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Translations needed for Wiki Loves Africa

Hi Anthere, Can you please translate this template for Wiki Loves Africa to French? Template:Wiki Loves Africa 2019 country/en. Can you also ask someone to translate it to Arabic? Romaine (talk) 11:01, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

English:This is an image with the theme "Play" from Inconnu

French: Ceci est une image en rapport avec le sport ou le jeu en/au Inconnu

Arabic: هذه صورة مرتبطة برياضة أو لعبة من طرف مجهول

Portuguese: Esta é uma imagem em relação com o desporto ou o jogo de Inconnu

PS: Please also find an image for the right side in Template:Wiki Loves Africa 2019 (now the 2017 image is used but should be replaced). Romaine (talk) 11:03, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

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PS2: Everything should be ready now on templates + categories + upload campaign side for the upcoming photo contest. Romaine (talk) 11:10, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

WOW !!! 2 weeks in advance ! WOW. Anthere (talk)

Hi user:Romaine. I asked for an arabic and Portuguese translation. For now... only French :)

One note... I noticed that in the upload wizard it is possible to choose the country. Of course, only African countries here. I tested with a country (it worked). Then I tested without a country. I got this : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AGD13_Automne.jpg. I am not 100% convinced this is the right behavior as the two categories duplicate. Is that possible to have this request mandatory rather than optional, and then to add at the bottom of the list "other countries" (not a perfect solution, but it would be more accurate and less redundant than the current red category). What do you think ? Anthere (talk)

• done in arabic --Bachounda (talk) 14:01, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

@Romaine, a portuguese sentence is added... Do you need anything else in Portuguese to make that work ? Anthere (talk)

I have created an overview page to list everything where we need translations: Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2019/Translations. In Portuguese these are missing: number 2: Template:Upload campaign header Wiki Loves Africa + number 4 on Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2019/Translations + number 5: Template:Wiki Loves Africa 2019 country .

The last one is also missing in French and Arabic. Romaine (talk) 17:59, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

"not convinced I am the one loosing the most here."

It's a win-win result for Commons. Regards. T Cells (talk · contribs · email) 19:51, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

Oh be nice. --Fæ (talk) 20:07, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Africa 2019

Dear Anthere,

You have contributed in the past to the Wiki Loves Africa competition. Your images have helped people learn more about Africa and see Africa more clearly from an African perspective. Overall, nearly 5000 people like you have contributed to this photo contest, and contributed nearly 40000 images about Africa. Pictures from Wiki Loves Africa illustrate more than 7000 Wikipedia articles and they received... 278.859.973 views between 2015 through the end of 2018. WOW ! How does it feel to be part of this and really make a difference when it come to Africa representation on Wikipedia ?

This February, you have another opportunity to create beautiful photographs on the theme of "play" that could change how the world understands people and culture in your part of Africa.

Wiki Loves Africa is a annual public contest where people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation.

When does it take place?
The 2019 competition will start on 1st February 2019 and close on 1st March 2019.

What should we contribute?
Pictures ! audios ! videos ! The theme for the 2019 contest is... Play.
This theme encompasses a host of approaches and is intentionally open to interpretation. The theme Play! encourages the submission of visual representations of joyful and serious games, sport, and recreation in the form of board or mental games, physical fun or contests, playful interactions, theatrical and musical performances, etc.

In addition to the value your photos contribute to human understanding and african visibility on the Internet, there are several prizes on offer – including two separate prize categories for photos and media that encompass

• (a) capture Women in sport or
• (b) culturally specific and traditional formal forms of play, recreation or events.

For rules and information about how to participate, or to join the contest, click on: Contribute to the Wiki Loves Africa photo contest.

Warmest,

Anthere, for the Wiki Loves Africa Team

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Cher ou chère Anthere,

Par le passé, vous avez participé au concours photographique Wiki Loves Africa. Vos photos ont aidé de nombreuses personnes à mieux comprendre l'Afrique et à la voir sous un autre angle, l'angle des africains eux-même. Depuis sa création en 2014, près de 5000 personnes ont contribué au concours photo, en ajoutant près de 40000 photos relatives à l'Afrique. 5000 personnes, dont vous, qui ont fait une vraie différence sur la représentation de l'Afrique sur Wikipédia et en ligne. Mieux encore... ces photos illustrent aujourd'hui près de 7000 articles Wikipédia et totalisent 278.859.973 vues entre 2015 et fin 2018 !

Ce mois de février vous avez à nouveau l'opportunité de proposer de fabuleuses illustrations sur le thème du "Jeu", qui participeront à changer la façon dont les êtres humains à travers le monde comprennent les habitants et la culture de votre région..

Wiki Loves Africa, c’est un concours public annuel où chacun est invité à partager des illustrations via Wikimedia Commons, en rapport avec le thème de l’année, illustrations qui pourront être utilisées sur Wikipédia ou les autres sites de la Wikimedia Foundation.

Quand le concours se déroule t-il?
Le concours 2019 démarre le 1er février 2019 et cloture le 1er mars 2019.

Quelles sont les contenus attendus?
Des photos ! Des enregistrements audio ! Des vidéos ! Le thème du concours 2019 est ... Jouer.
Ce thème englobe de nombreuses approches, il est aussi intentionnellement ouvert à l’interprétation. Le thème Jouer ! encourage à proposer des représentations de jeux de détente et sérieux, du sport et des divertissements sous la forme de jeux de société ou de jeux intellectuels, d'activités physiques de divertissement ou de compétitions, d'interactions ludiques, de performances théâtrales ou musicales, etc..

En plus de la valeur intrinsèque que vos photos apporteront à la compréhension et à la visibilité du monde africain sur Internet, il y a de nombreux prix à gagner. Dont deux prix spéciaux pour les photos qui représentent

• a) femmes et sport ou
• b) formes de jeux, de divertissements ou d’évènements culturellement spécifiques ou traditionnels.

