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[edit] Delete Profile

I just wanna delete my profile and dont have a clue how, so please write me on my discussion and help me! --Daniel Presberger (talk) 21:28, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

See m:Right to vanish and Wikipedia:Right to vanish. I don't know how those documents apply to Wikimedia Commons. That is, I don't know whether Commons follows the same "right to vanish" that the English Wikipedia does. --Teratornis (talk) 03:33, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] TUSC password retrieval

Can't recall my TUSC (Flickr2Commons) password. Now the system is up again, I can't use it, as can't find any password retrieval links or a forgot my password button, usually available wherever a password is required on the net! Any ideas? Also can't find requisite forum to place such a query, as Magnus tools forum requires a login again, so placing it here. Thanks! --Ekabhishek (talk) 14:31, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

We can ask The Google. Which finds:
Maybe Magnus will do that for you. --Teratornis (talk) 21:03, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
OK, now that I have resubscribed, the new password is not being verified - showing failed! Any ideas?? PS: I have signed in with my 'en' user account and not 'commons' account in Language box, which was the second option. Did that create a problem?! As I only chose one of two given optionThanks! --Ekabhishek (talk) 05:46, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Still awaiting a response?? --Ekabhishek (talk) 11:52, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
You will have to ask on User talk:Magnus Manske. Probably no one who is reading the Help desk just now knows how to help. Did you ask Magnus Manske to "nuke" your old entry? --Teratornis (talk) 22:31, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Left a a message at his talk page as well, yesterday! Can't there be another mechanism where password can be sent by email automatically to users' ID?! Far easier, and of course lost hours could be saved this way?! --Ekabhishek (talk) 05:11, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
The tool is not part of the MediaWiki software, thus it lacks the extra layers of protection for password difficulties. Millions of people use Wikipedia; maybe only a few hundred use the TUSC system (I'm just guessing). With few users, Magnus may not feel a need to add all the safety features - that decision is up to him. I don't think Magnus reads the Help desk lately, so feature requests here will probably not help. He seems to be busy on lots of sites. In the meantime, you might try the non-TUSC {{Flinfo}} method to upload photos from Flickr. That's what I use anyway, since I had problems getting the bot to work the last time I tried it. --Teratornis (talk) 03:50, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
That's where I have been, in the Flint tool land all this while! Though thought should give TUSC another try, now that it has started working again.Anyway work goes on nevertheless...meanwhile we wait for ....:) --Ekabhishek (talk) 04:32, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

(collapsing indentation hell) You'll have to sign up for TUSC with the language/project you're using tools on. My own tools using TUSC all work on Commons, so you'll need that. If you have problems, try this first, it will give you a more detailed error message. As a last resort, I'll delete your TUSC entry to you can resubscribe. This method has worked so far :-) --Magnus Manske (talk) 09:07, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

I signed up in en itself the first time, later when I tried recreating the account using commons instead of en it showed, "Attention : you are already verified!.." Should I go ahead still?? Now on using the link you have given above, the error message reads "User is blocked. 0". I wonder, if creating an account using en, creates such a problem why have it as an option in the first, just have "commons".... Now what next? --Ekabhishek (talk) 04:46, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Strange. Maybe a miscommunication with the MediaWiki API. I have deleted both your TUSC accounts, please sign in for commons again. Sorry for the inconvenience. --Magnus Manske (talk) 20:11, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Reading the message above, the User is excited, he rushes to create a new account, he carefully types in those words, commons, and a few tricky manouvers, during which he also ponders over his a "new password".. and lo behold! He rejoices as those promising words appear on his screen,"Congratulations, you are now a verified TUSC user! Weep tears of joy, or something.". Cut to few moments later, he tries to upload a Flickr file, but the message is loud and clear! - "TUSC verification failed." The User is left high and dry...in an another corner of the commons, another bot is rubbing hands in glee. What would happen next, the suspense is terrifying and the prospects thrilling! --Ekabhishek (talk) 05:43, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
I suppose that means "it still doesn't work". Instead of poetry, the tusc_check output would have been helpful - is it still the "blocked" message, or something else? Were you ever blocked on Commons? Are you using funny UTF8 characters in your password? In my database, your account is marked as validated, as are ca. 3000 others which appear to work fine, so I'll have to figure out what is different about yours. --Magnus Manske (talk) 13:57, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Yes it still shows "blocked 0". No, I am NOT using "funny UTF8 characters" in my password, I can send it to you if you wish, and have never been blocked from commons..Do let me know if you need any other info in figuring out. Thanks!--Ekabhishek (talk) 05:57, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
The only way I could reproduce the error is by intentionally mistyping your username. I fixed the error message generator, so it will now distinguish between a blocked user and a nonexisting one. Please try again, making sure your username is correctly typed (upper/lowercase, no trailing tabs characters etc), and tell me if it still says blocked. In my experiment, the only things not verifying is your password, for the reason that I don't have it, so I expect it to work for you as well. Cheers, Magnus Manske (talk) 23:42, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] ...doc documents

How do I have to convert a word pad document with the ending .doc so that it is possible to upload it?--87.143.120.65 21:25, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Upload it where? Please describe the content of the .doc file and what you want to do with it. This is Wikimedia Commons, primarily a repository of images and other media files. In general we don't edit articles here. If you want to write an article, you might want one of the Wikipedias. If you want to upload some sort of document verbatim, Wikisource might be suitable. --Teratornis (talk) 23:11, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
This is not a useful answer to the question.--87.143.126.199 22:22, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Commons is not a place to store private documents or text at all; it's a repository of images, video and audio for educational purposes and/or Wikimedia projects. A doc file is not likely to be accepted here in any form. It's not particularly productive for us to help you upload this file if it's just going to get deleted.--Prosfilaes (talk) 22:28, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
My reply is not a useful answer to the question because it is not an answer to the question. Rather, my reply consisted of a request for more information about what you want to do. There is no useful answer to the question as you posed it, because the question provides insufficient information to determine whether Commons allows what you want to do. The format of a file is far less relevant than the content of the file - the content determines whether Commons allows it (see Commons:Project scope). However, if you tell us about your goal, not just the step you have in mind to reach the goal, we might tell you another step that will work. Please read How to Ask Questions the Smart Way. --Teratornis (talk) 23:45, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] A question that had no heading

