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Centralized discussion See also: Village pump/Proposals   ■ Archive How do we organize categories by date (14 May 2024) Proposal to prohibit political restriction templates (5 February 2024) Should PD-CQ Roll Call be used for recent images? (5 January 2024) Technical needs survey (17 December 2023) When does PDART apply to textile works? (15 November 2023) Does this image contain "love hearts"? (17 August 2023) Overhaul of categories by period (5 December 2022) Version of Saudi flag to use (11 July 2022) Concern regarding revocability of KOGL licenses (22 December 2021) Should deleting content from your own talk page be forbidden? (11 November 2021) Revise the COM:FOP Sweden section (1 February 2021) Change technical name of LRs to license-reviewer from image-reviewer(2 November 2023) Template: View   ■ Discuss    ■    ■ Watch

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I hate that stupid search engine ! Often it gives that result "haswbstatement:P180=something something" which means nothing to me. I hope it will be improved, one day. Wikimedia Commons deserves something better. --Io Herodotus (talk) 13:34, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Io Herodotus: See Special:MediaSearch. Zoozaz1 (talk) 21:05, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. This one works well. Why don't they change it ? --Io Herodotus (talk) 06:15, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Io Herodotus: I'm glad you like the new search experience! We are planning to make Special:MediaSearch the default search landing page starting with anonymous/not-logged-in users first at the end of March, and then moving to logged-in users at the end of April as long as no blockers arise. You can read more about it in the release announcement here. CBogen (WMF) (talk) 13:35, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any chance to delete copyrighted file Cinque Teste Logo.svg? Thanks in advance!!! --Gatto bianco (talk) 14:52, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Convenience link: File:Cinque Teste Logo.svg - Jmabel ! talk 23:56, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• It does not seem from [[1]] that there is consensus that this is copyrightable, let alone that there is a rights issue. Please keep discussion on that page. @Gatto bianco: So far you seem to be the only person who has weighed in there who thinks there is a problem with this image. Please don't "venue shop". - Jmabel ! talk

Or were overwritten, whichever is newer. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 18:01, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Try Petscan. You can set sort options on the final Output tab (or use SPARQL).

Try https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=18669230 as an example

If you've not used Petscan before, the first tab allows you to set "Commons", but don't forget to go to the 2nd tab and select the "File" namespace as well. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:54, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, it's very useful for searching for the most up-to-date good photo in a huge category. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 20:35, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

Just a short message to call people interested to review, comment and discuss my PhD thesis on Wikimedia movement. All the best, Lionel Scheepmans ^{✉ Contact} 19:42, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I am planning to organise a competition next month called WikiSelera. How do I create a new campaign? I don't see any Create button. --Tofeiku (talk) 04:12, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Are 'articles of association' copyrighted? I see articles of association being copied from organisation to organisation without any restrictions/issues, and several of these look very similar. In cause they are indeed copyrighted, how old must articles of association originating from Denmark be before they can be uploaded to Commons? --Froztbyte (talk) 14:36, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Froztbyte: probably better asked at Commons:Village pump/Copyright. - Jmabel ! talk 15:31, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

When I use CirrusSearch to find the word redirect or redirected in file: it never finds it although it exists. What am I missing? Pikiwiki - Israel free image collection project (talk) 14:32, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Pikiwikisrael: Is this what you were looking for?   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 14:54, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nope have a look to the page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_76173_tel_yokneam.jpg it has both PikiWiki and a statement that contains the (file redirect) inside but cannot find them searching with CirrusSearch with file: or insource: File:PikiWiki Israel 76307 tel yokneam.jpg (file redirect) thanks Pikiwiki - Israel free image collection project (talk) 20:45, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Pikiwikisrael: Searching for "insource:#redirect" will find the source of the redirect to that file. You might want to use the Commons API tool and the Commons API.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 23:31, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I'm proposing to merge all contents (case pages) under Category:Russian FOP cases/deleted (non-architectural) to Category:Russian FOP cases/deleted. Since there is FOP in Russia for architecture, in my opinion, having a "forked" category for non-architecture is redundant. I asked the category's creator A.Savin about this at User talk:A.Savin#Category:Russian FOP cases/deleted (non-architectural)?. In his reply, "Probably meanwhile this can be merged indeed." Nevertheless, I may need the inputs of other editors/users (most especially the Russian Wikipedians) about my proposal, if they agree or oppose, before proceeding — perhaps contacting another user who has AWB rights to make seamless recategorizations (I cannot obtain AWB rights as I don't have a computer or laptop, and merely edit here via phone, albeit using desktop mode). JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 13:11, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@JWilz12345: JWB can do the job with the same permission, and without a computer. Cat-a-lot can even do it without permission.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 23:38, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have no objections but I think it is better to ask someone with the bot than editing 1.6k+ pages, even with cat-a-lot rubin16 (talk) 17:44, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This weeks caption challenge:- Commons:Silly_things#Week_Ending_(Monday_30th_March_2021) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:31, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

there're quite a lot of tamil files pending review. they were uploaded by User:Info-farmer. licence review was requested by other users like User:Neyakkoo and User:TVA ARUN.

