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Aurelio de Sandoval edit

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Aurelio_de_Sandoval (talk · contributions · deleted user contributions · recent activity · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth) (Activity: Talk Commons DR)

Scheduled to end: 14:47, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Aurelio. I would like to request administrator tools to handle copyright violations, such as copyvios, previously I have already nominated copyvio images very well, unfortunately in some months I was not active due to problems with my PC or cell phone, but I have been active now that they have already resolved these issues. I say goodbye for now, vote and say if I can be an administrator Aurelio de Sandoval (Mensajes aquí please) 14:47, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  •   Oppose (regretfully). While I do think this request is well-intentioned, I do have concerns regarding activity levels. You have only made 500 edits since July 28, 2023 (more than 9 months ago as of typing this). Do come back after your activity levels increase over a continuous period, though! --SHB2000 (talk) 07:17, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @SHB2000 Yes, I had problems with my PC and I didn't have a cell phone to work with, that's why I couldn't. Aurelio de Sandoval (Mensajes aquí please) 21:44, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    That still doesn't explain that 300 of those 500 edits were in the last week. SHB2000 (talk) 01:48, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    and just after one week they request adminship. I do appreciate Aurelio but I don't think it's the time for them. More activity is truly needed before thinking of another RFA Bedivere (talk) 02:48, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Neutral   Weak Support We always need more Spanish-speaking admins, but activity is sporadic, with 300ish edit bursts 24-48 hrs prior to this RFA being posted . Changing to weak support on the condition of returning to active editing. Thank you for your work at license review! All the best -- Chuck Talk 15:47, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Alachuckthebuck My activity on Wikimedia had been reduced because I had not had a PC or cell phone to work, now I do have the means. Aurelio de Sandoval (Mensajes aquí please) 21:40, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Weak oppose - Per concerns over activity levels. Seawolf35 (talk) 15:52, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Weak oppose per above. --Bedivere (talk) 17:09, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Oppose, unfortunately, per SHB. Queen of Hearts (not related) 17:15, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Oppose per above. Concerns with minimal recent activity levels -Fastily 05:18, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support - 2 edits per day are not that bad. If 500 edits in 9 month be the only cause for opposing, I can not really follow. -- Marcus Cyron (talk) 05:33, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Weak oppose the answers worry me a bit because I don't see understanding of some key elements of deletion requests (URAA per Q2, the fact that Commons should not decide whether an image is "accurate" and that should be left to local projects per Q5). Also the answer to Q1 is a clear misunderstanding of the question - it is about the application of INUSE and the superseded image policy, not threshold of originality (that is not relevant here). While I understand some of this can be attributed to mistranslation, I still think without a proper grasp on policy, it will be hard to justify supporting adminship, as actions on Commons have the potential to affect the whole of Wikimedia. If the candidate was more active in areas such as Commons:Deletion requests, I would wholeheartedly support adminship. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 20:35, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Oppose. Q1. Sometimes such logos should be deleted as out of project scope. Q2. At first, USA demands 95 years from publication and the photo is copyrighted. At second, fact that I and you do not know the author does not mean anonymous. German photographs need evidence of anonimity. Q4. This is question of scope. Some "quite obscure" things are notable nevertheless and if we have only few photos about it, deletion would be wrong. But some "quite obscure" things are non-notable. Q5. Usually I say to user: at first upload new version, then nominate for deletion. And sometimes even old and outdated versions should be kept to show history. Taivo (talk) 09:37, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  Question Do you see yourself doing other admin work outside of copyvios, and if so, what areas? All the best -- Chuck Talk 15:49, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Alachuckthebuck If, for example, delete images that are not in the public domain, or restore images that were deleted by mistake and that were suitable for Wikimedia Aurelio de Sandoval (Mensajes aquí please) 21:43, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Protect pages to avoid vandalism. Aurelio de Sandoval (Mensajes aquí please) 21:43, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Question I see you haven't been that active on Commons lately, but I'm sure that will change once you acquire adminship. Regardless, here are a few questions about common DRs (feel free to answer inline btw), answer with your first thoughts (of course this may change through the course of the discussion). —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 17:52, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]


  1. Someone nominates File:Random logo.png for deletion with the rationale "redundant to File:Random logo.svg". Assume File:Random logo.png is not INUSE.
  2. Someone nominates a 1945 WW2 photo was published in 1945 in Germany. Assume the author is anonymous per Template:PD-anon-70-EU.
  3. Someone nominates a company logo for deletion with the rationale "copyright violation".
  4. Someone nominates a photo that they made 5 years ago for deletion stating "I don't want it on the internet anymore". The photo's subject is quite obscure and we don't have many photos of that subject. Assume no GDPR or related issues.
  5. Someone nominates a photo for deletion stating the data is unreliable and out of date. They provide a link to the correct data but haven't uploaded a file yet with the correct data. The file is in use on multiple projects.
@Matrix
1- It varies if the logo does not exceed the threshold of originality, if they are just geometric figures there can be no problem, Otherwise, if it were with logos from China because its originality threshold is quite low.
2- The photograph is fine since the time determined for it to be in the public domain has passed, more now that you take into account that they have passed 79 years.
3- It would have to be reviewed if this logo does not exceed the threshold of originality.
4- Well, this site has photographs of that type, so they could not be deleted.
5- It would have to be reviewed check if the data is correct and if it is a photo where years have passed, review the year. Aurelio de Sandoval (Mensajes aquí please) 20:15, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for license reviewer rights edit

MPGuy2824 edit

This is a closed request for license reviewer status. Do not make edits to it.