Thank you to WikiAdmin. In the gallery do you have a third one photo with my identity picture? Regards SULPIN —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2009 90.33.135.45 (talk • contribs) 13:54, 18 November (UTC)

I don't understand the above question, and it seems nobody else here understands it. Please give a link to whatever you could mean by "the gallery" and explain the phrase "a third one photo with my identity picture". If English is not your native language, you could also try asking in whatever language you like, and maybe someone who understands that language will know what you mean. If you have an account on Commons, you should log in before asking a question, so we can look at your contributions. Sometimes we can see what a questioner means even if the questioner does not know the technical terms to describe it. But if you have no account or you do not log into your account, we do not have those clues. --Teratornis (talk) 22:01, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with POTD RSS feed

I'm trying to embed the RSS feed from the Wikimedia Commons POTD into a Wikispaces wiki using their RSS widget. But I get this error message: "A feed could not be found at http://toolserver.org/~daniel/potd/commons/potd-400x300.rss"

I asked Wikispaces help about it, and they told me this: "The feed is being served with the wrong content type. The server is describing the document as "text/plain" instead of an RSS feed, so our parser doesn't know how to understand it."

I'm not a techie so I don't know what this means exactly, but they tell me I can't do anything on my end to make this work.

Do you have any suggestions or workarounds?

Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.229.185.200 (talk • contribs) 18:26, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

This seems like a hard question. Perhaps the people who might be able to help are not reading the Help desk just now. You might try asking on the Commons:Village pump or Commons talk:Feeds. Often the talk pages of the manual pages that describe some technical feature will have some discussion about it. But the Commons:Feeds page is not very detailed and its talk page is not very busy. Since you have a specific error message, you could try Googling for its exact text. Sometimes this can find discussions of the same error elsewhere on the Web. I do that routinely for computer problems, sometimes with good results. --Teratornis (talk) 22:07, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hachiman-zukuri.png

Hi. I created a file (Hachiman-zukuri.png), uploaded it but immediately realized I had made an important mistake in the caption, so I uploaded a new version. Unfortunately, all previews still show the mistake. Is there any way to fix the problem, or do I have to update a new version of the file? It's not a cache problem. That's the first thing I thought of. I looked at the file with both my computers, and the reversed captions are there. (talk) 23:30, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

The File:Hachiman-zukuri.png has already been deleted by a Commons administrator so you can upload it again. --Teratornis (talk) 22:18, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Also note the difference between "cache" and "purge". See WP:PURGE. --Teratornis (talk) 22:20, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, this is a very useful tip.Urashimataro (talk) 06
13, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Trying to replace an image with a better, edited version

The original image is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_phone_subscribers_per_100_inhabitants_1997-2007_ITU.png

I have edited it to remove the part of the graph that went up to 120 (the maximum number of people per 100 people is 100.)

I have uploaded this edited version to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_phone_subscribers_per_100_inhabitants_1997-2007_ITU1.png

Please replace the original image with my edited, updated version. (You may want to take out most of the junk from the comment on my image, I can't because apparently me reformatting the image that I just uploaded would be "potentially unconstructive". As though I'm vandalising the page I just created.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mechwarrior Puppies (talk • contribs) 06:24, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Your account is new so you are not yet autoconfirmed. In a few days you will be able to upload a new version over the existing File:Mobile phone subscribers per 100 inhabitants 1997-2007 ITU.png. Also note:
--Teratornis (talk) 23:35, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Image not displaying in Wikipedia

photo of a skyscraper

I uploaded this file yesterday but it is not displaying on the 111 George Street article in Wikipedia. Any ideas why not? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shiftchange (talk • contribs) 07:38, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Fixed. Please remember to sign posts on talk pages using ~~~~ --Dweller (talk) 10:53, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] License question

I don't upload images very often... help with this question gratefully received.

I have an image of a statue to upload. So it's a photo taken by me, of a piece of artwork on public display (in the street) that I didn't sculpt myself!

Cheers --Dweller (talk) 10:46, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

See Commons:Freedom of panorama for relevant country laws. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:33, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Perfect, thanks. --Dweller (talk) 16:17, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Create category

I cant find the categories I want. How to create new categories (in this case "Norwegian Rivers" and "River Skas-Heigre"). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul Aakerøy (talk • contribs) 09:47, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

See Category:Rivers of Norway. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:40, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
For more information see the links under COM:EIC#Cat. Categories can be tricky at first so it pays to read the friendly manuals. I recommend keeping a list of any new categories you create, on your user page (see mine here). --Teratornis (talk) 19:05, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] categorization

Hello!

Yesterday I uploaded an image but forgot to categorize it. Now I cannot find how to edit the category. And the bot is crying... Could you please help me? Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eclipsa (talk • contribs) 11:28, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Go to the image page and click on the "edit" tab at the top. Then add [[Category:Brabus vehicles]] and click Save. Pruneautalk 13:16, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi!

