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Hi! I ask you to introduce the Translate extension in {{Welcome}}’s i18n, because (I think) you have all the tools and knowledge to do this. The task contains the following parts:
Move all other subpages to Template:Welcome/i18n/<lang> (bot makes it easier),
Add translation unit markers to the English page,
Mark it for translation (requires translation admin right),
Merge the existing translations to the new system (possibly it can be done with bot – I think all translations use the layout template for now, so they have the same structure),
<languages />
<onlyinclude>{{welcome/layout
|welcomeHeader=<translate><!--T:1-->Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, {{#if: {{{1|}}} | {{{1}}} | {{BASEPAGENAME}} }}!</translate>
|firstStepsTitle=<!--T:2-->
|firstStepsText=<!--T:3-->
|helpTitle=<!--T:4-->
|helpText=<translate><!--T:5-->More information is available at the [[Commons:Community portal|community portal]]. You may ask questions at the '''[[Commons:Help desk|help desk]]''', [[Commons:Village pump|village pump]] or on [[w:Wikipedia:IRC tutorial|IRC]] channel [[irc:wikimedia-commons|#wikimedia-commons]] ([https://webchat.freenode.net?channels=%23wikimedia-commons&uio=d4 webchat]). You can also contact an [[Commons:Administrators|administrator]] on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at [[Commons:Village pump/Copyright]].</translate><br/><br/>[[File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg|20px]] <!--T:6-->
|tipsTitle=<!--T:7-->
|tipsText=<nowiki />
<!--T:8-->
|mistakeTitle=<!--T:9-->
|mistakeText=<nowiki />
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|lang=<!--T:11-->
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{{translated tag|user}}
(Where I wrote just a comment, I thinks there’s no need for translation variable.)
I think Template:Welcome/i18n can be unprotected after the whole change (or after the previously mentioned step) as it shouldn’t be transcluded anywhere.
Created User:Jarekt/a using a spreadsheet which will help coping content of all other subpages of Template:Welcome/<lang> to Template:Welcome/i18n/<lang>
Sorry for the late reply, I was a bit busy around Christmas. Why should we copy the pages instead of moving? (There are copyright problems unless you merge the edit histories after the whole change.) --Tacsipacsi (talk) 16:23, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
It is a little bit like working with template sandbox templates. You do not want to edit the live page create what you need off-line and than turn it on. I agree that ideally you want to preserve edit history, but merging edit histories sounds way to painful. I do not know a good solution to this, just like I do not a sane way of converting one type of i18n page to another. --Jarekt (talk) 04:21, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
Bonjour, apparament qu'il est marqué self GFDL cc-by-sa-all, est-ce bon maintenant la chose de copyright sur ma photo? Merci et bonne journée Manaviko (talk) 14:10, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Jarekt!
It is true that the files I uploaded with pictures from Sulitjelma have no license tag yet. However I follow the instructions in this section:Commons:OTRS#If you are not the copyright holder. I am now at step 2. I have already cleared with the copyright holder (www.nordlandsmuseet.no) that the images can be used by us. The thing is that it takes time to upload all those pictures, but after it's done I will follow the instructions further ahead. In other words get the museum to send e-mail confirming the license.--Frankemann (talk) 17:29, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Question regarding how to properly credit photographer for photograph they have permitted to be used
Dear Jarket
Apologies for asking what might be an obvious question.
The photographer Julie Boileau has granted permission to use a photograph she took at a public event in Paris for a Wiki profile of a female artist.
(She originally posted this photograph to Flickr where it can be downloaded by anyone from the public).
I am having difficulty discerning how best to label this photograph and add it to the profile of the artist Heidi Quante.
Hugo, the easiest way would be for Julie to change the license on Flickr to CC-by-sa-2.0 or cc-by-2.0. Than we could use standard tools to transfer it. If you alert me I can easily do it. Otherwise Julie will have to granted permission in writing and send it to OTRS. Please read COM:OTRS for more details. --Jarekt (talk) 17:05, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Translation
Can you find where can I translate following in preferences, or do it your self per above:
These can be created only by admins. @MaGa: Could you translate the remaining three? (The text after the message name is how it appears now in your interface language.) --Tacsipacsi (talk) 19:39, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
the first translation: osnovni dodatak - zadano uključen
the second translation: zastarjeli dodatak - ne radi ili će uskoro biti isključen ili zamijenjen
File:Nitrogen elimination.jpg, which you deleted based on your {{No license since}} tagging, had a {{NoRightsReserved}} tag dating back to 2006. The tag was placed by the uploader, who asserted it was his own work. At that time, this tag was valid...the invalidation of new NoRightsReserved, with default falling over to NoLicense, appears to be for post-2011ish uploads only. Could you double-check if there is some detail I'm missing? The file was transferred to commons from en.wp after 2011, but I'm an admin there and can see its older history if you need any further verification. DMacks (talk) 21:56, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
DMacks, I restored it. You are right we should have noticed the fact that this image was under a fine license on EN-wiki and was just transferred to the Commons. However the uploder should have noticed that the file ended up without a valid license template especially since I notified him about the issue and {{NoRightsReserved}} explains exactly what will happen. --Jarekt (talk) 04:09, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from comScore. [1]
Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. [6][7]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [8]
The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [9][10]
There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [11][12]
The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.
Ji Jaretkt: I could use some help uploading an image for amy andersen's page. she emailed me a photo for use specifically on the wikipedia page and I need to follow the correct protocol to get it to stick. thanks '
Hello, Jarekt. I'm writing to ask you about this edit and other similar cases. I don't know why are you saying that the file lacks a license, as I clearly see a CC BY-SA 4.0 template on the page. Why was the template put on the file, and the user warned about it?
If it was a mistake, I'd appreciate if you could write that to the user, as he's a newbie and a participant on a local contest of us, and both he and we are confused about what happened.
Racso, thanks for alerting me to this problem. I usually check each file tagged by a database search for files missing licenses, before tagging it as "no license" but missed this one. I left a note to the user. --Jarekt (talk) 15:47, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [13]
Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [14]
Changes this week
The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [15]
MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [16]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The company asked me to add their logo to the page and supplied the logo. They do not have any Terms of Usage on their site, however. I had thought the non-free logo tag (As used for the logo on the Trion Worlds page would suffice, as it should be considered fair use of a logo to represent the company visually.
What further steps do I need to take to avoid deletion?
Thank you.
User:Baraqorn, Commons does not accept Fair Use files, but en-wiki does so you can upload it there. This logo could also be {{PD-textlogo}}, but that means that we claim that there is not copyright protection on this logo, which might not be OK with the company. A 3rd rout is for you to read COM:OTRS and ask the company to pick some license and send a permission to OTRS to use this file under that license. --Jarekt (talk) 20:47, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
USer:Jarekt, Thank you for your help. I have one more question. Can the company choose "Fair Use" as the license they claim they want to use on this image when they send the permission email to OTRS? Or will this not work because the logo was uploaded via commons? Baraqorn (talk) 19:55, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
User:Baraqorn, "Fair use" is a US law explaining why we do not need permission from the company and to use fair use you do not need sending permission to OTRS. Files using Fair use are often scrutinized to verify if they still meet required criteria and removed, if they do not. Commons once successfully uploaded is more permanent. --Jarekt (talk) 20:01, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
User:Jarekt, Thank you again for all your help. I have uploaded a version of the logo through en-wiki as you suggested, and I believe I have correctly appended the correct permission language to the file. Baraqorn (talk) 00:01, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
{{PD-old}} appears in several dozen languages. If you look at template documentation, it says that translations are handled by {{PD-old-text}}. If you would like to add additional languages add them there. Translations in subpages of {{PD-old}} are no longer used after the merge with {{PD-old-70}} and should be removed. I will work on removal subpages already handled by {{PD-old-text}}. --Jarekt (talk) 17:51, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
A szerző halálozási ideje 1923, ezért ez a mű közkincs abban az országban, ahol elkészítették, és minden olyan további államban, ahol a szerzői jogi védelmi idő a szerző élete plusz 70 év vagy kevesebb." and seems to be OK, and this file displayed in Hungarian shows the template in Hungarian. May be it is matter of purging the pages. --Jarekt (talk) 19:12, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
The photo was taken from the film itself. At the time, it listed as film in public domain. I visited the website and it was all reconfigured without copyright information. If you think there is any violation, please delete. Take the opportunity to take a look at Category: Rocketship XM (film) which are other movie files that I took. Any questions about copyright, delete because I do not want confusion about copyright. Currently only carry own photos rightfully so. Thanks, --Paulo RS Menezes (talk) 22:31, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Paulo, You might be correct about this image being PD and I do not have any reason to think that there is any violation. All I was alerting you about is that you did not do your homework before uploading the file and did not provide andy license templates that might explain this case. All files are required to have a com:CT license template. I am unfamiliar with licenses related to DP movies, but you can consult Commons:Hirtle chart, check other files that should be using the same license or ask at Commons:Village_pump/Copyright. --Jarekt (talk) 12:42, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Missing copyright tag for Jüchtwind1.jpg and Jüchtwind2.jpg
Hi, thank you for bringing to my attention that two files I uploaded, File:Jüchtwind1.jpg and File:Jüchtwind2.jpg, are apparently missing valid copyright tags. I am certain that these two files are covered by freedom of panorama under German copyright law, and thus can be hosted on Commons consistent with the "current policy on Commons [...] to accept photos of artwork and sculptures that are covered by freedom of panorama in their source country". I tagged both with {{FoP-Germany}}, which I believed to be a valid and sufficient copyright tag. If I made a mistake or there was a change in policy, please tell me. Shinryuu (talk) 19:08, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
Shinryuu, {{FoP-Germany}} are great but FOP templates are not considered to be license templates since they only cover the object in the photo but not the photograph itself and they are always accompanied by License template from the photographer. If you are the photographer just add a license template of your choice. --Jarekt (talk) 03:32, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [17][18]
Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [19]
Changes this week
You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [20]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [21]
The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [22]
Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [23]
Dear Jarekt,
I am a complete novice in relation to the usage and editing, including uploading of files, to the Wikipedia. So please help me in achieving my objective, which is the uploading or adding a photograph of my father (Solowij Victor Sylvestrovych - Archbishop Varlaam) to the existing pages (subjects)or entries in relation to him in the Ukrainian and English Versions of Wikipedia. It would seem that an attempt to upload a photograph by another user of Wikipedia was unsuccessful due to some breach of copyright rules. The photograph in question was supplied by me from my family records and taken by me some 56 years ago and edited by the user who tried to upload it to remove the background .
See "(cur | prev) 06:35, 19 July 2015 CommonsDelinker (talk | contribs) . . (5,236 bytes) (-83) . . (Вилучив файл Arch._VARLAAM_-_копия.jpg, оскільки він був вилучений з Wikimedia Commons користувачем Ellin Beltz. Причина: Copyright violation, see [[:c:Commons:Licensi) (undo)" I hope that the Ukrainian language used in the quotation above does not complicate the matter.
I simly have no way of proving the origin of the photograph, considering its age and thus address the copyright matter, but I would like it to be reinstated in the article and added or uploaded to the English version of a the article.
My attempt to upload a similar photograph of my father, which obviously was taken by a professional photographer, and is of similar vintage, in respect of which I most certainly have no knowledge of any copyright, was simply that - an attempt, and I even had no idea of how to upload it to the relevant Wikipedia articles. So I can not have any objection to its removal.
I have other photographs that I could use, but, from my point of view they are not as good, or appropriate, as the two photographs subject of this discussion.
I would be most appreciative of your assistance in achieving my objective of uploading or reinserting, as the case may be, one of the two photographs in question.
Thank you very much for your interest and advice. Jaroslaw Solowij — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaroslaw Solowij (talk • contribs) 00:19, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
You took the photograph and can choose any license you want. I would suggest {{CC-zero}} or {{CC-by-4.0}}.
Someone from your family took the photograph and you unherited the copyrights. You can pick any license you want and I can help you add proper templates.
You know the photographer and can contact him/her. Than the photographer can pick any license they want and send the permission to OTRS. Read COM:OTRS for details.
File is in the public domain for one of many possible reasons, like known author died more than 70 years ago, or it was anonymously published more than 70 years ago, or meet conditions of {{PD-Ukraine}} or {{PD-Australia}}.
Let me know. If one of those photographs or other photographs you have, meet those conditions and I will try to document them. By the way, I was helping few years ado with some file upload and there is a Category:Collections of Józef Piłsudski Institute of America in Ukrainian which you might find interesting. From what I read about your father he might be an author or subject of one of those documents. Unfortunately, The files are mostly uncategorized, and undiscovered by Ukrainian community as the descriptions is mostly in Polish. Let me know how else I can help you. -- Jaroslaw Tuszynski aka Jarekt (talk) 02:51, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your response, as above. I accept your offer of assistance with uploading a photograph of my father to the existing Wikipedia material on "Соловій Віктор Силвестрович - архієпископ Варлаам (Соловій)" in Ukrainian and a similar heading "Solowij Victor Sylvestrovych - Archbishop Varlaam (Solowij)in English. Because I did take the photograph in question, I will gladly accept your advice and choose the license {{CC-zero}} and in support of this I attach the original photograph taken by me in our family home around 1960
This is the photograph (file) that was removed from the article by user 06:35, 19 July 2015 CommonsDelinker (talk | contribs) . . (5,236 bytes) (-83) . . (Вилучив файл Arch._VARLAAM_-_копия.jpg, оскільки він був вилучений з Wikimedia Commons користувачем Ellin Beltz. Причина: Copyright violation, see [[:c:Commons:Licensi) (undo)
This is the best that I can do in relation to uploading (reinstalling) this photograph to Wikipedia and I would very much appreciate your further help in this regard in adding the proper templates (whatever that means?) How do I actually upload the photograph to the articles in question?
And last, but not least - I certainly appreciate your information on the Category:Collections of Józef Piłsudski Institute of America in Ukrainian. I certainly found this information most interesting and will slowly read through the attached documents, even though they are in Polish - I can understand the spoken language, but reading is a little more difficult! As a matter of interest, one of the documents is a letter from Symon Petliura the Ukrainian Head of State to Adij Liwickij the Prime Minister of the Ukrainian Government in Exile (he was my Godfather). Thank you so much for this material. Hoping to hear from you soon Jaroslaw! -- User Jaroslaw Solowij — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaroslaw Solowij (talk • contribs) 09:28, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Jaroslaw, I think what you should do is to reupload the original "Arch.VARLAAM original.jpg" with you as an author, the date on 1960's, and {{CC-zero}}. I can check it, but if you have any trouble with people questioning the validity of the license you can also send official permission to OTRS. It might be a good idea to do it anyway so the there are no problems when someone start questioning it some years from now. Once we have one in the system than you or someone else can retouch it and reupload under a new name, or I can resurrect the deleted one.
Dear Jaroslaw (Jarekt) I have tried to answer this message from you and apparently failed, because I simply do not know the procedures of editing or talking on Wikipedia. What I wrote a couple of hours ago disappeared and I am attempting to talk again. I apologize for being a nuisance, but with my age of 8o years it is not that easy to learn new things and in particular Wikipedia procedures. I promise to stop pestering you once I have achieved my objective.
