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Images Link

The "Images" link at the top right of the main page goes to a redirect (Category:Images) rather than a category (Category:Pictures and images). --Ozhiker (talk) 15:22, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

  • It looks like it was fixed. Evrik (talk) 21:35, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
✓ Done Evrik (talk) 21:52, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


POTY 2008

We'll be getting in results on the semi-finals (and thus the winners in the individual categories) by the 1st of March. Would it be a problem to run these category winners on the main page, one or two per day, during, say, the first week or two of March? What would need to be done to make this practical? Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:08, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done Evrik (talk) 21:42, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Search box

{{editprotected}} There is no search box at the top of Main Page, even though there is a reference to one under Browsing.

I see one, just below the logo… --Mormegil (talk) 13:24, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
  • I see one as well. Evrik (talk) 21:33, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
✓ Done Evrik (talk) 21:33, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Erratum: earthrise caption

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there is a significant technical error in the potd caption/description:

"Taken by Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders on December 24, 1968, showing the Earth seemingly rising above the lunar surface. Note that this phenomenon is only visible from someone in orbit around the Moon. Because of the Moon's synchronous rotation about the Earth (i.e., the same side of the Moon is always facing the Earth), no Earthrise can be visible from the surface of the Moon".

THE PROBLEM WITH THAT:

If you are on the surface of the moon, & you travel over its surface longitudinally, the position of the earth in the moon's "sky" would change accordingly, just as when traveling in orbit above the lunar surface. For example, if you were to drive across the lunar surface (traveling through degrees of lunar longitude), the earth might "rise" or "set", might or might not be visible in the lunar sky at all, depending upon where on the moon's surface you started from, & where you traveled to.

(this is comment is being written in somewhat of a hurry, & i know it's not the best wording to describe the thing; a diagram would be a MUCH easier way to demonstrate what i mean here, but i hope the point is clear.)

i'm not an admin here, but this is a pretty big error, somebody needs to fix it asap.

Lx 121 (talk) 04:46, 26 April 2009 (UTC)


ok it's been a good 11 hours; does anyone actually read this? :P Lx 121 (talk) 15:45, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

The original caption looks perfectly OK to me. The fact that you could create a sort of artificial earthrise by driving across the lunar surface is a rather special situation that hardly seems worth mentioning, in the same way that it's not worth mentioning that you might see an earthrise if you were to climb a very high ladder mounted vertically on the lunar surface. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:26, 26 April 2009 (UTC)


correction: my to my embarrassment, i wrote this in too much haste. east/west is irrelevant. the only direction of travel that matters is relative to the position on the lunar surface where the earth is most directly overhead. you travel towards, or away from that point & the earth rises/sets. the earth does however grow larger/smaller in the lunar sky, as the 2 objects co-orbit each other; moving closer together, & further apart.

the caption as written would receive a failing mark on a 3rd grade science quiz.

1. it is not in any way an "artificial" effect, as you worded it. in both the terrestrial & lunar skies the effect is the same; "apparent motion" of the object across the sky. the earth happens to rotate at a speed that causes this effect to happen while one is standing still, on the surface of the earth. since the moon is locked into always facing same side towards the earth, with effectively no change in this orientation, in anything less than a geological timescale, one has to move across the lunar surface, to make the earth appear to move.

2. climbing a ladder might or might not achieve the same effect, depending on where you placed the ladder, & how you oriented it.

3. the caption, as worded, is unclear & misleading. the purpose of wikimedia, as a whole is to educate. this caption damages that purpose. not to mention, it makes us all look like a bunch of idiots who couldn't pass a 3rd grade science quiz.

i'm sorry, please do not take this personally, it is not meant in such a way. BUT no person with any real knowledge of the physics involved, and an ability to write clearly in english, would consider that caption acceptable.

this one belongs on our "blooper reel"!

Lx 121 (talk) 22:49, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

the grammar is also wrong, btw. i wasn't going to mention that, since i actually thought that the physics error would over-ride the details of the wording. Lx 121 (talk) 22:55, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 : ✓ Done Solved at Template:Potd/2009-04-26 (en). --Mormegil (talk) 13:19, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Manjit Mendiratta's Indian Oil Painting "The Swing": Public Domain?

Does anyone know if this painting is public domain? It's a picture of a boy with dark curly hair and a young maiden sitting on a swing in a forest.

The painting looks like an older style, early 1920's?, but I was wondering if it's public domain yet. You can email me @ ediesummers@hotmail.com if you know.

thanks!

You didn't read the big red box at the top of this page, did you? In any case, COM:PD#India says that the image is public domain 60 years after publication. You would have to know when it was published, of course. The question whether it is public domain in the United States (required to upload it at Commons) is more complicated, take a look at w:Wikipedia:Non-U.S. copyrights. --rimshottalk 06:26, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Spelling error

It should be Bohadschia argus NOT bohadschia argus. Preferably also in italics. Cayambe

✓ Done --Mormegil (talk) 16:01, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


need of updates

the files of the day are out of date —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.143.4.107 (talk • contribs) 09:12, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done Evrik (talk) 21:31, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


identified subject

This has been changed to Category:Unidentified subjectss someone please change it on the main page from Category:Unidentified subjects glaringly in red!!! WayneRay (talk) 16:16, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done --rimshottalk 18:29, 30 June 2009 (UTC)


English Wikipedia down?

I realize this isn't even the right project, let along the right page, but is anyone else getting an error that says,

"This wiki has a problem

Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.
Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.

(Cannot contact the database server: Unknown error (10.0.6.24))"

when you go to the English Wikipedia? The other languages seem to be functional, but every page in English seems to be down. Anyone know what's up? Newsboy85 (talk) 22:33, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

According to IRC now: "The main database got fucked up through overload; we don't know why yet," "Someone made a change, the server blew up, they're working on it," and "Wiki down due to a botched update, server admins are looking into it." - BanyanTree 22:48, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
A longer explanation of what happened can be found on the technical blog. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Newsboy85 (talk • contribs) 21:51, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
✓ Done It seems to be working now. Evrik (talk) 02:34, 1 July 2009 (UTC)


English Wikipedia down?

Curiosity of many of us editors on en.wikipedia begs me to ask if anyone here knows what the problems were when the site was down. One man thought the crash coincided with the news about Michael Jackson's death-- all the fans being upset. I wonder if it's because the "Bryan" "Flickr to Commons Upload" broke down (I assume for good). Anyone know the real reason? --Leahtwosaints (talk) 11:52, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

See [1] for an explanation. But it is quite off-topic here. --Mormegil (talk) 18:59, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Bundesarchiv image donation

Why is this still on the front page?-- penubag  (talk) 00:16, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

It seems like it was removed. I actually liked it there; perhaps there could be a standard box on the Main Page featuring recent content partnerships and imports?--Eloquence (talk) 18:24, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
That's a good idea, it would make this site more recognizable. But how frequently do we receive these kind of donations? -- penubag  (talk) 23:05, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Well that depends on whether you just include voluntary contributions. We often do large imports of media from various sources - I've done two public domain media imports this month of about 3000 files each. Dcoetzee (talk) 02:37, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Another one is just coming in! See Commons:Deutsche Fotothek. --Dschwen (talk) 03:29, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I heard about this! Exciting news! We need to work more on soliciting large donations here in the English-speaking world. :-) Dcoetzee (talk) 03:38, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
I added an announcement to the main page, but left it commented. On the other hand the story already broke and is carried by several news outlets. I'm activating it now. --Dschwen (talk) 03:47, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
I have the original German press release and the English translation, but it's embargoed until noon CET. Raul654 (talk) 05:10, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Commons:Batch uploading

I think a link should be added to Commons:Batch uploading below the Deutsche Fotothek box. This would indicate successful past batch uploads, as well as requested future batch uploads. Actually, since the Deutsche Fotothek batch upload is going to expire, I think it would be better to have a permanent box related to batch uploads, with links to ongoing collaborative efforts provided below. For instance, there is currently a simultaneous project going on that aims to do mass uploads of images from the Google-hosted LIFE Photo Archive. Regards. --BomBom (talk) 02:10, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

English, French, and Portuguese descriptions needed for AF 477 items

Category:Air_France_Flight_447 = This entire category, including all items inside, needs description in English, Portuguese, and French. WhisperToMe (talk) 15:18, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Main page content

What about something for new files and pages, similar to that at WP? Some of the better new media and galleries could be displayed. Richard001 (talk) 06:40, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Links to sister projects

Why do the sister projects link to the English version of the project, and not the portal? Same goes with links on Recent Changes - there's links to the English sites, but not the multilingual portals. Seems a little odd to me. How do you turn this on (talk) 12:58, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

I wonder that myself, though almost all projects seem to be doing it. After all we are a multi-language project so I support a change. With that I also mean changing wikiqoute, wikisource etc to the portal page showing the different language projects. --Kanonkas(talk) 13:31, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Unless anyone cares to object soon, can the links please be fixed? Thanks. Same for the recent changes list. How do you turn this on (talk) 23:25, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Another point, Commons:Welcome is linked twice in the same section at the top unnecessarily. It only needs linking once. How do you turn this on (talk) 23:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Anyone care to change this? I would but the page is fully protected... How do you turn this on (talk) 19:05, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
As a German and Italian speaking user I would support this change. However, I think it's logical that the English main page links to the English sister projects. The German main page (Hauptseite) links to de.wikipedia.org and so on. --Gnom (talk) 12:51, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Oh, forgot about the other language versions... I guess having the languages isn't so much of a problem. Amicon (talk) 09:25, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
I agree with Gnom. Can we consider this request as "Done?" Evrik (talk) 21:40, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

News: Tropenmuseum

w:WP:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-08-10/Tropenmuseum partnership could replace the somewhat dated phototek item on the main page. Especially since the upload seems to be on hold. -- User:Docu at 22:33, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

At this moment the uploading still has to start. So this is not the best of times. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 15:48, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
The following discussion is archived. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Fotothek categorization done: is it time to remove the link to the project from this page?

I've just categorized the very last of the Deutsche Fotothek images. I've already notified the project itself at its talk page, but I know that deleting the remaining empty "to be categorized" categories will add a red link to the main page (the "Your help is needed categorizing these images" part). Is it time for this "temporary announcement" to be removed, or at the very least remove the "your help is needed" line? Thanks for your help in advance.

TFCforever (talk) 01:50, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

P.S. It would probably be better for you to contact the project's talk page instead of me and settle this matter with some of the more experienced and knowledgeable users: I'm only just a "freelance categorizer." - TFCforever

Please remove "Your help is needed categorizing these images." -- User:Docu at 11:20, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done Though the message will probably soon be replaced with the message of the 5 millionth file being uploaded, there's no need to keep outdated lines for the moment. --The Evil IP address (talk) 12:27, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your help. TFCforever (talk) 15:43, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Architecture

... should appear below "Society • Culture", not (only) under en:Engineering. It is a combination of Art and Technology, to reduce Architecture to the technical aspect is IMHO wrong. TomAlt (talk) 01:37, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

  • I don't think this idea got much traction. Evrik (talk) 21:36, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
sounds like a good idea to me. I think most people would think of architecture as an artistic design process more than strictly science/technology. DroEsperanto (talk) 00:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Today in images

Today in images

June 12

[[Category:Days|Other images by day]]

Today in images

June 12

[[Category:Days|Other images by day]]