Almost every time I upload an image with categories specified on the US Government source upload form, those same categories are not showing up on the File once the upload is complete and the Bot is listing almost everyone of these as if I left the categories off. Not happening! So, may I suggest you or someone make sure those categories I input on the form get into the file for the image. I've uploaded a lot of images from NASA and that's a lot to go back into for listing categories I've already listed once. Marshallsumter (talk) 00:57, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

It's not too bad to add categories with HotCat. Otherwise, I don't think any of the software developers read the Help desk, so bug reports rarely do much good here. See COM:EIC#Bugs. --Teratornis (talk) 01:20, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Template to renominate for deletion

Which template should I use to renominate the file for deletion if I disagree with an admin's decision not to delete it? Commons:Deletion_requests#Appeal --Klodl (talk) 11:14, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Also {{delete}} on the image description. Place the renomination deletion request on the same subpage at the very end of the page below the closed deletion discussion (below the {{delf}}!) and relist the deletion request at the today log. --Martin H. (talk) 11:22, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Perfect, thanks very much for your time to help out. --Klodl (talk) 12:04, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit]  ???

مساء الخير عليكم وأشكركم على هذا المجهود الرائع وأود أن أعرف منكم كيفية الدخول والتسجيل علما بأننى حاولت الدخول أكثر من مرة وتعطينى رسالة خطأ فى الدخول... وكمان أريد الحصول على أدوات الجنس المختلفة ولكن للأسف لم أمتلك ماستر كارد وهل من الممكن الحصول على هذه الأدوات مجانا للمعرفة والدعاية لكم أرجو منك الإفادة فى هذا الشأن من فضلكم أنا فى إنتظار ردكم وشكرا لكم فى جميع الأحوال مع خالص تحياتى لكم....جووووووووووود باااااااااااااااى أنا فى الإنتظار

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.238.43.182 (talk • contribs) 14:29, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

From Google Translation I suspect you are wrong here. This is Wikimedia Commons, the shared repository for freely licensed media files of all Wikimedia Projects. To create an account please see the Commons:First steps. You said something of MasterCard (ماستر كارد) - you not need to pay to use Wikimedia, if you want to donate to Wikimedia Commons please visit foundation:Global_Support/en. --Martin H. (talk) 18:48, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Correct category?

Could an administrator examine the category, and adapt these if necessary? I'm not familiar with the refinement of the English language. I've some problems to find the suitable words.

  • Tablature music icon.svg There are different categories with Novula-Icon.
  • Gitarre Noten lesen lernen G H E.svg It is about to study reading notes for guitar. (Midi-File will come soon)

Thanks for your assistance :o) --Mjchael (talk) 07:16, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't understand why you are asking for an administrator. If you are asking how to categorize the above two images, any Commons user can do that, not only administrators. Categories on Commons can be tricky at first. I suggest:
  • Read the links under COM:EIC#Cat.
  • Type terms relating to the images in the search box to the left. Look for categories in the search results, and look at similar images in the search results to see what categories they are in.
  • Search the various language Wikipedias for these terms also. Read all the Wikipedia articles you find. See how the articles are categorized on Wikipedia. Look at the images in each article. If the image files are on Commons, see what categories they are in.
  • Look at the histories of these categories and images to see the users who have edited the categories or uploaded images. Look at their user pages to see if they share your interest. Ideally you would like to find another Commons user who speaks your native language and who shares your interest in this topic.
  • Ask on a relevant WikiProject such as: Wikipedia:WikiProject Music or one of its subprojects.
  • Keep notes on your user page as you gain information.
  • Sometimes part of the category structure on Commons can benefit from some reorganization. If you are new to Commons or working against a language barrier due to the English bias on Commons, then it could be difficult for you to determine what changes to categories are needed. The more difficult a problem is, the more important it is to take careful notes as you learn more clues.
--Teratornis (talk) 22:47, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] SVG converting?

Can someone help me to convert Image:Modern Talking.png to a SVG file. Thanks, and please contact me if you can... --MisterWiki (talk) 18:54, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

If you get no help here, try asking on COM:GVP. The users with graphic skills seem to hang out there. See for example COM:GVP#Signatures to SVG?. --Teratornis (talk) 04:20, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Chirstianity is not Catholicism and Catholicism is not Christianity

Your page: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade" is erroneous in that you state Christians executed The Crusades. "Christians" were completely nonexistent during the time of the Crusades in that they were either killed or disbursed in the first century by the Romans. Their hidden "Dead Sea Scrolls" were found in the Qumran Caves in the 1940's based on your own site: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran_Caves." Educated Christians and Catholics agree that Christianity and Catholicism are mutually exclusive. Christianity did not make a comeback until Martin Luther Posted the Ninety-Five Theses in the 1500's. You can find the information on Martin Luther and the Ninety-Five Theses based on your site: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther" and will find the Protestants and Catholics disagree completely on doctrine. Though the Catholics (lightly) use the Bible they base their beliefs on the Apocrypha. If you ask an educated Catholic if he is a Christian he will tell you no, he is a Catholic. If you ask an educated Christian if he is a Catholic he will say no, he is a Christian. Wikipedia should change any erroneous claims about Christianity that are actually Catholic in order to make their site more credible.

Thank you,

Mike Fouts —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.242.169.10 (talk • contribs) 01:24, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

This is Wikimedia Commons, the shared file repository of 700 Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia projects in 250 languages. See our FAQ to learn more about Commons. If you want to adress an problem about an Wikipedia article you should go to Wikipedia and ask at the articles talkpage or the helpdesk there. --Martin H. (talk) 01:28, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
You could express your concerns on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Christianity but I suspect your rather idiosyncratic claim that Roman Catholicism is not a form of Christianity will meet with some resistance. (There are of course profound doctrinal differences among the many branches and schisms of Christianity, as is the case for other large religions. Schism appears to be an inherent property of any religion which survives very long and grows to a large size.) While there is always room to improve, Wikipedia seems credible enough already to have become one of the world's top five Web properties in English. You might also consider editing on Conservapedia. --Teratornis (talk) 04:35, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Create a new page

How do I create a new page? Half the time I can sign in and the rest of the time it says I am blocked because of vandalism. I just created my account today, I have a completed page in my sandbox, but it won't let me link it. Help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mc26 (talk • contribs) 04:26, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

