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Images from the Travelers in the Middle East Archive category statistics and categorization

I batch uploaded over 2,000 images of Travelers in the Middle East Archive and added temporary categories to each image. Could someone do a statistics page to show what the categories are and how many images are in each? Something like this] (however since the temp categories do not have "Images from the Travelers in the Middle East Archive" as prefix only a bot can look through the images and see the categories available and how many images are in each). Please have it under four sections: author, subject, date and source. On each image the first category is the author, the second is the subject and the third is the date. The source ( original book of the image) is not in the categories, however, the bot should add it as a category in the file and retrieve it from the second parameter of the source template while clipping the page number. Like in File:A Coptic woman of the Poorer Class. (1918) - TIMEA.jpg it should add "Leeder, S.H. "Modern Sons of the Pharaohs". Hodder and Stoughton: London, 1918" ( without ".p 320." or " From:" ) as a category and list it in the statistics page. This would help in the categorization a lot.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 12:50, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Redirect Category:French translators to Category:Translators from France (etc.)

This facilitates copy-and-paste of categories from en.wp.  Docu  at 13:57, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

More candidates: Redirect red links on Special:Categories/People_from from "Category:People from foo" to existing "People of foo" categories.  Docu  at 09:20, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

User:BotMultichillT cleanup (Latin names from Starr batch upload)

A series of files from the Starr batch include plant names instead of animals or landscape that are featured. This should be renamed. A simple solution would be to remove the plant name and just leave the batch name and image id. See Commons_talk:File_renaming#Category:Phoebastria_immutabilis_(head) for a sample. This might concern up to 20,000 files. -- User:Docu at 18:52, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

A bot rename is a bad idea because it violates the rename policy (Commons:File_renaming#What_files_should_be_renamed?) and such a botrun would probably get bot blocked. Rename the files one by one if there is some with a problem. --MGA73 (talk) 14:02, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
How does it violate rename policy? Naming a picture of a bird with a plant name is misleading. Most people don't notice as the name is in latin, but it's still misleading.
Such a rename may violate bot policy if the bot wasn't approved before, but nobody suggests to run it without prior approval. Bot policy does require the operator of the uploading bot to help repair the damage he made. -  Docu  at 04:47, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
I think Docu's idea is fine. I hardly ever encourage renames, but these are a perfect example of what should be renamed. It's like naming a picture of a duck something like "File:Pineapple.jpg". Actually, it's worse because the common person will think that the name's simply the scientific name for that species. It's also bad for searching. Rocket000 (talk) 07:30, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
First, I think that names like "File:Starr 080602-5333.jpg" is meaningless. We should avoid names like that - see rename rule # 2. Therefore I feel that renaming to such names would be wrong.
Second, as I said Renaming is fine if a duck is called a Pineapple but if the image shows a Pineapple then it would be wrong to rename. Docu suggest to rename ALL files bot those with a right name and those with a wrong name. I can not see that any of the 6 reasons for renaming would allow renaming of a file with a right name. Which rule do you thing allow such a rename? --MGA73 (talk) 20:11, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
I didn't suggest to rename ALL files, but I suggested that this may concern up to 20000 files. Specifically about Phoebastria immutabilis are there files you think shouldn't be renamed? Why do you think naming these files "pineapple" is of any help? From the search results linked above, are there groups of files you think should be excluded (besides files that were already renamed manually). What is your proposal to fix this problem?  Docu  at 04:44, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Meaningless names are much better than misleading names that mess up search results. I disagree that names must be descriptive (it's just a name), but I do think names shouldn't be wrong. Rocket000 (talk) 06:37, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
A name that identifies the collection, the image id in the collection and the date a picture was taken isn't meaningless.  Docu  at 06:41, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
I know but MGA73 called them that so I went along with it as it doesn't matter. Meaningfulness is relative. Almost everything not in English is meaningless to me. What may appear to you as a random string of numbers/letters could be meaning to some person or group that have devised their own naming system. I think that shorter names (like in this case) would be better and easier to use. Rocket000 (talk) 01:12, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Ok, I thought you meant "meaningless" in terms of the guideline. Except for the plant names, the naming convention for this batch is actually quite efficient if you try to locate images before or after one in the same series.  Docu  at 05:37, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Most of the images in Category:Phoebastria immutabilis could be renamed but we are nowhere 20,000 images in this category. Also files like File:Starr 080602-5504 Eragrostis amabilis.jpg focus on the plant and not the bird and therefore a bot rename of the whole category would not be good - we need some human assistance.
As I said it is ok with me to rename the images with a wrong name. But I also think that a rename should be done to a descriptive name so the solution is to rename by hand or perhaps to use the relevant ID number + the category name.
So the solution could be that a human takes the categories one by one and make a gallery of all images to be renamed and after a few days to comment (add or remove images) then it should be possible to convert the gallery to a file the bot could use to rename after. --MGA73 (talk) 10:25, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

There might be some misunderstanding:

If you want to know how many "phoebastria immutabilis" this would match, try Special:Search/phoebastria immutabilis Starr (habitat OR habit). It gives 1052 results. This would touch a few images like Starr 080602-5504, but compared to the numerous images that need renaming, the overall gain is largely positive. Currently there is a risk that we get the reputation to apply random Latin names to images. I would be glad if we'd have more feedback from WikiProject Tree of Life on the systematic problem with currently face.

I agree that your solution is an acceptable alternative and, if you implement it, I would withdraw my proposal. I disagree with the initial suggestion by the uploader, i.e. request users to apply {{Rename}} to the up to 20,000 images. This would be too labor intensive.  Docu  at 08:22, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

(Note: in the meantime the issue about Phoebastria immutabilis has been partially fixed, as most files have been renamed. When reading the previous post, just bear in mind that the filename used some plant name, not "Phoebastria immutabilis"). We still have up to 19,000 to fix).  Docu  at 20:51, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Yes. But since this request is disputed I do not think it should be listed here. Only undisputed requests should be on this page. I think you have these options:
1. You discuss it somewhere else and when/if concensus to rename to Starr (some number).jpg is reached you can start a new request.
2. You can make a list of files to rename, like:
  • from oldname.jpg to newname.jpg
  • from oldname1.jpg to newname.jpg
or
  • Images in Category:Whatever should (almost) all be renamed to Starr (some number) Whatever.jpg
  • Images in Category:Whatever2 should (almost) all be renamed to Starr (some number) Whatever2.jpg
3. You use AWB to mass add a {{Rename}} on the images that should be moved and then it is easy for admins or filemovers to rollback or rename (and quick add to Commons Delinker if needed).
4. Files are renamed manually.
This has been here a month and it sems that noone has a bot that can find out which images has a bad name and rename only those so I think this should be archived. --MGA73 (talk) 21:24, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm a bit lost: The only person that seems to say he is disagreeing with renaming the files seems to be the one who renamed some of them.
Maybe you should explain to the bot operator how he should fix this upload. Pictures of animals, helicopteres and landscapes with Latin names of plants do look odd. --  Docu  at 07:13, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

From the request on my talk page . . . True, I've often removed the mention of the non-existent plant from the file description (easy!) without changing the file name (at first at least, near-impossible - a lot of these edits were done before it became possible to rename files). I'd be dubious about using "habitat" or "habit" as a good search method though, quite often files with this in do show the filename species (e.g. File:Starr 041113-0632 Araucaria columnaris.jpg, File:Starr 050818-3970 Pinus radiata.jpg); unfortunately, I doubt there's any way other than a file-by-file inspection. What I have done though with nearly all the files without the named plant that I've edited, is put them in one of these categories, so any Starr file in these cats would be worth renaming: Category:Aerial photographs of Hawaii, Category:Airports in Hawaii, Category:Beaches of Hawaii, Category:Coasts of Hawaii, Category:Islands of Hawaii, Category:Landscapes of Hawaii, Category:People of Hawaii, Category:Trails in Hawaii, Category:Roads in Hawaii, Category:Restoration of habitats, Category:Transport in Hawaii. Hope this helps! - MPF (talk) 08:46, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

  • @ Docu. I support rename to a descriptive name and the renames I did was to a descriptive name.
  • @ MPF. Yes examples like these ones are helpful (categories with a lot of files where almost all images should be benamed). --MGA73 (talk) 20:00, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
The problem with the defaults you chose is that they messed up files that were already renamed. Please be more careful in the future.  Docu  at 22:17, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
How/what is that a mess up? You have to explain. If changing from "File:Starr number-number <some name>.jpg" to "File:Starr number-number <name of category the image is in>.jpg" is not good then the category is wrong. I used my bot to add a rename-tag and the admin/filemover has to check if the move looks ok. If a file should not be renamed then hopefully the admin/filemover will remove the rename-tag.
If you can not set up a rule (that meet at least one of the rename criterias) that bots can follow without (very few) exception(s) then this is not suited for a bot request. --MGA73 (talk) 17:42, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Aha I found some examples. Well it just tells me that using a bot to do the rename is perhaps not the best idea. --MGA73 (talk) 21:04, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Some cleanups

  1. Remove empty {{Information}} templates (including redirect templates to information)
  2. Fix {{Information}} templates where description is declared like |description: or just |description
    English: english desc.
    .
  3. Replace external links to *.wikimedia.org / *.wikipedia.org etc. with their respective interwiki link.--DieBuche (talk) 12:29, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Please give some examples for clarification. --Schlurcher (talk) 11:18, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
I suppose [1] (data from 2009) would find samples of the second in the above list, notably the entries under "0" and "1" in the report (listing works, but includes lots of other stuff and tends to time-out).  Docu  at 03:38, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Redirect ns:0 to ns:14

If there is no page in ns:0 with the same title, redirect it to the corresponding title in ns:14. Initially, at least for subcategories of Category:People by name, sample: Derib => Category:Derib. Docu  at 04:51, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

While I understand the benefits for doing this and I think I even support it. It may be quite controversial. Maybe the VP would be better to discuss these before a bot does it. Rocket000 (talk) 08:37, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure how, but obviously you are free to do so. Personally, I mainly use this page per its stated purpose above.  Docu  at 08:36, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
And there's nothing wrong with it. My comment was more to any bot operator considering doing this task. Rocket000 (talk) 13:36, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Wouldn't it be much nicer to just change the search engine to instantly jump to ns:14 just like it does with ns:0? Multichill (talk) 13:59, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
It would also help linking people's name internally at Commons. In any case, there are a lot of nice things that could be done with the search engine ;)  Docu  at 23:21, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Mountains

Create the missing categories on List of mountains categories and populate them with existing categories for specific mountains based on values found in WP articles using w:Template:Infobox mountain.  Docu  at 09:15, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

I guess it's too late now, but the naming system is a little confusing. Category:1990s mountains? Mountains from the 1990s? It doesn't even mention it's meters. :) I would do this task but it's beyond my skills. Rocket000 (talk) 13:34, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
I suppose the naming system could still be changed. Isn't the meters part obvious ;) --  Docu  at 03:25, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Well, yeah, but by including the units makes it clear that it's a measurement. Some categories do use meters: Mountains under 1000 meters, Mountains between 7400 and 7499 meters, etc. Rocket000 (talk) 04:34, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
I agree that the current naming isn't ideal and I suppose we could move it if someone comes with a better way to name them. "Mountains between 7400 and 7499 meters" seems fine for the parent categories, but "Mountains between 7400 and 7409 meters" would seem a bit heavy. BTW, shouldn't it be "from 7400 to 7499"?  Docu  at 04:52, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Templatetiger could be used to provide the necessary data. Current status is from 2010-05-14. --  Docu  at 04:52, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Photoshop file change date and time => {other date|before|..} ?