I suggest we add a box with a link to either side of the main page title "Today in images." It would link each day to the gallery for that day, see December 17 as an example. Thoughts? Evrik (talk) 16:29, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Supports, sounds like a nice idea. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 18:48, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Suppport, good idea. — Rlevse • Talk • 09:52, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
I like the idea, but I think it's a little too much to have a huge section header and just one link in it. An alternative might be to put today's date on the page somewhere, like underneath "A database of N freely usable media files...". So have the next line be, "Today is [[{{CURRENTMONTH}} {{CURRENTDAY}}]] [[{{CURRENTYEAR}}]]". howcheng {chat} 16:27, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
I like the idea too, and also Howcheng's suggestion for avoiding an-overlarge box. Will Beback (talk) 18:58, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Today in images
The line would only go halfway across the screen and [[{{CURRENTMONTH}} {{CURRENTDAY}}]] results in the redlink 06 12. Apparently there are no redirects? Also, the date would always be wrong in half the world on average, unless one was in UTC.
Just to complicate things, I came up with what a full-fledged "Today in images" Main Page box might look like. This seems like it would be a large-scale project to set up, though largely self-running once there was a template for every page. Just to clarify, I'm not volunteering - just daydreaming. In any case, I like the idea and will support regardless of what form it takes. - BanyanTree 06:20, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Oops, I meant {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}. howcheng {chat} 23:31, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
  • I fixed the image box so the link would work. I think the box looks nifty ... but programming something like that is beyond me. How about adding the text box to start out with, or the date underneath one of the existing headers for now? If someone then wants to create a template for an image box, we can add that later. Right now, there appears to be room on the left for the larger bar and date box. Evrik (talk) 03:56, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
    • Good idea. Today in image would be FPs, am I wrong? Kwj2772 (msg) 11:52, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
      • That may be a bit strict, I'd personally suggest including at least valued images as well. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 13:05, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
      • Only FPs? I don't see that happening unless you want to make it Bug of the day. I'd even expand to Quality images. You need a reasonably big pool to choose images from, that have a strong connection to the current date. --Dschwen (talk) 13:39, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
        • The current date pages have images dealing the date, and that seems to be a sensible criteria for the purpose. Unless someone is hiding a lot more valued and featured pictures somewhere, I don't see any point in making this harder than it needs to be, especially since the initial proposal is to not even include images on the Main Page. Hopefully, just the fact this exists will encourage people to subcategorize into Category:Days. - BanyanTree 13:54, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
        • O.o My comment was just a question. Please don't treat this sensitively. :) Kwj2772 (msg) 13:59, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

If folks would like to maintain it, it sounds great to me. I'd recommend that all images be eligible. Of course FP and QI should be the first choices, but I'm not sure that we have enough FP+QI to find material for every day. --Gmaxwell (talk) 05:46, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Me too. I like this idea. I think the last couple comments up missed what is actually being suggested here. It's media related to each day in history. That's impossible to do if want them to be FP/QIs also. Photos of bugs would never make it on this (unless it's the anniversary of some well-known discovery of some species or something). This isn't an extended "picture of the day" thing. Rocket000 (talk) 06:31, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
You must have missed the irony... --Dschwen (talk) 04:06, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
What irony? I see potential sarcasm or pun (bug), but nothing ironic. I wasn't referring to your comment anyway. Rocket000 (talk) 12:44, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

To rephrase what BanyanTree said, “the current date pages have images dealing the date,” and the initial proposal was simply to create a self-updating link - especially since it requires no maintenance. I think that it may encourage people to subcat images by date. Evrik (talk) 03:52, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Sorry Evrik. I think I derailed the conversation about the original proposal with my daydream idea above.
Today in images
On my screen at least, the right hand column on the Main Page is always a little taller than the left-hand column, so would suggest adding your idea (formatted above for only half a page) to the left hand column below Media of the Day and above Participating. In any case, I support such an addition, however you want to do it, without prejudice for any proposal in the future to have the new section include images, once such a system of templates is created and coded.
Since absolutely nobody seems to be against this idea, you might as well just do it. At that point, somebody will undoubtedly complain, but such is the wiki. ;) - BanyanTree 04:42, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
  • Can someone with admin priveleges do this please? Evrik (talk) 02:05, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

{{editprotected}}

✓ Done Just wandered back onto Commons and it looks like I'll be the one to stick my neck out... - BanyanTree 06:23, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I tweaked your CSS a bit, I think it looks fine now. I do rather wish we'd go with the fancier box idea you suggested above: all we need is one template and 366 subpages. Shouldn't be too have, given that it'd mostly just be a matter of copying two or three images from each of the existing "Today in images" pages. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 08:35, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
  • I think the fancier version can be something to be worked on in the future. As it is, I have spent about 60 hours in the last year getting the galleries up for each of the pages. :-) Thanks everyone. Thank you! Evrik (talk) 17:57, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

5,000,000 files

Since no one else had done it yet, I've replaced the Fotothek announcement with one about the five million files milestone. Feel free to improve it (and to use {{editprotected}} if you have improvements you can't make yourself). See also discussion at COM:VP#5.000.000. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 09:02, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman ! not Harry Truman

✓ Done Thanks for your help. Yann (talk) 21:32, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Category:Video > Category:Videos

{{editprotected}} There are 2 wrong category link on the Main page, since the video files are now stored in Category:Videos. Please repair.--Kozuch (talk) 16:02, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done, thanks. --The Evil IP address (talk) 16:25, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
The same could probably be done for Sound > Audio files, but these cats are a mess so far still...--Kozuch (talk) 17:18, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Caption change

{{editprotected}} Could the caption to today's potd be changed to read at the time, rather than at the moment. The latter implies at the present time, which does not fit with the past tense of the subsequent sentence, making it awkward to read. (Incidentally, the template appears to be unprotected, but I'd prefer not to edit it myself without consensus as it's transcluded onto the main page).Tivedshambo (talk) 09:02, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done, I made the change. However, you wouldn't have been able to change the template today, because it's protected by the cascading protection of the Main Page. --The Evil IP address (talk) 14:32, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Login and Re-Login

I am a user in en.wikipedia.org. First I logged in in the en.wikipedia. Then I opened the wikimedia commons, then wiktionary.

In wiktionary the login details are taken care automatically. But in wikimedia commons again I have to Login. Please take care of this minor problem, to avoid repeated logins within wikimedia. --TRYPPN (talk) 03:04, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Go to Preferences and click on "(Manage your global account)". Rocket000 (talk) 06:43, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Page title

How is the "Main page" title concealed from appearing at the top? I was thinking about improving another languaje's main page, and that's something that should be included Belgrano (talk) 19:35, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

It is hidden by CSS in MediaWiki:Monobook.css (see the section containing “BODY.page-Main_Page H1.firstHeading” etc.). --Mormegil (talk) 09:42, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

What??!

What a rubbish Wikimedia it block my uploading name ᰕᰫ་ᰊᰪᰰ་ᰆᰧᰶ ᰛᰩᰵ་ᰀᰪᰱ ᰛᰪᰮ་ᰀᰪᰱ.SVG (which is Lepcha script) and it lost all the information I typed into the uploading form!! This is the 1,000,000,000,000,000,...,000 time Wikimedia lost the information the uploader typed into the uploading form, and that's very disappointing and continueing doing that nobody will like to upload files to Wikimedia... --虞海 (talk) 07:33, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

At least Wikimedia often lost my typed-info-in-uploading-form and as a consequence there's more than a year I do rarely use Wikimedia. Later, each time I upload files to Wikimedia I copy the typed-info-in-uploading-form into notepad before I press "Upload" and in order to prevent losing info I always check the "Ignore all warnings" checkbox. This time I forgot to copy them and Wikimedia gave me a lesson by losing my info!!! --虞海 (talk) 07:38, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
I think it's time to change the rubbish uploading form. --虞海 (talk) 07:40, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Pictogram voting comment.svg Comment: You might want to ask at MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist to whitelist this character combination. --The Evil IP address (talk) 10:49, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

{{Editprotected}}

Carnildo find the problem in MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist#Lepcha_language, but he does not have an administartor-priviledge. Please someone correct the bug. --虞海 (talk) 05:29, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
The request to edit the protected page X mark.svg Not done This has nothing to do with the main page, there is nothing which should be edited here. Continue the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist, where it probably belongs. --Mormegil (talk) 09:09, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Capitalisation error

The caption for today's featured picture reads "Bank of Tanzania headquarters, Dar es salaam, Tanzania" — please capitalise "Salaam". Nyttend (talk) 19:01, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done --Mormegil (talk) 19:35, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

SUBODH SAWRAV

HI

By law the contributions are still owned by people who donated them. These people are not bound by the license and can use their property in the way they like. However media with multiple authors require permission from every contributor to use them differently from the terms of the Wikipedia license.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Subodhsawrav (talk • contribs) 17:35, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

How to categorize?!!

I agree that it is quite important to categorize images in order to make them usefull for others. It still ofters occurs to me, however, that during uploading I forget to add the right categories. And then the circus begins, because for one reason or another, I mostly don't remember how I did it before. And another time: again and again. For one or another reason, the whole uploading ceremony makes you forget, that you simply may categorize it the way you are categorizing normal articles, that is by clicking the edit tab! So please please, add a remark about that for us simple workers at any possible occasion! Thank you! --Pyt (talk) 16:05, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

The upload form contains a row called "categories". There, you have to press the "+" button to add categories. Furthermore, for category work, I can only recommand Hotcat, which you can enable in your preferences under "Gadgets. Also, try to use other pages than this one (for example the help desk), as this is the discussion page of the main page and unrelated comments, as the one by you, often remain unnoticed. --The Evil IP address (talk) 19:28, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Upload

This is most certainly not the right place to ask my question, so I appreciate any hints to the proper forum.

I have a number of .ogg files which contain German pronunciation. For example "De-adeln.ogg". There are about 500 of them and there will soon be more, so I'm looking for an automated upload tool. Commonist is a tool which does the upload, but, unfortunately, the files should be inserted into commons:Category:German_pronunciation, but not just like this, but instead, "De-adeln.ogg" (for example) should be uploaded with [[Category:German pronunciation|adeln]]. How could one accomplish this task in an automated manner?

Many thanks. This request is related to a project of a handful editors of German Wiktionary to endow the articles there with spoken examples. Jakob.scholbach (talk) 12:29, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

You may have better chance for a reply at Commons:Village pump or at the German Commons:Forum. --Mormegil (talk) 12:38, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Plagiarism

Compare File:Grav slingshot simple 2.gif with this website. While the former image is technically a creation of the uploader, it is clearly plagiarized from the original website, and its description page gives no credit to that source. This is highly unethical.128.46.5.32 00:41, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Is it a joke ?
This image is so simple the it can be copyright (under the threshold of originality), so it's ridiculous to speak of "plagiarism".
Cdlt, VIGNERON * discut. 13:16, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Today in images redux

The Today in images section on the Main Page was created recently. As described in Talk:Main Page/Archive 3#Today in images, it was hopes that something more than a barelink would eventually develop. I've taken a stab at possible set up at User:BanyanTree/Tii Main page mockup, which pulls from a bare template at User:BanyanTree/Tii, which is turn pulls from date specific content, with only User:BanyanTree/Tii/2010-02-05 and User:BanyanTree/Tii/2010-02-06 set up for illustration. Besides some awkward coding, and an extra box outline or two I can't seem to get rid of, I would like to get some feedback. Also, if anyone knows how to code User:BanyanTree/Tii so that if a date subpage doesn't exist it provides a bare link, like the one used on the Main Page now, I would greatly appreciate it. The mockup is transcluded below. Thanks, BanyanTree 11:41, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Today in images
I think that's a great idea. Of course, it should be checked if that fits into the main page design, but I'm sure this is doable. Some feedback and some thoughts about this:
  • What about the captions? Will they be used and if, will it be possible to translate them? This layout should not only be used on this main page, but also on the other ones.
  • I think all images should show different things (for example on 25th December, not only Christmas images, but for example also images of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake) and they shouldn't be the same over the years. Otherwise, this would be quite boring.
  • The pictures don't have to be FP, QI or VI, but should be of decent quality, with clear licensing and source and not up for deletion. A totally horrible image wouldn't be good for our reputation and it wouldn't be nice to suddenly get a redlink on the main page.
  • The images should be chosen via a template, similar to the POTD format. I'm not sure if an "ifexist" should be used. Every day should have its own pictures if we do this.
  • Might be an idea to use hoax images for April Fools' Day. --The Evil IP address (talk) 13:53, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

"Science" and "Engineering" should go under the "Society/Culture" section

As they are human endeavors, it makes no sense for them to be apart. 82.112.139.195 03:47, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

I think they're apart because they have their own subpoints, unlike the other items listed under "Society/Culture". --The Evil IP address (talk) 15:54, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Big picture donation

Hello, I want to set this new message (english version) on the main page and I hope, it's ok. Feedback? -- Ra'ike T C 12:40, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

I'd wait until they are uploaded, but I think it's a good idea to replace the not that recent Tropenmuseum one. -- User:Docu at 12:47, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Not replace, but above it ;-). I will do it now, because the german language page has also that message and on the discussion page was written, that would be ok. greetings -- Ra'ike T C 21:49, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for answering your question, but I guess you don't care anyways. -- User:Docu at 22:42, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Tropenmuseum 35.000 pictures

I suggest 35.000 be changed to 35 000 to avoid colliding with decimal points. AFAIK, no language uses the space as a decimal point. –Psbsub (talk) 19:10, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

✓ Done A comma would be an alternative, you are right the dot was not a good idea. --Mormegil (talk) 19:56, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
By the way, a comma is used as a decimal point in the whole of Europe. --Sjorskingma (talk) 15:03, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Total and absolute rudeness and ignorance!