This is Wikimedia Commons, a file archive for Wikipedia projects in 250 languages. You created an article on your userpage, User:Mc26. Commons is not the place for articles, only freely licensed media files and galleries of media files are collected here. You are not blocked here, but your article is placed on the totally wrong project. --Martin H. (talk) 04:30, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Account Problem

Hi Leute, hab mich gestern hier angemeldet und heute ein Bild hochgeladen http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao_fog_installation.jpg (weiß noch nicht, wie ich es anders verlinken kann). In der Hochlademaske war ja automatisch als Autor mein Nutzername "Nikopol" als Link eingetragen. Wenn ich jetzt unter dem Bild auf den Link "Nikopol" klicke, werde ich allerdings auf die Userpage von einem "Nikopoley" weitergeleitet. Woran liegt das? Wo ist meine eigenen Page, und wie kann ich die bearbeiten? Bei "Einstellungen" ich ja geht da ja nicht... Danke! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikopol (talk • contribs) 01:22, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Problem behoben. Unter dem Namen Nikopol existierte schon vorher einmal ein Account der sich auf Nikopoley umbenannt hat. Ich habe die Weiterleitung der Benutzerseite gelöscht so dass deine Benutzerseite nun leer ist, ebenfalls die Weiterleitung deiner Benutzer-Diskussion habe ich mit dem üblichen Welcome ersetzt. Wilkommen :) --Martin H. (talk) 03:16, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Answers to your other questions, I think:
--Teratornis (talk) 03:26, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Danke!--Nikopol

[edit] Old picture

Good night! I need your help, i want to know if it is possible to upload an image wich is from 1891 and whose author died in 1931, is that possible? I leave you best regards ---- Plav mušketir Flag of Asturias.svg Živijo 04:44, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

For most countries (except Mexico, Colombia, Honduras, Côte d'Ivoire, and some other more difficult circumstances) it is possible, upoad it with the "its from somewhere else" option in Commons:Upload, fill out the required source and author information and select the license "Public domain: Author died more than 70 years ago". That will result in {{PD-old}}, the applicable license here. Check Commons:Licensing for terms of copyright expiration. --Martin H. (talk) 11:11, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
That 's perfect, really thank you very much! ---- Plav mušketir Flag of Asturias.svg Živijo 12:47, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Lag time 19+ hours?

I have no idea where to report this, so I'm starting here: I'm getting an "estimated lag for commons.wikimedia.org: 19 hours, 9 minutes" message (as of this comment). The http://status.toolserver.org shows s6 having a major issue, but also that the status.toolserver page hasn't been updated since Nov. 14. Am I missing something? Is something really down? Is this some sort of maintenance issue? Is there a huge number of files being upload by administration? I've never seen lag like this. - Tim1965 (talk) 13:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

See the following question for some links that might help or might lead to some place that helps. The Commons:Village pump might be a better place to ask this question. --Teratornis (talk) 20:05, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] No "you have a new message" banner when someone leaves a message at my talk?

In this edit, someone left me a notice that a set of categories was at CFD. There aren't any problems with the notice: it was obviously done in good faith, a helpful notice, and the link to the CFD works fine. However, I didn't realise that I'd been left a note until I checked my watchlist, at least twenty minutes after I logged onto Commons today. Why didn't I get one of the orange you-have-a-new-message banners? I've always before gotten such a message when someone left me a note. Nyttend (talk) 13:56, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

I have no idea, but you could look at the Wikimedia Technical Blog to see if this is part of some larger "known issue". Do you have this setting in Special:Preferences under the user profile tab:
  • E-mail me when my user talk page is changed
That might provide another layer of notification in case you don't see the on-Commons notification for some reason. See also WP:EIW#Technical and WP:EIW#Bugs. --Teratornis (talk) 22:09, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Interestingly, I just logged in, and the banner appeared the second time I opened the window, even though the message was left over half an hour ago. It's not a big deal; I check my watchlist every time I log in. Nyttend (talk) 13:49, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Assistance with permissions

Please see Commons:Deletion requests/File:Animalkingdom.jpg. The uploader claims to represent a company that has been granted a limited right to use the image (and others) by the copyright holder. Can someone more familiar with licensing and permissions issues please answer the uploader's concerns? Powers (talk) 16:10, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Someone needs to follow the procedure in COM:OTRS for that image. --Teratornis (talk) 22:28, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Yes, but the user claimed the process to be "clear as mud" and I don't have the necessary experience to walk the user through it. Powers (talk) 16:22, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Then I guess the image will get deleted. The instructions in COM:OTRS have apparently been clear enough to lots of people. If the user cannot tell us what he or she finds confusing about the instructions, then there is probably nothing we can do. Most people probably don't have the ability to use a do it yourself system like Commons, unfortunately. --Teratornis (talk) 21:11, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required

