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Latest comment: 18 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hello,
I have no opinion about the Kosovo's independence or not, and I understand the Serbians people point of view , so I have removed the Kosovo borders. You can reconsider your vote if you want.
I have planed to do a map of Montenegro later, I hope it will be less controversial ! Sémhur10:01, 4 March 2008 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion
Hi Dungodung. Your images about Belville are wonderful. At least weeks, I'm (with a team, of course) working too hard to maintain the Universiade article (at Portuguese Wikipedia) and its related sports articles and your images will illustrate them, but could you be more specific about the buildings at the images, explain more the descriptions of them? Sorry about this "abuse", but we don't want make mistakes. Thanks and regards. --Mwaldeck (talk) 05:10, 11 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
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I love your picture of "dungodung holding baby Thomas. Would it be OK for me to use it in an online course for librarian about young children's languages? Only people taking the course will be able to see the picture. I can credit you -- or not -- however you choose. Thank you.
Dr. Betty Bardige, Cambridge, MA USA
I love your picture of "dungodung holding baby Thomas. Would it be OK for me to use it in an online course for librarian about young children's languages? Only people taking the course will be able to see the picture. I can credit you -- or not -- however you choose. Thank you.
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I love your picture of "dungodung holding baby Thomas. Would it be OK for me to use it in an online course for librarian about young children's languages? Only people taking the course will be able to see the picture. I can credit you -- or not -- however you choose. Thank you.
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If you want to know more about me, see my website at www.awealthofwords.com
Hello. You can use it, since it's under a free license. However, it would be nice to contact User:Anthere, because it's her child we're talking about here. --Filip (§) 16:34, 15 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 13 years ago3 comments1 person in discussion
Zdravo Filipe,
Je l' možeš, molim te, da mi promeniš naziv ovog fajla. Trebalo bi da stoji samo "Stara crkva Uspenja Bogorodičinog na Smederevskom groblju", bez onog "Pored nje nalazi se grob Dimitrija Davidovića." To sam hteo da dodam u opis, ali sam se zeznuo. --Lošmi (talk) 01:28, 30 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
Zbunio si me s tim da nisi admin, pa sam sad video na Meti da si se nedavno odrekao stjuardskih prava. Nisam to znao. --Lošmi (talk) 15:48, 3 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
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2012 Picture of the Year: A pair of European Bee-eaters in Ariège, France.
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Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I want to thank you very much for your St. George chapel photoset. Also, I believe that the Orthodox cemetery in Pancevo has several memorials to the victims murdered by the Nazis on April 22, 1941, as well as the gravestones of many of the victims (I saw one of them - the grave of Mr. Radivoje Atanackovic - in one of your photos). If you're ever able to, I ask that you please consider photographing these memorials and gravestones and adding them to the collection on Wikimedia. The story of this horrible crime doesn't seem to be very well known outside Pancevo, and I hope that photographs will help preserve the memories of the victims who died that day. Thank you for your time.
The grave that I saw is in the lower right hand corner of this photograph. I think that some of the other victims who are buried at this cemetery are named Milenko Jeftic, Sava Pantelic, Aleksandar Topalovacki, Vladimir Zestic, Jovan Maksin and Jovan Adamovic. Thank you again.
Latest comment: 8 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi, Dungodung. I'm a Hong Kong viewer on here. I find two above-mentioned photos which I want to upload it to the relevant pages but not processed yet. Can you take a closer look? Thanks! 23.235.173.11908:13, 19 October 2017 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Filipe, menjajući šablone na fotografijama videla sam da nedostaju dozvole na nekim fotografijama, na slici Biblioteka Prvog maja.jpg tačnije i na pozivnicama koje su poslednje fotografije koje su upload-ovane na Ostavi - počev od Pozivnica preduzeca Prvi maj Pirot. Da li je možda nastala greška pa ih nema na dozvolama koje smo slali odavde?
