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Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 (Feel free to reactivate conversations by pulling them from the archives)

How to avoid unwanted geolocation

@Chiswick Chap, MGA73, Romaine, Eissink, and Havang(nl):

Hi. I really appreciate the great work and effort to extract coordinates from Exif metadata. However, I noticed also several complaints and problems about unwanted or inappropriate extracting. What to do with that problem? My proposals:

• to create any template ({{Irrelevant Exif coordinates}} or/and {{Incorrect Exif coordinates}}) which would block your bot from extracting coordinates. Uploaders should be made aware of the possibility of use it.
• to create any template ({{Delete Exif coordinates}}) which would propose files to erase Exif coordinates from the file metadata by a bot. (The subsequent process cannot be fully automatic, but must be under human control, ie the proposal must be verified and approved.)
• subject the coordinate completion process to a cursory preview of the previews so that those types of images where the coordinates are likely to be irrelevant or undesirable can be excluded or checked. (Similar tracking and verification works in the processing of bot rotate requests.)
• Block re-extraction of coordinates where they have already been manually deleted from the file page
• Significantly mark the origin (method of insertion) of coordinates in the {{Location}} template with a separate parameter, so that it is possible to distinguish data extracted from EXIF from data entered manually, or from coordinates entered / obtained in another way. The coordinates should be accompanied with the text "Extracted from Exif data".

Some other ideas? --ŠJů (talk) 00:39, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for trying to find a solution. Reading the cases of Romaine and Havang(nl), one may wonder how many unuseful exif data have already been used to produce inaccurate geo coordinates while the uploaders didn't notice, but I have no idea how to solve cases like that. Eissink (talk) 01:43, 31 October 2020 (UTC).

Very glad to see that the issue is recognised. Any means that permits ordinary users to ensure without delay or complication that a file does not have coordinates extracted when it is not appropriate would be acceptable.

There are some classes of image where coordinates will basically never be useful, such as scans of pages from out-of-copyright books. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:56, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for having looked at that problem. Text of warning template could be Extracted from Exif data, possibly incorrect geolocation coordinates. Notice that actual messages generated by translations of the templates are sometimes causing additional confusion. --Havang(nl) (talk) 09:21, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

You can add such files to Category:Location not applicable. But I don't know whether DschwenBot reacts on this. --тнояsтеn ⇔ 19:22, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

I also see this as a problem, missing geocoordinates are just missing information, while wrong geocoordinates are wrong information. Acc. to the wikiprinciple missing information is preferred over wrong information. Deletion of wrong coordinates is a way to deal with wrong coordinates, but if the bot is stronger, we will end up with more and more unusable geo information. I now try {{Bots|deny=DschwenBot}} acc. to the bot's user page (currently there are less than 400 files marked that way: [1]). I do not consider this as a practical solution, I would prefer the solution that the bot respects removal and does not reinsert wrong exif data again. --Herzi Pinki (talk) 11:21, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

While many of the bot's edits may be valuable, it seems clear that many are also unwanted. It is troubling that Dschwen in no way reacts to any of the complaints and questions, like my question over 7 months ago. Perhaps the issue should be brought up at f.i. ANI, to have administrators look at it, because this discussion is going nowhere. Eissink (talk) 11:40, 17 December 2020 (UTC).

Eissink, I assure you this was not a deliberate stone walling on my part. I had a prolonged absence from Wikimedia projects due to some other obligations. The most straight forward answer to "How to avoid unwanted geolocation" is to remove it before uploading, because the data is on commons, whether my bot makes it more accessible or not. Alternative approaches are discussed below. I like the Category:Location not applicable suggestion. Would you consider this an acceptable approach? --Dschwen (talk) 22:36, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

If this has the consent of others also, I'm fine with this. Thanks, Eissink (talk) 12:10, 12 January 2021 (UTC).

I got the same issue with this file. It added an incorrect location to the file that was readded after I manually removed it. I personally dislike the idea of {{Bots|deny=DschwenBot}} because to me this template (in this case) would say "please do not add the wrong information to the file" like as if it shouldn't be the default anyway.
--D-Kuru (talk) 07:42, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

@Dschwen: Can we get a word from you on this here?

1) DschwenBot readded the incorrect location tag yet again.

2) The bot seems to add the location tag to many other images that may shouldn't even have a location tag after all like eg File:Dog is dog is dog.jpg.

I would consult other admins on this, but if the bot runs wild and does more damage than good and is not fixed in time I think it's best to block it before the wrong tags get out of control.

--D-Kuru (talk) 11:15, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Hey everyone (@Thgoiter, D-Kuru, Eissink, Herzi Pinki, Chiswick Chap, and Havang(nl): )! I could add a check for Category:Location not applicable. That seems to be the cleanest and simplest solution, which would not create a duplicate tagging situation. Pywikibot also has a built in functionality that allows users to block bots or certain bots from editing a page, see Template:Bots, but that seems to be a rather heavy handed approach (just saw D-Kuru already pointed that out). Readding of manually removed locations should not happen. The bot keeps a list of pages that were processed once and should never touch a page a second time, if that happened, I'd be interested in seeing the history to check the times. This would be a bug! --Dschwen (talk) 22:32, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Seems good to me. Chiswick Chap (talk) 22:35, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Ok, I've hacked this in real quick. If the text Category:Location not applicable is on the file description page the bot will not process the page. --Dschwen (talk) 23:51, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

acc. to the structure of Category:Location not applicable (with many subcategories, e.g. Category:Screenshots), this might have been too quick. --Herzi Pinki (talk) 00:13, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

here is my example of readded coordinates (from 2019, maybe fixed now, see #Wrong geolocation)): [2]

If you really can avoid readding geo information, this would be the best solution. Category:Location not applicable would also be an enhancement, As a remark to all, not to you: this category is a collection of issues for somebody else Nobody seems to care removing the location infos.

You argued that best would be not to upload wrong location with exif. How true. But Exif tends to be faulty, depending on the equipment, the situation and the user - yes the user. There are sets of images by user with exact location and set by other users with wrong and sloppy locations. It may be also difficult to check location info before uploading, so the easiest way (for me) is to upload a set of files and check location info with wikimap for example. Location may be in the exif, but might be removed manually, and your bot will add again. (to be clear, your bot will not add twice, but will not respect my removal at least the first time) If you can find an improvement for this use case, it would be appreciated. And we have no control over sets of files imported from external sources (flickr), running the upload script is easy, checking and correcting the location is hard work and often not done by the uploader. Maybe we all could maintain a list of external users (flickr users) by their external user link, whose location info we do not trust. And the bot should leave those files untouched. --Herzi Pinki (talk) 00:13, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

I don't think that this would be the correct approach. Sometimes the EXIF coordinates are right and sometimes they are wrong and not all uploaders know how to fix them (I don't). Category:Location not applicable is probably too broad to be used as "don't use the EXIF coordinates" determinator. {{Irrelevant Exif coordinates}} or/and {{Incorrect Exif coordinates}} are probably the best approach. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:26, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Commons Photographers User Group meeting on Saturday

Dear Commons Photographers User Group member,

I'd like to invite you to our next virtual meeting on Saturday, December 12. We'll have two presentations: Habib Mhenni aka Dyolf77 will answer the question Do "we" need DSLRs anymore? and Martin Falbisoner will walk us through the making of his featured picture File:Caribbean_Sea_-_Long_Exposure.jpg.