Can an image labelled as "stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required" be put on wikicommons & used on wikipedia? It's from a book published in 1909. See http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gotch/pages/105-Montacute-house/ for more info.Rodw (talk) 21:49, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons does not allow media with a non-commercial restriction. See Commons:Project scope#Required licensing terms. However, if the image is from a book published in 1909 then it should be in the public domain. See Help:Public domain, and for a famous example see Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. Judging from the "About" page on that site it looks like the site owner is a hobbyist who may not be familiar with details of copyright law that impact what he is doing. I.e., I don't think he can claim a non-commercial restriction over an image that is out of copyright. The fact that he scanned the image probably does not meet the threshold of originality. However, rather than confront him in a hostile way, I suggest telling him that having his scans uploaded to Wikimedia Commons will drive traffic back to his site, because his scans will appear in Wikipedia articles where they will be widely viewed, and our image pages will link to his image pages as our sources. We can certainly credit the person who scanned the image from an old book, and if he asks for donations on his site that is not an issue for us. --Teratornis (talk) 22:26, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments - I have emailed the person who scanned them in asking if he has any particular text he wants used as a credit on here. I've uploaded a couple which he lists as public domain ie File:Somersetshire map 1786.jpg & File:Farley-Castle 1830.jpg - it would be great if you could check the licence & text I've added to ensure I'm giving the right credits to the right people etc.Rodw (talk) 22:53, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
See here; he is aware that the original images are PD, so it's clear that he thinks he has copyright over the online images because he scanned them. Nyttend (talk) 00:22, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
The book, The Growth of the English House, by Alfred J Gotch, was published in London in 1909. The copyright law in effect in London at that time for photographs was life + 50 years, but has since been extended to life + 70 years; the laws in European countries are not the same as in the USA, and books published before 1923 are not automatically out of copyright; in addition, the term "public domain" has difficulties, because of laws about moral rights. In the case of this particular book, photographs are out of copyright but accompanying text and diagrams are still covered (they get a different copyright term in the UK). For works that are out of copyright, the wording on my website (www.fromoldbooks.org) says a that usage credit is requested, not that it is required, and there's no restriction for commercial or other use. The content management system I am using makes it hard to distinguish the copyright of individual items in a book, so they generally all get marked with the most restrictive term that might apply, but I am not attempting to claim any copyright for scanning images: US and UK law is fairly clear on that point, and in the US there is legal precedent, but in Canada (where I live) it's not so clear, and there is not a "public domain" in Canadian law, e.g. moral rights to attribution cannot entirely be waived here. For works published jointly in multiple countries which have ratified various international copyright treaties, the shortest period of copyright in any of those counties applies to all of them for that work, but that only applies for works published within 30 days in multiple countries. So for Internet publishing of a work, where people can view and potentially reuse the work in any country, there is a potential "conflict of laws" situation, but, in general, the copyright law of the country in which the work was created and first published, where these are the same, will prevail. Hence, I have followed the provisions of the UK Copyright Act, taking into account also the influence of Canadian law where the scans were made and where the site is hosted. I hope that's clearer; I'll work on making the copyright notes on my Web pages clearer over the next month or so. Thanks, Rod, for contacting me - and sorry for a long answer! The short answer (as I said in my email) is that yes, where images are out of copyright feel free to use them in wikipedia, and I'd be pleased if there was a link back. Barefootliam (talk) 16:14, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
For Internet publishing of the work, the copyright law of the server and host prevails. Note that Agatha Christie's estate has not managed to remove The Mysterious Affair at Styles from Wikisource or Project Gutenberg, nor ultimately did the Margaret Mitchell estate manage to pull Gone with the Wind from Project Gutenberg Australia. See The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation: Cease and Desist Responses for some examples here. Commons concerns about the copyright of original nation are a slightly idiosyncratic choice, not law.--Prosfilaes (talk) 16:31, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
  • Apologies to Barefootliam for my incorrect assumptions about him. No need to apologize for a long answer - when unraveling copyright questions, more information is usually better. See the links under COM:EIC#Copyright for information about how Wikimedia Commons appears to interpret copyright law. Thank you for sharing your work, and for actually coming here to discuss with us.
  • Note to Prosfilaes: it looks like "wikisource:" is the interwiki link prefix that works, rather than "ws:" wikisource:The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
--Teratornis (talk) 19:47, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
  • No offence taken, Teratornis; it's helpful to be able to have such a discussion. To Prosfilaes, I can only say, there's no single set of laws for the Internet as a whole, beyond of course standards and regulations set by IANA, IETF, W3C (where I work) and so on. Doing what is right is not an "idiosyncratic idea." The "law of the host and server" does not "prevail" in some legal sense. But we are off-topic, and perhaps must agree to disagree. At any rate it's fine to use images from my Web site, taking into account the copyright notes I have made and your own research, and that I cannot accept liability for errors or omissions. Barefootliam (talk) 04:03, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
  • Doing what is right is not idiosyncratic as a concept, but specific concepts of what is right can be and frequently are; as one who believes that copyright law generally goes far beyond what moral responsibility would demand we respect, for both good and bad reasons, I don't see doing what Commons does as a matter of moral necessity. If there is a legal sense where the owner of the server is bound by more than their law, and the downloader more than his, I would like to know about it; such a fact might require the English Wikipedia, Wikisource, and Project Gutenberg to change their behaviors.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:42, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
  • The US copyright law says that "a work that is published in the United States or a treaty party shall be considered to be first published in the United States" so it's a feature of US law that the US does not (in general) respect longer (or different) copyright terms in other Berne Convention countries. However, the Convention also grants minimum periods of protection in all countries, which is life + 50 years; for a work made in a Berne Convention country outside the US (and not published within 30 days in the US) there is thus copyright protection in the US of not less than 50 years after the death of the author. The "Gone with the Wind" take-down notice is not a counter-example: the notice was sent to Project Gutenberg and not to Project Gutenberg Australia, and hence was not honoured. It's not entirely clear to me that the US has entirely ratified the Berne Convention, because the US copyright act places additional limits by saying that a work shall be considered to have been first published in the US if it was published in any Berne Convention country, and also because moral rights of authors are somewhat limited, and (as far as I can tell; not everyone is certain) can be waived. Note also that copyright violation if more than 10 copies are made (e.g. downloaded) in the US is now a criminal offence. It's all a bit vague because it takes decisions in courts to make things clear, not opinions by lawyers. But I think it's fairly hard to justify your statement, For Internet publishing of the work, the copyright law of the server and host prevails, even in the US, and certainly not here in Canada. There's no single legal entity with jurisdiction over such things, for one thing. Barefootliam (talk) 04:24, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
  • I'm not going to argue Berne Convention, but US copyright law is explicit about being the treaties not being self-executing. Works published prior to 1978 get 95 years from publication, not life + 50. The notice that was sent to Project Gutenberg Australia was ignored; Gone with the Wind is still online, because it's legal in Australia, even though it's an American work in copyright in the US. For actions done on a particular soil, with rare exceptions, the only jurisdiction is that of that particular soil. If you do something in the US, the US law is the prevailing law. You haven't offered counter-examples; give me a case where PG or the Internet Archive or Wikisource was forced to take something down that was not copyright in the US. Or quote the law. Just saying that "it's fairly hard to justify your statement" is not evidence.--Prosfilaes (talk) 15:31, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Why can I not see the image i uploaded

