User talk:McZusatz/Archive 7

Report for files uploaded between January 13 and January 22

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 120 problematic instances. This time I could tag all files appropriately and I won't need your help. --Flock (talk) 21:56, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between March 14 and March 23

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 40 problematic instances. I was unsure about 1 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Darby Crash street art.jpg

--Flock (talk) 06:21, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between March 18 and March 27

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 17 problematic instances. This time I could tag all files appropriately and I won't need your help. --Flock (talk) 14:02, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between June 01 and June 10

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 25 problematic instances. I was unsure about 1 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Vanishing Point of Bar Posts.jpg

--Flock (talk) 21:39, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between June 09 and June 18

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 13 problematic instances. This time I could tag all files appropriately and I won't need your help. --Flock (talk) 22:52, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 07:07, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between July 12 and July 21

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 62 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Whethan Performance.jpg
• File:Tetsuya Nomura.jpg

--Flock (talk) 23:59, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

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License Review

If you have some time, please try to mark some images in the license review category above. Admin Morning Sunshine has been away since April 5 and I mark mostly flickr images and have my own job too. So, this category has grown, I notice. If not, please ask other active Admins to mark some images in this category with 400+ images. Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 23:03, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Crimea Emblem.gif

Why here file was removed, but not replaced?--Anatoliy (talk) 00:19, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

This DR

If you can, please feel free to state if this image can be kept without COM:OTRS permission. I have no clear views on it, just some doubts whether the flickr owner owns its copyright outright. Best Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 08:33, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

• The DR discussion appears to be delete but now there are these other images to consider. Best Wishes, --Leoboudv (talk) 03:15, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

File replacements of seals, ...

With these replacements, it is worthwhile checking the place/... at Wikidata as they have a property for things like a seal, and it needs to be updated manually. :-/ There is a bugzilla request to somehow display that the link exists on the image, however, at this time, it hasn't exited anyone sufficiently to work out how to fix the beast.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:10, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I never heard of it. Please send me some links and I will add it to the growing list of problems when moving files... --McZusatz (talk) 07:41, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Broken(?) video not generating thumbnails

Namaste, McZusatz.

This file you uploaded is broken: File:Yochai Benkler - On Autonomy, Control and Cultural Experience.ogg

It fails to generate a thumbnail and the servers are throwing error pages when trying to create the image too. The original does not exhibit this behaviour.

edit: the video itself plays just fine however.

What is the difference between the two and, why the need for a dupe? Can't we remove yours, or swap their position so that the old (non-broken one) is the default choice? Regards. Dsprc (talk) 10:20, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the follow up. The uploads are indeed the same and both fail equally in regards to generating thubmnails. (You should try a 122px thumbnail instead of the cached 120px thumbnail)

Nonetheless I have remapped the streams and everything should now work as expected. --McZusatz (talk) 10:36, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Very cool, thanks. :) These 3 seem to be doing the same thing as well:

• File:NASA - How to Get Colder Than Anywhere Else.webm
• File:NASA - The Sun Reverses its Magnetic Poles.webm
• File:Chained streams.ogg

These are lower priority as they're not really being used anywhere yet so, no biggie. -- Dsprc (talk) 13:58, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Those three are supposed to be broken. ;D bugzilla:53863 needs to be fixed first. --McZusatz (talk) 14:03, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

File:Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator SIAD-R rocket sled test video.webm

Hey there, since there seems to be an issue with transcoding File:Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator SIAD-R rocket sled test video.webm, I went ahead and uploaded File:Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator SIAD-R rocket sled test video.ogv, which appears to be working fine. Since you also uploaded to the webm version, I won't request speedy deletion. If you would delete the webm version, however, I'd appreciate it. — Huntster (t @ c) 23:02, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

As of now a direct upload from youtube is not encouraged because VP9 is not yet supported by TimedMediaHandler. Therefore I have uploaded a VP8 transcode created from the h264 version of youtube and I'd propose to keep the WebM version because WebM generally offers better quality than ogv. --McZusatz (talk) 16:14, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

If the original file is now working, then go ahead and kill off the OGV file. I'll not be using WebM again in the future, as it is simply too finicky (and, personally speaking, I see no benefit in quality over OGV). Thanks for your help in all this. — Huntster (t @ c) 22:09, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

FN Minimi

So in ordung?--Sanandros (talk) 11:47, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Falls der Flickr Nutzer korrekt ist, koennten wir die restlichen Dateien auch hochladen. ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/15725582@N08/ ) --McZusatz (talk) 11:57, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Looking for contacts of photographer made this photo. --VjacheslavWolski (talk) 20:48, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

User:YaCBot

To make a dead link[1], please stop. 221.20 (talk) 08:58, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

I don't really get the whole point of changing the user's site-wide language to only display the description in another language. For changing the language of the description we have the "Language select-dropdown" (as you can find it on File:Albania - Lin and Ohrid Lake.JPG). And for changing the display language you can use the Link in the upper right section of every page. (Left from your username) --McZusatz (talk) 15:06, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

There is other way, such as to notify me, it is not a reason that it makes the red link. Please prudent work.221.20 (talk) 15:26, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

What is your opinion on the two proposals I made (c.f. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Chitose_bus_S022C_0169.JPG&action=history )

In general the already widely used {{Information}} template should be used to make it as machine readable as possible. Also the maintenance is easier... --McZusatz (talk) 15:40, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

I've comment out the relevant part as an interim treatment[2]. I will consider based on your comment. might take to understand in English. Thank you. 221.20 (talk) 15:49, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

If you have trouble understanding my Englisch, I often recommend https://translate.google.de/#auto/ja/ (sometimes the translation is ok). If you are ok with one of my proposals, we should change your template and fix all of the files. I can help you with that, so just let me know. --McZusatz (talk) 15:55, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

YaCBot

Der Bot macht tolle Wartungsarbeit, vielen Dank dafür nochmals. Hast Du mal über Klone nachgedacht die von Hinten oder bei Buchstabengruppen ab G bzw P anfangen um die aufgestauten Arbeiten schneller erldigen zu können? Der Hauptbot wühlt sich gerade erst durch C. Um mal an die Zukunft zu denken: Wäre schön wenn man den Bot bzw seine Funktionen irgendwie auf Labs realisieren könnte und den dort mit ggf mehreren Maintainern als generellen Wartungsbot für Commons zur Verfügung hätte. --Denniss (talk) 06:56, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Ja, bis der einmal durch ist, dauert es noch Monate (oder Jahre?). Anstatt mehrere Bots laufen zu lassen koennte ich auch die Edit-rate erhoehen. (An die 5 sekunden regel hat sich Commons:Bots/Requests/SchlurcherBot auch nicht gehalten...)

Zur Zeit kompiliere ich den Bot in ein .jar und benutze Labs nur als host. In welcher Form kann ich die Funktion des Bots als generellen Wartungsbot bereitstellen? Webinterface? --McZusatz (talk) 10:01, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Wenn Du den code bereitstellst, wuerde ich einen Bot parallel laufen lassen. Ich habe hier noch einen Laptop auf dem zur Zeit nur BOINC laeuft. Ich wollte den eh auf Linux umstellen. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 10:58, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

@Hedwig in Washington: Gerne, kannst du dann wie oben gewuenscht bei 'P' anfangen? Bitte benutze die Version vom 14. August (Findest du, wenn du den Namen des Bots bei google eintippst). Kompilieren musst du selbst, aber lass mich wissen wenn es Probleme gibt. --McZusatz (talk) 19:37, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Ja wo laufen sie denn? :) Hast Du den bot nur auf dem Toolserver? Da komme ich nicht ran. Google gibt mir nur blogs und Zeugs. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 21:28, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Macht der Bot keine Internationalisierung vom Datum? Da hat er das deutsche Datumsformat dringelssen. --Denniss (talk) 09:44, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

com:regex#Dates ist zu allgemein gehalten. Nur mit Kenntnis des Datums weiss man nicht ob das August oder November ist. Kontextbasierte Erkennung waere aber eine Moeglichkeit... --McZusatz (talk) 18:49, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

GIFTagger replacing GIFs with PNGs

Hi McZusatz, I noticed GifTagger is uploading PNG equivalents of GIFs and rediredting the GIF to the new PNG file. Why is this necessary? Why not upload the new PNG under a new name and keep the existing GIF (to maintain an audit trail if nothing else)? Has this action been discussed and agreed somewhere?

