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Transclusion of category description pages

A query of the transclusion table might find file description pages like this, using {{Category:....}} instead of [[Category:....]]

The result could then easily be fixed by bot. --  Docu  at 08:47, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

convert User:FlickreviewR dates to ISO format

User:Bryan has just changed the behavior of User:FlickreviewR. It know provides dates of reivew in ISOformat. If this is possible to do it along with other internationalization work, it would be nice to convert parameters 3 of transclusions of User:FlickreviewR/reviewed-pass to ISO format.--Zolo (talk)

This should do the trick. Multichill (talk) 14:34, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Ah yes it works thanks. As a long term solution I think converting to ISOdate would make it more consistent with other dates like those in the date field of {{Information}}, but clearly there is nothing urgent.Sorry for my having broken the English template, it was because of a typo, not because of ISOdate itself. --Zolo (talk) 14:59, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Babel categories

Hi. A user Babel Autocreate bot created 500 or more babel categories that are uncategorised. The result is that Special:UncategorizedCategories is filled up with empty uncategorised categories, so it becomes unmanageable. Could a bot either categorise them all or delete them ? --Foroa (talk) 18:00, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

I threw them for time being into Category:Incomplete users by language categories - they are not properly formatted like for example Category:User de. We should probably ask User:Babel_AutoCreate to correct them. --Jarekt (talk) 19:27, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
I am not sure who is controlling this bot. I asked User:SPQRobin, the only person who edited bot's userpage. I think we should keep those categories since they will be added automatically to userpages that use {{#babel:...}}. Most likely we will have to format them ourselves. --Jarekt (talk) 19:45, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
The userpage explains it. It's not a bot, it's part of the Babel extension. The software adds the categories when a user uses it via {{#babel}} and adds them as if Babel AutoCreate added it. SPQRobin (talk) 19:49, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
It might be worth filing a report on Bugzilla. --  Docu  at 19:53, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
This is intended software behaviour. You can customize MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-levels and MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-main. I added the possibility to use respectively $3 and $2 as the language code, it will be available next week. If you want to disable categories for {{#babel:}} altogether, then you would need to file a bug. SPQRobin (talk) 19:57, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
I think Babel categories are fine, the problem is with formatting and categorization of the text in those categories. Are there going to be more of them? If so than may be software can be fixed to format & categorize the way other categories are done. Also do you think current categories can be fixed somehow, or shall we ask users and bot operators here to fix them? --Jarekt (talk) 20:49, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
If unblocked, it will certainly add more categories. I referenced the relevant MediaWiki pages where you can customize the format. Categories added by Babel AutoCreate have to be fixed manually or by bot. SPQRobin (talk) 21:21, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
I will see if I can convince MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-levels and MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-main to use {{UsersSpeak}}. Extra language parameter will be useful. --Jarekt (talk) 23:13, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
I don't think it should be run anywhere before MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-levels has been customized. A template would indeed be a good idea to do that. You might even want to include that by default. (Templates can also be in MediaWiki namespace. This might make it easier to package it with the extension. --  Docu  at 03:07, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

I fixed already created categories, and added {{UsersSpeak}} template to MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-levels and MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-main. the template requires language code which SPQRobin promised next week. We should unblock Babel Autocreate then and see if it works properly. SPQRobin, is there any way to configure the software to create new categories only when needed. Unlike current behavior that creates mostly empty categories, see for example Category:User kri. Babel extension seems to support over 7k languages and creates 7 categories for each. I do not think we need 50k mostly empty categories. --Jarekt (talk) 15:00, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

I do not think there is a way to configure it to create categories only when needed. I was myself quite surprised to see it creating dozens of unneeded categories. I will see if I can improve this in the code. SPQRobin (talk) 13:24, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Text replacement within a category

Hello bots, could you replace text description in Category:Netřebská slaniska as folows:

  • "nature reserve" to "natural monument" in English description


Thank you!--Juandev (talk) 20:13, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

User talk:Tryphon/Archive/2011#Request for updates

Tryphon is inactive for more than five month now. Would someone skilled be so kind and update those three lists? --Leyo 15:27, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Author, permission & category change

I have upload almost 700 files that needs author, permission & category changes. Can someone please run bot for them. Please, replace author Makele-90 by Markus Rantala (Makele-90). Add Permission {{User:Makele-90/Credit}} and all files to category Category:Files by User:Makele-90. Like this. I have changed 48 files manually, but that is way too slow to do. Thank you! --–Makele-90 (talk) 18:16, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

add "strict=" to some artwork templates

Many PD-art licensed images do not have a source. A source is interesting but not really needed for such files. Beside, while the PD-art status should be checked, this is no different from files with a source. So a bot could add the strict parameter (simply "strict=") parameter to artworks using template:artwork with a PD-art tag. This would relieve category:images without source and would file descriptions look better.--Zolo (talk) 11:24, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

"strict" option was mostly meant for derivative templates based on {{Artwork}} not for images using {{Artwork}} template. I think a better option would be to provide source=Unknown. --Jarekt (talk) 12:23, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Yes actully unknown may be better (and possibly even changing the few "strict" directly added to files)--Zolo (talk) 16:12, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
  Done I found over 3k files in category:images without source that had {{PD-Art}}. I am adding {{Unknown|source}} and should be done soon. --Jarekt (talk) 03:53, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Good thanks.--Zolo (talk) 07:54, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Single image galleries

As noted on VP, there are many galleries with just a single image, which is rather confusing. It would be nice if we could get rid of some of them. What could be done could be:

  • if it does not already exist, create Category:PAGENAME
  • move all categories and interwikis to Category:PAGENAME
  • either:
  • put the gallery in a special subcat category:other speedy deletions so that they can be sampled to check that everything is okay and then deleted.
  • turn the gallery into a redirect to the cat. I think this is the most convenient solution but some people do not like cross-namespace redirects.

We could begin with those in category:People by name, they should be rather straightforward.--Zolo (talk) 08:18, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

remplacer une phrase

bonjour afin qu'il est une meilleure compréhension il faudrait remplacer dans la partie description, la phrase suivante pour toutes les communes de la Category:Cities and villages in Indre et de faire la modif en anglais aussi.


avant

est une commune du département de l'Indre et de la région Centre en France.


après

est une commune française, située dans le département de l'Indre, en région Centre.


merci

--Parisdreux (d) 11:11, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Translation: replace a rather awkward phrase in all depth 0 subcats of Category:Cities and villages in Indre

{{en|XXXX is a municipality in the french departement Indre and the region Centre.}} {{fr|XXXX est une commune du département de l'Indre et de la région Centre en France.}}

with

{{en|XXXX is a municipality in the french departement Indre, région Centre.}} {{fr|XXXX est une commune du département de l'Indre, en région Centre en France.}}

Alternatively, the previous text could be replaced with {{Category definition: French commune|XXXX|36}}. The template would really require some clean up, but it does its job, and is a convenient for adding new tools like {{GeoGroupTemplate}}.--Zolo (talk) 21:59, 8 November 2011 (UTC)<aside>

je ne comprends pas l'anglais. --Parisdreux (d) 10:38, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Et les maîtres-bots ne parlent pas français :). Je faisais juste l'intermédiaire. Enfin je disais aussi qu'à la place d'écrire le texte sur chaque fichier il pourrait être plus commode d'utiliser un modèle, par exemple {{Category definition: French commune|Châteauroux|36}} donne en français "Cette page contient des fichiers en rapport avec la commune française de Châteauroux, dans le département de l’Indre, en région Centre." Dans cette manière le texte peut ultérieurement être modifié ou traduit facilement dans d'autres langues.--Zolo (talk) 20:39, 9 November 2011 (UTC)</aside>
  Done manuellement. --Parisdreux (d) 19:16, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
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Original upload date

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

  Done? I searched file descriptions for "original upload date", found 1.4k and replaced them all. However there might be more I did not found. --Jarekt (talk) 00:30, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
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Image files categorized as music

Hi. I noticed that many jpg, png and gif files include Template:LOC-music instead of Template:LOC-image. Those music-related images are then misscategorized as audio fragments in Category:Music from the Library of Congress. I think a bot can search in Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:LOC-music for those file extensions and then change template tag. Thanks, Gustronico (talk) 20:24, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

  Done I found only 56 such files. --Jarekt (talk) 00:42, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
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Template {{Onroerend erfgoed|Unidentified locations in}}

Would it be possible to replace in all images containing {{Onroerend erfgoed|Unidentified locations in}} or {{Onroerend erfgoed|ID}} the template by the name of the file. Those things are rather difficult with standard tools. Thank you. --Foroa (talk) 21:42, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

I created Category:Onroerend erfgoed without known IDs with non-numeric IDs, however I do not see any clear patterns of how to get proper ID from the filename. --Jarekt (talk) 16:29, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Part 2: remove "ID" in all images using {{Onroerend erfgoed|IDxxxx}} to {{Onroerend erfgoed|xxxx}}. Thank you. --Foroa (talk) 06:14, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

  Done --Jarekt (talk) 16:29, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Great cleanup, thank you, but there remains about 800 invalid ones in Category:Onroerend erfgoed without known IDs. Since all images there are pretty well categorised (in the cats with the proper ID), and the real manual correction would take several days of work, I would propose to comment out there the template invocation. Many of them should use instead other templates for the Brussels or Walloon area, but this is too complex for a bot. --Foroa (talk) 17:32, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
The pattern is quite easy for a human, but not easy for a bot. I still feel that the template can be removed /commented out with /nowiki as all images are in a proper category, most of them having the correct erfgoed ID.
  • the ones with full text, such are unidentified ID: most of them are not a real erfgoed item, so should be removed anyway.
  • the ones with a pattern like "83034-CLT-0001", "83034-CLT-0001-01" so "xxxxx-CLT-xxx" in the ID and most of the time in the file name too, should use another template being {{WLM-identifier|be-wal|xxxxx-CLT-xxx}}.
  • the ones with a numeric pattern, like "2043-0003-0" and "2043-0155-0" (most of the time, they have Brussel in the file name, I believe they all begin with a 2), should become {{WLM-identifier|be-bru|2043-0155/0}}
Thank you anyway. --Foroa (talk) 07:47, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
  Done There are 23 files left in Category:Onroerend erfgoed without known IDs. Can you fix them by hand?--Jarekt (talk) 17:43, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Great job, thousand or so improvements. I was not precise enough; {{WLM-identifier|be-wal|xxxxx-CLT-xxx}} should have specified {{WLM-identifier|be-wal|xxxxx-CLT-xxx-xx}}, but no real problem. --Foroa (talk) 07:21, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
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signature

Hi, I am not suere if this is an appropriate request. I would like to «hide my trail» after my renaming. I used to sign as:

[[User:Chanchicto|chanchicto]]

and my signature now is

[[User:Kismalac|kismalac]]

Thank you very much. kismalac 17:39, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

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ReviewR bot for Category:Indafotó review needed

TgrBot (talk · contribs) has uploaded dozens - no thousands of images but missed to review them. -- RE rillke questions? 17:00, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Going to do it myself. -- RE rillke questions? 19:00, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
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Add creator template

All files in Category:Images from the German Federal Archive, replace |Author=Schäfer, Ernst , with |Author= {{creator:Ernst Schäfer}} and add [[Category:Photographs by Ernst Schäfer‎]]--Zolo (talk) 21:35, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

With HotCat, you could add the category to Special:Search/"Author=Schäfer" Ernst -incategory:"Photographs_by_Ernst_Schäfer" (currently 1365 files, the category includes 10). --  Docu  at 21:53, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Processing --Jarekt (talk) 22:03, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
  Done --Jarekt (talk) 02:22, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, faster than adding it manually to 1355 files ;).--Zolo (talk) 08:05, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
That takes care of the category part, what about the creator template? That's presumably an AWB task. Rd232 (talk) 13:01, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
I did both. 2/3 of the files I did with AWB adding creator and category at the same time, but AWB can not find more than 1000 files with text search, so I used Docu's approach to add category to the other files and added creator afterwords. --Jarekt (talk) 13:40, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Ah, using User:JarektBot, that's why I missed it. Good then, thanks. Rd232 (talk) 18:10, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
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Bot request

Please help me to add deletion request to all this files from page Commons:Deletion requests/Formulasantander images from Picasa Web, its more than 250 files. --Sasha Krotov (talk) 18:54, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

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Exchange 102 categories (Residenzgalerie Salzburg)

Category:Residenzgalerie Salzburg with Category:Paintings in the Residenzgalerie Salzburg (the latter will be created shortly afterwards). Thanks, --Mattes (talk) 10:55, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

You do not need bot for that. Just use Cat-a-lot gadget. --Jarekt (talk) 12:40, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
never heart of that before... thanks! --Mattes (talk) 14:19, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
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Aviation images

Hey all, if you could look at Commons_talk:WikiProject_Aviation#New_files_on_Commons_-_bot.2Fscript_needed does anyone have the knowledge on how to do such things? I've contacted the bot owner but heard nothing, and this new project would find such a thing to be extremely useful. Any advice/assistance would be greatly appreciated. russavia (talk) 00:33, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

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Category:Onroerend erfgoed in Flanders

Would it possible to rename all categories called Onroerend erfgoed in XXX in Cultural heritage monuments in XXX ?

