expectations that this is an improvement to their objective", I thought that simplifying the way to use Commons is the point, so people do not have to do silly stuff like in this file to pull metadata from Wikidata. So now you have an option to either set up {{Artwork}} the way it worked for years and still works just fine, or to upload metadata to Wikidata and pull most of it from there. By the way, Lua version of {{Artwork}} was being discussed for over 3 years at Phabricator:T89600 and User:Zolo started to work on it about the same time. --Jarekt (talk) 17:10, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Doing stuff is not an evidence of consensus. The module history shows two people edited it, and T89600 is on Phabricator, not this project, and has exactly one meaningful comment from someone that was not you.
No doubt you made many edits, but the rest of us remain in the dark and nobody else appears to have contributed any ideas for how to test this before going live.
This was not the result of collegiate work and the most engaging discussion in this process appears to happening post-release. If you make no attempt to gain a consensus in the first place, please do not feel disappointed when someone points out that you do not have consensus for the changes you made. --Fæ (talk) 19:29, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
@Fæ: I'm confused. Is there anything that worked before and doesn't work now? If so, what? If not, why do you care if a different method of doing things is now also possible? - Jmabel ! talk 02:41, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
 Comment Working on Category:Artworks with Wikidata item without image, I have noticed that many items have the wrong P31 entry, i.e. d:Q20185642. This is a tea pot, not a painting. Also the date, which is an essential data, is also missing (would it be possible to make a list, or to fix it with a bot?). Regards, Yann (talk) 08:01, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Most "bot" jobs on Wikidata are done using d:Help:QuickStatements. A list creation is more tricky, maybe petscan or quarry? I also sometimes use page scraping with AWB (example) or in special cases Special:LinkSearch. --Jarekt (talk) 16:15, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Got pinged, but I'm traveling so I'll keep it brief: Good job Jarek, thanks for the conversion and I'm sure any bugs will be fixed quickly.
Category:Artworks with Wikidata item without image have been around long before the conversion. Number of items doesn't seem to have changed a lot. A lot of the none paintings in there (probably all) are from the MET. Their old (scr)api returned anything painted when you asked for all paintings, so painted pots, painted furniture, etc. Still on my list to figure out a way to clean that out. Will do that at one point. This is mainly a category to feed tools. Currently the best suggestions are on User:Multichill/Same image without Wikidata/Category match, User:Multichill/Same image without Wikidata/Wikidata creator, institution and inventory number match (mostly done) and on Wikidata we still have a ton of suggestions at d:Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Image suggestions/Creator, institution and inventory number match. Help with these lists is appreciated and much more rewarding than trying to clean out that category. Multichill (talk) 08:34, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Artwork and creator

@Jarekt and Multichill:
Is there a maintenance category to track Creators that need to be as "creator" frow wikidata P170 ? like here "Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner", of if you prefer "Creator red links" ? --Hsarrazin (talk) 08:20, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
@Hsarrazin: With old template code: No. Now we have LUA, we could probably add a category for that. Approach would probably a regex to see if the field has a creator template and check if it exists or something like that. Although checking if a page exists is an expensive operation so we should be careful with that. Did you already have a look at Special:WantedPages. That probably covers your need and sure seems to be in need of some attention. Multichill (talk) 08:58, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
@Multichill: my question was about the new lua template, because the first 3 artworks I checked in Category:Artworks_with_Wikidata_item did have a red creator link, caused by the lua code ;) --Hsarrazin (talk) 09:05, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
@Hsarrazin: do you have one or more examples? Debugging without them is nearly impossible. Multichill (talk) 09:12, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
@Multichill: Of course : gave it in my original question File:Italian_Lake_Scene_with_Villa_(from_Cropsey_Album)_MET_194293.jpg which lacks Creator:Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner ;) --Hsarrazin (talk) 09:16, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
Your original example has nothing to do with the LUA code. If you look at the source you'll notice the {{Creator:Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner}}. That has been a red link since it was uploaded. So saying that this is caused by LUA code is incorrect, this is caused by the usage of a non-existent {{Creator}}. Multichill (talk) 09:23, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
@Multichill: ah ! sorry ! did not check this one. The first 2 I checked, but I created the creator, soo...
I will come back to you when I find another one :) --Hsarrazin (talk) 09:52, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
@Jarekt and Multichill: Why does Creator:Florence Helena McGillivray still have Category:Creator templates with non-matching home categories? Thanks, Yann (talk) 07:56, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
see also Creator:Frank_Michler_Chapman, Creator:A._G._Dew-Smith...--Hsarrazin (talk) 08:04, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
@Yann and Hsarrazin: :
English: Creator pages with Homecat=NAME1 field different from {{Creator:NAME2}}.
Just something you could improve a bit when you have really nothing else to do. The category helped me in the past when I made mistakes and suddenly my new creator template was in it. Multichill (talk) 08:58, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
OK, so that's because the name of the category does not match the name of the creator. I guessed it was something like that, but there are also mismatching cats from wikidata (I just fixed one). Thanks for the answer :) --Hsarrazin (talk) 09:05, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
Maybe the description on the category can be improved? Multichill (talk) 09:12, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
@Multichill: Thanks for answering quickly. I really don't understand the need to have exactly the same name for the creator and the category. Take the case of en:Frank Chapman. We don't need a creator page for en:Frank Chapman (baseball) (1861–1937) and Sir en:Frank Chapman (businessman) (born 1953), who probably didn't create anything which could be uploaded here. But we need a category for them. So if anything, I would rename the English article and the category to match the Creator. Regards, Yann (talk) 09:11, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
That's because there is no such need. This is a hidden maintenance category to find mistakes. I don't think it will ever be empty. Please try to approach this in a pragmatic way, not in a binary (true/false) way. Multichill (talk) 09:15, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
The Category:Creator templates with non-matching home categories had two purposes: to find inconsistent names, as there is usually no good reason for having those names different, but it was also handy because all the creator templates not in that category have the same names for creator templates and their home categories, so if you need for example a list of all the creator templates and their homecats you do not have to scrape 35k templates only 1.5k in Category:Creator templates with non-matching home categories. --Jarekt (talk) 17:21, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