If there is no date and time a picture was taken available in exif, for images without any date in {{Information}} or with date "unknown" in the date field, one could use {{other date|xx}} to populate this field.

Sample: File:Yves Christen by Erling Mandelmann.jpg includes

  • Software used Adobe Photoshop 7.0
  • File change date and time 14:54, 2005 July 4

One could populate date= in {{Information}} with {{other date|before|2005-07-05}}

If there was a "Date and time of data generation" or "Date and time of digitizing" present, this shouldn't be used.  Docu  at 04:37, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

move assessment tags below license

Move all "quality image","featured image", and "valued image" tags below license, probably adding a ==assessments== header or something like that (as discussed at the Village Pump, 4 sep 2010)--Zolo (talk) 11:46, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

 Comment we should use translatewiki for the header name--DieBuche (talk) 13:20, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Would anyone do it ? I don't know how to use translatewiki ?--Zolo (talk) 13:28, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

{{Object location}} to categories based on interwikis

To add geocoding to more categories, we could import coordinates from Wikipedia articles linked through interwikis. --  Docu  at 11:59, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Subcategories of Category:United States Navy images by vessel

Move them, e.g.,

  • from "Images from US Navy, ship USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201)"
  • to "Aboard USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201)" (note the "-")

etc..

If the later doesn't exist, it should be made a subcategory of, e.g. Category:USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201) --  Docu  at 05:32, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Navy cleanup

Descriptions of files in Category:PD US Navy frequently repeat the string used to indicate the author in the author field. This could easily be removed (sample).  Docu  at 05:13, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

I kept these in the description because I consider it part of the caption. Are you sure you want to remove it? Multichill (talk) 18:11, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Personally, I'd remove it. It's does mirror frequent use of #metadata in such images.  Docu  at 20:24, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Changes to allow localization (i18n), file description pages cleanup

To do

N. String replacement Template Sample/frequency Reported by Done by bot?
1 |Permission=see below |Permission= Information c. 138,321 User:Docu at 08:48, 23 April 2010 (UTC) Done by SchlurcherBot
2 |Permission=de: siehe unten; en: see below |Permission= Information File:Zimtsäure - Cinnamic acid.svg --Leyo 11:19, 23 April 2010 (UTC) At 68 on July 19.
3 |Date=2009/8/30 |Date=2009-08-30 Information File:Kawaguchi-Ambulance.jpg -- User:Docu at 16:15, 19 April 2010 (UTC) Needs checking with meta data if the date can also jjjj/dd/mm!
3a |Date=2008.07.24 |Date=2008-07-24 Information File:Orava lake (Orava järv) 2.JPG -- User:Docu at 18:58, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
4 |Date=30/8/2009 |Date=2009-08-30 Information --Leyo 05:54, 20 April 2010 (UTC) Needs checking with meta data if the date can also mm/dd/jjjj!
5 |Date=May 10, 2008 at 21:52 |Date=2008-05-10 21:52 Information File:Police Car at Night.jpg User:Docu at 21:57, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
6 |Date=16 V 2005 |Date=2005-05-16 Information File:Karetkapogotowia(2).jpg User:Docu at 07:34, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
7 |Date=23 Jan 07 |Date=2007-01-23 Information File:Tubby-1c8z-pymol.png User:Docu at 14:24, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
7a |Date=13. siječnja 2009. |Date=2009-01-13 Information 4 + similar ones User:Docu at 20:18, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
8 |Date=20091230 |Date=2009-12-30 Information c. 2 + similar ones User:Docu at 15:35, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
9 |Date={{Date|2009|04|09}} |Date=2009-04-09 Information User:Docu at 21:26, 21 April 2010 (UTC) Comment moved to #To change or not to change
10 |Date=created 23 June 2002 |Date=2002-06-23 Information c. 33,875 (15:33, 17 June 2010 (UTC)) User:Docu at 15:00, 23 April 2010 (UTC) Up at 34,088 on 20:31, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
11 |Date=11 sierpnia 1982r |Date=1982-08-11 Information 10+similar ones User:Docu at 08:06, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
12 |Date=20:33, 26 July 2009 (UTC) |Date=2009-07-26 20:33 (UTC) Information User:Docu at 22:33, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
13 |Date={{de|27. April 2008}} |Date=2008-04-27 Information User:Docu at 21:31, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
13a |Year={{de| 1870}} |date=1870 Artwork sample User:Docu at 09:07, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
13b |Year={{de| um 1510}} {{en| c. 1510}} |date={{other date|ca|1510}} Artwork sample User:Docu at 11:53, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
14 |Date=25–September–2006 |Date=2006-09-25 Information User:Docu at 23:23, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
15 |Date=Siglo XVII |Date= .. Information User:Docu at 14:33, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
16 Date=(ambiguous date in non standard format) matching DateTime and DateTimeOriginal in exif Date=(standard date fmt) Information User:Docu at 15:35, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
17 |Date=see metadata |Date=<from metadata> Information c. 31,113, maybe also other fields, see e.g. this User:Docu at 15:08, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
18 == {{int:filedesc}} ==
== {{int:filedesc}} == 		== {{int:filedesc}} == n/a (duplicated section headers) -- User:Docu at 12:40, 22 April 2010 (UTC) Done by, SchlurcherBot
19 == {{int:license-header}} == == {{int:license}} == n/a (normalization with existing headers) -- User:Docu at 09:36, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
19a == License information == == {{int:license}} == n/a (normalization with existing headers) c. 46,767 User:Docu at 05:14, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
20 == Original upload log == =={{original upload log}}== n/a (normalization with existing headers) both with and without a space between the heading and the =-signs
21 == File history == =={{original upload log}}== n/a (normalization with existing headers) both with and without a space between the heading and the =-signs
22 Technique={{de| Öl auf Holz}}|Dimensions Technique={{technique|oil|wood}}|Dimensions Painting 1,187 -- User:Docu at 09:36, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
23 |Dimensions={{de| 92,1 × 81,3 cm}}| |Dimensions={{size|cm|92.1|81.3}}| Painting ? -- User:Docu at 09:36, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
24 <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left"> File:Canon van Necke.JPG ? -- User:Docu at 09:36, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
25 __NOTOC__ n/a (from transwiki stuff) -- User:Docu at 14:24, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
26

|Technique=

List with May 2009 data
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{{de| Öl auf Holz}}879
{{de| Holz}}739
{{de| Leinwand}}735
{{de| Tempera auf Holz}}425
{{en| Oil on Canvas}}277
{{de| Eichenholz}}162
{{de| Papier}}143
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{{de| Pergament}}130
{{de| Wandbild}}86
{{de| Aquarell}}70
{{de| Fresko}}68
{{de| Lindenholz}}60
{{de| Öl auf Leinwand}}{{en| Oil on canvas}}59
"fr:"Enluminure sur parchemin55
{{en|Oil on panel}}54
{{de| Öl}}50
{{de| Öl auf Eichenholz}}45
{{de| Kupfer}}44
{{de| Pastell}}39
{{de| Tusche und Farben auf Seide}}37
{{de| Pappelholz}}33
Oil on panel31
{{en| Oil on panel}}31
|Technique={{technique|..|..}} Painting 8000 (in list from May 2009) -- User:Docu at 10:50, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
27 |Permission=This image is in the [[public domain]] due to its age.
with the presence of
{{PD-old}} 		|Permission= Information Crochet.david (talk) 10:21, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
28 |Date=2010.03.15 |Date=2010-03-15 Information User:Docu 15:06, 7 August 2010 (UTC) Needs checking with metadata if it can also be in the format jjjj.dd.mm!
29 == Achoimriú == == {{int:filedesc}} == Crochet.david (talk) 12:52, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Mostly done

# String replacement Template Sample/frequency Reported by Done by bot?
1 |Source=Own work by uploader|Author= |Source={{Own}}|Author= Information File:Romanian Ambulance.jpg (c. 244,356) -- User:Docu at 07:34, 20 April 2010 (UTC) Down to 3003 on 23:24, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
2 Opera creata dall'uploader (own work by uploader) {{Own}} Information File:Ambulanza FIAT Ducato.jpg (c. 3946) -- User:Docu at 16:15, 19 April 2010 (UTC) yes, User:SchlurcherBot
Down to 76 on 20:31, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
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4 |Source=Own work - Vlastné dielo |Source={{Own}} Information File:Volkswagen Transporter T5.JPG (c. 706) -- User:Docu at 07:35, 20 April 2010 (UTC) Down to 121 on 20:31, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
5 Own work by uploader {{Own}} Information Search result -- User:Docu at 16:15, 19 April 2010 (UTC) yes, User:SchlurcherBot. On July 19: c. 17,624
6 |Source=de: selbst erstellt<br />en: own work |Source={{Own}} Information Search result --Leyo 11:19, 23 April 2010 (UTC) Crochet.david.bot 06:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
7 |Source=de: selbst erstellt; en: own work |Source={{Own}} Information Search result --Leyo 11:19, 23 April 2010 (UTC) Crochet.david.bot 06:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
8 |Source=投稿者自身による作品 |Source={{Own}} Information (text from ja-version of Template:Own) c. 148 -- User:Docu at 21:41, 24 April 2010 (UTC) Crochet.david.bot 06:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
9 |Source=投稿者自身が撮影 |Source={{Own}} Information (please double-check with ja-speaker) c. 369 -- User:Docu at 21:41, 24 April 2010 (UTC) Crochet.david.bot 06:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
10 |Source=Obra pròpia (own work) |Source={{Own}} Information c. 4,428 -- User:Docu at 14:06, 22 May 2010 (UTC) Crochet.david.bot 17:09, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
11 |Source=trabajo propio (own work) |Source={{Own}} Information c. 22,466 Docu 11:17, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Crochet.david.bot 17:09, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
12 |Source=Oeuvre personnelle |Source={{Own}} Information c. 7,513 Docu 04:22, 24 July 2010 (UTC) Crochet.david.bot 18:22, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
13 |Source=由上傳者拍攝。Created by uploader. .. Information c. 47 -- User:Docu at 13:23, 22 June 2010 (UTC) Crochet.david.bot 17:09, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
14 == Descrição do arquivo == == {{int:filedesc}} == section header c. 3,264 -- User:Docu at 23:37, 23 June 2010 (UTC) Done by, SchlurcherBot down to 2000
15 == Licensing ==