For harmonization with other Cultural heritage categories ! Thanks ! --M0tty (talk) 17:06, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

For harmonisation with Category:Rijksmonumenten, category:Monuments historiques in France, Category:Imóveis de Interesse Público in Portugal by district, ... --Foroa (talk) 19:00, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
there are 2 easy ways to do it: 1) use User:CommonsDelinker/commands or 2) create new categories by hand and place {{Category redirect}} in the old category to get the content moved. --Jarekt (talk) 14:04, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Yes it is technically possible, but you would first need to reach consensus for this rename of the tree at for example Commons:Categories for discussion. Until then:   Not done. Multichill (talk) 19:51, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
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Update Brooklyn Museum files

  • The of template:Technique is mostly used in Brooklyn Museum files. As a bit complex and not very useful, I think we can retire it. No need to do it all by bot, but it would help to replace {{technique|opaque watercolor|over=graphite|coloron=gray|wove paper}} with {{technique|opaque watercolor|and=graphite|coloron=gray|wove paper}}
  • To make it clearer what the "art of xx in the brooklyn Museum" exactly means, and help keep it clean. It would be nice to add the following in the location field of template:artwork
File is in category (at any depth) should be added in the "location field" of artwork Status
category:African art in the Brooklyn Museum {{Brooklyn Museum location|collection=africa}}   Done--Jarekt (talk) 19:02, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
category:Arts of the Pacific Islands in the Brooklyn Museum {{Brooklyn Museum location|collection=pacific islands}}   Done--Jarekt (talk) 19:02, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
category:Arts of the Americas in the Brooklyn Museum {{Brooklyn Museum location|collection=arts of the americas}}   Done--Jarekt (talk) 19:02, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
category:American Art in the Brooklyn Museum {{Brooklyn Museum location|collection=american art}}   Done--Jarekt (talk) 19:02, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
category:Arts of the Islamic World in the Brooklyn Museum‎ {{Brooklyn Museum location|collection=islamic world}}   Done--Jarekt (talk) 04:06, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
category:Asian Art in the Brooklyn Museum‎ {{Brooklyn Museum location|collection=asia}}   Done--Jarekt (talk) 19:02, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
category:Decorative Arts in the Brooklyn Museum {{Brooklyn Museum location|collection=decorative}}   Done--Jarekt (talk) 04:06, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
category:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art in the Brooklyn Museum {{Brooklyn Museum location|collection=egyptian, classical, ancient near east}}   Done--Jarekt (talk) 13:53, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
category:European Art in the Brooklyn Museum‎ {{Brooklyn Museum location|collection=europe}}   Done--Jarekt (talk) 13:41, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
category:Photography in the Brooklyn Museum {{Brooklyn Museum location|collection=photography}}   Done--Jarekt (talk) 13:53, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, about the "over" part, actually it should not be that difficult to keep it in the template, but it is not extremely useful either so I dont know.--Zolo (talk) 08:07, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

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Uncategorised Babel category

Continuation of Commons:Bots/Work_requests/Archive_6#Babel_categories --Jarekt (talk) 18:52, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Babel AutoCreate (talk · contributions · Statistics) created again a bunch of uncategorised categories. It is improving however. --Foroa (talk) 09:02, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

It seems to be adding nowiki-tags that are not needed. See Category:User pfl-N. It should be possible to fix that in the corresponding MW message. I suppose it's MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-levels. --  Docu  at 11:46, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
The category pages are only uncategorised because of the nowiki in that MediaWiki message - the template in it does the categorisation, if the nowiki tags are removed. I did some removals from categories a few days ago, and I've now removed it from the MediaWiki message. Special:UncategorizedCategories shows there are cases that need fixing by removing the nowiki, but any new creations should be fine. Rd232 (talk) 12:24, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Good thanks. The person running the extension should attempt to monitor what it does. --  Docu  at 12:27, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
I didn't think extensions normally had a person responsible for running them, like bots do. Am I wrong? Rd232 (talk) 13:25, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

As far as I know there is nobody is running user:Babel AutoCreate. It is part of the software. The edits of the bot are controlled by MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-levels and MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-main messages and can be edited by any admin. I tried to alter them but I guess they do not work properly yet. I will try to run a bot to fix already created categories. As for the messages, here is the problem: what we want for the user:Babel AutoCreate to add is a template with some parameters provided by the extension software, but the template was being expanded at MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-levels and what was being added to the categories was no longer a template. I tried <nowiki></nowiki> around the template to see what will happen, but that did not work either. I will try to use {{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|Category|....}} and see if that helps. If anybody has an idea about how to fix it please give it a try. --Jarekt (talk) 14:04, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

I changed some users and deleted to babel categories. When I restored the user babel switches, Babel AutoCreate (talk · contributions · Statistics) recreated the categories again, but empty this time. --Foroa (talk) 14:25, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Foroa, That was because my {{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|Category|....}} experiment (see above) - I guess it did not work. I undid my changes to MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-levels and MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-main and fixed text of those 2 categories. the content of those 2 messages still does not work properly. The edits will look like this. Any ideas how to fix it? I am running out of ideas.--Jarekt (talk) 14:51, 5 December 2011 (UTC)


It seems like a lot of new categories were created thanks to users like User:Zuma11. By the way does anybody know why his babel bar does not show properly? --Jarekt (talk) 14:29, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Seems like Babel isn't made for linguists ;)
Is there a way to get rid of the categories for level 0? Other than en-0, I doubt this is of much use.
We could attempt to block user:Babel AutoCreate and just unblock it when someone is around to monitor what it does.
For the transclusion problem, maybe includeonly or 2nd level transclusion might work. --  Docu  at 17:02, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
I agree that Categories for level 0 are useless. It seems like at least EN wikipedians thought the same. But most other Wikipedias use them (see interwiki at de:Kategorie:User_en-0). I wonder if there is a way to configure the extension not to create them. We can easily modify templates not to add them. --Jarekt (talk) 18:44, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Hey I think I found what we need to fix MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-levels and MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-main messages at {{Tlx}}. Hopefully it will work. --Jarekt (talk) 19:02, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
I edited Template:UsersSpeak to stop adding the "-0" categories. It seems to work when testing it on random pages, but User:Zuma11 doesn't display any more. --  Docu  at 23:38, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
It seems to be back, but apparently it's "$wgBabelCategoryNames" that needs to be defined. --  Docu  at 23:55, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Do you know where and how? I could not find it. Also we should ask for consensus on VP. --Jarekt (talk) 16:58, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Template:UsersSpeak modifications undone as it generates 300+ of level 0 categories in Special:UncategorizedCategories. I think that those categories are still needed, (especially Category:User en-0, they just don't need to be displayed. --Foroa (talk) 09:22, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
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Add template to files in category

Please add a template {{Mediagrant|Události}} to the files in Category:Czech Bus 2011. Thank you!--Juandev (talk) 07:54, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

You may use VisualFileChange for this task. Click here to start. You may choose the replace or the append-option. -- RE rillke questions? 08:59, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
  Done--Jarekt (talk) 12:58, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
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Flora batava

Category:Flora batava has only 41 images. There are more images at www.biolib.de.
The issues are old: "Flora Batava. 1. Deel." (1800), "Flora Batava. 2. Deel." (1807), "Flora Batava. 3. Deel." (1814), "Flora Batava. 4. Deel." (1822), "Flora Batava. 5. Deel." (1828), "Flora Batava. 6. Deel." (1832), "Flora Batava. 7. Deel." (1836), "Flora Batava. 8. Deel." (1844), "Flora Batava. 9. Deel." (1846), "Flora Batava. 10. Deel." (1849), "Flora Batava. 11. Deel." (1853), "Flora Batava. 12. Deel." (1865), "Flora Batava. 13. Deel." (1868), "Flora Batava. 14. Deel." (1868), "Flora Batava. 15. Deel." (1868), "Flora Batava. 16. Deel." (1868), "Flora Batava. 17. Deel." (1868), "Flora Batava. 18. Deel." (1889), "Flora Batava. 19. Deel." (1893), "Flora Batava. 20. Deel." (1898)
The authors died more than 70 years ago: Jan Kops (1765-1849), Herman Christiaan van Hall (1801-1874), Pieter Marie Eduard Gevers Deynoot (1816-1860), Frederik Willem van Eeden (1829-1901)
--Chris.urs-o (talk) 20:49, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
And the request is to ... ? →If it is uploading. -- RE rillke questions? 21:55, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Ok, thx & sorry, I didn't know. --Chris.urs-o (talk) 06:17, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
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Technique parameter of Template:NYPL-image-full

A {{Technique}} has been built into {{NYPL-image-full}}. It works well in most cases but could be broken by inputs like {{technique|photograph|adj=hand-colored}}, so it could be better to remove {{Technique}} from the template and add it to each page.--Zolo (talk) 09:34, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Can you show examples of the cases that cause problems? I added {{technique|photograph|adj=hand-colored}} to File:Chapel, Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views 2.jpg and it seems to work fine. On the other hand I have to say that I find {{NYPL-image-full}} rather confusing, undocumented, and hard to manipulate. It is also used in 78k files what makes changes changing individual files very time consuming (I know since I was fixing licenses of most of the files in the collection). We could perform template substitution replacing {{NYPL-image-full}} with {{Artwork}}, or we can document current template. --Jarekt (talk) 12:38, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Oops I had misread the code and checked with the wrong template:(... Yes substituting the template with artwork sounds like a good idea to me. It could be an the occasion to do something about the date field too. Currently many files seem to have the "digital item published date", which is probably not interesting for many people. NYPL apparently also has the creation date, but it was probably not very easy to retrieve (see [1] /File:Gazing into a yawning chasm 5000 feet deep, Moran's Point, by Underwood & Underwood.jpg.--Zolo (talk) 13:18, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
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Category:Mary Vaux Walcott

Replace all Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) by {{Creator:Mary Vaux Walcott}} in all file description in Category:Mary Vaux Walcott like this edit.--Pixeltoo (talk) 21:27, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

  Done --Jarekt (talk) 12:26, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your help Jarekt ;-)--Pixeltoo (talk) 14:37, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
For small categories like this (in future) You may use VisualFileChange for this task. Click here to start. -- RE rillke questions? 14:51, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Rillke :)--Pixeltoo (talk) 17:12, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
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Ships

The Template:Category definition: ships by year built needs update.

{{Category definition|ships by year built|1976}} should be

{{Category definition|ships by year built|197|6}}

J 1982 (talk) 12:55, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

It worked nicely before you edited. Would you restore it? --  Docu  at 13:04, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
You had to add categories by hand before. J 1982 (talk) 13:17, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
If you think the new format is useful, you'd need to find an intermediary solution to allow for the parameter to be empty. The new format isn't that practical for years ending with 0 or 9. I'm also missing the overview (counts).
BTW In general, we try to avoid adding topical categories through templates. --  Docu  at 13:49, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Categories should be used in the template, but the "decade sips" isn't working. Another problem is that there are two templates, this one and Template:ShipsBuilt. J 1982 (talk) 15:43, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
I do not like the idea of templates adding topical categories. It is confusing to users and very hard to undo or modify. --Jarekt (talk) 16:02, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Maintenance category for files with EXIF rotation other than 0 degrees

Shortcut

As discussed a few times (eg Commons:Village_pump#Image_orientation), MediaWiki 1.18 started respecting EXIF rotation data (where present) in the generation of thumbnails. But files have often been rotated without the correction of this EXIF data, so that the software rotates the image again. This is a request for a maintenance category to be created, and populated with all image files with EXIF rotation data other than 0 degrees (presuming that where it's 0 degrees, the image would only very rarely have been rotated). For the avoidance of doubt, files without EXIF rotation data should be ignored.

Is this possible? If so, who can do it? Thanks. Rd232 (talk) 13:37, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