Pour plus d'informations, règles de participation et pour participer au concours, cliquez sur Contribuer au concours photo Wiki Loves Africa.

Bien à vous,

Anthere, pour l'équipe Wiki Loves Africa

Your e-mail

Thank you for informing me about that, I knew that the subject did some deceptive behaviour but honestly I thought that they were just incompetent with some medical articles so I would have to withdraw my recommendation for them. I don't think in fact that giving them access to such private information would be beneficial to either this project and its partners so thanks for the information.

Also I did not know how far their deceptive behaviour reached, which is alarming, although I hope that they can change I think that giving them the access I proposed would probably be a risk this project should not take. You can quote me on that if someone ever were to nominate him (I mean I publish this CC-BY-SA so you could've quoted me anyhow, but you get the point). --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 05:56, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Unrelated, but why don't you solicit for the position discussed above? It's a great way to help GLAM's and more volunteers are always needed. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 05:59, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello user:Donald Trung. I have been an OTRS agent for several years. I have also been a steward in the past. I helped answering many requests, complains, questions, recorded permissions etc. But at some point, I became less available and motivated due to other activities and drop being an active OTRS agent. Hence I was removed from the list. I do not plan to be an OTRS agent again :) It is a thankless job, but a very important one. And I am grateful to all those doing it. They are the true heroes. Still, it is a position that requires being trusted and I strongly believe that anyone with a bad track record in the community, in particular of deceptive behavior, has no place there. Anthere (talk)

That's why I always show my appreciation to OTRS agents if they handle a ticket 🎟 I requested, maybe the Wikimedia Foundation should show more thanks to OTRS agents during events or show them in another way how indispensable they are for the content on Wikimedia websites. Well, this is just a hobby so if you can't contribute anymore to answer OTRS queues I understand.

Although I do hope that the concerned user can one day change their ways, trust should be able to be earned back, but seeing how they almost actively try to advertise themselves as holding a WMF position I am not sure how trustworthy they can be, plus they seem to have to learn a lot both socially and technically so while I believe that they're a long-term good faith user they still have to prove their trustworthiness.

By the way, why doesn't the Wikimedia Foundation try to recruit more agents during WikiCons? (or does it?) --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:03, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

 Addendum Maybe an automated system could send Wikimedia Commons OTRS members a wikicake on their talk pages every year showing appreciation, I believe that if OTRS agents don't view their work as thankless that more would be motivated to stay. Maybe the automated message could also conjure up a list of the top images they confirmed by cross-wiki viewcount of the articles they're used at to show how useful and influential their work truly is. Just some ideas. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:06, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

OTRS appreciation concept

As you were an OTRS agent, if you would have received this template on your talk page every year, how would that make you feel? Do you think that this might show the current agents that their work is being (silently) appreciated by a great number of people? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 19:01, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Tu sème a tout vent. Bachounda (talk) 10:11, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for updating my ISA campaign

Nice to meet you... I see that you have started to use my campaign https://tools.wmflabs.org/isa/campaigns/18 "Wiki Loves Heritage Belgium 2019", that I just created this evening.

Actually we share some interests: I am also Agricultural engineer, I write about African subjects, and I am an enthousiatic Wikipedian since 2005. I have run a private MediaWiki server since 2005 at my company until I became early retired beginning of this year...

Since you are French, do you participate next week in Brussels with the m:WikiConvention francophone/2019/fr ? Geert Van Pamel (talk) 21:47, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

I will be there ! I will actually give two lightning talks. One about m:WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique/en (using m:wikifundi - it might interest you) and the other about ISA ! Will I have the pleasure of meeting you over there ? Anthere (talk)

Actually I will be there for 4 days... (I am president of Category:Wikimedia Belgium) Geert Van Pamel (talk) 23:49, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Oh ! Glad to meet you Geert ! I hope you will be fine next week. Hosting an event is always a challenge ! See you then ! Anthere (talk)

Wiki Loves Monuments France 2019

Bonjour,

Le concours Wiki Loves Monuments France est de retour et ouvert jusqu'à 31 septembre ! Déjà 8310 photos ont été importés cette année, vous aussi rejoignez le concours !

Le concours concerne tous les monuments présents dans la base Mérimée (qu'ils soient classés, inscrits ou simplement classés). De l'imposant château aux ruines industrielles, de la chapelle au coin de la rue aux mégalithes en forêt, c'est un impressionnant patrimoine qui attend d'être photographié et documenté. Où que vous soyez il y a des monuments autour de chez vous. Enfin, vous pouvez mettre en ligne autant de photos que vous le souhaitez de ces monuments. Pour information, le règlement est disponible sur le site du concours. Nous attendons vos photos avec impatience !

Les plus belles photos seront sélectionnées par un jury national composé d'amateurs et de professionnels, de contributeurs à Wikimedia Commons et d'acteurs du patrimoine. Un jury international sélectionnera ensuite des meilleures photographies mondiales.

Si vous avez des questions, l'équipe organisatrice se fera un plaisir d'y répondre.

P.S. : vous recevez ce message parce que vous avez participé au concours Wiki Loves Monuments en France les années précédentes. Si vous avez déjà ou si ne pouvez pas participer au concours cette année, faites passer le message autour de vous pour que de nouveaux et nouvelles photographes rejoignent l'aventure !

Bonne journée,

Sarah Krichen WMFr et Nicolas Vigneron, pour l'équipe de Wiki Loves Monuments France, 14:50, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Structured Data - blogs posted in Wikimedia Space

There are two separate blog entries for Structured Data on Commons posted to Wikimedia Space that are of interest:

• Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister, discusses some ways that editors can work with structured data. Topics include tools that have been written or modified for structured data, in addition to future plans for tools and querying services.
• Structured Data on Commons - A Blog Series, written by me, is a five-part posting that covers the basics of the software and features that were built to make structured data happen. The series is meant to be friendly to those who may have some knowledge of Commons, but may not know much about the structured data project.