== Licensing: ==
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== {{int:license-header}} ==

== {{int:license}} ==

section header lots --Leyo 15:41, 20 April 2010 (UTC) user:JarektBot is currently inspecting {{PD-Old}} files to see if a {{Creator}} template can be added. I also added replacement of few simple headers to that job.
16 {{Booland3}} n/a (not really localization, just cleanup) File:Elektronenkanone nach Erdmann und Zipf.jpg --Leyo 17:33, 19 April 2010 (UTC) ✓ Done 23:24, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
17 remove {{ImageUpload|...}} n/a (not really localization, just cleanup) Special:MostLinkedTemplates lists Template:ImageUpload with 190,274 links User:Docu at 17:12, 19 April 2010 (UTC) systematically removed by O (bot)

Comments

I restored the above list from Commons:Bots/Work requests/Archive 4, just to add more.  Docu  at 05:08, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

What about just having a dedicated (sub)page for this? This is a continues effort and makes it easier to keep track of it. Multichill (talk) 09:27, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this page already is used as frequently as it could. Subpages tend to get forgotten even more. Once an initial run is completed, we could move them to a subpage.  Docu  at 11:53, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

change cat

The 81 files listed but not yet categorized in Category:Rio2016 bid icons should be removed from the crowded categories Round symbols and Percent icons and come instead to category Rio2016 bid icons - preferable with a cat-sort suffix (to prevent from sorting 0-10-100-20-30..). If you could do that, I can provide you with any format of list for your bot.-- sarang♥사랑 16:33, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

adding Category:People by name

Please add it to this (slow, but eventually it works). Currently it gives 2165 new subcategories. Similar ones can be done with years of death and/or earlier years. --  Docu  at 14:34, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

I edited the sample link above (years 1900 to 1920, instead of 1900 to 2010). Currently it gives 239 results.  Docu  at 08:59, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Unifying of date format

Could be all templates {{Date}} replaced by {{ISOdate}} in order to unify date format in all date templates? {{ISOdate}} can be subsequently renamed to {{Date}}. Presently existing templates {{Information}}, {{Other date}}, {{Taken on}}, {{According to EXIF data}} etc. use uniformly the ISO format, {{Date}} is the only and needless exception which can be eaily transformed. --ŠJů (talk) 07:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

At the moment {{ISOdate}} uses the template {{Date}}, so this must be fixed first. On the other hand it makes the code of ISOdate a bit easier to read. --Schlurcher (talk) 08:22, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Remove parameter names from a template

Files that use {{LicenseReview}} something like this: {{LicenseReview|site=google.com|user=ZooFari|date=December 12, 2012}} should have the parameter names removed so that it looks something like this: {{LicenseReview|google.com|ZooFari|December 12, 2012}}. The template will be changed so that it takes only numerical parameters like 1=. Thanks in advance, ZooFari 03:03, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Why is this being changed ? What was wrong with the named parameters ? I think those are more readable, easier to work with (both for humans and for (java)scripts) and more friendly to editors (ie. sometimes "1=" is when the url has a '=' sign in it. With named parameters this problem doesnt exist. –Krinkletalk 19:06, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Texas Farm Roads

For all images named File:TexasFMxxxx.png where xxxx has no leading 0s add {{vva|Texas FM xxxx.svg}}. Remove Category:Texas Highways and add Category:Texas Farm to Market shields (preferably even the correct subcat thereof such as Category:Texas Farm to Market shields 1001-1500). // Liftarn (talk)

✓ Done for all files up to 4000. In the remaining cases, a suitable category was missing and also no svg where availible. Also in some of the cases with numbers greater than 3500 an svg was missing. --Schlurcher (talk) 10:15, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Clean up of "I, " for author and attribution parameters

I dont know exactly where this originates from but it makes no sense and doens't do anything any good. Please get rid of it all as it screws up even more now that third parties start to re-use meta data by using element-id hooks. 100s if not 1000s of pages now show at attribution: "Attribution: I, NAME". Affected templates:

Affected parameters:

  • |author=
  • |attribution=
  • |1=
  • | (first unnamed parameter)

–Krinkletalk 22:44, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi, could you please give an example. Do you mean for example author=I, Schlurcher should be changed to author=Schlurcher ? --Schlurcher (talk) 08:35, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
See for example File:Barcelona lottery 1996.jpg. I think it's usually {{Self|<one or more licenses>|author=I, <some user>}}. I doubt PD-author, PD-self and attribution= are affected a lot. Multichill (talk) 11:50, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

list of works

I think it would useful to generate lists of work such as Creator:Berthe_Morisot/works based on files using Creator:Berthe Morisot and {{Artwork}} (or {{Information}}).

Possibly this can be done by an existing extension or a bot.

Related discussion is at Template_talk:Creator#/works subpage in Creator namespace?. --  Docu  at 05:10, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Bot are not the right way to enforce new ideas. If there is a consensus please post a detailed work schedule. --Schlurcher (talk) 08:21, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
It should really be done by bot rather than manually. This is the place of post ideas for such bots. Obviously, an extension would be preferably, but there doesn't seem to be a suitable one. For consensus, see the Template_talk:Creator mentioned above.  Docu  at 03:00, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
So it creates a table based on all Files that include it's mother page Creator-template ? I think that can easily be done on the toolserver, and with some javascript Gadget can be viewed inside Commons without leaving the site. I'll put this on my watchlist. –Krinkletalk 20:42, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
Sounds good. A dynamic version would obviously be better.  Docu  at 07:12, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Something like #Commons_Wanted_Templates would be nice. If there way to modify how many fields are displayed, that would help.
If it works fine, an alternate version for {{Institution}} would be good.  Docu  at 11:41, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
The tool that I'm writing will accept a few variables one of which is the templatename so that it is usable for this as well. –Krinkletalk 11:32, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Sounds good. You probably already now about the outdated tools:~kolossos/templatetiger/.  Docu  at 11:38, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Indeed I do, which is why I'm taking a totally differrent approach. –Krinkletalk 17:48, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
I've got a first version running on Toolserver. So far extensively tested in WebKit on Mac, will try other browsers soon but I expect no issues. I've copied the script temporarily to Commons instead to allow &withJS= to easily test it without exposing bugs to everybody.
Check it out here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Creator:Berthe_Morisot/works?withJS=MediaWiki:CommonsCreatorLister.js –Krinkletalk 18:07, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Cool! --  Docu  at 19:37, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
To collapse the museum template, Template:Institution/layout could probably be changed to collapsed. AFAIK, only in Institution namespace it should be expanded. --  Docu  at 19:45, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Another sample:
--  Docu  at 20:08, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
As stated on my talkpage, I've added a section on the bottom "More files". This section contains a simplified table for files that the tool failed to extract a {{Artwork}}, {{Painting}} or {{Information}} from and thus the simplified table with only thumb, title and edit-link. –Krinkletalk 22:33, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Nice feature indeed. I had noticed that on the work lists directly. In the meantime, the thumbnailing there works better as well.
BTW Looks like File:Ferdinand Hodler 011.jpg messes up the entire list. I tried to clean up some of it, but without much success. --  Docu  at 05:40, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Fixed in r20. –Krinkletalk 15:01, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Good. I made an edit request at Template talk:Institution/layout which might fix the problem with the gallery column. --  Docu  at 19:32, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Template talk:Institution/layout was changed but it did not fix the problem with uncollapsible institution templates. :( --Jarekt (talk) 20:06, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Replace "county" for "powiat" for Polish categories

Poland don't have "County". "Powiat" is equivalent for "County". Is it posssible to replace them using bot in Category:Churches in Poland by voivodeship? I did some replacements by hand in the Category:Churches in Masovian Voivodeship, but it is too much to do manual conversion . --WlaKom (talk) 19:25, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Is this appropriate? We usually use equivalent English-language terms when they exist. For example, for Romanian locations, we use "county", not "judeţ". - Jmabel ! talk 17:20, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
"County" in Polish means "Hrabstwo". Doesn't exist in Poland.
"Powiat" - administrative District of Voivodeship (Województwo) in Poland.
"Gmina" - Commune (territorial division of powiat in Poland).
Most of categories related to Poland already use "powiat" or Polish language. So far, had been changed in Category:Churches in Masovian Voivodeship by powiat. This is an old wrong translation, which has never been corrected. --WlaKom (talk) 19:29, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
PS. There is similarity in Category:Churches in Lower Saxony by district.--WlaKom (talk) 21:12, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
Categories of German and Austrian subdivisions use the original name (German), categories of Czech and Slovak subdivisions use English translation only. --ŠJů (talk) 02:00, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

adding defaultsort to Category:People by name

Some subcategories in Category:People by name don't have a sortkey yet. An easy way to populate that could be to import the sortkey used at en.wiki.  Docu  at 12:05, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

I have tackled this task 2-3 times before, so I will try it again. It is usually done in few steps:
  1. Find categories missing defaultsort
✓ Done about 10k categories and galleries were missing defaultsort. --Jarekt (talk) 04:37, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
  1. Add defaultsort for easy cases, like European names (using lastname, firstname [middlename]) order or names like "name of place", or single-word names (using {{DEFAULTSORT:{{subst:PAGENAME}}}})
  2. Process challenging names like Asian names - here I might need some help from other bots that can use en.wiki or human volunteers.
--Jarekt (talk) 20:00, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. You just flooded my watchlist. --  Docu  at 09:12, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
I am mostly done. The only think that is left are odd-balls which can not be done by my current bot. I put them all in the category Category:Person category without DEFAULTSORT. They will need human intervention or a different bot. --Jarekt (talk) 14:20, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Bot problems?