{{Information}} and Creator

Multichill mentioned Special:WantedPages as a way of finding red-link creator templates. Looking at Special:WantedPages #4 is Creator:Frank Vincentz‏‎ with 113k links and no transclusions. Tracking who is linking to that template 113k times, it seems like files like File:E alfredii ies.jpg with no visible links. The culpit seems to be Template:Information/author processing created in 2012 by User:Rd232. The template called by {{Information}} adds Category:Author matching Creator template, Creator template not used to files where name in the author field matches existing creator template. We had something similar in {{Artwork}} and {{Photograph}} templates. The problem is that {{#ifexist:...}} is an expensive code and for last 6 years all files using {{Information}} do that check. The purpose of the check is to find candidates for adding Creator templates, but the process can not be done by bot (too many people have the same names) and it does not seems like anybody is working on emptying Category:Author matching Creator template, Creator template not used. I think we should remove it. Any objections? --Jarekt (talk) 17:48, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

@Jarekt: Let's get rid of it. Multichill (talk) 10:36, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
✓ Done --Jarekt (talk) 14:42, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Recent Wikimedia Conference

Does anyone plan to write up the things relevant to Commons that came up at the recent Wikimedia Conference? Preferably, this would be someone who attended the Commons meetup, which I missed because the room was changed & I didn't know.

I can probably add useful information about the Wikidata+Commons aspects that came up, but not a lot else.

Very short version of the Wikidata+Commons impacts:

  1. What they are doing looks very good, and I think we few Commoners there were able to give them some good feedback.
  2. The first impact we will see is much better support for multilingual short descriptions.
  3. Almost everything we are currently doing on Commons should continue to work as they roll this out. In particular, if an existing image/file has no extractable Wikidata, that's fine, everything for that image can stay exactly as it is. Of course we'd eventually like to get more and more into the Wikidata system, but from the point of view of content the planned features should be 100% backward compatible.
    • In particular, the million or more images that don't have {{Information}} or some comparable template will simply be unaffected.
  4. The Upload Wizard will probably see some changes. I hope someone who deals with the Upload Wizard is actively looking into that. I don't know enough about that tool to have carried on an intelligent discussion.
  5. Special:Upload as it is cannot cope with Wikidata, but I think we now have a good solution to that: there will be a serialize/unserialize step that should still allow those of us who prefer (that includes me) to use a pure wikitext approach on our uploads. For example, you might now start from the wikitext for one image and edit it slightly to get the wikitext for a different image, then use that edited text for the upload. Under the new system, any data stored in Wikidata rather than as wikitext can be "serialized" into Wikitext, so you could still have a pure text representation of the content for the existing element; then you could make your edits on that and use that text when you upload a related image. In short, the human-computer interaction can remain the same, though the content might be slightly different.
  6. In the short run, categories will not be affected. The Wikidata approach is basically a properties-based approach, more akin to tagging than to categories. Properties might eventually prove more important than categories, and categories might fade out over time, but the two can sit just fine side-by-side, and any fade-out would be a matter of our community fading it out. Wikidata could, in theory, provide stronger support for categories than it currently does; that is one of dozens of issues that are still TBD, and we need to reach consensus among ourselves and give them more input on what we need.
  7. Over the next year or so, Commons should gain a lot better search.

