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Copyright issues on Flickr images from Wikimedia Commons
Hello and well met. I uploaded several pictures of professional wrestlers on Wikimedia Commons from Flickr, but at some point I was asked to hand the origina uploader's license via COM:VRT. I saw plenty of other photos from the same Flickr uploaders which were good to go with copyright licenses and to me it seems I have made the same steps. I would like to ask you to review my uploads and tell me what is wrong with them since they received a deletion tag. The files are:
One more request for a flickr review.
From flickr's original, this image only differs by an improved exposition in oder to better visualization of architectural details.--Ulamm (talk) 08:08, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Participate in the world's largest nature photo contest!
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I'm a reviewer and the copyright holder of some images uploaded to Commons at the same time I upload them to Flickr. I link back to the Flickr file as a courtesy, they are not ported from Flickr. It's not necessary to review these images. Is there some way this bot can skip past these images?
Buenas noches. Te escribo en relación con la imagen de Mónica-Lora-Cisquer-(crooped).png. Envié un correo electrónico al autor de la imagen y me indica que ha cambiado la licencia desde Flickr. No sé si es la correcta o si debo decirle que indique otra licencia. Me dice que no hay problema en que esté publicada en Commons. Saludos. CatPag (talk) 20:42, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
Flickr image approved in spite of author being on the naughty list
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Flickr bot fail more files than usual with size not found
Hi! I noticed that more files than usual fail with size not found. If I ask for a new review it passes the file. Sometimes it takes 4 reverts before it passes. If you can do anything about it it will be great. MGA73 (talk) 16:56, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Hello Zhuyifei1999, the bot is currently stuck, it seems - there is a huge queue. Files that I have uploaded 28 hours ago have still not been reviewed, but I don't know when the problem started. Thank you for looking into it! Edelseider (talk) 13:03, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
[Workshop] Identifying Win-Win Relationships with Partners for Wikimedia
Dear Recipient,
We are excited to invite you to the third workshop in our Advocacy series, part of the Feminism and Folklore International Campaign. This highly anticipated workshop, titled "Identifying Win-Win Relationships with Partners for Wikimedia," will be led by the esteemed Alex Stinson, Lead Program Strategist at the Wikimedia Foundation. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights into forging effective partnerships.
Workshop Objectives
Introduction to Partnerships: Understand the importance of building win-win relationships within the Wikimedia movement.
Strategies for Collaboration: Learn practical strategies for identifying and fostering effective partnerships.
Case Studies: Explore real-world examples of successful partnerships in the Wikimedia community.
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I had a look at the process, and as far as I can tell it’s in the exact same situation as described in T374152: a neverending read() from a connection to text-lb.eqiad.wikimedia.org. I recommend the same solution: a health check which automatically restarts the bot if a certain tmpfile hasn’t been touched in a while (see QuickCategories commit) – assuming that each individual edit takes less than ca. 10–30 seconds, at least. Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 20:06, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
We are excited to kick off Wiki Loves Folklore 2025, an annual global campaign celebrating the world’s rich and diverse cultural heritage. 🌍✨
To help organizers and contributors prepare for this year’s campaign, we’re hosting a Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 Office Hour, and we’d love for you to join us!
Whether you’re an organizer, a contributor, or someone passionate about documenting cultural traditions, this session is for YOU!
Learn About the 2025 Campaign: Get insights into this year’s theme, objectives, and exciting new elements.
Ask Questions: Have questions or need clarifications? We’ve got you covered!
Connect with Fellow Contributors: Hear stories and experiences from around the globe.
Collaborate Globally: Share your ideas and contribute to making this campaign even more impactful.
Did You Know?
Wiki Loves Folklore has already documented over 121,000+ media files from more than 165 countries.
Your contributions help preserve endangered traditions and unique cultural expressions for future generations.
FWIW, I apparently got a better response once with curl -H 'User-Agent: [my email address]' (curl said it didn’t want to write binary output to my terminal); but after that I now get the 403 error again, even if I vary the user agent a bit. (Unfortunately I used curl -v and mosh ate the scrollback, so I can’t say for sure what the status code of the seemingly-successful response was.) I agree with your assessment, but just to be sure, does the bot use a good user agent? Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 22:37, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
I wonder if there is some hidden rate limiting? The Toolforge bastions have their own public IP addresses while the Kubernetes cluster nodes would end up behind the 185.15.56.1 (nat.cloudgw.eqiad1.wikimediacloud.org) SNAT address.