I hope these are informative and useful, comments and questions are welcome. All the blogs offer a comment feature, and you can log in with your Wikimedia account using oAuth. I look forward to seeing some posts over there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:33, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Category:Plectranthus parviflorus

Bon jour Anthere

J'attire ton attention sur la Category:Plectranthus parviflorus, où beaucoup de fichiers semblent avoir été importés deux fois. Est-ce que tu peux faire quelque chose, sinon quelle est la page où signaler ce genre de cas ? (je ne me vois pas faire une vingtaine de demandes de suppression à la suite)

Amitiés

--Chaoborus (talk) 20:41, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Bjr. J'ai l'impression que quelqu'un a du le prendre en charge depuis ton signalement car je ne vois pas de double clair. Il y pas mal de redondance cependant :(

A mon avis, tu peux sans doute le signaler simplement sur le bistro francophone ? Pour un nettoyage de routine, ça ne me semble pas plus bête. Ou en effet, attraper un admin sur sa page de discussion...

Amicalement Anthere (talk)

Interview with Marco Gualazzini from Wiki Loves Africa 2019 contest

Hello Anthere. As someone involved in the Wiki Loves Africa contest I thought you'd enjoy this short interview I was fortunate enough to have with the winning photographer from this year's contest. Thanks for all you do. CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 18:50, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Great ! Thanks ! Anthere (talk)

mark for translation

Hi Anthere,

Could you pleas mark this edition [2] for translation? Thank you. -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton ^m 08:46, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

I can not do it myself :))) But I will review all this early next week. Sorry, currently on holidays in family. Happy New Year ! Anthere (talk)

FV Promotion

★ This file has been promoted to Featured media! ★ The file File:Wiki Loves Africa 2017.webm, that you uploaded is now assessed as one of the finest file on Wikimedia Commons, the nomination is available at Commons:Featured media candidates/File:Wiki Loves Africa 2017.webm. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate, please do so at this nomination page.

/FVCBot (talk) 06:21, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Sooooo cool ! Anthere (talk)

FV userbox

Hi, Anthere I noticed that the video that you upload got featured at COM:FVC , if you wish you can add an user box {{User FV|colors=light-blue|category=Featured videos by {{subst:SUBPAGENAME}}}} to your user page if you wish. The wiki-text prints the following user box:

This user has uploaded featured media to Wikimedia Commons.

Thanks // Eatcha (talk) 10:47, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/massmessage

Wiki Loves Africa

Contribute to Wiki Loves Africa and to how the world sees Africa!	Contribuez à Wiki Loves Africa et impactez la façon dont le monde voit l’Afrique!
Dear Anthere In the past, you contributed to the Wiki Loves Africa competition. This February, you have another opportunity to create beautiful photographs on the theme of "transportation" that could change how the world understands people and culture in your part of Africa. As with previous years, there are also many exciting cash prizes. Wiki Loves Africa is an annual public contest where people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation. Images from the competition have helped millions learn more about Africa and see Africa more clearly from an African perspective. Overall, nearly 5000 people like you have contributed to this photo contest, and contributed 18,000 images about Africa. When does it take place? The 2020 competition will start on the 15th of February 2020 and close on 31st March 2020. What should we contribute? Pictures ! audios ! videos ! The theme for the 2020 contest is... Africa on the Move ! This theme encompasses a host of approaches and is intentionally open to interpretation. It encourages the submission of visual representations of movement or transportation, whether by path, road, sea air, by self-propelled, animal or mechanical means, or the historical or contemporary structures that have been created to facilitate movement or the transportation of people, goods, or animals. In addition to the value your photos contribute to understanding and African visibility, there are several prizes on offer. The international prizes are: 1st prize: US$1000 2nd prize: US$800 3rd prize: US$500 Additional categories are: Culturally specific or traditional representations of transport or structures that facilitate transportation : US$500 Prize for best quality video: $500 Each winner will also receive a pack of goodies (proposed: a hat "I edit Wikipedia from Africa", a branded battery, stickers). Additional prizes will be available in some countries. For rules and information about how to participate, or to join the contest, click on Contribute to the Wiki Loves Africa photo contest. Warmest, Anthere, for the Wiki Loves Africa Team	Cher ou chère Anthere, Au cours des années passées, vous avez participé au concours photographique Wiki Loves Africa. Ce mois de février vous avez à nouveau l'opportunité de proposer de fabuleuses illustrations sur le thème du "transport", qui pourraient profondément modifier la façon dont le reste du monde voit l’Afrique et comprend ses habitants et ses coutumes. Bonus, comme lors des années précédentes, il y a plusieurs prix à la clé. Wiki Loves Africa un concours public annuel où chacun est invité à partager des illustrations via Wikimedia Commons, en rapport avec le thème de l’année, illustrations qui pourront être utilisées sur Wikipédia ou les autres sites de la Wikimedia Foundation. Les photos collectées par le passé dans le cadre du concours ont aidé des millions de personne à mieux connaitre et comprendre l’Afrique et à la voir selon une perspective africaine. Au cours des dernières années, près de 5000 personnes comme vous ont contribué au concours, un total de 18,000 photos sur l’Afrique. Quand le concours se déroule t-il? Le concours 2020 démarre le 15 février 2020 et cloture le 31 mars 2020. Quelles sont les contenus attendus? Des photos ! Des enregistrements audio ! Des vidéos ! Le thème du concours 2020 est ... Le transport. Ce thème englobe de nombreuses approches, il est aussi intentionnellement ouvert à l’interprétation. Le thème Transport ! encourage à proposer des représentations liées au mouvement ou au transport, que ce soit par la route, ou l’air, ou l’eau, de façon auto-propulsée ou avec l’aide de la force animale ou mécanique, ou bien également les structures architecturales historiques ou contemporaines qui sont à l’origine ou ont facilité le mouvement et le transport des êtres humains, des animaux ou des biens. En plus de la valeur intrinsèque que vos photos apportent pour une meilleure visibilité et compréhension de l’Afrique à travers le monde, il y a de nombreux prix à gagner. Les prix internationaux sont les suivants: 1er prix: US$1000 2ème prix: US$800 3ème prix: US$500 Catégories additionnelles: Transport ou structures de transport traditionnelles : US$500 Prix de la meilleure vidéo: US$500 Chaque gagnant recevra également des cadeaux supplémentaires tels qu'une casquette "I edit Wikipedia from Africa", une batterie portable, des stickers... Des prix supplémentaires seront offerts dans certains pays. Pour plus d'informations, règles de participation et pour participer au concours, cliquez sur Participer au concours Wiki Loves Africa. Bien à vous, Anthere, pour l'équipe Wiki Loves Africa