I think this is badly needed. I was looking at File:MediaWiki database schema 1-19 (r102798).png to figure out how EXIF data is stored, but did not figure it out yet. I think a new toolserver bot will have to be written to do the job. A good starting point would be User:DschwenBot/source which already analyses image EXIF data, looking for GPS coordinates. --Jarekt (talk) 18:32, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
de:Benutzer:Umherirrender made a list of all files which contain EXIF rotation info (yes, there may be some correct ones included but we do not have many at all): de:Wikipedia_Diskussion:WikiProjekt_Commons-Transfer#Gedrehte_Bilder_wieder_richtig_drehen. I left him a message to join here.
@Rd232: 1: I think we only do need to look at files uploaded before the 1.18 switch-over date (5 October 2011). 2: before we make big categorizing requests here - what will be the process of dealing with the cat (Should files be decatted if they look okay or have been rotated (maybe Rotatebot should get a minor update to remove this cat if found))? Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 04:16, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
If 1. is true, that's good. But I don't understand why it would be - can you explain? 2. Yes, that should be agreed as part of the setup of this. I think it's straight forward though, isn't it? If the thumbnail looks OK, the cat can be removed - there shouldn't be thumbnails that look OK when actually the EXIF contradicts the file rotation; and when rotatebot is fixing EXIFs, it should remove the cat at the same time. Rd232 (talk) 05:51, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
1: Well, images uploaded after 1.18 switchover may have correct EXIF and display correctly. And if not they did show up directly wrong after upload - so the uploader directly noticed it and could act accordingly. Maybe we should include all files until the RotateLink was displayed (17 October 2011) because before that date it was hard for all users except regulars to fix those images.
2: Just another thought: A categorizing would be a massive page history and watchlist "spam". But, yes, I agree that this is easiest for the expected massive amount of files. A list/gallery page like we have it now in dewp probably would create too much overhead work (removing the checked/fixed files from the list).
3: Needs to be thought of: in the cat gallery not all files which have wrong EXIF will show up wrong since the thumbnails could be old ones. So all files in this cat would need a purge to get fresh thumbs. Downside: all article uses would be instantaneously wrong (even if they had correct (old) thumbs until now). If there would be a way to set a unusual thumbnailsize for the cat gallery the purge would not be needed.
4: name of the cat to be added? Category:Images with EXIF-based rotation to be checked? Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 13:53, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
1. OK. Probably should extend to the RotateLink date then. 2. "spam" will be an issue. At least the categorising step can be a "bot" edit, hopefully many of the fixings as well. 3. ...ideally we'd have some reasonably efficient way to do a batch of files: in one step, purge the thumbs of the batch, select all that need rotating and how, and tell Rotatebot - and have Rotatebot act on those immediately. it would need a custom script, but then thumbs would be only wrong for a few minutes. 4. name seems fine. And hopefully it won't live very long so it doesn't matter much! :) Rd232 (talk) 23:21, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
MediaWiki stores the metadata of a image in the database field img_metadata in database table image as a serialized php object. I have download the sql dump of that table from dumps.wikimedia.org. Than I have searched inside the database field with the regulare expression "Orientation";i:[836];. MediaWiki is only rotated the orientation of 3, 6 or 8 (See ExifBitmap.php). I checked each match with the api, if the image is not deleted or moved to commons or rotated in the meantime. The sql dump for dewiki is 30.7 MB big, that is easy to download and process. The sql dump for commonswiki is 5.2 GB (!) big, that is many to download. If possible, it is better, when a user with toolserver account can search over the database and find the images, when the database field is available on the toolserver and mysql allows regex. When not, I can try to download the sql dump at next weekend and find the images. Der Umherirrende 19:03, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Ein falscher Freund ist da reingerutscht: wenn = if, wann = when. Rd232 (talk) 23:21, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
Danke, ich bin in englisch nicht gerade gut, hoffe aber, das man mich versteht. Der Umherirrende 19:07, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
That's a big dump - is at least up to date? Well, whatever works, if there's no better way to get this done. Thanks for the offer. Rd232 (talk) 23:21, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
I have download the dump and run my program over the dump. I have found wrong orientation by 0.5% of all files, but from 11 milion files this are 54637 (!) files. I have copy 2000 files to User:Umherirrender/EXIF rotation. Have a look. Is tagging with bot better, or manually work on that page? Der Umherirrende 19:07, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Hm, I see you've got next to each file what the EXIF rotation is. Can you split the files by rotation, so that you have User:Umherirrender/EXIF rotation3, User:Umherirrender/EXIF rotation6, User:Umherirrender/EXIF rotation8? Because then COM:AWB can be used to append a rotatebot command on all those files, no? You just need to check each page for images like this File:1.p1430447.jpg, and remove them before loading the list into AWB. Rd232 (talk) 19:41, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
I do not think that thats work, because sometimes the file is already rotated, but the exif data is not changed and in other places the images is rotated, but in the wrong way or other examples. Having the files sorted by the rotation is there not very helpful. But you can do it yourself for a block and try it. Der Umherirrende 20:02, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
OK, here's an example: User:Umherirrender/EXIF rotation6. There's a handful of files that can easily be identified from looking at the page as exceptions which need removing. Do that, and then the page is ready to go into AWB, and add the same rotatebot instruction (90 degrees left) to all of them. The only problem I can see is if (a) the thumbnail for a file is outdated (b) the rotation of a file has been corrected without changing the EXIF data. Then rotatebot will rotate the image again. Perhaps the only solution for this is to open each file and check that the file rotation matches the thumbnail, and handle it as an exception if it doesn't. But this process (feeding into AWB) should still be more efficient than examining each file and using RotateLink on it. Rd232 (talk) 20:51, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Yes, it is really important to look at a fresh thumb when issuing a rotation request. We do not want to mess up many images, right? ;-) If the rotation tag is applied by the rotatelink gadget the small thumb in the popup will be (in 99%) a fresh one (since the gadget purges and requests a unusual thumbnail size. Maybe we need should think about increasing rotatebot's speed (of course this will put more load on the TS then). But I suggest not to do so if possible. Changes could lead to problems. ;) It is nice and running at the moment. I will watch the Rotatebot log for error reports (easy by looking in the history of the log page) and very quickly visually scan the thumbnails in the log for wrong rotations. Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 21:40, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
"it is really important to look at a fresh thumb when issuing a rotation request. " - or else to ignore the thumb and look at the file page itself, yes? ... in theory, we could use RotateLink's approach and purge and use an unusual thumbnail size, but that could mean breaking existing transclusions some time before Rotatebot gets round to a file. Rd232 (talk) 21:44, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
I am using a unusual thumbnail size on the list, so that what you see is right in the most cases. Der Umherirrende 22:06, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
Excellent - then I have more confidence in my AWB approach. The missing element, perhaps, is to go back to the block of processed images after rotatebot has actually done the rotation, and check that they all look right, using a slightly different unusual thumbnail size. Rd232 (talk) 22:31, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
"ignore the thumb and look at the file page itself" - I am not sure what you mean. Could you please explain? Take my word please: look at fresh thumbs. That is important because Rotatebot takes the EXIF Orientation into account. See the code: search for Saibo2. I do not understand your AWB approach so I cannot tell you if it works. RotateLink (or careful manual template setting and reading the text of the template) works. ;-) Btw: I am in IRC chat when I am at the PC - for quick questions. Btw: I have included this "User:Rotatebot/approx wait time incl text" on the cat page now. Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 00:11, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
I've assumed that the file page preview is always correct. And, the AWB approach is just mass-tagging files with {{Rotate}}, by selecting files with a certain rotation in a list, and then manually removing from the list files which don't need rotating. Rd232 (talk) 11:50, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation. No, the file page preview (standard: 800px thumbnail) is not always correct since it could be still generated by the old MW version. A Purge is needed to force a new thumbnail (although sometimes, as you know, purging has no effect - due to buggy MW). And at which thumbnail do you look with AWB? Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 15:24, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Oh... um. Purge required! ... AWB is text only - it's just for processing the list after all visual analysis has been done on Commons. But with the backlog issue, AWB is not an appealing route now anyway. Rd232 (talk) 16:12, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
I want to note (again?) that not all files which have a EXIF rotation specified need to be corrected some (especially new uploads) may be correct (which is the intention of this MediaWiki feature ;-) ). Btw: 54637 files would need at current Rotatebot speed 151 days of bot action. --Saibo (Δ) 01:27, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Yes, a few are in Umherirrender's listing which have EXIF rotation but display correctly, so don't need any action. Rd232 (talk) 11:50, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Also per User_talk:Luxo#Any_chance_of_Rotatebot_handling_more_rotates.3F: Could we please stop mass tagging for now? Otherwise the Rotatebot is unable to process other requests which may be important (at least in the eyes of the user who requested). Maybe we should try to keep the backlog under about 18 hours? Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 03:23, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

I agree. If we can't massively increase Rotatebot's processing power, then we should try to reserve it for images that are actually in use. One way to identify those is to wait for people to complain... The other one, of course, once the backlog is down, is to check global usage on the file page, and skip it if not used in a significant way (eg ignore userspace). Alternatively, if we had something like {{rotate|notinuse}} then those could go in a different category, and that category be given a lesser priority. Rd232 (talk) 11:43, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
We could simply add such a additional param to the rotate template. According to Rotatebot's code ("//Template erkennen") it could be processed. However, I think that simply creates too much overhead and error possibilities. I would rather KISS and just do not flood Rotatebot more than it can process. If someone wants to do changes (which work!), feel free. I do not have the time. --Saibo (Δ) 14:21, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
The list now contains only images which are used global. When all 20000 global used files are rotated, the other 35000 files where listed piece by piece. Der Umherirrende 16:40, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Umherirrender, danke dass du so viel mithilfst, aber, wie ich oben schrieb, wäre es möglich vorerst keine neuen Drehaufträge zu geben? Es bringt nichts einen Mega-Rückstand für den Bot aufzubauen - schneller geht's dadurch eh nicht. Für die Normaluser scheint sonst der Rotatebot völlig unbenutzbar zu sein. Sind denn bei allen Dateien, die du markierst die Thumbs auch in den Artikeln schon falsch (vor dem Drehauftrag)? --Saibo (Δ) 20:53, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Ja, es war in den Artikeln das gedrehte Bild sichtbar. Ich habe die Liste mal geleert und warte, bis der Rückstand des Bots wieder geschrumpft ist und schau dann, wie viel noch übrig bleibt und davon noch gedreht werden müssen. Der Umherirrende 18:03, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

It just came to my mind - do not know if it is helpful as I do not know how you do the tagging: the rotate parameter {{rotate|resetexif}} is also available. Rotatebot then just deleted the EXIF-Orientation. So if you know that the image is physically correct this could be used (due to the more difficult task to determine if the physical orientation is correct this option is not available to the average user with RotateLink) --Saibo (Δ) 12:31, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

I do not know if someone continues mass tagging.. however: if a image is still right in articles: PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST ROTATION. People really get fucked up due to many images are wrong now (due to a purge) bit not fast fixing by rotatebot. --Saibo (Δ) 01:51, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Okay, I really do not know why this started now but it seems (from looking at a sample of some recent rotate requests) that the servers started to refresh thumbs and people are simply (and correctly) tagging wrong files. CommonGood apparently did a mass tagging. The temporal relation to this section here is very strange. Does someone has an explanation? Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 02:31, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Note: Rotatebot's speed is now 300% of the previous (if everything keeps to run smoothly). → 86 hours backlog currently. --Saibo (Δ) 20:23, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Excellent - well done everyone involved in making that happen. Rd232 (talk) 20:37, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

  Info As I also had posted at User_talk:Rotatebot#Huge_Queue: Just had a chat in IRC #wikimedia-tech with apergos: They run a thumb cleaner because they run out of HDD space on the thumb servers. → LOL sorry... He tried to only purge thumbs of files which are not in article use.
In case it is useful to somebody: Apergos uploaded the full list to http://www.sendspace.com/file/cuufj4 "this is the entire job. we've done up through /export/thumbs/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Gregorian_chant_clefs.gif "
I further discussed with him if it is possible to exclude the files with "Orientation" from the purge. He will look at it - seems to be possible. --Saibo (Δ) 15:01, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Info2: We are at 20 hours backlog currently. So .. if someone wants to continue mass tagging - I think it can be started slowly. Would be nice we we stay below 1 day. --Saibo (Δ) 19:43, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
I have start the list with 1000 images. Some of the listed images are already rotated by RotateBot but they have orientation of 3, 6 or 8, so I cannot filter them out. Please remove that images manually or should I ignore images with lastUploader = RotateBot? Der Umherirrende 20:16, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Yes, you can do that as I had gone through the uploads of RotateBot and fixed almost all that needed repair. --  Docu  at 21:15, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Did you notice that the image.sql database file was dumped today? Are you using the new dump or an old one? I tried downloading a previous dump but gave up after MySQL on my computer had been importing it without finishing within 24 hours, so I guess you haven't had the time to import the new one yet.
I think that we really need some maintenance categories: "Unchecked EXIF rotation 3", "Unchecked EXIF rotation 6" and "Unchecked EXIF rotation 8". To be used if EXIF rotation is set but no one has checked the image. When checked, ask for rotation or delete the category if rotation isn't needed. --Stefan4 (talk) 21:16, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
I am using the API to update the list and remove the already tagged or already by RotateBot rotated images. I am also check the new images, before adding to the page. My java program parsed the SQL dump and I have not to import it in MySQL, that is not easy, because it is hugh. Der Umherirrende 17:44, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Systematic fix

I resume:

  • We have a list of all files having Exif-orientation that we can filter.

Is it possible to filter those files that's latest upload-date is before the MW-Update? If it isn't in the MySQL-Dump, I could write an API-query (but only in VB(A) e.g. Microsoft Access or JavaScript (e.g. somewhere a list on Commons that is fetched by the script and script removes files uploaded later)). -- RE rillke questions? 11:19, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

I am going to write a JavaScript: "reset exif and remove from list". I assume the thumbs are always right on this page. -- RE rillke questions? 11:40, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

My list only contains images, which last version was uploaded before 2011-10-17T00:00:00Z. The dump contains all database columns, so that was easy to filter. Der Umherirrende 17:44, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Some images on that page already have a {{Rotate}} template. What happens if your script adds an additional one? {{rotate|270}} first and then {{rotate|resetexif}} is innocent (the second rotation does nothing) but {{rotate|resetexif}} first and then {{rotate|270}} would be a problem. Don't forget to check that there isn't already a {{Rotate}} template. --Stefan4 (talk) 19:12, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
My script is clever :-) If first removes all {{Rotate}}-templates and then adds a reset-exif tag.
if ("User:Umherirrender/EXIF_rotation" === wgPageName) importScript("User:Rillke/RotateIt.js");
Parsing the page takes some time and may freeze your browser for 30s. Then, there are 2 links beyond each thumb: One for tagging&removing and one only removing the image from the list. Tagging is done immediately (dispays working... and then, if successfully done removes the link), removal is queued. If there are 26 images in the removal-queue, script will remove these images from the page. -- RE rillke questions? 19:33, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
I tried that script and it seems very useful! --Stefan4 (talk) 22:50, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Maybe increase the number of items in that queue from 26 to 40? That avoids to many saves on the list. Der Umherirrende 08:59, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
User:Meneerke bloem complained on my talk page because I apparently requested rotation of some image for which he had already requested rotation. Unfortunately, Rillke's script does not tell if rotation already has been requested, so other people's rotation requests might be deleted at other places for the same reason. The end result should still be the same, but people might be upset about it. Feel free to comment on the topic on my talk page. --Stefan4 (talk) 12:14, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
I am checking each file for Template:Rotate, when I update the list and add new images to the list. The user add the template in the period between my last check and your tagging. That is possible and the script of Rillke is replacing the old template by the new one. Maybe it is better to stop tagging that image instead of override the template. Der Umherirrende 13:03, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Agreed. Working on a fix. People are really easy upset and we are the victims. -- RE rillke questions? 18:46, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

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The queue-display is now slightly green. Scipt just removes the image from the gallery if it is already tagged for rotation. Queue limit is now 36. -- RE rillke questions? 19:27, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Update: Built-in a check whether someone else is working on this list and if so, a message is displayed in the queue-container. -- RE rillke questions? 19:47, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Confused by the rotate-mess

I'm not working a list but have File:Lehman Brothers-20080915.jpg on watch for another reason. It needs to be turned 90 clockwise, but I don't understand what Template:Rotate is trying to tell me. Is it requesting that I do something, or is it notifying me that the rotation is on queue and will be completed three and a half days from now, thus needs no further action? Jim.henderson (talk) 19:25, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
For me it reads

Rotatebot will reset the EXIF orientation. This is useful for old images, which display wrong now due to upgrade to MediaWiki 1.18. Instead of this option (except if the file has duplicate IFD0:Orientation tags) the correct degree number would work, too.

