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OTRS had not been responding to permission and photos were deleted for no permission...[edit]

Hello, during cleaning my mailbox I found an old OTRS permission from 2018, which haven't received respond from Polish OTRS team; thus, the photographs were deleted ([1], [2], [3], [4]; @JuTa). I still have permission email in my box, so I can provide it to responding OTRS team. What should I do? These photos should be restored and permission assigned to them. Wojsław Brożyna (talk) 08:39, 10 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Wojsław Brożyna, Could you please link the ticket number? I am not an admin and cannot retrieve the ticket number from these files. I tried searching for File:XV Rodowy Wiec Słowian 1132164277.jpg on the VRT dashboard however it found no results. Could you please tell me the ticket number, and if these are more than one, please tell the numbers of all. Best, ─ The Aafī (^talk) 09:30, 10 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@TheAafi since I am not an OTRS volunteer, I have not to know ticket number for unresponded permission. I can just tell you that I sent e-mails with forwarded permission (one for all linked photos) to permissions-pl[at]wikimedia.org in 21th August 2018 (11:00 AM UTC+2), 21th September 2018 (8:44 PM UTC+2) and 7th October 2018 (12:51 PM UTC+2). If I didn't get any response, maybe ticket wasn't even open? Wojsław Brożyna (talk) 19:41, 11 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@TheAafi They're all ticket:2018110410002829. I get a "This ticket does not exist, or you don't have permissions to access it in its current state." error, even though I seem to have access to the permissions-pl queue. If you don't have access either, maybe ping Krd? —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:49, 11 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Actually, hold on a sec, something weird is happening. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:51, 11 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ok, these might (also?) be ticket:2018082110003418. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:52, 11 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Mdaniels5757, I can't access the first ticket however I can open the other one. I will likely go through it tomorrow. Thanks for the ticket number anyway. ─ The Aafī on Mobile ^{^(talk)} 20:48, 11 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@AafiOnMobile@Mdaniels5757 The two tickets are linked, and one has been reopened recently. The best thing would be to ping a Polish speaking agent, having access to both info-pl and permissions queues. Ruthven (msg) 14:16, 12 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Ruthven, Thanks for the heads up. In that I case, anyone from the VRT whom about I know that they are a Polish speaking agent, is none other than @Polimerek. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 15:00, 12 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

DEMANDE D'UTILISATION DES IMAGES DE WIKIPEDIA[edit]

BONJOUR JESPERE QUE VOUS ALLEZ BIEN , J'AIMERAI VOUS DEMANDER CONCERNANT L'UTILISATION DES IMAGES QUE NOUS TROUVONS SUR WIKIPEDIA EST CE QU'ON PEUT LES UTILISER DANS NOS VIDEOS YOUTUBE DANS LE CADRE D'UN COMMENTAIRE OU CRITIQUE BIOGRAPHIQUE? MERCI D'AVANCE DE VOTRE REPONSE. SACKO HAWA MADY (talk) 00:15, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@SACKO HAWA MADY:

Hello and welcome to Wikimedia Commons.

Images on Wikimedia projects are identified as being subject to any of several licenses. Therefore it is advisable to check the image information page for the source and/or licensing information. Clicking on the image will lead you to the image information page. Most images are usually free to use as long as you give the proper credits and follow the terms of the license indicated on the image description page, though some images on Wikimedia projects other than Commons are held merely under a claim of fair use.

For more information please see <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#7._Licensing_of_Content>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_content> and <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia>.

If the licensing conditions of one image do not suit you, it may be possible to contact the author of that image for alternate conditions. See in the description page if the author's name is present.

Please note: Neither the Wikimedia Foundation, nor the authors of articles on Wikimedia sites, nor I provide legal advice. It is your responsibility, if you intend to reuse content from Wikimedia sites, to determine how the licenses of the content that we host apply to your intended uses. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 00:36, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Droit de partage d'image d'une institution[edit]

Bonjour @Yann, Bonjour à tous.

Je suis Aboubacar Keita, userːaboubacarkhoraa - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Aboubacarkhoraa

Nous sommes entrain de travailler sur des partenariats institutionnels depuis quelques années avec les institutions de l'Etat en république de Guinée. Donc, vous pouvez voir des images réaliser dans cette mission == https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tapis_Rouge_wikim%C3%A9dia_Guin%C3%A9e

Nous avons communiqué avec la direction de communication de la présidence de la république de Guinée et je souhaite les écrire officiellement pour demander l'autorisation des image de la présidence. Pour ce faire ː

▶ J'ai fait une copie de la lettre que je souhaite les envoyer.

▶ j'ai adapté et rédiger une proposition de réponse qu'il pourrons éventuellement adapter.

