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Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2020! Please help with this survey

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Dear Robertsilen,

Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2020, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again for a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 200K+ pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 50 countries around the world.

You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey.

Please fill in this short survey, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2020.

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the Wiki Loves Monuments team, 08:25, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Reminder

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Robertsilen. I noticed that you've made malformed deletion requests. When you want to delete a page by manually using the {{Delete}} template, please remember to follow the instructions in the template, including the "Click here to show further instructions" portion, otherwise you will create a lot of work for other people. — Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me} 23:06, 14 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi @Jeff G.: , thanks, sorry for the trouble. I now used the speedydelete and badname templates to delete two categories - hope I understood this correctly. Robertsilen (talk) 07:26, 15 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, and you're welcome. Also, when editing a page on Commons there is a small field labeled "Edit Summary" or "Summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

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The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the Edit Summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the Edit Summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's name in the Edit Summary field - please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. — Jeff G. ツ_{please ping or talk to me} 09:11, 15 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Your opinion about OpenRefine and its Wikimedia Commons features: two (!) surveys

Latest comment: 9 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi! You have recently tried/used Wikimedia Commons features in OpenRefine (uploading files, or editing existing files). I'm curious to hear how this has gone, also if you only briefly tried these features.

To help the OpenRefine team with future improvements, it would be immensely helpful if you would be willing to spend a bit of time filling in two surveys. (Yes, two! Each of them uses a different method and (open source) platform). Both will run until approximately end October 2023.

A first, classical, survey (fully anonymous) where you can tell us how you use the Commons features in OpenRefine, and how you (want to) learn to use them better;
A second, more experimental survey (also fully anonymous) in which you prioritize the features that matter most to you. This second survey is a bit strange in that you can 'just keep clicking'. Feel free to use it as long or as briefly as you want; you can stop any time. Please also add your own suggestions!

Many thanks! With kind regards, SFauconnier (talk) 10:17, 6 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Copyright status: File:Hjalmar Agardh 1832-1892 som Eubulos - 1873 SLSA 1270 34 foto 56.jpg

Latest comment: 8 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Copyright status: File:Hjalmar Agardh 1832-1892 som Eubulos - 1873 SLSA 1270 34 foto 56.jpg

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And also:

This action was performed automatically by AntiCompositeBot (talk) (FAQ) 10:14, 1 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, I have fixed these. Robertsilen (talk) 10:47, 1 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Adding of bilingual town names in Finnish maps

Latest comment: 8 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hello Robertsilen, in my eyes, adding the Swedish names to all Finnish town names does make the maps, You are editing, confusing. And if I remember correctly, adding Swedish place names is only officially done in regions of relevant Swedish population. If You are adding Swedish place names everywhere with the argument, it is an official language of Finland, consequently You have to add all place names in Sámi, too. Why do You not just publish those maps in a Swedish version? And leave the Finnish version completely in Finnish? Regards, Anna Catarina Anna Catarina (talk) 12:04, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hello @Anna Catarina: , thank you for your interest in bi-lingual maps in Finland. I presume you are referring to the bi-ingual map File:Finnish_railroad_network-en.svg that is shown on several articles across several languages of Wikipedia?

I wrote a blog in 2020 on projektfredrika.fi that explains what I did, but I did not motivate my actions for an international audience as it felt intuitive. I could add that Finnish and Swedish are official languages in Finland, as explained in en:Languages_of_Finland, whereas Sami has a different status. I could also add that the bi-lingual names mentioned on the maps are actively provided by the national railway company en:VR Group (e.g. on vr.fi), reflect those described by en:National Land Survey of Finland, and have been historically actively used for centuries.

If you feel it is confusing with two languages on maps, perhaps the image caption (in Commons, or on the Wikipedia article) could mention an explanation about Finland's official languages with a link to en:Toponyms_of_Finland.

Regarding Sami, I personally don't have anything against Sami and I am not an expert in the subject. Based on the logic I mentioned, a quick check shows that a close city to Sami areas en:Rovaniemi has a Wikipedia article with three different names in Sami (which one to show?), none of which are used by rail company VR on their website (vr.fi) and none of which are mentioned on map service kartta.paikkatietoikkuna.fi by National Land Survey of Finland.

The role of place name languages is not a simple topic, as mentioned in en:Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(geographic_names). For example on Swedish Wikipedia there has been an extensive discussion on principles for showing place names in minority languages - but that is for just Swedish Wikipedia articles, the country Sweden and minority languages in Sweden. I did not yet find a policy regarding maps but I presume illustrations are supposed to support content in the Wikipedia article.

As a summary, the names used by vr.fi is probably the strongest reference for bi-lingual train maps in Finland. Kindly direct further questions or discussion to an expert on Finland-Swedish and Finland-Sami, perhaps Rießler (talk · contribs).

Cheers, Robertsilen (talk) 07:23, 14 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Notification about possible deletion

Latest comment: 5 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

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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!

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File:Louis Verneuil 1893-1952 en fransk dramatiker filmmanusförfattare regissör och skådespelare - 1950 SLSA 1270 34 foto 1871.jpg

Yours sincerely, Rosenzweig τ 19:41, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Rosenzweig, this seems to be a clear case. Thank you for notifying. 176.72.96.64 07:33, 29 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

File tagging File:Projekt Kateryna logo.png

Latest comment: 27 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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