If anyone thinks I got any of that wrong, please correct me. If I've been unclear, please ask me to clarify. I've barely slept for a week, so I am sure I am not at my best as a writer right now. Jmabel ! talk 10:26, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

it is not a million without information template; it has been reduced to around 300000. Category:Media missing infobox template Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 02:30, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Ny Ellebjerg construction works

Indicates that there are big construction works with a new platform. I suspect it could be a new station for the new high speed line Kobenhagen - Ringsted. It looks to big to be a new S-train station for line F (Theoreticaly it could be extended to the airport but I dont read anything about it). See also File:NyEllebjerg.png Smiley.toerist (talk) 10:42, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

@Smiley.toerist: It's the construction of the terminus for a new metro line. In 2019 the metro line Cityringen (en:City Circle Line) opens. In 2023 it gets an arm from København Hovedbanegård (Copenhagen Central Station) via Sydhavnen to Ny Ellebjerg. You can read a little more about it on en:M4 (Copenhagen). The high speed line Copenhagen - Ringsted is going to use the existing platform for long distance trains. There are no plans about extending of S-train line F. But it will get a new terminus at Ny Ellebjerg as part of the construction works. There are however plans about regional trains from Roskilde via Ny Ellebjerg to the airport. It would involve the construction of yet another platform at Ny Ellebjerg. --Dannebrog Spy (talk) 21:37, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Objectification of women

Hi, I removed quite a lot of images from Category:Female eyes and Category:Human hair. AFAIK, these are standard features, so it is quite silly to add every portrait into these categories. It looked like that the only important aspect of women is their hair. And nearly only women were categorized under "Human hair"... It seems men do not have hair. :( Yann (talk) 04:21, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

  • Ignoring the objectification part, people categorizing marginal features of images is often a problem. For example, recently I have removed several images from traffic sign categories, where the sign was visible somewhere in the background. I feel our page on categories is in dire need of an overhaul. Instead of clear guidance, it contains lots of philosophical rambling, redundant information, and is generally much too long. Sebari – aka Srittau (talk) 07:47, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
  • I think it silly to assume bad intentions from people's often well intentioned but in the whole random categorisations on this project. Oxyman (talk) 08:30, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
  • I don't think it is really bad intentions. It is a misunderstanding of the purpose and operation of categories. And objectification is often done without being aware. Regards, Yann (talk) 16:34, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
  • It's not necessarily misunderstanding of the purpose and operation of categories just because you say so, maybe those categorising the images hoped a more knowledgeable user would find suitable subcats for the images, people should think of all possibilities before accusing others of errors. "objectification is often done without being aware" may be a catchy soundbite but it has no validity to it, no real evidence is presented supporting this thought terminating cliché. It is clear from multiple responses here that there is no real case of "objectification" here (a word that has been so overused that all meaning attached to it has been lost anyway). Off course you are free to see what you want in any situation and you can have biases, paranoias and political motivations for such. That doesn't change the facts on the ground, the facts are that there is no problem here other then possibly too many images in a high level category. That is hardly a rare problem in this project it is repeated in many categories here. I could complain about too many close up images of automobile details are just categorised in the London category, I don't I just try and find a more relevant category for such images. That is far more useful course of action the trying to use such categorisations as a tool for a predetermined agenda. Such agendas really should have no place on this project. Oxyman (talk) 21:41, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Oxyman: Yes, there is a real case of objectification here, and it doubly a problem when people do not understand it. Why otherwise adding this and this to "human hair"? It means that these women's work or profession doesn't matter, only their physical features. Regards, Yann (talk) 12:15, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
  • both images you link to contain human hair, therefore it is perfectly reasonable to categorise them as such. There really is no problem here outside your imagination. You need to look at yourself and not your imagined motives of others to locate the problem that only you can perceive. Oxyman (talk) 16:05, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Oxyman: No. Don't try to attack me, that's not a way to get out. These images are totally irrelevant for humain hair, you have to understand that once and for all. Objectification of women is a form of harassment, so I take this very seriously, and I expect people to comply. Thanks, Yann (talk) 14:59, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Oh please you come to a vary public forum with ridicules statements and accusations then when it is pointed out how silly your case is you play a professional victim. No personal attack has taken place but you must realise that a public forum is a place where you will find different opinions to that of your own, especially when your opinions are so without merit. Those images are very relevant to the category human hair, something you have to understand once and for all, it is quite simple the images show human hair, this is an undebatable fact. Anything else the image shows is simply irrelevant when discussing the category. The fact is that there is no problem here, none what so ever, no objectification (a term which has now lost all meaning due to overuse anyway), no harassment and this will remain the case whatever agenda or political point you try to make. Oxyman (talk) 15:24, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Agree with Sebari; there seems to be confusion between what is a category and what is a tag. We shouldn't be using the latter when we have a category structure that is (ideally) wide and deep. I ask myself "would anyone use this as an image of Category:X?". One case in point is that some people categorise images of complete churches by their parts, e.g. towers, spires. The natural consequence of this is that several images of the same tower call for the creation of a subcategory. This would lose information because images of the whole church end up in a subcategory of itself. As for objectification, I don't think that's the intention, it's a case of picking out features to categorise, but if the part is so much smaller than the whole, I'd avoid that categorisation. Rodhullandemu (talk) 08:34, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
  • I followed the existing cataloging pattern because I thought it was customary. Note that in many "human" categories there are sub-categories of gender. For example, in this case there is also - Category:Male eyes Chenspec (talk) 20:48, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Categorizing by gender is not automatically objectifying, especially if a higher category is getting overcrowded. If I need a picture of a female feature, such as a hairstyle, I don't want to have to page through hundreds of irrelevant images. Categories are supposed to make it easier for users to find what they need, and that is what should be asked - does this category serve that purpose. If the category is too general or unhelpful, that is a different issue, but having male/female hair or male/female eyes is not objectifying. TMagen (talk) 05:11, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
  • In this case, it is clearly objectifying: 1. almost only women were in human hair; 2. the category was added to images were the hair is totally irrelevant, as I have shown above. Regards, Yann (talk) 12:35, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Can you explain what you mean when you talk about objectifying? It seems to me that you are talking about gender division at the statistical level. If you want to have more men in the category, you can always add appropriate pictures of men. If a particular picture fits into a category, why does it matter what gender it belongs to? Another question - are categories with a majority of men also considered problematic? Chenspec (talk) 19:03, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
  • At the risk of ventriloquizing -- Yann, correct me if I've misunderstood -- what he presumably means by "objectifying" is treating women as objects rather than subjects, in the sense of treating them as things (objects) that [presumably male] humans observe, presumably with an erotic or quasi-erotic gaze, rather than treating them as subjects (humans, capable of, for example, being the one who would perform human acts such as observation. E.g. a male musician might be described as "a guitarist" while an equally skilled female musician might be described as a "young redhead with a guitar". - Jmabel ! talk 23:34, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
  • According to this explanation, there should be no problem with cataloging images of human hair in the category of hair and subdivided into categories by gender. Because there are sub-categories of gender for both females and males - the reference is the same. If it helps the user to find images, there should be no problem with it. Chenspec (talk) 11:24, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
  • If you want to deal with objectifying categories, I recommend you look at this category Category:Wet white T-shirts and think why there is only a sub category of women.... Chenspec (talk) 11:31, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Chenspec: Please read en:Wikipedia:Other stuff exists. The problem is not creating categories, but adding irrelevant images to these categories. An image of hair is find in Category:Human hair. But a woman's portrait has nothing to do in this category, unless the image is specifically about hairdressing, because 1. It makes the category useless for looking about hair and hairdressing; 2. It reduces the woman to her hair.
  • The category you mention is a different kind of issue. These contests are certainly not advantageous for women, but that is an issue outside of Commons. Actually the category itself is fine, as the images it contains fit in the category subject. Thanks, Yann (talk) 11:48, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
  • In the light of this discussion, there is a long discussion about old people might be relevant as well. Users voted for keep or delete but it was not suggested to delete categories but to decied what files should or shouldn't be include there. -- Geagea (talk) 12:49, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
IMO placing numerous images of women in a category is using a insignifiant element to describe a person whose gender is female, and it is not only a question of categorizing in a non defining category as to the perception it could make on the people actually looking into that category: making them believe it defines women, and also as a woman looking into that category, not feeling welcomed as a woman, because being defined by a physical element that is not relevant, and being objectified. --Nattes à chat (talk) 18:43, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Innercollapse and outercollapse

