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Upload not possible

All required fields filled out, upload not possible, no error message.... --Parpan05 (talk) 14:20, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Parpan05, thanks for your message. Can you please be more specific? Can you replicate in detail the steps? Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:48, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have worked with the Wizard many times before, so I know how it should work. Today I wanted to upload 13 images and entered all the necessary informations. When I clicked on "Dateien veröffenlichen" ("Upload files"), nothing happened, not even an error message. No idea what the error could be...--Parpan05 (talk) 15:05, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've had the same problem for a few days now. I tested some work-arounds and found that I can only upload one photo at the time. If I try to upload two or more, nothing works per above. Also the location in the photo's exif does not appear in the 'camera location' boxes the way it used to. I have to add that manually, very annoying! Please get this function back into working order soon. --Cart (talk) 15:59, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Parpan05 @W.carter This is a bug that we already know of. We're working on a fix, but it probably will take some more days to merge into code. I apologise for this, but I can promise a fix is coming soon. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 17:02, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @Sannita (WMF) - you wrote "This is a bug that we already know of." Was a bug introduced within or caused by a recent update? Thanks, -- Ooligan (talk) 22:00, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Preghiamo... Parpan05 (talk)

Any update on the fix for this please? Tried uploading 5 images two minutes ago - and daily for the past 5 days, with the last page ('Publish Files') stuck / frozen. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 11:05, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Llywelyn2000 A patch has been introduced and will be up by Wednesday, with the first deployment possible. Please have a little patience.

@Ooligan No, it's not a regression, at least it has not been tagged as such. Probably it's just a bug that can happen. What I meant by "we already know of" is that someone else raised the same problem, and we were already working to fix that. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:49, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sannita (WMF) many thanks for you hard work! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 08:15, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sannita (WMF), Please, provide the link whereby "someone else raised the same problem" and thank you for your response. -- Ooligan (talk) 22:07, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ooligan Look further up this page. The problem is mentioned in several of the sections above. --Cart (talk) 22:14, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, -- Ooligan (talk) 04:23, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's working!!! Multiple uploads and coordinates are back. Thank You, Thank You, coding team! --Cart (talk) 16:57, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's not working at all. Upload four fotos: all good, upload nine fotos: nothing. Sucks.Parpan05 (talk) Worked with seven pics. Strange. Parpan05 (talk)

This happened to me twice in the last couple of days. Clicking the "Publish files" button makes the screen flicker but nothing else happens. I tried to go back or change around some of the entries with no avail.

Only thing that helps is either removing one of the images or starting over.

--KaiKemmann (talk) 17:27, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Parpan05 @KaiKemmann Sorry to hear it still doesn't work. Tomorrow I'll file another bug about it and see what we can do. Meanwhile, have you tried cleaning your cache by any chance? I've got another user two weekends ago with somehow the same problem, and he resolved that way. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 19:07, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thank you! Parpan05 (talk) 06:47, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just FYI, since I received one more complaint in private about this, I opened phab:T386828 and will ask the devs to intervene as soon as possible. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:16, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Publish page not working for me

I successfully uploaded 12 files, entered all the data, and pressed "Publish". Nothing happened. I started over, uploaded the files again, same result. A third time. I've published hundreds of image before - not a beginner. Uploading and Publishing one at a time seems to work fine with the same images. Nomdeploom (talk) 17:25, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Nomdeploom, sorry for taking this long to answer. Does the bug persist? Are you still having problems in uploading? What are the steps that you are taking when uploading? Let me know, so that I could open a ticket for evaluating the problem. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:29, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just FYI, since I received one more complaint in private about this, I opened phab:T386828 and will ask the devs to intervene as soon as possible. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:16, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User Name versus Author Name in the Release Rights step

There should be an option added at the bottom of the Release Rights step, where a user could override a User Name with an Author Name. The field should be initially populated with a User Name, that could be changed to an Author Name. In instance, my User Name is My-wiki-photos, and my Author Name is Milan Suvajac. In case when I upload a set of images one after another, I want to be able to change the name once at the beginning, that would be applied to all the image files while Publishing, instead of going to edit every single image file after Publishing. My-wiki-photos (talk) 02:12, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@My-wiki-photos: I see that in practice what you use is [[User:My-wiki-photos|Milan Suvajac]], which is much better than what you describe in the preceding paragraph (you didn't mention linking it to you as a user). And, yes, it would be very good to have an option to add a piped link like that. I don't think we should allow it without the link, because it would confuse other users, who would think you uploaded third-party material.