Also, I noticed that some new PNG files are getting tagged by bots for incomplete source information, for example: File:4th MLG.png. This might lead to the PNGs being deleted unnecessarily. I cannot see the original GIF's page description so I cannot see whether the whole of the original description and any licence tags were copied over. Is the GifTagger bot operating correctly in these cases? Thanks. -84user (talk) 00:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

user:Hedwig in Washington is not a bot afaik. There is no processing in the file description page involved so the whole description is just copied over. If there is a licensing problem with the source file, there will be with the PNG file. --McZusatz (talk) 07:34, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Indeed. A deletion is possible, true that. Nevertheless, if a file doesn't have an identifiable source it can't be hosted on Commons. The main goal is to get the uploader to add a source. There are over 55,000 files without source - I can't find them all. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 08:30, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Guten Morgen!

Also wenn eine so einfache Datei wie Bsp_Duplex.gif schon in irgendwas anderes konvertiert werden muss, dann hätte sich aber *.svg besser angeboten als *.png.
Liebe Grüße, --Charly Whisky (talk) 07:15, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Das Gif war in der vollen Aufloesung eingebunden, daher kein visueller Unterschied. (Bei thumbnails waere allerdings ein grosser sichtbar gewesen!)

Einen PNG->SVG-Bot gibt es noch nicht, aber File:Bsp Duplex.svg sollte passen? --McZusatz (talk) 20:07, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Passte! Vielen Dank! Ich weiß bloß immer noch nicht, wie man das macht, dass die Texte in den SVG sich automatisch an die benutzte Sprache anpassen. Irgendwie sollte das gehen. Bisher machte ich das dann als Trick mit einem zweiten Layer, wie bei de:Dauerstrichradar und en:Continuous-wave radar sowie diversen anderen Sprachen. --Charly Whisky (talk) 21:15, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Ich glaube du meinst Category:Translation possible - SVG (switch). (In der Kat. findest du ein paar Beispiele) --McZusatz (talk) 21:27, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Ja, das habe ich jetzt mal ausgiebig getestet. Leider hat dieses System einen entscheidenden Nachteil. Die jeweilige Sprache innerhalb des SVG wird abgerufen durch die Sprache des Betriebssystems. Hast du ein Englisch-sprachiges Windoof, dann eben Englisch. Hast du ein Windoof in Swahili, dann ebenfalls in Englisch, weil ich kein Swahili implementiert habe, Hast du ein Windoof in Frangßösüsch, dann kommt auch die gefragte Sprache (hier französisch) zur Anzeige. Das ist aber nicht das, was ich möchte. Ich hätte gerne eine Sprachenverteilung entsprechend dem Metatag, zum Beispiel: <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="bg" />. Das macht das SVG dann allerdings nicht. Schade. Dank jedoch für deine Hinweise. --Charly Whisky (talk) 22:05, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

No token for old man

Moin! YacBot pausiert zur Zeit gerne mal 240/400 sec. und beim Verschieben von Dateien bekomme ich oft No token for XY.wiki. Gibt es dafuer schon einen Bug report? Oder sind das andere Wehwechen? LG --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 14:01, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

• YaCBot pausiert, sobald die Server mit Fehlercodes antworten; Und das passiert erstaunlich oft. Es liegt eigentlich im Aufgabengebiet der WMF die Spendengelder sinnvoll aufzuteilen...
• Kannst du in den naechsten Tagen nochmal vesuchen eclipse (oder netbeans) zum laufen zu bringen und die neueste Version von YaCBot kompilieren? Meine Festplatte ist zur Zeit kaputt und ich kann nicht wirklich was am Stueck erledigen.
• Einen bugreport fuer notoken habe ich nicht gefunden.

--McZusatz (talk) 20:28, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Careful when deleting files with GifTagger

File:Btn edit.gif was replaced with a png version, but the original was used in a user script, which became broken as a consequence. Would it be possible for GifTagger to search for instances of the filename in user scripts before deleting? That would prevent other such cases from happening. --Waldir ^talk 15:12, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

If you really want to hard-code the image into the code instead of solving the redirect (or filing a bug to let the server solve the redirect), you could also use a thumbnailed version of the image like commons/thumb/e/ec/Btn_edit.gif/15px-Btn_edit.gif which currently redirects correctly to the PNG thumb. --McZusatz (talk) 18:16, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

GifTagger

Hallo
durch die Verschiebung von Alzey_land_wappen-vg.gif -> Alzey_land_wappen-vg.png bin ich auf deinen Bot aufmerksam geworden. Ich gehe derzeit die hochgeladenen Wappen der rheinland-pfälzischen Kommunen durch, um sie falls nötig mit mittlerweile in besserer Qualität vorliegenden Dateien zu überschreiben. Viel zu viele Wappen sind allerdings nur als gif oder jpg hochgeladen. Der Idealfall wäre natürlich, wenn alle Wappen - die nicht eh schon vektorisiert vorliegen - als png da wären. In wieweit könntest du mir mit deinem Bot helfen und wie könnte ich dich unterstützen? Ich weiß ja nicht wie ein solcher Bot funktioniert, und ob nicht eine Dateiliste o.ä. nötig ist, die ich dir voher erstell. Fränsmer (talk) 15:02, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Ich versuche noch den #Bot_bug diese Woche zu fixen, bevor ich den naechsten lauf mache. --McZusatz (talk) 18:30, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Hallo McZusatz,
könnte dieser eine Differenzierung machen wenn die GIF bereits mit einer SVG getaggt ist!? Ansonsten wäre das eine ziemlich redundante (und sinnärmere) Tätigkeit. Nun verstehe ich dass der Bot nicht die SVG beurteilen kann, daher schlage ich vor dieser generiert erst mal eine weitere Wartungs-Kat. die einen kurzen Check erlaubt um dann die SVG und nicht die PNG ersetzt!? LG ↔ User: Perhelion (Commons: = crap?) 16:41, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

PNG compression

Hallo McZusatz,
benutzt du bzw. GifTagger eigentl. eine extra KompressionsRoutine? Es ist mir stichprobenartig aufgefallen dass sich diese noch etwas schrumpfen lassen. Das wäre doch sicherlich angebracht bzw. eine Erwähnung wert. Beste Grüße ↔ User: Perhelion (Commons: = crap?) 14:18, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Ja, das is aber ein separater task, den ich dann spaeter ausfuehre. --McZusatz (talk) 19:50, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Can one tag files to request conversion by GifTagger from .jpg or .gif to .png?

Hi McZusatz,

I redrew File:ABOMRibbon.png last night to get softer lines and to correct the dimensions. Since the existing file was in .png format, I had to convert my drawing from .jpg to .png before uploading it. The file is used, among several other articles, in South African Republic & Orange Free State War Medal, where I also needed a mirror image of the same image. I therefore rotated my drawing 180 degrees and uploaded File:ABO SAR & OFS War Medal OFS.jpg without bothering to convert it.

It was only when I added the two images into the article that I noticed the difference in quality between the reduced size .png and .jpg images, and the penny dropped for me as to why some of these files show up distorted as thumbnails, especially some of the red and dark green colours.

Now I have a whole bunch of files in .jpg and .gif format to convert to .png format, which will be a painful exercise. Then I noticed your GifTagger bot's signature in File:ABOMRibbon.png. This seems to be exactly what I need.

Is there a template to tag a .jpg or .gif file for conversion to .png by the bot? -- André Kritzinger (talk) 00:04, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Don't bother. I did it the hard way. -- André Kritzinger (talk) 11:28, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Uncategorized for user images

Hello McZusatz, as an example consider File:Johann Jaritz Loibltal 12072008 01.jpg, which was tagged as {{Uncategorized}} (by your bot) and is a user image. This creates a tension because uncategorized cannot be easily resolved in such cases. Would it be possible to refrain from adding uncategorized to user page images? Maybe even remove this template from user page images. Just to ease the backlog of uncategorized images. What do you think? I write in English to get a broader audience if needed. liebe Grüße --Herzi Pinki (talk) 08:52, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Right now, it is caused by the category being hidden. And according to the category's description one should rather use Category:Wikimedians or other categories to categorize the content. --McZusatz (talk) 17:16, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

In my opinion it shouldn't matter whether Category:User page images is hidden or not. It's not useful to flag them as uncat. I'm not the only one who cats uncat files from time to time, but if {{User page image}} is classified as uncat I will stop doing so. Btw, I'm not sure, should Category:User page images of dogs of Wikimedians by country be hidden too or not... Gruß, --Achim (talk) 14:23, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

@Achim55: Hiddencat wurde heute herausgenommen. Ist also alles wieder wie vorher. --McZusatz (talk) 16:07, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Das ist nett, danke! Gruß, --Achim (talk) 16:31, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Formell korrekte Entfernungen