It is a real offence to an artist to use his or her work without acknowledgement. FIX IT! Amandajm (talk) 03:43, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Talk about rudeness... Just click on the image and get all the info you want. Rocket000 (talk) 03:45, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
BTW, There's 20 images on the main page (21 counting Common's logo). None of these do not have attribution directly by them, why be selective? Especially for an artist that died in 1919. Rocket000 (talk) 03:50, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
I am an artist. I am an art historian. I am telling you it is the height of rudeness to feature someone's artwork without acknowledging them. You have a whole lot of stuff about the purpose of the drawing. Now state who did it! You attitude is ignorant and does Wkipedia no service whatsoever!
As for the Wikipedia logo, it was created for the purpose that it serves, and in the understanding that the authorship of a logo is not usually acknowledged when it is used.
If you are going to feature a photo, then yes, that needs acknowledging as well. The section is specifically about the quality of the image, is it not?

Amandajm (talk) 04:30, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Why hasn't the attribution of the drawing been fixed yet? Amandajm (talk) 05:02, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
And it's rude to yell at people commanding volunteers to do something while calling them ignorant and a disservice to Wikipedia[sic]. I don't really care if you're an artist or an art historian, you're still being rude. You can't expect people to willing to help you if you act that way. No, it's not about the quality of the image, it's about the subject. The author's been dead for over 90 years, I wouldn't worry about offending him. Besides, wikis aren't about ownership. Just like the logo, this image is serving it's purpose too. Rocket000 (talk) 05:08, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Yes, you're a volunteer. So am I. However, if you are a volunteer who has taken on the job of editting a main page, then it needs to be done well. As you know, there is a MOS, and people are continually reminded of certain points. This is not the first time that I have commented on the lack of proper acknowledgement on main pages. I think that you know the difference between a logo and an artwork. Please don't make silly statements. Just take on board the fact that artists in general find the use of artworks without acknowledgement to be offensive. There are copyright laws to protect the rights of recent artists. There is something called "common practice" with regards to older ones. The importance of authorship does not have a cut-off point along with copyright.
As for your statement about "ownership", that notion of non-ownership has to do with the ownership of articles and editting by editors. It has nothing to do with the very real ownership rights of artworks and objects that we write articles about.
If I were to make a statement in a article that could be queried, I would soon be asked by another editor to cite a reference. It is time that Wikipedia caught onto the fact that the acknowledgement of the creator of a "primary resource" (an artwork) is essential if it is to be used on the main page, and that it is both ignorant and rude not to do it. If we are to call ourselves an encyclopedia, then that "main page" needs to look pretty professional, whether it's done by volunteers or not. Amandajm (talk) 11:33, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
One little point your missing here... this isn't Wikipedia. There is no MOS, there is no articles, there is no WP:V, etc. Welcome to Commons. I would have added the artist's name if you simply asked instead of demanded it. Oh well, it will be off the main page in a couple hours. Rocket000 (talk) 21:08, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
"I would have done the right thing if you hadn't been so upset about me doing the wrong thing" ... is the excuse used by a great many people to justify not backing-down. It is pointless to take a stand to justify what is obviously in error. Welcomme to the real world!
I observe that we now have a beautiful photograph which is also uncredited. It was uploaded by a wiki contributor. This needs to be acknowledged. You are featuring the work of a particular individual. They chose the subject and the composition. It is their artistry, regardless of whether they have reliquished copyright. The main page policy, written or unwritten, is obviously lacking because it violates what is commn cusom among reputable publishers. You are apparently in a position to do something towards remedying this. Why don't you?
Amandajm (talk) 02:15, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Because my views are different than yours. I don't believe there is a problem. Why don't you do something about it? Rocket000 (talk) 03:29, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

A bug of the Wikimedia bot

File:Smp kalmyk.gif point out an wrong username ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ, which dose not exist. Who can debug it? and who can correct File:Smp kalmyk.gif? --虞海 (talk) 07:51, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

You might want to contact the bot owner, Magnus Manske, about this personally. It's quite unlikely that he'll notice your comment on the talk page of the main page. --The Evil IP address (talk) 19:20, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Links fixed (diff). Athaenara (talk) 01:10, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Request for slight adjustment

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Do not know, why I have not noticed this before, but the section on the page with the headline Featured pictures & Quality images should really mention valued images as well if it is to correspond to the text below (which I think it should). So I guess something like Featured pictures, quality & valued images would be more appropriate. I'm not English speaking, but is the present capitalization correct? Localizations to other languages should be updated as well, if they are not already. Thanks in advance. --Slaunger (talk) 13:49, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

I think that would make the heading a bit too long, so that it will need two lines. For such a tiny section, a two-line heading might be too big. How about a new heading altogether? I'd propose Our best images. --rimshottalk 18:04, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
the present heading above it, "Image donation by mineral collector Robert Lavinsky" is more than 50 characters. Adding valued would bring it to a little more than 40 characters, so I think that if there is room enough for the Lavinsky heading, there should also be anough room for adding valued. Having said that, I am also open to considering completely alternative titles for that section, as the current one (and the one i am proposing) would be very redundant to the actual content. Personally I am not too keen on the Our best images proposal. I think it is the word best, which I do not think is spot on. Other suggestions could perhaps be Featured Content (assuming featured can also embrace a wider term than just FPs), Getting started, Appetizers, or Highlights perhaps? --Slaunger (talk) 22:02, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Pictogram voting comment.svg Comment: I don't think making section headers longer is really a good idea. We should keep it easy and short for our visitors. "Highlights", "Highlighted images" or something similar which represents all three ratings would be better, and a shortened section heading for Lavinsky as well. --The Evil IP address (talk) 22:26, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Well, it seems we all agree that the current title is not optimal. I'm in for any of the suggestions put forward by The Evil IP address. --Slaunger (talk) 01:43, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Time2wait.svg On hold until the page returns to the usual format. If we now change Main Page/std and Main Page/pano, we might forget to update it on the real main page once we revert to the usual main page design. --The Evil IP address (talk) 18:08, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
  • ✓ Done, please don't forget to make updates to the main pages of the languages that you speak. --The Evil IP address (talk) 14:14, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Panorama POTD

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POTD of Feb 19 at 600x115 px (twice the standard 300px)
POTD of Feb 19 at 300 px (standard width)

For the 19th, would it be possible to stretch the POTD of the day across both columns? 360° panoramas tend to get tiny. -- User:Docu at 11:54, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

/sample -- User:Docu at 20:53, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Today's picture in the sample is 600x450px. The panorama to the left would be just 600x115 px. The change would be active just on February 19. -- User:Docu at 20:57, 17 February 2010 (UTC)



To do the switch automatically, the following is needed:

at the beginning of the page:
{{#ifeq:{{#time:Y-m-d}}|2010-02-19|{{Main Page/2010-02-19}}|
at the end of the page:
}}

In addition, Main Page/2010-02-19 needs to be protected. -- User:Docu at 12:32, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I changed this, one ":" was missing, otherwise the {{Main Page/... is recognized as template namespace. Protection not required, the page is cascade protected. The transclusion works fine, with the page Main Page/2010-02-19 I have still problems due to the image notes and my slow computer Im constrained to use today. However, I can not guarantee that im online at 1:00 local time, so if anything wents wrong with the switch someone else must repair it. --Martin H. (talk) 14:35, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

A nice idea for a change. It might even be an idea to automatically add existing imagenotes to the potd, though I'm not sure this is possible. --The Evil IP address (talk) 21:16, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
POTD of March 27 at 600x86 px (twice the standard 300px)
It's back to normal now. MediaWiki:ImageAnnotatorConfig.js excludes image notes on the main page. Probably to avoid problems with load time. The 360° panorama had quite a few.
For March 27, there is an even smaller panorama. Using Main Page/switch should be able to change the layout for that day (switching between Main Page/std and Main Page/pano) -- User:Docu at 00:48, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Hm, I'm quite sure the imagenotes had been on the Main Page. Anyways, I support changing the potd again on March 27. --The Evil IP address (talk) 10:32, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

I made a request for today at Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/Blocks_&_protections#Panorama_POTD -- User:Docu at 05:00, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

POTD of April 15 at 600x127 px (twice the standard 300px)

The one for April 15 is 127px at 600px. -- User:Docu at 06:29, 2 April 2010 (UTC)


Gallery

The main page in the new vector skin has on the left links "Gallery - Discussion". I think, the main page isn't a gallery. It's a little shame to have such a mistake just on the main page. --ŠJů (talk) 15:45, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree. The main page is no gallery and should be moved with its sister pages into the Commons namespace, where portal pages belong. --The Evil IP address (talk) 15:56, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
I think, the main page (and eventual other portal pages) should either have their own namespace or be in the main namespace just like disambiguation and redirect pages. But they shouldn't be declared as galleries. The purpose of "Commons" namespace is different. --ŠJů (talk) 03:22, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
The Main Page is fine where it is. In Monobook there was a fix (not sure if it was in javascript or not) to replace the "Page" or "Article" text in the tab with "main page" (see here). I'm currently looking into doing the same for Vector aswell, as "Gallery" is clearly wrong. –Krinkletalk 12:46, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Edit request

Please temporarily unlock:

So that I may make some uncontroversial clean ups to the image. -- penubag  (talk) 00:10, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I've reduced the protection on the two last images (the first one was already below full protection). Leave a message here or at my talk page when you're done. Blurpeace 00:24, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Wow, I can't believe I put this on Talk:Main Page... I thought I was on VP. Thanks -- penubag  (talk) 00:38, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

POTD caption change request

"only primate that live freely in Europe" -> "the only non-human primate that lives freely in Europe". Thanks! - Richfife (talk) 16:35, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Done at [[Template:Potd/2010-04-16 (en)]. If you'd like to check future captions, feel free to peruse Commons:Picture of the day. Killiondude (talk) 22:17, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Big Road Blues

Please, please be careful about putting unchecked Internet Archive-sourced sounds on the main page. The Internet Archive only has to obey Egypt's VERY LIBERAL copyright laws. We do not get to operate under that dispensation, and we had a song that's almost certainly in copyright on our main page all yesterday. (I've replaced it with a free-licensed work now, but it was Tommy Johnson's Big Road Blues, and he first recorded in 1928. Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:15, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

I never understood the Motd system, but AFAIK they were all created years ago, so it might be that it's because copyright wasn't yet taken that seriously during creation. --The Evil IP address (talk) 18:39, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

The search box

Should be a lot more prominently displayed. After all, it's what people are gonna use. 85.77.205.127 10:41, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Actually, the Usability Initiative changed this to fit more to web standards. If it bothers you a lot, you might want to report it here, but I doubt that the Usability Initiative will change it back. --The Evil IP address (talk) 18:48, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
If we wanted, I suppose we could put out own search box on the page itself using <inputbox>, like this:
I'm not going to agree or disagree about whether this would be a good idea or not. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 22:39, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Please rename File:SL indipedance.jpg

SL Independence.jpg

It's mis spelt. Please re-name to File:SL indepedence.jpg --92.19.6.50 18:40, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

✓ Done! Killiondude (talk) 05:07, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Images and copyright

I'm not an expert in images and copyright, but i want to report a case you can judge for yourself: File:Schermata_progecad.jpg is a screenshot of a proprietary (not open source) software. Is it allowed to stay on Common ? (Please excuse my bad english) EffeX2 (talk) 09:28, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Symbol delete vote.svg Deleted. Next time, you might want ot use {{Copyvio}} for obvious cases or open a deletion request if more discussion is needed. --The Evil IP address (talk) 12:11, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

