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Note: This page is only for discussion of the Commons:Upload page. Need help with licensing? See Commons:First steps. Read that and want live help? See Commons:Help desk. Experienced users: if you find this page annoying, you can still go directly to Special:Upload or the basic upload form. Translators! Please see Commons:Redesigning the upload form for help about how to translate this page and the links it contains.

See also the talk pages for the various Commons:Upload forms:
Special:Upload (main upload form). Talk
It is entirely my own work. Talk
It is from Flickr. Someone else's work. Talk
It is from another Wikimedia project. Talk
It is from a US federal government source. Talk
It is a free software screenshot. Talk
It is from somewhere else. It is Special:Upload (main upload form). Talk
Basic upload form. Talk

Note: Most of the links on the left side of the above table are to the transcluded introductory instruction text for the various upload pages linked from Commons:Upload. For the full range of such transcluded text see Special:Prefixindex/Mediawiki:Uploadtext. For the various transcluded license selectors see Special:PrefixIndex/MediaWiki:Licenses.

Read or make upload form suggestions also at:
MediaWiki:UploadForm.js/Documentation Talk
Commons:Redesigning the upload form Talk
MediaWiki:UploadForm.js Talk
The Wikitech-l Archives.

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Licence selector

There's an issue with the javascript that blocks form submission when a user uses a custom licence template, rather than one of the ones listed in the licence selector. See MediaWiki_talk:UploadForm.js#Licence_selector. --bainer (talk) 08:33, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Own work?

Hello, I suggest replacing "It is entirely my own work" by "I am the photographer, drawer, etc.". It is much less ambiguous, as "own work" could also mean "I scanned the image" or "I took the photo from the Internet". Yann (talk) 13:07, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

I ' m with your opinion

yes , it must be replaced , I agree with your opinion

But I do not expect the administrators to answer the request.

Promote upload tools, please!

After far too many wasted hours, I've finally come across Commonist, which works really well. So why is there no link to information about upload tools anywhere here, here or here? Please, could we have a link or two so people at least know these tools exist, and they don't need to waste so many hours using the web interface. It would really encourage people to upload more photos - in my case, I've always been very selective because it's just so painful going through the upload process for every single photo. Stevage (talk) 15:11, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

On the other side it's an advantages if not each beginner uploads tons of copyvio-images. But you have right I also love commonist. --Kolossos (talk) 17:30, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
There is always a conflict between showing an instruction that some users will like, while burdening other users who don't need it with having to skip over it. Imagine, while you want to know about Commonist, someone else wants to know about Inkscape, and so on. Millions of users have millions of needs. For the users who think more information is better, I started the Editor's index to Commons. The intent is for the index to link to every instruction useful for Commons users, in a somewhat economical way. (In the future, we may have smart computers which figure out what you want, and only show you it.) --Teratornis (talk) 04:11, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Category-bug in upload form

I use http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=deownwork with firefox 3.0.8 and select a category (I also click on ok!) but after the upload the image was not in this category. A other user has the same problem the last days. --Kolossos (talk) 17:27, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

I've also had this problem with two images I've uploaded recently via the English-language version (http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=ownwork). I'm using Firefox 3.0.14 (on Ubuntu). -- AJR | Talk 00:56, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
The same with me; I use Firefox 3.0.1. --Paulae (talk) 20:57, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Could ANYONE please deal with this? --Paulae (talk) 08:42, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
I have never had a problem with it, but I do not know if it has changed recently. You need to click and make sure that there is a tick to the right where the cat has been typed in. It will not work by just writing in the cat, it needs to be clicked as well. Snowmanradio (talk) 11:40, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
We know how to add a category on upload. do you have a successful upload with categories the last days? --Kolossos (talk) 15:18, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
I'll take look in the next few days. What skin(s) are you using? (There have been changes in the way categories are displayed on pages with the software updates from 2009-09-17. You may notice that we have empty category bars on all special pages. Something's still not quite right there. Maybe some such change did break something in the interactions between HotCat and the upload script.) Lupo 09:53, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Does this occur only on the "ownwork" upload forms? Which form are you using—the one with many fields, or the one with a single description field with a {{information}} template inside? Lupo 10:01, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
  • ✓ Done Ok, I've found the bug. The problem should go away if you go to the upload form and then refresh your browser's cache there. (The cache refresh must be done on Special:Upload because the upload script is not loaded on other pages, and a refresh elsewhere would thus not load the corrected version of this script.) Next time, please give me more information to work with. I need browser, skin, upload form version (see above), and what exactly you did do prior to uploading on the form: your inputs, whether you used the preview, whether the preview appeared in a popup or above the upload form, etc. This particular problem was related to the category bar added to the preview on September 18, 2009. It should be fixed now. If it still happens after a cache reload, feel free to notify me directly on my talk page. Lupo 22:33, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Great, Lupo, thanks. I will leave you a notice if I experience something similar in the future. PS: I did not test yet. Nillerdk (talk) 16:13, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Problem with permission field

I ran across a user who was adding "no" to the permission field based on the text under the field "Is this work of yours already published elsewhere?" Perhaps we should rephrase it to something like "Has this work of yours been published elsewhere, if so use... if not, leave this field blank or add specialized license tags" -Andrew c (talk) 16:28, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

  • ✓ Done Lupo 14:36, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Update upload form

There are bots constantly changing the "summary" and "licensing" headers to international templates. Why not update the upload forms with the new international templates, so we avoid having to edit 1000s of files? -- P199 (talk) 13:49, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Because these headers are added by the server-side MediaWiki software, and the {{int:}} feature exploits actually a bug. As long as this is still officially a bug, we certainly won't ask the developers to use a bug to "fix" something. :-) Lupo 14:39, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
That would be wise.--Kozuch (talk) 14:50, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Batch upload tools

I miss batch upload tools like Commonist linked on Upload pages.--Kozuch (talk) 13:58, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Creating my own template

I have already uploaded 34 photos on Commons, and I intend to upload several more. Could I make my own template, as many of the photographers have? --The High Fin Sperm Whale (talk) 02:22, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary?

On the page for uploads from a Federal government source, one of the options under licensing is "U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary". This seems strange to me. The Auxiliary is an unpaid volunteer organization, and photographs taken by its members would not necessarily be covered by the Federal government no-copyright rule as they are not government employees.

At the same time, there is no line for photographs taken by U.S. Coast Guard photographers. These are a common source for lighthouse photographs -- I have uploaded more than 100 for Maine and Massachusetts alone. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 22:47, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Main Upload Form

What happened to the Main Upload Form with the difined fields? I can only find this:
{{Information |Description= |Source= |Date= |Author= |Permission= |other_versions= }}
Thanks --Dein Freund der Baum (talk) 23:16, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Reload your browser's cache (or "Lade den Cache deines Browsers neu" :-) to make it work again. Lupo 16:36, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! It worked. --Dein Freund der Baum (talk) 18:27, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

How to complete "author information" for original at Wikicommons when...

I did a derivative image from File:Peirce-quincuncial-projection.jpg but, when I try to upload my derivative image, the form tells me to "complete the author information" for the original file (File:Peirce-quincuncial-projection.jpg) that's already at Wikimedia Commons. I'm not even sure what's meant by "author" and there are a lot of undefined terms in the form. It was User:Mdf who originally uploaded the original file. What am I supposed to do? The Tetrast (talk) 22:29, 22 November 2009 (UTC).

Fill in your name as author, semicolon, "original base work by", fill in author of base work. Lupo 10:41, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Translating Upload Form

How can I translate Upload Form? --BRUT (Talk) 12:12, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

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