If you can make it, please add your name to the list of attendees to this page:

• Virtual Meeting on December 12, 2020

I hope to see you in three days. Also, I wish you, your family, and your friends all the best for 2021. Your contributions to Commons make a big difference.

Warmly, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 14:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy holidays 2020/2021!

		* Happy Holidays 2020/2021, Dschwen! *
		Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Joyeux Noël! Bonne année! Frohes Weihnachten! Frohes Neues Jahr! Счастливого Рождества! С Новым годом! ¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo! Щасливого Різдва! З Новим роком!    -- George Chernilevsky talk 13:48, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

FastCGI

Hello, FastCGI does not work since about the half of December. Could you please have a look at it? Thanks, --Nefronus (talk) 22:06, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

User:Nefronus, I fixed it today, sorry for the delay! --Dschwen (talk) 22:20, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Coordinates from EXIF

Hi, can you please add coordinates to template from EXIF to all photos in Category:Files by User:MIGORMCZ/Wikiexpedice Orlické hory by your bot. Thank you and sorry for my bad english. --MIGORMCZ (talk) 07:42, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

@MIGORMCZ: all files get processed as soon as they are uploaded (within a day). If coordinates were not added to your images the bot must have been unable to extract them. I'll check this out tomorrow. --Dschwen (talk) 05:34, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dschwen: Hi, all files in that category have been uploaded last year. Your robot added coordinates to only three photos when I uploaded new versions of them this monday. All photos have the same coordinate format in EXIF. --MIGORMCZ (talk) 10:41, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dschwen: I can ask what it looks like with those photos? --MIGORMCZ (talk) 12:46, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

@MIGORMCZ: Hey, I haven't forgotten about this. There must have been a downtime for the bot right about when you uploaded these images. I'm working on updating the bot from python2 to python3 (about time!) and will rerun it for the time interval when you uploaded the pics. --Dschwen (talk) 15:14, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Panoviewer

Happy new year Dschwen, could you check that panoviewer's database is still updating? For example, https://panoviewer.toolforge.org/#Sackville_Road_Methodist_Church,_Bexhill_(indoor)_(360_panorama)_(2).jpg, has yet to be indexed. Kind regard, --Dr-Mx (talk) 18:10, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dr-Mx: the only database is the cache directory of images. Looks like something went wrong processing that pano. I'll check it out. --Dschwen (talk) 20:46, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Yep, stuff's broken and has been for quite a while. (things are not quite as bad as I thought initially) I'll try to kick it back in shape. But I might need a gird engine admin to make sure the necessary software is installed on toolforge. Thanks for alerting me to this! I have some catching up to do.... --Dschwen (talk) 20:51, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Ok, fixed. That particular image looked unlike most other JPG images I've dealt with. The panoviewer inspects the file header to make sure that the requested image is actually in the JPG format. This image did not pass the test. I have fixed the test. --Dschwen (talk) 21:24, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

@Dschwen: That's interesting to know, being as it's a relatively new 360 camera. Thank you for your help. --Dr-Mx (talk) 23:07, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Interface admin

Hello, I just saw that I missed to notify you yesterday, but of course you already noticed that your request for Interface Adminship was successful. Welcome back! --Krd 08:30, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Krd! Already used the bit :-) --Dschwen (talk) 17:49, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

I worked all day on setting up a new database schema and developing new more robust queries for coordinate extraction that will make the WikiMiniAtlas work with the current database setup on WMF cloud (no user DBs on replica servers and no cross DB joins). Of course that is not seen as "activity" on wiki... :-) --Dschwen (talk) 17:51, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

FastCCI CloudVPS project

Hello Dschwen, please see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud/2021-January/001385.html. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 22:20, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

@AntiCompositeNumber: thanks, great catch!! Email sent. I really have to set up some email filters. I'm on such a host of lists that things like this can easily slip by. --Dschwen (talk) 05:41, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Your most memorable shot 2020

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

Over the course of the past two years, we've been sharing pictures that have a special meaning with each other at the start of the new year. Today, I'm inviting you add your most memorable shot of 2020 to this page:

• Your most memorable shot 2020

I hope you, your familiy, and your friends are well during these difficult times. I wish you all the best for 2021 and I can't wait to see what your most memorable shot of 2020 looks like.

Warmly, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 20:31, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Next Commons Photographers meeting featuring large format photographer Ben Horne

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

I'm happy to invite you to our next virtual meeting on Saturday, March 20, at the usual time. As I mentioned during our last get-together, I'd like to invite external guests every now and then, given that it seems good to expand our view and learn something from someone outside our community.

Our first external guest, Ben Horne, will talk about large format wilderness photography, followed by a question-and-answer session. Ben is maybe one of best known contemporary large format photographers in the United States. On his excursions to national parks, he shoots 8×10 film and talks about his adventures on his YouTube channel which has attracted more than 48,000 followers so far. He is YouTube's first, and longest active landscape photography vlogger and I'm thrilled that he has agreed to join our next meeting and talk about his experiences.

If you're interested in joining this meeting, please sign up on the page below:

• Virtual Meeting on March 20, 2020

Also, don't forget to post your question(s) prior to the meeting on the following page in order to ensure a good and fruitful question-and-answer session:

• Questions for Ben

I'm very much looking forward to this event and I hope you'll be able to join.

All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 21:31, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Panoviewer

Hi! Just wanted to thank you for setting up this tool! Just FYI, on Wikidata I made a user script to display the tool in an iframe whenever spherical panorama image (P4640) is used in an item. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 10:32, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

This is cool! --Dschwen (talk) 18:15, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

@[[User:Dschwen|Dschwen] 175.176.0.60 14:57, 20 January 2024 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 175.176.0.60 (talk) 14:57, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

File:22 August 2020 Valle della Breggia da Monte Generoso.jpg

Greetings,

was wondering why File:22 August 2020 Valle della Breggia da Monte Generoso.jpg was visited by your bot while other uploads I did on the same day weren't. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:22, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

That's curious. I'll check it out tomorrow! --Dschwen (talk) 03:07, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: are there still unprocessed images? It could have been pure chance that the first image was uploaded before the bot run commenced (at which point it retrieves a list of new images from the database) and the other images did barely not make the cut. Either way, it looks like the bot just picked them up the next day. Cheers --Dschwen (talk) 15:09, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Not as far as I can tell. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 15:34, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Reminder: Commons Photographers meeting tomorrow

Just a quick reminder: the meeting with large format-photographer Ben Horne will happen tomorrow, Saturday, March 20. If you haven't done yet, please consider signing up for the event and add your questions to this page. This will be our first virtual meeting in 2021 and I'd be super happy if you could join. All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 16:34, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Zoomviewer

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T263141

Hi Dschwen, are you still operating the zoomviewer? The service appears to be unresponsive, see the corresponding Phabricator ticket or this discussion. This affects all images that use the {{LargeImage}} template. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 12:00, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

The webservice probaly just needs a restart. --Dschwen (talk) 22:19, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

@AFBorchert: there was a change necessary in the webserver configuration, since WMF moved all tools from toolforge.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org . Ah, well, they keep us on our toes... --Dschwen (talk) 22:46, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi Dschwen, thanks for fixing this! I am glad that the Zoomviewer is working again. Recently, I have started to upload large scale stitched pictures like this one where the Zoomviewer is really helpful. Thanks for maintaining this. Best, AFBorchert (talk) 15:48, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

the panoviewer works with most files, but not with others

example: it does work with —> image, but not with this one. any ideas/explanations? Maximilian (talk) 19:47, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Hmm, I thought I had fixed an issue with oddly formatted JPEG files (that didn't have an expected magic signature). Let me investigate. --Dschwen (talk) 19:17, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

