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Unless your post specifically concerns the page Commons:Community Portal, you should not put it here. Posts addressing the general public on Commons are best placed at the Village pump. Thank you

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[edit] Im a retarded dolphin, damnit!>=O

Keichwa, I reverted your edit, because the language templates are universal and there is currently a discussion ongoing about using flags for this. However, the templates should be advertised anyway regardless of whether you like the flags or not since they can be easily modified to e.g. ISO language codes instead of flags. — Richie 19:12, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

As long as the discussion is ongoing, we should stop promoting the feature. Or please change the template to display {{german}} as {{german}} and {{english}} as {{english}} for the time being. --Keichwa 20:43, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
Please stop removing the news item from the community portal. It is completely neutral and does not mention flags at all. The discussion is just about how to represent language, not whether at all. Many people regard these templates as being very useful, especially in a multilingual project like the Commons. I reverted your edit again. If you still want to remove the news item, please ask for community consent at the village pump. — Richie 22:21, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
If you are just interested in the feature, I guess you do not mind if I edit the Templates? Not using flags for languages is important to me. --Keichwa 05:00, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
The Templates have become an important part in our work, so they should only be modified after community consensus is reached (in the village pump). This is what I'm trying to do at the moment. Please don't change them on your own. — Richie 07:06, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Nice trick. I'm wondering who installed this feature in the first place. --Keichwa 07:29, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rawr

I am working on a wikibook and i want to add some interative content like a Flash or a Powerpoint presentation. But i can't even upload a anything other than graphics or sound files. I really want to be able to eventually include a Flash that serves as a interactive quiz system or something, or include a ppt for download so the student can study interatively. Can/will wiki allow authors to include their own interactive content on the site in the future? Xiaodai 8 July 2005 12:56 (UTC)

Please see this discussion about file types. generally, the Commons:Village pump is the best place for questions regarding the project. -- Duesentrieb 8 July 2005 14:28 (UTC)

[edit] Documentation

Documentation on commons seems really poor. Can we have Commons:Templates linked to from here? There are probably lots of other really useful pages that no-one knows about. Secretlondon 17:38, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Commons:Gallery would also be good as I've just spent 30 minutes trying to find out how to do that.. Secretlondon 17:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Can we put this in the Community Portal

Graphics abilities Project (or User's Abilities or Abilities Babel)
For categorisation of users in function of their graphical/audio abilities on commons, and then find quickly help need to work more efficiently.

Choise the best title in english, this text is a [good?] translation of the french « Pour categoriser les utilisateurs en fonctions de leurs aptitudes graphiques/audios sur commons, pour ensuite trouver l'aide appropriée », please correct my english if need. Yug (talk) 21:08, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Nobody seem oppose to this. I added it for don't wait 4 months. Problem : The right side is now really longer than the left one. Yug (talk) 19:10, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

After you did improve the page and the presentation of the imformation (sorry currently it just looks like a mind dump) given there you can add it along side the other Commons projects. Arnomane 21:13, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I restored the graphic abilities explaination which is equal to Babel. See the comment in the history page of Commons:Community Portal Yug (talk) 21:58, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Please make a project page named for example Commons:Graphics abilities and then consider a useful category structure but please don't mix the categories with tutorials entirely and the current layout of the project won't attract anybody participating. I believe as well that such a project is useful for Commons but the current pages are simply not ideal and will cause a lot of confusion for interested people. And of course please also make some thoughts how to avoid the silly babel hell of wikipedia (say: keep the number of babels as low as possible). Arnomane 22:06, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't want attract anybody, I want categorise by graphic skill. Only this is really need. Tutorials red link are a possible extension, not hurry. Yug (talk) 22:13, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spiderman, touch my can!

please merge with featured pictures it helps nobody having two almost unused aproaches

  1. QI is much different from FP. Read the criteria, selection process, and see Village pump.
  2. It was proposed on VP and other places, feedback was positive and several people participated on developement of the process.
  3. COM:FPC are unused so much that I have problems viewing the page - when I try to load the page on my poor computer, the browser freezes and computer starts swaping for several minutes...
  4. COM:QIC are open for little more than one day. Hard to expect more usage.
  • So, I'm reverting the link back. If you propose QI should not exist, the right place to propose that is QI talkpage. --Wikimol 13:14, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Well it does not help if people create parallel structures without thinking what to do with the old failed attemps and how to integrate them and the people that used them into a better solution. Wikimedia Commons has a very very small active community that's why some sub project does not work the same way as in Wikipedia. This is really not in order to annoy you but to make sure that your improvement ideas do not get neglected soon. Arnomane 23:50, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
FP are not failed attempt.
QI have different target than FP, its not parallel structure, but almost orthogonal structure.
There was some thinking behind QI creation and developement.
If your way of disscussion is Commons standard, I have to say I'm unfamiliar with it, and I doubt it has anything to do with size. I won't revert it again ...as for my understanding for wiki goes, the presence or absence of the link won't influence QI progress much. --Wikimol 08:16, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
While they are not the same, how about integrating these two things with each other? For example, they way for a picture to become "featured" could be that its looked at as QI, deemed very good, nomnated as FP and be looked at again. The people doing that could/should be largely be the same, and the pages and other infrastructure should be shared (where it makes sense) or closely linked.
Maybe it would even be possible to integrate the "picture of the day" selection - which is teh thirs such process we have on commons. To summ up: A "quality image" is different from a "picture of the days" is different from a "featured picture". But the processes should be closely integrated to avoid overhead and confusion. -- Duesentrieb(?!) 10:44, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
I'll first repeat the difference, as I see it / I would like to be. Feature Pictures resemble sort of photography contest (jury selecting some winners, often comparing candidates to competition, creative ideas are highly valued, its much about aesthetics) - of course done the wiki way. Quality Images should resemble the review process of a stock photo agency (one reviewer inspecting the image, wether it's the 8795th stock photo of the same subject is irrelevant, well defined techncal criteria are examined) - done in wiki.
Integration is interesting topic. If FP were subset of QI, it would be easy. But QI are limited to images created by commons user, while FP can come from any source.
Other difference is, in FPC aesthetic quality can sometimes outweigh technical problems, such as resolution. QIC should be more mechanical, either the image meets the criteria, or not. If not, it can still be nominated for FP.
Easiest integration would be with picture of the day - it can be demanded POTD must be either FP or QI. --Wikimol 12:53, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