A small doubt

In this page, just under the logo and heading, the line 'Campaign to improve the images uploaded to Commons, in relation to COVID 19. epidemics and SARS-CoV-2' is written. In that, I think the full stop placed after the word 'COVID-19' needs to be replaced by comma. Please note - I am not sure. Adithyak1997 (talk) 08:05, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

It totally makes sense. I fix that. Thanks Anthere (talk)

Study shows Wiki Love Africa recruitment makes a difference

Hello Anthere

We are writing because you have participated in the Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) photo competition in the past. Results have been published and winning pictures may be seen here !

This year WLA partnered with the research organization CAT Lab (previously CivilServant) to help us evaluate the effectiveness of one of our recruitment efforts. You may or may not have received a message on your user talk page encouraging you to participate again in this year's competition.

We are excited to share with you their study found our recruitment message was a success and may have resulted in as many as 2,000 additional contributed photos. We hope you agree this is great news for Africa and its representation across Wikimedia. You can read more about the study and the results in this blog post.

If you have any questions about the study, we encourage you to ask CAT Lab's research manager Juliakamin(cs).

Anthere, for the Wiki Loves Africa Team

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@user:notafish au revoir ta photo :( Anthere (talk)

Ach, dommage. J'aurais bien aimé la sauvegarder ! -- notafish }<';> 10:16, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

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urgent

Bonjour @Anthere: , j'ai un grand soucis: je dois absolument supprimer les images suivantes File:CABBAK Noircir Wikipedia.png et File:CABBAK Noircir WIkipédia.png. Je vais les re-uploader plus tard mais en ayant enlever les prénoms/noms, en effet de cette façon-ci je ne respecte pas la friendly space policy. Peux-tu m'aider à supprimer ces images? Galahmm (talk) 15:51, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Fait :) kvardek du (la plej bela nombro) 16:01, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Bon Anthere (talk)

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Please participate in the Universal Code of Conduct consultation on Wikimedia Commons!

Dear Anthere

Thank you for your hard work to create the sum of all knowledge that is freely sharable to every single human being across the world. As our diverse community grows, we need a guideline that will help all of our work collectively and constructively where everyone feels safe, welcomed, and part of a team. That is why the Wikimedia movement is working on establishing a global guideline called the Universal Code of Conduct, often referred to as UCoC.

After the months-long policy consultation, we have prepared a policy (available in many languages) that has been ratified by the Board of Trustees. We’re currently in the second phase of the process. During this round of consultation, we want to discuss the implementation of this policy. As a member of the functionary team of Wikimedia Commons, your opinion on enforcement is of great value. We want to hear from you on how this policy can be enforced on the Wikimedia Commons community and what might be needed to do so. There are a few enforcement questions so you can easily outline your answers based on them. Please do not hesitate to bring any more questions/challenges you think are not yet discussed.

The discussion is taking place on Commons:Universal Code of Conduct consultation. You can also share your thoughts by replying to this message (Please ping me so I get notified), posting your message on my talk page. I am aware that some thoughts cannot be expressed publicly, so you can always share your opinion by emailing me as well.

As a valued member of the Commons community, please share your thoughts, ideas, and experiences that relate to UCoC. Let us know what needs to be improved so we can build a more friendly and cooperative space to increase editor engagement and retention of new users.

Wikimedia projects are governed by you. So, it is you who needs to step up to ensure a safe, comfortable, and pleasant working environment.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you! Wikitanvir (WMF) (talk) 10:18, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Please take a short survey regarding UCoC

Hello Anthere,

I would like to inform you that we now have a survey in place to take part in the UCoC consultation. It is not a long one and should take less than 10 minutes to complete. You can take the survey even if you have already participated in the on-wiki consultation. It has a different set of questions and allows you to participate anonymously and privately.

As a member of the Commons functionaries, your opinion is especially essential. Please click here to participate in the survey.

You are still welcome to participate in the on-wiki discussions. If you prefer you can have your say by sending me an email. You can also drop me an email if you want to have a one-to-one chat.

Thank you for your participation! Wikitanvir (WMF) 13:53, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Contribution on Wiki Love Women

Hello Anthere,

I have tried adding tags and descriptions here. The edit count has appeared on contribution but My Contributions was still at zero. I'm thinking if I was able to do it right or if there's a need to register on a separate page. Thank you. :)

Kunokuno (talk) 03:05, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

It's all okay now. I guess it just took time for the page to purge. :)

Hello User:Kunokuno. Yes, it is on the toollab server, and though situation is way better now than it was a year ago (server always veryyyyyyy slow), it still sometimes takes time to reflect things. Glad you joined in !!!! Anthere (talk)

Wiki Loves Africa

Dear Anthere

In the past, you contributed to the Wiki Loves Africa competition. You have another opportunity to create and submit beautiful photographs on the theme of "Health and Wellness" that could change how the world understands people and culture in your part of Africa. As with previous years, there are also many exciting national and international prizes.