they are jamming the LR queue. i dont think they need to be reviewed because they've been quite reliably attributed and linked to their sources on tamilvu.org. therefore i suggest removing them from the LR queue. do you support or oppose?--RZuo (talk) 17:44, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And also getting OTRS clearence. For example, File:நெஞ்சை உருக்கும் நீதிக்கதைகள்.pdf then cleaning the OCRed text by women college ofcourse the process is moving slowly Thanks for Indic wikisource team--Info-farmer (talk) 03:02, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, just saw this deletion request and I am not quite sure how to interpret it. Wouldn't this mean that everything in Category:License plates of Connecticut and all other license plates should be deleted? I have been told somewhere that a license plate with no particular design is not a copyright infringement, but would it be necessary to upload it with {{PD-textlogo|type=license plates}}? Can we add this template to existing uploads, even when the user is clearly dormant/gone? Can we save this user's four uploads? Hoping to avoid more purges. mr.choppers (talk)^-en- 20:21, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• This plate had a an image that was clearly well above the threshold of originality for copyright. - Jmabel ! talk 22:31, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  

  March 25

  Kazimier Lachnovič

  Well, some time ago I found a file with the abusive name. I renamed it, keeping its language, the meaning, and taking the only offensive word out. The file uploader, User:Kazimier Lachnovič, opened two topics trying to get me sanctioned, Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems/Archive 91#User:Ymblanter (closed as no consensus) and Commons:Village pump/Archive/2021/02#Systematic disregard by administrators of rule violations (is Wikimedia not a multilingual project anymore?) (archived). Kazimier Lachnovič, an obviously disruptive user, was allowed for several weeks to cast aspersions and harass me by making statements which may express his own fantasies but have nothing to do with what I have ever done, thought, or intended to do. When I tried to object, he always doubled down basically insisting that he knows better. At one point, he accuse me in Nazism, which was particularly nice to hear in the context of him being Belarusian and me being partially Jewish. After the discussions were closed, he basically reverted my edits [2] and tried to harass the administrator who closed the discussion [3]. I basically could not do anything. Yesterday, he moved the file (almost) restoring the offensive word in the name calling this "Belarusian language censorship" [4]. I removed the offensive term again, and he immediately reverted my move, calling it, unsurprisingly, "renaming abusing", [5]. I again can not do anything about it, I am obviously not going to block him, and I am not going to continue move warring. In the meanwhile, I was called an "abusive Russian administrator" who had to be desysopped a long time ago but has to many "Russian friends" and can not be desysopped for this reason. In relation to these events, II have tosay the following.

  • I do not expect the Commons community to do something about this.
  • This is one more indication that the Commons community is completely disfunctional as far as anything beyond dealing with the clear-cut violations such as uploading of obviously copyrighted files is concerned.
  • In the last several years, already after I became administrator, I was subject to serious abuse here, on Commons, three times. (Not counting minor harassment such as sending an e-mail to my professional e-mail address). First, an administrator deleted my file out of the process, and the community refused to do something about this. I waited, and the administrator was desysopped. Second, last year, there was a conflict with one administrator indefinitely blocking a checkuser. Whereas I was not part of the conflict, I at some point closed a trainwreck discussion about the incident, which made some user think that this is an appropriate reason to start harassing me, with one of them even claiming that it is my fault that the blocking administrator retired. One of them has already been desysopped. In both cases, I reduced my activity on Commons to a minimum, and both times I was somehow motivated to restore the activity, because some things were not done which should have been done. This is the third time. I have no doubt that I will wait and Kazimier Lachnovič is going to be indeffed. However, nobody is going to motivate me to help this disfunctional community for the third time. I need my admin flag, because some other projects where I work (and where harassment is not tolerated) need to interact with Commons, and I will make sure I keep the flag by performing the minimum of (absolutely uncontroversial) admin actions, but I am not planning to return to the full-scale admin activity. I will not be responding on noticeboards either.
  • When the next time somebody would complain that we have too long backlogs on Commons and too few admins please remember this statement

  Have a nice day.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:13, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]