Hallo McZusatz. Formell hat dein Bot da schon richtig gehandelt. So wäre hingegen keine Information verloren gegangen. --Leyo 21:55, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Das waren 60 Dateien alle vom gleichen Uploader. In den letzten 30 Tagen sind nur zwei aehnliche Faelle aufgetreten. Da YaCBot ohnehin schon fast durch ist, macht es in meinen Augen keinen Sinn den Code anzupassen. Aber danke fuer den Hinweis. Ich habe mich um die Faelle gekuemmert. --McZusatz (talk) 23:08, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Danke! Was heisst „fast durch“? Wann wird das etwa sein? Laut den Treffern unter COM:BWR#Removing “none” hat er noch einiges vor sich. --Leyo 23:22, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Sieht fast so aus, als waeren es nur noch die Buchstaben {R,S,T} --McZusatz (talk) 23:39, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Hm, da sehe ich noch etliche andere Anfangsbuchstaben. Kümmert sich der Bot nicht auch um solche Korrekturen? --Leyo 00:25, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

YaCBot categorisation of image marked as {{user page image}} as uncategorised

Hi,

I notice that your bot has (re-) classified File:TheWolverineVisitsRedRobin.jpg as "uncategorised". ([3])

This was already marked as a {{user page image}}- placing it in Category:User page images- and the previous "uncategorised" template had been removed. ([4]) (Since it's apparently a personal image being used for legitimate userspace purposes, but not in-scope for Commmons proper).

So, is it that (a) either I or the other person have overlooked something that should have been done to prevent this, or (b) has Yacbot made a mistake in restoring its "uncategorised" status...?

Would appreciate your feedback, thanks!

Ubcule (talk) 19:03, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Category:User page images reads "this is more of a maintenance category than a content one (Category:Wikimedians is the content one)"; So I'd propose to add category:Wikipedians. --McZusatz (talk) 19:16, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. Was the classification automatic, or did you use your discretion?

The reason I ask is, if it was mainly automatic I imagine there might be cases where a legitimate userpage image doesn't belong in any of the mainspace categories at all(?)... yet it would be annoying if such images were marked as "unclassified". Ubcule (talk) 19:36, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Indeed, it is automatic. (Hidden categories are not considered by the bot)

If there is any such case arising, I'd be happy to change the behavior in regards to this category. --McZusatz (talk) 20:30, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Ubcule (talk) 23:05, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Note: Hiddencat was removed to restore the old behavior. --McZusatz (talk) 16:08, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Buttons

some time ago (27. Aug. 2014‎) your bot has made changes in the buttons MediaWiki_edit_toolbar#Clipboard (converting gif to png). Since then these additional buttons do not appear anymore as they should in my editor extension list. They were created by User Exxu (who is not active anymore) especially for this purpose. See MediaWiki:Gadget-SemanticTemplates.js on german wikiversity. Could you please either solve this problem or tell me how to solve this or rechange this. Greetings and thank you very much.--Bocardodarapti (talk) 18:59, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't think using a hotlink is considered best practice... You can either use sth. like https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AFilePath&file=Button+clipboard+bold.gif&width=24000 or wait for phabricator:T37721 to get fixed. --McZusatz (talk) 19:17, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

thanks. It took me a while to understand what you meant, but now it works.--Bocardodarapti (talk) 20:18, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

"Redundant information"

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:1960_map_of_what_became_Seattle_Center.jpg&curid=15215609&diff=164474265&oldid=91341663: on this and others, I'm trying to understand how this information is "redundant". As far as I can tell, it for that bot, this is the only indication of who made the bot request to get the upload. Once that's gone, while someone can, indeed, tell what bot did the job, they can't see at whose behest. Or am I missing something? - Jmabel ! talk 10:47, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

The information is present in the upload summary: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1960_map_of_what_became_Seattle_Center.jpg#filehistory --McZusatz (talk) 11:03, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Ah. Fine then. I wasn't aware of that. Though if you look at it, it's a bit cut off; if the URL & name were any longer it could be completely lost. Is the bot making sure that isn't the case? - Jmabel ! talk Jmabel ! talk 17:53, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

People will think you are the author. Imo the uploader has nothing to do in the source field. Not sure where to put it instead. I can put it in the edit summary of the bot, though. Like this. --McZusatz (talk) 19:25, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

This removal seems like a bad idea and I doubt that it represents consensus. I've never heard of anyone deciding it would be helpful to Commons to actively blank the names of good-faith contributors/uploaders. That source information is the provenance for the upload; removing it implies that that the bot User:File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske) is the cause and that Magnus Manske (talk · contribs) is to blame for any inappropriate uploads. His upload bot is doing the right thing; everyone should easily be to see which human caused a bot action, not be silently mislead into thinking the bot owner did it. It is not redundant; the user that caused the action does not appear anywhere else on the page. Snippets of original upload edit summaries (often chopped off) don't count; neither do things hidden in some edit history with no on-page hint that there used to be more information that was suppressed. I've used File Upload Bot myself before, and I don't intend for Magnus Manske to have to take complaints on his talk page about my uploads. Which leads to another problem: If it's not in the upload logs under the user's account, and you remove it from the current searchable version of the page, how do people search for bot uploads by a specific contributor? Furthermore, I doubt it's going to lessen confusion: If someone is so "confused" that they see two "Source" lines and an "Author" line, and don't realize that the author is the one labeled "Author", that user is not going to be helped much by making the provenance confusing for everyone else too. --Closeapple (talk) 05:44, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

@Closeapple: So you would prefer to be accused of copyfraud? --McZusatz (talk) 06:42, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

I don't know why "you" is linked to that photo; I've never been involved in that photo. File:Atlanta Police GA USA - Ford Crown Victoria (1).jpg is clearly attributed to "dave conner from Inverness, Scotland". I also am not involved in the off-wiki page. That web page just proves my point: It's a supposed news website, but credited the photo to "Wikimedia.com" instead of "Wikimedia Commons" (which is a .org, by the way), so it was going to be wrong no matter what. The problem isn't that Commons was confusing; the problem is that reusing website apparently simply doesn't care to pay attention to details. (Further on that note: That website is using this 2005 photograph of an Atlanta Police squad in an unusual color, as the alleged news image for a 2015 shooting incident.) There's no copyfraud by me, or by User:Oxyman who triggered the bot upload, which I guess is what you were trying to get at. The copyright holder, presumably Dave Conner, has every right to tell that site take his photograph out until they learn to type for accuracy instead of speed. If that reusing web page had attributed the photo to "Atlanta Police GA" (which is in the source line also) or "File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske)", would those have to be removed from the Commons page also to avoid confusion? Even on Commons itself, new users who upload often misattribute the source to the blatantly-inaccurate "Own work", but we don't go back and blame the previous source for copyfraud or for causing confusion by making the user think he could take credit. --Closeapple (talk) 08:50, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

I wasn't accusing anyone of copyfraud. I merely picked the first image I found to illustrate my point: If the website indeed did not care, they'd give no attribution at all, but it seems they (at least) tried to attribute correctly but failed because it was too confusing, which is more than understandable imo. I guess it would only take me another 12 minutes to find a similar image falsely attributed to you...

The only way this can be fixed on a broader scale is to provide clear instructions how to attribute, which boils down to machine readable templates (or even better: Using wikidata). Abusing the space between the source and author field to state the initiator of upload may appear convenient but does not solve any of all the issues mentioned above...