MotD

As a lot of you may know, this'll be getting a revamp soon. I've opened threads about aesthetics at Template talk:New Motd; I should have a decent test page up in a week or so. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:52, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

PotD caption

In the Picture of the Day caption ([2]), "an tree" should be changed to "a tree". Ucucha (talk) 11:43, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

✓ Done --Mormegil (talk) 12:04, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Moving the language links

I have my doubts about this move. While I recognize there's a lot of clutter on the main page right now, we shouldn't cut out other languages. It's right that about 2 billion people speak English, which makes one third of the world's population. But there are also 4 billion people who don't understand one word of English, for which the language links are essential to participate. Otherwise, the usability for those people sucks. Also, certain points from the mailing list post are clearly wrong: "I've got my browser set to my language and i'm coming from a certain country, right?" Right, you have set it to some language, but as an anonymous person, that doesn't matter. You'll always be redirected to the English main page. As it currently stands, the main pages need to be on several separate pages, because of two things that don't work yet: The localization isn't done automatically, be it via autotranslation or via system messages and recognizing an anonymous user's language isn't possible (yet). As it's mostly anonymous users that visit the main page, we can't set it to autotranslate yet, which relies on the user being registered. So, I admit that the main page is in need of some redesign, but to remove the language links, other steps have to be taken first: This would be creating system messages to translate (probably at Translatewiki) and then installing the LanguageSelector, just as the TranslateWiki did. I mean, changing the sitenotice was long overdue, and if I still had the admin bits, I would have done it, but we shouldn't remove important things while cleaning up. --The Evil IP address (talk) 20:14, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

The proper fix would be to redirect people automatically depending on their browser language (easy to detect independent of log in status). The necessary data is already in Mediawiki:MainPages.js. If this is not being done yet it would be easy to implement. --Dschwen (talk) 20:47, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I strongly agree. Adding a bold link and small icon from the top of the page to "other languages is one nice compromise that various Wikipedias have chosen over the years. --SJ+ 03:41, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

A non-English user who has setting as English may never know there is a main page in his/her own language. Please remember even in login with merged accounts, Interface language never change to his/her home wiki language. And an anonymous user has no option to configure that :-(--Praveenp (talk) 02:12, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Ok, this is a bit of an over-dramatization. Just because it is at the bottom of the page does not mean that users will never ever see it. With that rationale we might as well remove the links to our sister projects, terms of use, etc. Screen real estate is a limited resource. Priorities have to to set. The different languages are one aspect of commons, and we can be proud of them. The main mission of commons however are the images and other media files. They should be given priority. It is not acceptable that at standard screen resolution all a new visitor sees when coming to this page is a giant wall of text. I activated a script that will show a link to the Mainpage in the user's browser language for non-logged in users. Users that are logged in should set their preferences. The user that set his preferences to different language seems like a constructed edge-case. Either he is happy with his interface language, or he isn't. If he isn't he can change it. If he is happy, what's the problem? --Dschwen (talk) 02:24, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

K. With updated script it will be nice. Actually I didn't see that, and when I see this subheading I thought It was removed from main page. Still English is a pretty hard language for me ;-)--Praveenp (talk) 09:48, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Logged in vs. Not Logged in

Hi, I really do not understand why the same category page looks different when I am logged in versus not logged in. When I first go to Category:Expo_2010 as an anonymous user, the category page looks like the old version. After I have logged in to wikicommons once, I can see all the category changes like "Shanghai expo branding" etc. Is there a cache problem? If I had never logged in, none of my recent category moves would ever show up. The first link I make is usually via en.wikipedia. Benjwong (talk) 00:33, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

You do see a different cache when you are anonymous. I believe it updates less frequently, so that not every anon page-view causes a database check. --SJ+ 03:43, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Tropenmuseum

I've removed the old old old notice on the Tropenmuseum donation. Hope no-one minds. –Juliancolton | Talk 01:30, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Fine by me. I already suggested that on the ML anyways :-). --Dschwen (talk) 02:11, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
I miss it ;)
We might want to add one about the Brooklyn Museum (once uploading is finished, if it's ok with them). -- User:Docu at 02:13, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Just swap out the Mineral-Guy for it when you think the time is right. --Dschwen (talk) 02:23, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

PLEASE HELP ANYONE

there is a picture of a girl, with jacobsen syndrome on this site. i have a 2 yr old son with this, and have been told children with this syndrome never make it to a teenager, well she is 17! I am very interested if anyone has info on the picture. and the girl in it?...

Thank you so much.

-Christina

or email at mccallionc@yahoo.com

We can and will not give you medical advise here. Also "this site" is not the creator nor the owner of the image, we are hosting it. The original source and author(s) of the file are listed at the file description page, File:Jacobsen syndrome patient.JPG, it comes from this scientific article. Commons or Commons user cant tell you anything more about the image or the jacobsen syndrom. --Martin H. (talk) 06:17, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Invalid tag extension name: categorytree

Someone fix it in the main page. Thanks --Wilfredo Rodríguez (talk) 14:52, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Category tree

Domas disabled the extension due to performance issues, see also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23682. –Krinkletalk 14:57, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

I can live for a while without the category tree template. But what is worse is that all counters are gone in category displays (empty state is no longer displayed), which is a major nuisance, even more so in for example Category:Non-empty category redirects and Category:Non-empty disambiguation categories. --Foroa (talk) 17:07, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

{{editprotected}}

It works again, would you uncomment it? -- User:Docu at 10:40, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. -- User:Docu at 18:31, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Panorama POTD (2)

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POTD of June 10 at 600x141 px (twice the standard 300px)
POTD of June 10 at 300 px (standard width)

Tomorrow's POTD is fairly large. I will try to update the version used by #Panorama POTD for the current layout. -- User:Docu at 04:00, 9 June 2010 (UTC)


Similar to this revision, please replace the page with the code on /switch. It can be reverted on Friday (11th).

Main Page/pano and Main Page/std should be protected until the 11th. -- User:Docu at 11:54, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

✓ Done –Juliancolton | Talk 14:05, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. -- User:Docu at 19:11, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Panorama POTD (2010-07-01)

POTD of July 1 at 600x132 px (twice the standard 300px)
POTD of July 1 at 300 px (standard width)


The next panorama seems to be the POTD of July 1. See #Panorama POTD (2) for changes to fix the layout. -- User:Docu at 10:45, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

{{editprotected}}

As at #Panorama POTD (2), please
Thanks. -- User:Docu at 07:24, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

✓ Done Thanks for your vigilance. --99of9 (talk) 07:50, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Skull and mandible

"Skull and mandible" is redundant; skull includes mandible (as well as other parts that could just as well be named). See en:Skull ("The skull is composed of two parts: the cranium and the mandible.") Should simply be "skull." Ecphora (talk) 15:04, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

This is about Template:Potd/2010-06-27_(en). Too late, sorry. -- User:Docu at 07:24, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Bad translation

The image caption for the picture of the day appears to be subject to a bad translation (File:Cedar Breaks National Monument partially.jpg). Why would an obscure dialect word from southern England be applied to a geological feature in the Western U.S. I can't find any non-Wikipedia mirror using the term for the U.S. It is just badlands to us. There is no evidence of a waterway at all in the image as the chine page seems to say is a defining feature of that term. 75.41.110.200 02:37, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

How do I re-upload an image on the same page?

Hi...I uploaded 2 images yesterday for the article Pritish Nandy Commmunications. These were deleted by another editor because he/she feared that I did not have the requisite permissions. Anyways, I have asked the original copyright holder to send you an email giving me permission to upload these images. My questions is, how do I upload the images on the same page again? I would ideally not like to create a new page from start because I already created the pages yesterday and they currently exist without any image. You may see the talk page for the name of the page created. Shishir58 (talk) 08:56, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Here, these are the pages created. File:Hazaaron_Khwaishein_Aisi_A_PNC_Film_Official_Poster.jpg, File:Kaante_A_PNC_Film_Official_Poster.jpg Shishir58 (talk) 08:59, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Did you send it to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org ? In that case please wait for them to confirm the license, if everything is okay they will undelete the files. Btw: This is not really the right place, next time use Commons:Help desk--DieBuche (talk) 10:18, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

"No media of the day today" (2010-07-17)

Media of the day could be File:Cityscape of Rome (partial, seen from Pincio hill).ogg (Better than nothing) ... --Mattes (talk) 03:36, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

You can add suggestions here: Commons:Media_of_the_day. --99of9 (talk) 05:52, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

{{editprotected}}

As there is nothing for today either, would an administrator replace Main Page/std with Talk:Main Page/std/no mediaofdat‎?  Docu  at 09:51, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

There are a lot of media files available. I think we should keep MOTD and find content for it. Something like FP, VI, or QI. --Nevit Dilmen (talk) 12:07, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Ok for me, in the meantime, please don't leave a dead link on Main Page.  Docu  at 13:21, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Big link to Upload

Hi. Why don't include a big link like this in the mainpage? Many newbies come here to upload files (a hard move, because they can here from another projects), and they have to search where is the upload link. Yes, veteran users know that it is on the left sidebar, but newbies don't. No joke, a big link. emijrp (talk) 17:36, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Upload a file
The main page is designed really for the casual Internet surfer, so a huge upload file link wouldn't be very good. Plus it would look super ugly. --O (谈 • висчвын) 18:01, 07 August 2010 (GMT)
I can't see why they would have to 'search' for the upload link. It's on the Main Page after all. On the most visible page of the whole Commons. --Petritap (talk) 09:54, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
When I say "casual Internet surfer", I mean people who only intend to indulge themselves in existing content. Obviously uploading files requires accounts, and it is better if those with accounts get used to where the upload button exists in the MediaWiki user interface. --O (谈 • висчвын) 04:13, 16 August 2010 (GMT)

Commons:IUCN red list

Hi. I would like to announce the partnership with IUCN to produce range maps for 25,000 species (more details on the page linked above) on the main page, to see if we can get more volunteers to help out produce the maps. Is there some criteria for announcing stuff on the main page? Thanks in advance, GoEThe (talk) 13:17, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Image donation by mineral collector Robert Lavinsky

For how long are we going to have the image donation on the main page. It's been there too long! 86.210.202.162 13:49, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

I most certainly agree--DieBuche (talk) 14:30, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
How about the donation mentioned directly above?--DieBuche (talk) 14:30, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
I agree, of course ;). How about the text:

"The IUCN red list has agreed to license distribution maps derived from the data present on their website with a Creative Commons By-SA 2.0. There are currently around 25,000 maps for many species of mammals, amphibians, reptiles and corals.

We need help producing the maps, inputting description and source of the images (including translations), and uploading them to Commons. You can read more on how you can help here." GoEThe (talk) 10:14, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

✓ Done since nobody else did. ZooFari 20:33, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Missing capital letter

For the POTD's caption, it should be "...skyline of the German capital." not "german". Jolly Janner (talk) 17:12, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

✓ Done --Mormegil (talk) 17:26, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

In Wikipeda

May I know why there is an interwiki link in sidebar to en:Hønefoss?--Praveen:talk 07:24, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Because of a missing colon at Template:Motd/2010-11-13 (en); fixed. --Mormegil (talk) 12:18, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Incorrect Link in Content Section

{{editprotected}} In the Content "By license" section there are links for content in three main "Copyright statuses".

The "GFDL" and "Public domain" links lead to pages with content posted under those license types, but the "Creative Commons licenses" link leads to the page about Creative Commons licenses not content posted under a Creative Commons license.

Basically, all the links in the "Content" section of the main page lead to media content except the "Creative Commons licenses" link under "By License".

The text of the link should be changed to "Creative Commons" and the the URL should be changed to "http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Creative_Commons".

No. The section lists three categories, Category:Creative Commons licenses, Category:GFDL, Category:Public domain. All three categories are license categories and contain files by license in their subcategories. This are located in the Category:Copyright statuses category tree which is a top level category and any file on Commons is expected to be in a subcategory of that tree. The categories Creative Commons licenses and Public domain are empty, they are splited up in various specifications and contain only subcategories (I clean out the manually added images to Category:Public domain frequently). Category:Creative Commons is a topic category and contains various content related to the topic Creative Commons, an organization. Thats something different, also files in Category:Creative Commons are not necessarily under Creative Commons licenses but under various copyright statuses. --Martin H. (talk) 10:24, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Mistake in te main page.