So you don't have to do anything. Wait 3 days and it is done. Regards -- RE rillke questions? 19:41, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Could be, but half a day later it still indicates three days and a half to go, and as in file:mskcc.jpg it says "Consequently, the degree parameter needs to be specified based on the thumbnail you see here below. The next issued rotation request would take approximately 3 days, 11:36 hours to be processed" in which "would" suggests a hypothetical specification of rotation rather than one that is already queued. All this suggests to me that the process is not being applied to these pictures, and all such pictures should be removed from the various Wikipedias until someone figures out what has to be specified and how, or at least when. Jim.henderson (talk) 12:53, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Ah. Lehman Brothers flipped a few minutes ago. I am contented that the right things are happening; it's just that the template provides unclear wording. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:18, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Consequently, the degree parameter needs to be specified

is there because some people think putting {{Rotate}} (without any parameters) will solve the problem. -- RE rillke questions? 15:25, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

The next issued rotation request [...]

only indicates what it says: If you request a new rotation or change the template, it will take 3 days to be processed. From my side, this could be dropped from the template as it is more confusing than helpful. Or we invent something more complicated, which exactly calculates how many time is required. But is it really worth? -- RE rillke questions? 15:25, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
All right; the degree question can be clarified by making it hypothetical, even if it requres more words like "If an actual raster rotation is required, the degree parameter must be specified; otherwise only the EXIF rotate flag will be adjusted." This is long, and in part obscure since some readers won't understand a term like "raster rotation" or "physically rotate" but I'm guessing those are the readers who don't need to know.
The timetable sentence should be clarified by shortening and dehypothesising: "Current rotate backlog is approximately [Days, Hours]." The meaning is vague, but vagueness is precisely what we want here if we cannot actually say how soon it will happen. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:56, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
I have changed the wording of the rotate template. --Saibo (Δ) 16:32, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Add PD-Art to files in category Artgate Fondazione Cariplo

About 1,000 images within Category:Artgate Fondazione Cariplo are missing {{PD-Art}}. Please add this template to each of the files. Thanks, --Mattes (talk) 08:43, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

I agree that files in that category are missing most of the expected metadata. They could use {{Artwork}}, {{Creator}}, {{Institution}}, related categories, etc. However a bot can not just add {{PD-Art}} to all the files, since it is unclear that all the artworks are from artists who died more than 70 year ago, see for example File:Borra Pompeo - Volto.jpg. Also all the sculptures should use {{PD-old}} instead. If you or someone else create category or gallery of the images that qualify, than I can add the template. --Jarekt (talk) 15:55, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
I added {{Artwork}} to all the files. --Jarekt (talk) 16:42, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

  Not done since bot can not make proper decisions about which files to add the templates. However, It would be great is someone fix metadata in that category. Will be happy to assist in better defined tasks in the future, like lists of specific files to add templates to. --Jarekt (talk) 13:03, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Files without file information pages

A file is not guaranteed to have a file information page. For example, File:Portón de Maderuelo.jpg didn't have any file information page until I created one about half an hour ago. If there is no file information page, there is no source and no licence specified. The file I found was added to Commons in 2008, so it seems that the usual bots which search for files without licences or sources only find files with file information pages. It would be nice to search for all files without file information pages so that they can be tagged with no licence and no source. --Stefan4 (talk) 18:48, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

While this should be detected, this seems to be a software-bug: Sometimes image-description-pages disappear or are not created. -- RE rillke questions? 22:57, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
I occasionally run into files that have been on commons for years and never had any license. Unfortunately it is not easy to find them. I started looking into that problem a while ago. I added empty {{License template tag}} to most valid templates. At the moment the template is used at 4.8 million files, out of 11.8 present. If we embed it in all valid licenses than all files without it should be inspected for either unorthodox license (to which this template can be added) or for lack of license. So far I occasionally use it to test for files with no license in a small category. For example I just used CatScan2 to find files in Category:Photographs_by_Jarek_Tuszynski that do not have {{License template tag}} and found that File:Desert Queen Ranch - crane.jpg was missing a license. Unfortunately the method still finds a lot of "false alarms" do to the fact that {{License template tag}} did not "propagate" yet (since early September) to all the files that use it, so although the file is transcluding a template that transcludes {{License template tag}}, the file claims that it does not have that template. --Jarekt (talk) 13:14, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

licence change

Hello. Cann one bot change licencens of my files? The new licence is {{User:Der Buckesfelder/licence}} and at following files the licence should be change: [2] and [3] Greets --Der Buckesfelder  Talk  Evaluation  E-Mail 17:10, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

I have multiple issues with this one. The catscan calls are not working for me, but I assume that you are looking for images like File:Advent wreath in the church Maria Königin, Lüdenscheid, Germany - 2011.jpg which are uploaded by you but use User:Raboe001/licence. Shell we just intersect Category:Files by Der Buckesfelder with use of that template? If so than there are only 21 such images and it might be faster to do by hand, otherwise it may be the easiest way would be to just save a list of those somewhere. Also I do not want to change to {{User:Der Buckesfelder/licence}}. If we are going to change it we should change to {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0|author=.....}} so each image has an actual license, which can be check in edit history to see if it changed, etc. --Jarekt (talk) 12:47, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
At all images in this category without this, this and this the licence shall be change to {{User:Der Buckesfelder/licence}}. If no one want to do this, I will do this by hand. Merry Christmas wish you --Der Buckesfelder  Talk  Evaluation  E-Mail 13:46, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
Again, you should not use a license template like {{User:Der Buckesfelder/licence}}. Instead put the actual license tag directly on the image. Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 14:53, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
I have suggest why, but I'll change the licence in the next time again and then I can edit {{User:Der Buckesfelder/licence}}. It will be easier for me. --Der Buckesfelder  Talk  Evaluation  E-Mail 15:52, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
License changes will happen only seldom. And be aware: you cannot remove a license once you have applied it. That is a reason to put the license tag directly on the file page - what do you plan to change? Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 23:01, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Suggest-bot

Like the Suggestbot used on wikipedia, would it be possible to have one for commons based on the categorys that a user works in/maintainence tags that are used(eg{{SVG}}), etc.
Just an idea- Gauravjuvekar (talk) 15:56, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Licensing change

I need a bot for a license change, from {{PD-Italy}} to {{PD-scan|PD-old}}:

Files

Thank you in advance.--Trixt (talk) 11:42, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

  Done I think we should also crate {{Book}} and {{Creator}} for this set of files. I can help adding them. --Jarekt (talk) 04:03, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Categorisation NARA project

Hello,

In the NARA Project, a large number of files exist in two formats : tif and jpg with the same name. Often the tif file is categorized but not the jpg (And conversely). Can you categorize automatically the twin file of a file already to categorize?

There is several thousand files to categorized.

Thank you ! --M0tty (talk) 21:37, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

  Support I think it is a good idea, but I am not sure how to write one. --Jarekt (talk) 12:43, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

per Bot eine Category hinzufügen

Moin zusammen, ich würde gerne bei alles meinen hochgeladenen Bildern eine persönliche Category einfügen, wie geht das bzw. wer kann mir erklären wie ich das machen kann. Dann gleich noch eine Frage, kann man die Metadaten (Exif) automatisch auslesen und z.B. den Kameratyp als Category eintragen. Tschüß Ra Boe watt?? 08:48, 5 January 2012 (UTC) Ach ja mein "en" ist nicht so berauschend, von daher wäre "de" von Vorteil für mich. :)

Wenn es <300 Bilder sind, kannst Du es per VisualFileChage (action: append text) selbst machen. Wenn es mehr sind, musst Du auf jemanden mit AWB o.ä. warten ODER du lädst immer ~300 Bilder (durch herunterscrollen), fügst die Kategorie hinzu und trägst das Hochladedatum der zuletzt bearbeiteten Datei (s. Special:MyContributions) in den ersten Dialog ein. Ich rate dir aber zuerst einen Testedit zu machen, um zu sehen, ob alles geklappt hat. 2) Metadaten — ist möglich aber momentan nicht mit dem Script. Ich sehe aber den Sinn nicht 100000 Bilder in eine Kategorie zu stopfen. Grüße -- RE rillke questions? 17:05, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Coordinates from Panoramio

For photos from Category:Admin_reviewed_Panoramio_images transfer coordinates from Panoramio.com by link in Source. Lzhl (talk) 16:11, 6 January 2012 (UTC).

  Support That is a good idea, since ~20% of images from Panoramio do not have coordinates. Anybody knows how to do it on continuous basis? --Jarekt (talk) 16:38, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Amada44 asked the same for flickr-images. Yes, of course a good idea but a lot of work (and you may violate law by automatically fetching their pages). -- RE rillke questions? 16:55, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Adding images to "<month> <year> in Australia" categories

For all of the images in Category:Photos by JJ Harrison, I need to add the category "<month> <year> in Australia" where <month> and <year> comes from the date in the Information template on each image. For example, File:Petroica boodang male - Knocklofty.jpg would be placed into Category:July 2011 in Australia. I've no knowledge, but I believe that the dates are all in a consistent format, so it shouldn't be difficult to do. A crude, but effective approach in pseudo-code might be: 

if image description page contains "|Date=2012-01" then append [[:Category:January 2012 in Australia]]
if image description page contains "|Date=2011-12" then append [[:Category:December 2011 in Australia]]
if image description page contains "|Date=2011-11" then append [[:Category:November 2011 in Australia]]

... and so on (this could obviously be automated quite a bit)

I joined commons 6 April 2008, so no need to go back earlier than that. There will be a handful of photos taken outside Australia, but I will deal with those after the bot has been through. Oh, a few of those categories might need to be created. JJ Harrison (talk) 11:45, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Images from NOAA and excess license template

Please remove {{Cc-by-2.0}} from all files of Category:Images from NOAA like here. Thanks. Kobac (talk) 07:28, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

  Done --Jarekt (talk) 17:26, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Jarekt (talk) 12:20, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Mass tagging for COM:CFD

Please note — case sensitivity is crucial here. I'd appreciate it if all categories beginning with the four text strings

  • Gothic revival architecture in
  • Gothic Revival architecture in
  • Romanesque revival architecture in
  • Romanesque Revival architecture in

were to have

{{subst:cfd|Revival architectural styles}}

added to them. I'm not sure how many categories there are, but I'd like to nominate all of them specifically because of their titles; the capitalisation is not consistent (there are many "Gothic revival" categories and many "Gothic Revival" categories, for example), so I'm nominating everything for renaming to a consistent standard. Nyttend (talk) 07:01, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Jarekt (talk) 12:26, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Image categories

Could someone please help me add Category:Files by User:Anna Frodesiak to the images listed here. Many thanks if you can help. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:21, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

  Done by User:Huntster? --Jarekt (talk) 13:50, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Jarekt (talk) 12:27, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Request for the update of some navigational templates after century categories migration

OK, I have a request that I believe can be specified precisely enough to be done by a bot:

  • Scope: For all category pages linking to templates {{Us states}} (sample here) and {{States of Austria Navi}} (sample here) with a name starting by <nnth>-century (presence of the dash mandatory, nnth taking values from 1st to 21st)
  • Action requested: look for text "prefix=:Category:<nnth> century" and substitute it with "prefix=:Category:<nnth>-century" i.e. replace the space character with a dash, as in this example diff

This change is made necessary by the renaming of a great number of century categories. I already fixed by hand a few hundred category pages linked to {{States of Germany Navi}} and it can be quite tedious. Place Clichy 13:50, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

I think this should be handled by adding {{Category redirect}} to all renamed categories and let bots clean up Category:Non-empty category redirects. That also leaves redirect so people who got used to the old names, or wikis that might link there can still find new categories. Bots can assist with adding {{Category redirect}} to categories, if assistance is needed. --Jarekt (talk) 14:10, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Making redirects to those 6500 renamed and never (externally) linked categories makes no sense (besides the bad training). Anyway, those changes are requested for the navigation templates; navigation through stumbling in category redirects defeats the purpose of navigation templates. All deletion edit summaries contain a clickable destination directory. This is a typical problem when using "horizontal" references in navigation templates. --Foroa (talk) 14:20, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
The list could be first filtered as it should contain in the name "century". --Foroa (talk) 14:32, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
You are right. I should have read the original request more carefully, I did not catch the part that those are template parameters. I think I found 305 such categories, and I will change them. --Jarekt (talk) 16:18, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
  Done --Jarekt (talk) 17:05, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Thank you very much to User:Place Clichy and Jarekt; this should conclude the bulk of the "migration of the century". --Foroa (talk) 17:27, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Wow, I wish I had asked earlier, it would have saved me a few hundreds manual edits! About tasks remaining in the "migration", I still find some templates with links to moved categories, such as [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]. Most of these templates are found under Category navigational templates or by a search on the template namespace. The redlinks tool may also be very useful: http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/redlinks.py?page=20th_century&namespace=14&dbname=commonswiki will display all links to pages beginning with "20th century" in the category namespace. Place Clichy 18:53, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
I found the following templates which are based on the same principle and need the same text substitution by a bot: {{Districts of Rhineland-Palatinate}}, {{Regions of Italy}}, {{Romania County}}, {{Counties of England}}. Can your bot please take care of them in the same way as what was done for {{Us states}} and {{States of Austria Navi}}? Place Clichy 11:55, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Yes there are 671 such categories, I cannot run it right now because I am in a middle of some other run, but anybody else with AWB bot account can run it. The AWB setting file can be found here. --Jarekt (talk) 14:56, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
  Done--Jarekt (talk) 05:17, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Perfect! Thank you! Place Clichy 11:01, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Jarekt (talk) 12:27, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Mass purge

Hello!