For rules and information about how to participate, theme, or prizes click on Contribute to the Wiki Loves Africa photo contest or directly add picture from the button !

Warmest, Anthere, for the Wiki Loves Africa Team

Cher ou chère Anthere,
Au cours des années passées, vous avez participé au concours photographique Wiki Loves Africa. Vous avez à nouveau l'opportunité de proposer de fabuleuses illustrations sur le thème de "la santé et le bien-être", qui pourraient profondément modifier la façon dont le reste du monde voit l’Afrique et comprend ses habitants et ses coutumes. Bonus, comme lors des années précédentes, il y a plusieurs prix à la clé !

Pour plus d'informations, règles de participation, le thème ou les prix, cliquez sur Participer au concours Wiki Loves Africa ou téléversez des photos en cliquant sur le bouton !

Bien à vous, Anthere, pour l'équipe Wiki Loves Africa

isa.toolforge.org

Hello, can you share the list of campaigns in isa.toolforge.org with prices to the winners Magotech (talk) 20:13, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello. The campaigns we (Isla and I) run are listed here : Commons:ISA Tool/Challenges and Commons:ISA Tool/Wiki Loves Africa MetaData Weeks. Other campaigns are run by others and are fully independant. We currently have mostly one campaign open ISA Challenge - Tell Us About Her: Women At Work - as part of the WikiGap campaign - March 2021, and I just realized we forgot to indicate prizes :))) This will be updated today. Thanks ! Anthere (talk)

noted with thanks.

Magotech (talk) 14:39, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

the challenge ISA challenge - Tell us about her: Woman at work is really nice and the competition is high 😂😂 maybe you should consider the 4 winners if possible 😂😂😂😂 Magotech (talk) 14:43, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

User:Magotech I see Isla has not yet upated the info :((( Eh, yes, the competition is high. Now we need to consider the case of winners super carefully indeeeeeeed ! What would be coolest... a better price for the number 1... or 4 smaller for 4 winners ? ;) Anthere (talk)

I think 4 smaller for 4 winners it will be a motivation 😂 Magotech (talk) 23:09, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

@Anthere Please could you share and make the end date and prizes for the current ISA campaign public, that could help participant and make the whole thing Dnshitobu (talk) 22:58, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello user:Dnshitobu. I made the calculations. It is here Commons:ISA Tool/Challenges. But it has not been yet publicly announced nor users informed because I am sick and could not find the energy to do it the last couple of days... sorry about that. Anthere (talk) 12:17, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

@Anthere Oh sorry, I wish you speedy recovery. Dnshitobu (talk) 22:38, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Africa

The Wiki Loves Africa 2021 photographic contest is officially closed. Thank you all for your participation !

This year, the photographic competition has resulted in an amazing 8,319 image uploads to Commons around the theme Health and Wellness.
International winners have been announced !!! Check it out on c:Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2021/Winners. Congratulations to winners and all those who participated and organized events. Please follow us on Facebook to know more and stay informed next year.

Warmest,

Anthere for the Wiki Loves Africa Team

Le concours Wiki Loves Africa 2021 est officiellement fermé. Merci d'avoir participé !
Cette année, le concours photo Wiki Loves Africa 2021 a permis l'ajout de 8319 photos à Wikimedia Commons sur le thème Santé et Bien-être, une participation en très forte augmentation par rapport aux années précédentes.
Les gagnants ont été annoncés !!! Voir tous les résultats sur c:Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2021/Winners. Félicitations aux gagnants mais aussi à tous les participants ainsi qu'aux organisateurs d'évènements.
Suivez nos actualités sur Facebook pour en savoir plus et être informés du prochain concours.

Anthere pour l'équipe Wiki Loves Africa.

لقد تم رسميا إختتام مسابقة التصوير الفوتوغرافي ويكي تهوى إفريقيا 2021. شكرا لكم على مشاركتكم !

في هذا العام ، أسفرت مسابقة التصوير الفوتوغرافي عن تحميلات مذهلة للصور إلى كومنز بلغ عددها 8319 حول موضوع الصحة و العافية.

تم الإعلان عن الفائزين الدوليين !!! شاهد ذلك على كومنز: ويكي تهوى إفريقيا 2021 / الفائزين. تهانينا للفائزين و لجميع من شاركوا في الفعاليات و أسهموا في تنظيمها. يرجى متابعتنا على فيسبوك لمعرفة المزيد من الأخبار و للبقاء على اطلاع للسنة المقبلة.

تحياتنا،

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Plus que quelques jours pour participer à Wiki Loves Monuments France !

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Le concours Wiki Loves Monuments France est ouvert pour une semaine encore, jusqu'au 30 septembre. Déjà plus de 6 000 photos ont été importées cette année alors vous aussi rejoignez le concours ! Cette campagne de contribution concerne tous les monuments et objets mobiliers présents dans la base Mérimée et dans la base Palissy. De l'imposant château aux ruines industrielles, de la verrière décorative au reliquaire, c'est un impressionnant patrimoine qui attend d'être photographié et documenté. Vous pouvez dès à présent mettre en ligne autant de photos que vous le souhaitez de ces monuments et objets du patrimoine français. Nous attendons vos photos avec impatience !

Les plus belles photos seront sélectionnées par un jury national composé d'amateurs et de professionnels, de contributeurs à Wikimedia Commons et d'acteurs du patrimoine. Un jury international constituera ensuite une sélection des meilleures photographies mondiales.