I've noticed that Bilderbot is no longer adding links to images that have derivative works uploaded through derivativeFx...also CommonsDelinker seems to be extremely slow in dealing with image replacements after file moves. Kelly (talk) 15:08, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Remove Template:Vector version available without a parameter

Please remove all occurrences of Template:Vector version available without a parameter (list). See also Template talk:Vector version available#Maintenance category for missing a value. Thank you. --Leyo 09:53, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Categories included through templates

Can somebody substitute (and remove) all templates which include item categories like {{WSTMcat}}? If the category is mistaken, the error is not fixable, and when some subcategories are created (e. g. by country), such content cannot be moved into them. --ŠJů (talk) 17:56, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

As it's an image source category, I think it's preferable to add this through template.
Are there cases where you think it's added by error?
As the subcategories of Category:Images from Wikis Take Manhattan by participant or team are not topical categories, IMHO, they should be hidden categories (or categories with the flag "image source" once that exists). --  Docu  at 09:49, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 Support Looks like that template does add topical categories, e.g. File:WSTM Three Blind Mice 0019.JPG uses {{WSTMtag|R22}} that calls {{WSTMcat|R22}} which adds Category:Street furniture in New York City.
It should obviously be possible to change that category. --  Docu  at 09:54, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Clean ups

Any idea how to do a systematic clean up of constructs most bots don't like


Special:Search/File: +"Category Category" finds some of the second series (current total 131). As they are somewhat tricky, maybe it's something for assisted AWB. --  Docu  at 17:05, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

in province of -->in the province of

There is a long list of category titles containing in province of, see search [2]. If one uses for hotcat in the province of, one misses those categories, which leads to much extra work. Could a bot either create appropriate redirects from titles in the province of towards in province of or move the categories to in the province of titles, keeping a redirect from the in province of titles? --Havang(nl) (talk) 21:54, 16 January 2011 (UTC) ✓ Done

Some wrong Dates

I've just mentioned that my Upload-software (commonist) did some dates wrong. Could anyone please correct this?

  • All files "File:Wigalois-Leiden-*" are from 1337
  • All files "File:Pic1138b -*" are from 2nd half of 13. century

Could anyone run a bot over it replacing "|Date=*" with the right date? -- MichaelSchoenitzer (talk) 15:37, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done —Dnikitin (talk) 22:18, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much! -- MichaelSchoenitzer (talk) 12:45, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Sort by date?

Hi. As part of the tidy up of the Buses in the United Kingdom category scheme, some of the Category:Buses in the United Kingdom by year of photographing subcategories have been further expanded. For example, Category:Buses in the United Kingdom photographed in 2009 now has a subcategory for each month, e.g. Category:Buses in the United Kingdom photographed in January 2009 and so on. There are currently 2,147 images in the main 2009 category, so obviously it would take ages to sort them manually. The 2008 and 2007 categories have also been done, with a further 1,782 images in those that need to be sorted into the monthly categories. Before 2007 there aren't enough files per cat to warrant months. 2010 is already fully sorted.

So, I was wondering whether it would be possible for a bot to sort the images. I don't know a lot about bots, but I thought it would be worth asking just in case, as it would save a big job. Can bots "read" the metadata of a given file either? I was thinking that, as a way of checking files don't get put in the wrong place, the bot could see if the metadata matched with the date given in the information table (most of which are in the correct 2009-xx-xx format), and if they do match, then move the images into the appropriate category. If it works, then this would stop any mistakes. The rest of the files could be left and then sorted manually.

Would this work?! The categories that if possible could be sorted are Category:Buses in the United Kingdom photographed in 2009, Category:Buses in the United Kingdom photographed in 2008, Category:Buses in the United Kingdom photographed in 2007. Thanks for any help, Arriva436talk/contribs 19:04, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Anyone? Arriva436talk/contribs 10:29, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Commons OTRS members list sorted by language and activity level

See original threads on the OTRS noticeboard and en:User_talk:Rick_Block. Anyone up to coding this? I'd like the language fields to be ultimately manually editable (or manually editable from the start), as language for the active people can be approximately determined by reference to their SUL contribs. So the main things are compiling the list and then continuously sorting it by activity level.--Chaser (talk) 19:09, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Commons is still new with it's list of OTRS volunteers. See also List of OTRS volunteers on Meta-Wiki which has existed for a longer period of time and may be a more appropiate place for such overview. –Krinkletalk 00:30, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
This got a good reception on the OTRS noticeboard because we're often searching for OTRS members that speak a given language. The problem with the meta list is that many of those people simply are not active on Commons.--Chaser (talk) 16:28, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Globe location => Object location

For all 76 current subcategories of Category:Categories with globe location coordinates, please change {{Globe location}} to {{Object location}}. All subcategories are about places on earth. --  Docu  at 14:42, 5 February 2011 (UTC)


Camera location => Object location

Most subcategories of Category:Categories with camera location coordinates should use {{Object location}} instead of {{Location}} (or {{Object location dec}} instead of {{Location dec}}).

The only exceptions I can think of are the 4 categories starting with "View .." at Categories with camera location coordinates   from=View. --  Docu  at 14:53, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Add a cat to 7000 images

Could a bot operator copy all the images from Category:Unidentified plants at Huntington Gardens to Category:Plants at Huntington Gardens (so they would have both cats) that when people identify and remove the Category:Unidentified plants at Huntington Gardens cat that we still have the location cat. Thanks, Amada44  talk to me 07:39, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done --Schlurcher (talk) 16:55, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Great, thank you!! Amada44  talk to me 20:04, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

{{WSTMtag}}

Nearly 2000 photos are categorized through {{WSTMtag}}. This template use some thematic coding related to en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan/Goals. This way of categorization obstructs whatever category changes and category moves.

File pages which use this template should be transformed in order to be categorized directly. The template should be either substituted or the categorization should be extracted and substituted from the template coding. --ŠJů (talk) 20:14, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

See also: Commons:Bots/Work_requests#Categories_included_through_templates
It could be done with pywikipedia bot by adding each category at [3] to all images in that category. The function skips it if it's already included (and not transcluded).
It might work with Commons:Tools/cc too. --  Docu  at 11:28, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Artwork templates with country parameter

The country= parameter in {{Artwork}}/{{Painting}} was depreciated quite some time ago. (It wasn't clear if country related to the gallery holding the painting or the painter or the subject of the image). It could easily be removed from the 15,007 images in the category. --  Docu  at 11:28, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

User category renames

The delinker fails to rename this job because the categories are defined through the {{Usercat}} template. Could a bot arrange that ? I guess that substituting it would be the best solution as the user makes many mistakes (and redirects) in his many categories. Thanks. --Foroa (talk) 18:58, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

For an overview.
Maybe we want to get rid of the "cat=" parameter in {{User category}}. --  Docu  at 19:06, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Agree, this template is used in images and makes moving impossible. --Foroa (talk) 20:42, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
At least, this template should only work in category name space. --Foroa (talk) 06:28, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
For its description, it should be in category namespace only. Thus I'd substitute or convert it in file namespace. --  Docu  at 06:41, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

image files categorized as music

Hi. I noticed that many music-related image files include Template:LOC-music instead of Template:LOC-image. Those files are misscategorized in Category:Music from the Library of Congress instead of Category:Images from the Library of Congress. I think a bot can search in Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:LOC-music for file extensions jpg and png and then change template tag. Thanks, Gustronico (talk) 22:15, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

'Urgent' request

I'd like to replace on all the files of Category:L'Illustration 1858 

[[User:Esby|Esby]]

(Actually, it's the author field, somes files are using a dated signature, so the whole line has to be replaced.)

by 

{{L'Illustration/author/1858}}


I got a complaint by phone for someone pretending that I am infringing their rights, which is more or less doubtful (1858 newspaper),
but the current description is biased as I am only the author of the photographs and not the original author of the newspaper photographied.

Esby (talk) 17:18, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

The following informations should be fixed: 

{{own}}

should be replaced by 

{{L'Illustration/source/1858}}

The licence is sometimes wrong: 

{{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0}}

should be replaced by 

{{PLD-Old}}

when it is exist.

Esby (talk) 17:34, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done --LA2 (talk) 18:17, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. Esby (talk) 21:00, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Archive bot for Graphic Lab

Hi. It would be nice to have a bot that archives resolved requests in the four workshops within the Commons:Graphic Lab, in a similar manner to the way archiving works here. The only difference would be the template used, {{Resolved}} or {{resolved|1=blah}}, and not remove the template when archiving to a subpage. The Wikipedia Graphic Lab already has one, but the bot owner has never responded to any of my requests so it would be appreciated if anyone can come up with something. A bot is only needed to archive resolved requests, not stale ones. Thanks, --ZooFari 18:05, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Extract image from stereo cards

Sometimes a single image from a stereo card is more useful than the stereo card.

As the sizes of all cards in some categories are identical (e.g. Stereo cards of Indonesia), a bot could automatically create a crop and upload that. For the sample image to the right, it would just upload the left part of the card as a new file. --  Docu  at 07:24, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

CSS class change: prettytable → wikitable

Please replace prettytable with wikitable. wikitable class is now in MW core. After this class is removed, prettytable class will be removed from Common.css. Thank you. – Kwj2772 (msg) 11:47, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Commons helpme

Hi,

Currently {{Helpme}} isn't highly used yet but it's getting more and more active. I think it'd be nice to have a bot that can:

  • Report on IRC when the template is used
  • Where it is used (diff-link, contributor and article title)
  • How it is used (language and type)

This will make it easier to catch multi-lingual requests or rather catch anything at all. Right now it's manually picking the categories. Our aim is to get the requests directly popping in front of our noses on IRC so people that speak a certain language can help them right away (before they go away, do something else and perhaps forget about it).

It would report all additions/removals in a seperate channel (say #wikimedia-commons-helpme or #cvn-commons-helpme) and additions by anonymous users in #cvn-commons. I know there's a Helpmebot project but I haven't figured out how to set it up, nor could I find sufficient documentation to know if it's capable of doing what we need.