@Maximilian Schönherr: ah, I think I was missing an urlencode for the filename somewhere in the code. The Umlauts and unicode dashes in that filename just tripped up the fetching of the file from commons. Fixed. --Dschwen (talk) 23:23, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

@Dschwen: first of all: danke, danke! secondly: the photo which i took 1 minute earlier, from a lower altitude, still does not work. if you find the root of the problem, we (that is all panorama photographers) might circumvent the obstacle. Maximilian (talk) 11:43, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

@Maximilian Schönherr: yeah, I forgot one tiny detail. All images that previously didn't work resulted in a cached image file with a size of zero bytes. The code thinks the file is there, so it doesn't attempt to re-download it. Let me purge those from the cache... --Dschwen (talk) 15:33, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

again: danke! can we pano uploaders purge the disfunct files from the cache? if so, how? because, i guess, we’re not talking about the browser cache. Maximilian (talk) 20:17, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

No, I have not implemented that functionality. I have purged all zero byte files though and this should not happen again. --Dschwen (talk) 05:01, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

There is also a problem with files in this category. The system doesn't generate the bigger and better version. And with this image it seems something got messed up while processing the image (for instance, zoom in at the flag to see it). Kruusamägi (talk) 09:54, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

most recently uploaded 360° panos work fine. but not the latest one. would you mind fixing this?

zechlin

danke, Maximilian (talk) 23:11, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Problem in VI

I am confused to ask you but the BOT is blocked in VI; Can you help us? Thank you for what you can do. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:25, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

ohlala

Psyhyde (talk) 15:02, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion Notification sent to wrong user

I would like to notify you about a possible bug for QICbot:

After I nominated File:勝沼ぶどう郷の甚六桜 04.jpg for quality image and the image was promoted, QICbot sent the promotion notification to くろふね, an user only registered on Japanese Wikipedia (no local account created on Comons-see here), instead to the photographer and uploader, Jranar.

I would be grateful if you can look into the problem and see if there is any bug, thank you!廣九直通車 (talk) 07:17, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, the info template has

|author=[[User:Jranar|くろふね]]

The bot should take the part before the |. I can only assume this is a unicode related bug :-/ --Dschwen (talk) 15:08, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

This is not an unicode problem. The robot reports to the QI submitter instead of image author. It just happened to me @Aloxe (the nominator) where @A.Savin (the author) wasn't notified.

This may be good to keep notifying the nominator but the text says "which was produced by you" and this is not right. Aloxe (talk) 07:48, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Stop you bot

Hi! Stop you bot for this file. This not oryginal photo, this photocopy old photo! --Микола Василечко (talk) 06:14, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Extracting Exif date information

Hello, we batch uploaded some pictures of small monuments, all are now available at Category:Pictures uploaded from Drobnepamatky.cz. We were then notified that a small portion of the pictures includes "date of creation" information in their Exif (example: File:Zvonička v Hodkovicích (Q104973551) 02.jpg). I know that your bot is able to extract various Exif data. Would it be possible for you to extract this line in Exif and replace {{Other date|?}} in {{Information}} with the proper date? Thank you very much for your help on this. --Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 07:17, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Bug in VICbot: Withdrawn ==> Promoted

I withdrew a VIC nomination and set "status=withdrawn" similar to QIC. A grey box was drawn around the page so I assumed my request was accepted. A few hours later, I got a notification from VICbot that it had promoted the image to VI. Please look into this. --Tagooty (talk) 09:21, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

Hey Tagooty, could you point me to the VICBot edit in question? -Dschwen (talk) 15:05, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Here is the VIC and this is the promotion notice --Tagooty (talk) 10:18, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

De-interface adminship warning

Dear Dschwen. I am writing to inform you that you are in danger of losing your interface admin rights on Commons because of inactivity.

If you want to keep your interface adminship, you need both to sign at Commons:Administrators/Inactivity section/Aug-Sep 2021 before 13th September, and also to make at least five further admin actions in the following six months. Anyone who does not do so will automatically lose their rights.

You can read the de-interface admin policy at Commons:Interface administrators#Apply to become an Interface administrator and Commons:Administrators/De-adminship.

Thank you! -- CptViraj (talk) 10:57, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

InterfaceAdmin ohne Admin

Hallo!

rein aus interesse

Ich werde aus de:Spezial:Gruppenrechte, de:Wikipedia:Benutzeroberflächenadministratoren, en:Wikipedia:Interface_administrators, Commons:Interface_administrators nicht schlau.

Ein Interface-Admin der kein Admin ist, hat der technisch gesehen auch alle Knöpfe die ein Admin hat? (Also löschen/wiederherstellen/Schutzänderungen/Verschieben von normalen Seiten/Dateien, Nutzer blocken,...?)

Hast du als Interface-admin, ohne Adminstatus, die Befugnis die Admin-Knöpfe zu verwenden(z.B. Nutzer zu blockieren)?

Falls nein, ist fraglich ob die Inaktivitätsregel für dich auch so Sinn macht.

 — Johannes Kalliauer - Talk | Contributions 15:04, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

VRT migration process

Hi Dschwen, can you please modify your bot in order to math the VRT migration process? In particular I recently moved Category:OTRS received as of... to Category:Permission received as of...

I am going to move the two templates to their new name ({{OTRS pending header}} and {{OTRS received header}}), accordingly to OTRS/Naming convention, you just should change them in you bot's code on User:DschwenBot/daycategories.py. If you see any other stuff that should be renamed, please let me know. Thank you! --Ruthven (msg) 19:20, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

The bot is stil creating these categories. See Category:OTRS received as of 11 January 2022. Please update your bot to follow the new naming practices. --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 00:52, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Oh, just saw that it hadn't been active for a few months. Didn't mean to come off that harsh, sorry about that! Thank you for your work, it is appreciated though! --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 00:55, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, no problem, User:Josve05a, I hadn't seen this message. I'll update the bot! --Dschwen (talk) 01:05, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Like so: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:DschwenBot/daycategories.py&diff=621028505&oldid=621008497 , Ruthven and Jonatan Svensson Glad? --Dschwen (talk) 01:09, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, that seems to be able to do it. :) --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 01:12, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Cool, thanks! Ruthven (msg) 08:19, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

DschwenBot down?

Hi Dschwen, DschwenBot seems to be down. It hasn't made an edit in about 18 hours and it hasn't created daily maintenance categories since October 7—I had to manually create Category:Media missing permission as of 8 October 2021 and Category:Media missing permission as of 8 October 2021, for example. ✗plicit 01:58, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

@Krd: Can your bot take over this task? Either as a temporary measure or a permanent fix. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 11:45, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

+ daily subpage of Category:Permission pending & Category:Permission received as well. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 11:46, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

And {{GPS EXIF}} was used to extract {{Location}} from EXIF data. --AFBorchert (talk) 07:53, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

@Minorax I can pick it up, filed Commons:Bots/Requests/AntiCompositeBot 5 AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 03:48, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

I'm working on getting my bots running again. First one up again is the GPS EXIF bot. --Dschwen (talk) 22:24, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Overlay links for images do not work since several weeks. See this example

https://dschwenbot.toolforge.org/kml.php?page=File:Albertstadt+Map+1895.jpg/overlay.kml

as it is from the image mentioned as an example for Geocoding/Overlay (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albertstadt_Map_1895.jpg)

The bot seems to return code instead of running the code. Simohe (talk) 20:04, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Promotion fom you!