Would it be possible to purge all category pages linking to {{Places by decade}}? I made a change in the template's code, and need the pages to be purged for it to operate. Many thanks! Place Clichy 20:38, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

I know it can be done with mw:Manual:Pywikipediabot/touch.py but making no-change edits to the page, but I am not that familiar with that code. I do a lot or template editing and it usually takes few days for them to propagate to all the pages, so perhaps it might no longer be necessary, or will not be necessary in a day or two. --Jarekt (talk) 14:46, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
I did a dummy edit on related templates. Could you check if by chance, it is updated by now ? --Foroa (talk) 17:25, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
I found all pages purged after a night of sleep. Saving a page without any edit is indeed enough to purge manually, however doing it on a few thousand pages is a bit long. It's been all done on its own now, so I guess the request is moot. Thank you anyway! Place Clichy 18:09, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Jarekt (talk) 12:28, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Moving to subcategory

Move all files with Category:Ivan Aivazovsky into Category:Seascapes by Ivan Aivazovsky, please. --Alex-engraver (talk) 19:08, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

  Done That is not really a bot task, anybody can easily do it with Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot. --Jarekt (talk) 20:35, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Wow, thanks for a link to this gadget :) --Alex-engraver (talk) 20:50, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Jarekt (talk) 12:28, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Delete tags

I've prepared Commons:Deletion requests/Banknotes and coins tagged as PD-EE-exempt. Please tag 79 files listed with {{delete|reason=Not covered by PD-EE-exempt|subpage=Banknotes and coins tagged as PD-EE-exempt|year=2012|month=February|day=04}}. Thanks in advance! 88.196.241.249 12:29, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Just because I am curious, why didn't you use VisualFileChange for this request? No javaScript? -- RE rillke questions? 13:02, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
I never noticed that before. Seems like a cool thing. But I didn't manage to tag any files using it other than renoticing the uploader, it's either that the request page already exists or I'm doing something wrong. Anyways, thanks for the hint, I'll try using the script again next time. 88.196.241.249 13:24, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Since it is too difficult for me to figure out but if you can remember, you can use the action "prepend any text" (from the select on the top), fill in the delte-tag, then scoll down as long as no new files appear, click on select all (next to the action-select) and then remove the selection from the files that are not in the DR and hit execute. Yes, this is also some work, I have to admit. -- RE rillke questions? 13:56, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
It allowed to tag 9 files at once. I think I got it right now. Taking back my bot request. 88.196.241.249 14:45, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for this. There seem to be limitations for IPs, I wasn't aware. -- RE rillke questions? 16:24, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: 88.196.241.249 14:45, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Fixes in Category: Wikipedia Loves Art at the Brooklyn Museum files

When the artist field of files in Category: Wikipedia Loves Art at the Brooklyn Museum starts with "author", it should be blanked (they use an {{Artwork}} template so it is erroneous, and the photographer is prodided in the {{WLA}} template).
If it is not too complicated some other changes could be performed at the same time:

In progress. Category: Wikipedia Loves Art at the Brooklyn Museum files started with quite poor metadata formatting and they meed some help. User:JarektBot is doing some simple regular expression based changes, proposed above, to the files still in original format. However all the resulting files could use further metadata reformatting, since all the text now in "description" field can be moved to appropriate fields. --Jarekt (talk) 14:58, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
  Done --Jarekt (talk) 15:49, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, it is already better. Yet some other requsests about the Brooklyn Museum:
A museum vounteer has uploaded some wallpapers by Morris & Co., but has also put them in Category:William Morris. They should be removed from there (William Morris was already dead at the time). Creator:Morris & Co. should also be added to them.
Another thing is about formatting internationalization. Source and accession number provided by the museum could be cleaned up and internationalized through something like: that. I have provided link to the photograph rather than to the database entry in the source field because the link was redundant with the accession number link and I found it a bit confusing. Linking to the image also sounds a bit more consistent with the text. But on the other hand, a link to an isolated image may not be that useful, so it can be changed. The link to the database could perhaps be added in the reference field too. --Zolo (talk) 10:30, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Dates on NOAA images

Many images in Category:Images from NOAA have information templates with descriptions like the one in File:Corp1138 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg:

  • description = {{en|Float plane at Point Lay. Summer 1950.}}
  • date = 2010-10-01 12:34

These should be changed to:

  • description = {{en|Float plane at Point Lay.}}
  • date =Summer 1950

Or even:

  • description = {{en|Float plane at Point Lay.}}
  • date ={{other date|summer|1950}}
--  Docu  at 07:34, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
I will give it a try but there is rather wide variety of formats, so I will likely not get them all. --Jarekt (talk) 13:27, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
  Done with one pass. I had 2 dozen rules for most frequent formats converting to YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD form. I also had one rule for recognizing case when last sentence had year in it, in such case the whole sentence was copied to the date field. --Jarekt (talk) 16:07, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Navigation templates

1. In Category:Category navigational templates (Works) and its parent and subcats, there are many templates to be adapted for conversion of "nth century" to "nth-century" such as this one. Now, for the many century related templates, this is not only a lot of work, but equeally, most templates are nearly identical. Any ideas to create a generic template that simplifies all the others ? --Foroa (talk) 07:28, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

There are apparently about 1255 "by century" templates, many of them in need of link updating such as this one. Bot help would be a great idea! Are you able to build a flat list of all category names before the renaming? We may this way be able to look for all pages (probably mostly in the Category and Template namespaces) with links to any deleted page. I tried to create a {{Subject by century}} template, but then again placing it on top of all relevant categories might need a bit work, or bot help. Place Clichy 11:35, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Great job with {{Subject by century}} template. Simplifies many templates. --Foroa (talk) 13:14, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

2. There are in many categories constructs like {{Us states|prefix=:Category:20th century architecture in |suffix=}} that should be changed to {{Us states|prefix=:Category:20th-century architecture in |suffix=}}. Any idea how to mass solve that ? --Foroa (talk) 07:28, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: User:Foroa (--Foroa (talk) 16:48, 7 February 2012 (UTC))

Category:Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry scan 2004

Hi. This category contains every pages of the famous manuscripts (425 files). There are many things to change in descriptions and categories. Could it be possible for a bot to do this type of correction ?

  • include a booknavibar
  • put this Artwork template : the folio number (indicated in the filename) changes at each file in the title and in the accession number !
  • a defaultsort with the number of the folio

I've never asked for a bot before. Thanks for telling me if this request could be possible. Mel22 (talk) 17:35, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

That is a lot of changes on that page, but most seem easy to do.
  • I have a code that can be changed to include a booknavibar in case when the name of the next file can be derived from the name of the current file, by changing only a page number. However this book does not seem to follow the usual book page file names. Is there some pattern I am missing so I could predict previous and next filename?
  • I'm not responsible of this filename pattern, but the first number is the file number and the last one is the number of the folio : f.1, f.1verso, f2, f2verso, etc. Not the easiest, that's right.
  • Add folio number based on file name - that is doable
  • I am not sure about defaultsort can we just add sort to the category [[Category:Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry scan 2004| Très riches heures 7B]]. Although I think default sort would be just fine.

--Jarekt (talk) 18:10, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Defaultsort would haver been better if we would like to create undercategories, but if your proposition is the only solution, why not ? Thanks very much. Mel22 (talk) 10:01, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Request for the update of some (other) navigational templates after century categories migration

Hello!

Following a successful request found here, I located some other templates which need exactly the same action: {{Regions of France}}, {{Provinces of Canada}} (i.e. changing the value of template parameters on category pages including the template). Is the script still available at hand? Place Clichy 11:41, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

  Done There were only about 80 of those, that I could find. --Jarekt (talk) 14:19, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Also note that for some reason the bot did not act on category pages 12th- and 13th-century architecture in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Might it be because of the ß character? Place Clichy 13:41, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

I am not sure why. One possibility is that I use excel to filter the list. It might have change this character to something else so it could not find this page. --Jarekt (talk) 14:19, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Jarekt (talk) 04:59, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Frequent spelling error

The name of Francis de Castelnau is misspelled in many pages. Could this be corrected by a bot? In addition, Category:Francis de Castelnau's expedition might be added, where missing. --Leyo 18:24, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

  Done --Jarekt (talk) 04:57, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Jarekt (talk) 04:57, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

New template for the German Federal Archives

There are a couple of problems with the current images description templates (it is basically {{BArch-description}} that call {{BArch-biased}}, but the whole thing is not very clear (plus translations tend to be out of synch). As disussed on User talk:Bundesarchiv-B6, I have created a {{BArch-image}} that is somewhat similar to {{NARA-image-full}} and could replace the current {{Information}} + {[tl|BArch-description}} combination. It is quite a big task, but I think it would be substantial improvement.

Necessary changes are:

  • change name of some parameters of {{BArch-description}} to match the archive's website
    • 1 -> original title
    • caption -> original title (these two ones are apparently the same, if both are used in the same file, there is probably something wrong)
    • comment -> wiki description
    • headline -> short title
    • extra -> archive title
  • in what is currently out of the {{tl|BArch-description
    • move the content of {{BArch-link}} to a new ID field
    • add a "medium" field with {{technique|photograph}}
    • rename "author" to "photographer"
    • add a {{BArch-cooperation}} and (we currently have the source in {{BArch-License}}, but it is not very neat to have it in a license template). The least redundant solution would be to add it in in "source" field, in place of the current "Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive), {{BArch-link}}"


  • It would be great if everything could be organized in such a way as to make the Archive-provided could and the user-editable content clearly distinct, like in here--Zolo (talk) 13:53, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
  • This would be a big job, but I agree we can probably do a better job with Bundesarchiv descriptions. However I am afraid that a lot of people edited those file descriptions in last few years, and many people did it a little differently, so I would like to make sure that we do not loose those edits and even is someone's bot do a fine job modifying the original description, it does not mean it will do fine modifying descriptions with a lot of extra wikiuser content. The bot should be very conservative while doing changes and not do them (for time being) if there are any irregularities. Once we think we are happy with the new templates and file descriptions, we should also make sure we announce our intentions on proper talk pages and possibly Village Pump. --Jarekt (talk) 20:03, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
  • Can we use {{Artwork}}'s "ID" field instead of new field "Image ID"? Also I think we should use {{Artwork}}'s "description" field for "wiki description" and call "short title" -> "original title". Sometimes those titles are completely wrong. See for example this image from Warsaw uprising with the church in the background which Wikiuser identified as his church in Hrodna, Belarus. I also like you clear marking in wikicode of which parts can and can not be modified. I often found it hard to figure out where the boundaries lay. I would however move date out of the restricted area, see for example my modification of the date in this image again. --Jarekt (talk) 20:36, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
  • Yes, If we can change date by ourselves, yes, let's put it in the user-editable part - just like "people".
  • The bot is not supposed to change anything to the user-added addition. Potentially problematic cases are:
  1. if there are both a "1" and a "caption" parameter".
  2. if there is a description outside of the {{BArch-description}}.

The bot should probably leave out these files for manual sorting.

"Short title" should not be renamed to "original title" because "original title" is used on the archive's website for the full original description. I agree that their calling everything title is a bit confusing, but it will be worse if we use the same words here for something different. Beside, the "short title" is not really "original" in that it can apparently be changed by the archives (they have not done it in your example but I guess they should). Personnally I think the clearest rendering would be "title" for the short title" and "description (Bundesarcharchiv)" for the "archive title". It would also be easier to translate. The main problem is that it does not match the archive's website.

About the "wiki description" field: User:Raymond was keen on keeping the mouse-over tips, to provide additional information, which makes sense for several fields. The tooltip could be move out of the header, and into the description itself but it would not look so good. We could also get rid of the tooltip altogether but I think it makes it easier to see what is from the archive and what it not without looking into the code.

