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Is it intentionally linking to Commons:Upload instead of Special:Upload?

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Latest comment: 2 months ago3 comments3 people in discussion

On the UploadWizard, it has three links at the top: Leave feedback, Alternative methods and Commons:Upload. But Commons:Upload leads to the info page about uploading, and not the old form for uploading. Is this intentional, or is it a mistake? Kxeo (talk) 13:53, 5 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

It can be considered part of the upload process, as it contains the classic upload form which directs you to which license you should use.
Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 00:07, 17 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
tänan teid میرزا۳۶۹ (talk) 16:11, 27 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

"This work contains the work of others" asking no further details

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Latest comment: 2 months ago7 comments4 people in discussion
Tracked in Phabricator
Task T401424

If the user clicks This work contains the work of others and then ticks Yes, the creator has published the work under a free license e.g. Creative Commons licenses, the Upload Wizard asks no further questions about this creator's name or the licence they used, or where in particular the uploader took that work from. The upload is made under whatever new licence the uploader specifies, and under their name alone.

Should this be asking for more details, and including the answers in the upload's summary box? Assuming a CC-BY licence, I'd expect the Wizard to ask the same questions as if the user had ticked the This work was created by someone else option, namely: who created that work, and where did you find it?

(I'm ashamed to say that this caught me out the other day, when I was knowingly uploading a derivative of another person's work. I must have been on autopilot assuming that the Wizard would go on to ask me for the creator and source, after I'd told it that the image included the work of others. I think I even had the source URL on my clipboard, but I got through the upload without noticing that it hadn't asked me for it.) Belbury (talk) 17:32, 6 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Belbury: In the absence of a fix, please feel free to add such info later by editing the file description page's wikitext.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 19:24, 6 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
Of course. Is this a known issue, then? Belbury (talk) 20:42, 6 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
This must have broken recently. Only a few months ago, when I was writing Commons:Uploading works by a third party#Content that is already free-licensed or in the public domain, it was asking these questions in that branch. - Jmabel ! talk 23:56, 6 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
I've opened a bug report at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401424. Belbury (talk) 17:27, 7 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
This has been marked in Phabricator as Open, Needs Triage, for a month, with no action. Is that normal? Belbury (talk) 20:28, 7 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Unfortunately, yes. 😔︎
Anohthterwikipedian (talk) 08:14, 3 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Explanation of licence terms

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Latest comment: 2 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Please see Commons:Village pump/Archive/2025/06 - Wikimedia Commons

Not sure if anyone involved with the "Upload Wizard" project saw this. In any case, nothing changed, and it still doesn't make sense, not to me anyway. ITookSomePhotos (talk) 18:21, 7 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Svårt ladda upp i 2025 års tävling

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Latest comment: 2 months ago5 comments2 people in discussion

Jag hade stora svårigheter att hitta fungerande metod. Bad chatGPT-5 om hjälp. Roboten gav upp. Till slut funkade det via tävlingens lista till byggnadsminnen. Där ska man klicka på den ruta där det i mitt fall saknades foto.

Förslag till nästa år: Testa bruksanvisningen på nån som är ovan med att ladda upp till den här tävlingen och ge EXAKTA anvisningar STEG FÖR STEG hur man ska hitta rätt.

(Jo,jag vet att det är lätt som en plätt att ladda upp för den som kan.) Måns Hagberg (talk) 16:16, 30 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Magnus 0038: you don't say what competition, which makes it a little hard to help you. I'm guessing Wiki Loves Monuments, which I believe is the largest competition currently happening; the Swedish-language page for that is Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2025 i Sverige.
Like all major competitions on Commons, it has a custom uploader, rather than using the regular Upload Wizard. Look for where it says, "I tävlingens uppladdningsverktyg, som du kommer till via listorna eller kartverktyget…" - Jmabel ! talk 19:02, 30 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
The problem is to find "uppladdningsverktyget"! I found an workaround and managed to upload photos for an object with no photo, but nothing has worked for me regarding new photos where there already is one or more. I guess that this problem might be affect users in Sweden most.
Translation: Hur hitta uppladdningsverktyget? Min omväg funkade där bild saknades, där bild finns funkar ingenting för mig. Måns Hagberg (talk) 22:30, 30 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Alicia Fagerving (WMSE): can you possibly help this user? - Jmabel ! talk 02:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
2025 års Wiki Loves Monuments är ju över så jag behöver ingen hjälp nu. Hoppas bara att uppladdningen funkar bättre till Wiki Loves Nature 2026. Föreslår alltså att ni testar med nån testperson som inte är datanörd utan bara vill lägga in foton. Måns Hagberg (talk) 19:32, 1 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Option to not add a self template when selecting custom licenses

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Latest comment: 1 month ago5 comments4 people in discussion

An example. There is already a {{Self}} tag in my custom license template, which leads to a duplicate {{Self}} tag. Steven Sun (talk) 09:16, 20 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Steven Sun: Have you tried this:
  • Selecting "This work was created by someone else and it is free to share."
  • Section 1: "Enter a different licence" insert "{{User:Steven Sun/cc-by-sa-4.0}}"
  • Section 2 sounds like the line for source (so {{Own work}})
  • Section 3 is the author (so [[User:Steven Sun|Steven Sun]])
I know it's not a fix per se, but a fast workaround for a change that would probably take a year or so if suggested in the pipeline (not saying that it shouldn't be suggested, I'm saying that this might be the fast workaround that could work for you now) --D-Kuru (talk) 13:07, 20 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
(cross-posted) @Steven Sun: Given the lack of current support for the Upload Wizard, I doubt this is going to happen in the foreseeable future, especially because it is an edge case. You might want to file this in Phabricator (nothing to lose), but for your own immediate purposes, as an experienced user: do you actually get enough benefit out of the Wizard to make it more useful to you than copy-pasting and using Special:Upload, and having complete control of what is produced? - Jmabel ! talk 13:09, 20 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
This report sounds like a duplicate to Commons:Upload Wizard feedback/Archive/2025#Redundant template addition. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 13:24, 20 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you all for the advice. I will try the workaround in the next upload. Steven Sun (talk) 01:07, 21 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Latest comment: 1 month ago5 comments4 people in discussion