Media:Example.ogg Can youplease help with my image upload, it is not visible and how do I apply it to my wikipedia document? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Egyptiancotton (talk • contribs) 00:55, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

The image you uploaded appears to be: File:Canningvale Egyptian Cotton Towels.TIF. Please read Commons:First steps and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial. The preview of that image does not display for me. When I view the image itself, my browser opens an external image viewer and then I have to wait for 21 MB to download. That is not very convenient. You might want to downsample to a smaller size and change the format to PNG. The image will soon be deleted anyway if you don't add permission information. See Commons:First steps/License selection. --Teratornis (talk) 20:20, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
TIFF files don't have a preview. JPEG is probably the best format, since it's a photograph, but given that the original file is uncompressed, the PNG is only a third the size (7 MB), so I don't see the need to scale it down.--Prosfilaes (talk) 20:46, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] How to add a picture

Hello-

I want to add a picture for Al Riley. How do I do this? He has provided a picture to be posted; he is an elected official and I want to use his profile picture. Please advise.

Thanks, Marta Perales —Preceding unsigned comment added by Msperales (talk • contribs) 14:01, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Please read Commons:First steps. If you did not take the picture yourself, follow the procedure in COM:OTRS so we can properly document permission from the photographer. Is the picture already online somewhere? --Teratornis (talk) 20:23, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Filter for Commons display

It sure would be helpful if there were a filter function (e.g., *.png) on the display of thumbnails in the Commons "Recent Files". That way, one would not have to scroll through hundreds of Pie Charts, for example, that held not the least bit interest to many of us. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.19.69.250 (talk • contribs) 17:35, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Every time I use a computer, I see many ways I would like it to work differently. Probably the only way to get the system you want is to code it yourself. --Teratornis (talk) 21:15, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
The "Extended view" linked at the top of Special:NewFiles allows filtering. Regretably it is sorted by uploading user and not simply by time of upload. --Martin H. (talk) 04:13, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Preview image is not reflecting the latest version. Why?

Hi. I've found that in some cases the preview images are not being renewed after uploading the modified images. For example, in Moegino.JPG, the vehicle on the right side should be cut short if it is the exact scaledown of the latest (4th) version, but the medium sized preview image of the file page and the thumbnail on the Wikipedia page still remain as those of the 3rd version. 20 days have passed since the latest upload. a) Any solutions? b) Is there any ways to request the deletion of the unnecessary versions , namely the 2nd and 3rd ones? These are only wasting the resources of Wikimedia.
Thank you in advance.--トトト (talk) 03:01, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

It is updated for me, please clear your browser cache. The cache of IE is extremly persistent, also a ctrl+F5 not helps some times. I not know of a standardized process for version deletion, you may ask an administrator, nominate the image for deletion with the request for version deletion etc. - but its not an issue. I delete the versions for you. --Martin H. (talk) 03:56, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for deleting the 2 versions. But the problem still persists: I've cleared the whole FireFox3.5 cache but the preview image/thumbnail on the 2 sites are still unchanged. The front wheel of the Mitsubishi? RV should be unseen (Small 110px one that I've quoted above was OK from the start). I've tried it with IE but it's still there.
My guess is, when you upload an image, and re-upload the modified image in which the longitudinal pixel is unchanged, the server of Wikimedia commons will never update the already-created preview image. Am I not right?
(Sorry for taking your time.)--トトト (talk) 05:24, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
I see it's been fixed now. Thank you. (However, I have a similar trouble in Ishigaki-jima surfer.jpg; I've re-uploaded contrast-adjusted version, but it seems that the preview was not yet updated...) --トトト (talk) 07:39, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
I read your last problem post and can confirm it, also for me the image page was different from the thumbnail you posted here, it showed the second or third version with the street lamp on the right even I already deleted this versions. Strange, I have no idea, but god to see that the time fixed it ;) --Martin H. (talk) 10:10, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] File:Duesseldorf christmas fair 04.jpg

Hi, I am the editor of a small-circulation (approx. 180 copies) newsletter for German translators in the UK and wish to use the image "Duesseldorf christmas fair 04.jpg" by Rainer Driesen dated 23.12.2001 as an image in the latest Christmas issue. The image is in Wikimedia Commons and permission has been granted under GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2. Can I use the image and what text must I include with it?

Thanks and regards,

Julie Roberts —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.254.71.13 (talk • contribs) 08:30, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

See Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia. If you want to reuse this image you have to comply with the license requirements of either the GFDL or the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license.
To fulfill the GFDL you have to release your copy under the GFDL again, credit all the authors or content creators and include a complete copy of the GFDL license text.
To fulfill the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license requirements you must attribute the author, release your copy under the same or a similar Creative Commons license, provide the name of the license and/or a link to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, see Commons:Credit_line#CC-BY_and_CC-BY-SA_licenses. --Martin H. (talk) 10:05, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] How do I upload a pdf reference?

Hello

This is probably a very simple question, but I have a pdf of a newspaper article I want to use as a reference.

It is just a pdf sitting on my desktop - how do I add it to the reference list. Can I upload it to commons or cut and paste the pdf somewhere?

