Commons:Upload help/Archive/2015/12

I owned real estate here in seattle wa in 1984. But I sufferd memory loss how can I find property

My name in 1984 was Louis O neal King Sr. I played professionals football. Pro baseball pro basketball and boxed pro. In pro football everytime that I was introduced at a pro football game in 1983. Their would be a stampede of women onto the football field. I boxed julio chesar chavez in 1983, or 1984. To unify the title. I fought that fight in the name meldrich Taylor. I owned real estate in north seattle now I am homeless who can help me l. Call (213) 864_8756pr — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.87.138.110 (talk • contribs) 19:43, 9 December 2015‎ (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: BMacZero (talk) 23:52, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

UploadWizard not working

Hello, I haven't been abled to use the UploadWizard on Firefox 4X for weeks. On the same computer, Internet Explorer works fine. Is there any pending issue? --NaBUru38 (talk) 20:16, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Having same issue. Scratchmarc (talk) 19:22, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Wizard blocking the upload of photos

I have been having the problem of after putting in all the information for a picture the Wizard blocks the upload of the image. It highlights the title box in red and says

"This looks like a file you obtained from another image host. Please make the title more meaningful. Also, double check that you have the rights to publish it on this site."

At this point the upload button disappears and even if you change the title it will not reappear making it impossible to upload the pictures. This is extremely frustrating, especially with big uploads. I have found the wizard seems to do this whenever you end the name of your file with a date. A for sure way to get it is if you end your file name with 2015/12/03 or something like that. Please fix this so it stops blocking uploads, or at least make it so you can correct the title and then proceed to upload. as it is now. You spend half an hour preparing an upload and then this filter comes in and makes you start all over again from the beginning. (Sunfishtommy (talk) 21:55, 3 December 2015 (UTC))

Replacing images of Wikisource projects.

I am replacing hundreds of poorly processed images of the Popular Science Monthly volumes. These were uploaded by me, but my image cleanup & contrasting processes greatly improved since the originals were prepared. My problem is that I must work from Wikisource which makes the process of uploading very long as I have to take the following steps:

1. Click on the image of the page to be replaced, which leads me to the local image page.
2. Click on the 'View on Wikimedia Commons' link.
3. Scroll down and click on 'Upload a new version of this file' where I finally access the upload page.

There must be a shorter/direct way to access the image replacement page. Can the 'Upload Wizard' be used for image replacement in batch mode?

An example of an improved image — Ineuw talk 00:38, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

I don't get why you "must work from Wikisource" -- RTA 08:08, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Add a picture to the value "False Flag" - a TV show

Hello I wanted to add a picture to the value "False Flag" - TV series: Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Flag_(TV_series) That's the picture: http://tbivision.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/FALSE-FLAG_KI_V12_1075X850_RGB_300DPI.jpg

My Wikipedia user does not have permission to put this image I would love someone to add the picture instead of me :)

I wanted to add to this picture of this place: http://i.imgur.com/1YhdAiL.png This picture is actually the logo of TV series

I'm sorry for bad english, actually ... You'll have to forgive Google translator, and not me: D Thanks in advance :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yossi10zahvi (talk • contribs) -- RTA 08:02, 4 December 2015 (UTC) (UTC)

This are not free images, you can't upload here, check Commons:First steps to have more information about it. -- RTA 08:02, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Radio

I would like to add some info to Wiki as I was the UK's 1st female full time radio presenter. I started in Galaxy Radio in 1992 broadcasting a daily 4 hour show at this time there were only 1 or 2 women doing 1 show a week like Annie Nightingale and Ranking Miss P. Jackie Brambles followed after me. I went onto become Head of Specialist Programs and was the first legal station to play drum & bass. My show went on to include live weekly mixes from Roni Size & The Full Cycle crew who's live band Reprezent won The Mercury Award in 1996. I also co-hosted a show on BBC Radio called Euromix with Robert Elms for which I won a Sony Award. I also help set up the UKs 1st all female radio station Fem FM in 1992. These are just some of my achievements and I'd be so grateful for your help in uploading this information to Wikipedia. Thank you so much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.252.189.68 (talk • contribs) 00:46, 6 December 2015‎ (UTC)

If you look at the address bar of your browser, you'll note that the site you are on right now is commons.wikimedia.org, not en.wikipedia.org. Making sure you know what site you're on is good practice for many reasons, not least to avoid becoming the victim of phishing scams.