You must have realized by now that I don't know what I am doing. Your last, very speedy response, as abov, was not seen by me until yesterday.
Now I willtry to follow your advice to the letter and upload one of the original photographs of my father that we have in our family records and which was taken by me ore my brother. This I will do next week, after consultation with the family.
The photograph that I will upload will have an unsuitable background, which I will remove by touching up the photo after it has been successfully uploaded in the existing Ukrainian page of the Wikipedia. Is this approach satisfactory? How do I ensure that it gets posted in that page?
I also need help in sending anything to permission to OTRS. I simply don't know how to do it!
Thank you also for the material "Category:Collections of Józef Piłsudski Institute of America in Ukrainian. It is a very interesting materialand I will study it after I have finished with the task in hand, namely getting the photograph in question successfully uploaded into the existing Ukrainian article in the Wikipedia.
One final comment. I believe that the English version of the uploaded material on "SOLOWIJ Victor Sylvestrovych - Archbishop Varlaam" has been deleted from Wikipedia because it does not comply with many rules and regulations concerning posting material on Wikipedia. If tha is the case, I will revisit this project (English version) and try to edit it in accordance with the requirements and see what happens.
Thanking you again for your patience and wishing you all the best, Jaroslaw Solowij Jaroslaw Solowij (talk) 04:51, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
Jaroslaw, I do not mind helping, especially if the project can gain unique old images. We do not need more photographs of sunsets or erections, but it is rare to gain a historic image of historic individual to illustrate article without photographs. About OTRS: you will need to grab example text from COM:ET, modify the parts in gray and email it to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. The modified text will need to mention license you have chosen (I would suggest {{CC-zero}} or {{CC-by-4.0}} or which file it relates to (You can list file names or say something like Photographs of Solowij Victor Sylvestrovych uploaded by User:Jaroslaw Solowij. You will get quick reply with case number an at some point a volunteer will contact you either approving or with some additional questions. Usually if you are the copyright holder you can upload a file without OTRS, but with old historical images it is safer to send permission, since we do not have many contributors who could have been taking photographs during WWII. Once images are uploded I can help with adding them to articles. Let me know if you need any help. --Jarekt (talk) 05:18, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
Cuponomia Logo
Hi, Jakert.
Could you please check if the license of the image I uploaded is according to the rules now?
Thank you.
You are the second admin targeting the same two files (see my talkpage). I have forwarded the email exchange (in Dutch) to OTRS in which I request the photographer to upload some not yet published images to wiki commons. I wanted to illustrate the wikipedia article I created before but for which no files were available. He sent me a link to his copyright protected photo's, because he couldn't figure out how to upload himself, and says the images may be used provided his name is mentioned. I then responded explaining wiki needs images without copyright, because third parties that reuse the files cannot be regulated by wiki commons. The photographer now sends me other not yet published photos directly and writes I can use them. I'm convinced the photographer is fully aware that he agrees to not using his copyright for those two images. I'm sure if we force him to fill in forms and declarations, he will withdraw because of the fuss. There are currently no other images for this species and it grows in China and the Himalayas, where not many contribute to wiki commons. Could you please help me out? Dwergenpaartje (talk) 12:08, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Dwergenpaartje, if you look at the actual messages, I was informing you that you do not have any required license tags and User:Magog the Ogre alerted you that even if you add the license tagswe will still need the permission from Marijn van den Brink, the photographer. Marijn will have to pick a license, I would suggest {{CC-by-sa-4.0}}, and send us permission to use those files under the stated license. You can write the text of the permission, by modifying example text in COM:ET, and send it to Marijn with request to read, approve, modify if needed and send back to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. The files can be specified by name, or if you expect to upload more of his files than you could use "Flower photographs by Marijn van den Brink uploaded by User:Dwergenpaartje", etc. I understand the importance of those files but the current state does not meet the rules agreed on by the community and will be deleted if left as they are. Let me know of I can help in any way. --Jarekt (talk) 13:28, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [24]
Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [25][26]
Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [27]
Changes this week
The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [28]
Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [29][30]
The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [31]
The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [32][33][34]
The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [35][36]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [37]
[[Commons:Photo challenge]]''': Time to vote for [[Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - January - Diagonals/Voting|'''Diagonals''' (January)]] and [[Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - January - Wheels/Voting|'''Wheels''' (January)]]. Submit your entries for [[Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - February - Mailboxes|'''Mailboxes''' (February)]] and [[Commons:Photo challenge/2016 - February - Reflections|'''Reflections''' (February)]]
Photo copyright
Hi Jarekt, I am contacting you about the article Jerome Coopersmith which was published in Wikipedia main space 2 days ago, after which I discovered that I failed to provide the correct copyright information for the image I uploaded for use on that page. I am making every effort to correct that, but want to check with you that I have completed all the necessary steps.
Someone at the teahouse helped me by changing the status of the copyright to "pending" to prevent the image from being deleted. I also added the tag "cc-by-sa-4.0|Photo by Judy Coopersmith" (brackets removed) in the licensing section. Finally, I can confirm that the owner of the photgraph, Judy Coopersmith, has emailed permissions-commons her permissions form with the license details earlier today (ticket#Ticket#2016020510015656).
Template:Upload campaign header Wiki Loves Monuments finished
Hi Jarekt. You have changed last year all language templates in {{Upload campaign header Wiki Loves Monuments finished}} and changed the year 2015 to {{CURRENTYEAR}}. Now, when going to Campaign:wlm-sk it look odd - its saying wlm 2016 is finished - its wrong there was no wlm 2016 yet. Either should be the "finished" template changed or the {{WLM-is-running}}, or the campaing itself. Cann you help me please? Or give some advice where to discuss this issue. Thanks.--LacoR (talk) 12:11, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
Why does it matter? The template is not being used at the moment. I guess you use the "finish" template when the competition is finished, and until then it stays unused. --Jarekt (talk) 03:05, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
I disagree with you. At the moment the template is used. Try this. It is a link from the lists of cultural heritage monuments from Austria at de.wikipedia (example). Its saying "Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 is closed." But there was no WLM 2016. It was correct till December 31, 2015.--LacoR (talk) 21:14, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
It should be fixed now, although I have no idea how to force purge of this page.
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When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [39]
RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [40]
Changes this week
Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [41][42]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).
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Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [43][44]
Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [45][46][47]
I uploaded an image on Wiki Commons which has been deleted although the copyright permission request was submitted in early January: Ticket:2015123010016788 Confirmation of receipt (Re: Permissions Wikimedi)
What else needs to happen to get this image back up on Tacy M. Byham's page?
I got these photographs by asking directly to Mrs Magona, you may want me to send you copies of the emails between me, Mrs Magona and her assistant ?
Didn't you notice the {{OTRS pending}} on this page ? Mrs Magona or her assistant will soon send the declaration of consent.
I am really upset about some people "working" on Commons, you guys are really paranoid about licenses and copyright infringement. I consider this deletion request as an aggression and a denial of my good faith. You should wait one week before annoying people with deletion requests when there is a mention of OTRS pending...
PS : If you want to answer, do it on my talk page, I will not add this page on my watchlist, I have others things to do than losing my time on Commons.
Thank you for contacting me on my talk page on wp.fr. I apologise for being rude in my previous message, I didn't understood that the problem was the license section. I thought that the license would be added when the ORTS would be confirmed. I added {{Cc-by-sa-3.0}} on the four images. I have no "ticket number", I justa said to Mrs Magona's assistant to send a declaration of consent to Commons. Regards, Şÿℵדαχ₮ɘɼɾ๏ʁYou talkin' to me?16:55, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
UAV copyright content
Hello and thank you for showing up.
I uploaded the image with the wikimedia wizard.
I previously got authorization from Nature's portal for licenses - see below.
I realize that I am completely ignorant of the copyright specificities and would enjoy a hand on this.
BR Maxorazon (talk) 13:51, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
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Maxorazon, the license you provided unfortunately is very uninformative. To paraphrase it: We do not know what it it, but figure out if it does or "does not carry the copyright of another entity" and if not you can use it. The permission sounds like {{Attribution}} license. I am leaning more towards {{PD-ineligible}}. However bigger problem is that figure is so small to be totally unreadable and so unusable. We need a version big enough to read the axis and legend. One other solution would be to draw the figure ourselves if we can find the underlying data, either on the web or read of from the plot. I can help with that. --Jarekt (talk) 13:05, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Alright and thank you very much for your input, As I bought the article from Nature, and it charges $150 (!) to release higher-quality image, I will provide here the data of the chart this week-end. P.S. Definitely think UAVs need better coverage than they have at the moment. BR Maxorazon (talk) 15:38, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for the email - I added the license tag most appropriate to the file (although I don't know if it's on the right line or not), but didn't touch anything else. Let me know if I need to do anything else. Thanks again.
ich möchte dir mitteilen das das Logo Rodde natürlich ... der Initiative Pro Rodde gehört. Ich bin auch Mitglied dieser Initiative.
Das wurde auch geschrieben, das Pro Rodde der Rechte Inhaber ist.
I would like to inform the logo Rodde course ... is part of the Initiative Pro Rodde . I am also a member of this initiative . This was also written that owns Pro Rodde rights .
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You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [48]
A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [50][51]
Changes this week
There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [52][53]
Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [54]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).
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The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [55]
Concerne: site Wikipédia, Laurence Fehlmann Rielle.
Merci pour votre message. je m'aperçois que la photo (File:Lfrcn2015due.jpg) semble OK maintenant. En fait, il s'agit d'une photo de ma femme faite au Palais fédéral par le photographe officiel M. Stahl et ma femme a acheté le DVD des photos qui sont ainsi libres de droit pour les médias et autres demandes. Encore merci. J'essaierai de faire juste la prochaine fois. Jean-Charles Rielle (jcrielle@vtxnet.ch)
in the public domain for a photo taken before 1948
hi Jarekt regarding a photo i uploaded (mira be ari.jpg) . this photo was taken before 1948 (i dont know the exect date but i know the person in the photo died in 1948).so is this photo in public domain? thank you
User:Wik enbal I do not know if the photo is PD. It would be if the photographer died more than 70 years ago, otherwise it is up to you and other volunteers to figure out the copyright status and pick one of license template. Preferably before you upload. --Jarekt (talk) 20:13, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
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There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [58][59]
Changes this week
After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [60]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
I had uploaded a picture of a crest that my brother in law created for myself and my sorority, Theta Kappa Pi. I uploaded it to the Theta Kappa Pi wiki but it was deleted because I do not know what tag to put it under, since it was a family member that created it and gave it to me, I did not create it or find it on a website somewhere but he did give it to me to use how I would like. Please let me know what tag I need to put it under so that I can re-upload it for my sorority's wiki. Thank you. File:Theta Kappa Pi Crest.png - 38.69.30.11802:37, 23 February 2016 (UTC) BindiTKP
Hi Jarekt, yes, it is a photo of a photo with reflection, and it thus is not high quality. I do have the rights, as this is from an estate that I own and supervise, but go ahead and delete. I should have uploaded this differently anyway. Thanks for the attention. Hundnase (talk) 04:04, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
Hundnase, I am sorry for the results of my attention. Do you know who took the photograph? If it was family, you could have inherited the copyrights and I can guide you through the process. I am a big fan of old unpublished photographs of notable people, but we need to get the copyrights right. --Jarekt (talk) 12:51, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
Jarekt Yes, it's family, and I took the photograph (but it was a bad photograph, as you noted, so deletion would be okay). Is there anything specific we should do for copyright, for a future similar upload? Yes, it's family (we have birth certificate mentioning his name if it's useful).Thanks again for the very friendly response. Hundnase (talk) 16:12, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
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I haven't uploaded an image in a several years. So, I had to wing it. I provided enough information to evaluate the status of this image, which appears to be allowed. So, show me where I went wrong or how to fix the problem. Please.
"logatorial"
User:Logatorial every image is required to have a license template, and usually falls into one of the following categories:
image is in Public domain and you know why, then you can point to a specific copyright template for that case
you took the image and you can pick any license you want
someone else took the photograph and you follow steps outlined in COM:OTRS
We have permission from the photographer to use the image of the 12th Duke of Grafton, by Henry Bourne. However, he has contacted us to say that he does not wish anyone else to be able to reproduce or copy this picture.
I spent two hours on Friday trying to find the right licence code for this, and could not.
I would be grateful if you could advise which licence code to use in this instance.
Thank you very much.
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The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [61][62]
The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [63][64]
Changes this week
On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [65]
Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [66]
Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [67]
Meetings
Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [68]
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
File:Ten swimmers lining up to start a race at Green Lake while a crowd watches, Seattle, Washington, ca. 1929-1932.jpg
The image is "No known copyright restrictions". i apologise for not adding this correctly.
Keith
Keith I do not know what to do with "No known copyright restrictions", as we need a license template. For some institutions we do have "No known copyright restrictions" as asserted by ... , but this archive is not one of them. By the way, where did they stated that there is "No known copyright restrictions" on this image? --Jarekt (talk) 14:46, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
File:44th TB.jpg
PD-USGov license provided. Image was taken by US Army employee. Source is from 12th Armored Museum Historical Collection, who provided it without copyright restrictions for any and all use. Please delete No License tag. Thank you. Barry Eagel (talk) 04:48, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Leyo, You are right that is not what I intended, thanks for alerting me. I was trying to do this and than o some minor beautification. I will adjust. --Jarekt (talk) 00:46, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
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Recent changes
Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [69]
Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [70]
The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [71]
It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [72]
Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [73]
Problems
Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [74]
The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [75]
The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [76]
You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [77]
Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [78]
Changes this week
Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [79]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [80]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [81]
The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [82]
Hi Jarekt, please, could you rename the Category Julius Fürst into Julius Fürst (Maler) ? There exists three J. Fürst, the painter, an orientalist and a Rabbi. And in the moment you find in the Category pictures from the painter and minimum a porträt of the Orientalist. Greetings and Thanks MoSchle (talk) 18:16, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi Jarekt, i'd like to remove some author assumptions generalizing this example. I would go through all user categories and check if there are files having this {{Author assumed}} have this use as parameter. If so i remove the template together with {{Own assumed}}. Does that make sense? --Arnd (talk) 05:42, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
Arnd That does make sense, if you know somehow that the user is the author of the images. {{Author assumed}} and {{Own assumed}} were added to images that did not use {{Information}} and in most cases did not explicitly specify author or source. All we knew was that User:Example uploaded the file with {{Self}} or {{PD-self}} templates, so we assumed that he is the photographer when adding {{Information}} template. If the user is still active and says that all those images were taken by him/her or there are some other way of knowing (like photographer's name in the description) than by all means change the templates, but I do not think we should be removing those templates without additional information. --Jarekt (talk) 12:50, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
Ok, so i will create first a candidates list of files, then somehow proof the concept at some examples and finally start a bot run. --Arnd (talk) 14:34, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
Keep Clean And Run Image
Dear Jarekt
I contact you to reply to your observation on the File:Keep Clean And Run.jpg that I've just uploaded. I would like to point out that this image belongs to the category of trademark that, according to wikimedia guidelines, is OK if it is too simple to be covered by a copyright. This is the case. I'm certain that this logo is not covered by any copyright.