Question: how do you handle this now? VFC or something else? - Jmabel ! talk 17:40, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel: Currently, after the Publish step, I edit my image file manually. I change [[User:My-wiki-photos|My-wiki-photos]] to [[User:My-wiki-photos|Milan Suvajac]]. I would rather have this changed automatically by indicating my intention to override My-wiki-photos with Milan Suvajac. For instance, at the bottom of the Release Rights step, I would have this option: Author Name [My-wiki-photos] where I could change it once to Author Name [Milan Suvajac], and that change would be in effect as long as I keep uploading one image after another, until I break that sequence. My-wiki-photos (talk) 20:52, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@My-wiki-photos: I would certainly support that.

Editing manually seems terribly tedious here. This is exactly the sort of thing that VFC does quite easily. If you haven't looked into it, I recommend it. - Jmabel ! talk 21:08, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sannita (WMF): any chance this could be take up for consideration? I suspect a large number of people would use it, and it seems to me like a pretty easy thing to implement. (Trickiest thing would be when to turn it off, once it's on.) - Jmabel ! talk 21:08, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@My-wiki-photos I have to ask this, before opening a feature request: isn't this something that you can already do by yourself in your preferences (second option, "author's name")? Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:50, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sannita (WMF): Thanks so much. I have just made a change in my Preferences for Upload Wizard. It works. However, I was completely unaware of that possibility, and I believe there may be other users who are unaware of that as well. That option is kind of hidden. I think it would be a good idea to put up a link to the Preferences for Upload Wizard in the Release Rights step to make users aware of it. My-wiki-photos (talk) 04:02, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Licence review

Question as an admin who does not use UploadWizard myself: when someone uploads third-party material, does the UploadWizard add {{Licence review}} automatically? - Jmabel ! talk 17:42, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As long as the uploader uses the Flickr function, it will[1] Bidgee (talk) 18:07, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That uses {{Flickrreview}}. That isn't what I was asking. - Jmabel ! talk 21:29, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @Sannita (WMF). - Jmabel ! talk 21:21, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel I don't think so. Do you think it is something that should happen? Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:51, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sannita (WMF): I think this is something that should happen. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:46, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If a third-party site is the basis for a license (not a PD claim) then we always want this review, so it would seem to make sense to have it happen automatically. The only even slightly tricky aspect I can think of is that certain sites—most notably YouTube—have a more specific tag in Category:License review tags, and I wonder if we could possibly programmatically add the more specific tag when relevant. - Jmabel ! talk 20:17, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, this came up because I was writing Commons:Uploading works by a third party. At the moment, at the end of the section To upload content that is already free-licensed or in the public domain, I've had to tell people to do this manually. - Jmabel ! talk 20:17, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel If you don't mind I have a question: I usually upload my designer colleague's screenshots when discussing improvements to UploadWizard. To do so, I always choose "The creator has released or published this work under a free license", since she of course publishes the screenshots under a CC license, but lets me do it because it's easier for me to do it. In this case, should UploadWizard add {{Licence review}} automatically? Because it seems to be the case anyway from what you write, but to me it looks like I'm putting a really not necessary burden on you moderators to double check something that is free-licensed. Happy to hear that I completely botched the understanding of your request. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 17:34, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If content at your source won't change, then {{Licence review}} doesn't really matter: anyone with doubts can check the source. But imagine if your friend's site went away or (not likely in this case) she changed after the fact to only offer an NC license. Unless the old content was archived somewhere, or someone simply trusted you, they'd have no way to be confident the license was legitimate.