It'd be great if anyone could point in the right direction or perhaps write a bot like this. –Krinkletalk


Dummy timestamp: 14:54, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

rm Category:Media with locations

from Special:Search/File: incategory:"Media with locations" as it should be included by template only. --  Docu  at 05:40, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done --Jarekt (talk) 07:17, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. --  Docu  at 07:23, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Splitting category: Dresden districts

Could someone please make a bot split the Category:Locator maps of districts of Dresden? All files containing "Stadtteil(e)" in their name shall be moved to Category:Locator maps of Stadtteile of Dresden, all files containing "Ortsamt"/"Ortsämter" to Category:Locator maps of Ortsämter of Dresden, and all fils containing "Gemarkung(en)" to Category:Locator maps of Gemarkungen of Dresden. Thanks! --Kronf (talk) 13:32, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Try Commons:Tools/cc. --  Docu  at 22:04, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
It seems to work, but it might not be the easiest task to start using that tool with. --  Docu  at 09:04, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
✓ mostly done. --  Docu  at 09:24, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks! In fact I had some problems using the tool. --Kronf (talk) 10:31, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Ships built in a certain country and ships built at a certain shipyard

The shipyards are in countries, so both these categories for a singele image or category give double information. Is it possible to delete the country by a bot in the ships of country-categories when a shipyard is involved and add the country to the shipyard categories. E.g. we have Category:Waldhof (ship, 1993), part of Category:Ships built at Damen Shipyards Gorinchem. And we have Category:Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, part of Category:Shipyards in the Netherlands . For the ship category is Category:Ships built in the Netherlands a redundant category, as Damen Gorinchem is a shipyard in the Netherlands. --Stunteltje (talk) 14:35, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

If you add {{intersect categories|Damen Shipyards Gorinchem|Shipyards in the Netherlands}} to Category:Ships built at Damen Shipyards Gorinchem
Multichill's bot will add images that are in both categories there (if they aren't there yet) and remove them from former categories (if they are still there). --  Docu  at 14:51, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
This must be done manually for all shipyards or can it be done by a bot too. --Stunteltje (talk) 15:20, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Fixing typo "transfered" to "transferred"

There's a massive amount of typos due to the CommonsHelper bot and people often not checking their moves to commons, and these tend to be found near the {{BotMoveToCommons}} template. I've tried to file a bug here regarding the issue, but it doesn't seem to be pulling through. In the meantime, we have lots of files uploaded to Commons everyday from other Wikimedia projects, and it would be helpful to have a bot go through and fix the typos one by one. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 04:09, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Okay, it seems that the first instance of the typo "transferred" ("Original uploaded by UserA (Transferred by UserB)") has been removed from the BotMove process, but the second instance ("This file was originally uploaded at wiki as file, before it was transfered to Commons.") has still yet to be fixed. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 03:25, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
If it is fixed in the skript, I can correct the existing typos. --Schlurcher (talk) 14:29, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Correcting PSM images "Source"

I am asking to replace the images' "Source = " because currently the source is a circular loop leading back to Wikimedia Commons. The original source is the Internet Archive. I prepared THIS LIST of the accurate source lines for Volumes 1 to 40. Sources of subsequent volumes are correct. Thanks. Ineuw talk page on en.ws 20:19, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done --Schlurcher (talk) 14:35, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

A BIG Thank you!!!Ineuw talk page on en.ws 19:09, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Notifications to projects using at-risk images

For a while CommonsTicker, a bot that notified projects of in-use files that were nominated for deletion, has not been in operation. While starting to go through backlogs of images lacking permission I've had someone ask me to notify all projects and articles using images before I delete them. But the backlogs in Category:Media missing permission and Category:Media without a source are significant enough as it is that going through them twice, first placing notifications, then coming back later and doing deletions, all the while tracking what has been notified for and what hasn't, would make the backlogs quite ridiculous. I can relate, having been frustrated seeing images deleted at Wikibooks, especially after deletion requests where I could have participated. I also seem to remember some comments and ill will at the English Wikipedia towards Commons admins to the effect that they supposedly didn't feel accountable to the projects. It would be nice if a replacement bot could be developed to do the same thing as CommonsTicker once did, plus notifications for no source/permission. That would likely do well to improve the relationships between other Wikimedia project participants and Commons. – Adrignola talk 19:09, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Just a note: This is not needed for dewiki because there already is a bot informing most local Portals and WikiProjects about commons deletion requests. Merlissimo (talk) 00:31, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Ships by decade (e.g. Category:1990s ships)

Category:Ships by name includes many subcategories in the standard format "<name> (ship, <year>)".

Based on the year, all these could be added to the decades categories, e.g. Category:Maid of the Mist VII (ship, 1997) => Category:1990s ships. --  Docu  at 07:27, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Isn't it a good idea to create these categories by year, besides by decades? Can be done by the same bot. So first by year and after that the years in a decade. See Category:1940s ships as example. --Stunteltje (talk) 09:14, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
I was convinced that the categories were only done by decade. Looks like someone created a few by year. If we want to keep them, yes. --  Docu  at 09:21, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
After adding years to some of the subcategories, yes, let's do that by year. --  Docu  at 14:41, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
✓ Done --  Docu  at 03:49, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Automobile advertisements by year

In think these are in the order of how easy they are:

  1. For each year in Category:Automobile advertisements by year, add the year category to [[:Category:XXXX advertisements|Automobile advertisements]]
  2. Create missing [[Category:XXXX automobile advertisements]] after 1890 or so (assuming that's allowed by policy for promising year categories).
  3. A lot of ads are both in their proper year and in Category:Automobile advertisements for some reason. (Maybe someone wants them there until they get both an ad year and a vehicle model? I have no idea. Maybe there is no reason at all.) One may want to consider removing Category:Automobile advertisements from the ones that are already in their proper year.

I should learn to set up a bot one of these days, but I'm still not there yet. --Closeapple (talk) 17:03, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Doing only part of this list of 3 things would still be useful; I don't want to imply that any one of these is completely dependent on another. --Closeapple (talk) 11:04, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Rename template

Please replace template {{Rename}} by {{Move}} in all category name space. Commons delinker don't recognise nor delete {{rename}} when moving categories. Thank you. --Foroa (talk) 06:57, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done --Jarekt (talk) 16:50, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Great. Mostly done and will save a lot of manual work and confusion. Thank you. --Foroa (talk) 17:59, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Got those too (they used {{Rename}} instead of {{rename}} :) ). Do we need to keep {{Rename}}? What is the difference between 2 templates? --Jarekt (talk) 18:08, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
One used to be for files, the other for categories, but people kept confusing them. --  Docu  at 18:50, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Rename used to work only for files (as documented), but someone adapted it so that it works for categories. There are two solutions:
  • Either rename is changed so that it displays clearly an error message when used for categories
  • SieBot is changed so that it understands that remove is equivalent to move. The first solution seems the most feasible in the short term. --Foroa (talk) 05:56, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

en => {{en|description}}

There are a few pages that don't use language templates such as {{en}} correctly. Sample fixes:

(1) From

'''en:''' English description

to

{{en|1=English description}}

Sample change: [4]


(2) From

{{en}} English description

to

{{en|1=English description}}

Thanks. --  Docu  at 04:53, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Concerning the sample change: I would prefer it that way. --Leyo 19:15, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
Most changes you added to the sample (diff) are just the usual internationalization already done by SchlurcherBot. --  Docu  at 20:08, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

faux PD text

Hello. There is a text on plenty of images which was probably subst'ed from an old and invalid PD_Hungary template which should be removed. Moreover it would be neat to tag these images for manual review, like putting them into a hidden "PD-Hungary review needed" category, or use

The text is as follows:

''This image was created in [[Hungary]] and is now in the '''[[public domain]]''' because its term of copyright has expired. According to [http://www.unesco.org/culture/copy/copyright/hungary/hungary2.html#c11 Hungarian copyright law], photographs which do not enjoy copyright protection as scientific or artistic works enter the public domain after 15 years counted from the end of the calendar year in which they were first published.''

As far as I see the occurences are identical, so I suspect a subst'ed template.

As for its content, this provision does not exist in the current law, nor the provided link is alive. Since the law was enacted retroactive I don't think there's much more to do about it. Manual review it is. Thanks. --grin ✎ 19:39, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Internationalization

From
|Date =Samedi 4 décembre 2010
To
|Date =2010-12-04
Sample
here
--  Docu  at 18:50, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
✓ Done. I have that change already in my bot. But the general task is endless ... --Schlurcher (talk) 20:35, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. It seemed new to me, this is why I listed it. I suppose the other uploads of the same user will eventually get converted then.
The task seems endless indeed. I got the impression that the bot runs slower than new files get uploaded, thus it might never really catch up. --  Docu  at 03:20, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
I added this one and the old list to Commons:Template i18n/bot replacements. --  Docu  at 07:49, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

A proposal about new and old provincial maps of Italy

Locator of the province or Rimini (used as exemple). Comparison between the new svg map (left) and the old png one (right). Note the resolution and also the territorial change between Emilia-Romagna and Marche.

Hello. I hope that this is the right place for a proposal of mine:
The first provincial maps of Italy, categorized here (png) may be substituted by the svg ones, categorized here. This proposal of mine is due to a pair of reasons.

  1. The svg maps are clearer and have a better resolution (see pictures on the right of the same province)
  2. Most important, the png maps are not updated: As you can see, the Province of Rimini (and so the region Emilia-Romagna) have enlarged its territory (2009), because 7 municipalities of the Province of Pesaro-Urbino (region of the Marche) joined Rimini after a referendum. Both maps (png and svg groups) are divided per province (all), and so the png ones shows the situation before this change, in all the provinces.

Proposals (work request for a bot):

  1. Is it possible to transform the png maps into a redirect to the correspondant svg ones?
  2. If not, is it possible to flag a commons-bot to work, in a similar way as Commons Delinker, on Wikipedia, to substitute the old maps with the new ones? I've substituted them, some months ago, on provincial articles of enwiki, but I note that they (the old ones) are still used onto articles reguarding Italian villages (as of civil parishes, wards and so on) without an infobox.
  3. A third solution: may a bot upload, on the png maps, a new and updated version? This could be done saving and renaming the svg maps, using their standard names (that is province name posizione.png). Then they could be subscribed and so updated.