Thank you very much for your promotion.

Best regards --Horst70 (talk) 12:55, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

FastCCI

Hello, FastCCI does not work since about the beginning of October. Could you please have a look at it? Thanks, --Nefronus 18:27, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Commons Photographers meeting on October 30th

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

I'm happy to invite you to our next virtual meeting next Saturday,  October 30. This time, our colleagues User:Dey.sandip from India and User:Ermell from Germany will talk about their work.

If you're interested in joining this meeting, please sign up on the page below:

• 5th virtual meeting of the Commons Photographers User Group

I'm very much looking forward to this event and I hope you'll be able to join.

All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 18:36, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Category:Deletion_requests_October_2020

Category:Deletion_requests_October_2020 has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Elly (talk) 09:40, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

QICbot not working

Hi, the last edit by the bot was two days ago. Since then it does not update the QI candidates page. -- Jakubhal 06:37, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Commons Photographers User Group: first board election

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

In preparation of the first board election of our group, I invite you to take a look at the following page:

• Commons:Commons Photographers User Group/Board Elections 2021

and provide feedback. I've listed a number of positions for our first board and I've also outlined a possible timeline for the elections. The current plan is to open the self-nomination process up on November 15 and then have the election start on December 1.

I'm super excited to get this going and I'm very much looking forward to hearing from you. Please use this talk page for your thoughts.

I hope you're safe and well, and I wish you all the best! --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 23:56, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Quality image missed

Hi, Dear Dschwen.

Yout bot was delete promoted pictures of Qality images 02.11.2021.

There is a history.

But there no notifaction about quality image label on photo.

Is it a time lag effect? Regards, --Kirill Borisenko (talk) 22:52, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

The bot is in the middle of a run and is stuck on a timeout error. I have asked for advice on IRC but have gotten no reply yet. --Dschwen (talk) 23:23, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, @Dschwen.

The same seems to have happened to today's promotions: QICbot has removed the promoted/rejected images from the "Quality images candidates/candidate list" page, then got stuck at the "Sorted into appropriate category" step, and has so far not added QI status to the images. So they're in limbo at the moment.

Last time this happened, did QICbot eventually finish processing all of the images stuck in the queue, or did they never get updated? Should I (can I) add the QI status template to my approved image? Bobulous (talk) 17:20, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Okay, QICbot now seems to have finished processing that queue. If you gave it a kick up the backside, thank you. Out of curiosity, did you ever get advice (on IRC) about the cause of the timeout errors? Bobulous (talk) 18:21, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

R1.46 1.46.21.53 03:34, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Python style etc.

Hello Dschwen,

thank you very much for taking care of QICbot and all your other great tools – Wikimedia Commons would just not work without them! I am sorry if my remark about Python style has offended you. That was not my intention. I did not want to blame anybody, I just wanted to thank Eatcha for the by-the-way improvements to the formatting of the code.

All the best and thank you very much, --Aristeas (talk) 09:32, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Ha, now worries, Aristeas :-) ! --Dschwen (talk) 01:14, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Commons Photographers elections: self-nomination phase is open

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

The self-nomination phase for the first board election of our group is open as of today. If you'd like to take on a more active role and take our user group to the next level, please consider running for one of the open positions. Please check out the Board Election 2021 page for more details.

I hope you, your family, and your friends are doing well. All the best! --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 16:40, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Medea-chart database on old nautical charts

Hi Dschwen, I’m sending this message to all participants of Commons Wikimaps listed here, so that I can be pretty sure it will get to some of you. I am the Principal Investigator of the ERC funded project Medea-Chart ([3]), hosted by the University of Lisbon, whose scientific objective is the study of the genesis, evolution and use of nautical charts from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. One of the visible outcomes of our project is the Medea-Chart database, aimed at storing and making available information and images of all extant manuscript nautical charts: [4]. Since the images of old maps and charts are now in the public domain and our database is open to all, I’m sure your project could benefit from it. The most obvious way would be to download from there all the images you are interested in, but I imagine you could use the tool for more sophisticated purposes. For now, I invite all of you to go there, browse the database, do geographical searches, read our “Chart of the Week” mini-articles, etc. You don’t even need to register for that. Registration is only required for those interested in downloading high resolution images or producing reports. Best wishes and have fun, Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:23, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

The Atari 810

I also sent an email on this, in retrospect not sure why, but I am wondering about the toggle switch in the upper left of your images of the Atari 810 drive. I assume this drive was modded somehow, but I'm not sure what that might be. Maury Markowitz (talk) 20:41, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, no idea what the switch was for :-(. This was taken at the Indianapolis children's museum. --96.19.85.20 05:14, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Board election: voting is open!

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

The voting phase for our group's board election starts today. Please consider casting your vote. Voting ends on December 17.

I wish you all the best for the rest of the year 2021. Stay safe and healthy! --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 17:03, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

QIC on-going discussion

• Hi Daniel, a discussion is being held at Commons talk:Quality images candidates#Let us raise the QI bar, Part 2 about the present quality criteria for promotion and the way they are being implemented. As one of the founders of QIC, you comments would be much appreciated. Gnangarra has just dropped his two-cents.-- Alvesgaspar (talk) 12:39, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

fastcci (2021 Cloud VPS purge)

Hello Dschwen, please claim the fastcci Cloud VPS project at wikitech:News/Cloud VPS 2021 Purge if it is still in use. Otherwise, it will be disabled on 2 February 2022. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 21:03, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Help with Geolocation

(fisrt of all, sorry with my English) Hi, i have a BIG problem with the Vicuna Uploader. I uploaded a lot of images that are wrong located, look here. Now, im deleting all the Location templates of these images, I want to use this bot to read the GPS EXIF data and located in the right place. Can this bot do that? Thanks! MiguelAlanCS (talk) 19:09, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi, can you help me please? MiguelAlanCS (talk) 10:23, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Happy holidays 2021/2022!

		* Happy Holidays 2021/2022, Dschwen! *
		Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Joyeux Noël! Bonne année! Frohes Weihnachten! Frohes Neues Jahr! Счастливого Рождества! С Новым годом! ¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo! Щасливого Різдва! З Новим роком!    -- George Chernilevsky talk 19:19, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Frohe Feiertage!

Hallo Dschwen, ich hoffe, Du verbringst eine schöne Zeit mit Deinen Lieben in diesen Tagen! Bei Gelegenheit wäre es schön, wenn Du mal wieder bei Deinem Bot nach dem Rechten sehen könntest. Dieser ist seit Mitte Oktober inaktiv und seitdem gibt es auch keinen Bot mehr, der sich um {{GPS EXIF}} kümmert. Mit den besten Wünschen für ein erfüllendes neues Jahr, AFBorchert (talk) 15:08, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Danke User:AFBorchert, ich schaue mal nach dem bot. --Dschwen (talk) 05:16, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

So, läuft wieder! Hat einiges nachzuholen... --Dschwen (talk) 06:27, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Vielen Dank, Dschwen! --AFBorchert (talk) 09:04, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Category:Deletion_requests_September_2020

Category:Deletion_requests_September_2020 has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022 (talk) 09:40, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Category:Deletion_requests_February_2021

Category:Deletion_requests_February_2021 has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022 (talk) 09:41, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Your most memorable shot of 2021