It would be a good idea in any case to talk to people at POTD and FP; But anyway... why does QI only apply to pictures made by commons users? how about wikipedia users? Flickr users? Why not just apply it to all images? -- Duesentrieb(?!) 13:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Watashiwa baka kitsune! ^_^

ORLY?=O YARLY!>=O

OBLARGAGG!?xD

[edit] Photography Critiques

It seems like the Community Portal would be a good place to mention Commons:Photography_critiques which doesn't seem to get its deserved attention. It's a good page that allows for more feedback and discussion than putting something (that often you know is unsuitable) up for QIC just to get some feedback on one's work. Richard Cocks 08:47, 24 October 2006 (UTC)


[[Media:#REDIRECT Example.ogg]]==Gallery information==

The toolserver is still unable to cope with the english wikipedia. Several entries seem to be missing from the commons database, causing images to be errounously reported as orphans.

Maybe leave out the mispelled erroneous word or use erroneously correctlyWayneRay 13:45, 27 November 2006 (UTC)WayneRay
Better now? Maybe leave out the redundant nickname and use the signature correctly... and "mispelled" is misspelled - but perhaps that's a joke? -- Duesentrieb(?!) 15:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Actually it is one of those words most often misspelled (thanks) such as alot for a lot and separate and seperate, years of practice doing it wrong and then trying to change, thanks again WayneRay 17:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

[edit] Music

I recently attempted to play some music on the Beta player, which was aqpparently inaccessible. Why? 75.34.8.146 03:42, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Would it be possible to fix it soon?

75.34.8.146 02:40, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit]  ???

Before i join this i have to ask, WHAT IN THE HELL IS THIS? Im a little confused on what the point of this is!--64.5.147.100 16:14, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Commons is a place to put all the free (ones where you don't have to pay anything to display them) images, videos and music files that can be used on Wikipedia, Wikitonary, Wikibooks, Wikisource and all the other Wikimedia Foundation projects. — Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 17:46, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
"Free" here does not just mean "ones where you don't have to pay anything to display them", it also means the freedom to use them as the basis for a modified image. - 66.212.73.116 23:32, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gotas de agua en un diente de león

En el blog, que es públicamente conocido es de Dodo, aparece la imagen Image:Pusteblume_im_Morgentau.JPG sin indicar correctamente la autoría y licencia de la misma.

Dodo ha sido avisado en el blog, pero no ha hecho caso del aviso. Espero que hagan algo al respecto.

Saludos cordiales, --81.47.192.178 10:57, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bureaucracy

Some times ago I wanted to add an image to your wiki. I asked the permission to the owner. I filled up the form. I uploaded the image (Image:Proofstep.gif)

Some times later it was told me in the most cryptic manner that there was a problem with the grants. Since there was no problem with the grants. And that everything was mentioned on the page I was a bit amazed. I asked on wikipedia. A very kind person answered that I hadn't filled the right part of the form. He helped me to fill it. I found it a bit strange to have to repeat twice the same information (namely the authorization) but anyway it was done.

And today I have just noticed that, despite of my careful attempt to fill correctly the form, the picture has been deleted. It was a beautiful picture. With some interest I think but for my own part I don't want to spend again an hour or two to try to guess what the ununderstandable bureaucrats of this wiki want. Too much work. I regret. I deeply regret but I give up. And I promise I will never try to add something on this wiki.

FL —the preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.123.192.83 (talk • contribs) 11:56, 9. Aug. 2007

Image:Proofstep.gif was undeleted by Nilfanion. --GeorgHH 23:15, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio

Sorry I don't know where to say it... I'm pretty sure all the upload of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Romanko are copyvio (these images were put in an article on fr:wikipedia, a full copyvio article of http://www.diploweb.com/forum/premiermai.htm), please delete these. Thank you. 86.66.216.83 10:56, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Looks like many are already gone; I've marked the rest for deletion. - 66.212.73.116 23:30, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] News

The one and only piece of "News" here has been there for about 10 months. Surely it could be updated? - 23:24, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I was just going to say the same thing. We're past two million now, our "one millionth file" is not really news anymore. Rocket000 23:18, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trademarks

Image:Jeep_wordmark.svg (http://mideast.jeep.com/Dealer/UAE/Trading/specialoffers/$Document/Default/en-gb/Content/$UserFiles/Jeep.pdf)

can I copy more logos like that? Ferrari, Renault, Peugeot, Dodge, Fiat, Honda,... 84.78.182.165 13:54, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Permission

I uploaded the following file: Image:Catrinas 2.jpg and I have recently recived a notice that it will be deleted because it lacks permission, however, I uploaded the original file with the appropiate license releasing the image. Can someone help me figuring out what the notice is all about and tell me the appropiate text that must be included in the image? Thank you! --Tomascastelazo 15:59, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New British Museum content release

Hi, this resource contains a huge amount of non-copyrighted material, but it isn't completely copyright free: British Museum collection database. I thought it should be made widely known. Cheers 150.203.230.27 06:52, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok, this stuff is copyright expired - MOD exploration pictures 150.203.230.27 23:39, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] selamlar

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[edit] selamlar

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