Many thanks for any help

The first and more important question is what is the copyright status of the newspaper article, is it public domain due to copyright expiration (see Commons:Licensing) or do you have the copyright holders written permission to a free license? The second question is if the content is within the project scope. Newspaper articles are published and, likely, reviewed, so you can use them as a reference on Wikipedia without uploading the article here. If the article is not notable or historic it will fall out of the Commons project scope according to COM:PS#Excluded_educational_content. However, you can still cite the article in an Wikipedia article following the instructions in en:Wikipedia:Citing sources. --Martin H. (talk) 14:07, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks Martin - yes I do have the express written permission for publishing the article on wikipedia. I guess my question is more of a 'which buttons do I press' type of question? should I upload the pdf file to commons or is there a simpler more elegant way? Once again many thanks for your help

The only way to upload files to Commons is uploading them ;) Maybe you have the correct permission, however the workding 'permission for publishing the article on Wikipedia' sounds to me like you not have. You need the copyright holders written permission that everyone, not only wikipedia, can reuse the article for every purpose including commercial use, modifications or build upon under the terms of a free license. A free license allows for this kind of free reuse, see Commons:Project scope#Required licensing terms. If you have this permission and if the article is within our scope (notable article or historic content) you can simply upload it with Special:Upload providing the source (where was it published) and author (who wrote the article) information. Likely you will be asked to forward a written permission to COM:OTRS after you uploaded the article. --Martin H. (talk) 14:23, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit]

Hi folks, I just got stuck with the question whether I can upload a redrawn SVG-version of the historical logo of the former shipping company en:Norddeutscher Lloyd to Commons or not. The company existed from 1858 to 1970 and the logo in question was created before 1882 and is no longer in use. Is it public domain due to the author died more the 70 years ago? Or do other terms apply because the company was in function until 1970? --Gepardenforellenfischer (talk) 17:45, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

No, for copyright you must establish that the logo designer died before 1939 (well, 1940) or that it is an anonymous or corporate design published before 1939/1940. In addition, if it is an armorial design (i.e. a coat of arms, armorial badge or related device) you may recreate it from the text description or blazon without violating any copyrights. Sv1xv (talk) 18:16, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
Okay, thanks for helping. --Gepardenforellenfischer (talk) 19:43, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] A remade self-portrait of a person deceased more than 100 yrs ago

Hello- I have a wee question concerning a pic I would like to upload. I have found a self-portrait of Rudolf Kurz published in a book on GoogleBooks. I took a screen of that page (seeing no other way to extract the pic) and edited a bit with Photoshop. Since the portrait was done more than a 100 yrs ago and by a person who died more than 100 yrs ago (1871) (as well as 'cos I meddled with it), is it ok to upload such a file? Thank you for your help. Cheers Hoodinski (talk) 20:31, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it is ok. The copyright belongs to the creator, and has expired; the scan of an already public domain image by Google or whoever does not generate a new copyright. The copyright tag for such images is {{PD-Art}}. Cheers, Infrogmation (talk) 21:09, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
Actually, no, it's probably {{PD-Scan}}, provided the book itself that Google scanned is in the public domain. Dcoetzee (talk) 21:46, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
Righto- cheers. Hoodinski (talk) 21:56, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Request rename of nigger-gorrilla.png

An image on wikipedia:Great Hippocampus Question, The name of the file "Nigger-Gorilla.png" seems inappropriate. Would it be possible to rename this to Brains-negro-gorilla.png? The file name is the same as from the site in which it was taken. [[1]] Does this even contribute to the article? Thanks! Jim1138 (talk) 00:17, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

See COM:FAQ#MOVE. --Teratornis (talk) 04:11, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Upload replacement file

I seem to have crapped up a file I uploaded. I uploaded a low resolution jpeg, then tried to replace it with a tif file, but didn't notice that the original file name includes the jpg file extension. I tried to undo my edit, which didn't help. Someone tell me what to do! --IP69.226.103.13 (talk) 02:14, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Go to File:DAPIMitoTrackerRedAlexaFluor488BPAE.jpg, at the bottom youll find the file history, click on revert. .tiff is allowed to upload but not supported for thumbnails. See Commons:File types. --Martin H. (talk) 02:29, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Oh, okay. Thanks. It's still 3X bigger than the first file, so that's okay. --IP69.226.103.13 (talk) 04:40, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks to User:Justass who converted the .tif to .jpg and reuploaded it. --Martin H. (talk) 06:54, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I didn't check the names, and I thought you did it. Yes, thanks Justass for just converting it for me. I asked for the one I uploaded as a tif with the same name to be deleted. That should take care of it. I appreciate the help. --IP69.226.103.13 (talk) 00:06, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] I uploaded Public Documents, but they were deleted because I wrote the wrong licencing. HELP!

I uploaded this gallery - [2]

It was all deleted, since I filled out the licensing wrong.

  • 1. the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors 1961 Commendation for Louis Lesser, which I got from PUBLIC files in the County of Los Angeles.
  • 2. the "Louis Lesser 1963 Annual Report", page by page (18 pages), which is not copyrighted, but is from the PUBLIC files for the SEC application to get listed on the American Stock Exchange.
  • All of the pages were deleted because I did something wrong.
  • A. Can anyone show me how I should have filled out the licencing for these public documents, and restore them? It is difficult for me to upload, being on a very slow internet situation, and I am working at a public computer, which is an antique.
  • B. I am uploading photographs I took, and am unsure of how to do the licencing. Can anyone help me fix it if I do it wrong, instead of just deleting them? HkFnsNGA (talk) 14:24, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Those are public files; that doesn't mean they're public domain.--Prosfilaes (talk) 15:32, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
B. Why were the photographs I took, of individuals, in public, last summer, deleted, and how shuold I have done things differently so they would not be? HkFnsNGA (talk) 19:10, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
1. What is the licensing needed for a public document such as a certificate from the LA County Board of Supervisors?HkFnsNGA (talk) 19:10, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
2. What is the licencing for a Chapter 7 Company, Louis Lesser Enterprises, Inc., where by the definition of Chapter 7, all rights tpo ANYTHING are given up?