en:Help:Collapsing#"innercollapse" and "outercollapse" states that is is possible to collapse an element by default when it is in another one. However, the example provided in the doc does not work for me on Commons (User:Zolo/test / vs en:User:Zolo/test). Does anyone know how to change that ? --Zolo (talk) 12:52, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Does it work for you in enwiki? Ruslik (talk) 20:06, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
inner collapse and outer collapse are en.wp extensions of the collapsible code, they are not universally supported on all wikis. I also very much advise against implementing it, these are added levels of complexity, that severely influence readability for users without javascript. They also cause the page to reflow, because they need to be dynamically applied. Work is ongoing to avoid any such reflows, because they are very distracting, cause the page to jump and are generally slow. It is much better to explicitly always hide or always show a table. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:13, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
@Ruslik0: yes it works for me, doesn't it work for you ?
@TheDJ: ok thanks for your answer. To clarify the need a bit. Quite a few categories and galleries show a {{Creator}} or {{Institution}} and they whould not be collapsed. Some others have {{Artwork}} that also contains a {{Creator}} or {{Institution}} and in this case, have them uncollapsed is real ugly. See for example Category:Ecce Homo by Munkácsy. Would you think of an alternative solution for that ? --Zolo (talk) 16:26, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Pass a parameter to the template transclusion, to make the behavior you want explictely defined. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:15, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
It is rather tedious but doable. Actually, when the creator template is automatically called based on data from Wikidata, that sounds totally manageable. @Jarekt: what do you think ? Zolo (talk) 18:22, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
It does sound doable. I will test that approach. --Jarekt (talk) 18:30, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Zolo, I am testing User:TheDJ's solution of passing a parameter to the template transclusion in Module:Artwork/sandbox. Results can be seen in Module talk:Artwork/sandbox/testcases and it is only partial success. Apparently there are 3 cases for both {{Creator}} and {{Institution}} (so 6 cases):