Let's stop arguing about specific websites, commons users or files and focus on how to fix this properly! --McZusatz (talk) 09:26, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

@Rillke: Are you aware of any {{Uploaded by}}? --McZusatz (talk) 09:26, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

1. The uploader's name does not really belong there, neither into the source field, nor into the author field. Most of the time.
2. The uploader's user name can be found in the first page revision.
3. I guess in future the upload bot is using OAuth, thus there is no need to identify the uploader in the upload summary (because the user account of the uploading user will be used instead).
4. I am not aware of {{Uploaded by}} and I fail to see why we would want that. The time of Bot X doing something on behalf of User Y should be over after OAuth is around for a while. -- Rillke^(q?) 21:18, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

I noticed some of these removals and thought to myself: "Great, I totally agree, but I am glad I am not the one who has to deal with all of the aggrieved users." I sometimes mention myself in the authorial field, but only if I carried out meaningful changes to the file. In short, I support the removal of these fields. Maybe, since you seem not to fear long and pointless debates, could you also check out Category:Polski Fiat 125p and other Polish automobile categories? A few editors have made these irretrievably confusing, making it near impossible to get an overview of which photos are there. Besides the point, I know... mr.choppers (talk)^-en- 18:49, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

I had a quick look and could not see what is wrong with Category:Polski Fiat 125p. --McZusatz (talk) 19:32, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

I agree with McZusatz because the uploader details are usually in the upload log at the bottom of the page. Where a bot has been used and it doesn't mention the human user, it is usually possible to work it out from the history. Uploaders can also add such files to one or more hidden user upload categories and/or user-space galleries. How much more recognition does an uploader need? This is precisely the issue that was raised by The-Beloved-but-Banned User:Russavia recently, causing much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair amongst the peasantry. Green Giant (talk) 19:42, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

This isn't about "recognition". It's about someone being able to track me down as effective uploader if they have an issue with the file. And I don't want to have to add hidden categories to all my uploads -- especially not to track down years-old uploads (hundreds of them, maybe thousands) and add such a category to enable that. - Jmabel ! talk 19:56, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

The file that you originally pointed to at the start of this thread has Uploaded by [[User:Jmabe in the upload log, and the second edit in the file history is by you, so I think it would be fairly easy to work out that User:Jmabel was the human behind the upload. That said, would it be better to have an extra field in the infobox templates for |uploader = , to go just below the author line? Green Giant (talk) 01:42, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

YaCBot consensus needed

Hi, stripping uploader info like this has no consensus I am aware of. I have reverted the example. Could you reconsider and restore where this has been done? Thanks --Fæ (talk) 06:36, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Uploader information is irrelevant and misleading and often led to misattribution in the past (to uploader, not Flickr author). --Denniss (talk) 06:46, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

I am not aware of a single reason why not to do this. The information is usually still included in the upload summary, thus completely redundant. Additionally, you can find it in the first version of the page like with all the flickr uploads done by user:Flickr upload bot. (c.f. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Alumbrados_2008_-_Bello%284%29.jpg&action=history ) --McZusatz (talk) 06:50, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

There remains no consensus for this change. The information is not anywhere on the live image page and is useful. Please establish a consensus or revert these changes. --Fæ (talk) 07:04, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Consensus is irrelevant if this useless info leads to attribution/licensing issues. AFAIR there was some discussion on Bot work request page as well.--Denniss (talk) 08:18, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

In this case, the information is nowhere on the image page text and the uploader was the tool, not the guiding mind (the design being before we had OAUTH available). Easily finding the batch uploader is important for future housekeeping or categorization, and not many of our users will be able to work around this by accessing earlier image page versions (which dramatically increases the processing load and will never be ideal) nor is the text in the upload comments field a reliable indicator.

Where any "housekeeping" change is controversial or seems controversial, our default is to not argue the case but to halt, revert and reach a consensus. The responsibility for gaining a consensus is the bot operator's. If you believe the current text invariably leads to copyright problems, then make the case as part of gaining consensus and suggest some alternatives rather than blanking valid information about the batch upload.

--Fæ (talk) 08:28, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

This was already posted to VP (and maybe even BWR). Plus, there was a discussion going on two sections above this one and I count about 6 people supporting this and less than 6 people opposing. You can also find some direct links where this lead to copyright violations in those sections. Where else should we start another discussion about this? --McZusatz (talk) 13:48, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Lastly, users can normally find the information on the live image page in the upload summary and bots crawling all flickr uploads need to refer to the first entry of the history anyway due to the uploads done by user:Flickr upload bot. I don't see how this adds any burden. --McZusatz (talk) 13:48, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Could you supply links to the consensus please? "Image page text" does not include the upload history. As an example a VFC user would be unable to use it, but they can before the YaCBot changes. --Fæ (talk) 13:54, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

I could wrap it into a comment and append it to the page text. --McZusatz (talk) 11:40, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:5.000_ft_above_Brno_Airport_%288083575700%29.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=165537540 --McZusatz (talk) 14:09, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Approved scope of YaCBot (talk · contribs)

Hi McZusatz, I see there has been quite a bit of discussion and contention about one of the tasks being carried out by YaCBot (talk · contribs), namely deletion of uploader information. Unless I have missed something, the authority under which the bot is operating is set out in your original bot request of December 2013:

• File-Cleanup:
  1. Internationalization
  2. General cleanup (com:regex: Dates, Format, Junk, Interwikilinks, ...)
  3. com:OVERCAT-cleanup removed per discussion OverBot will solve those
  4. Remove duplicate categories (regardless of their sortkey)
  5. Remove {{Uncategorized}} if more than zero two or more visible categories are there
  6. Mark as uncategorized if zero visible categories are found (Only hidden ones or no at all)

Of the approved tasks, none covers the task of deleting uploader information. The closest might be "general cleanup (junk)", but the information being deleted is not 'junk' even if there is an argument that it would be better displayed in some other location or in some other way. As the bot is operating in an unauthorized manner it is liable to be blocked, but I would hope that can be avoided as it is doing other useful things.

Could I ask you please to confirm clearly here that you will immediately and permanently stop that task, if you have not done so already? Once that's confirmed, community discussion can continue with a view to reaching consensus on the best way to handle this. If consensus can be reached, please then make a fresh application at Commons:Bots/Requests to have this task added to the bot's approved work. All the best, --MichaelMaggs (talk) 09:08, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

There is already a voting going on (here). My intention was to stop the bot if there is only half (or less) of the participants supporting this task. But I may shut down the bot as long as the discussion is ongoing. --McZusatz (talk) 09:20, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm aware of the discussion and the vote you have set up. You need not stop the entire bot, but could you please confirm that you have switched off the task of deleting uploader details? This is purely to make sure Commons' bot policy is complied with; I make no comment on whether the actual task is a net positive or negative. Many thanks. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 09:44, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Please

Please when you publish a message in a not english community try to provide translations in other languages as possible. It will be gratefulled. Not everyone can understand english, and readers of a Spanish language site would expect read text in Spanish. --Zerabat (talk) 00:15, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between July 26 and August 04

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 55 problematic instances. I was unsure about 14 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Khalid Nezami.jpg
• File:RRIM 150725 Accipiter gentilis.jpg
• File:RRIM 150725 Pernis apivorus.jpg
• File:RRIM 150725 Buteo buteo.jpg
• File:RRIM 150725 Accipiter nisus.jpg
• File:RRIM 150725 Milvus milvus.jpg
• File:RRIM 150725 Haliaeetus albicilla.jpg
• File:RRIM 150725 Pandion haliaetus.jpg
• File:RRIM 150725 Falco peregrinus.jpg
• File:RRIM 150725 Milvus migrans.jpg
• File:RRIM 150725 Falco tinnunculus.jpg
• File:Angle Vale Bridge South Australia.jpg
• File:St Joseph's Catholic Church, Roehampton.jpg
• File:St Joseph's Catholic Church, Roehampton.jpg

--Flock (talk) 05:28, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

YacBot adding redundant categories

First, I should say that I've been watching YaCBot do its work for a long time, and it's a very good thing. Thank you for all of the work you've put into that bot.

I noticed that YacBot is taking the photographs I've uploaded from flickr and are adding them to Category:Uploaded by user Hike395. The problem is that I already have a tracking category for my flickr uploads: Category:Files by User:Hike395 from flickr. So, YacBot is adding redundant categories to my uploads.

I'm not the only person with a flickr tracking category. See Category:Flickr files by uploader for (at least) 13 other users who do this. Other users have tracking categories for their uploads, as can be seen at Category:User categories, although it would be impossible in general to figure out which ones are upload tracking and which ones are personal photographs.

For the 14 users in Category:Flickr files by uploader, can YacBot add to the existing categories, rather than making a mess of redundant categories? Thanks for your consideration!