Thanx for the attention. Sorry for the waste of time if this was not the right place to add this kind of request. Regards. --Dэя-Бøяg 20:21, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

CommonsDelinker can replace one image with another one. Due to problems created with such replacements in the past, it can't substitute non-SVG formats with SVGs.
If you like to replace images at en_wiki, you should try to do a request there. --  Docu  at 06:31, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Deletion requests related to categories

What about to find all non-closed deletion requests related to categories and to transform them from "Commons:Deletion requests/Category:..." to "Commons:Categories for discussion/.../..."? --ŠJů (talk) 11:53, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

update word translation lists

Lists like Template:Occupation/ru are very useful but not easy to keep up to date. It would be great if a bot was able to find the words that are in the English list (template:occupation/en) and add it in the form foo={{Please Translate|Occupation|lang]] --Zolo (talk) 06:36, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

I agree this would be a good task for a bot and if someone knows how to write one it would be great. Other approach I often use is to:
  1. copy the en and ru lists to Excel and convert each into 2 column table one with a key word and one with translation
  2. use excel functions (like VLOOKUP) to merge 2 lists
  3. than you can either provide translations or add foo={{Please Translate|Occupation|lang]]
--Jarekt (talk) 12:40, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Bot to fetch Flickr GPS Data

I have just imported quite a bunch of flickr images and noticed, that not all flickr importing bots import the gps data with the image. So I think, that we probably have many images from flickr without GPS Data either because the importing bot doesn't import the gps data or the data has been added afterwards. Would it be possible to program a bot to check all our Flickr images for GPS data on flickr and import them if they are not present? Amada44  talk to me 21:00, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Iran's heritages in Musée du Louvre

Special:Search/Iran's heritages in Musée du Louvre lists 194 images, including quite a few unrelated to the Louvre (probably part of the same upload). I already remove the text from some images, but it's probably quicker to do that by bot. --  Docu  at 20:38, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Fixed some, the reminder needs to be done by hand. --  Docu  at 19:12, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Batch rename

The National Archives recently became aware that the citation format used in their catalog was in a slightly incorrect form for its Ansel Adams photos. This is what we used to name all of the images in Category:2011 Ansel Adams donation from U.S. National Archives, so they need to be renamed. Currently, the Local Identifiers are given in the form "79-AA-A01", as in File:Ansel Adams - National Archives 79-AA-A01.jpg. The correct identifier should be "79-AAA-1". The 2 corrections are (a) the three letters should be in the middle block, rather than broken up by the second hyphen, and (b) there should not be initial zeroes for single-digit numbers in the last block. "79-AA-D01" should be "79-AAD-1", "79-AA-E10" should be "79-AAE-10", and so on. There are over 200 images which need to be renamed in that category (a few are already correct), so any help would be appreciated. Dominic (talk) 20:04, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

I will ask MGA to look into this. --  Docu  at 20:17, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Can we just keep the current names and change links in description? --Jarekt (talk) 20:20, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
The links are actually fine, as they don't depend on this local identifier. However, I do think that the pages should be properly named based on the correct NARA format if at all possible. Dominic (talk) 20:32, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Change of description

Please remove OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA from description from files in Category:Images by User:Slfi. It is automatic description made by Commonist. Thanks.--Slfi (talk) 20:04, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

✓ Hotovo--Jarekt (talk) 02:22, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks very much.--Slfi (talk) 08:26, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Large batch of images needing OTRS tagged

The user Chemicalinterest has uploaded hundreds of images from two sites that he obtained permission from the website owners but the permission is not published openly on the website. These images require OTRS for use here, but these images are not tagged as such. It appears every image in his upload history from 29 May 2011 (including that date) are from other sites. Anything before I think is "Own Work."

Could a bot be used to tag all these with OTRS Pending.. or is there a better approach to proceed? — raeky (talk | edits) 02:07, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Can you do one image by hand, so we know what is expected. --Jarekt (talk) 02:24, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Done: File:Arsenic_sulfide_As4S4_3grams.jpg — raeky (talk | edits) 02:27, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
✓ Done I also put them in Category:Photographs by Wilco Oelen. --Jarekt (talk) 04:01, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. — raeky (talk | edits) 04:06, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Mass add of Category:Media with GPS EXIF

Could a bot please add Category:Media with GPS EXIF to applicable files? There should be hundreds around by now who need that category... Thanks a lot, --Mattes (talk) 03:02, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

In the meantime, DschwenBot (talk · contribs) works again. --  Docu  at 03:55, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

{{LargeImage}}

A year or so ago, DSchwen tagged most images larger than 2000px with {{LargeImage}}. This adds them to Category:Large images and provides a convenient link to a viewer. In the meantime, a new run seems to be needed.

The template should be placed at the top of the file description page. It wont be needed if the file description page already has {{Pano360}}.

One could start with adding the template to most images in Category:Images_from_Geographicus, but a toolserver query could identify all images that need it. --  Docu  at 05:16, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

I've started my bot again. Sorry about the delay. It does not yet handle the pano360 case. I'm not sure we should make those mutually exclusive. --Dschwen (talk) 21:29, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Category:Category:PD-Art (-)

Would it be possible to replace in Category:PD-Art (-) the images that invoke {{PD-Art|-}} with an invalid parameter by {{PD-Art}}. Thank you. --Foroa (talk) 07:03, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: RE rillke questions? 13:18, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
The problem is temporary solved but should be solved in the template too, otherwise it will come back again and again. --Foroa (talk) 15:08, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
And what's the problem preventing you from editing the template? -- RE rillke questions? 15:40, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Search.php

Some geograph uploads include external links in their descriptions, including search links to geograph itself.

Special:Search/geograph search.php currently finds 1450.

Generally, these can just be removed: sample. Sometimes additional text can be removed as well: sample. --  Docu  at 06:19, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Soft redirects

Please change all user and user talk redirects in Special:BrokenRedirects and Commons:Database reports/Broken redirects by {{SOFTREDIRECT}}. Thank you. --Foroa (talk) 07:52, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: RE rillke questions? 17:59, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Removing all red links

Could some skilled user please remove all the red links from User:Ronhjones/En Structures In Use? In addition, if possible, remove all the items, where no file with this name exists in en.wikipedia anymore. For background information, see en:Category talk:Unclassified Chemical Structures. --Leyo 08:23, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

First task done. Next time updating this, you can use the following code from your console while visiting the page: 

var notRed = "";
$('#bodyContent > ol > li').each(function(x, v) {

    if ( "new" != $(v).children('a').eq(0).attr('class') )
notRed += '# [[:' + decodeURI($(v).children('a').eq(0).attr('href').match(/(File\:.+)/)[1]).replace(/_/g, " ") + ']]<br/>'
});
$('#bodyContent').append($('<pre>').append(notRed));


void(0);

-- RE rillke questions? 10:23, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. Would separating PNG and SVG be a lot of work? --Leyo 16:25, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
No, 2 headings? -- RE rillke questions? 16:40, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Yes, please. --Leyo 23:37, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Ok? -- RE rillke questions? 10:35, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
var png = "";
var svg = "";
var imgName = "";
$('#bodyContent > ol > li').each(function(x, v) {
	imgName = decodeURI($(v).children('a').eq(0).attr('href').match(/(File\:.+)/)[1]).replace(/_/g, " ");
	if (/.png$/i.test(imgName))
		png += '# [[:' + imgName + ']] ([[:en:' + imgName + '|en]]) ([http://toolserver.org/~commonshelper2/?file=' + imgName.replace(/ /g, "_") + '&use_tusc=true CommonsHelper2])<br/>';
	else
		svg += '# [[:' + imgName + ']] ([[:en:' + imgName + '|en]]) ([http://toolserver.org/~commonshelper2/?file=' + imgName.replace(/ /g, "_") + '&use_tusc=true CommonsHelper2])<br/>';
	
});
$('#bodyContent').append($('<pre>').append(png));
$('#bodyContent').append($('<pre>').append(svg));
Thank you. I started adding {{ShadowsCommons}} on the en.wikipedia file description pages.
I just remarked that I did not express myself clear enough in the beginning. SVG files on Commons that do have a PNG file with the same name (except the extention) on en.wikipedia should remain in the list. The goal was to find SVG alternatives of (especially low quality) PNG files. Sorry for that. --Leyo 12:53, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Now Ok? -- RE rillke questions? 13:28, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes, thanks a lot. --Leyo 20:50, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

That's very useful, is there also a script (this code?) for a watchlist? -- πϵρήλιο ℗ 16:53, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

User:Rillke/Code: you can delete the line which drops out the DRs. You'll have to go to Special:Watchlist/edit and run this from your console. Be aware: It drops out userpages, too. -- RE rillke questions? 17:05, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Fantastisch, vielen Dank! That script should be in every collection! -- πϵρήλιο ℗ 23:03, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
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Original upload date

Please replace all data formated as XXXX-XX-XX (original upload date) with {{Original upload date|XXXX-XX-XX}}. --ŠJů (talk) 15:35, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories w/o interwikis

Is there an easy way to generate a list of subcategories of Category:Ships by name that don't have any interwikis? --  Docu  at 09:54, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done query & result. Multichill (talk) 15:06, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
Cool. Thanks. I'll try to work on them. There more than I expected. Would be nice if there was an option on CatScan2 to do that. --  Docu  at 09:35, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
enwp list, dewp list (replace .txt with .sql to see the query and beware of disambiguation pages). You probably want to use the sum-it-up gadget like I did at Category:HMS Albion (L14). Multichill (talk) 11:58, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. I had my bots check some w/o a year of construction some time ago, so many that are left are disambiguation pages and other false positives. I'm going manually through some where "(ship)" is available at en_wiki, but the category is named "(ship, year)" at Commons. It leads to a few false positives as well.
Even though I like the concept of "sum-it-up", I'm not quite fond of the layout generated by the tool. --  Docu  at 12:51, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Yes, output in something like {{Multilingual description}} would be nicer. As with all queries: I don't delete them so rerunning them is easy if you just remember the name. Multichill (talk) 20:26, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
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“ and ”

Some of the geograph uploads include “ and ” in the description.

Sample: File:Tall ships, Belfast Lough (27) - geograph.org.uk - 1449091.jpg

Could these be removed or replaced? --  Docu  at 19:17, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

I am currently creating a list of files including those characters and after that my bot will go through it and remove them from the description. odder (talk) 11:01, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Sounds good. Thanks for working on this. --  Docu  at 23:17, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Royal Society Journals Copyright Problem

The following discussion is archived. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.


On WikiProject Royal Society Journals there are two important topics: 7 Watermark removal? and 8 Watermark copyright. Please check it. As sooner the better. I'm offering my help but if I don't have an answer soon I won't be able to help you anymore. Ivanov224 (talk) 09:12, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

I don't know, which files we are talking about, but watermark removal is generally encouraged. Regards, -- ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 13:17, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Look at here: Commons:Category:Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1665-1886), volume 1 has just a few clean PDFs. I'm talking about that watermark: Philosophical Transactions - Volume 1 p0-Epistle Dedicatory.pdf Volumes 2-5 have the watermarks intact and probably all the others too. I need assistance - how can I download all the files in a volume at once? And then how can I upload them again at once? I really don't have so much time to download and upload every file individually. Ivanov224 (talk) 18:16, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.