About "image ID": "accession number" does not seem to be the most natural word for archives (NARA uses "record ID"). But if it really makes things simpler I guess it is okay.--Zolo (talk) 09:36, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Zolo, unless someone else beats me to it, I will be happy to assist after I am done with the current run. Unfortunately, current run is interwiki sweep through all categories and after several days I am now at, letter E (see Special:Contributions/JarektBot). --Jarekt (talk) 13:59, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Ok thanks. It is not very urgent. Interwikis are obviously useful but your bot is of great help for many other things too, couldn't its edit rate be raised a bit ?--Zolo (talk) 15:21, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
I will check if there is a way to make it a little faster, but it is already going at pretty fast pace and most of the time is spent on following all the links on all the wikipedias. --Jarekt (talk) 15:57, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Sandbox-cleaning bot

I had requested that a bot to periodically clean the sandbox (à la en.wp or Meta), but unfortunately the user who initially agreed to create that bot has now apparently retired. Is anyone else willing to create this bot? It Is Me Here t / c 17:14, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

The user retired on en.wp. Just ask him/ her to join Commons. I am sure the user will create it. I don't like to bother with sandboxcleaning but why not always having a clean sandbox; I would not oppose. -- RE rillke questions? 20:18, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
It sounds a bit like a non issue.
Anyways, you could ask User:O to add it to the cron job of his bot. --  Docu  at 06:40, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
I've now messaged him. It Is Me Here t / c 00:53, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Sandbox cleaning will run once a day, just like the Village Pump operation. --O (谈 • висчвын) 02:06, 19 February 2012 (GMT)
This section was archived on a request by: Jarekt (talk) 12:37, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Work on cs.wv

Hi, is here someone, who can be requested to run a bot on Czech Wikiversity? --Juandev (talk) 10:35, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

SVG bug fix

The SVG images of User:Loisajb do not display correctly when rendered in Firefox. The problem is the missing unit: font-size:200px. The following should fix the problems: 

sed -i '/font-size:[0-9.]*px/q;s/font-size:[0-9.]*/&px/g' filename.svg

My manual correction of File:HexabenzocoroneneRXN.svg worked fine. Could this task be performed by a bot? --Leyo 22:13, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Probably. I have created a list at User:Faebot/Sandbox, could you double check these are the files you mean? Feel free to trim the list if that is easy to do.
As I understand it, the job would be to open each of these SVG files, make the style changes in the file and create a new upload. There seems to be around 50 files. Beyond my experience, but someone else might fancy it. --Fæ (talk) 13:49, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. I made a few changes to the list.
Yes, the procedure would be exactly as you described. --Leyo 14:35, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Done--DieBuche (talk) 10:51, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you. BTW: You missed one file. --Leyo 11:04, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
I uploaded the source for the Bot here: https://github.com/DieBuche/WikipediaSvgScour . It's not exactly beautiful, but it does the job. You need to have Perl and Python installed. Then just run it like "perl UploadFixedSVG.pl -f ListWithFilenamesWithoutFile:Prefix.txt". In the beginning it is a good idea to use the -c flag, then you have a chance to inspect the new file before uploading it.--DieBuche (talk) 11:15, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you. Unfortunately, I have no experience with Perl or Python. The source code might however be helpful for others.
The new version does not seem to solve the problem here. --Leyo 14:44, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Changed my username

The task is to go through all my uploads, and replace every instance of 'Ephemeronium' with 'Jynto', namely where the text is part of a link. That includes links to my user page, talk page and personal category. Thanks in advance. Jynto (talk) 02:19, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

You may use VisualFileChange for this task. Click here to start. I recommend you make some test edits or use the examine-function, type in a file-number and compare whether the right side looks like it should. Replace e.g. /[Ee]phemeronium/g (would match all occurrences of ephemeronium and Ephemeronium) with Jynto. Read the help-page linked and explore the options to save time before starting. -- RE rillke questions? 15:04, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Done, and moved your category to Category:Images by Jynto as well. Courcelles (talk) 17:57, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Jarekt (talk) 03:35, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Quick cleanup of blue plaque images

Could somebody run through Category:Blue plaques and its sub-categories, and remove {{Check categories-Geograph}} from every occurrence, please? I think this should be fairly trivial with AWB. They've all had their categorisation sorted or are in the process of having it sorted, so the tag can come off, it's just a pain to do it manually. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:56, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

  Done There was only 81 if those. --Jarekt (talk) 03:37, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:52, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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Template replacement

Hi,

would it be possible to replace:

  Done There were 89 such files. --Jarekt (talk) 03:54, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Jarekt (talk) 03:31, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Author/date fix

Images on Special:Search/Fæbot author=Ruslan (currently 305) including "Ruslan" as author need to have this replaced with {{Unknown}}.

The date on these images can be removed as well. --  Docu  at 16:20, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

If the original burndown category is re-added, I am quite happy to change the author to unknown using Faebot, as well as make other corrections as was my original plan after mass uploading these images. I'll happily leave these to others to sort out if having a simple hidden burndown category is a major issue. I would prefer it if the original Flickr information was preserved on the image page, knowing the details of the Flickr user and their upload date is potentially useful, especially considering our experience with such Flickr accounts disappearing along with the source history. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 16:37, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

  Question Already taken care of?--Jarekt (talk) 19:15, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

No. Looking at File:Herson Cathedral.jpg one could probably also include this change diff. --  Docu  at 22:12, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

  Question I note that the Flickr information is being put in collapsed boxes and so hidden from view. Although collapsed boxes are used in some templates for repeated information (such as the address of the British Museum) I am less certain that this is a good idea for information unique to the image. Such collapsed boxes may introduce problems in some browsers or make the pages harder to use on mobile devices or pages formatted for tablets. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 14:22, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

I halted the edits for time being. Collapsible template seemed like the best option to me, see example [9]. Most of Flickr metadata is not particularly useful, but it should be kept. Collapsible templates are standard here: there are 456k uses of collapsible Category:Creator templates and almost as much of Institution templates. The solution proposed by user:Docu (see example) is harder to do by bot, and is equivalent to commenting it out. Should I just comment out this section? Are there other ideas? --Jarekt (talk) 14:40, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Yes, I have an idea, leave it as is. You seem to have a solution looking for a problem as the original request here was not to blank out Flickr data from view but to improve the Author field. --Fæ (talk) 14:44, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
I don't think the stuff should be in the description field. It can made visible with my original suggestion if we add a field to the other template. For an initial cleanup, I think the solution by Jarekt is fine as well. Thanks for helping us cleanup these entries. --  Docu  at 13:44, 4 February 2012 (UTC), 13:46, 4 February 2012 (UTC) (edited)

I am still bothered by the license. I think most of those images are PD. A lot of them even say "Public Domain" in flickr description. However I am not sure on what basis: {{PD-old}}, {{Anonymous-EU}}, some Russia specific PD? Probably each one would have to be reviewed individually.--Jarekt (talk) 04:26, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Set a template to files from category

Hi, could you set this template {{Mediagrant|Události}} to the files from category:Rogar.--Juandev (talk) 09:26, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

  1. Where should the template be added.
  2. Reason/Justification (for the edit-summary) -- RE rillke questions? 10:30, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Generation of list (related to plwiki and Category:Featured pictures/Category:Quality images)

I would be grateful if somebody could generate list of images:

List should use following (or similar) format (like en:User:Bulwersator/Echo/Images/Animals):

==[[<title of article on plwiki>]]==

[{{fullurl:<title of article on plwiki>|action=edit}} (edit)] #[[:pl:<title of article on plwiki>]]: <filename> [[File:<filename>|thumb|link=commons:<filename>|[[:<code of wiki where image was used>:<title of article on wiki where image was used>:<filename>|plwiki]]]]<br style="clear:both;" />

Bulwersator (talk) 10:09, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

According to glamorous [10] tool french 3885 featured pictures are used 13,349 times on FR wikipedia and 2,633 on Polish. 24,686 Quality images are used in 19,761 French articles and 3,016 Polish. Unfortunately I am to not sure how to find out more. --Jarekt (talk) 03:01, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
If you just want to illustrate articles without images, you could try https://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php
Sample: Images for articles in Category Jeziora at pl.wikipedia without images (1 level)
Cheers. --  Docu  at 05:57, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Interesting and useful, thanks. Bulwersator (talk) 09:23, 7 February 2012 (UTC)


Category:Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry scan 2004

I didn't have any answer about my former request, that is why I make a new request here.

I would like that a bot make this type of correction :

  • put this Artwork template : the folio number (indicated in the filename) changes at each file in the title and in the accession number
  • include a booknavibar
  • a defaultsort with the number of the folio or just add sort to category if it is easier

If it is impossible to make the 3 corrections, the first one would be just fine. Thanks a lot. Mel22 (talk) 21:15, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Finding unclosed deletion requests

I was going through my watchlist and found Commons:Deletion requests/File:Anchoragecathedral.jpg, still open from 2009. The tag on the image was removed, but the discussion was never closed. Would it be possible for a bot to search for cases like this and perform some function? Possibly it would notice when images had deletion tags removed and replace them if the discussion isn't also closed? ▫ JohnnyMrNinja (talk / en) 07:03, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

I looked into it, and there does not seem to be an easy way to do it that I can see. As a test I uploaded 25k DRs and removed all the already-cloased-ones and recent ones. I was left with ~1000k oddballs like files with non-matching closing tags, files with unusual closing tags, DRs for files already deleted but not closed and open DRs for files which are still around (or reuploaded). After some more manual cleanup I closed many of them, but there are still ~170 DRs left. In some cases nominator removed DR tag from the image but nobody closed DR, or DR was never started properly. You can find the current list at Commons:Deletion requests/2012-02-20 Old oddballs. --Jarekt (talk) 16:53, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Problem with Template:OTRS

There is a problem with Template:OTRS that occurs in many pages: If the ticket number is parameter 1, parameter 2 (usually the date or a user) is taken for the link. Hence, such links do not lead to the correct tickets. Examples: File:Benz-Motorspritze Typ 1 CS.jpg, File:Marbach-Stanzform.JPG, File:Uwe Böden-1 retouched.jpg. Could such cases be fixed by a bot? --Leyo 00:18, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Actually, couldn't it be fixed by syncing the local template with the German one to make them both read the variables correctly? Magog the Ogre (talk) 17:02, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
There is now a suggested fix on Template talk:OTRS. --Leyo 00:27, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:Files uploaded by Kobac

Hi! Can you add this category to all files uploaded by me? (Where it's not added, of course). Kobac (talk) 22:57, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

You may use VisualFileChange for this task. Click here to start. Action: Append text. You can filter out those uploads without your category using cute selection: First select all, then deselect those with your cat. -- RE rillke questions? 12:35, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Cat-a-lot combined with Search might be easier. --  Docu  at 13:08, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
I know this methods, but I was uploaded up to 10000-15000 files. Can you find my latest files via simple search? There is no "Kobac" word in descriptions, because most of them are from Flickr. So I can't use the Cat-a-lot. VisualFileChange is not useful for so many contribs too. (( Kobac (talk) 13:30, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
I understand why people want to have categories of files created by them, but I am not sure why would it be useful to you or anybody else to group 15k files uploaded by you in a single category. If you want to keep track of them you can use a user namespace gallery, if it is more convenient than Special:ListFiles/Kobac. --Jarekt (talk) 12:36, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
OK, do you know a simple tool for creating the list of my files on a one page? Kobac (talk) 14:20, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
  1. Are you aware of the fact that VisualFileChange has advanced settings now allowing to increase the number of files loaded with each click on more/scroll down? And did you know that if you executed an operation and relaunch VisualFileChange on the same target, it allows you to continue after the last loaded file? (A yellow message box will appear in the target-selection dialogue). Clicking the link will a) load the next files, b) fill-in the last action and options. Dependent on you RAM you can load 400-4000 images into the dialogue.
  2. With Gallery tool, you can export a list of currently loaded files. But this also requires some clicks/ restarts if you do not have a super-computer.
  3. Wikisense gallery has some output options (not as flexible as Gallery-Tool) but may be faster
  4. Finally, you can query the API (list=logevents, leaction=upload/upload) directly. -- RE rillke questions? 14:56, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

List of meta categories that contain other items than categories

Would it be possible to generate (on a regular basis) a list of Category:Meta categories that contain other items than categories ? This looks pretty much complicated to do with templates such as for Category:Non-empty category redirects. Thank you. --Foroa (talk) 11:24, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

I do not think we can do it using templates, but you should vote for bugzilla:14237 and we might. --Jarekt (talk) 13:29, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
I think that you underestimate the complexity to move from one global counter to 20+ separate counters. Maybe that could be possible with database queries. --Foroa (talk) 13:31, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Is it really impossible to do with templates? {{Category redirect}} contains the following bit of code:
{{#ifexpr:{{PAGESINCAT:{{PAGENAME}}|R}}>0|[[Category:Non-empty category redirects]]}}
Can this not be amended into something similar that would work? I have to say I did not look into it deeply but it seems feasible. Place Clichy 10:32, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
You have the right idea but unfortunately that template relies on {{PAGESINCAT}} parser function, and there is no equivalent function that can count separately files and categories. bugzilla:14237 requests such functionality. The only way I can see is to write a bot that queries the toolserver but than I am not sure how to do it "on a regular basis". --Jarekt (talk) 03:32, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

"Maritime photo collection" cleanup

  Done


To add information templates to most files in Frederic Logghe Maritime photo collection, this conversion could be applied to them. Categories would remain as is.

Currently, there are 1332 of 1377 images without {{Information}}: CatScan2

BTW, there is also a batch uploading request for the remaining images in the collection (Commons:Batch uploading/Maritime photo collection). --  Docu  at 11:42, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

10 of them obviously didn't match my 3 regexps. But it's always experimental or you have to scan 1/2 of the images to build good regexps. -- RE rillke questions? 20:08, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Excellent work. Thanks. I did the last 10 manually. --  Docu  at 07:22, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
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Request for possible help in future

Hi! I want to ask about possible help in future.

I'm planning to upload a lot of signatures of politicians from HAVEL'S HOUSE OF HISTORY. I can download and upload them with Commonist, but I can't put the different titles and provide direct links in descriptions. Could you make these changes?

For example, we have File:Stoltenberg, Gerhard signature.jpg. 

|Description=Signature of...  ==> |Description=Signature of Stoltenberg, Gerhard

|Source=[http://www.havelshouseofhistory.com/germanpoliticalleadersSTO-STRA.htm HAVEL'S HOUSE OF HISTORY] ==> |Source=[http://www.havelshouseofhistory.com/germanpoliticalleadersSTO-STRA.htm HAVEL'S HOUSE OF HISTORY] ([http://www.havelshouseofhistory.com/Stoltenberg, Gerhard signature.jpg (direct link)].