— hike395 (talk) 04:19, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Later --- one thing you may wish to consider is merging Category:Files by uploader that you created on July 27 into Category:Flickr files by uploader, which has existed since 2008. — hike395 (talk) 04:28, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for providing clear instructions for improvement. All should be fixed now. --McZusatz (talk) 18:32, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick response! — hike395 (talk) 14:59, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

YaCBot user categorization

Note here superseded, please refer to Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard#YaCBot. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 12:51, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

If you don't like the name of the category, please suggest a better name. The category represented by the new name may or may not exist. Also the new name may or may not be an empty String. --McZusatz (talk) 20:22, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Please read the AN discussion and consider replying there. The problem is wider than just me and your reply here indicates that you have not understood the difficulty of generically solving the duplicate user category issue, or the best practice of asking active users to opt-in, which in my view should be sys

than an optional courtesy for bot operators implementing controversial changes. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 12:48, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Category:Chrysomelidae specimens

Chrysomelidae sp. means a species of the family Chrysomelidaea - correct category is therefore Category:Unidentified Chrysomelidae. A specimen is an example for a species in a scientific collection - zu deutsch ein Belegexemplar für eine Tierart --Kersti (talk) 13:37, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Idealerweise sollte die Kategorie dann nicht existieren oder weitergeleitet werden. --McZusatz (talk) 17:20, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Nein, das sin zwei verschiedene Wörter. Ein specimen ist ein Museumsexemplar einer Art, sagen wir mal ein ausgestopftes Tier oder ein mit einer Nadel aufgespießter Schmetterling in einer Sammlung. "sp." ist die Abkürzung für species, das heißt Art - also eine Tier- oder Pflanzenart wie Beispielsweise der Schwan (Cygnus olor). - Deine Gleichsetzung von specimen und species (sp.) ist falsch. --Kersti (talk) 02:12, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Ok, werde ich so an meinen Bot weiterleiten. --McZusatz (talk) 16:41, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

File tagging File:Logo Aaltjesdagen Harderwijk.jpg

This media was probably deleted.

Thanks for uploading File:Logo Aaltjesdagen Harderwijk.jpg. This media is missing permission information. A source is given, but there is no proof that the author or copyright holder agreed to license the file under the given license. Please provide a link to an appropriate webpage with license information, or ask the author or copyright holder to send an email with copy of a written permission to VRT (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). You may still be required to go through this procedure even if you are the author yourself; please see Commons:But it's my own work! for more details. After you emailed permission, you may replace the {{No permission since}} tag with {{subst:PP}} on file description page. Alternatively, you may click on "Challenge speedy deletion" below the tag if you wish to provide an argument why evidence of permission is not necessary in this case. Please see this page for more information on how to confirm permission, or if you would like to understand why we ask for permission when uploading work that is not your own, or work which has been previously published (regardless of whether it is your own). The file probably has been deleted. If you sent a permission, try to send it again after 14 days. Do not re-upload. When the VRT-member processes your mail, the file can be undeleted. Additionally you can request undeletion here, providing a link to the File-page on Commons where it was uploaded ([[:File:Logo Aaltjesdagen Harderwijk.jpg]]) and the above demanded information in your request.

 

Agora (talk) 18:18, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between November 11 and November 20

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 26 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Dubuque Pack workers' memorial.jpg
• File:Ngara, Gough Whitlam's birthplace.jpg

--Flock (talk) 17:33, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between November 19 and November 28

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 26 problematic instances. I was unsure about 3 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Зоря. Ноти. 1894. 07. VI. Була Польща.svg (skipped)
• File:Зоря. Ноти. 1894. 07. VI. Була Польща.svg (skipped)
• File:Зоря. Ноти. 1894. 07. VI. Була Польща.svg (skipped)
• File:LkCa 15 disk protoplanetare Scheibe.jpg
• File:Arak Railway Station-1.jpg
• File:Hotel Zagros.jpg

--Flock (talk) 08:31, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [5]

Problems

• Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [6]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [7]
• IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [8]
• You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [9]
• It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [10]
• You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [11]
• UploadWizard will look a bit different. [12]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
• New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [13]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer – data storage architecture" and "Parametric JSON builder". The meeting will be on 9 December at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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• A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [14]

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17:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

YaCBot-Korrekturen mit doppelter Überschrift

Hallo McZusatz, Dein fleißiger Bot korrigiert diverse Fehler in Dateibeschreibungsseiten, u.a. ersetzt er “category” durch “Category” in Kategorienangaben. Bei der Gelegenheit fügt er auch einen Header hinzu, wenn er keinen zu sehen meint: Beispiel. Das Problem ist natürlich die von mir verwendete individuelle Vorlage, die Überschriften, die Information und die Lizenzen einschließt. (Ja, ich weiß, dass so etwas für Bots erschwerend ist. Jedoch ist die Vorlage älter als {{Information}} und hilft mir, meine Bilder ohne den Einsatz eines Bots auf einfache Weise zu verwalten.) Wenn es Dir nicht zuviel ausmacht, würde ich mich freuen, wenn Du sie oder generell die Vorlagen aus Category:User custom license tags berücksichtigen könntest. Viele Grüße, AFBorchert (talk) 07:39, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Soweit ich sehe, sind

• User:AFBorchert/Photo
• User:Mike Peel/Template
• Template:MMChess
• User:Optimist on the run/Information
• User:Optimist on the run/Information/sandbox
• User:Stefan Flöper/ownpic
• User:Tintazul/licensing template

die einzigen Vorlagen in der Kategorie, die das so machen. Würde es dir etwas ausmachen, wenn ich "== Summary ==" von der Vorlage auf die entsprechenden Dateiseiten verschiebe? Ich werde die anderen Benutzer dann entsprechend ebenfalls fragen. --McZusatz (talk) 08:22, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Hallo McZusatz, ich bin sehr offen für pragmatische Lösungen, bin aber nicht ganz sicher, ob das hier optimal ist, da zumindest meine Vorlage zwei Überschriften enthält („Summary“ und „Licensing:“), da sie sowohl das Information-Template als auch die Lizenzen enthält. Vorstellen könnte ich mir jedoch eine Zwei-Stufen-Lösung: Auf der untersten Ebene zwei Templates von mir (für die Information und die Lizenzen getrennt) und darüber ein subst-Template, das die beiden Templates zusammen mit den Überschriften generiert. Allerdings bräuchte es dann einen Bot, der das für über 4.000 bestehende Bildseiten anpasst. Viele Grüße, AFBorchert (talk) 18:20, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Einen Bot über 4000 Dateien laufen zu lassen ist kein Problem, wenn die Vorlagen entsprechend vorbereitet sind. Außerdem kannst du die zweite Überschrift gleich in "{{int:license-header}}" ändern. --McZusatz (talk) 22:28, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Ok, ich werde dann am Wochenende mich darum kümmern und mich dann hier wieder melden. Viele Grüße, AFBorchert (talk) 19:56, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Uncategorized files

Nice work. I dont know how you find such files, but querying DB directly for files categorized only by hidden categories, and then tagging them, would be good idea. One month ago i made similar proposal at VP. --XXN, 18:21, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Edit of your bot

Hi. Can you check this edit? I assume this edit does not made any sense. The category is not working here because it's just part of an old upload log on the old Wikivoyage wiki. -- DerFussi 21:13, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Files should not be linked with articles as this is not a bijective mapping. So the bot converts those to interwiki links. You can either remove the interwiki link or add it to description. This is really up to you as the bot can't decide on it's own... --McZusatz (talk) 22:33, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

NARA TIF images marked as uncategorized

Hi! Could YaCBot do not mark files in this category as uncategorized because the categorisation is made on the JPG file (example). Thanks. Florn (talk) 12:39, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

I see, duplicating the categories or including them via a template is not practical. Would it make sense to do a dirty workaround such as https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category%3AHigh-resolution_TIFF_images_from_the_National_Archives_and_Records_Administration&type=revision&diff=183829396&oldid=65059994 ? If this breaks anything, please let me know and revert. --McZusatz (talk) 13:08, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between January 04 and January 13

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 69 problematic instances. I was unsure about 7 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Queen Emma Lily (a0003184).jpg
• File:Gaddhjalt-Schwert.jpg
• File:Beotegiko bola toki.jpg
• File:JerryStillerNYC05.jpg
• File:JerryStillerNYC05.jpg
• File:JerryStillerNYC05.jpg
• File:Beotegiko bola toki.jpg

--Flock (talk) 22:06, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

McTopot-Liste

Hallo McZusatz,

könntest du eine Liste der 200 meistverwendeten schlechten Bilder (Template:Low quality, Template:Blurry) aufsetzen?