Last couple of days when I've uploaded a photo, the link beneath the photo takes me to a page reading (e.g) "Not Found: Key "1c65wxvbei7k.xv91iw.5408.jpg" not found in stash." Seems to happen for every upload. Temporary glitch or newly introduced bug? Dave.Dunford (talk) 11:00, 23 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Same, happens each times I checked (the uploads were all good) for a few days including today. Retired electrician (talk) 08:26, 26 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
This has now tracked in Phabricator at T408610. Thanks! Krinkle (talk) 22:08, 29 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
The bug still exists. I don't understand the technichese of the Phabricator. When will the bug be repaired? ---- Hans G. Oberlack (talk) 21:49, 31 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
Seems to working OK for me now. Dave.Dunford (talk) 19:27, 5 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Could/Should it auto-add SDC?

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Latest comment: 1 month ago4 comments2 people in discussion
Tracked in Phabricator
Task T409401

Right now, UploadWizard does two things with SDC (structured data): it sets P571 (inception) to the file's creation date, and allows the user to optionally set P180 (depicts) to whatever they want. However, this still leaves out a lot of SDC that are apparently considered important since it auto-puts the file in several of the "missing SDC" categories. This is of course means it is fixed by bots eventually, but this takes a long time since there's so much backlog, and it also feels unnessecary to give bots more work. Here's an example of SchlurcherBot adding SDC to a photo I uploaded, and it all appears to be info that a tool like UploadWizard could infer on its own.
So my question is whether we can let UploadWizard to add some or all this SDC automatically upon submission, thus lightening the load for the SDC bots? Or perhaps there's a technical or procedural reason that we don't? Rose Abrams (talk) 12:40, 3 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

For reference, here's the SDC that I've found that bots usually add and appears be simple enough to determine when submitting (provided the file has EXIF and/or coordinates to support it of course): P3575 (data size), P2048 (height), P2049 (width), P1163 (media type), P4092 (checksum), P6757 (exposure time), P6790 (f-number), P6789 (ISO speed), P31 (instance of), P2151 (focal length), P6216 (copyright status), P275 (copyright license), P1259 (coordinates of the point of view), P1071 (location of creation). Rose Abrams (talk) 12:49, 3 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Rose Abrams: All totally reasonable, but no one is currently doing any significant work on the Upload Wizard. I'd say, file a phabricator ticket, and someone may pick it up when they are working on this again. - Jmabel ! talk 05:19, 6 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
✓ Done, filed as phab:T409401. Rose Abrams (talk) 08:57, 6 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Science Competition 2025

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Latest comment: 15 days ago5 comments3 people in discussion

Requesting to open an upload link for Wiki Science Competition 2025 Philippines to run from November 15 to December 15, 2025. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaign=wsc-ph --Filipinayzd (talk) 12:53, 13 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

This is really short notice, and this page is barely monitored. Does anyone know if there is a better place to request this? - Jmabel ! talk 18:52, 13 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Filipinayzd: At worst, people should be able to use https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wsc-int - Jmabel ! talk 20:16, 20 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Kruusamägi: do you have any idea whose attention needs to be drawn to this? - Jmabel ! talk 20:20, 20 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Filipinayzd: I opened the campaign until the end of the year and also updated the upload form. So there is an active campaign in the Philippines? Do you need a CentralNotice banner? Is there a landing page etc? Please contact me on this. Kruusamägi (talk) 11:59, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Science Competition in Switzerland

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Latest comment: 15 days ago6 comments3 people in discussion

Trying to open the upload link for the Wiki Science Competition 2025 in Switzerland to run from November 15th to December 15th, 2025, and it appears the competiton is ended. No matter which browser (Firefox, Chrome) or equipment (PC, Laptop). From this Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Science_Competition_2025_in_Switzerland goes to this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wsc-ch and then to this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaign=wsc-ch Would you mind to solve it? Thanks Luis Scarabino Scarabinol (talk) 16:44, 19 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Scarabinol: I'm honestly not sure what you are seeing. The page sequence is as you say; I don't see what at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaign=wsc-ch would have you think the competition is ended. It asks me to drop files to share, or to share from Flickr. What do you see there instead? - Jmabel ! talk 19:49, 20 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
I see the following text: "Wiki Science Competition 2025 ist beendet.
Du kannst dich mit weiteren Bilder beteiligen, allerdings werden diese nicht mehr für den Wettbewerb in Betracht gezogen."
While the time to participate suppose to run until December 15th, 2025
Doesn't it appears on your page? Scarabinol (talk) 07:04, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Scarabinol: No, it does not. I get "Welcome to the Science Photo Competition!This is the upload wizard for scientific photos and images," and the usual start of the Upload Wizard. Sounds like a question either for the people running the contest or for COM:VP/T. - Jmabel ! talk 20:02, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Scarabinho was right and I also noticed it but it's now solved for Switzerland -- Giles Laurent (talk) 20:43, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Ah, so it presumably worked for me because I had never accessed the page before. - Jmabel ! talk 00:57, 22 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
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