Above discussion was copied from COM:VP. It looks like a task for a bot: download watermarked images, remove watermark, reupload images under the same name. Can anybody help with that? --Jarekt (talk) 19:51, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

If this is going to take some time to discuss and sort out, can the files carrying the logo be mass deleted (or taken off-line)? The UK Chapter has received an official complaint from the Royal Society with regard to these images and while they still carry the copyrighted logo there is every reason to comply with their request for deletion. --Fæ (talk) 22:13, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Per [5] I suggest to mass speedy delete all affected files: they're not useful nor worth the effort of watermark removal. Nemo 07:33, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Remove Template:Vector version available with no parameter

Could a bot operator remove all Template:Vector version available missing a parameter from file description pages? There are currently ~200 such cases. --Leyo 13:11, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

 Comment If you are keen to find copyright violations I would be careful. In some cases the template is empty because the svg was deleted for copyright violation and the raster version should have been deleted as well. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 15:13, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

 Oppose Sorry for that, but I went through a couple of the files and most of them actually have vector versions which are not linked for various reasons. It would be of more value if that is sorted out by hand. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 15:52, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

What could be done automatically is that if there are two templates on one file description page one with a parameter and one without the empty one could be removed. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 15:58, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

In this case I full agree with Cwbm. Example -- πϵρήλιο ℗ 16:28, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
What about distinguishing {{Vector version available}} and {{Vector version available|}}? In the latter case, the parameter was probably removed by CommonsDelinker. --Leyo 15:18, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
I'd prefer my suggestion because it would remove more files from the list. Though I don't know what would be easier to programm. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 12:21, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

The number of cases has now dropped below 100. I would appreciate any help. --Leyo 11:50, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

  • I removed the template in the cases therer there were two (one empty one) mostly due to file uploads by bots. The rest of the cases (20) needs to be checked manually because either the svg should be undeleted or the raster should be deleted. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 14:49, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
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Replacing "Cateogry:" in "Category:"

Working on "Media needing categories" I found that in several cases the word "Cateogry" instead of "Category" is used. A search shows 147 hits. Can a bot replace it in the right word. Most important is "Cateogry:" in "Category:", so with the ":". Thanks, Wouter (talk) 19:50, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Umm.. I just wanted to oppose/discuss this.. You're too fast, Docu! ;) I had suggested not to bot"correct" it. Reason: maybe now we have duplicate categories if the category was added again since it did not work the first time. Such unnoticed misspellings could be a good indicator that someone should look at the whole page. Well, next time. ;) Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 02:45, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
While we are at it; there might be another round of cleaning out [[Category:[[Category:xxx]]]] constructs. --Foroa (talk) 05:15, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
@ Saibo, would like me to add them in a special category so you could easily review them? BTW, I don't think it matters if the category ends up being twice on a page. MediaWiki can handle that.
@ Foroa, is there an easy search link that could find them (e.g. Special:Search/File: "Category:Category" finds one: File:Ioannis Skandalidis.JPG). --  Docu  at 05:57, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
No idea, I think (but unsure) that Jarekt did the last round (many of them are in categories). It would be great if search could be instructed to search "exactly". --Foroa (talk) 07:34, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Commons:WikiProject Check Wikipedia scans the source, but is made primarily for Wikipedia (article namespace).
Otherwise the approach at Commons:Bots/Work_requests#.C2.93_and_.C2.94 would work too. --  Docu  at 08:09, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Another set of incorrect category tags: Non-english ones. This is a bit harder to work out, as these are valid words and may be used in the descriptions. That said the follow searches give:

That's the results for the major European languages, probably worth checking all major wiki languages.--Nilfanion (talk) 08:16, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

A problem for these categories is that the description of the category is also written in that language. For example File:Edificio Central Catalana Occidente.jpg. Replacing "Categoria" in "Category" will generate not existing categories. Wouter (talk) 18:35, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
I noticed these too, but hesitated to fix them. Even if the category names are not in English, it might be of use if they are presented as actual categories. --  Docu  at 08:09, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Also do not forget about polish:

A look at few of those also suggest that categories will be mostly in Polish and not match Commons names. --Jarekt (talk) 12:54, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

That's for sure, but it might be easier to categorize them from a Polish name than from no category at all. Instead of leaving them red, maybe we should create them and add them into Category:Category names needing translation. --  Docu  at 13:49, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
I think it probably would be better to translate the category-prefix as then the non-English category is a category-link and not a normal redlink. Sometimes these will be the same as the existing category, in which case its done. If not, presenting as a category lets users modify/remove using HotCat. Many of these have appropriate categories anyway (examples: File:Jburtin.jpg and File:Chrysolina americana1FL.jpg). Adding the files to a "translation needed" category, and changing the prefixes to English is probably ideal.--Nilfanion (talk) 08:35, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
@above: (sorry, I did not see the response earlier) Go ahead with fixing - I wouldn't have time to check a maintanance cat with all fixed files. Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 00:13, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
@nilfanion: Ok, I can add the files to a "translation needed" category instead (it's even easier to do). --  Docu  at 13:38, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Here are the first 99 from "Catégorie": Category:Translation needed (from catégorie). --  Docu  at 16:41, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

category & author name change

I recently had my username changed from User:Maedin to User:Julia W. I need two categories moved: category:Media by User:Maedin to category:Media by Julia W, and category:Quality Images by Maedin to category:Quality images by Julia W. I can request this if the bot operator doesn't have admin privileges (just let me know). I'm asking for each image currently included in either category to be changed to the new category/categories.

The second half of my request is for the author name (currently [[User:Maedin|Maedin Tureaud]]) (an old online pseudonym) in the 'Media by User:Maedin' category be changed to [[User:Julia W|Julie Anne Workman]].

Thank you! Julia\talk 17:27, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Consider using cat-a-lot. It is in Special:Preferences#preftab-8. After doing so, you may use User:Rillke/AjaxMassDelete.js (doc and easy install) to change the author-name (using option "custom replace") while visiting your category. -- RE rillke questions? 17:41, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you, I didn't realise there were tools available for me to use that would do the same job. All finished now! Julia\talk 19:52, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Wow, what an edit count/day! :-) -- RE rillke questions? 19:59, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
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Category move request

SieBot is broken so please perform the following rename:

Rename Category:Images by Dferg to Category:Images by MarcoAurelio (14 entries moved, 0 to go) Warning: Please add a reason. Warning: Username of requester missing (user parameter). For transparency and to prevent abuse, please add your username.

Since I renamed, that category should be renamed too. Thanks for your help. --Marco Aurelio (disputatio) 12:14, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Is this possible using cat-a-lot in your (Special:Preferences#preftab-8)? -- RE rillke questions? 12:20, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
If you would have a look here, please: #category & author name change. 14 images and a bot-request. -- RE rillke questions? 12:23, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
I want it to be done by a bot because I don't want to do it by hand. I know cat-a-lot, I use it, but, as I've said above, I simply don't want to do it myself. Statements like "lol" in legitimate requests like this are simply insulting. --Marco Aurelio (disputatio) 12:42, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Sorry, I am going to choose my words with more care in future. Whether a bot-request for 14 files, if they are tools you can use available, is legitimate is another question. In my eyes a waste of time. I am going to unwatch this page. -- RE rillke questions? 13:01, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. This request can be closed. I used AWB to use it at it seems that administrators are allowed to use it. If you want to unwatch this page I can't prevent you from doing so, however if you're doing it just because of this thread I hope you reconsider. Best, --Marco Aurelio (disputatio) 18:14, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
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Please remove {{Ns has subpages}} from file description pages

This template was recently created and then populated by upload bots. Could anyone please go through all the file pages and remove the transclusions? Thanks, --The Evil IP address (talk) 17:35, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Wouldn't further uploads re-add more of it? --  Docu  at 09:35, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
I think you would need to delete the redirect to avoid that. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 12:22, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Yes, deleting the redirect would be my next step. --The Evil IP address (talk) 20:21, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Licence split

This section was archived on a request by: Multichill (talk) 14:36, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

As it is described at the talk page, {{CC-AR-Presidency}}, a licence about images from a web page, needs to be split into two cases, as the terms changed. There was first an autorization via OTRS to use their files under cc-by. The site changed their licence to a non-commercial, I deleted the images made after the change, and now they changed back to a commons-compatible licence, but a cc-by-sa this time.

Where do bots come into play? Fortunately, there's no need to manually go checking the dates, because I already did that work: the images that should use the old licence are the available ones, and the ones that would use a new one are those I deleted. The best way I thought to manage this mess is to rename CC-AR-Presidency to something else, such as CC-AR-Presidency-old, and run a bot to replace all the uses of the licence to the new one. Once the work is done, I would overwrite the "Template:CC-AR-Presidency" page (which should be an unused redirect by this point) with a licence with the terms for the newer images. And then, a mass undeletion of images: as the licence template they used would be now the good one, I would not need to manually change the files, just select and undelete at high speed. Cambalachero (talk) 01:51, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

The replacemant of all the uses shouldn't be a problem, I can do it if the new template exists. --Schlurcher (talk) 20:44, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
Done. The old template is now {{CC-AR-Presidency-old}}. {{CC-AR-Presidency}} is the new template, with a temporary disclaimer of the changes going on. The bot should now replace all uses of "CC-AR-Presidency" with "CC-AR-Presidency-old", to keep things as they have to be. Tell me when the move is done and the bot stops working, as it would be safe then to upload the new images. Cambalachero (talk) 02:06, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
✓ Done, but there are a few remaining ones, that use some kind of double licence, please see: [6] --Schlurcher (talk) 18:12, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Category:Men by given name

Can a bot remove this category from all subcategories? The reasoning from Commons:Categories for discussion/2011/01/Category:Women named Barbara applies here, too. Thanks, --The Evil IP address (talk) 13:00, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Oh .. I'm going to miss it.
;) just kidding
I'm moving it into Category:People by name, in case there is one that it's missing there. --  Docu  at 17:18, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Looks like this doesn't work. It adds the sortkey from Category:Men by given name to PbN.
Need to do this in two step. Add first then remove. --  Docu  at 17:32, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
✓ Done --  Docu  at 17:52, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. --The Evil IP address (talk) 12:36, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
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Bot to fetch Flickr GPS Data

(this is a repost as there was no reply on the first one) I have just imported quite a bunch of flickr images and noticed, that not all flickr importing bots import the gps data with the image. So I think, that we probably have many images from flickr without GPS Data either because the importing bot doesn't import the gps data or the data has been added afterwards. Would it be possible to program a bot to check all our Flickr images for GPS data on flickr and import them if they are not present? Amada44  talk to me 11:41, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Sound like a task for User:Bryan and User:Dschwen. -- RE rillke questions? 11:16, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Please list all used countries of Files in Category:PD signature

This regexp should work: /\{\{[Pp][Dd]-signature\|([^\}\n]+)\}\}/. Output is in $1 (.match(/\{\{[Pp][Dd]-signature\|([^\}\n]+)\}\}/)[1]).

Please omit to output the same spelling 2 times. (e.g. "United States" and "United states" is OK.)

I'd like to switch to {{Country}} making it easier to autotranslate and finding copyright violations. A replace-request will follow after I've the list.