J'ai besoin de votre avis pour cela. Contrairement au 82 images de la catégorie du CNT, nous avons besoin de document supplémentaire pour la présidence.

Merci beaucoup

◎

Bonjour,

Je suis contributeur sur la version francophone de Wikipédia (http://fr.wikipedia.org) et nous sommes à la recherche d'images libres pour Wikimédia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accueil). À l'heure actuelle, nous avons des images de mauvaise qualité et pour la majorité nous n'avons même pas d'images libres pour les articles suivants :

̈Présidence de la république et ses cadres

̈Membres des Gouvernements Mohamed Béavogui et du Docteur Bernard Goumou

̈Diplomates guinéens

Ma question est la suivante : serait-il possible que vous nous transférez des images originales des personnalités avec une autorisation manuscrite, afin de les passer en CC-BY-SA. Ceci permettrait leur utilisation sur Wikipédia. Bien entendu, vous serez mentionné comme l'auteur original, avec un lien vers votre page officiel, en vertu de la licence choisie.

Votre contribution serait grandement appréciée et permettrait d'enrichir Wikipédia en faisant profiter les lecteurs du monde entier de belles illustrations. Cordialement.

Lien vers la page d'utilisateur ː http://fr.wikiscan.org/utilisateur/Aboubacarkhoraa

◎

Je représente la direction de la communication et de l'information de la présidence de Guinée (DCI), je confirme par la présente être l'auteur et le titulaire unique et exclusif des œuvres de cette direction. J'accepte la publication des œuvres de la DCI sous la licence Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International transféré à Monsieur Aboubacar Keita - UserːAboubacarkhoraa.

Je comprends qu'en faisant cela je permets à quiconque d'utiliser ses œuvres pour l'illustration d'articles, et de la modifier dans la mesure des exigences imposées par la licence choisie.

Je suis conscient de toujours jouir des droits extra-patrimoniaux sur mon œuvre, et garder le droit d'être cité pour celle-ci selon les termes de la licence retenue. Les modifications que d'autres pourront faire ne me seront pas attribuées.

Je suis conscient qu'une licence libre concerne seulement les droits patrimoniaux de l'auteur, et je garde la capacité d'agir envers quiconque n'emploierait pas ce travail d'une manière autorisée, ou dans la violation des droits de la personne, des restrictions de marque déposée, etc.

Je comprends que je ne peux pas retirer cette licence, et que l'image est susceptible d'être conservée de manière permanente par n'importe quel projet de la fondation Wikimédia.

Mr--------

Directeur de la communication et de l'information de la Présidence de Guinée

La Direction de la Communication et de l'information de la Présidence de Guinée

Aboubacarkhoraa (talk) 12:23, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Studio Harcourt[edit]

Can we make public the text of the VRT by User:Studio Harcourt to see what the terms of the agreement include? I want to cut and paste the technical info into Category:Photographs by Studio Harcourt. It appears that France bought the archive in 1991 and released them under CC, but it also appears that User:Studio Harcourt has released newer images under terms of the VRT. I want to make those terms public to avoid the ad hoc deletion of images in the category. RAN (talk) 18:01, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ); There isn't any helpful text that I can provide from the ticket. Everything is in French, a language that I do not know. I hope any French speaking VRT agent can help with this. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 05:18, 24 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The info in French is fine, I can post it in French and use Google translate. --RAN (talk) 12:10, 24 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): Where does it say that the French state released the photo archives of Studio Harcourt under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, as you claim at the top of that category? The article linked from there, [5], says "en 1991, Jack Lang a fait acheter par l'État l'essentiel du fonds, cinq millions de négatifs maintenant conservés et diffusés par la Réunion des musées nationaux." Jack Lang being the minister of culture or similar at the time, it seems the French state did buy 5 million negatives from the studio, which are now in French museums. I didn't see anything about a CC license there though. --Rosenzweig τ 07:42, 24 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The statement is based on the license they were uploaded with. Have you found the museum website to confirm or refute? --RAN (talk) 12:10, 24 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
- Generally unless there is evidence that French Museums or the French government are releasing Studio Harcourt photographs under a Creative Commons license, we should assume that the French government considers them to be "all rights reserved". Abzeronow (talk) 16:13, 24 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
We should avoid assumptions and rely on reading the VRT to see what it has to say. Flipping a coin to decide between two licenses, serves no one. The VRT, from Studio Harcourt, was accepted and neither of us know what it contains. It may cover images from their inception to today, or post 1991 images to today, or only pre 1991 images. Google translate will solve the French to English translation. We just have to wait for someone to take the time to post the message. WEE should give more people VRT rights and viewing deleted image rights. --RAN (talk) 18:00, 24 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@TheAafi: You can release the French text, we are capable of using Google Translate ourselves, we don't need a human to translate. --RAN (talk) 22:55, 27 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Attaf[edit]

Hi

Did you have received the email for the file ? Panam2014 (talk) 10:02, 24 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, an email has been received, ticket:2023032310007642. Ellywa (talk) 00:10, 26 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Ellywa (talk) 00:10, 26 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Graphs from scientific publications[edit]

Hello,

I created a summarizing illustration about organic pollutant distributions in soils: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PAHs_in_german_forest_soils.png This is based on several maps published in https://doi.org/10.1021/es4019833

=> So it is a derivate of published work.