We might want to ask at COM:AN (seems a good place for this, though of course not all license reviewers are admins). Maybe it shouldn't happen automatically. But my impression is that it should. It's really weird to have to tell relatively new users that if they are uploading third party material they need to do this step manually. - Jmabel ! talk 05:25, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel I think it would be better to verify first if the request has consensus with the community. Code-wise I don't think it would be too much of a problem, but I think the implications of applying a {{Licence review}} template to virtually all "not own work" files should be evaluated by the community first. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 17:50, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sannita (WMF):So are you saying you'd rather see it discussed at COM:VP than COM:AN? That's fine. Want me to start that discussion?. - Jmabel ! talk 02:40, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel Whichever place you deem right, I totally defer to you the decision, since it should be a community decision. And yes, please, open the discussion and let me have a link so that I can follow. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:28, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Continuing at Commons:Village pump#UploadWizard and license review. @Sannita (WMF): please do check to see if I've accurately represented what you said here, and speak up if I didn't! - Jmabel ! talk 17:40, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me. I've subscribed to the topic, but I won't intervene (as it is customary for me when there is a community discussion) unless directly pinged or if there is a need to clarify something. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 17:17, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tutorial is not set in British and Canadian English

Hi, I've mentioned this several months back but the discussion ended up short and unresolved.

When I set my language to British English or Canadian English, I get the following message when I use Special:UploadWizard:

Sorry, we could not find a tutorial in your language. The English one is shown instead. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 22:25, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sannita (WMF) can you help me open a ticket for this? Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 21:02, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Glitch with categories

In the past two or three days UW refuses to accept perfectly valid category names. After verifying that the typed name exists, instead of accepting it, UW throws out a list of subcategories. Bug or novelty? Most undesirable and uncomfortable. Please revert or make it optional. Retired electrician (talk) 05:30, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agree 100%. I've been trying to upload some files and I typed in the category name I want and instead of getting it, I have to chase either above or below to find the category I knew I wanted from a list. I like to categorise things thoroughly so I do a lot of categories (when, where, what, source institution etc) but forcing all these extra "where is it on the screen, click it, click it" is really inefficient and frustrating. By all means, display some related categories, but let me keep on at the keyboard (as if they had not been displayed) and assume if I don't click any suggestions, then I didn't want them. Or give me a way to click a button to turn it on if I really do want to see more options but don't impose it on me (as a default setting). I upload a lot of photos and I also categorise a lot of uncategorised/under-categorised files of Queensland content more generally and the constant increase in workload in doing these things is really slowing it down -- make things too hard and people will stop doing it. The uploads all take a lot longer with ever longer forms, again requiring a lot of scrolling (the first one starting with the question "This work was created by me" takes 3 screens on my laptop, then Next to do even more screenfulls). I understand new users may need more verbose questions but can we have an alternative smaller form with abbreviated questions for the rest of us to make uploading fast and efficient (which we can choose as a preference or something -- not yet another screen each time asking which form you prefer for each photo upload!) Kerry Raymond (talk) 08:38, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Retired electrician When you select a category that has subcategories, it will indeed expand its list of subcategories. It is still possible to actually select that main category, though: the list of subcategories will begin with an arrow to go back up the three, then the 2nd option will be the original category (marked "PARENT CATEGORY"), and you can actually select it here. -- Mmullie (WMF) (talk) 09:07, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is possible, yes but quite inconvenient. Unnecessary switching from keyboard to mouse. My fingers aren't as nimble as they were half a century ago

Retired electrician (talk) 09:33, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Likewise not a fan of the new implementation as it is at present. A single press of the Enter key to select the category you've started typing has now been replaced by two mouse clicks (with a mouse move required between them). I can see the benefit of the subcats appearing, but the interface as implemented isn't very intuitive and has slowed down the upload process. Dave.Dunford (talk) 12:05, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto to the above comment. The possibility to check subcategories in the UW is nice, but with the way it works now, most of the time I have to click two times to select a category, and it's not ideal. -- Syrio posso aiutare? 19:41, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comments. We acknowledge that the new category selection system has somewhat slowed down your upload schema, but we did this improvement to expose more clearly the category structure, and to help newbies in choosing the right category (which most of the time could be a subcategory), instead of choosing a broad and incorrect one. This was made to make users be more in compliance of Commons guidelines about categories.