Comments

Hello, thank you for applying and offering to help with the backlog. How would you review the following files if they were uploaded to Commons:
Regards, // sikander { talk } 🦖 12:56, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  1. The website gives a CC-by license: Acceptable
  2. Released under a CC-0 license: Acceptable
  3. Released on a CC-BY-NC-ND license: Not acceptable on commons
  4. Released under a CC-BY license: Acceptable
  5. Released under a PD license with additional restrictions. I see some insignia on the soldier's collar (that may or may not be unit insignia) which is supposed to be obscured (according to the website) before being used for commercial purposes. I would leave this for a more experienced reviewer to handle. MPGuy2824 (talk) 16:10, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, https://www.flickr.com/photos/101561334@N08/29907102160/ should not pass review because of FoP rules in South Korea. Good luck! // sikander { talk } 🦖 16:30, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, but I believe that they are knowledgeable enough to be trusted with this right and not make serious mistakes while reviewing. Seawolf35 (talk) 00:54, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Neutral Agreed that user seems knowledgeable but one concern would be that contribution history (at 2,300 right now) seems to be focused on GODL files only. Not my place to assign permissions, so happy to leave the decision to Admins. Regards. // sikander { talk } 🦖

Not promoted Please reapply once you have gained more experience. Bedivere (talk) 15:25, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seawolf35 edit

This is a closed request for license reviewer status. Do not make edits to it.

Comments

Hello, thank you for applying and offering to help with the backlog. How would you review the following files if they were uploaded to Commons:
Regards, // sikander { talk } 🦖 14:25, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the questions, I will answer these in the next few hours Seawolf35 (talk) 17:32, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Sikander - Here are my answers.
  1. Accept - Licensed under {{Cc-by-3.0-au}}. Reverse image lookups find a few Twitter posts but those posts credit the photo back to the DFAT so no concern there.
  2. Tentative COM:PRP decline - The image on the DVIDS website is marked Public Domain, but it is indicated to be a "Courtesy Photo" and the author is not identified, which means it may not have been taken by the US Navy. It could have been taken by the Estonian Navy for all we know, and as far as I can tell, works by the Estonian Armed Forces are not automatically public domain.
  3. Accept - CC BY 4.0 license {{EC-Audiovisual Center}}. I will note the half of the EU flag design appearing on the dog's collar that could be subject to use restrictions in certain cases, such as noted here.
  4. Decline - There is Commons acceptable FOP in the US for buildings, but not for sculptures. The sculpture would not be de minimis since it is the photo's main subject, as indicated in the Flickr description.
  5. Decline - The video itself is licensed properly for commons, but the song lyrics heard throughout the video are copyrighted, the rights are held by the creator of the song, not the creator of that video.
  6. Accept - CC BY 2.0 - Attribution: Pete Forsyth. Also, the author of the picture on Flickr is a established user on Commons so that is assuring for the copyright status of the photo. The appearance of the various posters and banners in the photo would almost certainly be de minimis.
--Seawolf35 (talk) 19:37, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  Support That's great! Thank you very much. Also, Commons has a handy {{DFAT}} template for dfat.gov.au and the Rights tab on the page also mentions CC-BY. Cheers.
Oh, and hi Peteforsyth, what a funny coincidence! // sikander { talk } 🦖 19:48, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  Support Knows their stuff, Can't wait to see the backlog fall!
All the best -- Chuck Talk 20:06, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Requests for permission to run a bot edit

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ImagehashBot (talk · contribs) edit

Operator:

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: adding pHash checksum (P9310) and Imagehash difference hash (P12563) values to the photos.

Documentation for the hashes
Example images with P9310 and P12563 values

First targets are photos from Europeana, Estonian, Finland, Sweden and Flickr, but long term target is to add imagehashes to all commons photos. Currently we have used FinnaUploadBot for Finna images. Reason for the new account is to make dedicated account and service for the non Finna related edits.