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How would I go about requesting a new ticket, is it only possible if I am an OTRS member? Is there a tutorial on how to request one, and then get it verified, step by step? Thanks in advance, --Aleksamil (talk) 12:47, 11 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi, you confirmed OTRS permission for this image, but forgot to add a source, Can you please have another look and complete the file description page. Thx. --JuTa15:19, 24 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 4 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi, Are you a VRT volunteer? If yes, could you please add an Infobox on your userpage? You added a permission template for this file (and some others), but you didn't remove the "missing permission" tag. Could you fix that please? Thanks, Yann (talk) 21:34, 26 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Dungodung,
thank you very much for your support for the OTRS granted to the photo of the Serbian Minister Jelena Begović. Greetings to Serbian Wikimedia! ВАЊА (talk) 19:44, 28 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
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Why wouldn't an institution release content to PD, instead to a CC-style license? They usually do choose CC, but sometimes they choose PD. Maybe @Gorana Gomirac (VMRS) could provide the context. Filip (§) 19:05, 11 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Well, I guess this could have been a mixup, or wrong expectations from PD-Serbia. I suppose the proper template should be simply PD-author. Filip (§) 19:01, 12 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hello @Multichill and thank you for raising this up.
We checked everything and there was a mixup with the permission on Wikimedia Commons. We have written and signed CC-style permission from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (the institution that released this file through the Wikipedian in residence project) and we will mark it as soon as possible.
Yes, apologies for the mixup, the GLAM institution released some photos under CC, and some photos were PD-old, so in the plethora of permission emails, I made a permutation and thought these were PD claims instead of CC releases. Gorana fixed the license templates, and I now fixed the permission templates, so things should be fixed now. Again, sorry for the confusion. Filip (§) 16:07, 25 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
That's quite a serious mistake when it comes to copyright and permissions. Might be better if another VTRS user double checks it if it's all correct now. Multichill (talk) 20:21, 25 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion
2022 Picture of the Year: Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) and Gadwall (Mareca strepera) in Nepal.
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Usually the uploader enters that info, and I just do the license confirmation (VTRS tagging), but this time Gorana forgot to add the license during upload. I was really expecting that info to already be there, tbh. I'll verify next time. Filip (§) 18:29, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2024 voting is open!
2023 Picture of the Year: Incense plays an important role in Vietnamese life. It is considered as a sacred bridge to connect the visible life of human beings and the world of heaven, earth, and gods. Photo taken in Quang Phu Cau village, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam. In this picture, incense sticks are being set out to dry, after being dipped in the incense solution.
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Latest comment: 5 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
2024 Picture of the Year:Mundari man polishing the horns of one of his Watusi cows using a mixture of cow urine and ash as a ritualistic and protective practice in a temporary cattle camp in Terekeka, South Sudan.
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Latest comment: 4 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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Latest comment: 4 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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Wikimedia Commons is pleased to finally announce the winners of this year's Picture of the Year 2025 contest! We had some truly incredible finalists to choose from, but the community has spoken.
Here are your top three winning images:
First place: The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023, leaving widespread destruction in the Rimal area. Attribution: WAFA (Q2915969) / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Second place: Baby cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) sleeping at Cape cross, Namibia. Attribution: Giles Laurent / CC-BY-SA 4.0
Third place: A gigantic jet photographed from the International Space Station by astronaut Nichole Ayers. Attribution: public domain
You can view the full results and see where all your favorite images placed here: Full 2025 Results
I also want to highlight what an incredible turnout we had. In the second round, we saw a massive jump in both the number of users voting and the total votes cast. We had exactly 13,979 votes cast by 3,509 users! To put that in perspective, last year we had 7,403 votes from 2,837 users. It is amazing to see that level of growth and community engagement.
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Latest comment: 22 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi Dungodung, are you a OTRS/VRT-volunteer? If yes, could you eventually add the OTRS-member template to your talkpage. Thanks. --Túrelio (talk) 08:17, 24 August 2026 (UTC)Reply