What I'm requested to do besides using the {{Trademark}}template? --Noemi.silvestri (talk) 16:57, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
All files require a license template and it is uploaders responsibility to figure out which one fits their circumstances. I your case I think it is {{PD-textlogo}}, which I added. --Jarekt (talk) 17:12, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
I saw in December that you edit Template:BANQ media to transclude Template:Photograph like it was couple years ago. The thing is I changed it intentionaly since it is used for all kind of media from BAnQ : drawing, manuscripts, audio, video, etc. I saw you're AWB user, so you probably have a technical reason to modify {{BANQ media}} and maybe I should multiply BAnQ templates to fit drawing, manuscripts, audio, video, etc. You tell me!
Anyway, I revert your December before noticing you're very experimented on Commons and you probably have a really good reason to do so. Thank you for educating me! Best regards, Benoit Rochon (talk) 15:40, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
Benoit, that template is a nightmare. I'm not a big fan of custom templates, but if you do so: Build it on top of an existing template. This template is a complete mess. Would {{Artwork}} cover it? Multichill (talk) 15:46, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
Edit conflict with Multichill : Just to let you know that I'm about to upload 1,000 photos from the Collection Félix Barrière (with BAnQ collaboration) and again, Template:Photograph is not flexible enough for projects WMCA: have with BAnQ... {{Artwork}} is not good for collector, post cards, manuscripts (...) cases. Should I create multiple templates for BAnQ projects ? Benoit Rochon (talk) 15:52, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
I first wanted to do our own template to include all cases and make it grow in the future to add more and more details needed for BAnQ projects, but maybe this is a bad idea.
Benoit Rochon, I did not realized Template:BANQ media was an extension of Template:Photograph in the past so I rewrote it from scratch while trying to keep all the functionality intact. In general it is a total nightmare to maintain large number of infoboxes, especially when we are trying to have uniform look, proper machine-readable markings, micro-formatting, compatibility with mw:Extension:Media Viewer/About, etc. Ideally we would only have templates that use standard Infobox templates or templates based on and transcluding them. Unfortunately, from time to time someone writes a new infobox template for his uploads or some single institution. The easiest way to make sure those new templates are following all the current requirements of infoboxes is to invest time into rewriting them as an extension of an existing infobox. I pinged you about the problem with {{BANQ media}} at Template talk:BANQ media but never got a response. I recently discovered that {{Biohist}} and {{Fundación Joaquín Díaz-Description}} are will also require a rewrite. --Jarekt (talk) 03:02, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
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The mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [83]
Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [85]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [86]
Meetings
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Thanks for uploading File:Jonchères.jpg. I notice that the file page either doesn't contain enough information about the license or it contains contradictory information about the license, so the copyright status is unclear.
If you did not create the file yourself or if it is a derivative of another work that is possibly subject to copyright protection, then you must specify where you found it (e.g. usually a link to the web page where you got it), you must provide proof that it has a license that is acceptable for Commons (e.g. usually a link to the terms of use for content from that page), and you must add an appropriate license tag. If you did not create the file yourself and the specific source and license information is not available on the web, you must obtain permission through the VRT system and follow the procedure described there.
Note that any unsourced or improperly licensed files will be deleted one week after they have been marked as lacking proper information, as described in criteria for deletion. If you have uploaded other files, please confirm that you have provided the proper information for those files, too. If you have any questions about licenses please ask at Commons:Village pump/Copyright or see our help pages. Thank you.
Answer in english : public domain license (author died more than 70 years): the photograph is a reproduction of a postcard 1900s (Réponse en français : licence domaine public (auteur mort depuis plus de 70 ans !) : la photo est une reproduction d'une carte postale des années 1900) Yours sincerely, --Polmars (talk) 22:49, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Tekst tłustą czcionką== File:Perły z lamusa.jpg ==
Czy rozwiązałem problem?
Painting images without artwork template
Hi Jarek, how are you doing? I'm linking up items about paintings on Wikidata with images here on Commons. This seems to go quite well. At User:Multichill/Painting images no artwork template I created a list of images of paintings that don't use the {{Artwork}} template. Do you have some clever bot to convert these?
Multichill, I do not have a bot for adding Artwork or Creator templates. I use Template:Artwork/subst as substitution template to convert from {{Information}} to {{Artwork}}, but afterwards I usually need to do some hand clean-up. As for Creator template, I thought I wrote bot like that some years ago, or maybe just discussed it with someone, I will look tomorrow on a different computer. The idea is to go through Category:Creator template home categories and in each category search for files that do not use creator template. For those files look at each individual "author" or "artist" and see if the name does not match the name of the artist. Some variations would be: "name", "name (\d\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d)", "[[w:name|name]]", "[[:\w\w:name|name]]", "{{w|name}}", etc. Any of those combinations would be replaced with {{Creator:name}}. I did run like this back in the days when we still have ~ 3k creator templates, by running SQL query to find all the files and associated creator page, dumping each file author/artist field into a giant spreadsheet and using excel operations to find matches, and then somehow create list of files which are ready to update with AWB. It sounds like a very convoluted approach now, but It added many thousands creator templates to files. --Jarekt (talk) 02:34, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
That's subst template is really nice! That's a good way to tackle this. Let's see what I run into when I use it.
The creator approach sounds very much like how I now match stuff between here and Wikidata, I just do it fully automated now and offer suggestions as tables here. Would it be possible to apply the same logic to {{Institution}}? Hope you can dig up some code :-) Multichill (talk) 20:51, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
I will be happy to assist you with uploading a new version of the file, but I do no know much about how to create one. User:Twofortnights made the last update to the file and upload it somewhere where I could find it, so I could replace it. --Jarekt (talk) 04:05, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Witam. Mam pytanie bo jestem "zielony" w temacie. Czy w tym konkretnym [89] przypadku możliwe jest ściągnięcie pliku na commons. Nie znam się na tych licencjach itd. Myślałem że skoro klub sam zachęca do pobrania swojego logo to można wykorzystać je w celach niekomercyjnych. Z góry dziękuję. --JeffTomVoll (talk) 20:16, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
JeffTomVoll, O ile ty nie jesteś autorem grafiki, to możesz ją ściągnąć na commons jedynie jeśli znajdziesz ja na stronie która, podje licencje i jeśli licencja jest zgodna z zasadami Commons. --Jarekt (talk) 01:44, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
The copyright owner of this image has sent an email to Wikipedia Commons OTRS using the template, It was sent today, 20 March 2016.
As I'm new to editing in Wikipedia I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to change the tag to OTRS Pending 20 March 2016. You mentioned in your message to me that I could just contact you, so could you please either update the license information for me?
Hi Jarekt, incidentially a user at Forum noticed that the uploads of Abrimaal (talk·contribs) carry a CC-BY-SA license-template AND a CC-BY-NC icon. When I asked Abrimaal about that, he openly stated that he simply didn't find the CC-BY-SA-NC licence-template and that he intends to give permission only for non-commercial use! When I checked his uploads for more of these image, I found a huge number (see User_talk:Abrimaal#CC-BY-NC_icon_at_CC-BY-SA_licensed_images) of such tagged images and also noticed that most of them had been supported by a :pl WikiGrant[90]. Now, I wonder whether this grant doesn't include a free license in its terms. Could you take this case over? --Túrelio (talk) 12:02, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
Accepting the rules of Wikigrants I agreed for free licence, including commercial use by Wikipedia and related projects of Wikimedia. -SA means that the images must be reused with the same licence and, in case of commercial use, the same value as the author was granted. About 200 uploaded images were refunded about €40 what makes €0.2 per one image.
The -SA licence restricts the publisher to sell a publication issued in one copy, containing one image for €0.2.
When the edition is 100 copies, the price must be divided by 100 = €0.02 per 1 copy.
When a publication contains 100 images and the edition is 100 copies, there is still €0.2 for one copy.
Third parties do not know what was the refund for the whole work, and how many images were uploaded. The -SA says that they must be reused with the same licence, that is "copy, modify, distribute for free" by default. When any image is uploaded to Commons, this message is displayed "Thanks for uploading! You can now use these files on wikis, or link to them on the web". There is no message "you can print thousands of copies and sell them". It is unacceptable that one sows, the other one reaps. Will any library or museum allow to take away the collections and sell them?
The additional -NC licence applies only to the attempts of commercial use by third parties without a contract with the author. However all of the images may be published by third parties as free media including printed publications.
Local governments and publishing companies reuse free media in commercial publications, but that's not all. These publications are not issued by authorities who hold the budget, but by acting alongside 'charitable' foundations. Citizens must pay for service in offices, in return the offices get high quality promotional materials for free. If the governments intend to arbitrarily restrict the freedom of photographic documentation of the major objects, let them not count on easy money on free media that serve education and information. For publication in the commercial media the third party should contact the author of the work and offer payment. Only such a sequence of events allows the author to survive and develop as a producer, what includes the cost of of equipment care, software purchases, improvement of the workshop and the time spent on preparing the material for publication. That is why I do care that knowledge, information and half-means necessary for its acquisition (e.g. internet access) were widely available and free of charge for everyone.
When photography (or other media development) is the only work that can be done by a disabled person at the edge of social exclusion with occasional earnings of 20 euros per month, what licence should I use to protect myself and other media producers from starving, acts of crime, madness and suicides?
CC-BY-SA gives everybody freedom to make money on someone else's work and nothing to the proper owner
CC-BY-NC as the only licence is not allowed on Wikimedia Commons
Marek, Commons began to operate in 2004 and in the first year there was a lively discussion about NC content, fair use, etc. but then consensus was reached and in last 12 years we are community that accept COMMONS:License policy. I for example contributed ~2600 photographs under CC-BY licenses. Those that do not like those standards go somewhere else. For most people here photography is a hobby not a job, and nobody here will become rich by contributing their work. Sorry there was a misunderstanding about the meaning of the CC-BY-SA license you agree to or the policies of Commons, but if you are opposed to NC licensing you should not contribute here. I am sorry bout your circumstances but this discussion was settled 12 years ago. --Jarekt (talk) 02:05, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
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Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
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It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [92]
You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [93]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).
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Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [97]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
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Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [99]
Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.
Corrections
Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.
Hi Jarekt, I am a student at the University of Ostrava and I was asked by the university officials to update the university wiki page - thus to upload a new official logo of the university. I have no idea which license should I use. The logo itself can be used freely, but just as any other official logo of any insitution (using Corporate Design) there are certain visual rules that anyone have to follow (the logo simply cant be modified in ways that does not follow the Corporate Design Manual). The only way for a state university to have up-to-date logo on a page about the university have to publish it on the Wikimedia Commons under completely "free use", including that anyone can do what he wants with the logo? Or what is the solution there? Please tell me some simple way how to resolve it, because I havent found any "best practice" example so far (I have seen other universities logos waiting to be deleted...). Do I have to tell the university officials to send the OTRS permission? But then - what will be the possible/desirable licence? Thank you a lot for your reply, kind regards, MayTheGiantBeWithYou (talk)
Jerekt - i will try to correct my error with your code suggestion. There is no concern about the copyright, but it looks like i made a rookie mistake the way i wrote it up. Full permissions for the use of photo are in hand, relinquished in writing from the original publisher/owner. thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blakfeathr (talk • contribs) 16:21, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
16:21, 31 March 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blakfeathr (talk • contribs) 16:21, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
The licence under which this file is used (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License) is given in the Permission link (
http://midnightthewitch.deviantart.com/art/Hymers-College-Main-Hall-372004534) on the filepage, at the bottom of the sidebar. Not sure why there's a problem with this as it is correctly attributed to the user, Wikimedia is non-commercial, and the article doesn't constitute a derivative work as far as I am aware. Gk007 (talk) 18:17, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
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Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [101]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).
Hello.
The icon is taken from the press kit of Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd. These images are intended to be used for display purposes. In order to confirm this, I contacted the company, and asked them if I may use this image for wikipedia. They said that no permission is required to use these images. I will gladly forward you the email if you wish. I have also sent it to OTRS.
Thanks.
--TeslaK20 (talk)
TeslaK20, good move about sending it to OTRS, but we still need to figure out what license template is the best match. Please look through COM:CT. usually we require permissions send to OTRS to specifically mention which copyright license they mean. "no permission is required" might mean {{Copyrighted free use}} but it is for copyright holder to decide. {{CC-zero}} might be another option. --Jarekt (talk) 17:42, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
Translation question
I would like to translate this message to croatian, but I'm a little bit confused: there's no translation to any language (or I can't find it). How can I translate this message?--Ma▀▄Ga07:19, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello need your help
This are photos of old family seals from 1600's
They are in Brno and these are my photos
They are in book Tajemstvi Jankovskych z Vlasimi a na Bitove. Autorization of use given by Sixtus Bolom publisher of book. See link below. You will see myself Tom Jankovsky listed along with Author Bolom
http://knihy.abz.cz/prodej/tajemstvi-jankovskych-z-vlasimi-a-na-bitove-z-vlasimi-a-na-bitove
How do I update, so to correct ?
Need your help !
wikimedia is so confusing to understand or use
Vlasime
Fixed. However if those are your photographs than it would be better if you upload the originals not scans from the book. --Jarekt (talk) 14:47, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello again and thank you for your help.
The family made trips to Bohemia and Moravia in 2005 and 2007 and meet Historian and Author Sixtus Bolom. He provided us with photos of old historical documents from the Jankovsky archives in Brno and we gave him old family photos from 1800's for use in his Book.
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The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [102][103]
Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [104][105]
ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [106]
The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [107]
Problems
There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [108]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [109]
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Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [110]
I'm currently importing a lot of National Parks Service images from National Park Flickr accounts to Commons. Currently they are all marked as PD licenses even though they should be marked as PD-USGov-NPS (a quirk with Flickr2Commons). I'm still trying to learn how to use VisualFileChange to change the license template on masse. As soon as I have done this I will fix the license on this file and all the others. You can see my work plan here User:John_Cummings/BR_Flickr_accounts, I think it should be around 5000 images once its done. If you know how to use VisualFileChange please could you correct the licenses for the files is Category:Files_from_RockyNPS_Flickr_stream?