Happy New Year! As always at the beginning of the new year, I'm inviting you to share your most memorable shot of the past year. Which of your photos stood out in 2021? Which image created special memories that you'd like to share with others? On behalf of the Commons Photographers User Group I wish you, your family, and your friends all the best for 2022. Warmly, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:25, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

File:Hubertus-Haus Seefeld in Tirol späte 1910er-Jahre.jpg

Hallo @Dschwen: dein Bot fügt immer wieder in dem von mir hochgeladenen Bild die Koordinaten hinzu, nachdem ich sie aus der Beschreibung entfernt habe. Ich habe bei mir zuhause (München) ein historisches Foto aus einem Buch fotografiert und hochgeladen. Kannst Du den Bot daran hindern und die Koordinaten wieder entfernen, ich bin mittlerweile ziemlich genervt davon. Herzliche Grüße --Ricardalovesmonuments (talk) 08:21, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Komisch, das ist ein bug, der bot sollte ein Bild eigentlich nur einmal besuchen :-/. Ich setze erstmal ein blockade template auf die Bild seite. --Dschwen (talk) 05:31, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Weird cats by DschwenBot

• Category:Categories for discussion/2021/10
• Category:Categories for discussion/2022/02
• Category:Categories for discussion/Archive/2021/10
• Category:Categories for discussion/Archive/2022/02

Are these useful? --Palosirkka (talk) 19:26, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Der Bot??

Moin Dschwen, schaust du mal nach dem Bot? Der spinnt etwas... Siehe: User_talk:Nightflyer#Quality_Image_Promotion_132. Gruss --Nightflyer (talk) 11:11, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Quality Images, March 21

Hi QICbot, Dschwen. I think ther was a problem here: Commons:Quality images candidates/Archives March 21 2022. Most of the photos were not updated with the promotion, I don't know why... Regards. Balles2601 (talk) 08:46, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Same problem in April 12. MIGORMCZ (talk) 05:49, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Der Bot hakt

Hallo Dschwen, mit dem Bot gibt es derzeit mal wieder Probleme. Liegt das eventuell daran, dass die Category:Media with GPS EXIF seit Monaten gnadenlos verstopft ist? Möglicherweise liegt das am hunderten von Bildern, die Ahoerstemeier dort hineingepackt hat. Dieser Nutzer pflegt das GPS-EXIF-Template zumeist in die Beschreibung zu flanschen, vielleicht in dem Irrglauben, der Bot würde selbige dann automatisch einfügen. Tatsächlich arbeitet er aber wohl nur den Koordinaten-Auftrag ab und ist nicht in der Lage, hinterher das Template zu entfernen, wenn es in dieser Form platziert ist. Das Ergebnis ist ein veritabler Bilderstau. Ich will Ahoerstemeier zwar nicht unterstellen, den Bot mit Absicht blockieren/lahmlegen zu wollen, habe ihn aber auch schon über diese Situation informiert und ihm jetzt auch eine Frist gesetzt. Viele Templates habe ich auch zudem bereits händisch entfernt. Bitte nimm Dich der Sache doch einmal an, wir brauchen den Bot! Gruß --J.-H. Janßen (talk) 19:53, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Ich koennte User:Ahoerstemeier's uploads eingach ignorieren. --Dschwen (talk) 16:18, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Hm, ja, liegt nicht an Ahoerstemeier. Die WMF hat leider ein paar sachen umgestellt, die den Bot kaputtmachen. Der workaround ist derartig kompliziert, da ich die exiv python bindings selber bauen muss, ud es keine interaktive moeglichkeit mehr dafuer gibt. D.h. ich muss ein script schreiben, in dem libexiv2 compiliert und installiert wird. Bei jedem kleinsten fehler bricht es ab, ich kann den build prozess nicht debuggen, und jeder versuch dauert mehrere Minuten. --Dschwen (talk) 17:41, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Ich versuche mal den bot umzuschreiben, dass er mit ``piexif`` funktioniert... --Dschwen (talk) 17:43, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Sehr ärgerlich, wenn wir uns hier immer wieder gegenseitig Knüppel zwischen die Beine schmeißen. Alles offenkundig nicht sonderlich gut durchdacht und überhaupt nicht abgesprochen. Kann man die dafür Verantwortlichen nicht packen? Oder gibt es noch eine andere Möglichkeit, die Bildkoordinaten automatisiert zu extrahieren. Sie sind mir nämlich ziemlich wichtig. Gruß --J.-H. Janßen (talk) 20:58, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Warum bekomme ich kein Bild?

Siehe: User_talk:Kritzolina#Quality_Image_Promotion_20 und User_talk:Nightflyer#Quality_Image_Promotion_153? Gruss --Nightflyer (talk) 10:18, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Anything I can do to help with the bot?

Hi, just to offer: if there's anything I can do to help with the QI bot, please let me know. I run User:Pi bot, also in pywikibot, although I run that on a raspberry pi rather than on Toollabs. If there's a good way to automatically tell when the bot stops for a day, perhaps there's a script I could write that Pi bot could auto-run to finish the daily run? Perhaps looking through the daily archive page and checking each file to make sure it's been properly tagged, and if not, following up on that image? I don't want to tread on your toes, but if I can help, let me know. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:42, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Mike thanks for the kind offer. No worries about my toes! I'd appreciate any help I could get and would be happy to add you as a co-maintainer on toolforge and github. --Dschwen (talk) 19:57, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Sure, whatever works best for you. It seems like issues with the environment it's running in is the biggest issue right now? I'm "mpeel" on github, and probably under this username on toolforge? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:39, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Mike, I added you to the tool and the GitHub repo. --Dschwen (talk) 22:54, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! I now have access, and I've had a look around. I couldn't find any recent logs from the bot runs, so I've modified the crontab to write a log to "~/qic_bot/run.log" - I hope that's OK. Then we can see how it runs - and particularly when it fails we can hopefully see what went wrong. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:46, 31 May 2022 (UTC) Aah, found them, in ~/www/static/ . I've reverted my change to the crontab, and am digging more... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:49, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

OK, this change might help, to catch cases that are missing 'File:'. Could you have a look and see what you think? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:00, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Hmm, today it can't find pywikibot, so there's also something weird with the environment. I'm going to run today with Pi bot, since it will take me longer to debug the environment than I have this morning. Will try to return to this in the evening. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 06:51, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Run done - today's issue is definitely just the environment... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 07:05, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

OK, this is a bit of a complex update. First of all, I did a backup, see the tar.gz file - so we can always go back to that if needed.

After talking with others on IRC, particularly @Majavah: , it seems that the old environment stopped working this morning due to the move from Stretch to Buster. So I rebuilt it, following the instructions. I've reinstalled pywikibot etc. I also cleaned up the old versions of pywikibot and other files that were no longer needed.

I've also merged in the fix for missing "File:" prefixes, and I've synced everything with github - including the run script.

Now, all seems to be working. I've run the bot this evening to double-check that (after a few false starts that raised issues that I've fixed), and it seems to have run through OK. Let's see how this goes in the next few days? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:06, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

User:DschwenBot

Somehow it stopped to create daily/monthly maintenance categories. Could you please take a look? --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:17, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Save the date: Commons Photographers meeting next week

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

Please save the date: on Saturday, June 19th, our next virtual Zoom meeting is going to take place. As you know, one goal of these meetings is to share knowledge about different types of photography. This time, we've lined up the following presentations:

• Photography in Nigeria
• Photographing vehicles
• I started printing my images – here’s what I've learned so far…

If you'd like to participate in this event, please consider signing up on this page. Also, if you'd like to present at one of the next meetings, please send me a quick note. Sharing your experiences and learnings with others can make a huge difference!