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noted Anthere (talk) 22:47, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you Anthere!

Greetings Anthere, My friend referred me to you for a quick question. I love your contributions to wikimedia commons and would love your expert advice. How exactly - step by step - did you upload your photos to Wikimedia commons? I want to upload a few photos I took with my own camera, but the upload directions (and codes?) are extremely confusing. Thanks so much for your time and assistance in advance! Cheers, McGuire at Snyderlab (talk) 07:57, 3 February 2022 (UTC)McGuire at Snyderlabs

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Women in architecture

Hello, Anthere.

Can you tell us whether there will soon be an official declaration of the competition results for the "Tell Us About Her: Women in architecture" campaign?

Also, is it possible to continue using the ISA tool to label architect photos without messing with the competition edit counts? --Bobulous (talk) 18:53, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello Bobulous

Yes, I can tell you :) User:Afek91 just added the results here : Commons:ISA_Tool/Challenges. You are second !!! Afek will promote the results and contact winners in the next few days.

This campaign had a closed date, so you can not edit it anymore. Sorry about that. This being said... if you are keen, I can set up a new campaign with sightly different categories (or more categories). This campaign was running only on one category category:Female architects by country. Is it what you want to continue working on precisely, or would you be interested into another topic ? Anthere (talk) 18:25, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, @Anthere.

Thanks for the update. And as far as new campaigns go, any category with interesting photos needing attention will be fine by me. Bobulous (talk) 20:02, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

My suggestion is a campaign to improve description of Featured Images on Commons :) I created it some time ago, but have not yet started to promote it. I see direct interest in working on this category... What do you think ? https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/191 Anthere (talk) 22:30, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

That sounds fun. (Though I thought that Featured Image promotion required the reviewers to check that the image was already categorised, captioned, and described sufficiently?)

I'm going to finish writing some code for an open source Rust project, then I'll spend some time seeing what can usefully be done with the Featured Image collection. Bobulous (talk) 18:26, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

I thought so too... but after I created the campaign with this category just to have an idea, I realized many images had no depicts at all. And many have only a caption in one language. I think it may be due to images tagged featured images BEFORE the structured data system was set up. But in any cases... it looks like there could be much improvement. Odd. Anthere (talk) 22:54, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Template for East Turkestan Exil-Gov.

Hello, I did uploaded the File:Qurtulush Yolida.webm and is the Anthem of East Turkestan Exil-Government. Can you help to make a template for the copyright status of the symbols of East Turkestan Exil-Government? TayfunEt. (talk) 08:37, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

IDA campaign 191 tricking users

Hi, I see you're the owner of this campaign. It tricked a user into doing these incorrect edits. You should probably exclude the files that have digital representation of (P6243) because the data lives on Wikidata and anything added here is redundant. Multichill (talk) 18:45, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello Multichill. Thanks for the report. I am trying to figure out exactly how the tool tricked the user and what is wrong in what happened. Can you explain further ?

The problem I see is that I can not exclude files from the ISA campaign. The ISA campaign is fed through the selection of one or several categories on Commons. In this specific case, it feeds on only one category category:Featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons and it will take all pictures that are in that category, with a depth of 4. I can not exclude images from it... In the future, we could make it so that campaigns are set up based on queries (which would allow to exclude specific images probably), but not the case at the moment. So... I am trying to figure out what the implication of the edits of Bobulous are, what is wrong in them, whether it is a one-shot issue or will be a major problem with the entire campaign, and whether it is easily fixed by bot afterwards or need manual fixing. If you could explain better, I could find a solution to prevent problems ? Thanks Anthere (talk) 08:31, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

I know what happened, not how it happened and the user doesn't know anymore.

Weird that you can't filter and weird that you use depth 4 because it's a flat category, all featured pictures are directly in it.

Queries can complicated, search is easier in this case. 329 out of 15,606 is about 2% so risk of impact is low. It's sorted by last edit so if you keep an eye on it, you should be good. Multichill (talk) 09:53, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

I still do not see how the tool « tricked » the user though. The tool does not make any suggestion. The addition of depicts is entirely in the user hands. So if a user decides to replace one depict by another depict, he is fully responsible. And of course, anyone can make mistake.

I do not think it is « weird » that I can not filter out... this is the way the tool works ! But any suggestion of tool improvement is good to collect. I noted the search link above. I will digg into that... and keep an eye on it. We will only push this campaign in May, so will need to make sure that things are ok.

You are actually correct that the featured images category is only 1 depth. Well, this is an issue. It takes depth 4, but then collect 0 images from depth levels that do not exist... so zero impact. Anthere (talk) 08:07, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

File:LE BABENDA.webm

Salut Florence, J'ai ajoute cette vidéo pour le media du jour le mois prochain. Si tu en as d'autres comme celle là, on est preneur ! Cordialement, Yann (talk) 18:56, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

WOW. C’est Jeanne qui va être fière ! Malheureusement, je crois que c’est la seule vidéo du WikiChallenge cette année. Cette vidéo illustre cet article : https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Babenda. Anthere (talk) 21:57, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

The joke images and other inappropriate images

I uploaded them when i newly started contributing to Wikipedia unbeknownst that they were inappropriate. Thanks for letting me know. Is there anything I can do more to improve and help out? Juliegwen (talk) 10:07, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

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Sound Logo

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I am messaging you because a contest for a sound logo for Wikimedia is being developed and your opinion as a Wikimedia Commons admin is appreciated. My team would like to know if it is possible for the top finalist sound logos in the contest to have attribution temporarily hidden from public view until all the votes are final? The idea is to let the public judge the sound logo contestants based on the merit of the logo, not the person or people who made it. Again, any feedback is appreciated.