This an error in the Main_Page, it coudn´t see the image, the link is bad. :( --Roberto Fiadone (talk) 02:10, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

"Screetch"

Could somebody correct the spelling of "Screetch" in the POTD caption to the correct "Screech?" Acroterion (talk) 13:17, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

design flaw?

hi;

i think i've spotted a small design flaw in the "media of the day" section.

right now, it's an audio file, captioned as follows:

""A chantar m'er de so qu'eu no volria", a 12th century Occitan language song by Comtessa de Dia. It is the only surviving music by a woman troubadour. "

& there is a nice little player-thing, so that you can listen to the file,

BUT

how do you get to the file's info-page?

there doesn't seem to be any link to take you there...

Lx 121 (talk) 10:25, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Hit the About this file under the play button.--Nilfanion (talk) 10:40, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
there isn't one? (i'm using the chrome webbrowser on ubuntu, if that's relevant) Lx 121 (talk) 04:30, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
correction: there isn't one unless you hit "menu" or until after you play the file. that's (a lot) better than nothing, but it's still awfully "hidden" for what should be the most important link in the section. Lx 121 (talk) 04:34, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
It sounds like a tech issue (and browser may be an issue - in particular how JS is working). In firefox the i displays fine on audio. On video - clicking on the image takes you there. The most important link in that section is the play button.
I agree that there should be a prominent link to the file page, I'd suggest the village pump is probably a better place for discussion than here.--Nilfanion (talk) 08:37, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Queensland Library donation

Can we replace or supplement the current map donation blurb with something about the Queensland Library donation? I wrote up the following based on the ICURN blurb:

The State Library of Queensland has agreed to donated 50,000 copyright-free photographs documenting some of the history of Queensland.
We need help categorizing the images, and completing and re-wording image descriptions, and determining geocoordinates of the images. You can read more about how to help here. [modified per suggestion below]

I will solicit feedback from John Vandenberg on the wording. I'm also going to ask someone involved in the ICURN map donations to comment on whether that still needs to be on the frontpage.--Chaser (talk) 05:11, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

The only correction to the above wording is that "agreed to donate" should be has donated; the library have already handed over all the files and metadata, so they have completed their part of the deal. More visibility and involvement would be very beneficial, as the library is hoping to be able to report that donating to Commons exposes their collection to a more international and motivated set of people.
I would prefer that we dont mention geocoords at this stage. The library have given us geocoord data, and I am nearly ready to start adding it to the uploads. Once that is done, there will be images which dont have geocoords, and their will be images that need verification of the geocoords. John Vandenberg (chat) 05:34, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
Yes, this definitely should be on the main page. On my monitor seems to be place for it as a separate item below or above the IUCN, and if I remember well there have been in the past two donation items at a time. I find IUCN is pretty important, so I would be in favour of keeping it in place. --Elekhh (talk) 05:45, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
Could you elaborate? I don't dispute that the IUCN donation is important. To me the issue is whether to continue using premium main page real estate to request assistance with processing that donation. I got no response from either of these queries about whether help is still needed with IUCN maps.--Chaser (talk) 05:35, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
As far I can see from ca. 25,000 potential distribution maps only ca. 1,700 have been produced so far, which is less than 7% (and many are not SVG, i.e. improvable), so I think it would be beneficial to keep this still "advertised". This is a similarly slow processing as that of the Tropenmuseum donation, and as is to be expected the QSL will be. The IUCN maps' importance is defined by their worldwide scope. I do agree however that after 6 months it starts to look a bit dated, so maybe it could be renewed with a better image (a map for example) and some status update. --Elekhh (talk) 07:39, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Sounds good. I agree with John Vendenberg that the geocoord shouldn't be included. Given the type of images, this is a bit tricky.
The ICURN announcement has been there for half a year now, let's replace it - otherwise some might think that nothing has changed since. --  Docu  at 12:14, 28 December 2010 (UTC), lapsus edited 18:18, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Symbol support vote.svg Support, obviously. Lankiveil (talk) 02:45, 29 December 2010 (UTC).
✓ Done. There was room for a few more lines so I left in a "See also: IUCN Red List donation". --ZooFari 08:38, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. The image of QSL still links to IUCN. Maybe the main link shouldn't go to Wikipedia, but also to the local page. Would fix that too? --  Docu  at 08:43, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Looks like you had just noticed and fixed first part. --  Docu  at 08:46, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Done, since a link to Wikipedia in the Commons page already exists for users who want to read more about it. --ZooFari 23:08, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Please add link to Commons:State Library of Queensland into "See also" string (or delete this string). --Kaganer (talk) 01:16, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
The current announcement is the donation of the State Library of Queensland. Why should there be another link to Commons:State Library of Queensland (for the third time)? I'd agree to a link for the Commons:Tropenmuseum donation but that's not the case... --ZooFari 01:46, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, this was the "edit mode effect" ;) I could not understand what the link was retained specifically. It might be better to separate the horizontal line, as I did here? --Kaganer (talk) 15:16, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
No problem. Line looks ok so ✓ Done. --ZooFari 20:17, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

I dont like the "See also: IUCN Red List donation". What does the IUCN donation has to do with the Library of Queensland that I have to see that page? Whe should create a page Commons:Partnerships and fill it with the previous notifications in alphabetical order. See Category:Commons partnerships. --Martin H. (talk) 23:14, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

.... I should realy use the preview button more often, that page already exists, we should link that instead. --Martin H. (talk) 23:14, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Agree, that may work better. --ZooFari 23:18, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Malayalam Translation

If default language for the site is not Malayalam, Malayalam translation of Main Page (ie, പ്രധാന താൾ) giving a redirect arrow image and link to Main Page just under welcome message. I wish to remove that because it is pretty ugly to see. But don't know how. Please help :( --Praveen:talk 18:32, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello, Sorry but I don't understand what is the problem. This page പ്രധാന താൾ works fine for me. Yann (talk) 18:50, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Please check, these screenshots [3] [4]--Praveen:talk 19:40, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

I see. This only comes when not logged in. This is probably intentional, and I don't know how it is made to appear, as it is not in the page wiki markup. Regards, Yann (talk) 09:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

You can solve this by setting your browser (Chrome, Firefox) in a different language. It suggests the language of your browser. –Krinkletalk 10:13, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

OK. But I think it is more understandable if it is in a sentence. When I saw it I felt it is some kind of error :(. I prefer my browser language as English (because even google's Malayalam translation is bad). --Praveen:talk 15:43, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Storage on Commons from the German Wikipedia

Please help me to move the following images from the German Wikipedia onto Commons:

Thanx in advance, --84.148.236.216 13:09, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done by someone elses. –Krinkletalk 14:38, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Adding big search box

I received suggestion form Polish Wikipedian to add big search box on main page as Polish Wikipedia does (somehow it works in IE 7, but doesn't work in Firefox 3.6.7 for me). This sound very reasonable for me, because it will emphasize search possibility and will make work with long name (especially prefixed with namespaces such as Category much more convenient).

Sure, user interface specialist should be involved in tweaking such feature.

EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:23, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

A major concern is that this distracts users from the normal search box and seemingly vanishes after a single search is performed, leading to potential confusion/frustration. This is why the English Wikipedia community rejected such a proposal.
Incompatibility with a popular browser is another significant problem. —David Levy 21:29, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Funny, there was such a big search box on the French main page, and it was removed last week :-) Jean-Fred (talk) 21:44, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Video

I uploaded a few videos last week but I do not see them within video lists/categories. How can I put them into proper video categories or lists? Orgio89 (talk) 05:45, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

solved myself. Thanks.

My uploaded videos are not seeing in video subcategories. How can I include them in the video subcategories especially Videos by User(Orgio89) and Videos by Country(from Mongolia)? I tried many previous video page codes and perhaps it is requiring some Mod involvement. Thanks. Orgio89 (talk) 05:34, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Alleged?

Is there any reason to doubt that the three men in the picture are Sadhhus? If yes, why include the picture? If no, then why say, "alleged"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maunus (talk • contribs) 19:11, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

File upload

I have been trying to upload a file but the normal form has been replaced by one which does not allow the license to be specified. I have also tried to go in from Wikipedia but have the same problem. Can someone please reinsert the old version until the problem has been sorted out.--Ipigott 15:40, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

I noticed that too. You might want to try the Upload Wizard in the meantime. --Ernie 16:00, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Panorama POTD (2011-02-15)

POTD at 600x71 px
POTD at 300x36 px

Tomorrows FP is fairly large, thus I'd do the usual switch to the two column version (previous).

Main Page/pano and Main Page/std need to be updated before. Please unprotected them.

Once they are updated, we can update Main Page with Talk:Main Page/switch this version --  Docu  at 07:25, 14 February 2011 (UTC)


{{editprotected}}

Better solution:
  1. Please protect Main Page/pano2 and Main Page/std2
  2. update Main Page with Talk:Main Page/switch (this version)
That's all.
Main Page/pano2 will only be displayed tomorrow with tomorrows POTD, thus it wont look too large. --  Docu  at 12:38, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Done. Thank you. Walter Siegmund (talk) 05:14, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Panorama POTD (2011-03-02)

{{editprotected}}

POTD at 600x85 px
POTD at 300x43 px

The next large POTD is the one of March 2.

The layout change can already be prepared by updating Main Page with Talk:Main Page/switch (this version, diff). --  Docu  at 02:20, 16 February 2011 (UTC)


media of the day link-through

ok, i know i've mentioned this before, but there is no easy way to link-through from the main-page motd to the page for the actual file!"

& now the problem seems to actually be worse than when i first mentioned it...

the "info" button-thing in the player no longer provides a working link; the "share" button only gets you an embedded link, & the "copy" button in "share" does NOT work (or, at least it, does not work for me, using chrome on ubuntu).

we really need to fix this; there needs to be a way to get to the motd's file-page, & it should be easy & obvious, not something you have to struggle to find...

(i'd try to fix it, but i'm not a coder)

Lx 121 (talk) 02:54, 2 March 2011 (UTC)


Main Page title

Does somebody know why the title of the main pages does disappear so lately, while loading the page? In other wikis, which don't display the title, you can't see it at all.-F. F. Fjodor (talk) 11:15, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Addition: And could somebody change Mediawiki:Common.css that the redirect from Commons:Main Page is not shown?-F. F. Fjodor (talk) 11:59, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Images Donation

Sir My name is Rehmat Aziz Chitrali, I am pakistani researcher and photo journalist. I want to donate my images to Wikimedia Commons with the permission of Khowar Academy. please let me know the procedure.

Rehmat Aziz Chitrali (talk) 02:54, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Media of the Day section

See COM:VP#Media_of_the_Day_on_the_Main_Page. --  Docu  at 11:48, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Typo on media of the day

The media of the day says "Documentary about basque rap singers and their histori"; should be "history". InverseHypercube (talk) 02:28, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done --rimshottalk 06:18, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Typo in Media of the Day section

There is a small spelling error in the Media of the Day section. "eletric" should be "electric". Thanks, Mattinbgn/talk 05:29, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done --rimshottalk 21:38, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Who's men and women in uniform?

I'm taken aback by the description of Obama's speech that's todays media. Will some admin please change it to be more global and neutral. --Keithonearth (talk) 05:29, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Upload wizard?