I just tested 1) from my local laptop, 2) from the dev.toolforge.org bastion, and 3) from inside a webservice python3.11 shell shell on the Toolforge Kubernetes cluster and had identical success with all three attempts. My test command was curl -v -o foo.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/7281/16727651966_6951d76d15_o_d.jpg. I was hoping the -v header dump would show some rate limit counter, but it did not obviously include any. I did see an x-cache header stating "Miss from cloudfront" in the laptop and bastion responses and "Hit from cloudfront" on the Kubernetes response. All 3 responses had different via headers pointing to cloudfront servers. I guess also potentially relevant is that all 3 tests negotiated an HTTP/2 session. -- BDavis (WMF) (talk) 23:30, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
I've got the same problem with my bot, Flickr now intentionnally limits the number of direct accesses to live.* URLs, see here. It seems they don't want to say what is the enforced rate limit, so probably the WMF has to contact Flickr directly. vip (talk) 00:13, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Based on the forum thread, anything more than 1 request per second will 403 out due to flickr not wanting to be used just as a "hosting" site the you embed, rather they want you to download the file and host it yourself. Still unsure why our usecase would be flagged, but I don't know how the bot gets licensing data. All the Best -- ChuckTalk04:03, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
The person I know is keeping contact with the Flickypedia people is currently out of office, because she's at a regional conference (or is coming back from it). I'll flag this for Monday to her, and hopefully will let you know soon. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:02, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
Unfortunately I don't have any specific information about Flickr's rate limits.
But I’ll also drop a link to this thread in the company Slack, and ask if there’s a way to get the limits raised/removed for Wikimedia Commons users. Do the FlickreviewR/Toolforge requests all come from a articularr IP address? (I had a quick look, but couldn’t find anything.)
[I helped build Flickypedia and I work at the Flickr Foundation, which is a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit and not part of the Flickr.com company.] Alexwlchan (talk) 14:28, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
I’m chatting to engineers at Flickr.com; two follow-up questions:
Are the HTTP 403 errors coming from image requests, or Flickr API requests? (It sounds like just image requests, but if it’s API requests or both that’s helpful to know.)
I've spoken to Flickr engineering, and they've pushed a fix for the bot's rate limiting issues – please can you try it and let me know if all is well now? Alexwlchan (talk) 17:31, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
Is there any update as to when this bot will be working again? There's currently 17,121 files waiting to be reviewed. (I'm not technical and this bot is very helpful) Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk) 12:39, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Update: For some reasons the bot reviewed 3 images on 2025-01-20. All were returned as "flickr_not_found" and were reverted.廣九直通車 (talk) 13:52, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
<html><body><h1>429 Too Many Requests</h1>
You have sent too many requests in a given amount of time.
</body></html>
which the bot was not prepared to handle. I have now adjusted the logic and it should handle those appropriately, but it doesn't solve the problem of Flickr blocking requests from Toolforge. As far as rollback goes, [1] indicates there are over 15k files that were incorrectly reviewed. That's way more than I'm going to roll back on my account. User:Sannita (WMF), have you been able to make contact with anyone? --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 13:00, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
We are excited to kick off Wiki Loves Folklore 2025], an annual global campaign celebrating the world’s rich and diverse cultural heritage. 🌍✨
To help organizers and contributors prepare for this year’s campaign, we’re hosting a Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 Office Hour, and we’d love for you to join us!
Whether you’re an organizer, a contributor, or someone passionate about documenting cultural traditions, this session is for YOU!
Learn About the 2025 Campaign: Get insights into this year’s theme, objectives, and exciting new elements.
Ask Questions: Have questions or need clarifications? We’ve got you covered!
Connect with Fellow Contributors: Hear stories and experiences from around the globe.
Collaborate Globally: Share your ideas and contribute to making this campaign even more impactful.
Did You Know?
Wiki Loves Folklore has already documented over 121,000+ media files from more than 165 countries.
Your contributions help preserve endangered traditions and unique cultural expressions for future generations.
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Comment: Can you or someone like MGA73 please fix the flickrbot please? It has stopped working since November 27, 2024 and the flickrbacklog is now over 2,000+ images. Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 21:46, 29 November 2024 (UTC)