  1. Creator is explicitly defined in the template wikitext:  can not pass "collapse parameter
  2. Creator build from scratch based on Wikidata item withoutCommons Creator page (P1472) property: ✓ easy to pass "collapse parameter
  3. Creator template added based on Wikidata item with Commons Creator page (P1472): ✓ can pass "collapse parameter thanks to each template having | Option = {{{1|}}}
  4. Institution is explicitly defined in the template wikitext:  can not pass "collapse parameter
  5. Institution build from scratch based on Wikidata item withoutCommons Institution page (P1612) property: ✓ easy to pass "collapse parameter
  6. Institution template added based on Wikidata item with Commons Institution page (P1612):  can not pass "collapse parameter as institution templates do not have | Option = {{{1|}}}

So in 50% of cases the automatic collapse would not work. I guess we could solve case 6 by adding | Option = {{{1|}}} to all Institution templates. However I do not think we can overcome cases where templates are explicitly defined in the wikitext. --Jarekt (talk) 13:47, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Jarekt Ok; I would think case 4 would be solved the same way as case 6, except that we have to add "collasped = true" on each category. Well that's admittedly unwieldy but possible. I think it might be worth going for it, considering that local data about artworks seem likely to be removed from Commons once they have been copied to Wikidata, as has been the case for data about creators ? --Zolo (talk) 14:41, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
The issue with case 1 and 4 that at this stage {{Artwork}} displays already expanded templates or whatever other wikitext one can place there. I would need access to original unexpanded wikitext of the page to be able to do anything. --Jarekt (talk) 15:16, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

"a href" html bug?

I wasn't able to find concrete answers regarding the use or disuse of <"a href=> for external links, but in the last couple months I've been noticing the problem much more frequently, especially regarding Flickr files transferred with Flickr2Commons. See for instance the descriptions in File:Hanging (9398669780).jpg or File:World Cancer Day 2011 (5425343178).jpg. I gather there is concern about security of embedded links(?), but I seem to remember importing nicely formatted html links not too long ago. Did something recently change internally within Wikimedia to turn "this" into <a href="http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Multimedia/Imagebank/index.jsp" rel="nofollow">IAEA Imagebank</a>? There appears to be over 43,000 instances of "<a href=" visible, although not all are equally disruptive to legibility (this instance merely creates ridiculously long text fields). Secondly, is there formal guidance on external links , regardless of format and whether or not they appear in descriptions, EXIF metadata, etc.? And lastly, would there be use/interest in creating a bot to correct some of the ugly, disruptive, malformed html links into simple bracket based ones? Thanks. --Animalparty (talk) 21:13, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

  • On my own uploads from Flickr, I try always to clean that up after the upload, and I agree with you that we were doing that automatically before & are not now. I know there were major changes recently to the Flickr2Commons UI. Did those changes go deeper? - Jmabel ! talk 22:42, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
External links should almost never be present in image descriptions. On files imported from flickr, 99% of the time they're either vanity links for the flickr uploader (which is equivalent to spam for us) or a link to the Wikipedia article that the flickr uploader copy-pasted for the description. The only times I can think of ELs being useful in image descriptions is to link to an external source that has more details about the subject of the image than would be appropriate on Wikimedia projects. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:09, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
I upload a lot from the Seattle Municipal Archive, who are very often giving source links another step back, just like we give a source link to them. - Jmabel ! talk 06:04, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
That should still be in the source field, not the description field. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:27, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

April 24

geo.hlipp.de

I was wondering if I can upload images from http://geo.hlipp.de/ to Commons. If I can, can I use the Geograph-to-Commons tool or should I just upload them with the Upload Wizard? And under what license? Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 15:00, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes you can use the Geograph-to-Commons tool for this taskOxyman (talk) 15:28, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
@Oxyman: What do I need to fill in at 'Geograph server' to do this? Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 15:30, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Ah I'm sorry the Geograph-to-Commons tool has changed since I last used it, It used to be a case of copy/paste the image url to the tool, I'm not sure how to use the tool now Oxyman (talk) 15:37, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
I think the correct site name would be "geo.hlipp.de", but that doesn't see to work for me. If you upload by hand, I'd suggest using the Special:Upload instead of the Upload Wizard, and following the "Wie kann dieses Bild verwertet werden" ("Find out how to reuse this Image" on the English version of the site) link, and copying the "Wikipedia Template for image page" into the upload form. That will attach the correct licence ({{Cc-by-sa-2.0}}) and categorise the image under Category:Images from Geograph Deutschland. --bjh21 (talk) 16:05, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
URL2Commons will also work but it needs manual input. De728631 (talk) 16:18, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
There are already several thousands of images from geo.hlipp.de here Category:Images from Geograph Deutschland. Someone has apparently performed a mass upload, so before you move on, I suggest to make sure you don't create duplicates. JiriMatejicek (talk) 06:37, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
If anyone wants to help in another way, please categorize these: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=geo.hlipp.de+incategory%3A%22Media+with+geo-coordinates+needing+categories%22&title=Special:Search&profile=images&fulltext=1&searchToken=ciiubv6uaelmis4ca1uabln5j JiriMatejicek (talk) 06:40, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