Thank you. -- RE rillke questions? 20:57, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

bot run to find svgs containing image tag

I think it would be nice if somebody could do a bot run ala User:SVGbot (which is inactive) so we can get an idea about how many of these files are there. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 08:53, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

This will cause a lot of server traffic... Is the image tag (<image>) the only thing the bot should look for? -- RE rillke questions? 11:13, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
The last run was four years ago, so I would think we can afford another one. The bot could also check for broken svgs. That run was a year ago (User:DieBuche/BrokenSVG). --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 13:52, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Do you, coincidentally, know where to obtain the source code? -- RE rillke questions? 14:00, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
No, I'm sorry. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 14:17, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Why do we want to know about images with imbedded graphics. Is there a problem withe this group? --Jarekt (talk) 20:34, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Why do we convert raster images into vector images? --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 20:46, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
SVG files with imbbeded images are a perfect format for more permanent image annotation, which can be easily translated to other languages. For example some years ago I have created File:Photon Mass Attenuation Coefficients.svg with imbedded image. Is there a problem with files like that? --Jarekt (talk) 23:03, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Potentially yes [7]. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 05:16, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Old user name

For privacy issues. "WikiTrovão" is very infant. And about "HélioVL", I want conceal my first real name, leaving only my initials. --HVL (talk) 16:07, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

??? --HVL (talk) 15:53, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
?????? --HVL (talk) 20:45, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
What is your request?  Hazard-SJ  ±  06:37, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Schlurcher (talk) 08:03, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Odd colour profiles

Problem: Files with device-specific colour profiles (other than plain sRGB and AdobeRGB) are not rendered correctly on all systems. Right now there's one such complaint on COM:VP ("Colour-Distorted images") and another one at COM:AN/U ("Cluster of copyvio.."). Just how many such files are there? Hard to tell because some profiles will go wrong on my systems, others will fail on yours, no one can see it all.

Suggestion for a bot:

  • Pass 1: Screen all jpegs for signs of non-standard colour profiles, mark such files with temporary category tags (ideally, one category or one gallery for each specific colour profile).
  • Wait for human reviewer that will tag them with {{Convert to sRGB}}
  • Pass 2: the bot converts tagged files to sRGB (ala Rotatebot).

Potential fallout: loss of fidelity in cases when device-specific colour space is considerably wider than sRGB.

Does it make any sense? Or perhaps something like this already exists? NVO (talk) 04:45, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

 Comment As I mentioned in Commons:Village_pump#Colour-Distorted_images I think it is Firefox bug not a problem with jpegs. See [8] --Jarekt (talk) 15:14, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Schlurcher (talk) 08:02, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

{{PD-Spain}} to {{PD-La Moncloa}}

Please replace the usage of {{PD-Spain}} to {{PD-La Moncloa}} in all files. The statement in the template only applies to works released by the Ministry of the Presidency of the Kingdom of Spain but not to all works in Public Domain in Spain, which have some restrictions as per "Real Decreto Legislativo 1/1996 - arts. 14.3 and 41." Thank you. --Marco Aurelio (disputatio) 10:13, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done --Schlurcher (talk) 08:02, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Schlurcher (talk) 08:02, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Licence

Bonjour, il faudrait qu'un bot insère cette licence {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0}} à toute mes photos ne l'ayant pas. merci. --Parisdreux (d) 08:18, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Pour les cc-by images, aussi? Et pourquoi? -- RE rillke questions? 17:44, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
je veut que mon pseudo soit cité et pour moi cette licence est la plus appropriée. Oui c'est à faire sur toutes mes images. merci --Parisdreux (d) 09:30, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Wanted: a CC-BY-SA 3.0/nl licence template on 172 files from Open Beelden

Hi, On 172 files I uploaded a licence template is missing. You can read the discussion on User_talk:Clausule#Copyright_status:_File:Amerikaanse_filmacteur_Danny_Kaye_arriveert_op_Schiphol.ogv. All 172 have the same licence, you can check them out by using the links in the file discriptions. I hope a bot action can do this trick. Thank you very much. Clausule (talk) 09:40, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

I added a few ones but it seems to irregular for me to do this by script. You need a bot fetching the author as well. Pleae look at your uploads from Jan. 2011 to today whether the change was appropriate. -- RE rillke questions? 10:12, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rilke, Thank you very much for taking the time doing this job. I'm not experienced in bot action. So I don't know exactly what you mean, please excuse me for that. I checked my watchlist (all my uploads are included) and the actions were right. All other images and videos with the Open Beelden template, that were uploaded by me (Clausule), need the CC-BY-SA license. I guess you had understood that, therefore also excuse for that :-) Clausule (talk) 23:20, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
142 left. The last query took 897 seconds - so be patient if you run it.
Well, if there is always a different author which is not mentioned already at the file desc it probably is simply manual work to do. Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 01:48, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
In all cases, the author is Polygoon Hollands Nieuws. Clausule (talk) 16:44, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Move to a new category

Hello! All task is to eliminate the Category:Salvador, Bahia, but it's to do too:

Luan fala! 20:55, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Categories added: normal search but removing the hyphens from the search terms, Cat-a-Lot to add categories. Template {{Intersect categories}} should remove the remaining Category:Salvador, Bahia (if any) when the bot runs, can take a couple of weeks. --Foroa (talk) 06:18, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Looking backwards, it would have been easier to select manually the needed files in Category:Salvador, Bahia (they are sorted alphabetically) and move them simply using cat-a-lot. --Foroa (talk) 06:23, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Remove template:cfr

Please remove all occurances of {{Cfr}}. It used to be a redirect to {{Move}}, but it is not removed by Siebot during category moves. --Foroa (talk) 07:38, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

I removed all occurances and trashed the template. --Schlurcher (talk) 15:19, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Great. Thank you. --Foroa (talk) 15:51, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Schlurcher (talk) 16:55, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Author

Please, replace [[User:Aoamen|Aoamen]] by [[User:Aoamen|António Amen]] and {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0}} by {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0|attribution=António Amen}} in his pictures. This request was made at Portuguese Village Pump by him. Giro720 (talk) 15:06, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

✓ Done --Jarekt (talk) 15:24, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Schlurcher (talk) 16:55, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Removing stale templates

It appears that a number of images tagged with {{Uncategorized}} have actually been categorized. Is there a bot that could make this kind of edit to remove the uncat template from images that are listed in at least one category? WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:20, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

There is a bot that does that automatically already. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 08:47, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
That looks like a bot that could do this. Can we have a bot that actually does this, i.e., more recently than five weeks ago? WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:29, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
If you use HotCat to add another category to a file, it would disappear as well.
You could also add
.checkcategories {display: none;}
to Special:MyPage/common.css. --  Docu  at 17:59, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry. I'm gonna end this. This is ridiculous. Nobody in his sane mind is going to run a bot for a task that is already done. Secondly you are hardly active here anyway. You stumble across one file. Really does the world have to come to a standstill because you experienced something that can't even be called an inconvenience. If a user who does a lot of categorizing here is really bother by this then she can ask the botmaster to have the bot run more frequently. There are actually important things to do as can be seen on this page. --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 20:00, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

If it is "already done", then why have 30% (thirty percent!) of my random sampling in Category:Media needing categories as of 8 September 2008 shown up as "uncategorized" despite being listed in a category? I'm serious: I clicked through to ten images, and three of them—File:Mos sjss.jpg, File:Mouse Wheel.png, and File:Mousepad text editor screenshot.png are listed in a valid cat.
And, by the way, the reason I clicked on these is because I saw a request for more people to help with categorization at Meta. If you'd rather do it all yourself, then just keep being rude to people who are trying to help. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:58, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Once in a while this should indeed be done. Maybe we should try to schedule it more regularly. --  Docu  at 06:00, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Actually the bot that used to do this doesn't seem to work anymore. The database query never finishes. You can find the query here (if someone wants to try and fix this). When you have the result it's just a replace.py to remove the uncategorized template (command is replace.py -lang:commons -file:not_uncat.txt -family:commons -regex -nocase "\{\{Uncategorized\|[^\}]+\}\}" ""). Multichill (talk) 15:39, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
I wish I could help, but I don't know anything about this. Would it be helpful if I pinged a few people with Toolserver accounts, who are guaranteed to know more than me? WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:06, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
It seems they recently re-added a slow query stopper [9]. In addition, it seems to kick in earlier when toolserver is already slow. To bypass it see query_killer. Maybe I come across an idea how to speed it up. --  Docu  at 21:53, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

List of non-autopatrolled users with > 1000 edits

Is someone able and willing to create a list of non-autopatrolled users with more than 1000 edits? Admins could go through this list and assign the user right where appropriate. This would reduce the backlog of unpatrolled versions. --Leyo 16:30, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Where to put the list and which format do you prefer?
Rillke (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)
Rillke (talk · contributions · deleted user contributions · recent activity · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth)
Rillke (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
assign permissions -- RE rillke questions? 17:02, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Only list users active in the last 30 days(s)? -- RE rillke questions? 17:12, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
IMHO Template:Rfr is the most convenient one. How many are there with and without the 30 days? Depending on the length, the list might be posted to COM:RFR. --Leyo 18:59, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
~300 til "Bogdan salaj" (alph, asc) only including active users in the last 30 days. Estimated total count: >>1000 -- RE rillke questions? 19:03, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
{{Rfr}} makes sense. Perhaps put the list at Commons:Requests for rights/possible autopatrolled candidates? How are you generating this list BTW? How easy is it to regenerate on a regular (say, monthly) basis? Also, if the number is that high, maybe we should initially set the cutoff for the list a bit higher (eg 2000), to make the resulting list more manageable. Rd232 (talk) 19:09, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Someone with toolserver account could simply run a SQL-query. But I do not have one. Therefore it takes some hours. Poor API ;-) BTW: I will put it in a sortable table if such a thing is available on Commons. -- RE rillke questions? 19:17, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

→→→Commons:Requests for rights/possible autopatrolled candidates←←←

Thanks. I've added a link at the top of Commons talk:Requests for rights so that the page is findable. Rd232 (talk) 12:32, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you! What about Magnus' bot? This user right was once removed again. --Leyo 15:44, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Upload patrol. You can upload every nonsense with it. -- RE rillke questions? 17:40, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Report of a small bug: “urlencode” does not work is some cases → example: assign. --Leyo 15:54, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Was not my invention. {{LRR}} (Revision of Template:LRR). Going to fix it. -- RE rillke questions? 17:40, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Would it be possible to exclude users without an empty block log? --Leyo 17:45, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
✓ Done -- RE rillke questions? 20:11, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
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