I wish you, your family, and your friends all the best! Hope to see you on the 19th.

Warmly, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:13, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

This Sunday!

Hi, this is just a quick reminder: the next virtual meeting of our user group is scheduled for Sunday, June 19, 16:00 UTC. Topics are: “Photography in Nigeria”, “Photographing Vehicles”, “Wildlife photography and citizen science”, and “I started printing my images – here’s what I've learned so far…”. I'm thrilled about this great agenda and I'm looking forward to connecting with you again. Stay safe and all the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:08, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

GPS EXIF

Is the Bot still working on Extracting GPS EXIF data and converting it to Location? Pictures requesting the Bot on June 22 are not processed by now. Could you please have a look. HeinrichStuerzl (talk) 08:38, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

It seems that the Bot is no longer working since May 10, 2022. Is there any workaround to extracted the geocoordinates? HeinrichStuerzl (talk) 11:14, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

File:Hindola Toran N-MP-281 (3).jpg

This Foto is a Quality Image, but has no entry. --Nightflyer (talk) 13:34, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Quick update on behalf of the Commons Photographers User Group

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

I hope you're well and enjoy taking photos for Wikimedia Commons. Here are a couple of quick updates on behalf of our group:

• Our next virtual meeting will take place on Saturday, August 27. At this point we have two presentations lined up:

• Suitable! Unsuitable! How to choose photos for a Wikipedia for children, “Klexikon” (Ziko)
• The aperture and its (less known) effects (XRay)

You can sign up for the event on this page: Virtual Meeting on August 27, 2022. – Given that we can accommodate more speakers, I'll invite you to get in touch with me in case you'd like to present on the 27th. You can reach me any time on my talk page or by sending a quick email.

• Also, we now have a page for local events organized by members of our user group: Local events 2022. Please check it out and consider organizing an event yourself!
• And finally, we're planning on offering a Post-processing Workshop on October 8. Please save the date; an events page with more information will go up later.

Thanks for being a member of our group and for sharing your works under a free license. Have fun taking pictures!

All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 15:23, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Delay in the bot work.

Hi.

Many days my image is promoted, but not markered by bot. Could you fix bot work?

Regards, --Kirill Borisenko (talk) 23:57, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

@Kirill Borisenko: (from co-bot-maintainer) I think it was because of a stray | that I've now fixed, let's see if the bot picks this up tomorrow? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 06:25, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Category:Deletion requests March 2022

Category:Deletion requests March 2022 is considered to fulfill the criteria for speedy deletion and has been marked on its page. The following reason has been specified: CSD COM1 (improperly filled or routinely emptied deletion request or log) If you believe the content does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion, you may replace the speedy deletion tag with a regular deletion request (if the content has not been deleted) or request undeletion (if the content has already been deleted). All your uploads, including deleted ones, are listed in your upload log. If you need help, please read our frequently asked questions or visit the help desk. Please do not remove this message from your talk page. You may set up archiving instead. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

  — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 05:07, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

You're invited to provide input…

Dear fellow member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

At our last meeting end of August, we talked about getting in touch with the Wikimedia Foundation and offering our help for improving Wikimedia Commons. Today, I invite you to provide your input on a draft open letter to the Foundation. Over the course of the next ten days, we'll further improve the text together, before inviting people to sign it. If you're interested in providing input, please engage in the discussion on the talk page of the draft.

In the meanwhile, I hope you're well and have a great time taking photos! All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 08:42, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Online workshop this weekend

Dear Commons Photographers User Group member,

This coming Saturday, October 8, we'll host an online post processing workshop. On behalf of our events coordinator Shreya I invite you to sign up for the event using this Google form.

I hope you're well. All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 19:50, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Question from the CPUG Board

Dear user group member,

I'm writing you to today on behalf of the board of the Commons Photographers User Group. The past year has been a busy one for us. In 2022, we've had more activities than ever before in the history of our group and you'll find an overview on our group's page.

With that being said, 2022 was also a year of learning for the current board members. Most of us hadn't been involved in running the Photographers User Group and we spent quite some time on getting used to our new roles. We all feel it was a steep learning curve.

That's why, at our last board meeting, we decided to ask our members whether they'd be ok with us serving for another year. Extending our board duties to the end of 2023 would allow us to continue the work we've started this year, and to benefit from the knowledge we've built over the past twelve months.

However, in the end, it's up to you and the other members of our group to decide whether such an extension of our board term should be granted. I invite you to voice your opinion on this page:

Commons:Commons Photographers User Group/Board Elections 2022

We'll gather feedback until December 27, and we'll keep you in the loop about the outcomes of this process.

Thanks so much for your ongoing support of our group. I wish you, your family, and your friends all the best.

--Ailura (talk) 12:32, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy holidays 2022/2023!

		* Happy Holidays 2022/2023, Dschwen! *
		Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Joyeux Noël! Bonne année! Frohes Weihnachten! Frohes Neues Jahr! ¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo! Щасливого Різдва! З Новим роком!    -- George Chernilevsky talk 00:35, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Most memorable shot 2022 / Wikimania 2023

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

I wish you a Happy New Year! As it has been our tradition at the beginning of the new year for a while, we're sharing our most memorable shots of the past year with each other. I invite you to share a picture that is particular meaningful to you and to describe why that's the case. Also, as Wikimania 2023 will be here before we know it (August 16 to 19), please consider adding your thoughts on our planning page, where we gather ideas for how we can make Commons photography more visible than in the years before.

All the best to you, your family, and friends! --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 21:01, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Cloud VPS Purge

Hey! I was looking through the Cloud VPS purge list and noticed that FastCCI is currently unclaimed; this is just a heads up before any shutdowns/deletions occur. Have a great day! Remagoxer (talk) 19:58, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Commons:Quality_images_candidates

Hello, when you write on talk pages with the Template:QICpromoted, you should replace "=" for "=" because it is seen as a parameter and its value. See here or here. Thanks, Gzen92 (talk) 12:41, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Problem mit PanoViewer-Darstellung

1. Kugelpanorama des ehemaligen Martin-Rinckart-Gymnasiums (Innenhof, 2023)
(view as a 360° interactive panorama)

2. Kugelpanorama des Markplatzes von Stendal mit Rathaus und St. Marien-Kirche (2023)
(view as a 360° interactive panorama)

Hallo Daniel,

seit ca. 29. Mai 2023 (genaues Datum unbekannt) werden Kugel-Panoramen im PanoViewer fehlerhaft dargestellt. Da ich die Panoramen vorher an meinem PC getestet habe und da Kugel-Panoramen, die ich vor diesem Datum hochgeladen habe weiterhin funktionieren, weiß ich absolut keinen Rat, warum es momentan nicht mehr funktioniert. (Anmerkung: Die PanoViewer-Aufrufe funktionierten ab dem 29. Mai für einige Tage überhaupt nicht.)