I thought Commons had a new upload wizard? Where is it? Randomblue (talk) 15:43, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

At Special:UploadWizard and currently linked from the top of Commons:Upload. --SJ+ 01:01, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Media of the day - RSS

Somethings wrong with the RSS link for Media of the day --לאה צחור (talk) 22:34, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Media of the day error

The guillemets in the media of the day section should be quotation marks. InverseHypercube (talk) 00:44, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Layout problems

There seems to be some huge layout problems on the main page today. Hopefully it can be fixed promptly. InverseHypercube (talk) 00:24, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Done, it was a space at the beginning of the caption. --Martin H. (talk) 00:53, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Typo in POTD caption

The word "technics" should be "technique". --MichaelMaggs (talk) 07:40, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done --Mormegil (talk) 08:04, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

MOTD caption needs fixing

"The demonstration concludes with the throwing of a green smoke hand grenade (1m 16s)." Thanks. upstateNYer 13:49, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

New parthership project - RIA Novosti

Maybe it's time to update the current partnership project to RIA Novosti donation? --Kaganer (talk) 08:43, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Definitely impressive images! Are there going to be more donated? --ELEKHHT 09:02, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
✓ Done, updated to feature this new donation. Jean-Fred (talk) 09:30, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks! --Kaganer (talk) 13:27, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Yes, this project will be continued. By the end of 2011 is planned to publish on the Commons about 800 historical images of different subjects (but mainly related to the history of Russia). --Kaganer (talk) 13:27, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Picture of the Year 2010 caption wikifying

I can not find the correct template, thus writing here. Please wikify following items of the caption:

  • ESO (European Southern Observatory)
  • Paranal Observatory
  • Very Large Telescope

either to their en.wikipedia pages or to categories on commons. Thanks.--Kozuch (talk) 12:25, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done in Template:Potd/2011-02-11 (en). Jean-Fred (talk) 13:47, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

{{edit protected}} Could an admin remove the whole thing? I think it's time. theMONO 01:16, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Not sure how long it's supposed to be there or anything, but since it was intruding to the POTD and MOTD I have moved it under the "Highlights" section. --ZooFari 19:30, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Increase size of POTD

The current size of POTD on the main page is rather small. I think it should be expanded to the full width of the left column thus offering a much larger preview. Additionally, when panoramas becomes POTD would it be possible to stretch it across both columns? --Jovian Eye talk 15:22, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

New content cooperation - COM:HM

Good news everyone, a new GLAM cooperation has been established and I'm about to roll it out. Currently the "Donation by the Russian International News Agency" is on display. Would be nice if anyone could tell me how and if this can be updated in favour of the cooperation with the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte. If anyone can make a statement on the conditions for changing this main page display, feel free to write on my talkpage or mail me directly. Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 22:00, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Move picture donations to template

Would anyone mind if I moved the donations to a template? Donations are now quite common, and while I'm fine with having them on the main page, I think it unnecessarily clutters the history (which is why most things here are within templates). --The Evil IP address (talk) 18:09, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

"Clutter"? - there were just 17 edits this year up to now. :) Well, what is bad with edits on the main page? I do not see a good striking reason to move them to a template just for this reason. A downside would be for example that you cannot view the main page on a specific date anymore. And having less templates on the main page means that maintainers from other language mainpages can watch all changes more easily to update their "translated" mainpages. Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 22:38, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Thousands separator

{{editprotected}} As most English speaking countries use a comma to separate thousands, and a full-stop (or period if you prefer) for the decimal point (see File:DecimalSeparator.svg), please change 100.000 to 100,000 in the secion about contributions by the National Archives and Records Administration. Thanks.—Optimist on the run (the user formerly known as Tivedshambo) (ask me why) 05:47, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Done. Killiondude (talk) 06:18, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Picture of the day caption

Think even the British usually spell it "coloration"... AnonMoos (talk) 12:45, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments

I’ve been bold and added Wiki Loves Monuments to the Main Page (fulfilling an edit request on, er, Twitter). If there is any problem with that, revoke or let me know. Jean-Fred (talk) 09:21, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Featured pic on en.wiki could use annotations

File:Stockholm photochrom2.jpg is currently featured on English Wikipedia, but I noticed that the color of the flags in the photocrom are wrong. There weren't any national flags in 1897 that had a red cross on a blue background, and this is by all reasonable assumption supposed to be Swedish flags. The one in front would be the Swedish flag with the badge representing the Swedish-Norwegian union that lasted until 1905 (see for example File:Flaggsirkulære 1899.jpg). And the flag on top of the dome can't be any other than the Swedish flag. Could an admin please add annotations to point this out?

Perhaps this is technically more relevant to en.wiki, but I thought it be more appropriate to request a change here.

Peter Isotalo 12:20, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Try File talk:Stockholm photochrom2.jpg or COM:VP. This is the talk page for Main Page. --  Docu  at 20:07, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Do Commons admins never check this page, or do they simply not care about errors that happen to be discovered outside of Commons?
Peter Isotalo 20:37, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
What? Killiondude (talk) 22:44, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Images featured on English Wikipedia are edit-protected and they can only be amended by Commons admins. Why didn't anyone simply introduce the comment?
Peter Isotalo 15:30, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
Commons admins don't typically check the talk page for the main page (this page) for edit requests dealing with featured images on the main page of the English Wikipedia. You could have posted on a number of more apt pages that admins specifically watch, such as COM:AN or COM:VP. That having been said, you were responded to correctly, above, by Docu when he pointed you elsewhere. If I would have seen this on that day I would have fixed it, but like I said, this probably isn't the best place to ask for that sort of correction. :-) Killiondude (talk) 20:58, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
I'll keep that in mind if anything pops up again. I just assumed that admins would watch this page for reported errors. Thanks for the info.
Peter Isotalo 18:14, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Cannonball what?

The media of the day File:Cannon ball mill.ogv could really use some more information. I'm guessing it has something to do with making the cannonballs round, but it's impossible to tell what it's actually for. Could someone please explain the function in more detail?

Peter Isotalo 11:23, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Try Category:Stone mills and Steinmühlen. --Foroa (talk) 11:42, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

I can not translate

I put the Template:translation possible, but I can't translate it please help. Could you please help to resolve this problem??? (Nisetpdajsankha (talk) 00:51, 16 September 2011 (UTC))

First step is: Please use the correct page to ask. This page is only about the main page. Please ask again at Commons:Help desk. Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 05:39, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
I think that this discussion is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, don't hesitate to replace this template with your comment. Saibo (Δ) 05:39, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Blackwhite Pictures

I think that is a good idea to make a special category in the main page of black and white picture of the day. Many of as love white-black pictures, old ones and new ones.--Geovagrand (talk) 15:32, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Time to make the pics larger

They're really absurdly small for today's conditions. Most commercial sites are image-intensive, even for developing-country consumption, so I don't buy the "it's restrictive to fast broadband" argument. At stake is the whole impact of this brilliant site. Tony1 (talk) 03:47, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Agree, and there are too many frames (today's FP has a frame, and than is placed within a frame which is inside a frame which is within..., you guessed. Could also do with some cleanup. For instance the top links Nature - Science -Society with those childish icons seem superfluous as repeated at Topics. --ELEKHHT 07:50, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Not to mention that the picture of the day frame has a heading which repeats the heading of its encapsulating frame. Department of Redundancy Department? —LX (talk, contribs) 14:39, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Created a mock-up version at Main Page/sandbox simulating the changes discussed above (except I did not know how to remove the extra frame around the picture). What do you think? --ELEKHHT 22:09, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

I agree its time to change it, I think 370px will be a good size if you want the Pic of the year format to stay, OR, to reformat the pic of the year so the pic will be under the describition than 400px.
Elekhh; Iv'e removed the frame you mentioned from the page.
  – HonorTheKing (talk) 00:04, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Oh yeh, soo much better, thanks for that fix. The picture of the year should not stay there forever, so maybe that could be smaller and the picture of the day at 400px. I support immediate implementation of these small but well aimed changes. --ELEKHHT 04:42, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Support aswell.
  – HonorTheKing (talk) 11:18, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Symbol support vote.svg Support --99of9 (talk) 12:15, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Symbol support vote.svg Support  ■ MMXX  talk 17:18, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

{{Editprotected}} Than maybe is time to implement the changes (removal of the three category icons on the top-right, removal of the extra frames around picture of the day and media of the day, removal of duplicate titles, change of image size for picture of the day) as illustrated by the sandbox. --ELEKHHT 02:20, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Before I implement, I made another draft: What do you think of [7] ? (Tip: Try to resize your window) --DieBuche (talk) 09:31, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Much better, I my self like it.
  – HonorTheKing (talk) 00:54, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
The only difference I see is the feature to maximise the width of the Picture of the day based on the window size. This works particularly well with panoramic photos like today's image. With yesterday's portrait format I found it a bit excessive on a large screen, but still support the changes. --ELEKHHT 02:35, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

What about main page in other languages? should we change them all?  ■ MMXX  talk 15:35, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

I'd say yes. I don't have time for that though. --DieBuche (talk) 09:48, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Front page FP randomizer

We have so many featured images and counting I doubt we'll be able to give each one its own day. What if we had a randomizer that showed a different featured pic on each hit (and maybe some kind of tracker so people could see the ones they recently viewed)? Maybe we could tag non family-safe ones to prevent them from showing. -- One, please. ( Thank you.) 20:48, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

If there is a backlog with FPs than the simple solution is to speed up display and have two pictures of the day for 12h each. I don't think random display of images would make the main page more attractive. --ELEKHHT 00:10, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
I agree with Elekhh. I worry about unpredictability, the difficulty of troubleshooting, and the potential for subtle vandalism if everyone is not seeing the same page. --Walter Siegmund (talk) 17:03, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

POTD

I do not know what happened so that a direct link to POTD is not available anymore, but I do not think it is a good idea.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:37, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Good observation, probably the link below the POTD to "Other Featured pictures" should be changed to COM:POTD. That would be consistent with the link below the Media of the day and remove another redundancy, as there already is another link to featured pictures on the right side under "Highlights". --ELEKHHT 05:20, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Is somebody going to return the link? I am not a sysop and can not do it.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:21, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

{{editprotected}} I think it should be uncontroversial. Please replace the "Other Featured pictures" link below the POTD with Other Pictures of the day. --ELEKHHT 20:27, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done --Joku Janne(Fi) (Wikiwiki) 15:54, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Great, thanks to both of you.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:41, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Video

Hi, there seems to be a spelling mistake on the video description. If i'm not mistaken, isn't it supposed to be "video about lightning storms on Saturn", not "video about ligthining storms on Saturn". Just trying to help, Benzband (talk) 14:14, 5 November 2011 (UTC).

Corrected. Thanks a lot for your help. Yann (talk) 16:23, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Tired image

As much as we like the POTY, it's become a fixture on the wall ... how long has it been there for? I'm surprised a few runners-up haven't been alternated.

On another issue, is there an iron-clad rule about restricting the size of images on the front page of what is the world's largest repository of free images? Tony1 (talk) 13:37, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

It's still there. That same old image. How long???? Tony1 (talk) 11:41, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Yes, I would appreciate that as well. --ELEKHHT 12:55, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
✓ Done. --ZooFari 18:49, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Animation too big

Can it be made smaller? I cannot see it comfortably because it doesn't fit on my monitor... 68.224.132.9 05:57, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

I agree. Its aspect ratio is unusual and thus the template for today ought to be adjusted accordingly to a fixed pixel height (and not width). --Slaunger (talk) 06:05, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
It's fixed for today, but I'm not sure if my solution is technically appropriate for all situations (I had to remove a div). If anyone knows better than me, the place to look is Main_Page/potd. --99of9 (talk) 06:40, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Featured image caption

Should be "Om Navashivam, traditional Hindu song, Kumaon, Uttarakhand, India." InverseHypercube 19:08, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Ludo.jpg

On a fresh mediawiki install, I had an image called 'Ludo.jpg' on my site, which was refferencing an image on wikimedia. Is this some kind of easter egg? ~ ash2424@live.co.uk

Do you have InstantCommons enabled? If yes, all images on Wikimedia Commons are accessible from your site. --Mormegil (talk) 15:44, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Featured image caption

"mac" should be capitalized. InverseHypercube 04:01, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

You mean featured video? In fact the technical stuff could be removed altogether ("created on a mac, and compressed with ffmpeg2theora.")... Don't you think? --Saibo (Δ) 04:18, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Spinning_Dancer.gif

Is there one of a naked guy too? I can think of lots of fun uses for it. Carolmooredc (talk) 16:53, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

View Wikimedia Commons in British English

I'm shocked and surprised to see at the head of the page there is a banner saying "View Wikimedia Commons in British English" and in the drop down menu on the left I am invited to read in "British English", or "English". This choice should read "British English" or "American English". American English is NOT the default version of English. No one version should have precedence. In fact, I could argue that if any one version were to be called "English" plain and simple (which I'm not, because as I said, no one version should have precedence) then I'd say that British English should be the version referred to as "English" and American English as "American English". The language developed in England, after all: we've been speaking it for centuries longer than the Americans. This is an important matter as Wikimedia is opening itself to accusations of extreme bias and US-centrism by putting this choice up. 86.143.69.229 16:27, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

It's not that simple. Commons' main "English" is, much like English Wikipedia's "English", a mix of all variants of English; it is ISO code "en", not "American English" (ISO code "en-us"). Quite why we even have the "British English" option (ISO code "en-gb") I don't know; it may be more trouble than it's worth. Rd232 (talk) 18:23, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

I expected "categorizing" and "license" to be spelled differently on the BrE version of the page, but they're the same. What are the differences, exactly? If there aren't any differences, what's the point of offering the page(s) in BrE? 82.36.129.101 03:15, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

It's not for content on pages but for system messages and template messages (if they are available in that language). For British English it looks like we only have 4 system messages and several templates directly for en-gb and on the English Wikipedia we have 10 messages in en-gb. Killiondude (talk) 21:45, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Translation of POTD / MOTD description from localized Main Page.