Thanks Jarekt, I'll let you know when I've imported some more. Do you know how to add images already on Commons to the Flickr import categories I've created? I made a lists on the page I created but don't know how to add them to the categories without doing it one by one. --John Cummings (talk) 13:06, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Jarekt. I have sent an e-mail (12 April 2016) to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org under the name [Ticket#2015031710017141] about these photos[111][112][113]. Jafarov gave a permission to upload all his photos into Commons sending an e-mail. Could you please put this ticket number under these photos. --Interfase (talk) 05:46, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Jarekt. I saw that you tagged these images {{OTRS}}, but I only noticed it after I had asked the uploader for clarification. My concern is that the bylines for these images at http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/34_folder/34_articles/34_metro.html say "Photo: Ilgar Jafarov, Azertaj" (Azertaj is the Azerbaijan State News Agency), and we don't know the nature of Mr. Jafarov's agreement with Azertaj: was he a freelancer, an employee or working on a work-for-hire basis? At any rate, do you think I should leave the {{OTRS}} tags in place, or switch them to {{OTRS received}} pending clarification from the uploader? --Rrburke (talk) 13:34, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Rrburke you are right please proceed as you feel fit. I usually try not to interfere with other OTRS volunteer handling of their case, but was helping with those files since they were missing license templates. Also under second look it is unclear to me why the permission for those 3 files is from the uploader and not from the photographer. I guess any questions about those files should be asked to both of them. --Jarekt (talk) 13:52, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Jarekt. The photographer has offered a blanket permission at [114] to use all of his work. It's just that in this case there is another name on the byline, so I though it prudent to inquire further. As I look at the permission more closely, though, I have a concern: this blanket permission was sent from an address at a generic email provider, like a Russian Gmail or something similar. Should I ask that the copyright holder resend his permission from an @azertag.az @azertag.com address, of should I just leave it alone because another OTRS agent has found the permission satisfactory and approved it? Like you, I don't like to interfere with another agent's handling of a case. --Rrburke (talk) 15:34, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Rrburke, I think the first permission is OK even if it comes from generic email provider. A work email would be better but that is not always possible and it is uncommon to get permissions from gmail accounts. I do not think it is a fraud. I reread the original permission and you are right it was a "blanket permission"; on my first read I though it covered only 2 websites. In other discussions related to photographer giving conflicting permissions to multiple parties the consensus was: we do not care as it is photographer headache not ours. So my take would be that "the nature of Mr. Jafarov's agreement with Azertaj" is Mr. Jafarov's and Azertaj problem not ours. --Jarekt (talk) 15:57, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
Pytanie
Cześć, mam pytanie: czy Twoim zdaniem stworzenie takiej kategorii ma sens? Człowiek bierze udział w demonstracji, jest identyfikowany przez kogoś na Commons, i trafia do specjalnej kategorii. Mam wrażenie, że jest to trochę stygmatyzowanie. Czy takie kategorie są praktykowane w projekcie? Boston9 (talk) 04:48, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
Niestety, do mojego ER zakradł się błąd w wyniku czego w/w szablon nie jest poprawnie wyświetlany w języku polskim. Było (mojego ERa już poprawiłem) „wstaw proszę <tt>{{editprotected}}</tt> przed Twoją prośbą”, a powinno być „wstaw proszę <tt><nowiki>{{editprotected}}</nowiki></tt> przed Twoją prośbą”. TIA, --jdxRe:05:36, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
I saw the numerical limit only after adding the candidates and I'm not sure how to interpret the other requirement to fit the competition's goals. I think community members experienced in this process are better suited to judge: please help fix or revert my addition as appropriate for the best outcome of the competition. Thanks for your patience, Federico Leva (BEIC) (talk) 19:29, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
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You can filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [115][116]
MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [118]
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There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.
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I am not sure why my image of Joanne stubbe keeps getting flagged for deletion. Am I not tagging the creative commons license correctly? On the website I found the image on, it says: Images for download on the MIT News office website are made available to non-commercial entities, press and the general public under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license. You may not alter the images provided, other than to crop them to size. A credit line must be used when reproducing images; if one is not provided below, credit the images to "MIT."
Gorrkari, it is quite simple: each file is has to be matched with one of more license templates, which represent limited set of every license which is allowed on Commons, and in your case "no required license templates were detected at this file page." A closer look at File:JoAnne Stubbe.jpg shows that you are looking for Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license License, we do not have a template for it because no "Non-Commercial No-Derivatives" licenses are allowed on Commons. I think you will need to find a different image that can be distributed under licenses compatible with Commons requirements. See COM:LIC. --Jarekt (talk) 16:20, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
File:Toytown-pic.jpg - copyright status is unclear.
Hi Jarekt,
Thanks for the message.
I tagged the file [[[File:Toytown-pic.jpg]]] as OTRS Pending, as I'm currently awaiting clearance / copyright and licence conformation from Carters Steam Fair. I am in email correspondence with them, but await them completing a licencing email template / on-line agreement. I have today emailed permissions-commons@wikimedia.org with the email thread from Carters, which I'm hoping will be enough to update the copyright on all the files I have uploaded to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Carters_Steam_Fair so far that lack the information.
EDIT 14:41 GMT 22/04/2016; OTRS ticket#: 2016042210012506 has been assigned to my email.
Hi! Thanks for your contribution to my picture, but I reverted your edition because these children were not playing outside, but inside. Actually they were in a museum playing in a huge hall during a Lego exhibition. Nevertheless, thanks again! --Enfo (talk) 16:30, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
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Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [121]
When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [122]
Changes this week
Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [123]
It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [124]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (calendar).
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Future changes
The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [125]
Lee Price, every file on Commons is required to specify a Public Domain tag or copyright license, see com:lic and com:ct. I assume that the image is from US and that it is in Public Domain. For such images we have a handy Commons:Hirtle chart to figure out which Public Domain tag to use. I do not know enough about the source where this image was published to establish the license but I suspect {{PD-1923}}. We usually ask uploaders to only upload files for which they have evidence that they are in Public Domain. Let me know if you need more help. --Jarekt (talk) 18:40, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
I don't know how to add the tag you are requesting. However, the image is Public Domin. See the copyright page at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/copyright.html.
Hi Jarek, I saw you are the last one editing {{Location}}; sure you know to whom this request should be directed?
Since some time there are difficulties with special written decimal locations; I didn't yet look for all the possibilities, but it may depend on the "+" sign
Olá, Jarek, tudo bem? Eu não tenho muito conhecimento em fazer edições no commons, porque entro muito pouco aqui. As fotos são de um usuário do Flickr, mas você poderia ser mais claro? Alessandro Sil (talk) 15:08, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello, please don't delete these files, I'm no copyright expert, so I've decided to contact the Shakes & Fidget – The Game support. Main community manager „Holle“ told me that I can freely upload images from the game on commons. I know email approval isn't enought (I've done it couple of times) so I've asked him for further affirming documents. He replied:
„Hello Luboš Kadeřábek,
Use this imprint:
Playa Games GmbH
Alstertor 9
20095 Hamburg, Germany
Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 109725
Umsatzsteueridentifikationsnummer: DE815081395
Kind regards,
Holle
Playa Games GmbH
Alstertor 9
D-20095 Hamburg
Amtsgericht Hamburg * HRB109725 * VAT ID DE815081395“
As I said, I'm no copyright expert. I didn't know how to formulate it and how to categorize it. So I just copied and pasted the imprint in the „other case“.
I hope the imprint is enought to upload the pictures. If not, please explain me what should I do. I've also uploaded couple of more pictures from this game under the same "license". I don't want these files to be deleted, because I've already used it on an article i'm managing. You can see it here: „https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakes_%26_Fidget_%E2%80%93_The_Game“. Thank you. Carvin (talk) 15:29, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Carvin, All images uploaded without a com:CT a license template are deleted within 7 days, since all files on Commons are required to have a license that meets COM:LIC requirements. If the uploader is not the author ot the copyright holder than we ask uploaders to read COM:OTRS, help the copyright holders pick the proper license and ask the copyright holder to sent permission to OTRS. --Jarekt (talk) 15:43, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Jarek, from Revent locked out from {{Image generation}} I need admin's help for corrections. Revent seems now inactive all the last month, so I am asking you for an update. In {{Image generation/sandbox}} the corrections are made and tested; it needs just a copy (complete, without alternations). When you have done it I will check it again. sarang♥사랑08:43, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for contact me about the copyright status of: Uc color 01.png. I am new at Wikipedia, so I'm not sure about how the things works.
About the image that I have uploaded, I don´t know how to put the copyright tag neither what copyright status should I use, even whean I actually work in this University, at the Communications Department, so I am very sure that I have permission to use it and the origin of the brand. I asked to the Marketing Department about the Copyright status and they gave me this information, which I included in the description of the image:
"Marca mixta registrada bajo las clases 16, 35, 38 y 41 en INAPI Chile bajo los números 822.761 y 844.323."
Which literally mean something like this: "Registered brand under the 16, 35, 38 and 41 classes in INAPI Chile (is our national institution who regulated the copyright issues) under the 822.761 y 844.323 numbers (this are the ID's assigned)."
I don't know how to translate those terms to a Wikipedia copyright tag option. I am pretty sure that doesn't belongs to the any Creative Common tag. I was going to use the Public Domain tag but then I read that this tag is used when "those whose exclusive intellectual property rights have expired, have been forfeited or are inapplicable", so I discard this option.
If you could gave me any advice and help me to put the right copyright tag I would be very thankful, because this is the right brand, the previous was an older version of the brand and must be replaced.
Alejandro Figueroa Escobar, "Registered brand" I think is related to trademark laws, which we usually handle by adding {{Trademarked}} template to the files. The Copyright information requirement, makes a lot of sense when applied to photographs and scans or artworks or books, but makes less sense when applied to logos, but we still require it. I assume that the University is the copyright owner of this image, so you should read COM:OTRS and request an email from Marketing Department or some other official in the university stating that they are the copyright owners and that they allow the use under some standard conditions (which we call license template). Copyright owners are allowed to pick the license and I would suggest looking into {{CC-zero}}, {{Cc-by-4.0}} or {{Cc-by-sa-4.0}}. Let me know if you have mode questions. --Jarekt (talk) 15:56, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Jarekt, I think that adding {{Trademarked}} would be very useful, thanks for that. I still have a doubt about the "license template"; I checked the "Wikimedia OTRS release generator" (it's a great tool, by the way) and I still not sure about the free license that I should use, because we need something like the "Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)" (people is allowed to use it, but is not allowed to modify the brand) but I am not sure if you allow it as a valid free license. Thanks for all your help. Bye!
Alejandro, Yes we do not accept CC-BY-ND licenses. I agree that others should not be allowed to modify the brand and present it as the university logo, but I think that is handled by the trademark laws. Same with a case of other "university" opening next door with very similar name and logo. CC-BY-SA and CC-BY would require reuses to always mention the name of the copyright holder and would not be convenient for misuse. By derivative works we mostly mean a photograph of a t-shirt, university building or a welcome sign with your university logo. Such photographs would be violating the terms of CC-BY-ND license. The same with a collage of all the logos of universities in Chile that someone might want to create. By the way File:Uc color 01.png was deleted but I can restore it once we agree on a license. In the worst case scenario I can imagine someone modifying your logo and reuploading the image, but such an image would likely fall outside of Commons scope, since it would not be useful to illustrate any articles. --Jarekt (talk) 15:22, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Jarekt, Can you restore it to edit the trademark information? I think I am going to put the {{Trademarked}} with a Creative commons tag; also, I am going to show it to the guys form Marketing Department, to know if they are ok with that, and ask them to complete the "Wikimedia OTRS release generator", just in case. Are you agree?
Thanks so much Jarekt! It's not a problem about the .svg format file, actually I am agree with you that .svg could be more convenient. The problem is that the .svg file shown an older version of the brand, that is not allowed (the use of color is not the right one). I could create an .svg file based on my .png file eventually, but for now I need to replace the older version of the brand with the new one, the .png file. I can see that I haven't resolved this issue yet, because the info in the image page says that I have 7 days to define the license (either using "Creative commons" or the "Public domain" tag), so I'll try to complete it.
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You deleted two photos I used with permission from Ken Stone at Masterstrack.com 1) I have e-mailed written permission to use them and the entire catalog of Masterstrack for wikipedia purposes. He knows I will use them appropriately to support wikipedia articles about the subjects he covers on his website. All he requests is attribution, which I did. 2) These specific photos were also publicly released for distribution on his website. I provided the link to that statement. You obviously did not read the statement because you still deleted the photos.
We need to get this issue settled now. I intend to use many of his photos. I cannot keep chasing the overzealous administrators on commons each time they notice something I have posted. I wrote to the e-mail address to discuss this and exchange e-mails of permission. Nobody has replied, not in 24 hours, not in a week, not in months.
I have now added a large notice to my talk page on commons. I do not monitor the commons talk page. I am very active on English wikipedia. Please contact me there. Trackinfo (talk) 18:15, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Trackinfo, Did you try setting your preferences in such a way that you get an email each time someone tries to communicate with you on a Wiki you do not frequent. That is how I keep track of my talk pages. As for your images, as I already mentioned you did not add license templates to your files and all files are required to have a license template here as well as on Wikipedia. My semi-automatic message on your talk page was alerting you to this issue. I see you send email to OTRS (ticket:2016022910007263) but as the volunteer that answered you (on April 20) explained, we need permission from the copyright holder (hopefully something following examples in COM:ET) and if you them than you should forward them otherwise you should ask the copyright holder to send them to OTRS. Please read COM:OTRS for more information. --Jarekt (talk) 19:53, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
You have now received the appropriate release for those photos, so you can reinstate them. Having done so, I also have Mr. Stone's blessing to use other photos from his site. How does he sign a blanket release for such a purpose? I have the same arrangement with another non-profit organization. How does a board member sign off on blanket rights? I asked those questions in the e-mail. The response I found, sent almost 2 months later only repeated the same information from the website. No new information was provided. These are specific questions I asked. Trackinfo (talk) 19:02, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Ankry, W 2011 roku ta strona była listą krajów gdzie znaczki są w domenie publicznej. Teraz ta strona opisuje sytuacje prawną znaczków w każdym kraju, wiec dodam Polskę (albo ty dodaj jak masz chwile). Dyskusja na temat Znaczkow Polskich byla w Commons_talk:Stamps/Public_domain#Polish_stamps_are_copyrighted, po tej dyskusji A.J.zkasował Polskę z listy, Potem przez parę lat różne osoby próbowały po cichu dodać Polskę do listy bez przytaczania żadnego dowodu ze sytuacja prawna się zmieniła. Czasami kasowałem te edycje z dłuższym wyjaśnieniem czasami bez, to co przytaczasz było także kasowaniem poprzedniej edycji. Czy coś się zmieniło z sytuacja prawna znaczków w Polsce? --Jarekt (talk) 20:16, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
No właśnie nic się chyba nie zmieniło: wszystkie opinie prawne jakie znam mówią, że znaczki emitowane przez Polską Pocztę Telegraf i Telefon do końca 1991 miały status znaków urzędowych i jako takie nie podlegają ochronie. Sprawa może być niejasna odnośnie nowszych czy wydanych przez inne instytucje (np. znaczki Armii Krajowej). A do znaków urzędowych stosuje się {{PD-Polishsymbol}} (nie wiem, czemu we wskazanej przez ciebie dyskusji mowa o {{PD-Polish}}) Ankry (talk) 20:59, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Ankry, {{PD-Polish}} było jedynie wymieniane by wskazać ze to jest licencja dla fotografii a nie znaczków. Przed 2009 rokiem mieliśmy setki znaczków polskich używających {{PD-Polishsymbol}}. W 2009 A.J. zaczął dyskusje na Wikipl-l gdzie bez żadnej dyskusji na tematy praw autorskich wszyscy się zgodzili ze znaczki trzeba usunąć i user:Odder zkasowal jakieś 900 plików bez żadnej dyskusji ani DR na Commons. Ja zmarnowałem dużo czasu na kategoryzowanie i opisywanie tych plików, inni zmarnowali dużo więcej czasu. Chciałbym tego uniknąć w przyszłości, wiec o ile nie znajdziemy jakiś opinii prawnych ze znaczki czy banknoty podlegają art. 4 ustawy o prawie autorskim to nie powinniśmy mówić ze podlegają. Czy możesz dać jakieś linki do opinii prawnych? Poprzednio cytowaliśmy http://prawo.vagla.pl/node/7392 i http://prawo.vagla.pl/node/8236 ale te dwie opinie głównie wskazują ze prawnicy w Polsce nie mogą się zgodzić na ten temat. --Jarekt (talk) 03:01, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
W powyższych opiniach Vagli nie widzę żadnego odniesienia do znaczków pocztowych. Wujek google zasadniczo twierdzi, że opinie są zgodne iż znaczki pocztowe podlegają wyłączeniu, i to zwykle nie jako materiały urzędowe, a jako znaki urzędowe (patrz Prawo pocztowe, art. 23 p. 6). Zasadniczo dominuje pogląd, ze status znaków pocztowych na pewno mają te emitowane do 1991, kiedy poczta miała status urzędu, a nie przedsiębiorstwa a opłata pocztowa była ustalana urzędowo. Jednak Prawo Pocztowe powyżej odnosi się zasadniczo do znaczków nowszych. Co więcej wiele z tych nowszych (wzory) jest ewidentnie zamieszczonych w urzędowym wykazie UKE którego status jako "dokumentu urzędowego" raczej nie podlega dyskusji. Z tego co widzę, potencjalny problem może być z prawem amerykańskim, ale to wyłącznie w odniesieniu do znaczków opublikowanych 1.3.1989 lub później. Jedyny pogląd przeciwny znalazłem tutaj, ale gołosłowny, bez żadnego odnośnika.