Viele Grüße, Kopiersperre (talk) 18:32, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between January 12 and January 21

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 42 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Big Blue Bus 2016 29ft CNG Gillig BRT.tiff
• File:Paddy McNair.jpg

--Flock (talk) 14:06, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [15]
• Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [16][17]
• Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [18]

Changes this week

• The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [19]
• Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [20][21]
• The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [22]
• The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [23][24][25]
• The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [26][27]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [28]

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21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [29]
• When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [30]
• RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [31]

Changes this week

• Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [32][33]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [34][35]
• Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [36][37][38]

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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between January 27 and February 05

[skipped: 0; deleted: 12.68 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 41 problematic instances. I was unsure about 22 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:FarhatHorchaniARPNov2015.jpg
• File:FarhatHorchaniARP29Nov2015.jpg
• File:Erbil Montage 2014.png
• File:Hotel Zagros.jpeg
• File:Church of arak.jpeg
• File:HUNT 20130228.jpg
• File:Nelson 20140917.jpg
• File:HUNT 20130228.jpg
• File:Nelson 20140917.jpg
• File:CHB-Evo. Internal Combustion Engine Disassembled.png
• File:Erbil Montage 2014.png
• File:Baruto 20151225.JPG
• File:Fedor 20151231.JPG
• File:Jerome Le Banner 20091205.jpg
• File:HUNT 20130228.jpg
• File:Josh Barnett 20150925.JPG
• File:Nelson 20140917.jpg
• File:RENA 2010.JPG
• File:RENA 20140802.JPG
• File:RENA 20151008.JPG
• File:Rin 20140918.JPG
• File:Tsuyashi Kosaka 20151229.JPG

--Flock (talk) 13:31, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-07

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [39]
• You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [40]

Problems

• A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [41][42]

Changes this week

• There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [43][44]
• Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [45]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [46]

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16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

File tagging File:Josef Melen 2011.jpg

This media was probably deleted.

Thanks for uploading File:Josef Melen 2011.jpg. This media is missing permission information. A source is given, but there is no proof that the author or copyright holder agreed to license the file under the given license. Please provide a link to an appropriate webpage with license information, or ask the author or copyright holder to send an email with copy of a written permission to VRT (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). You may still be required to go through this procedure even if you are the author yourself; please see Commons:But it's my own work! for more details. After you emailed permission, you may replace the {{No permission since}} tag with {{subst:PP}} on file description page. Alternatively, you may click on "Challenge speedy deletion" below the tag if you wish to provide an argument why evidence of permission is not necessary in this case. Please see this page for more information on how to confirm permission, or if you would like to understand why we ask for permission when uploading work that is not your own, or work which has been previously published (regardless of whether it is your own). The file probably has been deleted. If you sent a permission, try to send it again after 14 days. Do not re-upload. When the VRT-member processes your mail, the file can be undeleted. Additionally you can request undeletion here, providing a link to the File-page on Commons where it was uploaded ([[:File:Josef Melen 2011.jpg]]) and the above demanded information in your request.

 

Smooth_O (talk) 08:22, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between February 04 and February 13

[skipped: 0; deleted: 10.748 %; IOExceptions: 69;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 46 problematic instances. I was unsure about 3 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:CHB-Evo. Internal Combustion Engine Disassembled.png
• File:Erbil Montage 2014.png
• File:Sínkope durante la grabación de su DVD directo.jpg

--Flock (talk) 01:35, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-08

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Phabricator has been upgraded. [47][48]

Problems

• There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [49][50]

Changes this week

• After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [51]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds. The meeting will be on 24 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between February 11 and February 20

[skipped: 0; deleted: 12.56 %; IOExceptions: 4;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 33 problematic instances. I was unsure about 1 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Crocodile and jaguar.jpg

--Flock (talk) 13:59, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-09

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
• The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
• The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [52][53]
• The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [54][55]

Changes this week

• On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [56]
• Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [57]
• Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [58]

Meetings

• Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [59]
• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [60]
• Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [61]
• The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [62]
• It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [63]
• Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [64]

Problems

• Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [65]
• The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [66]
• The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [67]
• You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [68]
• Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [69]

Changes this week

• Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [70]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
• Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [71]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [72]
• The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [73]

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20:24, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Atomic spectra

Hello, I found out there are astatine and francium atomic spectre missing in the category Category:Atomic spectra. I also noticed you created most of atomic spectra there. Could you also upload some for astatine and francium? --Dvorapa (talk) 20:05, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Unfortunately they are missing from the zip I fetched: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/27796-spectra-v1-0/all_files --McZusatz (talk) 20:53, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

I see. --Dvorapa (talk) 15:04, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between March 12 and March 21

[skipped: 0; deleted: 12.256 %; IOExceptions: 10;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 135 problematic instances. I was unsure about 27 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Van Gent and Van Gent X craters AS16-118-18935.jpg
• File:Konstantinov crater AS16-118-18931.jpg
• File:Kugler crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Lyot crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Gill crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Jeans crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Petrov crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Demonax crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Neumayer crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Petrov crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Petrov crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Petrov crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Petrov crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Kugler crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Kugler crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Lyot crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Lyot crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Neumayer crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Neumayer crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Demonax crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Demonax crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Demonax crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Gill crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Gill crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Gill crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Jeans crater as15-96-13093.jpg
• File:Jeans crater as15-96-13093.jpg

--Flock (talk) 20:27, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-13

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• MediaWiki now supports the semantic web standards of Microdata and RDFa 1.0. On Wikimedia projects, a configuration change must be requested in order to enable RDFa 1.0. [74] [75]

Problems

• Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [76]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
• You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [77]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with part of the Architecture committee, which will discuss a few topics. The meeting will be on 30 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• The Architecture committee has sent a summary of new and ongoing RFC discussions.

Future changes

• Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [78]
• Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.

Corrections

• Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.

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19:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between March 20 and March 29

[skipped: 0; deleted: 11.098 %; IOExceptions: 13;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 109 problematic instances. I was unsure about 5 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Muhammad Ali Raza Qadri Wikipedia Profile Picture.png
• File:Miandad PTCL.jpg
• File:Feynan Ecolodge Jordan.png
• File:Gaza Port.png
• File:General John Hunt Morgan Memorial in Lexington, KY.jpg

--Flock (talk) 12:49, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can filter Special:Log in more detail. [79]
• Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [80]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).

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22:13, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

File:Logo liberaleVrouwenweb.jpg

File:Logo liberaleVrouwenweb.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

MoiraMoira (talk) 16:00, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

File:ALL INDIA BUSINESS COMMUNITY & AWARDS.jpg

File:ALL INDIA BUSINESS COMMUNITY & AWARDS.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

Thatonewikiguy (talk) 09:48, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Please give images better names

---

I noticed you've uploaded File:Psa.jpg and I thought I should draw your attention to a common error. Please give uploaded files meaningful names. Otherwise they are difficult to track and it is hard to tell what the file is about without actually looking at it. I suggest you rename your image with an intuitive name that describes the file itself. Thanks, and happy editing!

Stefan2 (talk) 14:26, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-15

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [81][82]
• Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [83][84]
• ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [85]
• The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [86]

Problems

• There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [87]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
• The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [88]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are improving transclusion of templates for Parsoid and balanced templates. The meeting will be on 13 April at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [89]

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20:44, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between March 28 and April 06

[skipped: 0; deleted: 12.089 %; IOExceptions: 20;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 54 problematic instances. I was unsure about 4 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Abdullah Ibn Umar Badheeb Al Yamani.jpg
• File:El Drogas en 2015.jpg
• File:1011 boulevard Saint-Laurent - 03.jpg
• File:Marino golinelli.jpg

--Flock (talk) 08:13, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

GlobalReplace 0.6.5 funktioniert nicht

Hallo McZusatz,

ich hatte schon bei Version 0.6.4 Probleme (User_talk:Rillke/Discuss/2016#GlobalReplace_0.6.4_funktioniert_nicht), die leider in der aktuellen Version nicht verschwunden sind. Wie mein GlobalReplaceLog zeigt, hat GlobalReplace File:Lidl locations.png → File:Lidl locations.svg neunmal ersetzt, aber 16 weitere Einbindungen nicht bearbeitet.--Kopiersperre (talk) 08:53, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-16

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [90][91]
• You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [92]
• MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [93]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [94]
• There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 19 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is shadow namespaces. The meeting will be on 20 April at 21:30 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [95]
• When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
• Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [96]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [97]
• It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [98]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [99]

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21:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between April 12 and April 21

[skipped: 0; deleted: 15.756 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 80 problematic instances. I was unsure about 3 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Erbil Montage 2014.png
• File:Лорелей.jpg
• File:На мосту карла.JPG

--Flock (talk) 04:08, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [100]

Problems

• There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [101]

Changes this week

• You can now see which notifications are available on a wiki on Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration. [102]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 4. It will be on all wikis from May 5 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core". The meeting will be on May 4 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [103]

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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between April 19 and April 28

[skipped: 1; deleted: 12.998 %; IOExceptions: 7;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 50 problematic instances. I was unsure about 27 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Собор вита.jpg
• File:Витражи.jpg
• File:Умео.jpg
• File:Рамессеум.jpg
• File:Abu Simbel Малый храм.jpg
• File:Храм Рамзеса Второго.jpg
• File:Пизанская башня 2009.jpg
• File:Монументальное кладбище.jpg
• File:Мыс столбчатый.jpg
• File:Берн.jpg
• File:Церматт.jpg
• File:Собор в реймсе.jpg
• File:Инкрустация.jpg
• File:Мраморная решетка.jpg
• File:Фрески аджанты.jpg
• File:Гора тайшань.jpg
• File:Цуйфу.jpg
• File:Jual Alat Survey Pemetaan Total Station .jpg (skipped)
• File:305-307 rue Ontario Est.jpg
• File:Spring House at the Hess Homestead.jpg
• File:The ca. 1785 Log Cabin.jpg
• File:Cylinder pipe guide.jpg
• File:Cold pipe shoes.jpg
• File:Snubber in field.jpg
• File:Pipe Saddle.jpg
• File:Riser clamps.jpg
• File:Variable springs.jpg
• File:Splendid-glossy starling.jpg

--Flock (talk) 17:59, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [104]
• You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [105]
• Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [106][107]
• You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [108]
• Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [109]
• The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [110]
• Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [111]
• Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [112]

Problems

• MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [113]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on May 10 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Overhaul Interwiki map, unify with Sites and WikiMap. The meeting will be on May 11 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 2017 European hackathon will happen on May 19 - 21, in Vienna (Austria).