For helpful translation of POTD description from localized Main Page will be make some small changes:

  1. Add preload parameter into {{edit}} - see Template talk:Edit#preload parameter
  2. Improve {{Main Page/potd}} with adding preload param to first two {{edit}} call (for "lang" and "fallback_lang");
    • as example, instead
      {{edit|Template:Potd/{{LOCALYEAR}}-{{LOCALMONTH}}-{{LOCALDAY2}} ({{{lang|en}}})}}
      should be
      {{edit|Template:Potd/{{LOCALYEAR}}-{{LOCALMONTH}}-{{LOCALDAY2}} ({{{lang|en}}})|preload=Template:Potd/{{LOCALYEAR}}-{{LOCALMONTH}}-{{LOCALDAY2}} (en)}}
  3. Improve {{Main Page/motd}} in the same way

--Kaganer (talk) 23:24, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

How do you creat a collage picture?

I wanted to ask if anyone knows how to make a collage picture for a city? What website do you use because I want to make one by myself for my own city please! Reply as soon as possible! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.7.87.164 (talk • contribs) 2012-01-22T10:50:45‎ (UTC)

Hi! Please ask your question at COM:Help desk (see the intro of this page). Please delete this section when you have read it. --Saibo (Δ) 19:30, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Orion Nebula pic caption

The caption of today's image (File:Different Slant on Orion (495636660).jpg) needs to be improved. The term "Spitzer image" assumes you actually know there's a telescope by that name (rather than, say, a method of photography) and "a little different" doesn't contain any meaningful information. Could someone with a basic knowledge of astronomy write up something better?

Peter Isotalo 02:13, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Oh, and by the way: how many people would recognize what "HST" stood for? I bet far fewer than "Hubble telescope" or even just "Hubble". This is certainly not the first time I see some really substandard captions go live on the mainpage.
Peter Isotalo 02:15, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your hints … I've added links for HST and Spitzer now. --:bdk: 03:36, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Nice big pic

Congratulations to whoever is behind the upsizing of the main pic. I don't come here often, but if today is representative, finally we're using the main page of Commons to do justice to this part of the Foundation's endeavours. Tony1 (talk) 12:38, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

PS, but not so good on "the National Archives and Records Administration" ... that's the American National Archives and Records Administration, is it? Is the US the default country at Commons? Not good the narrow the brand and potentially alienate folks. Tony1 (talk) 12:41, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
✓ Done --99of9 (talk) 05:12, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Category changes

I just noticed that on the right hand side we have a section

By author

Are you all happy to make this change? --99of9 (talk) 05:39, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

"Yes, we are". ;) --  Docu  at 05:42, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
✓ Done now that Docu has checked me. Admins, feel free to revert and discuss if you disagree. --99of9 (talk) 06:17, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Octocopter (alt. Multirotor) flight not Octokopter fly - please change asap

Could somebody (with admin or similar authority) who can change the main Commons page please change the explanation of the media of the day picture (from today feb 1) to either Octocopter flight or alternativly Multirotor flight Octokopter fly is badly translated german. I cannot change this myself i believe. Greetings from Sweden --RBinSE (talk) 09:01, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

✓ Done. Yann (talk) 09:31, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you Yann for the first part (Octocopter) The other word I considered wrong in this context was fly - I believe it is not correct English wording. I would call it Octocopter flight not Octocopter fly. But somebody with English mothertongue should please judge that. thank you--RBinSE (talk) 11:07, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
No admin reading this? fly can't be correct...?--RBinSE (talk) 19:40, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, just read it now. You are very welcome to check translations (and add new ones) at Commons:Media_of_the_day (or one of the localized versions) before the Video goes live on the main page. For urgent admin help you could ask at COM:AN in the future. Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 02:15, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Pic of day (Saturn)

The caption is Saturn's Rings in Ultraviolet Light. But why? This is not a picture of just the rings, the planet is quite well seen there. And this differs from the most pictures in Category:Saturn_(Rings) by having the whole planet also in the pic. There are about ten others like that in that category, don't know why. 82.141.94.42 01:41, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

"Lapp" caption; not appropriate

The caption of the picture of the day says "A Sami (Lapp) family in Norway around 1900." "Lapp" is at best considered dated and at worst derogatory. It's basically the equivalent of calling a Roma a Gypsy, ei rather inappropriate and unnecessary. Please change this at once.

Peter Isotalo 10:45, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Web accessibility

{{editprotected}} For web accessibility, change [[File:MP images.png|24px|link=Category:Pictures and images]] to [[File:MP images.png|24px|link=Category:Pictures and images|alt=]] Add "|alt=" for [[File:MP sounds.png|24px|link=Category:Sound]] and [[File:MP videos.png|24px|link=Category:Videos]] and [[File:NARA Logo created 2010.svg|100px|left|link=Commons:National Archives and Records Administration]]

Thanks. --EmmanuelFrance (talk) 20:31, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Done. Which images should get a alt text? Anything that is not just for visual identification / logo-style images? Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 20:53, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Racism

There are a lot of anti-Semitic picturs here, pls do something with this--Haya831 (talk) 19:51, 6 January 2012 (UTC)


You should be ashamed putting the photo of the Tannery in Marrakech up in your "Tanning" wiki. It is thought in this part of the world that to have your photograph taken diminishes your soul. It is evident that the boy on the left is trying to hide his face and yet you still put this up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.147.168.155 (talk • contribs) 2012-01-12T10:55:05‎ (UTC)

It is thought in some parts of the world that women should not expose even their ankles. Should we refrain from uploading any images of a woman's body apart from her eyes? Many people think many things. I understand cultural sensitivity, but if the boy's soul has been stolen by the photo, the deed has been done and uploading it to Commons won't make a difference. Lukys (talk) 22:34, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
It is of course unethical to upload pictures of living subjects who are not public figures and who have not given permission, or who are clearly opposed to having their pictures taken.Maunus (talk) 02:37, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Is it against the law in the country in question? If not, I don't believe it breaks any rules on Commons, depending on your interpretation of "demean" and "ridicule". Lukys (talk) 00:40, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Whats legal and what's ethical are two very different things. I personally have the first as the ideal as the second as the minimal standard.Maunus (talk) 17:29, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

No media of the day today

Where is today's media? --Meno25 (talk) 15:11, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Просьба удалить файлы

Прошу администраторов по желанию автора удалить все мои файлы. Я был заморожен, а теперь обошёл заморозку и прошу удалить все мои и участника:Unknown russian composer (тоже виртуала с моего адреса) Adagio molto II (talk) 17:52, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Lyrics

Dear Wikimedia Personnel,

I propose that we use this wiki has a sister project for searching lyrics of songs, with the words and phrases being lead to their Wikitionary pages. That way it is easier to understand whether or not songs are appropriate, because the songs might have inappropriate lyrics some parents would not understand. I suggest the name to be Wikirics.

Sincerely,

Largerthanlife147 (talk) 16:22, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Bypass redirect

{{editprotected}} The link to Category:Pictures and images at the top of the Main Page (link-text: Images, shown alongside Sounds and Videos) now leads to a category-redirect page, since the target category has been moved (after this discussion) to Category:Images. This is not a very attractive thing for a new user to come across right off the Main Page. An admin needs to change the link to point directly to Category:Images. Same for the other protected pages that link there (not all the pages in this list are protected, but I'm not going to make any changes to the unprotected pages until an admin acknowledges the necessity of the change by editing the protected pages). TIA. - dcljr (talk) 10:18, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

✓ Done --Jarekt (talk) 19:38, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

{{editprotected}}

Oops... There's another link to Category:Pictures and images under "By type" in the "Content" section. This, too, should point to Category:Images. - dcljr (talk) 22:51, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
✓ Done —David Levy 07:18, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
OK, I've changed all the editable Main Pages (and a few other relevant pages) that link to Category:Pictures and images. The rest need to be edited by an admin. In particular, I found the Main Pages Hauptseite and Pagina principale; the system messages MediaWiki:Searchresulttext, MediaWiki:Searchresulttext/fr, MediaWiki:Searchresulttext/bg, and MediaWiki:Searchresulttext/ko; and the subpages Main Page/std, Main Page/std2, Main Page/pano, and Main Page/pano2 [which don't appear to be used anywhere "important", but might need changing just "for consistency"]. (Not using the {editprotected} template yet again because I'm assuming someone will read this soon and want to act on it without the blaring warning...) - dcljr (talk) 10:00, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

{{editprotected}}

✓ Done (I hope.) --Mormegil (talk) 16:21, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Yes, it looks like we're done here... Thanks, everyone. - dcljr (talk) 21:58, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Edit request?

{{editprotected}} —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guest Kashapov (talk • contribs) 13:10, 27 March 2012‎ (UTC)

You need to explain what edits are needed. - dcljr (talk) 21:58, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

POTD caption

{{editprotected}} A minor point, but the caption of today's POTD in some languages says the date the wedding happened (19 June 2010), and in others doesn't. The English description is locked by cascading protection, so an admin needs to change this one: Template:Potd/2012-03-27 (en). I've changed the others myself (why aren't they also protected?), but since I don't know the respective languages, I've just tacked "2010-06-19" onto the end of each; if anyone can do better, please do: es, ja, hu, ka, nl, eo, ko, and pt. - dcljr (talk) 22:24, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Nevermind. It's off the Main Page now. - dcljr (talk) 03:32, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Upload time

I've been uploading a 120 MB TIFF for the past 24 hours. How long should it take to upload a file to Wikimedia Commons with high speed DSL? I need to know if I've made a mistake or something. 184.36.92.83 23:55, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi. I noticed you posted this on Commons talk:FAQ, too. I've moved it to COM:HD#Upload time. In the future, the best places for these types of questions are COM:VP or COM:HD. Have a great day and hope your question is answers soon! Killiondude (talk) 00:36, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Thank you kindly. 184.36.92.83 03:30, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Pic of the day

The caption is rather weird. I still don't get the context, and I doubt whether most other people will. Any mention of Hitler can offend, so best to be cautious. Tony1 (talk) 10:02, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

✓ Done thanks. --99of9 (talk) 11:49, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

there is a problem in upload picture ? we want to take care ?--Dileman (talk) 14:54, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

How to add photos?

Can somebody tell me how to upload photos please? Thanks! GARNERshiqian (talk) 07:23, 13 May 2012 (UTC)GARNERshiqian

Hello. Just click on "Upload file" and follow the instructions. It is very easy these days! LynwoodF (talk) 08:27, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

May I ask

Is there a list of ALL pictures by name (ABC) so I can choose one regardless to its category? sometimes i don't know what is the category. I am looking for a picture of a well known Angel in the Jewish tradition, named Metatron, but I don't know how to search it. thanks! SegevAfriat (talk) 09:39, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

See https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=6 Ruslik (talk) 10:40, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
You might want to use Special:Search. Jean-Fred (talk) 11:05, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Blue background?