If you wish to contribute content to English Wikipedia, a good first step would be to head over there, and if you still need help, ask at their help desk. Before trying to write about yourself, you should read their conflict of interest guidelines.

Wikimedia Commons (this site) is a repository of free, educational media files (photos, diagrams, videos, audio files etc.) used by Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, and others. Plain text biographic content is outside of our project scope. —LX (talk, contribs) 09:37, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Question regarding picture of painting from 1967-1970 timeframe in U.S.

I have a photograph of a painting of a semi-truck being driven along Highway 1 in California near Los Angeles. The company is named on the side of the trailers, Transcon Lines, which went out of business in 1990. There is no copyright symbols on this photograph/painting, although the artist's name "J. Katalski" is on the right bottom corner of the painting. I have been unable to find the artist or any of his heirs via ancestry.com and other searches. I was trying to get this picture into the public domain so that former employees of Transcon and their heirs could see this picture. There is no further documentation. Former Transcon employees have said that copies of this painting were displayed at numerous locations within their operations in the 1967 to 1970 timeframe, within the United States. No people are portrayed in the picture. Should I upload this to Wikimedia Commons? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mackey77 (talk • contribs) 21:29, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

That might be public domain per {{PD-US-no notice}}, but I am not 100% sure how that particular license works. There is a separate Help Desk Village Pump for copyright (see the top of this page) where people may be more knowledgeable. BMacZero (talk) 02:25, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Uploading from a language wiki

I want to use this file on ru wiki: Файл:Лев Карахан (Караханян).jpg. H. Humbert (talk) 06:54, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Convenience link: ru:Файл:Лев Карахан (Караханян).jpg. BMacZero (talk) 02:09, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Uploading photo

I want help with uploading a photo to en:Greg Germann's Wikipedia page.

I'm not sure how to handle adding an old newspaper article to references for a Wikipedia entry. The article has no author and is has no publication data, even though I have an approximate idea (October 1941). It is better than no citation at all, but it is far from complete and no way to get permission. I have the image of the article and text in a PDF. I tried uploading the file, but don't know how to put a reference to it in an article, or if it should not be referenced. I'll try here. File:Newpaper article about Logan Elm Poem.pdf Bobcoiltrb (talk) 02:04, 8 December 2015 (UTC)bob

Unfortunately that information isn't enough to determine the copyright status of the image, and you won't be able to upload this file to commons. You might be able to upload it to the Wikipedia project you are creating the article on (COM:FAIRUSE). Someone has nominated the file for deletion here already. Commons:Deletion requests/File:Newpaper article about Logan Elm Poem.pdf. BMacZero (talk) 01:56, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

How can i upload a mulinedib file

Dear sir i want to upload my own pic can you help me pleas — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.124.29.29 (talk • contribs) 03:51, 10 December 2015‎ (UTC)

Not sure what you mean by "mulinedib", but you should read Commons:First steps. —LX (talk, contribs) 09:21, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Upload Wizard

I was just uploading some files circa 1850 but the wizard made me put in an exact date to continue rather than allowing an approximate date for very old images. Is there any way around this? Philafrenzy (talk) 22:59, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

If you click the button with a pencil icon (which has the tooltip text "Use custom date format"), you should be able to enter something like {{other date|circa|1850}} , which will be rendered as "circa 1850

date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902

" in the reader's selected language. Does that not work? —LX (talk, contribs) 18:36, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I will try that next time. Philafrenzy (talk) 19:28, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

uploading document i created

i just created a wiki page for my village back in Africa... how can i upload it. I have created an account among other, but still have problems... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rovase69 (talk • contribs) 18:23, 14 December 2015‎ (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons (this site) is a media repository. We host media files such as images, audio and video. We do not host encyclopædia articles or other plain-text content, as that is outside of our project scope. If you want to create an article on English Wikipedia, you should read en:Wikipedia:Your first article. —LX (talk, contribs) 18:30, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Question about uploading a picture