 Kobac (talk) 16:03, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

I would use the Commonist tool for the upload that would allow you to add a different description for each file, although it would not let you add different sources. Also in the past I found CSVLoader Plugin to AutoWikiBrowser to be a useful tool for adding info from a spreadsheet to a list of files. One can also use Pywikipediabot, although that one is harder to use for one time jobs. And if you can not get those to work for you me or someone else can probably help out.--Jarekt (talk) 12:19, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Commonist helps to upload files with different descriptions, but you need to put them manually that not actual for several hundreds of files, so I need the bot who will put a part of filename to description as a title and will put full filename as a part of source URL. Kobac (talk) 19:22, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
I could improve VisualFileChange to allow replacing with variables like %TITLE% or %SIZE%. Then, it would be possible, I think. -- RE rillke questions? 20:14, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
I think that can be easily done with AutoWikiBrowser Modules. Upload a few of those and I will give it a try. --Jarekt (talk) 20:34, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Photographs by Jason Hollinger

Hi, Please add this hidden cat category:Photographs by Jason Hollinger to any files of Jason Hollinger (when this cat is not yet specified). View my recent contributions Special:Contributions/Pixeltoo. They are 399 in total but there are more than 100 files wich are not categorised by this cat. --Pixeltoo (talk) 16:14, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

  Done with help of Cat-a-lot. --Jarekt (talk) 15:57, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
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Files by The National Archives UK

Is it possible to automatically remove these three lines (wrong text) from description of images I uploaded in this category? Thanks.

Our records about many of these images are limited. If you have more information about the people, places or events shown in an image, please use the comments section below. We have attempted to provide place information for the images automatically but our software may not have found the correct location.

Alternatively you could use the <a href='http://suggestify.appspot.com/'>Suggestify</a> tool to suggest the location of a picture.

For high quality reproductions of any item from our collection please contact our <a href='http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary' rel='nofollow'>image library</a>

--M.casanova (talk) 14:17, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

  Done. Sorry. --M.casanova (talk) 15:23, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
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Follow NZ Defence Force updates on: ++++ Twitter ++++ YouTube ++++ Facebook ++++

There a series of files imported from Flickr that include the above text. Special:Search/Follow NZ Defence Force updates on Twitter YouTube Facebook gives currently 133 files.

It can simply be removed. Sample: diff --  Docu  at 10:56, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

  Done --Jarekt (talk) 16:16, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Jarekt (talk) 16:17, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Changement de licence

Bonjour il faudrait remplacer toutes les licences de mes 881 photos par celle ci dessous :


  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 only as published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. 1.2 only
 
  
Deutsch: Diese Datei steht unter der Lizenz Creative Commons „Namensnennung-keine kommerzielle Nutzung-keine Bearbeitung 3.0 US“
Lizenz: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.de
English: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonDerivative 3.0 (US)’
Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
Français : Ce fichier est sous licence Licence Creative Commons « Paternité, Pas de modification (US) »
Licence : http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/deed.fr


Voici la category intitulée Category:Pictures by Floppy36, qui les regroupent toutes. merci d'avance.

--Floppy36 (talk) 16:55, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

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Changement de licence

Bonjour il faudrait remplacer toutes les licences de mes 883 photos par celle ci {{cc-by-sa-3.0}}. Vous trouvez toutes mes photos avec mon nom d'utilisateur actuel et mon ancien nom d'utilisateur (User:Parisdreux), via cette catégorie Category:Pictures by Floppy36. merci d'avance. --Floppy36 (talk) 16:56, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Can someone translate? I think this is a request to change {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0}} to {{cc-by-sa-3.0}} of files in Category:Pictures by Floppy36. If so I do not think it is a good idea since the previous set of licenses were more broad. --Jarekt (talk) 16:33, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Yes that's it, I have left a message at {{User talk:Floppy36]]. --Zolo (talk) 21:31, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
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date 年 月 日

In a few images from Hong Kong, I came about a few file description pages needing this change for the date to internationalize correctly. Maybe it needs to be done on more images.

Special:Search/date 年 月 日 currently gives 110. --  Docu  at 11:00, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

  Done? I fixed ~100 of those. --Jarekt (talk) 15:34, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
BTW the replacement were done using ([dD]ate\s*=)\s*‎?(\d\d\d\d)\s*‎?年‎?\s*(\d\d)\s*‎?月‎?\s*(\d\d)\s*‎?日[,、‏‎，‏‎]* -> $1 $2-$3-$4 regex expression, plus few variations to capture single digit months and days and pad them with extra 0. (The regex string has some invisible characters). --Jarekt (talk) 15:50, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Jarekt (talk) 02:40, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

mark default gadgets in all languages

Request: copy |default=yes from those gadget descriptions which have it in English (see my contributions for 22 April) to all other language versions of the gadget. See MediaWiki_talk:Gadgets-definition#default_gadgets_identified. Rd232 (talk) 09:33, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

  Done It seems like most of those were already done by hand by various admins, but I think I added |default=yes to all the pages that were not done yet:

--Jarekt (talk) 11:50, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

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Permission=siehe unten

For internationalization of the information template, please replace "|Permission=siehe unten" with "|Permission=".

Special:Search/File: "Permission siehe unten" currently gives 2663 results (Special:Search/File: Permission siehe unten 5554).

Thanks --  Docu  at 17:50, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

AWB can only search in sets of 1000, and I done with one set. Now I will have to wait for a day or 2 before searching again. --Jarekt (talk) 16:57, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
IMO the whole line could be deleted in these cases. --Leyo 17:23, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
I see that this has now been done. It should probably have been limited to the File namespace, though. Other namespaces should maybe keep this unchanged. --Stefan4 (talk) 16:56, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Opps, I checked that was the only non-File page I edited. Also I do not think I am done yet. As I said I can only do it in the batches of 1000, and I am done with batch #2. --Jarekt (talk) 17:11, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
  Done Special:Search/File: "Permission siehe unten" should have very few hits in a day or two when database catches up. There should be still many Special:Search/File: Permission siehe unten, but those are either OK or just harder to clean up. --Jarekt (talk) 13:39, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
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Updating attribution for Dave's Garden photographs

Greetings. Back in 2006, I noticed Dave Whitinger's excellent plant photographs at Dave's Garden <http://davesgarden.com/>, and I talked him into releasing all his photos at that site under the GFDL. (This only applies to photos he created.) I uploaded many to the English Wikipedia, and many other people uploaded other photos both there and here at Commons. All Dave's images have since been moved here.

Dave is not with the Dave's Garden site anymore, and his "about" page has been removed from that site. He created a new site at <http://allthingsplants.com>, and all his photos have been moved there. He e-mailed me, asking if I could update the image description files to attribute him at his new site. (He also explicitly released the images under the GFDL and cc-by-sa on his new site, rather than relying on an e-mail confirmation.) Could someone run a script to update these?

Specifically, there are a couple hundred images that say:

This photo was taken by [http://davesgarden.com/members/dave/ Dave] at [http://davesgarden.com/ Dave's Garden]. Released under the GFDL, as documented [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Successful_requests_for_permission#Dave.27s_Garden here].

(There may be others with different wording, but all will link to <http://davesgarden.com/>.) They all need to change to say:

This photo was taken by [http://allthingsplants.com/users/profile/dave/ Dave Whitinger] at [http://allthingsplants.com/ All Things Plants]. Released under the GFDL and cc-by-sa-3.0 licenses, as documented [http://allthingsplants.com/plants/browse/user/images/dave/ here].

This will help to save several hundred great plant images, most of which are used in multiple wikis. Thanks for any help! – Quadell (talk) 12:15, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

  Done See Category:Photographs by Dave Whitinger. --Jarekt (talk) 20:09, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
There are also links to the old website. How should these be handled? Rich Farmbrough, 02:24 27 April 2012 (GMT).
See http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch&limit=500&offset=0&target=http%3A%2F%2Fdavesgarden.com . Rich Farmbrough, 02:26 27 April 2012 (GMT).
I manually added the boilerplate text to this one, but it still needs work. Rich Farmbrough, 02:31 27 April 2012 (GMT).
I hand checked all the remaining links and they all point to where the image was copied from. The links still work and we do not want to loose those. There are also many other people quoting stuff from davesgarden.com. I did not touch those either. --Jarekt (talk) 13:32, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Excellent work! Rich Farmbrough, 02:58 1 May 2012 (GMT).
Thanks so much, you guys! – Quadell (talk) 12:24, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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Clean up Wiki Loves Monuments Mittelhessen (Categorize pictures with certain template)

Hi there,

I need a bot to fix some issues regarding my community project Wiki Loves Monuments Mittelhessen. Right now, {{Wiki Loves Monuments Mittelhessen}} automatically adds Category:Images from Wiki Loves Monuments 2011, DE-HE. I thought this was a smart idea at first, but since there are hundreds and hundreds of pictures still to be uploaded, this has become an issue. There are more than 5000 pictures tagged with the template, so I can't solve it manually.

What I need a bot to do with every picture that has the template somewhere on its description page:

  1. Was the picture uploaded between September 1st 2011, 00:00:00 and September 30th 2011, 23:59:59?

Afterwards, I will remove the automatic categorization from {{Wiki Loves Monuments Mittelhessen}} so only pictures uploaded during the competition will end up in the competition categories. (There is also a nm-switch in the template that was used to mark non-monuments, I can take care of that manually since it's rarely in use. It's just not worth worrying about it.)--Cirdan (talk) 10:42, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

I try that one it's a bit tricky. --Schlurcher (talk) 12:39, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
  Done --Schlurcher (talk) 17:23, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you very much!--Cirdan (talk) 17:56, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
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Navy SEAL pics and vids

Can somone write in his bot an automatic upload of the pics and vids of the US Navy SEALs? Thx--Sanandros (talk) 15:21, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

That is more of Commons:Batch uploading request. --Jarekt (talk) 01:55, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
ah thx never heared of that page--Sanandros (talk) 04:54, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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Template change

Hi,

could you replace {{Mediagrant|Události}} by {{Mediagrant|Odborná fotografie/A Whisper in the Noise}} of files in Category:A Whisper in the Noise please?--Juandev (talk) 12:37, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

  Done --Schlurcher (talk) 18:57, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
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Add missing template

Hi,

could you add missing {{Mediagrant|Odborná fotografie/Orchideje}} to the files of Category:Exhibiton of orchids in Prague Botanic Garden. Note that some of these files allready have such template. Many thx.--Juandev (talk) 17:29, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

  Done --Schlurcher (talk) 19:00, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
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Cleaning Category:Deprecated templates

Could a bot remove the deprecated templates from the images in Category:Deprecated templates ?. Is there another way to mass remove unwanted templates ? Thank you. --Foroa (talk) 06:21, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

It is easy to mass-remove a template or even replace one template with a different one, if all the parameters do not change. The problem with Category:Deprecated templates is that they often require manual replacement. We can not just delete generic License templates like {{PD}} without replacing them with more specific ones. I worked on some of them before ({{Normdaten}}, {{Location d}}, {{Coord}}, {{PD patents}}, etc.) but it is mostly done manually or with tools like AutoWikiBrouser in manual mode. --Jarekt (talk) 12:51, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
I meant primarily the files including the unused templates (Special:WantedTemplates) {{AlbanyNY}} and {{The Armenian Quarter}}. --Foroa (talk) 13:12, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Note that several images use a [[Category:{{The Armenian Quarter}}]] construct which should be completely removed. --Foroa (talk) 13:15, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Great. Thank you. --Foroa (talk) 16:42, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
  Done --Jarekt (talk) 16:51, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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User:Rdsmith4/template

Substitute: 

{{User:Rdsmith4/template|{{{1|}}}}}

with 

{{information



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|author = [[User:Rdsmith4|Rdsmith4]]
|source = {{own}}
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Plus remove the interwiki to en.wikipedia. --Zolo (talk) 14:55, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

  Done--Jarekt (talk) 18:11, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks, actually the author should have been [[User:Rdsmith4|Dan Smith]] but I do not think it is very important.--Zolo (talk) 18:25, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

PD-Art > PD-Art/PD-old-100

Could we have a bot that would find files licensed only with {{PD-Art}} and change that to {{PD-Art|PD-old-100}} based on (1) the artist's death date if there is a Creator template or (2) the painting's date + 100 years if there is no creator template?