- I am an co-author of this scientific publication. // - the copyright of the published maps certainly belong to the scientific journal/publisher // - BUT: I only used material for the comprehensive graphic which is publicly available BEFORE the paywall (in the freely and publicly available supplement accessible on the website) //

How to properly tag the copyright in this case?

A solution for this might be relevant for similar issues to come in the future.

Thank you! Paleogeologist (talk) 11:47, 24 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The file was tagged with the warning template by a bot, without any human checking the actual information in the description. However also a human reviewer would have marked this file, as there is no information on any licence, just on copyright owners.

Any file on Commons should be available for future use in other contexts, which requires a licence to modify, redistribute etc., such as {{Cc-by-sa 4.0}}, which is our standard licence for files (for most texts we use the 3.0 version).

The copyright on maps cover just the expression, not the information contained, so you may or may not be allowed to publish and license those maps, depending on the relation between your summarising maps and the ones you don't own the copyright to. If you take care not to use the copyrightable expression, there should be no problem. Whether they are behind a paywall is irrelevant. You could also use free base maps, such as those in Category:SVG blank maps of Germany, and fill in the information.

As this is professional work, you should send email according to the VRT process, to have trusted volunteers verify your identity and any issues with the licensing. (As this is their noticeboard, you perhaps already did, but you didn't include a notice on that, nor the ticket number that would allow the volunteers to check the correspondence.)

–LPfi (talk) 13:34, 24 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ok, thanks for the clarification, this all makes sense! I´ve now sent an inquire to the VRT, the ticket number is #2023032710005799. Paleogeologist (talk) 09:27, 27 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. --Krd 16:27, 28 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Photographs deleted for no ticket permission[edit]

Earlier I uploaded a series of photos a friend took named after 同治戊辰進士沈牧卿.jpg, 沈定一墓碑 01.jpg ..., 沈定一手植罗汉松 01.jpg ..., 衙前农协旧址-衙前农村小学校旧址（浙江省省级文物保护单位）杭州市萧山区文物保护单位责任公示牌.jpg, 衙前农村小学校 2017-10-05 01.jpg ..., 衙前农村小学简介牌.jpg, with the permission of him. I asked him to send an email to the VRT team to prove that he had given me permission to upload these images to Commons, and he did. However, even though the VRT team did receive the email, the request was never processed. Today these images were deleted for the reason of no ticket permission.
I would like to know what to do now. 源義信 (talk) 05:08, 26 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ticket number is Ticket:2023022210011337. 源義信 (talk) 05:10, 26 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ticket is received. Please be patient untill a member of the VRT team has answered. Perhaps you can ask a member of the team who can communicate in your language. Ellywa (talk) 11:02, 28 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

源義信 Team members can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Response_Team/Users If the permission is valid the photos can be undeleted. Ellywa (talk) 17:47, 28 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. --Krd 16:26, 28 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Dfvjkg[edit]

This user uploaded four files recently (among them the umpteenth version of File:Joginder Singh Ugrahan.jpg) and immediately added ticket:2021020210001531 to all of them. Is that by any chance a legit permission, or is it bogus? --Rosenzweig τ 08:52, 30 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Rosenzweig, the ticket releases permissions of two different files. File:Balbir Singh Rajewal 2.jpg and File:Balbir Singh Rajewal.jpg. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 11:24, 30 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. ─ The Aafī (^talk) 11:24, 30 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Have images removed[edit]

I uploaded the following files:
File:Maxime Bernier Headshot 001.png
File:Maxime Bernier Headshot 002.png
File:Maxime Bernier Headshot 003.png
File:Maxime Bernier Radio Interview.jpg
File:Maxime Bernier Studio Portrait.jpg

I reached out to the media team of a political party, and I was told that these images were free of restrictions and they were capable of granting permissions for use. So I went ahead and uploaded them here, while they sent an email to VRT. However, later I am told that their photographers are 'unreachable'. So appropriate permissions are unlikely to be given at this time so the images should be deleted. Thank you. PascalHD (talk) 17:23, 30 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]