Myślę, że trzeba będzie przycisnąć Ejdzeja i Oddera, może mają jakąś dodatkową wiedzę w tej materii. Ale to bez pośpiechu. Ankry (talk) 08:52, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
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It is Extraction from the Protocol of Third Soviet-American Session regarding maritime shipping dated first part of 1974, the crew members names in English crew lists and ship's names had to be ajusted on English before 1st of June 1974 as per agreement. The copy of this extraction was given on each Soviet ship to ajust properly ship's name and crew full names in Crew List on English. It is not full text of Protocol.
It is confirm that some Soviet ships had other English name before 1974 what I want to say in the article SS Nezhin. It can assist to search information for other articles about the Soviet ships. As example can be SS Leninsky Komsomol due to this ship possible to search by three names.
Also before 1974 Russian family names and names was written not like today due to was not this Protocol yet.
For example:
Russian name Evgeny and after 1974 Yevgeniy.
Name Alexandr and after 1974 Aleksandr.
Ship's name Leninsky Komsomol and after 1974 sometimes Leninskiy Komsomol. And new ship with the same name was built in 1980s has exactly name Leninskiy Komsomol.
The ship Toyvo Antikaynen received name in honor of fin kommunist Toivo Antikainen and now You understand why the ship/s name and person's name have differences.
On my opinion it will assist in information search for articles.
If you will found out this extraction on English can better.
Which lisance can be for the photo of the search via Internet???
I am Ukranian and one Russian put labels to delete on all my private files in articles SS Nezhin and SS Karaganda maden by my father and now in my collection. I can make photo of all this allready first time published photos. Some other photos also my relatives, my family photos in mentioned articles.
I want to pay attention that if You delete photos (I do not say about Protocol of Third Soviet-American Session) from my privat collection it is means that somebody can copy and use it in future. Articles SS Nezhin and SS Karaganda including photos already copied to plenty sources from Wikipedia.
Copyright status: Metropolitan diversion, Yonge Street south at Farnham Avenue.jpg
I have made a further attempt to describe the public domain status of photo File:Metropolitan diversion, Yonge Street south at Farnham Avenue.jpg. Besides 2 wiki tags, I added instructions so that anyone could verify the "copyright conditions" for the photo found in the City of Toronto Archives. I repeat these instructions here: To verify the "copyright conditions" for this photo, click on the link for the City of Toronto Archives and search on: Metropolitan diversion, Yonge Street south at Farnham Avenue. The "copyright conditions" for this photo are: Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the photograph so that others may know where it came from and its identifying number. Example: City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1231, Item 396. TheTrolleyPole (talk) 20:49, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
File:HMSLighting.jpg
it is a photo,taken by a Royal Navy photographer in 1942 and first published in the forties in UK to commemmorat shipslost in the war. --Erb34 (talk) 23:40, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
Your Wikimedia message 11 May 2016 @ File:HowardRichardsjpg.png. (Pronacampo9)
Thank you for your message filed under 'Magog the Ogre'. The article Howard Richards (academic) [141] was approved for publication(with picture) by Rathfelder on 20 September 2015. The source of <HowardRichardsjpg.png.> is: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHyZ2khzes> Ética y Vocación Empresarial - Howard Richards Universitas Nueva Civilización
Published on 18 Nov 2013 and is stamped: Licence: "Standard YouTube Licence". Please advise. Thanks (Pronacampo9 (talk) 08:07, 11 May 2016 (UTC))
Good afternoon
Dear Sir,
Before installation of this file I sent question: Is it possible to make photo of the cover page of any book and their pages (no text of book) which show the year of edition?
Still the same question. If it possible, ajust please the license accordingly. If my description is not correct, let me know pls and I will reduce description.
If You see my text is too big and is too much voluntary, You can (may) shot my text to appropriate text. Any way, is it possible to install in Wikipedia like this photo whith cover page and page of the edition year? Here is no any text and can be not prohibited.
Many thanks for Your advise. They still not reply.
Can you clearify the situation: in case down mentioned files will be deleted as historic file, where will this files will stored and in wich country. For me is better to store in in USA and in GB also. It is can not
File:Three sisters of Zhukovsky family at monument in honor of the earl MS Vorontsov in Odessa 1954.jpg
File:On board of Soviet ship Karaganda in Venezia port.jpg
File:Venezia and crewmember of ship Karaganda in 1963.jpg
File:A haircut and having on board Soviet ship Karaganda in 1961 or 1962.jpg
File:The crew members of Soviet ship Karaganda play dominoes in 1962 abt.jpg
File:Soviet steamer Karaganda Between March 1961 and 1963.jpg
File:Zhukovskiy family in Odessa in 1954 about.jpg
File:Crew members of ship Nezhin on the Plazza San Marco in Venice.jpg
File:Two crew members and Syrians on board of Soviet ship Nezhin.jpg
File:SS Nezhin in period from 1958 to January 1961.jpg
File:Soviet SS Nezhin between May 1956 and June 1958.jpg
And one more. If the Russia Wikipedia said that it is their history - it is wrong. It is history of USA, GB also and I can prove this. It the RUssian say that they are successors of the Soviet Union it is can be discussed. For example: if all men in the Soviet Union passed any military education they were swore to keep allegiance to the people of the USSR. In this case Russia can say that every man in Ukraine or any other ex-republic of the USSR had to follow Russia directions still. I want to say that everything has limit. It is means that I want it will be stored in USA and GB also. Next time I will give very small photos.
Część z nich ma szablony, że są to proste kształty geometryczne, ale tej prostoty raczej w wielu znakach graficznych nie ma. W jednym przypadku widziałem zgodność z licencją na Flickr. Swego czasu przeczesano logotypy klubów sportowych (też było powoływanie się na proste kształty). Sławek Borewicz (talk) 17:30, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
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As I understood from the Commons:OTRS/de Help-page (section: "Mögliche Vorgehensweise, wenn du ein fremdes Werk noch nicht hochgeladen hast"), I had to upload the files and send an e-mail with the links to Commons to the author of the pictures requesting the license authorization. I furthermore undertsood, that I had to put the subst:OP template to the files.
This procedure might no be right... Meanwhile I read the English version and it seems that I had first to send the e-mail without uploading the pictures???
Could you please tell me the right procedure to follow? What about the yet uploaded files?
Regards, --GilPe (talk) 16:48, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
Yes it is redundant, but so handy when fixing issues with Creator templates, or seeing which AC template have wikidata link and which one does not. I would vote for keeping it for practical over aesthetic reasons. --Jarekt (talk) 02:11, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
Warning of deletion
You sent me a warning about a photo that it may be deleted. I already tried to delete this file because it wasn`t uploaded correctly but I didn`t know how to delete it so I would be thankful if you would delete it. The file is : File:Tuza Róbert.jpg.
Thanks in advane and sorry for the inconvenience!
The Danish Merchantmen's flag which I uploaded was copied from a Danish website, at http://www.navalhistory.dk/English/TheFlag/History_of_the_Flag.htm. As a Danish National Flag, the copyright holder of that flag is ultimately the Danish State. Peter Specht, wikipedia user.
User:Transportfan70, Yes, as you can see there are no required license templates in the files. Under closer inspection you do have a link to a license template on wikipedia, so it is just matter of formatting. I fixed those three but you need to add {{Cc-by-3.0}} or other licenses to your uploads in the future. --Jarekt (talk) 16:15, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for notifying me on several cases of possible deletion. Let me clarify:
1. "File:Shahnameh Azeri Translation Book Cover.jpg" is my photo from the cover of a book published in 1934 (more than 70 years ago) in the Soviet Union.
2. File:Abbas Djavadi DNA Test Results.jpg as well as:
3. File:Abbas Djavadi Regional, Ancestral History.jpg
4. File:Iranian Population Ancestory.png
5. File:My and Georgian Regional Ancestry.jpg
6. File:My and North Caucasian Regional Ancestry.jpg
are ALL parts of my personal DNA test results about my ancestry sent to me by Genographic Project of National Geographic. In the notification and their website they clearly state that they do NOT claim any ownership over the downloads, charts and tables of those results (see: "Terms of Service, http://www.nationalgeographic.com/community/terms/).
I appreciate your concerns. I'm just new with Commons!
I have updated copyright information as follows: None. In the public domain due to copyright expiration.
Added Photograph
Just delete the photograph. I can't follow these instructions though I have earnestly tried.
License templates Gilbert Stuart portrait Samuel Miles The Washington DC National Gallery of Art
Monday 3 August AD 2015
Good Afternoon, Jarekt -
And thank you for the followup regarding the Gilbert Stuart portrait of Samuel Miles.
The portrait is owned by the Washington, DC Gallery of Art - and their policy is the work
of art is in the public domain.
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Hiya! Got your message about some of the OGL files we've just uploaded. I thought that using the batch uploader a bot would recognise the OGL in that field and update it accordingly? It seems to have done so with most of them. It's taken a bit of time for the whole upload to process (581 will be the final total) and I've noticed the rights data seems to update itself overtime so assumed it was down to a bot doing its thing. Ndalyrose (talk)
ETX Capital New Logo
Hi Jarekt,
The new logo I downloaded from our Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/ETXCapitalGroup/ - since our graphic designer was not in the office. I have been given permission to do this. You can also contact me on my work email michael.webb@etxcapital.com.
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Silverhobbit65 license questions for uploaded selfie
I think I did what you wanted, Jarekt, by putting the cc-by-sa code into my format for the selfie I posted to my User page. I am new to Wiki uploading, and rusty with my HTML, so please be patient.
I created an image with a description of its copyright status in plain English. No template exists for this status, which I also mentioned. It's an image with two layers. The bottom layer is a photograph with a "Wikimedia Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 licence."
I added a diagram on top of that which is my own creation. Please have an actual human being look at this. Thank you. Zyxwv99 (talk) 16:43, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
Zyxwv99, it seems fine to me. Your "copyright status in plain English" was "Attribution ShareAlike 2.0" which does have a template {{Cc-by-sa-2.0}}. I clarify description a bit. Is there still a problem? --Jarekt (talk) 12:02, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
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Recent changes
You now see a warning message on pages that try to use {{DISPLAYTITLE}} but it doesn't work because it doesn't match the page's actual title. [151]
Problems
Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [152]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [153]
Hi Jarekt, you are right, it was a mistake from myside, because the filter in youtube was not effected with my search. So please delete the file. thx --K@rl (talk) 12:08, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello,
I work for the Avampato Discovery Museum in the Clay Center in Charleston, WV. We are currently updating one of our discovery galleries to include a small rock climbing wall and we are interested in using your image of Seneca Rocks (File:Seneca Rocks - front 1.jpg). The image would need to be able to enlarge to approximately 20ft in length. Would it be possible to use your image and for us to obtain a file that will be large enough to enlarge to 20ft?
Thank you,
Kayte Kincaid
Director of Education
Kayte, You are welcome to use my photograph (or for that mater any photograph on Commons) as long as you observe the requirements stated in the license section, which in my case is the attribution requirement. You might also want to read Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia. If you click on the image you will access full 6,048 × 2,326 pixel version. I do not have any higher resolution version so I hope it is enough for 20ft blowup. Be aware that the photograph was stitched from 2 photographs (using Hugin software) and there might be some artifacts which could be visible at that magnification. Thank you for your interest. --Jarekt (talk) 14:16, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Pomoc
Proszę o usunięcie (wykreślenie ?) pierwszej miniatury (pierwszej wersji zdjęcia), ponieważ na pewno była nieudana, poza tym chciałbym uniknąć możliwego wandalizmu przez "cofanie" wersji. Tu jest przykład, co chciałbym osiągnąć:
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [154]
Problems
A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [155][156]
CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [157]
Changes this week
When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [158]
A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [160][161]
Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [162]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Hello. If you look at the right corner below the picture you'll find a small label which says that it is in "Public domain". [163] I didn't find this category among the licence alternatives. Best wishes Mbakkel2 (talk) 14:47, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
I have found the correct Public Domain tag related to Norway. It is more than 70 years ago since the photographer, Gustav Borgen, died. In fact, he died 90 years ago, in 1926. I am more uncertain about the US Public Domain tag. Borgen worked as a photographer in Oslo and I don't know if or when this specific photo was published in the U.S. Today the photo is included in the photo collection of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History. I tried this one {{PD-1996}}. Best wishes Mbakkel2 (talk) 15:18, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
MathML/SVG is now the default <math> rendering mode on Wikimedia projects. [164][165]
Changes this week
The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [166]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Wikimedia wikis now use AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in, report them. [167]
Visiting Special:Notifications doesn't automatically mark notifications as read anymore. You can go between read, unread or all notifications on Special:Notifications. Notifications on Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually. Notifications are displayed by groups of 50 on Special:Notifications and you can find former notifications by using navigation arrows. [168][169][170][171]
Changes this week
You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [172]
It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [173]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [174]
Changes this week
The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [175][176]
Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [177]
When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [178]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
Authority control and the National Library of Israel identifier
Hi Jarket,
We have now the new technique of using wikidata for Authority control. Is there is possibility to add National Library of Israel identifier. May you want I ask someone from the he.wiki to do it? -- Geagea (talk) 10:30, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
GeageaDone. I added NLI, it should be most visible on pages with few other identifiers. It might be not visible on Creator/Institution pages where we only show top 5 identifiers, which were specified. The top 5 partially depend on your language, so you might see NLI more if you use Hebrew in your settings. Let me know if it works OK. --Jarekt (talk) 13:19, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
If you created this project page, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it.
Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [179]
The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [180]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [184]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [185]
An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [186]
The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [187][188][189]
From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [190]
Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [191]
Hi! EPH changed yesterday the name to [Hanza Media], as reported by [Jutarnji list] today. Sincerely, I don't see great and urgent need to confirm the rights on coats of arms, logos etc. This new logo was published with the news on the changing name and logo. The news was published in the printed edition and in the on line edition for the subscribers only, otherwise I've should quote it with a link. I suppose that is better to present a new information immediately, if and when it is undiscutible, instead of wasting time with the "bureaucracy". If I'm wrong, suggest me a right way, please, but not in general terms :). If you need to answer, please use my address. Thank you for your care. --Inoslav Bešker (talk) 06:33, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
Inoslav, The message on File:HanzaMedia.gif only says that the image is missing a license which is required for all images on Commons. Usually the only images on commons are the ones created by the uploaders, or created by others but released as Public Domain or under license compatible with Commons. Unless the image falls into one of those categories they are deleted. I do not know enough about File:HanzaMedia.gif to suggest something specific, but one think you can do is to reach out to [Hanza Media] and ask them if logo is aviable under a license compatible with commons, and if so can they send permission to OTRS. Read more at COM:OTRS. --Jarekt (talk) 15:08, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
Dear Sir, I've explained that the HanzaMedia.gif is a logo of the company. I have no time to research if their logo is compatible with this or that, nor I have time to study what OTRS is. So I'm going to inform the [Hanza Media] about the content of your letter. My aim was to inform users, out of that aim I'm completely indifferent whether their new logo will be present in Wikipedia or not. Thank you for the time you've dedicated me. With regards, --Inoslav Bešker (talk) 15:49, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [192]
Changes this week
The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [193]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Meetings
You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
User:MaGa I am sorry I thought I reply to you before I left for my travels last few days. I did look into this gadget, but I have no idea what is wrong. I do not speak JS. Maybe User:Rillke who was doing many edits to the script in last few years, could help. --Jarekt (talk) 22:41, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
I'm an outsource provider for that Museum. You're asking for a written permission from the museum for the license of their logo. What should the letter say?
Hi Jarekt, what means NE in this context? Btw, I think that several (or even all) of these erroneous locations do not only use the wrong coordinates format but also the wrong template. If one uses the UploadWizard and manually adds the coordinates then i am sure (s)he refers to the {{Object location}} and not to the camera. --Arnd (talk) 15:00, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Arnd, Those are temporary categories for 4 earth quadrants. Many files have coordinates but messed up hemisphere marking. It I look at each quadrant separately , I can fix some by just adding hemisphere. As for {{Object location}} vs. {{Location}} I do not know which one they meant, Wiki Loves Earth did not use regular UploadWizard, but a custom one (I think). Why do you think people using UploadWizard meant to add {{Object location}}? The explanation of this field is "Geocode your file to identify where the media was recorded (it is not always useful to enter a location for every kind of media)." It could be more clear but it sounds to me like camera location instead of object location. Also for many nature photos like panorama {{Object location}} makes little sense since there are many objects in the image. --Jarekt (talk) 15:18, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Fleets, the image was already deleted by someone else, I only deleted the description page which did not have attached image. --Jarekt (talk) 17:41, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Fleets, I am still confused. File:Mark Minichiello.jpg come from here. Where is the license? What do you want me to do with my so highly regarded admin powers? --Jarekt (talk) 19:11, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Jarekt, we have found that jumping from Picasa to google that the Picasa page holds the license, but the google one does not. I will need to adjust the links that are there to show the correct license as evidenced through PicasaFleets (talk) 19:41, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Fleets, the easiest thing might be just reupload with the new links. If you ping me I will verify the license and add proper template. --Jarekt (talk) 19:43, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Yeah more than happy to reupload them, just I got in trouble from uploading a deleted image. Since did my homework and a few people have had the same issue with Picasa and Google. Will look to upload whenever I get a chance.Fleets (talk) 19:50, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi there Jarekt, I have uploaded them. If I could ask that my undeletion request be closed down in the correct manner please. Many thanks in advance.Fleets (talk) 07:12, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [194][195][196]
Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [197][198][199]
Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [200][201][202]
Problems
On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [203]
Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Hello, I just saw your note on the copyright status for File:Köppen Csc US West Coast.png. I'm quite confused about the proper status, and would love some advice here, especially since I plan on making similar maps in the future.
I produced the map myself using GIS. I used raw data from government sources to produce it, but this map did not exist before I made it. Since that would make me the creator, would I then have the copyright on the data? And thus, I could release it under a Creative Commons or to the public domain? I've credited the government sources in the file summary - is that sufficient crediting? Thanks! Redtitan (talk) 18:20, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
You wrote me about File:Art Drelinger, Billy Butterfield, Bunny Shawker, Stan Freeman, Toots Mondello, and Bob Haggart, Columbia studio, New York, N.Y., ca. Mar. 1947.jpg.
I am inexperienced at uploading images to Wikimedia Commons, so I must have done something wrong. The Library of Congress website says about the collection that contains this image: "Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated these works to the public domain, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply."
However, after I uploaded the file I found the same image already on Wikimedia Commons. There is no reason to have two copies, so please delete the one that I uploaded. Thank you. Teblick (talk) 21:08, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for checking on this. I saw the request for copyright tag, but didnt know how to obtain this tag. Before I created teh file, I had emailed Quia. Here is the exact email I received :
From Quia Support <help@quia.com> Jul 11 at 4:04 PM
To user wuerzele
Subject copyright question
Thank you for contacting Quia.
Content the is created on Quia is considered in the public domain, so you are free to use that particular image.
If you have any questions, please let me know and I'll be happy to help.
Sincerely,
Randy, Quia Support, help@quia.com
I could forward it to your email account. I saw afterwards that Quia should email WP. should I still do that? i hope this helps, let me know.--Wuerzele (talk) 03:43, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Jarekt excellent, thank you. I did forward the email and asked the Quia person to forward their email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org as well. About the tag: I dont know if that one is appropriate, since Quia isnt the author, but a user maybe named troybyall/Yazvac from what it looks like in the file's link . I had searched the user to no avail, tried all kind of combinations.--Wuerzele (talk) 13:29, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
prosba o pomoc
Cześć, próbowałem zaktualizować File:Bilans handlowy Grecji 2000-2013.JPG - i nie wiem czemu, ale za każdym razem pojawia mi się stary wykres, a nie ten nowszy z tabelką u dołu. Następnie zauwazyłem też błąd w nowym wykresie, ostatnia próba ładowania jest bez tego błędu, niemniej wyświetla się wciąż stary wykres. Mógłbyś to uporządkować ? --91.140.58.809:31, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
Właśnie od nowa wykonałem i wczytałem aktualny wykres, z paroma usprawnieniami, jako plik o innej nazwie Bilans HZ Grecji 2000 2015.jpg (używany teraz w wersji oczekującej hasła Gospodarka Grecji). Ten plik, o którym mówimy, można więc w ogóle skasować - nie będzie już potrzebny --Grb16 15:29, 1 July 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grb16 (talk • contribs) 15:29, 01 July 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [204]
In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [206]
Problems
On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [207][208]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [210]
Future changes
User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [211][212]
Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [213]
Cześć Jarku, mam serdeczną prośbę w imieniu pani poseł Kingi Gajewskiej-Płochockiej, która się ze mną dzisiaj skontaktowała. Niedawno wyszła za mąż. Czy dałbyś radę zmienić jej nazwę pliku, który nam przesłała przed ślubem, oraz nazwę kategorii na Commons, na obecne nazwisko, tj. dwuczłonowe? Z góry serdeczne dzięki za pomoc. Boston9 (talk) 14:02, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
Cześć, miałbym jeszcze jedną serdeczną prośbę. Jeden z naszych czytelników usunął z hasła o Pradze tę grafikę Piotra Norblina z komentarzem, że nie przedstawia Pragi (zerknij na całość). Ponieważ nie miałem w domu żadnego albumu z pracami Norblina, napisałem do Muzeum Warszawskiej Pragi z prośbą o komentarz. I szybko otrzymałem odpowiedź, że na Commons jest niestety błąd, o którym piszą varsavianistyczne blogi, np. tutaj. W międzyczasie zamówiłem na Allegro podstawową książkę o naszym malarzu, i rzeczywiście – ta praca jest opisana pod nr 94 (strony grafikami na końcu książki nie są numerowane) jako Targ na konie na ul. Królewskiej w Warszawie. Czy mógłbyś proszę zmienić nazwę pliku, żeby nie wprowadzał dalej w błąd? Zmieniłem już w opisie. Usunę później te grafikę z innych Wikipedii, gdzie jest w haśle o Pradze. Z góry serdeczne dzięki za pomoc! Boston9 (talk) 18:29, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
billinghurst, I was just trying to do something with bunch of files, with images, that become redirects. They no longer had license templates. Everyone I looked at was a proper duplicate so the best course seemed to tag them as duplicates without a license. I was planning on then processing them as duplicates. It was not a bot job, I looked at every edit, but I did it with AWB so I could not see the images. --Jarekt (talk) 12:28, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
K thanks. Couple of duds, however, I sort of worked it out later into the run when I got into the unduds. They had had info templates, and it looks as they slowly degraded once people just made the redirect decisions on some. <shrug> All resolved. — billinghurstsDrewth13:23, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [215]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [216]
Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [217]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [218]
Future changes
The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [219]
Hi Jarekt, sorry for writing always you but you are the one that is most active and responsive ;-) I hope you do not mind. Actually, i want to continue the discussion about Wikidata coordinates which already moved into the archive. I would really have these coordinates in the in geocategories but i am not sure on which page to discuss and especially to agree on this. Do you have any ideas? --Arnd (talk) 08:16, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
Arnd, At the moment one can do edits like this adding {{Object location}} templates to categories. It should be also possible to rewrite Module:Coordinates to follow wikidata sitelinks to d:Q9185625 and to d:Q518287 to get the coordinates that way. I would also like to write some template to query wikidata and put appropriate information describing category. Automatically adding:
I, Nancy Wong, aka Edmunddantes, is the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic license.
You are free:
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edmunddantes (talk • contribs) 17:44, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.
Problems
Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [222]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
I contacted Ciro Amado, whose pictures were deleted
Hi Jarekt,
I noticed that you commented on Riley's page regarding Ciro Amaro's pictures, which were deleted. Well, I contacted him on his Facebook fan page, which definitely looks official to me, and he confirmed that he indeed uploaded those pictures. He doesn't have a website, unfortunately, for OTRS purposes, but here's his Facebook page [223]. There you can see in the About section that there's an email address and an Instagram account. He actually won third place in the Wiki Loves Monuments Brazil competition last year [224]. In my humble opinion he should be trusted. I mean, this is not a case of an uploader pretending to be him. I do suppose there is a solution. His only concern is that if it's too late to restore the pictures for this year's competition, then he would prefer to keep them deleted and use them for a subsequent contest. I don't know the deadline. Perhaps if he sends you an email from the Gmail account that he has listed on his Facebook page you could undelete the pictures without a lengthy OTRS process, given the fact that it's a competition, and not something that can wait longer? Thanks in advance for your help and insights. Dontreader (talk) 01:50, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Dontreader, I am sorry that happen to Ciro Amaro. I trust he is the person who uploaded the images, but we do see about 50 images per day uploaded without licenses or with wrong licenses, etc. So many people are attuned to look suspiciously at awesome images uploaded by a new users, and checking if they were available somewhere else on the web, and for those we do require OTRS. I have access to OTRS and if Ciro Amaro sends from ciroamado@gmail.com a standard email to OTRS saying (in his language of choice) that all images uploaded by User:Ciroamado and http://www.wresh.com.br/clientes/peach-site/author/ciro-amado/?post_type=product are his, I will have them approved and undeleted in a day. Just send me a note that the email was send and it would be easier for me if he can also send the ticket number (16 digit number starting with 201608...) they will send him back in reply email. --Jarekt (talk) 02:30, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Great! Thanks for your help, Jarekt. I completely understand what you mean. I have nominated tons of images for deletion due to copyright violations and other issues. It's late in Brazil now, I think, but I will leave a message for Ciro with your instructions. I really appreciate your kindness! All the best, Dontreader (talk) 03:01, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks so much, Jarekt, for your amazing help with these pictures! I'm really glad that this story had such a happy ending. It was by sheer chance that I noticed the problem. At first I assumed that the pictures were copyright violations, based on my experience with nominating hundreds of images for deletion, but I'm really glad I was actually able to find Ciro. He was very cooperative. I have had to go through OTRS myself with most of my uploads (it took me a long time to learn the process), so I helped Ciro, but I really appreciate your speed for this case, especially since it's for a competition that means a lot to Ciro, and obviously his contributions to Commons are amazing. I'm very grateful for all the help that you and the other OTRS volunteers and administrators give us here on Commons! Have a great day! Dontreader (talk) 19:30, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for you help with the deleted files from Ciroamado.
I'm here to discuss with you regarding photo competitions categorization. We are proposing a new contest, the Wiki Loves the Olympics that will be started during the next few days. I created the campaign wlo-rio2016 and the idea is to promote that same contest during the next summer and winter Olympic games.
Can you help me to define the best way to categorize all the files and setup the upload wizard to avoid that problems? We will have links here to each sport, arena, ceremony and delegation(country) of Olympics and Paralimpics games. I will need to define the default categories and object ID for each item. Can you guide me through that process to decrease the negative impact of that contest on Wikimedia Commons?
Rodrigo Padula, First of all In one of my roles I lately begun running monthly Commons:Photo challenge, if you are interested in the future we can quickly set up a page for this kind of event, than all the voting and tallying can be done with standard software we use every month for photo challenge. This year it might be late, but this might be a way to implement it in the future. Campaign:wlo-rio2016 is a good idea. Maybe in documentation for the users we can add guidance on:
File naming: maybe advise to name each file "Olimpics 2016-08-XX - DESCRIPTION - NUMBER. jpg" where XX stands for the day, DESCRIPTION would be a name of a person, location and/or event and number would be a 2 or 3 digit number to differentiate different photographs of the same person or event. Files named that way group well together and are easier to categorize afterwards. Number also prevents people for fighting over who will have THE official image of some person. Description part should be short, maybe less than 20-30 characters.
Categorization: I would suggest to categories photographs by time, place and people:
Geotagging: photographs should be encouraged to have latitude and longitude of camera location added at the upload time or latter by adding {{Location}} template. Latitude and longitude added at the upload time have to be in decimal degrees, so "-23.545531" and "-46.473373" not "23° 32′ 43.91″ S" and "46° 28′ 24.14″ W".
If people follow the naming convention than by day categorization would be easy. We can add each image to Category:2016 Summer Olympics: unsorted photographs by default and encourage people to add by-day, by-place and by-people categories afterwards. If it would be easier you could have a page in Portuguese with translated names of the categories. --Jarekt (talk) 15:17, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Can you help me to fix that campaign including the default categories ? That is my first project using campaign system/upload wizard. Rodrigo Padula (talk) 16:06, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
User:JuTa, that was my mistake. I was fulfilling edit request to change the displayed text of Template:Credit_line but by mistake changed the displayed text and the categories. I fixed most of the categories quickly, but missed one. Hopefully it is fixed now. --Jarekt (talk) 12:13, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
I put wrong licence on photo - how can I change it?