Is there anyone who might know how to answer these questions? HkFnsNGA (talk) 19:10, 28 November 2009 (UTC) HkFnsNGA (talk) 19:10, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

For your question #2: If there is some very special reason why some media is PD and it is not covered by the existing tags, use {{PD-because}}, stating the exact reason. Usage: {{PD-because|this image is free under part X of Act Y as a document of ...}}. Sv1xv (talk) 19:22, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
It's best to ask individual questions under individual headings, because each case you present above is different, requiring different actions, involving different manuals, and giving anyone who wants to help you different needs for information. (For example, question B. is vague, because deleted files don't show up easily to other users who are not administrators. Before anyone can answer your question, first we have to identify the files you are talking about. Give us the file names, and link to whatever deletion discussion that may still be around for these files. If you took a picture yourself, and the subject of the picture is not under any copyright restrictions (see COM:CB for a list of such restrictions), then you can license your work freely for example with {{cc-by-sa-3.0}}.) Trying to answer different questions under one heading lead to a bit of a mess. What manuals have you read so far? Virtually everything a new Commons user needs to know about Commons is on Commons - that is how Commons users have helped new Commons users. Your talk page has a {{Welcome}} template with links to several manuals. Read them. In particular, read Commons:Project scope, Commons:First steps, COM:L, COM:CB and COM:OTRS. According to Commons:Project scope/Precautionary principle, at Commons we assume everything is under copyright and is not freely licensed unless we can explicitly verify that it is freely licensed. The burden of proof is on the uploader. The burden of reading and following the instructions is also on the uploader. Unfortunately due to the complications of copyright law and the large number of cases this cannot be made instantly point-and-click simple for the casual user. It takes some work to learn how to upload various kinds of works to Commons. Your best bet would be to start with the easiest case: an image you created yourself. Once you know how to manage that, then you can move onto the more difficult cases of files created by someone else (for which you should follow the procedure in COM:OTRS if no explicit declaration of their free content status exists online). Note that administrators tend to delete files with incorrect licensing instead of individually tutoring new users who don't read the manuals because there aren't enough administrators and they don't get paid. --Teratornis (talk) 20:31, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Also note, an unlinked phrase like "Chapter 7 company" is ambiguous. You are writing to fellow Commons users all over the world. Thus you should link such terms to pages that define them, for example do you mean: Chapter 7, Title 11, United States Code? In general, when you don't know the copyright status of works by someone else, you have to obtain permission from the creator(s) and document it by following the procedure in COM:OTRS. In some cases, Commons users have already identified types of works that are known to be in the public domain, and we have standard templates for marking them as such (see for example Commons:Image copyright tags visual). These templates cite the applicable laws. I have not heard of a "Chapter 7 company" case yet, and if it has not come up on Commons before, then we might be breaking new ground here. If documents pertaining to such cases are in fact in the public domain, there must be some law somewhere declaring them so, and we will need to cite it. Can you tell us that law? --Teratornis (talk) 20:31, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
  • Thanks, I will try just uploading a cell phone camera image first, as you say. It looks like I have a lot of reading to do. Can you suggest an order of things to read, and links to them? I will try to spend a little time each day, reading these, until I get through most of it. Thanks again. HkFnsNGA (talk) 23:32, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] power point presntations

I want to upload power point presentation and I don't know how, pls help me!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by A.H.SHIKAKHWA (talk • contribs) 19:33, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

See Commons:File types. Commons does not allow .ppt files. If you created the file yourself, you could convert the individual slides to SVG files. See Commons:File types#SVG. Also, you should categorize the images you have already uploaded. I would help but your image descriptions are terse and vague. For example, does the word "Firefly" in your image descriptions refer to the Slingsby T-67 Firefly? Since your images only show a partial cockpit view, I cannot see enough of the aircraft to identify it. --Teratornis (talk) 20:43, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Iran pictures

Hi guys, I´ve got some great pictures of a trip to iran last summer which I would like to upload. I took all of the pictures myself, but some are inside old mosques. As far as I understand the licence policy of iran, I am nevertheless allowed to upload the pictures. Do you think I got that right? Thanks! Nikopol (talk) 01:32, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Request for editing SVG

Please help Rwanda just joined the Commonwealth of Nations, so could someone please amend File:Commonwealth of Nations.svg? Thanks. Koavf (talk) 03:46, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] I want to use Tracks / GPX files

Tracks in GPX (or other?) file formats may be useful as

  • description/definition of a lemma
  • content of a lemma (sports events, hiking tracks, ...)
  • source for information.

Is there a general policy about these kinds of files? I noticed, that they are not allowed in the commons and in wikisource. Do we upload them on commercial websites and reference these? I'd rather create these files and put them in the commons. --Awilms (talk) 08:07, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Establishing a new category etc

I am a relatively new user mostly interested in architecture and I want to share some of my more unusual older pictures with the Commons community. I am not really familiar with the technical side of things though and I'm slightly frustrated when I get only BOT mail after committing a mistake.

My most urgent problem is a simple one: I want to establish a new category, i.e. Kromsdorf. This is a little village in the Landkreis (County) of Weimar, Germany, featuring an interesting renaissance castle and a wall with a lot of portrait busts mostly done in a mannerist style. I am not sure whether I should integrate it into the Weimar category, but I could easily upload 10 of the portrait busts alone.

I am usually uploading pictures that I want to use immediately in German Wikipedia and I would be grateful to find a kind of mentor who would help me not to commit too many mistakes.

Robert Schediwy (talk) 11:24, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

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