1. Beispiel korrekte Darstellung (hochgeladen am 17. April):
2. Beispiel fehlerhafte Darstellung (hochgeladen am 29. Mai):

Ich habe genügend weitere Beispiele, falls erforderlich siehe: hier

Hast du eine Idee, woran es liegen könnte? Was kann ich tun, um den Fehler zu finden? Vielen Dank im Voraus für deine Antwort und deine Hilfe. --Joachim Köhler (talk) 08:06, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

Um auch hier kurz ein Update zu geben: Wir vermuten, dass das Problem eher mit der Thumbnail Generierung in Core zu tun hat. Siehe phab:T344233. -- Christoph Jauera (WMDE) (talk) 09:55, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Hallo Daniel, das Problem wurde inzwischen behoben und die Panoramen werden wieder richtig angezeigt. Viele Grüße --Joachim Köhler (talk) 18:52, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Problem in VI

I am confused to ask you but the BOT is blocked in VI; Can you help us? Thank you for what you can do. But this time we lasted more than a year without failure . Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:18, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

ZoomViewer returns 503 error

Hello Daniel, a friendly poke to see if you could take a look at ZoomViewer and see what is causing the 503 (No webservice) error. TIA! Earthsound (talk) 04:17, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi Dschwen, i also just mentioned the same when trying to access https://zoomviewer.toolforge.org/index.php?f=Shop_in_Dresden_-_Shop_window_-_Women%27s_wishes_and_men%27s_dreams_-_Image_001.jpg&flash=no ;-) Maybe you could do something about it. Thank you in advance, --Arnd 🇺🇦 (talk) 14:12, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Given it’s been down for more than a month now, I’d adopt the tool according to the abandoned tool policy and try to bring it up. Please reply within 14 days if you object (and please try to bring it up yourself in that case). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 09:57, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

@Dschwen: It looks like you've upgraded to version 1.2 of iipsrv, but instead of a 503 error the tool generates the following modal error: No response from server /fcgi-bin/iipsrv.fcgi. See this example

Thanks for taking a look! Earthsound (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Gull ca usa.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Poco a poco 17:44, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:24, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Commons photographers: next virtual meeting on August 5

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

I'm inviting you to our next virtual meeting on Saturday, August 5th. We'll have two speakers: Poco a poco will provide us with an update on his underwater photography and George Oates from the Flickr Foundation will talk about the Flickr-to-Commons bridge (“Flickypedia”) that is currently in the works. If you're interested in attending, please sign up on this page: Virtual Meeting on August 5, 2023.

I hope you're having a great time taking photos and I'm looking forward to seeing you on August 5th.

All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 15:41, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Quick reminder: Commons Photographers meeting this Saturday

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

This is a quick reminder that our next meeting will happen on Saturday, August 5th. If you haven't registered yet and you're interested in learning more about underwater photography and “Flickypedia”, please sign up on this page. Also, I invite you to fill out this survey created by the people who are working on the Flickr-to-Wikimedia Commons software. Your input will make a difference.

We haven't had a virtual meeting in a while and I'm so looking forward to this weekend!

All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 02:15, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

File:Former St. Mark's Church, Hvar (6578).jpg

Thank you Gampe (talk) 18:16, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Commons Photographers User Group: Board Elections 2023

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

in preparation of the 2023 board election of our group, we invite you to take a look at the following page:

Commons:Commons Photographers User Group/Board Elections 2023

and provide feedback.

The timeline for the 2023 election will be

• September 15 – September 30: Applications for the election committee
• October 1 – October 9: Vote for election committee (ideally comprised of three members)
• October 10: Election committee starts work
• October 20 – November 9: Nomination phase for candidacies
• November 10 – December 10: Elections
• December 15: Results announced

In the first step we ask you to be part of the election committe. Please add your name on the Election Page.

We are very much looking forward to hearing from you. Please use this talk page for your thoughts.

All the best

--Ailura (talk) for the CPUG board

WikiCon Photowalk der CPUG in Linz

Hallo Dschwen,

die Commons Photographers User Group lädt alle Gruppenmitglieder und weitere Interessierte, die an der WikiCon in Linz teilnehmen, zu einem Photowalk ein. Wir treffen uns am Freitag, 29. September um 14:15 Uhr bei der Anmeldung im Wissensturm und werden rechtzeitig zur Kaffeepause um 15:45 Uhr zurück sein.

Viele Grüße --Ailura (talk) 14:56, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

File:STL JNEM north tram upper station.jpg

Hello Daniel Schwen, Your photos are amazing!! I’ve used two of them for the 465th ArchiGuesser!! Thank you for your photos! Flibust1er (talk) 22:03, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in/contribute to a photo contest

English

Dear Dschwen,

We’re excited to share with you our first-ever art and photo contest for this year’s #VisibleWikiWomen, on Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports!

We’re inviting submissions of photos, illustrations, and other forms of art depicting womxn and non-binary people in sports — as athletes, fans, cheerleaders, referees, journalists, and much more. Our #VisibleWikiWomxn contest celebrates the bodies of womxn in sports by centering their voices, images, stories, and experiences in all their diversity, plurality, and glory.

You can find all the information on our landing page: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports

Spanish

Hola Dschwen,

Queremos invitarte a participar de nuestro primer concurso de arte y fotografía "Cuerpos plurales en el deporte" en el marco de la campaña #VisibleWikiWomen de este año.

Estamos convocando a presentar fotos, ilustraciones y otras formas de arte que representen a mujeres y personas no binarias en el deporte - atletas, personas aficionadas, animadoras, árbitras, periodistas y personas ligadas al deporte en todos los aspectos. Nuestro concurso #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra los cuerpos de las mujeres en el deporte centrándose en sus voces, imágenes, historias y experiencias en toda su diversidad, pluralidad y gloria.

Puedes encontrar toda la información en la página del concurso.

Portuguese

Olá Dschwen,

Ficamos felizes em convidar você a participar de nossa primeira Wiki-competição de arte e fotografia, como parte da campanha #VisibleWikiWomen deste ano, sobre "Corpos plurais no esporte"!

Estamos recebendo fotos, ilustrações, e outras formas de arte que retratem mulheres e pessoas não-binárias nos esportes — como atletas, torcedoras, juízas, jornalistas, e muito mais. Nossa competição #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra os corpors de mulheres e pessoas não-binárias e coloca ao centro suas vozes, imagens, histórias, e experiências em toda sua pluralidade e glória.

Você pode encontrar todas as informações necessárias em nossa página: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports.

Sunshine Fionah Komusana (talk) 14:01, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in/contribute to a photo contest

English

Dear Dschwen,

We’re excited to share with you our first-ever art and photo contest for this year’s #VisibleWikiWomen, on Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports!

We’re inviting submissions of photos, illustrations, and other forms of art depicting womxn and non-binary people in sports — as athletes, fans, cheerleaders, referees, journalists, and much more. Our #VisibleWikiWomxn contest celebrates the bodies of womxn in sports by centering their voices, images, stories, and experiences in all their diversity, plurality, and glory.

You can find all the information on our landing page: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports

Spanish

Hola Dschwen,

Queremos invitarte a participar de nuestro primer concurso de arte y fotografía "Cuerpos plurales en el deporte" en el marco de la campaña #VisibleWikiWomen de este año.

Estamos convocando a presentar fotos, ilustraciones y otras formas de arte que representen a mujeres y personas no binarias en el deporte - atletas, personas aficionadas, animadoras, árbitras, periodistas y personas ligadas al deporte en todos los aspectos. Nuestro concurso #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra los cuerpos de las mujeres en el deporte centrándose en sus voces, imágenes, historias y experiencias en toda su diversidad, pluralidad y gloria.

Puedes encontrar toda la información en la página del concurso.

Portuguese

Olá Dschwen,

Ficamos felizes em convidar você a participar de nossa primeira Wiki-competição de arte e fotografia, como parte da campanha #VisibleWikiWomen deste ano, sobre "Corpos plurais no esporte"!