Hi Jarekt, I need to change info of this image: Marija rio2.jpg. By mistake I tagged it as it was mine photo, but it's not. I know the name of the author and have his permission to use it. Date is also wrong. Can you help me with this? Thank you in advance. --Bernarda Lusch (talk) 08:15, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
Hopefully Jarekt will forgive me for butting in on his talk page. The easiest way (believe me) is to first email the photographer with this link: Email template for release of rights to a file and ask him/her to cut-and-past the email template within the black border into a word processor. Have s/he fill it in and then cut and past it into an email to >permissions-commons@wikimedia.org< . Emailed in from their 'own' email account adds 'provenance' to the legitimacy of their copyright (which they will still retain) over the said image. If s/he is unwilling, then you have a problem and the image 'will' be shortly deleted -as it is now on my watch list for deletion as a WC copyvio (copyright violation). One can point out to the photographer that it is in their long-term interest to send this email themselves as it brings examples of their works to a wider audience. Changing dates is simple, we can do this for you. First though, we need the authors written permission from himself.--P.g.champion (talk) 00:38, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
P.g.champion, thank you very much for your help. I will try to get this written permission as soon as possible. The author gave us permission not only for Wikipedia, but for unlimited use of the photo. I believe your advice will solve the problem. Regards, --Bernarda Lusch (talk) 13:11, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
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Recent changes
In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [225]
Problems
If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [226]
Changes this week
Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [227]
On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [228]
When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [229]
The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [230]
When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [231]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
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I just reverted [233] since it changed the use of thousands of artist descriptions and made Commons information _wrong_. Any reason you did this? Or was it just a mistake? --AndreasPraefcke (talk) 19:02, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. I added the required license templates to the File:Portret Nick Nijhuis.jpg. Everyting looks okay to me now. If not, let me know.
Thanks for your quick respons. You can delete file. Ik took ik myself. So ik can't sent any proof to te OTRS-team / I don't understand how to do it.
I will upload a new, other image by the commons upload and make sure that I fill out the license form right. I uploaded more as 30 items before, there was never a problem. That will save the OTRS-team and me lot of work.
Hello! Regarding your message, I'd like to know: What should I do to avoid deletion of the files? Should I just put up the relevant CC template before waiting for the OTRS team's reply? This is the first time I'm uploading files and sending permissions through the OTRS system and I'm a bit confused about it. Could you please help me out? --Andycyca (talk) 15:52, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
Artwork template
Hi Jarek,
As I can see, you was the main implementer of the Instutution: namespace and {{Institution}} template. It's a good idea and absolutely successful IMHO.
There exists an long-standing problem with description of derivative works. They need several levels of entry sets (creation date + author + licence/rights + name+description), which are often confusably mixed or partly missing really. I think, an embedded (nested) "Artwork" page can be an elegant and universal solution for images of sculptures, buildings, and even for scans or photographs of two-dimensional works. We can have an "Artwork" namespace just in the same way as we have "Institution" namespace, and use the pages colapsably or uncolapsably. Or even, more generally, we can have a universal namespace for "subject templates" and to use it for basic entry-table about all individual subjects, i.e. for individual people, vehicles, natural formations etc., and "institution" can be included as one of its special types?
Generally, these template-pages of individual subjects can be real interwiki equivalents of article pages of Wikipedias. To match gallery pages with article pages was a big mistake which origins from prefix absence only, but in actual fact, galleries are more similar to files than to articles. They are collages of its kind - they are not unique in principle, every item can have more various galleries paralelly. A quality gallery should be linked from Wikidata in similar way as the title (infobox)-images are. However, some heavy problems with Wikidata remain frozen. Especially an effective and systematic link between Wikipedia articles and Commons categeories, i.e. between articles, categories and tepmlates of identic item. The original idea that one item can have just one item-page on Wikidata should be revived and hoisted. Hovewer, Wikidata "properties" are not a fully-fledged analogue of real inteproject links. --ŠJů (talk) 16:11, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
I agree that many derivative works like photographs of 3D artworks, often are missing proper author and license info for both original artwork and the photograph. I like using {{Art photo}} for such images. I also think subject namespace would be a good idea. We have Institution and Creator namespaces full of templates. Book templates are in "template" namespace and would be hard to move. There are many pre-filled Artwork templates that reside in Category namespace (like Category:Ghent Altarpiece). They probably should go to Artwork or Subject namespace. However now we are in a middle of major changes to commons Infobox templates, as they all will be rewriten in LUA and be based on Wikidata if wikidata item is provided. I am done with {{Authority control}} template and preparying for rewrite of Creator template. Others started looking at {{Artwork}} template. I would wait with any new namespaces until dust settles after the rewrite of Creator, Institution and Artwork templates. I would also watch the talk pages of those pages as there might be discussions about the future of theirs. --Jarekt (talk) 16:00, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [234]
Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [235]
For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [236][237]
Changes this week
The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [238]
Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [239]
In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [240][241]
The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [242]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [243]
Hi Jarekt,
I just found out a number of creator templates that were broken by your edits around June 1st. I fixed some of them, but there seem to be manymore that you may want to check. Thanks. Nono314 (talk) 21:16, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Nono314 thank you for alerting me. I will definitely look into it. Unfortunately at the moment I am traveling and camping and only have sporadic internet access. So this will have to wait. --Jarekt (talk) 03:27, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
I would like to translate this tooltip to croatian language. I've switched interface to a few another (random) languages and I find no translations. Is there a reason for english only?--Ma▀▄Ga10:11, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
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Recent changes
The ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [244]
The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [245]
The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [246]
Problems
Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [247]
When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [248]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [249][250]
How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [251]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [252]
When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [253]
Changes this week
The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [254][255]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [256]
Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [257]
When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [258]
Changes this week
You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [259][260]
Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [261][262]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
Meetings
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Hi Jarekt, i want you to update the coat of arms of albania's eagle to the recent version from the flag because i fixed its claws.
Regards AceDouble (talk) 13:16, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
Wysłałam zgodę na zdjęcię, ja i autor, ja 6 września, autor 9 września ze swojego maila. Napisałam już do innych trzech osób, które zajmują się przenoszeniem zdjęć, ale nikt się jeszcze nie odezwał i nie napisał, że jest wszystko ok, może Pan?! Postanowiłam spróbować, z pozdrowieniami, Milagros aal (talk) 15:49, 12 September 2016 (UTC) Milagros aal (talk) 15:49, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
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Recent changes
The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [264]
The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [267]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
When you search on the Wikimedia wikis in the future you could see results from sister projects in your language. You can read more and discuss how this could work.
Hi Jarek, doubts again about this one. Also, we made the headlines in Poland last week regarding this, which resulted in this upload. Surprise to me - is the MON permission from 2005 still valid then? I thought it was obsolete and must not be used. Thanks. Boston9 (talk) 06:42, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
Hello received notification from you regarding invalid license. I updated the license. Gazprom gives permission for their photos to be used given they are credited for the photos (it is an official administrative photo of the current PM of Armenia) MosMusy (talk) 23:49, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
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Eliminiran sam doživotno sa hr.wikipedia zato što sam uradio Lično vrijeđanje? Kakve su to ličnosti kada ih vrijeđa njihovo slobodno odabrano ime korisnika (MaGa) i da su čelenke (MaGa i Bonč) hr.wikipedije.
Na njihove komentare sam odgovorio: Bravo MaGa, bravo čelenko! (koliko se sjećam). Šta je tu uvredljivo?! Kasnije sam pomislio da im je njihov pseudonim bio znakovit. Meni nije... tvrdoglavost mi sada tukne na takvo nešto.
PS:Nakon trajne zabrane, u historiji - povijesti mojih članaka nema Yahadzije, ali je tu MaGa/Bonch!
Čestitamo, članci nisu tako loši - za kićenje tuđim perjem...
Yahadzija (talk) 16:01, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Thank you. I cleared all the warnings and added license based on OTRS. However I don't speak German so the ticket will have to be processed by someone else. Best luck and thanks for sharing. --Jarekt (talk) 11:56, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
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The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.
Meetings
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It is a tooltip (Load a random file [alt-shitf-x]) on Participate section of toolbox, Random file item. Translation is here. Let's try.--Ma▀▄Ga13:41, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
Great, it works. Can you help with translation of "User uploads" (and it's tooltip (A list of uploads by this user)) in toolbox on the left? I can't find it.--Ma▀▄Ga17:43, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hej Jarku, piszę w nowej dla mnie sprawie: zwrócił się do nas poseł Cezary Tomczyk z prośbą o wymianę zdjęcia na pl-Wiki w haśle o nim. Wyjaśniłem mu wszystko (OTRS etc.), powiedział, że ma przekazane prawa autorskie do zdjęcia, i prześle zgodę. Otrzymalizmy także imię i nazwisko autora (Maciej Śmiarowski). Ku mojemu zaskoczeniu nie mogę go wgrać, gdyż ktoś już go wgrał. Jest tutaj. A tutaj jeszcze ktoś wgrał miniaturkę. Co z tym zrobić? Czy możesz go/je usunąć jako NPA, czy musimy czekać 7 dni? Czy też mam wysłać OTRS własnie na to zdjęcie, wgrane nie przeze mnie, a przez kogoś innego? Tylko wtedy prośba o poprawkę w nazwie pliku, tj. żeby była spacja pomiędzy imieniem, a nazwiskiem. Z góry dzięki za wskazówki:) Boston9 (talk) 17:20, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
Ja bym przesłał zgodę, imię autora i zdjęcie do OTRS. Możesz także wspomnieć ze zdjęcie już jest przesłane na Commons pod nazwą File:CezaryTomczyk.jpg. Jak ci odpiszą z numerem biletu (16 cyfr) to mi napisz i ja na to popatrzę. Ale nawet jeśli inny członek OTRS się tym zajmie to wynik powinien być ten sam. Co do nazwy pliku to bym jej nie ruszał, nazwa pliku nie spełnia żadnego wymogu z listy Commons:File renaming. --Jarekt (talk) 17:45, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
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When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [275]
Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [276]
Problems
The MediaWiki version that was supposed to come to the wikis two weeks ago was put on hold again because of new problems. The MediaWiki version after it is now on all wikis. [277][278]
Changes this week
There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [279]
Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [280]
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Your bot claimed: "No required license templates were detected at this file page." I explicitly linked to the official page for the license in question -- the same link used on the source page.
The text of Template:Image license has gone through various iterations. The current wording seems to claim something is required that I have never seen in any image:
URL of the source page
URL to the page of the license linked to on the original source page
An instantiation of a valid commons license template
I am going to repeat, I have never seen an image that has all three of the things this template claims are required.
I put all my image in the public domain, but I believe that practically all of our images that are under a free license are from a very small number of licenses... A handful of CC licenses, GFDL, and a handful of others.
Why doesn't your bot look at the URL in the permission field? If it is the URL to one of the dozen or so licenses used on practically all our images, why doesn't your bot either replace that URL with the appropriate license template, or leave a note on the uploader's talk page telling them what tag maps to that license URL? Geo Swan (talk) 21:29, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
Geo Swan I did not use a bot. I just noticed that your file is missing a license template so I tagged it with {{No license since}} template so it can be fixed. If I have time, I often stop and fix such files but today I was busy so I just tagged it. Template:Image license seems fine and your file seems fine but you are missing "An instantiation of a valid commons license template". --Jarekt (talk) 03:07, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
Edit requests
Hi Jarek, thank you for your last fulfilling my request. In the meantime 7 minor improvements occured, so I need again an admin to
sarang, you are proposing to add up to 5 parameters to {{Heavily used template}} that at the moment takes none. What problem are you trying to solve? I see you are trying to:
Thank you for your edits. The styles would offer a possibility to change the box which is currently centered and 80%; when it seems better to display it e.g. besides of a TOC it can be styled that way.
The namespace is most times either template, or in a few cases module. With more flexibility (if used!) adjustment will be possible.
You saw that I positioned the "heavily" preceding the /doc, but I won't mind that it is now part of it. It is rather an advantage to have it in the /doc from which I am not locked out (currently...); and of course it does not matter either that the "sandbox" is shown by another template. sarang♥사랑14:05, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
New request
Hi Jarek, thank you for your last edits. Again several improvements and expansions became necessary, mainly for the treatment of {{Graphic Lab}}; so I need again your help, please
Bardzo proszę o pomoc w przywróceniu 2 plików. Wcześniej wgrywałem takie pliki i były potwierdzane jako zgodne z wymaganiami Commons, a te dwa teraz od razu zostały skasowane jako naruszenie praw autorskich File:Bartłomiej Misiewicz (2014).JPG (źródło https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-txwsWCdm0s i File:Popek (raper).JPG (źródło https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocwxsi0xd-8). Według mnie nie ma żadnych zastrzeżeń, oba mają licencję CC. Bartłomieja Misiewicza wgrał ascotv, który zajmuje się takimi politycznymi nagraniami, natomiast nagranie rapera (jak widać) jest ewidentnie maksymalnie amatorskie, a ten użytkownik wgrał jeszcze kilka z tego samego koncertu.
Hi Jarekt,
I am unsure if this file has copyright clearance.
The publisher allows for use of a single work, as per their website, which states:
“Cambridge University Press grants permission freely for the reproduction in another work of a short prose extract (less than 400 words), a single figure or a single table in which it holds rights (see the important caveat in the Notes below). In such cases a request for permission need not be submitted, but the reproduced material must be accompanied by a full citation of the original source.”
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Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [281]
<slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [282]
I have just seen your message on my talkpage about this file. It's the first time that I have to depend on an OTRS permission, so I'm not sure about what should be done :
I shot the video last summer with the permission of the group/pipe-major (the tune, Amazing Grace is old enough to be PD-OLD). I knew that I would also have to get a written permission, so I put the OTRS template.
I have sent a mail to the pipe-major 2 days ago to ask him to send a mail to the OTRS team.
Did I do something wrong, or is it normal to have this kind of template when using an OTRS procedure ?
XIIIfromTOKYO, this message is not about OTRS, but about lack of copyright templates. All files are required to have copyright template at the upload time, and some of them might need additional paper work sent to OTRS. Your OTRS should include the type of license you are using. --Jarekt (talk) 12:41, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
dokumenty z Józef Piłsudski Institute of America
Nazwy podobne do numerów telefonicznych (zawierające trzy trzycyfrowe grupy rozdzielone separatorem) są obecnie zbanowane przez globalny filtr antyspamowy. Powoduje to pewno komplikacje z wykorzystaniem dokumentów wrzuconych przez twojego bota na Wikiźródłach (np. tylko admin może do nich tworzyć indeksy).
Sugerowałbym zmienić hurtem ich nazwy, żeby zamiast 701-001-ddd-ddd zawierały 701-1-ddd-ddd. Masz coś przeciwko temu? Ankry (talk) 17:13, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Ankry, W zasadzie nie mam nic przeciwko, ale wolałbym tego uniknąć. Commons:File renaming nic nie wspomina o globalnych filtrach antyspamowych, i wygląda na to ze łatwiej by było zmienić filtr niż parę tysięcy plików i stron gdzie te pliki są używane. Czy możesz podać, jak zobaczyć ten problem? Dodałem te pliki do pl:Wikipedysta:Jarekt/brudnopis bez problemu. Także czy wiesz gdzie globalne filtry antyspamowe są obgadywane? --Jarekt (talk) 19:00, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
To jest globalny filtr ustawiony przez stewardów na meta. Widząc jak masowo spamboty próbują w różnych projektach wstawiać gdzie się da reklamowe numery telefonów, wątpię by się go udało wyłączyć.