Hi! I am working on a wikipedia article on Convolutional Neural Networks. I found a picture on the web that I wish to use for the article (http://cs231n.github.io/assets/cnn/cnn.jpeg). I contacted the picture's author (his name is Andrej Karpaty, karpathy@cs.stanford.edu) via e-mail and obtained his explicit permission to use it for the article. I uploaded the file to Commons and indicated that in the description. However, the file was deleted as violating copyright by a wiki bot. Could you help me with resolving this issue? Thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aphex34 (talk • contribs)

To be on Commons, files must be allowed to be used by anyone (see COM:SCOPE). If you only have permission to use the file on Wikipedia, you should upload it there. If you want to try to get the required permission to upload the file here, see COM:OTRS. BMacZero (talk) 21:37, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Adding Co-Autors

Where and how can I add co-authors of the images for the European Science Photo Competition 2015? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antoninodigiovanna87 (talk • contribs) 14:46, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Kruusamägi, can you help with this? —LX (talk, contribs) 16:06, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

ESPC 2015 has ended, so this question isn't that much relevant anymore. But as I can see you managed to successfully upload some images.

As you saw, then while uploading files to Commons there is a line that asks how you want the authors name to be marked down. If yo want the current information to be changed, then you can do it with edit button above the image page. Editing page looks like this.

BTW: I just today had jury meeting we selected the best images from Italy. Lot of countries still remain. I'm not sure yet when exactly will we announce the results. Kruusamägi (talk) 22:00, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Problem with upload wizard

Stuck on the "describe" stage - no "next" button. (No red sections or errors.) Rich Farmbrough, 02:01 15 December 2015 (GMT).

The Upload Wizard (the default interface for uploading files to Commons) is pretty much in a perpetual state of brokenness. It isn't broken for everyone all the time, but I don't recall a time since it was introduced that we went more than a few days without people reporting enigmatic problems with indefinitely spinning wheels, unhelpful error messages, or simply no way to move forward. Have you tried Commons:Upload? It tends to be much more reliable. —LX (talk, contribs) 16:04, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Issues with large JPEG files / how about a progress bar?

It seems that uploads of large JPEG files (not that large in image size, but in file size, e.g. File:Frasnacht Kratzern 2015.jpg: a JPEG of 5,424 × 3,616 pixels with 27.02 MB) have a tendency to get stuck in the Upload Wizard and sometimes need more than one attempt at uploading. A progress bar shown while uploading would be reassuring... Gestumblindi (talk) 11:53, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

This sounds like the issue already raised in phabricator:T121356. I don't think there are any Mediawiki developers are monitoring the Commons upload help desk, so feature requests made here are unlikely to be acted upon. —LX (talk, contribs) 16:00, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Drag and drop

A drag and drop feature would greatly improve user experience and speed up the upload process. Please make sure to add it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrfwow (talk • contribs) 19:36, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

It's already there. There is a task in Phabricator about making the feature more visible. I don't think there are any Mediawiki developers are monitoring the Commons upload help desk, so feature requests made here are unlikely to be acted upon. —LX (talk, contribs) 16:02, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Upload / Copyright Issues

Folks,

I'm putting together my first wiki page and it looks like I need some help understanding how to correctly upload some images I want to use on the page.

The page is of an artist, my grandfather, who died in 1969. The images I wish to upload include one portrait of him, and 7 - 10 images of his art work. All the images are of art work owned by either myself of other members of my family. The images are all of low resolution.

I uploaded several images and used "own work" for the copyright designation, which I now see is obviously incorrect. I presume I should be uploading and designating as "fair use." Is this correct? Please give me some guidance as to the correct copyright designation and as to the correct location I should upload to.

Thanks for your help.

J. Joy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackxjoy (talk • contribs) 01:03, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

If you did not create the original photos or paintings entirely yourself, then they are not your own work, you are not the author, and you are probably not the copyright holder.

The author of a photograph or painting is the photographer or painter. The author (rather than the subject) is normally also the copyright holder, unless it is a work made for hire (in which case the copyright holder is specified by the written contract) or the copyright has expired (in which case it has not copyright). If the original copyright holder has passed away, the heirs are the copyright holders until it expires. Copyright is an immaterial right and has nothing to do with ownership of any physical copies or originals.