Is there a reason why this would be a bad idea that I'm not thinking of? - PKM (talk) 17:30, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

I have done the first part in Nov 2010. Creator template adds {{Works of authors who died more than 100 years ago}} tag to all files of authors who died more than 100 years ago (based on specific year of death), so it is a relatively easy task. I will look into it again. --Jarekt (talk) 02:24, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
The second part is not right, what matters is the artist's date not the painting's date (the description lacking a creator template does not necessarily mean that the artwork is anonymous). --Zolo (talk) 07:39, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
The second part can be done by recognizing dates before, lets say, 1840. There are a lot of artworks without {{Creator}} templates and many might be older than mid 19th century. --Jarekt (talk) 11:47, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
I identified ~50k files where {{PD-Art}} can be changed to {{PD-Art|PD-old-100}}. My bot will slowly work on those. --Jarekt (talk) 02:49, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
  Done I added another 50k files to Category:PD-Art (PD-old-100), so it contains 101k files. There are still 143k files in Category:PD-Art (PD-old), whose licenses should be changed to {{PD-Art|PD-old-100}} or {{PD-Art|PD-old-auto|YYYY}}, but that would require a different bot (assuming it is possible to write one that would not be confused by multiple autors). --Jarekt (talk) 12:13, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
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User:N

There is a new editor using the moniker User:N which used to belong to me (nothing sinister). He recently blanked his talk and user pages which used to redirect to my page. There are a few thousand links to User:N and User talk:N which should go to me. Would it be possible to get a bot to do this for me? :-) I'm not sure if the signature itself or just the link should be changed. Preferably it would be the signature itself though. -Nard (Hablemonos)(Let's talk) 14:23, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

I am working on it. --Jarekt (talk) 15:30, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

  Done and thanks for fixing this] silly edit. --Jarekt (talk) 18:22, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

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Change of information about authorship for aprox. 7000 images

Hello, would it be possible to change the descpription field "|Author=[[User:Poco a poco|Poco a poco]]" with "|Author={{User:Poco a poco/credit}}"? If I have to do it manually I will run crazy, I have uploaded tons of images in the last 4 years. And, if also possible, it would be great if the bo could also add the category "Category:Images by User:Poco a poco" to all edited images. Thanks and best regards, Poco a poco (talk) 09:57, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Such a credit template is inappropriate for the author field. Please consider putting it elsewhere, namely into the Licensing section. --Leyo 10:05, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Poco a poco, I'll take a look at it for you today. --Fæ (talk) 10:07, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Putting it int he license section would be also fine to me. Thanks for your time. Poco a poco (talk) 11:12, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
I have a Python script running that should slowly populate Category:Images by User:Poco a poco with images credited to you as author and that have been categorized as Category:Self-published work. It looks like this will take days rather than hours. I'm away from my machine on Thursday/Friday, so it might be the weekend before I look at this again (only an assumption that it would have finished by then). Once the categorization is done, adding a credit template will be a lot easier, as any script would only have to look at the hidden user category. --Fæ (talk) 05:26, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Great! thanks for your help. Hopefully your bot will not get exhausted due to the extra hours :) Poco a poco (talk) 06:46, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
  Done --Fæ (talk) 15:32, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
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Substitute {{WIG}}

Substitute {{WIG}} with Creator:Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny (actually institution template may sound like a better match but it is used in the author field)

The trick is the "scale" parameter (see template code). --Zolo (talk) 08:19, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

  Done --Jarekt (talk) 13:50, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
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Distrct

Please find and replace "Distrct" with "District" (ca 116 occurences). --ŠJů (talk) 13:08, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

  Done --Jarekt (talk) 14:21, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
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Cleanup of files using {{Cuzco-MAP}}

I thought redirect from a temporary category would be enough to remove an automatic category but something went wrong. So Category:Museo de Arte Precolombino, Cusco should be added to pages using {{Cuzco-MAP}}. Minor fixes like "photographed by myself" -> {{Own}}--Zolo (talk) 11:28, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

  Done (in 10 minutes) --Schlurcher (talk) 12:07, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
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Bot to maintain list of needed redirects from Commons metadata links

I've proposed a maintenance bot on ENWP to keep a list of needed redirects from Commons metadata links, and to maintain redirects once they are created. I think this would have to be run on ENWP, as it would be related to Commons files, I thought I'd leave a note here. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja (talk / en) 20:26, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

If you display Commons in some language other than English, the links point at Wikipedia in some other language. For example, File:Nikon D3S img 3543.jpg points at sv:Canon and sv:Canon PowerShot G10 for me (with an extra English Wikipedia link after the link to Swedish Wikipedia). I guess that such a bot would be needed for all language editions of Wikipedia. --Stefan4 (talk) 20:34, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
Category redirects on Commons should be avoided as they tend to create always some conflict in one or more of the 270 languages we do support. It might be a far better idea to test those links and correct them. --Foroa (talk) 04:40, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
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Category:Neptun fountains

Can "Neptun fountains" be corrected to "Neptune fountains" by a bot? If my count is right, this are approximately 100 occurrences, including the subcategories and files in Category:Neptun fountains by country. Many thanks. – Mu (talk) 11:17, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

I started this manually.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  22:52, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
Category:Neptune fountains by country needs to be worked on, if anyone is interested and has the time.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  21:12, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

  Done Most of the changes done using com:HotCat, so you may want to play around with it yourself. --Fæ (talk) 09:48, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

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3 million null edits

Changes to {{Location}} templates from 2011 have failed to propagate to at least 1,000,000 files. This was an important change (type:landmark to type:camera) and all files should be updated. At a rate of 1 null edit per second, this task is expected to take 35 days. —Dispenser (talk) 07:37, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

If you edit {{Location}} (or one of its subtemplates) now, couldn't it eventually update as well? --  Docu  at 07:39, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Hmm, over a million null edits. Might be better to see if someone can do a server side purge to just have the job queue handle this. Multichill (talk) 07:57, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
There have been multiple opportunities for the file pages to update, from small changes since April 2011 to protocol relative switch of licensing templates. Also, &action=purge does not do the trick, it needs to be a null edit and if you're not logged in MediaWiki will ask the adding new links CAPTCHA. Forgive me, but I've lost confidence in Wikimedia-tech to address issues in a reasonable time frame. —Dispenser (talk) 13:42, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
What is an example of a page with this problem? It seems strange that action=purge would not work, unless you're talking about Special:LinkSearch (or other things that use the externallinks table) rather than the page rendering, in which case this is bug 5382. Also, have you tried action=purge&forcelinkupdate=1 via the API to see if that works? It's somewhat faster and safer than a null edit. Anomie (talk) 17:06, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
have you considered a purge with "forcelinkupdate"? Are you aware of that option? --Joe Decker (talk) 18:15, 16 June 2012 (UTC) Nevermind, Anomie got to it before I did. --Joe Decker (talk) 18:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Yup, that does the trick. I wrote a purge script and got "You've exceeded your rate limit." warning. Looking at the chart, I need either a bot account or become an admin if I want this done this year. —Dispenser (talk) 08:36, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Ill do it. Werieth (talk) 13:48, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
I tried forcelinkupdate on Template:Location through Apisandbox. Did it have any effect? I got an error message for some of the subpages. --  Docu  at 18:51, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
The job queue is under 200, so I don't think it did anything. —Dispenser (talk) 08:36, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Any way to find the pages that are still affected? Werieth (talk) 21:54, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Lack of protocol relative URLs (e.g. on license and toolserver links) or camera locations with type:landmark. These methods may not find all instances causing error in data checking. Best is to all transclusions of {{Coor URL}} (via API or Toolserver user) and purge those pages. —Dispenser (talk) 08:36, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

After some tests, it turns out only anonymous IP editors are purge rate limited. So I've setup the script to run in 10 processes on the Toolserver (willow) using my login cookies. Its running at ~11,000 purges per hour and should be done within two weeks. —Dispenser (talk) 00:15, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Can you give an example of something that has not been updated since 2011? -- Tim Starling (talk) 09:36, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
And another one, lots from User:GeographBot. —Dispenser (talk) 21:37, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

The purge script was causing a high load on the image backend, due to the thumbnails of the images being purged. I would like to be able to fix the link tables without purging the thumbnails, since purging thumbnails has a far greater server cost than refreshing link tables. Since Dispenser ignored my request to my request to stop his script when I asked on IRC, I've disabled the API purge module on Commons temporarily. -- Tim Starling (talk) 01:28, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

When you edit a template used by millions of pages, the main transaction completes and the edit appears to have been successful, but it fails to queue the refreshLinks jobs to the job queue. So the links out of the pages that use the template are never updated. MZMcBride has filed bug 37731 for this issue. As a temporary fix, and as a replacement for the purging operation that Dispenser was attempting, I am manually adding the relevant refreshLinks jobs to the job queue using a server-side script. About 2.8 million image description pages will have their links updated. The job queue has a lot more concurrent threads dedicated to it than Dispenser's script did, and it's doing the work more efficiently, so we would expect it to finish much faster, maybe in a few days. I can re-enable the API purge module as soon as Dispenser assures me that he's not going to run his purge script again. -- Tim Starling (talk) 03:37, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

I've disabled the API purge module on Commons — Would be really nice if I would be somehow able to receive messages when such changes are made (I don't want the trillions of e-Mail sent through wikitech-l). This causes one script for wikisource becoming useless. -- RE rillke questions? 12:36, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
You mean like mail:mediawiki-api-announce? —Dispenser (talk) 04:48, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
Yes. But in the ideal world this would be something on-wiki where I can specify my interests/prefs and then receive a list, like the watchlist. -- RE rillke questions? 09:52, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
What's wrong with email? Everyone has it, its service and vendor independent, widely deployed and supported from simple cell phones to workstations. —Dispenser (talk) 19:22, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
1) You can't really filter them according to your interests. 2) I don't like wiki-stuff between my work and private communication. (No, I am not inclined creating another profile) 3) I don't like to receive all these verbose, ugly formatted stuff. But I also don't trust HTML-E-Mails. I don't like to be flooded by E-Mails. 4) I don't want to send E-Mails to a list that is publicly logged and where it's quite easy to guess the sender's mail address. I don't like to be spammed. E-Mails are good for communication but not for structured reading. -- RE rillke questions? 19:57, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
I reran the script, the log dropped from 918,045 (before cutting off) to 65,097 conflicting type: errors. All error I looked at were editors attempting to override. As it stands there is no reason for me to run the script. However, it would be nice to get better procedures in-place rather then needing to cause operations grief to get attention. —Dispenser (talk) 04:48, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
Just crawl out of the Commons cave and send an email. Multichill (talk) 09:19, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
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How to assign automatically files to a category

Hi, I should like to assign these 367 files category:Photos by Moroder and category:Cultural heritage monuments in South Tyrol to a new category:Photos by Moroder for Cultural heritage monuments in South Tyrol. Can you help me? Thanks --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 06:37, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

I misunderstood your request as one of the categories was not showing in the text. Let me look at this again. --Fæ (talk) 07:18, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
After tweaking your personal credit template, I interpret this as a request to replace {{User:Moroder/Template:Credits}} with {{User:Moroder/Template:Credits|1=Photos by Moroder for Cultural heritage monuments in South Tyrol}} for every file that uses this credit template under the master category [[Category:Cultural heritage monuments in South Tyrol]]. This is being done, may take a while to populate, about 3 hours or so after I write this. --Fæ (talk) 07:35, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, I didn't ask so much, I only wanted to have all the pictures I personally shoot for Cultural heritage monuments in South Tyrol in a single user/category. Best regards --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 09:04, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Sure, I think that's what is being done. Check over Category:Photos by Moroder for Cultural heritage monuments in South Tyrol later on today, and point out any unexpected results. Cheers --Fæ (talk) 09:31, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Great job, I see it working. Thanks a lot --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 09:48, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

  Done--Fæ (talk) 07:07, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

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Lots of 1x1 pixel images

If someone has a look at File:Abhandlung von den Zähnen (Pfaff) 219.jpg you will see that it is a 1 x 1 pixel image, and there are another 600+ similar images linked. It would be great if someone could run a bot through and clean out all those images.  — billinghurst sDrewth 13:06, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Apparently, they were uploaded by bot to begin with: if you look at e.g. File:DE CDB 1 20 479.jpg, the 1 × 1 px version was uploaded by SieBot with an upload summary saying: "Replace empty page scan with generic 1 pixel image to reduce duplicate pairs". You might want to contact Siebrand and ask them what the reason for the original bot run was first. --Ilmari Karonen (talk) 13:46, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
It seems that they replace blank pages in books for Wikibooks. I suppose that there needs to be some sort of a placeholder to avoid that people miss the page between 218 and 220. --  Docu  at 18:41, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
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Template:Object photo

Please add a category with the same name as in {{Object photo}} parameter object = xxx . The template generated categories cannot be moved by bots and redirected categories generate weird results such as in [11]. Once this is done, the template can be adapted not to generate categories. --Foroa (talk) 09:23, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

  Support. If considered desirable, I do not object to changes like moving transcluded content from the category to the template namespace (provided the template is modified accordingly :). --Zolo (talk) 20:16, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
  Done I added categories to all the images and removed auto-categorization from the template. --Jarekt (talk) 03:12, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Great. thank you very much. I will leave a number of comments on the template talk page. --Foroa (talk) 06:35, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
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Category merger

The subcategories of Category:Historic districts in Bloomington, Indiana have lots of images (1,732, if I added rightly) that are currently in Category:Brick buildings in Indiana, Category:Brick houses in Indiana, Category:Stone buildings in Indiana, Category:Stone houses in Indiana, Category:Wooden buildings in Indiana, and Category:Wooden houses in Indiana. I've created "___ in Bloomington, Indiana" subcategories for each of these, but it would help if a bot could do the work: simply replace each of these "in Indiana" categories with "in Bloomington, Indiana" on every subcategory and image description page, as well as stripping the "Houses in Bloomington, Indiana" category from the brick houses, stone houses, and wooden houses. I've followed the instructions given at w:WP:BOTR and checked to ensure that there aren't any irrelevant subcategories. Nyttend (talk) 14:57, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

{{Intersect categories}} can do that, but Multichill rarely runs the related bot. --  Docu  at 17:46, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
  Doing… - well, BFRA filed, anyway. sısɐuuǝɔıʌ∀ (diskuto) 03:14, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
  Done --Jarekt (talk) 17:01, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
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Special:Prefixindex/File:Wikipedia Servers

Change to "Wikimedia servers" both in filename and description disregarding original casing (reason: obvious typo). --Nemo 10:59, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Rename   Done by matanya. Nemo 12:35, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I did some replacements. Others did too. I can not find any "Wikipedia Servers" anymore. --Jarekt (talk) 11:43, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
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Fix author name

Please remove "AlfvanBeem" from Special:Search/"Author=AlfvanBeem" incategory:"Collecting_cards_of_the_Netherlands" (currently 78, sample). Author is not AlfvanBeem. --  Docu  at 02:03, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

What should be written in the Author field? --Fæ (talk) 07:15, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Looks like these have been done without needing a bot. --Fæ (talk) 20:59, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
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