Anyway, you can skip the second mouse click by typing the correct name of the category in its entirety and pressing enter. As for navigating the categories with your keyboard, we spotted a bug when selecting a category, we'll work immediately to fix it. I hope this helps. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:47, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sannita (WMF): do I read that correctly as "you can save a mouse click by typing an entire word or phrase"? Not for anyone trying to work quickly. - Jmabel ! talk 17:05, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sannita (WMF): is it (or is it going to be) possible to disable this somewhere in the preferences? -- Syrio posso aiutare? 11:39, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel Yeah, unfortunately that's what we can do at the moment. I'm in touch with the designer to try to reduce the burden, but so far all new solutions would be more cumbersome than do an extra click. I'll try my best to find a way.

@Syrio No, it's on for everyone, and we're not making this customizable, it would be too much work for too few users. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:56, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Retired electrician @Dave.Dunford @Kerry Raymond @Syrio @Jmabel Actually, the devs have told me another way to deal with this: instead of using enter, that would open the subcategories menu, shift + enter would immediately select the chosen category. Maybe this could help? Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:18, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So "too much work" for paid staff to add a preference or other solution makes it ok to impose extra work for volunteers? Multiply the extra effort across the addition of many categories for just a single photo, then multiply it across all the photos that that volunteer might upload and categorise in a day, and multiply that by all the volunteers uploading that day, multiply it by every day in the year. Saying it's "too much work" is saying volunteers don't matter. Kerry Raymond (talk) 08:27, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No to adding the Shift key into it. If your hands are positioned over the keyboard in the normal touch type position, then you have pivot away with your left hand and then reposition again. Kerry Raymond (talk) 08:30, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sannita. Thanks for the reply, but I'm afraid the Shift+Enter solution doesn't work for me, even if I type the whole of the category name. Dave.Dunford (talk) 17:04, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah it doesn't seem to work. .. Syrio posso aiutare? 17:24, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sannita (WMF) I'm afraid I'm still finding the additional hassle of adding categories (when I know that no appropriate subcategory exists) to be a major disincentive to uploading/categorising new photos, and the Shift+Enter suggestion doesn't work. Is there no chance it could be made optional? Thanks. Dave.Dunford (talk) 16:13, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In fact I'm going to stop bothering to add categories at the point of upload, and edit the photos subsequently to add categories via the more usable interface on the file page once the upload is complete. Still extra work, but not as much as adding them within the wizard. Sorry. Dave.Dunford (talk) 16:17, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you have the category name in the window (either by typing it fully, or by letting the system suggesting it for you) and then hit enter, the category is added correctly, and you do not make extra clicks. Ymblanter (talk) 18:45, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ymblanter: Not any more (or at least not when the category you want has subcategories). That's the whole point. Dave.Dunford (talk) 11:44, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think it still works for me. Ymblanter (talk) 14:39, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can I submit an image that I have already uploaded to Wikimedia Commons?

I accidentally uploaded my image to Wikimedia Commons outside of the contest upload wizard. It seems strange that I can "share images from Flicker" but I don't see a way to point to an image I already uploaded to Wikimedia Commons? BrighidManka (talk) 11:27, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@BrighidManka link to the contest you are taking part in? RoyZuo (talk) 12:27, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Look at the wikitext markup for other images from the contest, then make the analogous markup on the file you have already uploaded. If you name the specific contest, someone can make those instructions more precise. Contests do not care how you uploaded the photo, they care about the current state of the wikitext. And, really, this has nothing to do with the Upload Wizard, and certainly does not concern the WMF team that supports it, but since this is the page you asked on, let's keep it in one place here. - Jmabel ! talk 07:18, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

VRT scenario

When someone uploads with the intent of having permission sent through VRT, how are they supposed to indicate what license they expect to have granted? - Jmabel ! talk 16:48, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel: As normal, and then supplement with {{subst:PP}}. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 14:27, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jeff G.: I don't see any place to do it. Could you tell me what field on what screen? - Jmabel ! talk 16:17, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(If you were just trying to describe the intended result, yes, of course, but I'm specifically trying to understand how people can do this with UploadWizard.) - Jmabel ! talk 16:33, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel: They should be able to upload it as normal with the intended license, and then after upload add the tag. All within the wizard, you'd have to ask @Sannita (WMF). — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 19:43, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see anywhere in the sequence after "I have permission to upload this work from my employer or the creator of this work," that they give you an opportunity to indicate a license. @Sannita (WMF), am I missing something? - Jmabel ! talk 22:54, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AFAIK it should be put in the "other information" section, or added after the upload. That's at least what I'd do. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 11:50, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unless I'm very mistaken, "pending permission" without an indication of the license is subject to {{No permission since}}. No wonder we see so many of these if the Wizard doesn't help people add it! (Pinging @Jeff G. with whom I was discussing this elsewhere.)