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Thank you goats! :))

Saw your appreciation message for my image 'Home Away from Home' ... Thank you and have a wonderful week! Ewien

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ahaha :) Anthere (talk) 13:59, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Please test new feature on the ISA Tool (computer-aided tagging)

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We have just released a new version of the ISA tool on the Test Server. The new version propose semi-automatic tagging of images, which seeks to assist community in identifying and labelling depicts statements for Commons files.

We are currently looking for feedback with regards to the look, feel, and usability of the tool with the machine vision / metadata-to-concept enhancements in place. In a second stage, we will be testing the quality of the recommandations provided.

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ISA Tool Workshop - Dec 12th 2022

Greetings.

We released a few weeks ago a new version of the ISA tool on the Test Server. The new version propose semi-automatic tagging of images, which seeks to assist community in identifying and labelling depicts statements for Commons files.

Now we are looking for feedback with regards to

• the look, feel, and usability of the tool with the machine vision / metadata-to-concept enhancements in place.
• and most importantly, the quality of the recommandations provided.

This is why we are organizing an online workshop on Monday 12th of December, 16h-17h30 UTC+1 (on zoom). We will be very happy if you find the time to join us.

More information and sign-up : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:ISA_Tool/Image_to_Concept#ISA_Workshop_-_Dec_12th

Thank you in advanceǃ

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Copyright status of WIPO Copyright Treaty

Hi Anthere,

I think you are or were recently a Wikimedian in Residence at WIPO? Over on English Wikisource there has come up a copyright discussion relating to the WIPO Copyright Treaty. Wikisource reproduces original texts, so we're trying to figure out the copyright owner and any relevant license for the text of the treaty itself (in particular, for WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) (1996), WIPO Publication No. 226E, ISBN 978-92-805-0706-5, a scan of which is available online at https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_226.pdf). We would like to upload a copy of this PDF to Commons (or locally on enWS if needed), and then use the Proofread Page extension to transcribe it on enWS.

Do you have any contacts that you could ask what the WIPO's position is on 1) who owns the copyright for the text of the treaty itself, and, if they view the owner to be the WIPO itself, 2) what, if any, license they apply to it in view of their subsequently adopted Open access policy?

Going by my own amateur research, as a negotiated international treaty the most reasonable author for copyright purposes would be the WIPO itself. And since the WIPO is not a competent legislative assembly and the treaty is not self-executing—it was not adopted into US law, but implemented by compatible regulations included in the DMCA—the text of the treaty itself is not an edict of government (i.e. {{PD-EdictGov}}). As such it would appear the text of the treaty is protected by copyright owned by the WIPO, and the only way we can host it is through explicit licensing using a license compatible with our policy (i.e. CC BY 4.0). Xover (talk) 10:12, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello User:Xover. Well noted. I shall inquire... Unlikely to be concerned by the adoption of CC BY in 2017. Unlikely to be an edict of government either. I’ll be back on the topic. Anthere (talk) 18:22, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Any luck getting something from the WIPO? Xover (talk) 10:43, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@User:Xover. Nope. Not yet. But I am not forgetting the case. I was able to talk only once to my contact and I had a list of 7 elements for her to look at... Only 2 done so far :( The problem is that... she did not know and was not sure. So she needs to find someone who would be « sure ».

But... We are now three of us (one Spanish speaking, one French, one Arabic), and we have our first team meeting of the year tomorrow. I have put the point on the list of stuff to discuss. Anthere (talk) 18:19, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Any news? Xover (talk) 16:35, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi Xover. After some back and forth and submitting my question to various people, here is the closest to an answer I got, from a person of the WIPO Lex department. I copy it verbatim :

I submitted your request to the Office of the Legal Counsel.

The text of a treaty is not in principle copyright-protected as such, but WIPO’s publications are. In accordance with WIPO’s open access policy, WIPO’s online content and publications, such as the publication referred to in our email exchange below, are made available by WIPO under the Terms of Use of its website, pursuant to which, except as otherwise provided, the Creative Commons (CC) CC BY 4.0 license applies.

As indicated in the Terms of Use, the CC BY 4.0 license allows anyone to reproduce, distribute, adapt, translate and publicly perform content published online under WIPO’s name, without explicit permission, provided that such use is accompanied by an acknowledgement that WIPO is the source, and clearly indicates if changes are made to the original content.

I hope this helps.

End of the answer

I (Anthere) will add that the example I submitted to her was this one For example... WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) (1996), WIPO Publication No. 226E, ISBN 978-92-805-0706-5, a scan of which is available online at https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_226.pdf

So it looks like they consider those treaties to be under CC BY SA 4.0

I hope the General Counsel will actually provide further input though. Because this answer is of special interest to me. I considered that old publications (non-treaties), published before the adoption of open access policy, and accessible on WIPO website, had still to be considered protected under traditional copyright terms. But her answer might suggest that we can consider old publications to be relicensed under CC BY SA when published on the current website, UNLESS they specifically mention the traditional copyright. Anthere (talk) 15:44, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!

My immediate impression of that answer is also that they consider the Open Access Policy retroactive. That's not what the Open Access Policy actually says, though: new WIPO online publications … are issued under … CC BY 4.0. (my emphasis). Reading the Terms of Use I would take that to mean that only content produced or first published after the adoption of the Open Access Policy would be covered by it. It would be very good to either get that confirmed, or get the Terms of Use updated to clarify that all content is covered by the policy (including its exceptions for third-party content, the WIPO logo, etc.).

But this is in any case sufficient for us to keep the WCT at both enWS and Commons, so my immediate problem is solved. Thank you again for following up on this! I would also appreciate updates if you get more since I am also interested in the general case (but I'll stop nagging you :)).