@JiriMatejicek: Is there any way to see if the file is already on Commons? Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 08:21, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

I would suggest searching for insource:"geograph-de 12345", with "12345" replaced with the image ID. Additionally, make sure you upload the highest resolution version precisely as it came from Geograph (with no editing or cropping), since that gives the upload process the best chance of spotting a duplicate. --bjh21 (talk) 09:37, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
There was already some discussion on geo.hlipp.de here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=295797469#Images_from_geo.hlipp.de. Perhaps consult Freddy2001 what (if any) images are not yet uploaded to Commons. JiriMatejicek (talk) 13:20, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the ping. I have prepared all images from the Geograph Germany project for uploading to Commons. -- Freddy2001 talk 13:43, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
So, I assume I don't have to upload them anymore because someone else will upload them? Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 13:59, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

April 25

File:Flag of Afghanistan (1880–1901).svg …

… shouldn’t have Template:Islamic state on its file description page, since it is just a black rectangle. --84.61.221.211 09:17, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

I have questioned the addition of it at User talk:2607:FEA8:61F:FC3C:FCD4:BB2F:46A:D495#File:Flag of Afghanistan (1880–1901).svg.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 09:31, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
I removed the template, the flag isn't much different to other solid black flags in the same category, or to other black rectangles. --ghouston (talk) 09:32, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
See also Category:Islamic state status for comparison. --ghouston (talk) 09:35, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Polling templates rendering error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T193190
Polling templates as observed in my browser

Is anyone else experiencing that templates like {{Not done}} or {{Request}} are rendering strangely from time to time, i.e. the icon and text not being in line? It is also weird that this bug occurs seemingly randomly across a page. I'm using FF 59.0.2 (64 bit) but I can reproduce this behaviour in MS Edge. De728631 (talk) 20:37, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

April 26

Crop tool broken?

Is the crop tool working for anyone? I've tried to use it on several files, and I just get the "Just a moment..." message and the loading animation for several minutes. This happens even after I restarted my machine; and if I open the tool as https://tools.wmflabs.org/croptool/ in a new tab. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:17, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

I've noticed the same problem, and can't offer any solutions, but it doesn't seem to be related to file size (small and large files experience the same indefinite delay). --Animalparty (talk) 22:02, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
I'm travelling, so have limited internet access. If someone could kindly find our where to report this, and do so, that would be great. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 04:11, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Please, the Crooptool doesn't go. Can you repair it. Leonprimer (talk) 13:27, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

https://tools.wmflabs.org/admin/tools says that the maintainer is User:Danmichaelo. Not sure where to report bugs though. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:28, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
The "report issues here" link is at the top of this page. It leads to the place for reporting issues.104.163.159.237 03:48, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

April 23

Category:Commemorative 2 euro coins

90% of this images don't have the appropriate license. Most of them have own work. Latvian coins use {{Latvian coins}} which is only applicable to coins issued before euro. I don't understand why Spanish coins where speedily deleted and there is no specific category for euro coins of this country. My problem is there is no clear information about euro coins national sides besides COM:EURO. There should be a mass delete request for the files that depict the national side of the coins (not the common side which is public domain). European Commission states "Reproduction of the national sides of the euro coins is governed by the legislation of the issuing countries, since these are the holders of the copyright in the design of the national sides." Also the engravers have copyrights in some countries. Triplecaña (talk) 10:28, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

The national legislation places the designs in the public domain in some countries, but this is poorly documented. There is the same issue with banknotes: the central banks want to keep people from spreading images for counterfeit reasons, and make no clear distinction between copyright and counterfeit issues. Someone with legal understanding should check the status for those countries where some public sector work is automatically put in the public domain. If we have to delete the images until the research is done, at least high quality or creative images should be categorized so that they can be restored. --LPfi (talk) 06:32, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Is there any reason that Wikimedia Commons doesn't support mp4 format?

It's 2018 now, I believe that most videos filmed by cell phone are in mp4 format, right?R96340 (talk) 03:40, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

@R96340: Commons only supports file formats which are open and royalty-free. The community decided not to support MP4 Video in Commons:Requests for comment/MP4 Video.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:52, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Thanks. But I think at least we should tell the user in UploadWizard that they need to convert the video into ogg format or something.R96340 (talk) 04:38, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
@R96340: Commons:video2commons - Alexis Jazz 05:18, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
you should expect periodic astonishment by outsiders why video upload is so hard. it is not a technical hurdle but a cultural one. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 00:00, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Getting rid of Beta on a second account.