Future changes

• Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [114]

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23:22, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between April 27 and May 06

[skipped: 0; deleted: 10.091 %; IOExceptions: 4;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 31 problematic instances. I was unsure about 4 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Motorama band 2016.jpg
• File:Splendid-glossy starling.jpg
• File:Harrana Palace 1.jpg
• File:ErikMeijer.jpg

• File:Служба в церкви.jpg
• File:Абидос озирис.jpg
• File:Монреаль Св.Катерина.jpg
• File:Ванкувер канада.jpg
• File:Аляскинская жд.jpg
• File:Падающий дом.jpg
• File:Барилоче.jpg
• File:Канны набережная.jpg
• File:Нил у Асуана.jpg

--Flock (talk) 10:38, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [115]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [116]

Changes this week

• Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [117]
• Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [118]
• A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [119]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Requirements for change propagation". The meeting will be on May 18 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [120]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Strange page

Hi, The problem discussed in Commons:Help desk#Need help removing page from appearing inside category may have something to do with a page created by YaCBot. Maybe you can help? -- Asclepias (talk) 15:46, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

File:Hans Karl Sternberg.JPG

File:Hans Karl Sternberg.JPG has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

Thatonewikiguy (talk) 16:13, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between May 11 and May 20

[skipped: 0; deleted: 10.874 %; IOExceptions: 5;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 199 problematic instances. I was unsure about 10 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:SS Marcellino e Festo - Altare maggiore.jpg
• File:SS Marcellino e Festo - Volta.jpg
• File:SS Marcellino e Festo - Cupola.jpg
• File:SS Marcellino e Festo - Controfacciata.jpg
• File:Коптский египет.jpg
• File:Пан амерканское шоссе.jpg
• File:Высокие дечани.jpg
• File:Церковь в нарвике.jpg
• File:Памятник Августу.jpg
• File:Вид на Босфор.jpg

--Flock (talk) 02:39, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between May 18 and May 27

[skipped: 0; deleted: 9.574 %; IOExceptions: 4;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 111 problematic instances. I was unsure about 103 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Коптский египет.jpg
• File:Пан амерканское шоссе.jpg
• File:Высокие дечани.jpg
• File:Церковь в нарвике.jpg
• File:Памятник Августу.jpg
• File:Вид на Босфор.jpg
• File:Дорога в нац. парке.jpg
• File:Каньен малигне.jpg
• File:Джаспер нац парк.jpg
• File:Печорский монастырь.jpg
• File:Эвора, улица.jpg
• File:Фару интерьер.jpg
• File:Птичий базар.jpg
• File:Кр форт.jpg
• File:Стар Лад.jpg
• File:Исландия разлом.jpg
• File:Гослар2012.jpg
• File:Каменистый сад.jpg
• File:Исфахан.jpg
• File:Пролив Босфор.jpg
• File:Дубровник.jpg
• File:Близ Дакара.jpg
• File:Ниагара.jpg
• File:Салар де атакама.jpg
• File:Самаркандзимой.jpg
• File:Авенида.jpg
• File:Гарни.jpg
• File:Гавана.jpg
• File:Пуэбла.jpg
• File:Камагуей церковь.jpg
• File:Эль-морро.jpg
• File:Солнечная ладья.jpg
• File:Хатшепсут.jpg
• File:Фрайберг.jpg
• File:Фрауенкирхе.jpg
• File:Вормс.jpg
• File:Реймс.jpg
• File:Сиань.jpg
• File:Карнак.jpg
• File:Пирамидасолнца.jpg
• File:Пульгукса.jpg
• File:Гейрангер.jpg
• File:Мейсен.jpg
• File:Баракиб.jpg
• File:Астронавт.jpg
• File:Рабат.jpg
• File:22Лена.jpg
• File:Пизанский.jpg
• File:Люцерн.jpg
• File:Чертов Мост.jpg
• File:Иерусалим Армянский квартал.jpg
• File:Рейн.jpg
• File:Монте-Карлолето-2009 209.jpg
• File:Генуя.jpg
• File:Эллора.jpg
• File:Дендера.jpg
• File:25Гюмри.jpg
• File:Банф.jpg
• File:Кутеней.jpg
• File:Паракас.jpg
• File:Исландия ледник.jpg
• File:Бухара зимой.jpg
• File:Деталь дворца в Катманду.jpg
• File:Долмабахче.jpg
• File:Викингборг.jpg
• File:Круговой замок.jpg
• File:Купол памятника.jpg
• File:Национально е достояние.jpg
• File:Александро-Свирский монастырь.jpg
• File:Ключевская.jpg
• File:Мечеть ибнтулун.jpg
• File:Рекабартанг.jpg
• File:К душам.jpg
• File:Айсфилд.jpg
• File:Персеп.jpg
• File:Старыйгород.jpg
• File:Медвежатав.jpg
• File:Остаткистены.jpg
• File:Альгамбрас.jpg
• File:Могилат.jpg
• File:Потолокбаптистерия.jpg
• File:Мароккофес.jpg
• File:Остров итуруп.jpg
• File:Дворец цицилиен.jpg
• File:Шамони поезд.jpg
• File:Модельная железная дорога из музея модельных железных дорого в Гамбурге.jpg
• File:Сокровища Эчмиадзина.jpg
• File:Солдаты императора.jpg
• File:Двенадцать углов.jpg
• File:Маракеш рынок.jpg
• File:Контрасты пустыни.jpg
• File:Современный Шенцен.jpg
• File:Питьевая гал.jpg
• File:Палаццо дель Бо.jpg
• File:Главная Буенос.jpg
• File:Священное озеро.jpg
• File:Викиушмаль.jpg
• File:Дорога смерти.jpg
• File:Магелланов пролив.jpg
• File:Венецианский пейзаж.jpg
• File:Russian street.jpeg
• File:Бекан платформа.jpg
• File:SomeOne’s London Studio.jpg

--Flock (talk) 18:30, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between May 26 and June 04

[skipped: 0; deleted: 7.975 %; IOExceptions: 9;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 40 problematic instances. I was unsure about 7 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:SomeOne’s London Studio.jpg
• File:JuventusStadio.jpg
• File:Kit body Nastic1415.png
• File:Kit body Nastic1314h.png
• File:Kit right arm Nastic1314h.png
• File:Kit left arm Nastic1314h.png
• File:Hollywood Vampires at Gröna Lund, Stockholm.jpg

--Flock (talk) 11:06, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between May 30 and June 08

[skipped: 0; deleted: 8.689 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 94 problematic instances. I was unsure about 5 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Kit body Nastic1415.png
• File:Kit body Nastic1314h.png
• File:Kit right arm Nastic1314h.png
• File:Kit left arm Nastic1314h.png
• File:Hollywood Vampires at Gröna Lund, Stockholm.jpg

--Flock (talk) 08:18, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between June 07 and June 16

[skipped: 0; deleted: 10.375 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 64 problematic instances. I was unsure about 3 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Luter, formación en en 2016.jpg
• File:1172 place Phillips.jpg
• File:1178-1184 place Phillips.jpg

--Flock (talk) 00:00, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between June 14 and June 23

[skipped: 0; deleted: 7.754 %; IOExceptions: 16;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 39 problematic instances. I was unsure about 5 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Eristalis dimidiatus.jpg
• File:Jackie Koerner.png
• File:B&W nude in the sand-1.jpg
• File:B&W nude in the sand-2.jpg
• File:President Barack Obama signs the certification stating the statutory .jpg

--Flock (talk) 19:49, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between June 22 and July 01