PS. If you should happen to get the legal theory behind the claim "The text of a treaty is not in principle copyright-protected as such" I'd be most interested to hear it. So far as I am aware only the edicts of government doctrine could actually make treaties exempt from copyright, and treaties that are neither self-executing nor authored by a competent legislative body do not obviously fall within the scope of edicts. As a NGO, neither would works authored by WIPO be covered by any relevant government works exceptions like those embodied in {{PD-USGov}}. I am going to keep operating on the assumption that the quoted phrasing was imprecise in this regard, but if there should be an actual legal theory behind that it would have wide and general applicability for Wikisource. Xover (talk) 16:29, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Agreed. This is why I will push to have further input from the General Counsel, specifically on treaties. This being said... I doubt very much they will make the terms of use more precise when it comes to retroactivity simply because the site host a lot of old content and they are not going to go back to double check the exact licence of each of them. They are careful with every report moving forward... and tagging each of them one by one, but they will probably not take the chance for old report.

When I joined, they had adopted the open licensing a few years back, and told me « every content produced post-adoption » was CC BY unless unless otherwise mentioned. But at some point in the first year, I discovered that whilst individual publications were clearly tagged... the website was still under copyright according to its terms of use. I asked why and the answer was... that at the time of the decision to switch, they knew some of the old reports on the site had been done with partners who were still operating under copyright. They did not want to take the risk of relicensing a document without the agreement of all parties involved (and did not think it was worth the effort to negotiate with them as most reports go moot after a few years). 5 years later, when I pointed out to the situation of the website still being under copyright, they considered the system was well enough established now that they could consider it reasonably safe to put the whole website by default on CC BY, most of the old copyrighted reports being usually tagged as copyright. But officially making it retroactive on the WHOLE website would mean relicensing some untagged content where they are not the only copyright holders. Doubt they would do that. Risk is limited but still... not good practice/

But clearly, they never considered the treaties to be in such situation. So yeah, you are good to go.

But I agree "The text of a treaty is not in principle copyright-protected as such » is a good topic to explore at leisure... Anthere (talk) 06:37, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Commons:Tools

Hi Anthere, today you priorized translation of Commons:Tools to French only. I think this is a bit short/tight because the Tools are for all Commons users in every language important. Raymond (talk) 19:11, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi User:Raymond. Yeah... sorry... we are in the middle of a hackathon to work on the event tool and I used that page as a demo in fact... of course all languages should in fact be a priority... Sorry for the disruption. Anthere (talk) 12:17, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

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File:Anthere-logo (small).jpg

Hello, could you please confirm if you are actually the author of this file (you haven't edited its Commons page, put it seems to have been imported from Hebrew Wikipedia)? Could you also confirm its license? I am concerned, because the file is dated 2003, while the text of its license (CC BY-SA 3.0) was first published by Creative Commons in 2006. Thank you. Janhrach (talk) 07:51, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Well... yeah. This was one of the logos designed for the International Vote for the Wikipedia logo. See some of my drafts here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/logos. Several were then actually proposed in the first round, whilst others were not. Ultimately... the sunflower picture I made with Eloquence made it to the top selected ones and became Media Wiki logo for several years. There are explanations about this logo here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Anthere-logo_(small).jpg

Seems stuff got disorganized and moved around, but keep in mind that Wikimedia Commons did not exist at that time, so files duplications across languages were pretty common...

The initial logo was probably here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anthere-logo_(small).jpg. According the history, I read

Page history

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(diff) 19:32, 24 June 2009 . . Adambro (talk | contribs | block) m 85 bytes (Removed category "Proposed logos"; Quick-adding category "Proposed Wikipedia logos" (using HotCat))

(diff) 14:44, 11 February 2009 . . Anthere (A) (talk | contribs | block) 74 bytes

(diff) 16:07, 7 June 2008 . . WJBscribe (talk | contribs | block) 93 bytes (GFDL presumed)

(diff) 00:05, 16 January 2008 . . Adambro (talk | contribs | block) m 64 bytes (+cat)

(diff) 14:18, 20 July 2003 . . Anthere (A) (talk | contribs | block) 36 bytes (logo Wikipédia (Anthere and others))

At that time... no licence mentionned, but given the time... most likely presumed GFDL (which is the licence I was using back then).

Then deletion log mentions

Deletion log

(change visibility) 21:25, 18 June 2011 Micki talk contribs block deleted page File:Anthere-logo (small).jpg (I3: file available on Wikimedia Commons) (view/undelete) (thank)

I guess this is called « poor move to Commons » :)

Thus... yes, I am the author... and it should be GFDL. This is confirmed by this edit in 2009 (visible to Admin). Anthere (talk) 14:01, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Janhrach (talk) 06:15, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Problème avec mon compte ISA

salut j'espère que vous allez super bien 😊 , lors de la dernière formation sur l'outil ISA je n'ai pas pu expliquer clairement mon problème. Au faite lorsque je veux contribuer à une campagne je n'y arrive pas dans la partie description mais partie légende marche. Je crois que j'ai un problème avec mon compte ISA. Quelle solution face à cela ? @Anthere Kzie45 (talk) 18:31, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Je présume que c’est sur la campaigne : https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/327. Tu confirmes ?

Je note dans ton historique de contribution que sur cette campagne, tu as déjà ajouté des légendes (captions) comme ici mais aussi des dépeints (depicts) comme là (c’est ce que tu appelas des descriptions... appele cela des depicts, ou dépeints, ou tags... mais pas description s’il te plait, histoire qu’on se comprenne bien). Bref... tu as DEJA fait les deux. Donc ça a déjà marché... et d’après ton historique, ça a déjà beaucoup marché...

Donc... il faut que tu décrives avec bien plus de précision « ce qui ne marche pas ». Eventuellement, prend une vidéo de ce que tu es en train de faire (ou une série d’image) et envoie les moi sur what’s app. Parce que là... je ne vois pas du tout ce qui pose problème. Anthere (talk) 21:02, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

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