Hi, I have a legitimate second account ( User:Vienna Rigsby the cat. I got rid of Beta on my main account about a day after trying it and I have the more navigable and familiar Classic look. How can I do this to my second account now that the link has gone? Thanks. Mtaylor848 (talk) 19:06, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

In the same way as with your primary account. Ruslik (talk) 13:54, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Downloading full image

I would like to upload folio 137r of the Beowulf manuscript to Commons. I don't think licensing should be a problem—it's a two-dimensional object well out of copyright—but I can't figure out a way to download the full resolution image from the British Library's site. Can anyone please help?

For context, this is for the Gevninge helmet fragment article. Folio 137r contains lines 229–252 of Beowulf; the article quotes lines 229–257. --Usernameunique (talk) 14:28, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

  • They are using HTML 5 canvas, so there may be no way to find out without their cooperation. Maybe by using a debugger, or using Fiddler to see whether a static file streamed, but I suspect not. It's quite possible that there is no direct access to the whole underlying file at full-res. - Jmabel ! talk 15:29, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

April 29

Yet another installment in the neverending story of Italian Museums

"Bridgeman signs historic agreement with Italian Ministry of Culture (MiBACT) becoming the only international picture agency covering all 439 Italian state-owned museums for image licensing". https://bridgeman-images.com/UYO-5L4T2-9FKNF51N8D/cr.aspx --User:G.dallorto (talk) 22:55, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Stinks. --Fæ (talk) 05:47, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
it is uncanny, how the same actors keep making the precedents. you would think they would drop the stick. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 21:43, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

April 28

Copytrack extortion claims

Hi. I would like to ask for the community's opinion on this situation:

  • There is a (probably scam) German company called Copytrack, claiming to work Globally. How they earn their $$$ is by luring image owners to sign-up with them. And when any other party (be it another company, student, or a cat) uses that image intentionally or by mistake (by picking it off a Google search, etc), they step in and issue an extortion letter by email (usually in the EUR 600 range). They threaten to take legal action if you do not pay. And they also do not disclose any details of the owner, but says that they are acting on their behalf. Their website also says that a large percentage of the extorted funds are also given to the owner.

Out of curiosity, what is the Commons community standing on this? FYI, I have not received any demand for content from Commons, but elsewhere.

  1. Can an author of an image on Commons, sign-up with Copytrack? (Doing so would supposedly put people wrongly using the file outside Wikimedia, in trouble, if the company is legitimate)
  2. What is your view of Copytrack? Is it legal for them to demand such sums of money without any way of correcting or removing the wrongly used images?

Thank you for taking the time to respond. 175.157.1.57 05:48, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

  • To upload a file on Commons, the author must either have lost the copyright due to expiration, relinquish the copyright, or irrevocably release the file under a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual license. Therefore, even if an author sign up for Copytrack, they cannot demand money as long as the term of the license is followed. The two cases of public domain is pretty obvious on the other hand. -Mys_721tx (talk) 06:00, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
see also Commons:How Alamy is stealing your images, and Commons:Village_pump#Yet another installment in the neverending story of Italian Museums above. you should expect more "license enforcement" even of public domain images. civil action against fraud is expensive, but eventually a happy birthday case will happen. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 01:40, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Looking for a tool or something

OK, it *must* exist, but I spent so long looking :( There must be a way for me to look for pictures added in certain categories and subcategories (say, an event category like Wikimania 2017) and figure out when they were added, so that I can look days or weeks later and see what's been added in the meantime safely skipping the ones I've already seen. The closest thing so far could be https://tools.wmflabs.org/heritage/tools/daily-uploads/daily-uploads.html , but it has the obvious limitation to a single day and to a single category :/ Thanks a lot for helping me out! --151.42.88.167 10:19, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Try turning on 'page categorization' on your watchlist, and/or 'Category changes' on the 'Related changes' page for the category you're interested in. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 10:30, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

2018 FIFA World Cup Cities Regions

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On behalf of WMRU Banner Program, respectfully--Frhdkazan (talk) 17:35, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@Frhdkazan: File:RR5015-0013R.png was deleted, please choose another.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 20:15, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
@Jeff G.: Thanks for heads up. Please advise if File:RR5216-0114R.png should be Ok instead? Regards, --Frhdkazan (talk) 15:05, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
@Frhdkazan: Probably.   — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 23:51, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

April 26

Upload wizard not working

I've tried this multiple times on both Chrome and Firefox. Going through the upload wizard, I select the photos for upload, they upload successfully. It prompts me for a license as usual. But at the "describe" stage (the stage where you enter descriptions, categories, etc.) it shows only one of the several images. I can enter the fields as normal, but clicking next does nothing. I've tried different numbers of uploads, too. — Rhododendrites talk |  15:49, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Works for me. - Alexis Jazz 18:50, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Not working for me either. I have the same problems. And moreover, if I select 10 images, they upload successfully but only 6 are at the "describe" stage. And you can not copy the fields from the first image to the others. Xaris333 (talk) 20:10, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Screenshots, browser specs, raise on Phabricator, add task ref back here for completeness. If you do not make the effort, this vanishes when autoarchived. --Fæ (talk) 09:33, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
yes, please - although i have given up on upload wizard, gone to Commons:VicuñaUploader - runs better for me. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 00:04, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Hmm didn't try that one. I used Commons:Commonist as a substitute. It wasn't ideal. Thankfully, when I tried the wizard again yesterday, it was fine. @Xaris333: how about you? — Rhododendrites talk |  16:05, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Collectie Heemschut