Estamos recebendo fotos, ilustrações, e outras formas de arte que retratem mulheres e pessoas não-binárias nos esportes — como atletas, torcedoras, juízas, jornalistas, e muito mais. Nossa competição #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra os corpors de mulheres e pessoas não-binárias e coloca ao centro suas vozes, imagens, histórias, e experiências em toda sua pluralidade e glória.

Você pode encontrar todas as informações necessárias em nossa página: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports.

Sunshine Fionah Komusana (talk) 15:28, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Commons Photographers User Group: Board Elections 2023 - Nomination Phase

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

the 2023 board election of our group is run at

Commons:Commons Photographers User Group/Board Elections 2023.

The next steps in the timeline for the 2023 election are

• October 20 – November 16: Nomination phase for candidacies
• November 17 – December 10: Elections
• December 16: Results announced

If you are interested in being a member of the board, please nominate yourself on the Election Page.

We are very much looking forward to hearing from you. Please use this talk page for your thoughts.

All the best

--Ailura (talk) for the CPUG board

QICBot bug when filename has apostrophe in it

Hi! The latest QICBot post on my usertalk page is not properly showing the file thumbnail or file name:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jay.Jarosz#Quality_Image_Promotion_6

I think it might have to do with the apostrophe in the filename?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swiss_Farmer%27s_View.jpg Jay.Jarosz (talk) 05:50, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jay.Jarosz: Yes, it looks like it’s because of the apostrophe – to be exact, it’s because of the URL-encoded apostrophe. The candidate list also contains the file name with the apostrophe encoded, so from the bot’s point of view, this is garbage in, garbage out. I see three solutions:

• Educate users to not URL-encode file names in the first place (if the file name was specified as Swiss_Farmer's_View.jpg, there would be no bug)
• Somehow work around in the template the fact that {{PAGENAME:File:Swiss_Farmer%27s_View.jpg}} doesn’t work
• Fix PAGENAME in the MediaWiki code to work with URL-encoded page names.

—Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:27, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

I replied at User_talk:Mike_Peel#QICBot_bug_when_filename_has_apostrophe_in_it - same conclusion as Tacsipacsi. Not a bot issue. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:07, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Gotcha, my bad for using the URL-encoded apostrophe 🙈 But displaying images using a URL-encoded apostrophe doesn't seem to be an issue anywhere else on the site no? On that candidate list page you linked to, the image is displaying fine. It's only the bot's message on the talk page that seems to be having issues with the URL-encoded apostrophe. Jay.Jarosz (talk) 16:17, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jay.Jarosz: That is Template:QICpromoted, you could ask a template coder to improve it. (I've had a quick look, but since it's a multilingual template it's a bit complex.) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:31, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Corrrect, the Mediawiki ‘linker’ knows how to deal with url encoded characters in image names. But that’s not really common in Internet technology, so it’s somewhat logical that tools would not be able to handle them. The bot will thus double encode the apostrophe —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:40, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Did you check what happened? Nothing is double-encoded in this edit, the bot returned the same single-encoded string it was fed with. The malfunction is in the template, not the bot. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 19:00, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

'GPS EXIF'-tagged images haven't been processed for >24 hrs

Howdy! I've put the 'GPS EXIF' tag on several of my images. An info box appeared saying "A bot has been notified to extract this information and, out of it, insert a 'Location' template into this image description page. This should occur within 24 hours, from the time when the template was added to this image description page."

It's now been ~ 36 hours and the 'location' template hasn't been added to these images yet.

Here are a couple of examples (after a few more days of waiting, I ended up adding the GPS location manually):

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tenna_Church.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farms_in_Tenna.jpg

I clicked on the "My recent activity" link on the bot's profile page and it looks like it hasn't been active for over a year?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/DschwenBot

--Jay.Jarosz (talk) 16:13, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, not ideal. The WM cloud people want the bot to run on kubernetes, but they provide no way to build the required python bindings for the exif library. --Dschwen (talk) 00:55, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

You can create custom environments with https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Build_Service (functions similar to the online container platform heroku) —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:22, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

@Dschwen Do I see correctly that the bot is not running again? I have fixed my own pictures with my own script, but there seem thousands of other unprocessed pictures in the category. Plozessor (talk) 18:10, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Flickypedia soft launch and a huge thank you

Dear fellow Commons photographer,

I hope this message finds you well. As you might already know, the Flickr Foundation has been busy creating a new Flickr-to-Commons bridge (“Flickypedia”) this year. After a successful demo at the GLAM Wiki Conference in Montevideo, the Flickr Foundation team is now inviting all members of the Commons Photographers User Group to be the first to review their alpha, reporting any technical issues or other feedback via the Flickypedia project talk page.

At the same time, this message is an opportunity for me to thank you for your trust and support over the past couple of years. Since 2017, we've grown into being one of the largest user groups in the Wikimedia universe. I've tremendously enjoyed interacting with all of our members when it came to joint photowalks at Wikimanias, virtual Zoom meetings where we covered a wide variety of photography topics, as well as our annual “Most memorable shot of the year”, among many other events. As I'm not running for an official position in our current board election, this will be my last message on behalf of the user group to you. Thanks for all the happy moments we shared together over the years! I hope you'll continue creating free images for the millions of people we serve through Wikipedia and Commons.

All the best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 19:36, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy holidays!

		* Happy Holidays! *
		Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Joyeux Noël! Bonne année! Frohes Weihnachten! Frohes Neues Jahr! ¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo! Щасливого Різдва! З Новим роком!    -- George Chernilevsky talk 21:46, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

File:Timeline icon.svg

File:Timeline icon.svg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

38.22.63.70 08:16, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Deadline Approaching for Most Memorable Shot Submission!

Hello Dschwen !,

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Just a quick reminder that the deadline for submitting your most memorable shot of 2023 is swiftly approaching! As tradition holds, since 2018, we've been sharing our favorite captures from the past year with each other. This year marks the sixth iteration of our beloved "Most Memorable Shot" tradition, and we're excited to see what everyone has to share.

Whether you're a member of the Commons Photographers User Group or not, you're warmly invited to participate. Your unique perspective adds to the richness of our community, and we'd love to see the world through your lens.

So, if you haven't already, take a moment to pick out your most cherished picture of 2023 and share it with us on the designated page. The deadline is February 29th, so don't let time slip away!

Let's keep this wonderful tradition alive and celebrate the beauty and diversity of our collective experiences through photography.

Looking forward to seeing your memorable shots!

Best regards,

Suyash Dwivedi (talk) 17:45, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Commons photographers: next virtual meeting on April 13, 2024

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

I'm inviting you to our next virtual meeting on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 9.00 UTC ( start time in your timezone (via zoneStamp!) (expected duration for 2 hrs). The primary agenda of this gathering will revolve around discussions regarding the Movement Charter. Your valuable input and participation in these discussions would be highly appreciated. If you're interested in attending, please sign up on this page: Virtual Meeting on April 13, 2024.

I hope you're having a great time taking photos and I'm looking forward to seeing you.

All the best, -- Suyash Dwivedi (talk) 10:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Quality images still marked as unassessed.

Images put into Category:Unassessed QI candidates and later marked as {{QualityImage}} keep the first category; this happens when images are renominated and pass on a later attempt. QIs should not be categorized as unassessed, of course. This currently affects 588 images, per PetScan. These can be recategorized, but the bot should do the right thing going forward. grendel|khan 08:06, 15 April 2024 (UTC)