[skipped: 0; deleted: 10.372 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 37 problematic instances. I was unsure about 3 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:President Barack Obama signs the certification stating the statutory .jpg
• File:Le matador Finito de Córdoba en septembre 2010.jpg
• File:Jacques Boisvert au belvedere de la route 362.jpg

--Flock (talk) 06:59, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between June 30 and July 09

[skipped: 0; deleted: 10.699 %; IOExceptions: 8;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 128 problematic instances. I was unsure about 4 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Jacques Boisvert au belvedere de la route 362.jpg
• File:Peter Hook 2014 crop.jpg
• File:Altai reserve.jpg
• File:WittyFeed Content team.jpg

--Flock (talk) 00:48, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between July 15 and July 24

[skipped: 0; deleted: 12.723 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 55 problematic instances. I was unsure about 3 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Beacons.webm
• File:Beacons along airmail route.webm
• File:Aloha Festivals Floral Parade- Niklaus Schweitzer (a0002608) (8014113663).jpg

--Flock (talk) 06:04, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

Flock bot on my photo uploads

Hi mate. Just an FYI, I saw this edit by Flock. I don't think it's really necessary, as while I link to flickr on them, they're my own photos so do not actually need a flickr review template. I'm not sure if you want to do anything about it, but anything in Category:Images taken by mattbuck is my own photography, and so, while linked to flickr, a flickr review is not necessary. -mattbuck (Talk) 08:39, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

Imker feature request

Hi McZusatz. It would be very useful to have the option to request Imker downloads only a certain size thumbnail/preview (perhaps whatever MediaWiki's default largest preview is for each image, so that it never needs to be generated on the fly). Storkk (talk) 10:31, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between September 13 and September 29

[skipped: 1; deleted: 0.0 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 107 problematic instances. I was unsure about 12 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Λαχανοντολμάδες.jpg
• File:Avocado-in-bowl.jpg
• File:Avocado-board.jpg
• File:Guacamole-lime.jpg
• File:Ex-blue angels F-11 Tiger at the Pima museum.jpg
• File:Strawberry Mountain.jpg
• File:Lamentations of the Flame Princess.jpg
• File:Pathway to Glory.jpg
• File:Upfield-Bike-Path-and-railway-line-looking-south-towards-Tinning-Street.jpg
• File:Mpl example temp co2 sun.svg (skipped)
• File:Moreart 2013 - Upfield Bike Path Cameron Street - Runaway Garden by Gosia Lapinski.jpg
• File:Peter-Khalil-addressing-candidates-forum-in-Wills-2016.jpg
• File:Samantha-Ratnam-2016-Wills-candidates-forum.jpg

--Flock (talk) 18:52, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between October 05 and October 14

[skipped: 0; deleted: 0.0 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 57 problematic instances. I was unsure about 16 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Erick Sermon (9288240438)2.jpg
• File:Sausage Stuffer.jpg
• File:The Amazing Eyes of a Horse Fly.jpg
• File:Gulyás soup.jpg
• File:Palm Springs trees.jpg
• File:2Axolotl.jpg
• File:Egylábas vágta.jpg
• File:Dicamptodon tenebrosus on hand.jpg
• File:Hortobágy Juhászok szobra.jpg
• File:Fasírtok.jpg
• File:Hímes tojások2.jpg
• File:Commuteeastboundc40lfr.jpg
• File:Hilary Swank face (cropped b&w).jpg
• File:JanDuursema1982SDCC.jpg
• File:Photographer red tulip.jpg
• File:Zoar Valley Road.jpg

--Flock (talk) 20:56, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between October 22 and October 31

[skipped: 0; deleted: 0.0 %; IOExceptions: 3;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 52 problematic instances. I was unsure about 15 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:"The First Mound"--the west end of the Great Wall.jpg
• File:Fraureuth Orgel Silbermann (2).jpg
• File:Chateau de Noisy facade.jpg
• File:Vue côté mosaïque.jpg
• File:Vue du bassin.jpg
• File:Salle "Youssef Chahine" - 342 places.jpg
• File:Salle 2 - 140 places.jpg
• File:Plafond de la salle Youssef-Chahine.jpg
• File:Salle 3 - 74 places.jpg
• File:Salle 1 details.jpg
• File:Sièges d'époque.jpg
• File:Vue latéral de la salle 1.jpg
• File:Vue coté droite balcon salle 1.jpg
• File:Vue du balcon salle 1.jpg
• File:Vue coté orchestres salle 1.jpg

--Flock (talk) 02:14, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

int:filedesc

No need to add "missing" == {{int:filedesc}} == in files using your bot. It is a quite meaningless addition. Jee 12:57, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

I agree that it is meaningless, but it is used almost universally and serves as an anchor (I.e., you can append "#Summary" to the URL) --McZusatz (talk) 14:00, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

If I remember well, only files uploaded with "upload wizard" have it. Many people don't like it; neither think it is useful. For me, I'm watching all my uploads and happy to see the category in question is removed. But adding some junks along with it will make the effort a failure and adding overhead to me. Please use one edit for one purpose only so that I can revert the other useless edits. Applicable to SteinsplitterBot by Steinsplitter too. Pinging Nyttend too for opinion. Jee 12:18, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

If it is controversial, it shouldn't be added - as far i remember this has been discusses somewhere else yet but likely has been overseen. Suggested Patch. --Steinsplitter (talk) 12:43, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Steinsplitter. There is no need to add it as some people including me intentionally removed it. And now I'm not using upload wizard too. Jee 12:53, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

If a page has one or more section headers lower on the page, adding this section header can be helpful (it's not like an en:wp article, where the no-sectioned top is a summary of what's below), but having a single section header that covers the entire page is absolutely worthless and will be reverted whenever it's forced on a page. Nyttend (talk) 16:09, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

There is still the advantage, that you can click on "Edit section" to edit the page or parameters of the description template. If there was no section to provide that link, you'd have to scroll all the way up to the title of the file page. --McZusatz (talk) 23:05, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

This was discussed previously here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Work_requests/Archive_11#int:filedesc --McZusatz (talk) 13:53, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

I think the wider community should decide if this is helpful. In the above link the number of participants were rather low. --McZusatz (talk) 13:56, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

File:La première boutique Massa Pneus à Cannes - 1908.jpg

File:La première boutique Massa Pneus à Cannes - 1908.jpg 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!

Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:41, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between November 05 and November 14

[skipped: 1; deleted: 0.0 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 107 problematic instances. I was unsure about 5 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Die-Cut-Services.jpg
• File:Garage door long island farmingdale.gif (skipped)
• File:Handicap-Parking-Stencils.jpg
• File:Parking Lot Stencils.jpg
• File:Pvzheroesicon.png
• File:Mir Training Pool Mock-Up.jpg

--Flock (talk) 04:09, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Grouping categories

Please, don't regrouping categories as in this page: File:Reginald Pole painting.jpg Ecummenic (talk) 21:31, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between November 12 and November 21

[skipped: 4; deleted: 0.0 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 131 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Mir Training Pool Mock-Up.jpg
• File:Fangruida and New Natural Rationalism and New Social Rationalism.jpg (skipped)
• File:Fangruida New natural structure composite polypolitism philosophical outline New Natural Rationalism and New Social Rationalism.jpg (skipped)
• File:Fangruida ebook New natural structure composite polypolitism philosophical outline.jpg (skipped)
• File:Munsell 1929 color solid.png (skipped)
• File:Alfred-jewel-ashmolean.jpg

--Flock (talk) 05:22, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between November 19 and November 28

[skipped: 4; deleted: 0.0 %; IOExceptions: 3;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 104 problematic instances. I was unsure about 11 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

• File:Fangruida and New Natural Rationalism and New Social Rationalism.jpg (skipped)
• File:Fangruida New natural structure composite polypolitism philosophical outline New Natural Rationalism and New Social Rationalism.jpg (skipped)
• File:Fangruida ebook New natural structure composite polypolitism philosophical outline.jpg (skipped)
• File:Munsell 1929 color solid.png (skipped)
• File:Alfred-jewel-ashmolean.jpg
• File:Long Now Foundation staff.jpg
• File:Avocado Bowl Green.jpg
• File:Avocado Sandwich.jpg
• File:Avocado Bowl White.jpg
• File:Sliced Avocado Toast.jpg
• File:Guacamole in Square Bowl.jpg
• File:Guacamole Sandwich.jpg
• File:Avocado in blow.jpg
• File:Avocado sandwich light.jpg
• File:Bioshock logos.png

--Flock (talk) 06:19, 4 December 2016 (UTC)