Does anyone know if images from this website have already been uploaded to Commons? It says that they have the {{CC-BY-SA 4.0}} license, so it might be useful to upload them. If they aren't already, I'd be happy to try and upload them. Hope that helps. Sincerely, NeoMeesje (talk) 20:24, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Be careful with files from such archives. Almost never those archives own the copyright of the pictures in their collection, so that they are in no position to release the files into a free license. Jcb (talk) 21:05, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
"be very afraid" lol. to the extent they are building or sculpture in the netherlands, they are Template:FoP-Nederland. a little GLAM outreach would be nice to find out who the photographers are, and if they have releases. use commons:pattypan. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 01:25, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
Well, only this month Erfgoed Leiden decided to take down over a hundred thousand anonymous photographs as a precaution. Turned out that the rights to a set of anonymous images were actually transferred to a third party in the past [49]. So yes, be very careful, especially if the author is not known. --HyperGaruda (talk) 11:20, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

A general remark: User:Jcb said: "Almost never those archives own the copyright of the pictures in their collection". This is simply not true. Dutch archives have donated more than 1 million pictures (of which they own copyright) to Wikimedia Commons. Some examples: Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (>485,000 images), National Archives of the Netherlands (>350,000 images), Naturalis Biodiversity Center (>275,000 images), and a lot of other Dutch museums and archives. Most photographs were made in the period 1945-2000 -which is an interesting period seen from a copyright perspective. Vysotsky (talk) 12:30, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Looking at this particular case: I have sent an email to Heemschut, asking them how to distinguish the Collection A.A. Dullé (copyrighted) from the rest of the Heemschut collection (CC-BY-SA-4.0). Vysotsky (talk) 12:35, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
The answer from Heemschut is clear (though disappointing): (my translation) The only images that are in the Heemschut image database (Beeldbank) at the moment are copyrighted photographs by A.A. Dullé. When I answered that the statement about Creative Commons was thus confusing, Heemschut answered that the statement would be adjusted. Vysotsky (talk) 11:05, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

April 27

Is there any way for PAGESINCATEGORY to show how many pages that appear in both of two categories?

Hi

Is there any way for PAGESINCATEGORY to display pages that appear in both of two categories? I don't mean adding the sums of two categories together, I mean showing only the pages that appear in Category A and Category B.

Thanks

John Cummings (talk) 06:48, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

There is no way. Ruslik (talk) 13:56, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
John depending on your goals it could be a task for PetScan, cf. en:WP:Petscan. — Speravir – 22:43, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Question about Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

Can Women in Red use this image, which is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, our the upcoming Women of the Sea event page and in our May invite, which will be MassMessaged to hundreds of editors? We're trying to sort out which kind of licenses can be used in our Invites and Event Pages, and which ones we need to avoid. Any clarification from Commons gurus would be appreciated. Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:32, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

well, some flickr has been questioned as flickr washing. but this one appears to be a license change by the uploader, which historically has not been questioned when checked by flickrreview, and part of a consistent body of work. Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 01:36, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Sorry, Slowking4, but I don't understand what you mean. What I need to know is: can Women in Red use a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic image on an event page and MassMessage invites? Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:44, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
i would say yes. because it was uploaded as a CC 2.0 and verified, but later changed. (CC is irrevocable) there are other cases to be wary of, where the flickr account is a collection of screen grabs with the wrong license and different cameras. this is not one of those. (but then you might want to ask a deletionist.) Slowking4 § Sander.v.Ginkel's revenge 01:56, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
@Rosiestep: I think you can. The image you linked doesn't have a watermark, but you might want to know you shouldn't remove watermarks from CC-BY 2.0 images: Commons:Watermarks. Also, you have to provide attribution: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#how-do-i-properly-attribute-material-offered-under-a-creative-commons-license. - Alexis Jazz 06:13, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Thank you very much, @Alexis Jazz and Slowking4. This was helpful. --Rosiestep (talk) 10:56, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-18

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

Recent changes

  • The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [50]

Problems

  • Advanced item We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [51]

Changes later this week

  • You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [52]
  • When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [53]
  • Advanced item You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Editing section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [54]
  • Advanced item There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhare@wikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
  • Advanced item All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [55][56][57]

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16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Food

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Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, we are going International. To make this event a grant success, your direction is key. Please sign up as a volunteer or sign up on behalf of your affiliate here.--Abhinav619 (talk) 08:46, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

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