Po rename, zostaną redirecty, więc stare linki powinny działać, o ile ktoś linkuje plik, a nie jego konkretną stronę. Niestety proofreadpage w Wikisource nie akceptuje redirectów, bo linkuje do konkretnych miniaturek poszczególnych stron.
Jeśli masz wątpliwości co do zgodności tej zmiany z zasadami, to mogę ją przedyskutować w Village pump. Ankry (talk) 19:10, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
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Recent changes
You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using {{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [283]
The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [284]
Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [285]
Changes this week
Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. -->[286]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
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Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [287]
Hi! We spoke briefly at the WikiConference, and I said that I thought that there might be a way to do lookup by property lookup within Lua templates. I have reviewed the documentation for mw.wikibase, and have to conclude that I was wrong. Another solution you might consider is that we could write a bot that keeps WikiCommons pages in sync with Wikidata properties. Bovlb (talk) 23:40, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
You'd need two bots: one on Commons to copy property values from Wikidata into Commons templates; and one on Wikidata to transfer Commons templates into property values. You needs to think about special behaviour like duplicate values, and how to handle deletion and modification. Bovlb (talk) 14:00, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
Bovlb, we will need a lot of bots with automatic daily runs:
On Wikidata look through commons sitelinks without P373, P1472, P1612 or P935. Add one of those properties based on the namespace of the sitelink. Maybe that already exist.
If wikidata item uses P1472 or P1612 than make sure Commons pages linked have "Wikidata" parameter pointing back to the same item.
if Commons Institution page has link to Wikidata item q-code than P1612 need to be added to the item.
if Commons Creator or Institution page has link to Wikidata item q-code and has a home-category than P373 of that item has to link back to the home-category. See
There is probably several other bot services one would need but I can not think of them yet or the Commons templates are not ready. I am no expert at running bots on tool labs. Bovlb if you are and are interested in above tasks we can work together on setting them up. Otherwise we migh want to move this discussion to bot request pages on Commons and Wikidata. --Jarekt (talk) 19:00, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
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Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [288]
Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [289]
Changes this week
There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [290]
Future changes
The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.
Geagea, I found a solution by using local Worldcatid parameter, however I do not know if there is a way to do it with wikidata only parameters. --Jarekt (talk) 02:49, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
I do not know. That is a first case I know where WorldCat link is wrong. I could set Worldcatid to some value like 'ignore' to just skip showing it. --Jarekt (talk) 12:25, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Cześć, zerknij proszę na zdjęcia wgrane przez tego użytkownika np. to, to lub to. Wydaje mi się, że nie może być ich autorem i potrzebne jest OTRS. Dzięki. Boston9 (talk) 21:04, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
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Problems
The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [291]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [292]
Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.
Hi, this is to inform that I retoured on version before your today's changes, as there were errors in displaying geocode on all files ({{#coordinates:primary| 60.714333| 28.729889|type:camera_region:RU-LEN_heading:E}}) --A.Savin18:54, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
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Recent changes
Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [294]
The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [296]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).
Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template" field when editing templates. [297]
Cześć,
Pierwszy raz robiłem upload na tym portalu i się pomyliłem - wysyłając identyczny plik z innego miejsca na komputerze ale z danymi EXIF, których nie chciałem publikować na licencji CC. Od razu jak się zorientowałem zrobiłem kolejny upload bez tych danych. Czy jest mozliwość zmergowania wersji, tak by w historii nie było poprzedniej? Zdjęcie niczym więcej się nie różni.
I just noticed that you removed and deleted my custom license template; could you explain why you did that? AFAIK such templates are discouraged, yet by no means prohibited (no case of OSE). If the lack of metadata was the reason, you could have taken the time to add it, though given the fact that the license template was always accompanied by a default one I highly doubt there would have been any urgency to do so. FDMS 4 11:03, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
User:FDMS4 your "custom license template" was just calling {{int:wm-license-cc-by-4.0-text}} to display "This file is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution 4.0 International license." and link to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en . You just wrote alternative version of {{Cc-by-4.0}} template and placed it in your user namespace. User custom license tags are a bad idea since they can be changed easily, swapping or removing image licenses and without leaving any mark in file history. Following best practices and COM:OWN I was adding text of the some of the user custom license tags directly to the files, especially for no longer active users who no longer watch pages in their user pages (and who are not likely to come back to quarrel about it ;) ). User:丶 was not active and I did not noticed that it was an alternative account of an active user. --Jarekt (talk) 12:45, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
I know; its purpose was to avoid confusing users about the different licenses and instead clarify at least a bit that the CC BY 3.0 is just an additional (legacy) license. I also knew about the downsides of doing so when creating the template, most of them can be overcome by fully protecting it. I get that the connection between 丶 and me isn't obvious looking at only the source code and can assure you that I'm by no means mad at you; still, could you please restore and reinstate the template? FDMS 4 16:40, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
I restored User:丶/CC BY. However I do not like the idea of reinstating it. File:B 98 Millstatt am See 2013-06.jpg is licensed under CC-by-3.0 and CC-by-4.0, and removing one of those license templates (and replacing with unofficial template) might be considered to be equivalent to revoking the license. May be a better way would be to extend your license to also other CC-by licenses and use Template:Cc-by-all? --Jarekt (talk) 17:06, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Thanks; could you point me to where it is stated that {{CC-Layout}} may only be used in the default templates? Solely changing the explanatory text can definitely not be seen as a license revocation (those explanatory texts are works by the Commons community and there have been several efforts to overhaul them); even if it could, using {{Cc-by-all}} wouldn't be any different. FDMS 4 11:24, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
thank you
Hello Jarekt, i have seen the new warning when coordinates here/Wikidata are different. This is very helpful. Thank you for the work you put into these issues! Holger1959 (talk) 20:28, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org. [305][306][307]
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Recent changes
When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [308]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [309]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Hello Jarek, You've helped me in the past with images, with the Achille Delaere article. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz has gone into the William Kurelek article and deleted all the images that I was using to illustrate the artist's phases in his development as an artist over the course of his life. Can you help me to reinstate these images in the article? I would be grateful for any support that you could give me with this. Thank you. Nicola Mitchell (talk) 21:56, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
I have added more critical commentary to: Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8), in each of the paintings that were deleted. My additions come after the semi-colon. The editor did not delete the painting Zaporozhian Cossacks, so I did not add anything to that. And The Maze which he deleted, did not originate with me, but it would be great to recover it for use in the article, as it marks a pivotal period in Kurelek's artistic development. Hope you can help. Nicola Mitchell (talk) 15:05, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
Nicola I am sorry but in this case I kind of agree with User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz. Use of "fair use" images should be kept to a bare minimum and 11 paintings is not bare minimum. One photo and one painting seems like a right compromise. Please see en:Wikipedia:Non-free content for more info. English Wikipedia is unusual as it allows any use of any non-free content, and it is best not to abuse it. For example Polish Wikipedia does not allow it so many Polish music albums will have an album cover on English wiki and text on Polish. If you find any images that are in public domain or if someone contacts family or whoever is the copyright holder to his works and they release the images under acceptable license (by writing to COM:OTRS, than the images could stay in the article. Sorry for not supporting you on this one and please contact me if I might be able to help you in the future. --Jarekt (talk) 03:28, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
I would like to award you The Copyright Watcher Barnstar because you helped to keep Wikimedia Commons clean from copyright violations. This is also thanks for teaching me valuable lessons on Wikimedia. Davidng913 (talk) 03:32, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
to improve functionality for searching, organizing and maintaining media on Commons, the Wikidata team wants to enable use of structured data on Commons. For this, we would like to learn from community members like you how you do these tasks on Commons.
If you would like to participate and support us, please let me know (here on the talk page or via mail to jan.dittrich AT wikimedia.de) and we will set up a date together to talk for about 30-45min. I often use google Hangouts for this, however, I am open for any other possibility (e.g. Skype, WebRTC…)
Jan, I will be happy to help and Structured Data might be a solution to many of our issues. I am not sure if I ever used Google Hangouts, Skype, WebRTC, etc. , so there might be some learning curve there. Like on Wikidata, a lot of tasks are done with tools. For example for edits I would use Cat-a-Lot, VisualFileEdit, HotCats, AutoWikiBrowser, etc. For searches I use default search, CatScan2 and Quarry. It would be good if your team was familiar with those tools. --Jarekt (talk) 15:36, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
This is great to hear!
- For the way of communication, I suggest using https://meet.jit.si/ . I saw it works without any installation if you have a sort-of-current browser; we would just need to share an URL to the talk.
- Thanks for listing some of the tools you use on commons. Some I know already, in others I will have a look.
- It's probably the easiest if you write me a mail with your preferred times and I'll find us a date and time (write me a mail to jan.dittrich AT wikimedia.de). I can also send you a suggestion for a date and time via wiki Mail.
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Recent changes
Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [311]
You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [312]
A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [313]
Changes this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [314][315][316]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [317]
Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [318]
Please excuse me spamming you, which concerns Commons User:The Photographer, who has 86 Featured Pictures. His contributions cover the architecture and culture of Brazil and Venezuela. He has basic photographic equipment: an old D300 camera and 35mm lens, and lives in a poor country where photographic equipment is expensive. The Photographer has recently taken several images using the technique where multiple frames are stitched together to create a high-resolution panorama. However, many times frustrated with the stitching errors that result from trying to take such photos without a proper panoramic head for his tripod. This special equipment permits the camera to be rotated around the entrance pupil of the lens, and eliminates such errors. Having a panoramic head would greatly increase the potential for The Photographer to create sharp high-resolution images for Commons. In addition, the purchase of a fisheye lens would enable 180 × 360° panoramas to be taken, which are a great way to explore a scene as though one is really there.
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Changes this week
When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [319]
When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [320]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [321][322]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Dzień dobry. Znalazłem takie zdjęcie, którego nazwa ewidentnie została pomylona. Na zdjęciu jest Category:Barbara Wrzesińska, a nie Category:Zofia Kucówna. Proszę o zmianę nazwiska w nazwie pliku na Barbara Wrzesińska. Dziękuję.
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Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [324]
ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [325]
Changes this week
You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [326]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Recent changes
Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [327]
You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [328]
Because of work on cross-wiki watchlistsglobal renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [330]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Hello Jarekt. It's been a while. A know that probably this is not to be addressed to you, but I'm trying to reply to an editor but I'm not allowed, so I wonder how should I do....
Sorry for probably being just taking your time. Thanks anyway!!
CamposVICC (talk) 18:12, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
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Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017.
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Recent changes
Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [331]
Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }} to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }} to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [332]
Problems
Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [333]
Changes this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.
Meetings
The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.
there is still about 1300 {{Inline coordinates}} in category namespace. I was looking at trying to figure out rules for the ones that can be converted to {{Object location}}s. I come up with a rule run the code and than check what is left. I will look at the 2 structures you mentioned. --Jarekt (talk) 12:50, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
I agree that {{Inline coordinates}} make sense if they are used inline with the text. I have seen a few of those but they are rare. I am not going to do a blank replace of {{Inline coordinates}} with {{Object location}}, and more nuanced approach takes a lot of manual labor. About 7 years ago I cleaned up the use of all rare and unusual geo templates, but I do not feel like doing it again. About {{On Wikidata}} and {{Object location}}, I was thinking for a while about a rewrite of {{On Wikidata}} (or creation of new template) that does full category description based on wikidata, with a single q-code, so for people it would call {{Authority control}} and maybe {{Creator}} (once I finish rewriting it). For places it would call {{Object location}} and maybe {{Authority control}} or something else. For bio organisms it would call some Taxonomy template, etc. As a result I do not do much with smaller fixes as they are likely temporary. --Jarekt (talk) 13:16, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Multichill, When I created this template it was just a tag encouraging people to create creator template, without any mention of bots or wikidata. I did not ended up using it much and it was semi abandoned. Few years latter User:BMacZero repurposed it to take wikidata parameter. I do not know of any plans to run bots on files using it. I did not even noticed when it changed. I was not working on {{Creator}} rewrite for a while but in the future Creator templates might only need 2 parameters: Wikidata and sortkey. The rest would be come from Wikidata. Before creating whole bunch of new templates I would wait for the format to stabilize. --Jarekt (talk) 20:19, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
That sure sounds like a sensible approach. Why do you need a sortkey? On Wikidata we have properties for the family name and the given name so you could easily construct it based on that. Multichill (talk) 20:23, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
Sortkey is used for sorting within Category:Creator template home categories and Category:Creator templates and original template does not work well without them, but in a way I do not think it matters if those pages are well sorted or not. I suspect many items do not have family name and given name properties, but I should try to use them. So eventually creator templates might become just {{Creator|Wikidata=Q...}}. At that point there might not be a need for separate creator page and infoboxes like {{Artwork}} will just take a Q-code for an author. --Jarekt (talk) 20:47, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
@Jarekt: @Multichill: I made those changed to {{Creator possible}} in anticipation of running this bot task: Commons:Bots/Requests/BMacZeroBot 3. But as Jarekt pointed out, the format for Creator is changing a lot right now, so I didn't actually run the bot. I never changed the template back because I figured the Wikidata code would still be useful once the format was figured out. I can change some of the text in the template to make it clearer what is going on. BMacZero (talk) 20:26, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Please remove watermarks
I am limited in my knowedge of computer use, so when I request photos I ask in advance for use of a photo, I ask photographers to remove watermarks since we can not use them with watermarks in the biography articles. It would be great if you could remove yours from your picture of Dewey Redman and Geri Allen - [File:Trio 3 + Geri Allen featuring Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman and Oliver Lake.jpg] I don't really use commons except to upload photos or categorize some. You CAN reach me in the en.wikipedia with the same username. Thanks --Leahtwosaints (talk) 15:10, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Leahtwosaints, as you can see I am not the author of that photo, just the guy who transferred it from Flickr. It is easy, so I removed two watermarks for you, but in general if this or that project has issues with watermarks it is usually their job to remove them or not use the image. Here On Commons we greatly prefer images without watermarks, but there is no man power to remove them all. --Jarekt (talk) 20:16, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Drones
I have drafted a page originally for WMF but I think the foundational muzzle keeps them from speaking so I moved the draft here User:WPPilot/Drones and your invited to use any part for the landing page. I suggest that this gets done asap, and we need to make sure the page is not too intimidating. I have tried and failed more times then I recall to get people involved here and most the time, no one has the time for all the details related to "the big picture". I can assist in the creation of a more user friendly page if you like, LMK, I have a little time this week... Cheers!! --Don (talk) 11:58, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
That looks great, I have posted the link in all DJI Facebook private groups. I did add some nice warm welcoming text, but have no idea how to put it into your multi lingual format, if you would be so kind. Thanks. Cheers~!--Don (talk) 15:12, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
Done --Jarekt (talk) 18:12, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
Fixed See here. Seems like a lot of pages using Template:Gadget-talk had that problem and ended up in Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls. I created bunch of /lang pages so there would be less calls to 
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [8]
Thank you. for answering. Fauvirt (talk) 19:01, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
Thank you.--LacoR (talk) 12:48, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
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Great! --Praveen:talk 03:15, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
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