Fair use content is not permitted on Commons. Non-free fair use content may only be uploaded locally to some projects (such as English Wikipedia) under some specific circumstances. For the English Wikipedia's guidelines, see en:Wikipedia:Non-free content. —LX (talk, contribs) 16:21, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Fawago

Auto-Owners Insurance wants to replace an image (company logo) with the updated logo. We cannot figure out how to do this...?? Get this error: A file with this name exists already. If you want to replace it, go to the page for File:AOIC_Logo_noproblem.png and replace it there.

and when visit the image- there is a note saying you cannot overwrite this file.

File:Auto-Owners Insurance.jpg File history Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment current 15:58, 30 August 2010 Thumbnail for version as of 15:58, 30 August 2010 1,277 × 425 (47 KB) Nicho269 (talk | contribs) You cannot overwrite this file.

Fawago (talk) 20:33, 17 December 2015 (UTC)Auto-Owners Insurance Rep

 Comment I deleted the second file as duplicate. Yann (talk) 20:59, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

No subject

Hello,

I am new to Wikimedia Commons, and would appreciate advice selecting the correct copyright tag for a photograph that I would like to upload to the Commons then add to an existing Wikipedia page. The photograph was provided by the photographer, for this purpose, at my request. In the file properties, the photographer has designated the copyright status as "Free License / Open License". After filling in the fields attributing the photo source and photographer, I am not sure which Creative Commons license category and/or copyright tag to select.

Thank you, in advance, for your help! Laatu (talk) 16:16, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

The photographer needs to specify the exact terms under which he or she would like to release the photo. You cannot make that selection on their behalf. The permission to publish the photo under the license of their choosing also needs to be sent in via e-mail. See Commons:OTRS for details. —LX (talk, contribs) 17:40, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

PDF'S are being split into individual pages when being uploaded

I'm trying to upload about 100 pdf documents and each has at least 20 pages each. I've only been able to upload 1 however that uploaded with all of its pages intact the other 2 were split and show up in the list as individual pdfs of the same pdf. Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem otherwise it's going to take forever to upload files since the limit is 50 at a time. Thanks :-)Notgoingtotellyou (talk) 06:40, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Marking for archival as a duplicate of the question at Commons:Help desk#Problem uploading intact PDF's system keeps splitting them up upon upload. Please don't crosspost. —LX (talk, contribs) 12:42, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —LX (talk, contribs) 12:42, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Upload / license selection assistance, please

Hello,

I am new to Wikimedia Commons, and would appreciate advice selecting the correct copyright tag for a photograph that I would like to upload to the Commons then add to an existing Wikipedia page. The photograph is of US origin. At my request, the photograph (jpeg file) was provided by the photographer for this purpose. In the file properties, the photographer has designated the copyright status as "Free License / Open License". During upload, after filling in the fields attributing the photo source and photographer, I am not sure which Creative Commons license category and/or copyright tag to select. Which license category applies?

Thank you, in advance, for your help! Laatu (talk) 13:00, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Again, since this is basically the same question I answered immediately above: The photographer needs to specify the exact terms under which he or she would like to release the photo. You cannot make that selection on their behalf. The permission to publish the photo under the license of their choosing also needs to be sent in via e-mail. See Commons:OTRS for details. —LX (talk, contribs) 15:46, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Cant upload anylonger

Tried with several pictures both today and yesterday. I wait and wait, but it will not go any further than the upload stage--Ezzex (talk) 19:25, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

The Upload Wizard (the default interface for uploading files to Commons) is pretty much in a perpetual state of brokenness. It isn't broken for everyone all the time, but I don't recall a time since it was introduced that we went more than a few days without people reporting enigmatic problems with indefinitely spinning wheels, unhelpful error messages, or simply no way to move forward. Have you tried Commons:Upload? It tends to be much more reliable. —LX (talk, contribs) 20:59, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

For how long? I've uploaded hundreds photos over the last 3-4 years (the last one in September)--Ezzex (talk) 23:22, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

You mean how long has it been since the Upload Wizard was introduced? It was made the default upload tool in May 2011. Stalled upload processes have been reported since at least 2010. —LX (talk, contribs) 06:05, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

@LX: Come on, you're exaggerating. UploadWizard is being used to upload around 30% of the new files at Commons (and that's counting uploads from semiautomated tools like Flickr transfers or GWToolset). It can't be that bad. (I concede that the old upload tool is probably more reliable, since it's a lot simpler.)