We probably should open up a discussion on the Village pump. Either the Wizard needs to make it easy to add a license tag here, or we need to change the bot that is adding {{No permission since}} and sometimes leading to deletions in seven days rather than a grace period of thirty. - Jmabel ! talk 17:39, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @AntiCompositeNumber, who runs @AntiCompositeBot. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 15:58, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The 30-day grace period only applies to files that have a claimed license. Without a license tag, we are hosting the file in violation of whatever license the copyright holder may have chosen (because we do not include e.g. a link to the license text). As {{Permission pending}} says, Please make sure the file includes a license at the time of upload; this template is not a substitute for a license. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 03:31, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sannita (WMF), do I understand that currently when people come through that "I have permission to upload this work from my employer or the creator of this work" branch of the Upload Wizard, the file ends up tagged with "permission pending" but no license? And there is nothing telling them that they need to add a license to avoid speedy deletion? - Jmabel ! talk 21:59, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel: If true, most such uploads will die in 7 days. This is not cool. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 02:25, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah yes, I mentioned this issue on COM:VPC#Excessive use of Permission pending. Right now, we have a lot of people adding "Permission pending" for files where there is no intent to get a permission, including cases where author is claimed to be "unknown". It should not be possible to add this template in this case. The result is that many obvious copyright violations are pending for 30 days instead of being speedy deleted. Yann (talk) 12:44, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sannita (WMF): I know discussion of this has been spread over several pages. Do we have a tentative date by which this should be resolved by an appropriate change in the UploadWizard? I'm trying to work out whether it is worth my time to document the current situation at Commons:Uploading works by a third party, or if I should just wait until it is fixed. - Jmabel ! talk 21:58, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel I cannot give you a tentative date for the moment, I'll see if I can get one, but it'll likely require a bit of time. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 21:02, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK, then I'll document the current situation. @Sannita (WMF): when this changes, please let me know so I can update documentation accordingly. - Jmabel ! talk 21:41, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel Will do! Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:15, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redundant template addition

Hello,

the Upload Wizard contains a suboptimal processing of licensing statement. When someone chooses a licensing statement different from the basic CC-By-SA 4.0 for an own work, then {{Self}} gets added twice. The image on the right demonstrates the steps needed to get this double {{Self}}, I removed it in Special:Diff/1020287518/1020287572 manually. A conditional test to check for a valid licensing statement /copyright tag would be nice. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 18:32, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Very cumbersome to use when I have to input source and author info separately

i downloaded a couple of files from an archive catalog, so each file has a different source url, description, but date, licence, categories are the same.

now i either upload them one by one, or as i tried to use wizard, i upload one, fill in the details, then click back, upload more files, then click forward and fill in. a lot of unnecessary mechanical steps in between. for example, i cannot duplicate licence.

i would not use this if i were not forced to download those files (i couldnt get their direct urls so i cant use url2commons).

url2commons shows you how to do batch upload tool right. RoyZuo (talk) 16:47, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@RoyZuo: You might find it easier to use Special:Upload and just copy-paste the bulk of the content from each image to the next. (I generally do this ping-ponging in two browser tabs.) Not everything is most easily done with the Wizard. - Jmabel ! talk 21:48, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What is an acceptable file format?

Trying to upload a new page (text, photo, links to other Wiki pages). No matter what file format I use, message comes that it is unacceptable. Wouldn't it make sense to say what format IS acceptable? StevenTiger (talk) 23:38, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This knowledge is available: Commons:Project scope#Scope part 1: Files and Commons:Project scope/Allowable file types. But you can't actually "upload a new page", you can only write it in the on-wiki editors. The Wikimedia projects don't work like some content management system for your homepage, where you can indeed upload new pages. Think of Wikipedia or Commons as textbooks or image albums, glueing some pre-made pages in these is also not possible. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 01:47, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@StevenTiger: You may upload any image(s) here and make a draft article with transcribed wikitext on Wikipedia, if in compliance. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 20:17, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]