Automatic or manually assisted: automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): first a batch jobs, later continuous

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute):

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s):

Zache (talk) 15:08, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion
What is use for such hashes? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:47, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
One can use them to compare the similarity of pictures by checking how much the identifiers differ to detect duplicates and match photos in different repositories. We have used image hashes to prevent duplicates when uploading files and to prevent the wrong photos from being updated when reuploading photos from Finna with better quality and/or updating metadata. --Zache (talk) 16:31, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Such hashes make much more sense as part of Commons database. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:26, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In SDC they are filemetadata and in particular using SPARQL it would be easy way for querying and sharing the hashes for external usage. Ie. it is part of metadata for the files. Zache (talk) 14:52, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also, even if the information would be added to the Wikimedia Commons database (there are good technical reasons why one would like to use an external service instead of adding this to the MediaWiki core), I would like to note that we are populating SDC values from the Commons internal database using bots. Most notable in this context are the SHA-1 checksum, mime type, image width, and image height. (Commons:Structured data/Modeling/Meta) And yes, there would be probaply better ways to do this, but currently using bots is the preferred method. --Zache (talk) 06:42, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is there any community discussion that such data shall be generated at large scale? Krd 06:53, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am not aware that there would have been a wider discussion. Current discussions, to my knowledge, are related to the Fæ's User:Fæ/Imagehash and village pump discussions 1 and 2. In my structured data property proposal in 2021, there were no follow-up comments in Wikimedia Commons. Phabricator has some tickets (for example, phab:T121797) related to image hashing.
Also, just for background, I am running ImageHash-Toolforge, which has approximately 25% of Wikimedia Commons bitmap images (jpg, tiff, png) indexed with phash and dhash. I also made a Wikimania lightning talk proposal for it. (Proposals are currently under review.) My current idea was to proceed gradually when adding values to SDC, and my current personal need was to add hashes to European and Estonian photos before the Wikimedia Hackathon, Tallinn, in May so they would be available there. (see my question in Commons_talk:Bots/Requests#Extending_FinnaUploadBot).
However, if you think I should do the village pump discussion or the discussion on the Structured Data talk pages, I am happy to start these. --Zache (talk) 07:49, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please do. Krd 05:48, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

APPERbot (talk · contribs) edit

Operator: Wurgl (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: One-Time job: Remove 550+ languagelinks to not existing pages in de-WP, see Commons:Village_pump/Technical#Interwikilinks_to_german_wikipedia_with_no_corresponding_german_article

Update some the Graphic File:Normdatenentwicklung-de-wikipedia.svg 4 times a year, it already is created on the tools-Servers

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run):

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 10 (like in deWP)

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): PHP

Wurgl (talk) 21:22, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion
I am running this bot in deWP since January 2017 the bot has currently 1.715.969 Edits, but only 927.842 since I control it.
For this (first) one-time job look at https://persondata.toolforge.org/data/common_diff.txt there is a diff showing what the bot would do --Wurgl (talk) 21:22, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please make test run. Please create bot's user page. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:55, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Svetlov Artem Bot (talk · contribs) edit

Operator: Svetlov Artem (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:

  • Change date=2004-07-17 12:00:00 to date={{Taken on|2004-07-17 12:00:00|location=Russia}} or Russian subregions for photos in manually selected categories.
  • Creating categories like Category:Tula_Oblast_photographs_taken_on_2004-07-17 and Category:Russia_photographs_taken_on_2004-07-17 if not exists.
  • Remove [[Category:Russia photographs taken on 2004-07-17]] from file description if edit is success.


Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic unsupervised on manually set categories by bot operator

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): multiple manual run

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 10

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): pywikibot

Svetlov Artem Bot (talk) 18:26, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion
Please leave the bot account exclusively for your bot's edits.
Looks good to me. Some files have duplicate {{Taken with}} tags like File:Zukovskiy industrial railway 2022-10 1664723936.JPG for example. Would it be possible to remove the dupes on the fly when dealing with the files? --Achim55 (talk) 18:49, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There was some manual inserted templates. Taken on and Taken with are completly diffirent templates, one for date, second for camera. I can not now to automatically edit Taken with template, it need complicated investigation of EXIF camera tags, witch allways differs from real camera names. Svetlov Artem (talk) 08:57, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What is the reason to do such edits, in which way does it improve the file page? Is there any community discussion about doing this at large scale? --Krd 06:58, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was asked by user @MasterRus21thCentury, may you comment? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Svetlov_Artem#c-MasterRus21thCentury-20231026174700-Category:Russia_photographs_taken_on_2008-05-01
Such categories useful for discovery photos in series: if someone photographed a train, bus or village house, there is possibility to see other photographs from next village or train line at same day from same user. Svetlov Artem (talk) 16:23, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NinoBot (talk · contribs) edit

Operator: Ignacio Rodríguez (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:

  • Dealing and cleaning {{Book}} template on spanish book files, for compatibility at Spanish Wikisource.
  • Changing Author names in database form (LastName, FirstName, 1889-1934) into {{Creator}} templates when it applies.
  • Simple tasks such as changing {{Description}} to {{Book}} on book files.

Automatic or manually assisted: Manually assisted

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): intermitently

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 10 edits per minute

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): pywikibot

Ignacio Rodríguez (talk) 16:36, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

GeertivpBot (talk · contribs) edit

Operator: Geertivp (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information)

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought:

  • Add missing SDC depict statements on media files (File namespace)
  • Add missing Wikidata Infobox template to Category pages (Category namespace)

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatically, but monitored

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Intermittently

Maximum edit rate (e.g. edits per minute): 8 edits per minute

Bot flag requested: (Y/N): Y

Programming language(s): Pywikibot, Python scripts are on GitHub:

Test runs are here.

Geert Van Pamel (talk) 22:29, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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