@Ezzex: I sympathise, but I can't really help without you giving me any more details. It works for me :) Can you elaborate what exactly you're trying to do (what kind of files? what file name? can you upload one of them somewhere else for me to test with, like on Phabricator?), what exactly happens (does the page look visibly broken? or just not responding to your clicks? if possible, can you tell if it's using your CPU or uploading data over the network?), and what browser you're experiencing this with (can you get a log from its error console?). We have a How to report a bug page with some more tips. Matma Rex (talk) 19:37, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Like I said: not always broken for everyone, but pretty much always broken for a significant number of people. Look at Special:PrefixIndex/Commons:Upload Wizard feedback/Archive from 2011/05 and later. I don't know where you got the 30% figure, but it really doesn't say anything at all about how many uploads are unsuccessful. The negative feedback is a hint, but I'm sure a lot of people just give up and leave. —LX (talk, contribs) 23:07, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

I've tries once more, but it will still not work. I have never had any problems with this before. What is CPU? I use Firefox--Ezzex (talk) 20:20, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

@Ezzex: Suggestion: Back in August, I encountered a similar problem uploading image files to Commons through the old Upload form using Mozilla Firefox web browser. Like you, I had uploaded dozens of image files to Commons, over the years, using Firefox. After failed attempts over several days in August, I then tried uploading the image file using Google Chrome web browser, and was successful. So now, when uploading an image to Commons, I always use Google Chrome. Woodlot (talk) 12:05, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Upload with Flickr2Commons

I tried to upload this picture to Commons, but the tool says that no suitable photos found, despite the flickr user using a public domain license. What's wrong?--Threeohsix (talk) 13:57, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Djvu file is too big!

I wish to upload this file on Commons to start transcribing it on Wikisource, but it's about 110 MB in size so I cannot. What can be done in this scenario? --Decan (talk) 11:39, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

As mentioned in Commons:Maximum file size: enable chunked uploads in your preferences. —LX (talk, contribs) 12:45, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

I clicked to upload a photo, but it does not appear in the page.

On page

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Bienes_de_inter%C3%A9s_cultural_de_la_Regi%C3%B3n_de_Murcia

row "Batería de Atalayón" (RI-51-0009995), I clicked to add a photo at the right side icon:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edificio_de_la_Bateria_antiaerea_del_Atalayon,_fotografiada_a_la_luz_de_la_luna_(DSC_0313).JPG

But it is not shown in the page. Why?

Notice that I have no idea why I get part in English part in Spanish. I'm happy on both languages. When clicking on upload in the Spanish wiki page, I get all the prompts in English. maybe that is the problem? :-? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cerobin (talk • contribs) 14:49, 27 December 2015‎ (UTC)

Thank you for your contribution! Uploading an image doesn't automatically cause it to be added to any pages. You need to edit the page and add it yourself. —LX (talk, contribs) 16:39, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Then the instructions are wrong. The page provides a link to upload photos for the monuments on the page, and that I did. I will not edit the page myself.

Question: Why, the page being in the Spanish wiki, in Spanish, am I getting the upload link and _this_ help page in English? This being English, it is impossible for me to get help from the people maintaining that page in Spanish. They will never know I submitted a photo, either. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cerobin (talk • contribs) 15:17, 28 December 2015‎ (UTC)

Improving the instructions on es:Anexo:Bienes de interés cultural de la Región de Murcia is a matter for Spanish Wikipedia. Right now you're at a different but related project called Wikimedia Commons. We host free media (photos, video, audio etc.) that can be used on all the different language editions of Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects (plus the rest of the world).

Commons is a multilingual project. You can change the language of the user interface in your preferences or by using the language selection link at the top of the page. The folks over at Spanish Wikipedia may also want to append &uselang=es to the links for the upload form, which will set Spanish as the language of choice. If you want Spanish-language assistance here on Commons, Commons:Café is probably your best bet, but when it comes to feedback on es:Anexo:Bienes de interés cultural de la Región de Murcia, you should probably head over to es:Anexo Discusión:Bienes de interés cultural de la Región de Murcia or es:Wikipedia:Café back at Spanish Wikipedia. Cheers, —LX (talk, contribs) 18:03, 28 December 2015 (UTC)