Why has the background gone blue? It's really hard to see Tetrisforaliens (talk) 20:30, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm assuming you're using Chrome? Anyone using Chrome (and the vector skin) that has (accidentally or purposefully) the zoom set at a different level than 100% will experience this bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=113711. Just reset the zoom to 100% and it will "fix" it (fix is relative, here). Killiondude (talk) 22:21, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

POTD caption

Hello,

Could someone change "brazilian">"Brazilian"? Thanks. InverseHypercube 01:37, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Agreed. Needs adressing, pronto. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 04:12, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Just came to ask about the same thing myself. Seraphimblade (talk) 04:25, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

✓ Done --99of9 (talk) 05:06, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

{{editprotected}}

Could somebody please get rid of the awful term "native"? We wouldn't use it for an inhabitant of a village in a Western country. "Resident" or something similar would be more appropriate. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:40, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Agreed. InverseHypercube 17:52, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Feel free to fix it at Template:Potd/2012-05-21 (en). --Mormegil (talk) 15:00, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Main Page spam

Is this on the main page for any reason other than being a soapbox for the petition? It's not even a featured image.  An optimist on the run! 11:43, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

It is there because someone nominated it for Commons:Media of the day and nobody who reviews those objected within the review period. If you want to improve the selection of Media of the day process, please get involved instead of criticizing choices of other volunteers. --Jarekt (talk) 13:40, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
As far as I can see, there isn't a formal nomination process - people just add what they like to an empty slot and hope for the best. It's not reasonable to assume users will have all these potential slots in their watchlists so they can raise possible objections. Note that it wasn't the media itself I was objecting to, but the external spam links in the accompanying blurb, which I see was later removed.  An optimist on the run! 06:35, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
I agree that this might not have been best use of out Main Page, but the only way to prevent that is to keep track of Commons:Media of the day and Commons:Picture of the day before they are on the main page. --Jarekt (talk) 14:33, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

POTD caption

Hello,

Can the POTD caption be changed from "The american golfplayer Morgan Pressel, 2009." to "The American golf player Morgan Pressel, 2009"? "American" is always capitalized, and I've never seen the word "golfplayer" being capitalized.

Thank you. InverseHypercube 00:55, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

✓ Done. --rimshottalk 06:21, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Nigerian internet

[Advertisement/article removed by Philosopher]

Thank you for sharing about the Nigerian internet. However, this page is for talking about the Main Page, not for draft Wikipedia articles or for advertisements. If you are trying to start a Wikipedia article, you can see My First Article, but please remember that advertising is not allowed there either. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:33, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Pictures from Google Earth

I want to use a picture of a hill from 'Google Earth' on a Page 'Dhosi Hill' Will it involve any patent rights. Sudhirkbhargava

Hi Sudhirkbhargava,
First we are not much concerned with patents, but with copyright, which is a different law.
And yes, all images created from Google Earth get a derivative copyright, and are therefore not allowed on Commons. Regards, Yann (talk) 09:37, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I just found from your instruction page that maps fall under Data, and facts and geographic or topographic features of a map, and facts do not fall under copy right as they fall under public domain. I have to use only one photograph of a hill, Could I post it, otherwise what is the alternative? should I prepare a drawing of the hill and post it on the page. Sudhirkbhargava

Nope, data or features is coordinates and distances and such things. A satellite or aerial photo is a photo. You cant make screenshots and sublicense them under free licenses, see http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/terms_maps.html (2a, 2b). --Martin H. (talk) 17:56, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Redlink on Main Page

{{editprotected}} In the right column under "Content", there is a redlink created by a recent category move. That link should point to Category:Photographs by photographer now. jcgoble3 (talk) 15:29, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

✓ Done -- Common Good (talk) 18:03, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

email

How do I notify wikimedia of my change of email address..? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Photopanda (talk • contribs)

You can go to your preferences (click "My preferences" in the upper-right of your screen) or go to Special:ChangeEmail. Also, please sign your comments with ~~~~ so we know who commented. Happy editing! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 10:50, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the day wiki link

Howdy all. This just a suggestion, but someone might want to change the wiki link to Kabocha to display the word "Japanese" instead. Some people find the current term being used offensive. I'm not saying I am one of them, but I'm just offering a suggestion.--Rockfang (talk) 03:54, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Pictogram voting keep.svg Fixed - that's definitely a pejorative term, and it should not have been there in the first place. Logan Talk Contributions 04:18, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
I have also notified Dodo of my action. Logan Talk Contributions 04:22, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
Dear Logan, I am the one who first wrote that file description. I'm sorry that you find that term perjorative, that was not my intent. In fact, in Australian parlance this is simply the more common name for that species of pumpkin: [9] [10]. This is also how it is sold in shops and on the seed packets. (But it is not used for people.) Nevertheless, I have no objection to your change of the description. --99of9 (talk) 01:12, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Ah, okay. I was unaware of that. Thanks for letting me know! Logan Talk Contributions 07:22, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

POTD 10 July

I am not sure what is going on and why I can not edit Template:Potd/2012-07-10 (en), but please replace this machine translation with "Southern view of the Laufener Hütte, Salzburg, Austria". Thanks in advance.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:22, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Done, please check. --99of9 (talk) 12:18, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
Great, thanks.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:50, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Fly video July 9th

The fly video caption says "Europa" instead of the correct English "Europe". In English, Europa is a moon of Jupiter! best, Sunil060902 (talk) 17:09, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

fixed, thanks. Rd232 (talk) 17:16, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Media of the day, July 17

"Media of the day" today is missing a caption. —Bruce1eetalk 05:21, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

In what language? {{Potd/2012-07-17}} is where the current language captions are located. Killiondude (talk) 06:41, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
The Media of the day Template:Motd/2012-07-17 has no English caption template. —Bruce1eetalk 06:54, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
I quickly created something. --Mormegil (talk) 07:09, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you. —Bruce1eetalk 07:18, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

POTD caption August 4 2012

The caption says, "Today is the one-hundred-eleventh birthday by Louis Armstrong". Shouldn't it say, "Today is the one hundred and eleventh birthday of Louis Armstrong"?--Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 05:41, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

That would be better English! LynwoodF (talk) 09:21, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
✓ Done This was done at the time, but I forgot to thank you for the report. --99of9 (talk) 00:09, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

POD caption for August 11

Hi,

Shouldn't the capitalization be consistent in the sentence: "The image is a beautiful shot of godavari bridge on the left and Godavari Arch Bridge on the right."?

Thus should it be changed to:

"The image is a beautiful shot of Godavari Bridge on the left and Godavari Arch Bridge on the right."? MathewTownsend (talk) 15:53, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Template:Potd/2012-08-11

Can some administrator change the photo? (and its description) The picture isn't featured. It was already changed, but then reverted. Tomer T (talk) 16:23, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Sorry we missed the above two messages on the correct day. Pierre has reverted and I have now protected... but it's too late. --99of9 (talk) 00:08, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

POTD 2012-8-16

The caption makes no sense - the 'possible' and 'a' are the wrong way round! Mdann52 (talk) 06:34, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Another option would be to change "possible" to "possibly".--Rockfang (talk) 06:36, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
✓ Done thanks. --99of9 (talk) 07:19, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

POTD caption, Aug 25

Hi there, the terms used for the German states are sometimes a bit imprecise, hence I'd like to suggest some minor corrections:

Wall map of Southwestern Germany, which includes the Kingdom of Bavaria, Kingdom of Württemberg, the Grand Duchies of Baden and Hessen, the Principality of Hohenzollern, and the Imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine, 1875. Restored by Dr Heinrich Moehl. Best, --SEM (talk) 16:55, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Also shouldn't 2006 because of his security be 2006 for his security ? Mlpearc Public (Talk) 03:21, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for responding too late, but I was translating it in a hurry since I just at some point discovered that there is no English caption. Feel free to amend. Thanks.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:05, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Date format

I suggest 'on 26 August 1979' is better 'in 26 Aug 1979'. Dudley Miles (talk) 10:40, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments

Hi everyone, "Contribution by the Walters Art Museum" has been on the front page for quite some time. I would like to replace it with some information about Wiki Loves Monuments and a link to Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments upload in September so it's easy for new users (and existing ones) to find it. BTW Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments upload will be updated ASAP. Multichill (talk) 12:19, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi Multichill, thanks for the idea! I went ahead and added the information on Wiki Loves Monuments. odder (talk) 22:31, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Too many butterflies keep coming up as the picture of the day, as pretty as they are a little more variation would be appreciated

Uploading a photo - full rights of use

Hello There,

I would like to upload a photo on to the Wikimedia Commons. I have full rights to use this photo but I am not the author. Would someone be able to tell me how I should go about uploading this? Also, Is there any other uploading options than the creative commons licences? Would I be able to lock a photo so it can only be used on one page? If you could please provide me with any information you have on this subject, that would be great!

Thank you.

Samanthajayne77 (talk) 21:48, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

  • You have to upload the photo under the Creative Commons license and can not lock it. If this is essential, you should go to Wikipedia and upload it as fair use. Concerning the authorship, Commons:OTRS contains the necessary instructions.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:29, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 - Upload time is over

I am not suggesting to take down the information about the contest. But interests have changed. We shouldn't encourage any more uploads as part of the contest (uploads outside of the contest are of course still welcome). But many uploaders are now keen to find out how their images are appreciated. So now links to the overall contest and the national contests and the GLAM-contest are necessary, so uploaders can find out what is happening from here. --Wuselig (talk) 11:44, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Announcement has now been removed (so as not to confuse people). If an appropriate replacement text is written I can add that instead. /Lokal_Profil 01:32, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

POTD caption October 19 2012

The correct English spelling is "Baroque" rather than "Barroque". Ntsimp (talk) 19:25, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

It may be useful to note that the inscription is a quote of (Book of) Proverbs 9:1. --Concord (talk) 15:21, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Insects corpulating winning POTD again?

Ebaychatter0 (talk) 13:38, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

29 October

Spelling mistake "Fortress of the Îlette of Kermovan, Britanny (France)" (Brittany is correct).--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 12:06, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Add 15 millionth to main page

{{editrequest}} Commons has reached the milestone of 15 million files and it would be nice to mention this where we put POTY and Wiki Loves Monuments. The 15 millionth file is at Commons:Village_pump#15M_milestone. Cheers, theMONO 01:11, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Today's image

Could an adminstrator please add the Category "1963 in Germany". It is protected. Thanks in advance --Jerchel (talk) 18:24, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

popularity contest

This has become a popularity contest. It's not about good images, not even about images at all. This page, as far as i'm concerned has lost all credibility. Kleuske (talk) 14:06, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

  • What are you talking about?--Ymblanter (talk) 16:27, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

POTY announcement

{{editrequest}}Please add Commons:Picture of the Year/2012/Translations/Homepage to the main page in place of the 15 million files announcement. Mono (POTY Committee) at 19:46, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Done by Beria. -- Rillke(q?) 12:59, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Needed image

Hi! Can anyone upload a picture of actress Sarah Peachez? I am making an article on her and I need a picture asap! Thanks a lot!

This page is to discuss improvements to the main page itself, and its content. Please see the help desk for further information. TBrandley (what's up) 01:35, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

POTY picture as picture of the day

Is it really fair to have one of the current POTY finalists given extra prominence as today's main page picture? Or will they all have their turn before voting finishes?  An optimist on the run! 07:49, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Quite unfair. There are only 6 days left now for voting. All images cant be displayed in 6 days. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 10:47, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
I've just noticed this. Indeed, I think this is inappropriate. Although I like the picture very much and have voted for it as POTY in Round 1 myself, I think it should now be disqualified from the contest. It's too late to change the picture of the day now, I think... Gestumblindi (talk) 20:43, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
  • We do not plan on disqualifying this image from Round 2 of the competition. There was no indication that this image was in the POTY contest and voting is not possible from the image's description page. Many POTY voters may have never seen the main page, but it is impossible to gauge the impact it had if any and it would be unfair to disqualify a fairly-chosen image that received popular support. All the POTY images were presented in random order as well. We regret that this occurred and will make sure to address any problems with the POTD organizers in the future. Mono 00:29, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

POTY announcement

{{editrequest}} Please update it to include results.--Praveen:talk 06:47, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

I've created a new version with the results at User:Mono/Sandbox. Could an admin please replace it with that? Mono 16:30, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
✓ Done. odder (talk) 00:41, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Red link.

Someone should remove that red link to that journals page. Red links on the main page do 4 things. They bug people. They bug me. They confuse people who are not familiar with red links. They make us look bad. Scientific Alan 2 (talk) 01:12, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

✓ Done, replaced with Category:Media from scholarly journals and recreated Category:Images from journals as a category redirect, so that all language versions of the Main Page have a blue link there. --Mormegil (talk) 18:57, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
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